Gbiota Blog

What is Gbiota?
Gbiota is a social movement that aims to create a thriving, sustainable society with a food system designed for long, healthy lives. It emphasizes recycling over depleting Earth’s resources and prioritizes community well-being over corporate profits. In essence, it envisions a society that is equitable and enjoyable to live in—both now and for future generations.

Modern food is that it may be hygienic, triple wrapped in plastics, but it is inert lacking the microbes which form our gut-brain which regulates our appetite so we overeat and get fat and sick from chronic diseases – overweight, diabetes, heart attacks and dementia caused by the wrong fat in the wrong place stemming from overeating.
Why we overeat
Why do we overeat​? Because of the lack of beneficial microbes in our gut. That regulate our appetite.
Modern food may be hygienic but it is deficient in the essential beneficial microbes.

The Gbiota technology breeds beneficial microbes in “Wickimix,” a specially enriched soil, for growing nutrient-packed plants that enhance your gut biota that supports natural appetite regulation, combats chronic diseases, and fosters overall well-being.
We want to make this as widely available as possible to all people and here is our plan.
We train and license skilled growers.
They load a mix of organic waste, minerals, and inoculants into raised garden beds together with open mesh Gbiota baskets, like supermarket baskets, and plant with a spectrum of plants.

Thrive and survive
The microbes in our gut form an integral part of the intelligent control system which regulates our bodies and is vital for health. In the past, these came naturally from the soil and the guts of creatures in the soil via the plants we ate.

Our modern food system may be hygienic but is inert and does not feed or replace these essential microbes.

This deficiency is the underlying cause of all modern diseases – overweight, diabetes, heart attack and dementia – the big killers of our modern era.

We are living longer, thanks to major advances in medical science.
In the past people died, often when young, from infectious diseases now we die predominantly from chronic or non-infectious diseases with three out of four people dying from a chronic disease.
We are in the midst of an epidemic of chronic diseases – overweight, diabetes, heart attacks, strokes and dementia.
Medical science may keep us alive for a long time but far worse is that we may live for a long time with poor health. Our life span may be increasing but our health span is not.

We are living longer, thanks to major advances in medical science.
In the past people died, often when young, from infectious diseases now we die predominantly from chronic or non-infectious diseases with three out of four people dying from a chronic disease.
We are in the midst of an epidemic of chronic diseases overweight, diabetes, heart attacks, strokes and dementia.
Medical science may keep us alive for a long time but far worse is that we may live for a long time with poor health. Our life span may be increasing but our health span is not.

As a celebrated engineer recognized for his groundbreaking work in Computer Aided Engineering, Colin’s expertise in adaptive systems sparked a revolutionary idea: What if chronic diseases like diabetes, obesity, and dementia stem from a malfunctioning intelligent control system within our bodies?

Drawing inspiration from swarm intelligence in nature—like the collective behaviour of birds, insects, and even slime moulds – Colin realised the key wasn’t about fully understanding this intricate system. Instead, it was about nurturing it, much like feeding and training a loyal puppy.

Food is the key to health.
Junk food is tasty, convenient, inexpensive but not healthy.
Genuine organic food may be healthy but is very expensive.
But there is a third type of food which is both healthy and inexpensive, cheaper than junk food and healthier than organic food.
How can that possibly be? What is the catch? It takes a little effort to understand how food works in our bodies and to grow, or buy, this food takes a little effort, that is the cost of health.  
This web is in two main sections.

Chronic diseases, overweight, diabetes, heart attacks and dementia are the major health issue of our time.
They are caused by the wrong fat in the wrong place.
Conventional thinking is that this is caused by eating more than we use, the calorie balance theory.
This theory I almost universally promoted and is the accepted norm.
It does explain how we get fat and sick but does not explain why.
Why is because we have an intelligent controls system which regulates our bodies. If it senses any deficiencies it will send out hunger signals so we eat more.