Our intelligent control system relies on the biology of living soil — the microbes, minerals and ecosystem cycles that humans evolved alongside. When modern food breaks this relationship, health declines, but Gbiota methods restore the natural gut–soil connection our bodies depend on.
Gbiota what? The essence
The microbes in our gut have swarm intelligence, which regulates where and how much fat we store. It produces a complex array of hormones which regulate our appetite.
Microbes breed and die rapidly in a dynamic equilibrium extending from soil to plants to animals — a system billions of years old.
Microbes breed and die rapidly in a state of dynamic equilibrium, which extends from the soil where the microbes naturally breed to the plants, the animals that eat the plants and the animals that eat the plant eaters.
This is a system which has evolved over billions of years and is the basis of all life on earth until humans changed the system, which has led to an epidemic of chronic disease, obesity, diabetes, heart attacks and dementia.
We know how to resolve this. Beneficial microbes in the soil need a combination of nutrients, water and air which can be achieved by making the soil breathe by circulating what we call soil blood in a series of pulses flooding the soil to expel stale air and draining to suck in fresh air, what we call flood and flush.
This simple, inexpensive process allows anyone — even apartment dwellers — to grow gut-brain food.
This is a simple and inexpensive process which can be applied in the long term and on a large scale to create a new industry of gut-brain food, but in the short term by people growing their own gut-brain food. The process is so simple and inexpensive that it can be done at home even by people with no growing experience living in an apartment.
However, this requires a wide acceptance by the population of the need to modify our food system.
But is it no good just telling people. Logic is not enough; people are strongly influenced by what other people think, so acceptance has to reach a critical mass with people seeing other people they trust adopting the technology before widespread adoption occurs.
Early adopters are essential — social proof is what drives real food system change.
This requires the early adopters, the entrepreneurial thinkers who are prepared to pioneer a new technology and so reach this critical mass.
These pioneers are critical for our species in developing a sustainable, healthy food system for the future. Humans are the most successful creature on the planet because we are both intelligent and naturally cooperative, prepared to invest in the long term benefit of our communities.
Join me in becoming a healthy food gut-brain pioneer.
Eco-balance
The Gbiota technology is based on the principle of Eco balance. We control the conditions, specifically nutrients and most importantly moisture and air so the beneficial microbes in the soil out-compete and out-breed the harmful microbes.
Eco-balance ensures beneficial microbes out-breed harmful ones — the foundation of safe gut-brain food.
This is a problem of fluid flow – my day job.
Gbiota beds and boxes
The majority of people now live in cities, often in apartments with no garden so the Gbiota system is a two-stage process.
Stage 1 is to produce Wickimix, a growing medium or soil full of beneficial microbes and nutrients in raised garden beds.
Stage 2 is to load the Wickimix into Gbiota boxes where plants can be grown in a modern dwelling, even a flat with no garden, so people can pick and eat plants while still fresh.
Plants must be eaten genuinely fresh — while the microbes are still alive.
Dynamic population
All the individuals living in a city a hundred years ago have now died, but they bred to create a new population. It is similar to microscopic life but the time scale if very different. An hour in the life of a microbes is equivalent to a human year so plants must be picked and eaten while genuinely fresh.
There is a big difference between being genuinely fresh, with the microbes still alive, and not gone rotten.
Growers and consumers
The Gbiota movement has growers, maybe just urban micro-farms which produce the Wickimix which they may load into Gbiota boxes and plant ready for the consumers so they have growing plants ready to harvest at home.
Gbiota boxes may be clean skins, eg loaded ready to start growing so the consumer looks after all the seeding and growing or with plants grown to the stage where they are ready to start picking.
Typically the plants are tipped, eg the tips of the plants are cut off where they regrow, often called cut and come again.
The boxes may also have a spectrum of plants, this is partly to achieve a wider spectrum of beneficial microbes but also they have a staggered growing period with slow and fast-growing plants giving a longer harvest period.
At the end of each cycle, boxes return to growers for reloading with fresh Wickimix.
At the end of the cycle, the boxes would be returned to the grower for reloading with fresh Wickimix and its beneficial microbes.
Sustainability
An important benefit of this system is that the inputs are organic waste and rock dust (to provide the essential minerals). Fortunately, these are in abundant supply and sustainable.
Swapping exploitation for recycling is essential for long-term food security.
Swapping from a system of exploitation to recycling is essential for the survival of our species.
We may be rich now but it will stop when we have used up the readily available resources. Look at Nauru, once one of the wealthiest countries in the world mining guano, then one day the thing happened that everyone had been predicting but done nothing about, they ran out of guano.
It will happen to us first with phosphorous, an essential mineral for growing plants.
