Gbiota Blog
Overview
Grow gut brain food in living soil and restore genuine food health. Half the western population is suffering from some chronic or long term illness. The ultimate cause can be traced back to poor gut health, driven by our modern chemical industrial food system. This...
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Health span
We are living longer – our life span is increasing, but our health span – how long we stay fit and active is decreasing – why?
The answer lies in our gut brain.
If our gut brain senses that we are missing crucial nutrients in our food it will send out signals, like the hunger hormone ghrelin, telling us to eat more and if our food is low in those critical hormones and microbes, it will keep on making as hungry so we eat more until we get fat and sick.
We get fat and sick simply because our gut brain is telling us too keep on eating because we are lacking critical nutrients – not because we are little piggies.
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Trench beds
Wicking beds can be modified to breed the beneficial biota in the soil, which enters the plants then our gut brain using the plants as natural pre and pro biotics (as we have done for thousand of years before modern chemical industrial agriculture).
Our gut brain is really important for our health but has sadly deteriorated over time leading to an epidemic of chronic (long term) diseases. Our gut brain acts as an intelligent control system which makes us want to eat the right amount of the right sort of food.
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Gbiota boxes – update
Gbiota boxes, as there name suggests are enclosed and separate from any parent soil.
They do not have the benefit of access to the life forms which live naturally in soil and they are also limited in size.
They do have a theoretical advantage that there is no loss of water to the surrounding soil as is inevitable in an in ground bed but that is largely just a theoretical advantage as it is easy to plant around an in ground bed to use up any water which does wick out from the main bed.
If you have a garden and want to grow a reasonable quantity of food then in ground beds are really the way to go – if you are not convinced by the technical arguments they are simply a lot cheaper and easier to build.
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The W’s
I started to write this as a welcome message for people joining the Gbiota social movement but it got a bit off track, but I had fun writing it and you may have fun reading it so I am sticking with it.
Pretend you are some creature from way out there is space and had never seen water, if a three year old kid can pretend, then so can you.
You are welcomed into some friendly humans house
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The Plan
Here is a plan of how we can make healthy gut brain food readily accessable for all the community.
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Food and floods
Floods are making it more difficult to grow any food giving shortages and price hikes – how can we grow food with floods
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Crazy world
Has the world gone crazy? Wars, food shortages, floods and droughts, prices through the roof, epidemics, the internet – one of the most important innovations of our era has sunk to become the home of mass manipulation to sell us things that don’t work or we don’t need, just to make some mega corporation or wealthy individual even richer.
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