Gbiota Blog

The bulk of the food we eat is just burned for energy. We are really just a walking talking thermodynamic machine just like any other thermodynamic machine from a steam engine to a rocket ship.

We are also a warm blooded creature so we need fuel just to keep us warm. It has been estimated that 80% of the food we eat is simply burned as fuel.

It is dead simple – we just burn carbon and hydrogen to give of carbon dioxide, water and lots of energy. It really does not matter what the food is, sugar, carbohydrates, fats or whatever – it is just energy.

Wet and windy Melbourne

Some fifty years ago in the mid 1970’s I lived just outside wet and windy Melbourne in nice block with a creek running through the centre. In winter there was plenty or rain but in summer we would get those hot northerlies off the desert which would dry everything out.

I made a dam and fitted a pump to take the water to the top of the block were it would run down a series of channels I made based on the Key line principles. Worked fine but the channels were a right pain in moving the block so I put some pipe with holes into the channels and buried them to give me a flat surface.

This is remarkably similar to the modern Gbiota beds.

Our gut brain is the key to good health.

Consumer get fresh veggies which act as gut food which is genuinely healthy at an affordable price, growers get paid for what they like doing while the Gbiota team provide the technology of growing gut food.

Growers breed beneficial microbes in organic matter in the soil, also adding rock dust which is broken down by the microbes into accessible minerals forming nutrient rich, biologically active, soil.

Unless you are a total hermit you can’t have missed that the world is in a bit of a mess – Covid, bush fires, floods droughts and food shortages.
When the price of an iceberg lettuce rises from $2 to $13 then you have to notice. OK the price has now dropped down to $7 so everything is going to be OK – no that is just because they are shipping them in from miles away. Things are bad and are going to get worse.
I thought I would Google to see how much carbon dioxide was emitted in the recent bush fires – 700 million tons – compared that with a total emission from Australia of 500 million tons. My going to the shops on my bike rather than driving my car is not going to have much impact on that – however good it may make me feel that I am making a contribution.
So what can I do that will have an impact, particularly to the food crisis and the wobbly food chain?

If you looking at this web I assume you are interested in your health and understand that you just cannot be really healthy unless you are eating healthy food.

You are probably aware you are low in Magnesium because the majority of the population are low in Magnesium.

If you are a female you probably also realise that you could be low in iron.

If you are male then you may not have caught up with the sniggering that if you are a sexually active male that one night of happy frolicking can deplete your zinc reserves. That is bad as zinc is important to our immune systems.

If you looking at this web I assume you are interested in your health and understand that you just cannot be really healthy unless you are eating healthy food.

You are probably aware you are low in Magnesium because the majority of the population are low in Magnesium.

If you are a female you probably also realise that you could be low in iron.

If you are male then you may not have caught up with the sniggering that if you are a sexually active male that one night of happy frolicking can deplete your zinc reserves. That is bad as zinc is important to our immune systems.

If you live in cloud cuckoo land you may believe that there will be a continuous supply of healthy food way into the future. Dream on.

But if you live in the real world you will see we are on a high speed train heading straight for a cliff and that cliff is a major food crisis where the supermarkets are full of food loaded with sugars, fats and carbs which will make us fat and sick.

But no real food.