Gbiota Blog

The third mega-change
If you think the world is going through a difficult period you are right. We are going through our third mega-change and managing this change is not going to be easy.
But we can learn from looking at the two previous mega changes.
Mega change no 1 – Fire and cooking
The biggest change was the use of fire for cooking over a million years ago.
The results were dramatic – more nutrients led to bigger brains and smaller guts.
Fire changed us humans creating a new, very different creature.
Humans became the dominant creature.

Hormones that control our appetite

We are facing an epidemic of chronic diseases, obesity, diabetes, heart attacks and dementia.
In the real world people just carry on with their normal life until their health deteriorates to the point where they need to go to a doctor who tries to cure them.
This is at great personal burden to the individual and financial cost to our health system.
Prevention is better than cure.

I am suggesting setting up a network of prevention super clinics.
The basic cause of chronic disease is deficiencies in our diet, specifically beneficial gut microbes and trace minerals.

Surely the aim for any community is for its members to live a long and healthy life.

Yet we are not doing that well with well over half the population suffering from some form of chronic disease, maybe just a bit podgy, maybe in fear of having a limb amputated from diabetes or worse of all dementia, sitting in a chair, covered with blanket to hide that you have just peed your pants and wondering who those pesky kids are who keep on calling you granddad.

I have created this section for health professionals.
This may seem a little odd as I have no medical qualifications apart from being married to a medical doctor, who became diabetic, her foot turned black and our medical advisers were talking about amputation, but we changed her diet and she still has both feet.
But I am not a drongo, I am an engineer I was selected by the Institute of Engineers as one of Australia’s leading innovators for my pioneering work in Computer Aided Engineering.

Why is it that some people are fit and healthy, enjoy a long health span with hardly a visit to the doctor while despite the sophistication of modern medical research does the epidemic of chronic diseases continues to increase causing a great deal of personal grief and costing health systems trillions of dollars?
Why is it that some people are slim, fit and healthy and others are fat and sick?
Maybe it is time to take a moment out of the rush of modern living and have a deep think.

Gbiota, at its core, is still about paradigm shifting but the scale of the battle is just so much bigger. Chronic diseases are the biggest health problem across the globe.
Being overweight is everywhere, don’t bother about statistics just go to the local shopping centre.
Diabetes is the most rapidly expanding disease with eight million people a year suffering from a limb amputation, heart attacks are the most common cause of death and at eighty-five

Our gut-brain comprises trillions of cells which communicate with their neighbours to create swarm or group intelligence which regulates our bodies – our intelligent control system.
If our gut brain feels satisfied it will send out hormones which make us feel satisfied.

GLP-1 is the active ingredient in drugs like Ozempic, Seaglitude and Wegovy.
This is a naturally occurring hormone which our body produces automatically to tell us we are full and should stop eating. Our bodies, specifically our gut, normally produce this for free.
But our modern diet, dominated by ultra-processed food is deficient in the foods to feed.