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Understanding food
The Modern Health Crisis Obesity and diabetes have become widespread in just the last fifty years. The cause lies in how our food and soils have changed. The gut brain is part of the body’s intelligent control system, and it depends on plants grown in biologically…
Food Basics
“Do we really want our kids to grow up fat and diabetic? Health starts in the soil—and in the gut.” Why this site exists Humans succeed through intelligence and cooperation. Yet modern media and marketing often push instant gratification—pills, bars, and…
Food for Thought
Feed our brains, our head brain and our gut brain and they will look after us. “Health starts in the soil—and in the gut.” We share an intelligent control system that manages how much and what sort of food we want to eat, and how much and where we store fat. It has…
Blue zones
Feed our brains, our head brain and our gut brain and they will look after us. In parts of the world known as blue zones, people live long and active lives—often into their nineties or hundreds—by eating mostly plant-based foods grown in healthy, mineral-rich soil….
Continuous Monitoring
Welcome to my site, which I created after some thought and practical experiments. My wife, Xiulan, a medical doctor, was having severe problems with her diabetes, so we fitted her with a continuous blood sugar monitor to look for connections between her blood sugar…
Health Starts in the Soil Part 1
Humans thrive because we build tools and cooperate. Today, rapid technological change and a highly processed food system mean we must use that same cooperation to reclaim our health—starting in the soil. Cooperation and technology Some million or so years ago,…
Gbiota Club Aims & Code of Conduct: Growing Food for Gut Health
The Gbiota Club exists to help people improve health through food by rebuilding gut biology with living, nutrient-dense plants. It is built on practical growing methods (flood-and-drain compost tea), regenerative soil improvement, and fair returns for growers. This…
What Traditional Food Systems in Yunnan Teach Us About Health
This article is a practical travel reflection written from Shenzhen after a trip to Yunnan. The “official” reason for the visit is to look at how traditional farming and soil might relate to human health. The real reason is simpler: Yunnan is stunning. Along the way…
How Urban Agriculture Can Combat Hidden Hunger
This article is a summary of Colin Austin’s 2014 Shanghai–Wuhan talk on wicking beds and why “more food” is not the same as “better food.” Modern agriculture can supply abundant calories, yet many diets remain short of minerals, vitamins, and plant compounds that…
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