A long and healthy life
We all want to live a long and healthy life, free of disease. That depends very much on the food we eat.
Energy food
We need food for energy. Our modern food system provides us with abundant energy food.
Replacement food
We need to build and replace our body parts as they age and wear. This requires many complex chemicals, which need a broad spectrum of nutrients and vitamins. Our modern food system barely scrapes a pass here.
Gut-brain food
We need food to feed and replenish the microbes in our gut. Our modern system fails completely here.
Our guts do much more than digest our food. The individual microbes communicate with each other to create intelligence, which regulates our bodies, particularly our appetite.
Having a system with an abundant supply of energy but no control system is like having a high-performance car with a drunk at the wheel – a formula for disaster.
The modern epidemic of chronic disease
And disaster we get in abundance with the modern epidemic of chronic or non-infectious diseases.
Three out of four people now die young from a non-infectious disease, and over half the population is overweight or obese.
Diabetes is the most rapidly growing disease, with over eight million people a year suffering from a diabetic amputation.
Heart disease is the most common cause of death.
Dementia must be one of the cruellest diseases for the carers.
The root cause is the failure of our control system, which regulates our bodies and leads to the accumulation of the wrong fat in the wrong place.
Where to point the finger
Don’t point the finger at people who overeat, point the finger at the food system which fails to feed and replenish out gut-brain which regulates our appetite.
Glaringly obvious
The solution to not feeding your gut-brain is so glaringly obvious that people seem to have problems believing the solution – feed your gut-brain.
Thousands of people are already doing precisely this, and it is so simple that most people don’t even know they are doing it.
Beneficial microbes breed in the soil, as long as we don’t kill them with toxic chemicals.
The microbes enter the plants. If we eat the plants while they are fresh, microbes have a very short life, we receive a fresh supply of beneficial microbes and if we feed them with fibre which comes naturally from the plants, they will continue to breed inside us, so we can look forward to a long and healthy life.
I can hardly believe that I have to spend my time writing this when it is all so obvious and easy to resolve, so I have to ask myself why?
The answer lies in the way communities work.
Self sufficiency
The was a time in my life, when I was a lot younger, that I thought I would become self-sufficient in food.
Yes, it may appear possible to be self-sufficient, grow potatoes, cabbages and grains, and keep a few chickens. A lot of hard boring work, but not really self-sufficient.
You need a spade, and for that you need a steel works and that needs an iron ore mine. Total self sufficiency is a myth we all depend on a community.
Humans are the dominant creature on Earth because we are both intelligent and naturally cooperative – we just have a bit of a problem in organising our naturally cooperative spirit.
The invention of companies
One of the great, yet widely unrecognised human innovations is the development of companies, a legally recognised entity which can be treated at law as a separate entity from the humans that create and run the companies.
But what about the rules, formal and informal which regulate how a company operates? There are the formal rules set by Government and enforced by law and the informal rules set by the society and the power of the wallet.
In Law, the companies have an obligation to protect the interests of the shareholders but for a period there was an understanding that companies also had obligations to the employees and the community at large.
Later it was also recognised that companies also had an obligation to protect the natural resources and environment on which we all depend.
This may have worked for a period when there was a multitude of competing companies in close contact with their customers and communities and subject to the power of the wallet, but that all changed with the rise of the multi-national megacorporations and neo-monopolies.
The rise of the Mega food corporations
The food industry is not the only industry where multi-national mega corporations have developed but they certainly are the industry which has had the most impact on the well-being of the community.
They have reverted back to the minimum legal requirements that their role is maximum profits for their shareholders, and with stock options being the norm that has meant the top layer of management.
Their social obligations have been discarded in the name of profit.
Their monopolistic power has increased by a combination of the effectiveness of Neo-monopolies to avoid the wrath of Governments together with the monopoly power of technology and manipulative marketing.
The health bar
Take the example of the so-called Health Bar. There is nothing healthy about it at all. It is full of fats, sugars and salts carefully blended to create the bliss point which is bad enough but worse is the incorporation of highly addictive artificial flavouring.
Is it no wonder that we have a health crisis resulting from overeating.
Hot under the collar
There are many people getting hot under the collar about the gross injustices I am just talking about but that does no good. A few critical words on my website are not going to have any effect whatever on these mega-corporations.
So what can I do that will make the world a better place to live in for me and my great grand kids? Create a social movement. This has three components.
The action plan
The first step was to create a legal entity Cohort International Pty Ltd which acts as a social benefit organisation.
It is not a charity, it operates as a regular company that pays its way, but our aim is not to prioritise the share-holders but to provide benefits to both the community and the environment on which we all ultimately depend
This is the legal entity behind the Gbiota movement which aims to provide the social benefit of people all people having access to food that will keep them healthy.
The second step was to develop a technology which would enhance and feed their people’s guts which controls their appetite.
I have had the good fortune to have an innovative mind, which led me to become a pioneer of Computer Aided Engineering and a recognised world expert in computational fluid flow which has proved invaluable in understanding how water and nutrients move through the soil.
The third step was to make this information widely available which I try and do on my website gbiota.com.
I have a firm believe that technology should be for the benefit of the community. But not everyone has the time or inclination to become technical experts so I have to consider the most effective way of making this technology available as widely as possible.
My inoculation kits are an example. Breeding from scratch the beneficial microbes that form the intelligent control system in our gut is not something that many people would consider but the inoculation kits enable virtually everyone to breed beneficial microbes at home.
