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We get fat because our gut-brain says so

We don’t get fat and sick because we are little piggies and stuff ourselves with chicken wings, chips and ultra-processed foods.
We get fat because we have deficiencies in our diet, this is sensed by our intelligent control system, our gut-brain, which regulates our bodies.
Sensing problems it hits that big red alarm bell sending out messages – hormones and electrical signals – saying we have an emergency, eat more food and store it wherever possible.

Humans have evolved to be naturally not fat – it is not good in the survival stakes. Our bodies naturally sense when we are full and our gut manufactures hormones which make us feel full and stop eating.
So-called obesity drugs, like Ozempic, are humans attempt to simulate the actions of our natural hormones.
But modern food is deficient in both certain trace minerals and more importantly the microbes that form our gut-brain.

It is just a sad fact of life that our modern food system is not working the way it should, which means reduced health span (the length of time we are fit and healthy – not the same as life span) and is the underlying cause of the modern epidemic of chronic of non-infectious diseases.
The underlying cause is the wrong fat in the wrong place which raises the question of why our bodies should store fat in the wrong places – or simply, why do we get fat?
The common answer, from both the lay public and experts in the field, would be that we eat too much and that is simply not consistent with the facts.

I present a plan that will lead to a better life so we and our grandkids can live a happier and healthier life – the plan is about future food which affects us both physically and physiologically.
Right now we are facing a health crisis, both physical and psychological, from deficiencies in our food system. In the future we face an even greater crisis from climate change, degradation of our soils, and exploitation of nutrients.

People across the globe are suffering an epidemic of chronic diseases, obesity, diabetes, heart attacks, and dementia. It is the biggest health threat facing humanity (See Survival).
The underlying reason for this epidemic of chronic diseases is the wrong fat in the wrong place.
Everybody has an intelligent control system that regulates our bodies.
It is a combination of our head and gut brains.
We cannot change our head brain, but we can train it and may change how it is expressed (Epigenetics) essentially we are stuck with it.
But we can change our gut brain, simply by what what we eat.

Developing a simple Gbiota box for people living in apartments has been the focus of my development work – Why?
The world is very different to when I was born. Back then infectious diseases were the biggest health issue. We were obsessed with germs, they had to be eliminated at all costs and adopting a chemical approach, swapping manure with chemical fertilisers, toxic sprays and antibiotics we have been successful in killing them.