Breeding your own gut microbes
We may live in our cities of concrete and steel, but we are totally dependent on the Earth’s Ecosystem to survive. photosynthesisOur energy comes from the sun captured by photosynthesis...
Extinction or survive and thrive
The wrong fat in the wrong place is at the core of the modern epidemic of chronic diseases. Three out of four people now die from a chronic disease, which...
The Gbiota Story
The Gbiota Story
Will it work?
I may be a woke greenie concerned about the communities well being but I read a lot. One morning I was having my after breakfast read, this time “I’m So...
Changing the system
We all want to live a long and healthy life, free of disease. That depends very much on the food we eat. We need food for energy. Our modern food...
What does Gbiota do?
Gbiota enables people to breed beneficial microbes at home under controlled conditions so the beneficial microbes out-breed any harmful microbes. To live a long and healthy life you need beneficial...
A compassionate society
Life is good, we are living longer and the supermarkets are full of healthy food. Sounds great but is it true? My daughter, when she was about seven taught me...
Understanding your gut-brain
We show the process of – breeding beneficial microbes in organic – growing plants in this soil using the flood and flush system so the soil breathes and soil blood...
Innovation is a funny business
Let us look at the story of food and health. In the past, and that means going back a million years to the first humanoids there was no epidemic of...
Food Change
For the first few billion years the earth was just a barren rock. Then microbes appeared, they broke down the rocks and made soil which led to plants flourishing. Next...
Managing Change
The third mega-change If you think the world is going through a difficult period you are right. We are going through our third mega-change and managing this change is not...
hormones
Hormones that control our appetite
Superclinics
We are facing an epidemic of chronic diseases, obesity, diabetes, heart attacks and dementia. In the real world people just carry on with their normal life until their health deteriorates...
Integration trials
Surely the aim for any community is for its members to live a long and healthy life. Yet we are not doing that well with well over half the population...
Ignobels
I have created this section for health professionals. This may seem a little odd as I have no medical qualifications apart from being married to a medical doctor, who became...
Health Professionals
Why is it that some people are fit and healthy, enjoy a long health span with hardly a visit to the doctor while despite the sophistication of modern medical research...
Health span or Epidemic
Why is it that some people are fit and healthy, enjoy a long health span with hardly a visit to the doctor while despite the sophistication of modern medical research...
Change for the better
Gbiota, at its core, is still about paradigm shifting but the scale of the battle is just so much bigger. Chronic diseases are the biggest health problem across the globe....
Intelligence
Our gut-brain comprises trillions of cells which communicate with their neighbours to create swarm or group intelligence which regulates our bodies – our intelligent control system. If our gut brain...
Taste, hunger and healthspan
Is humanity in danger of extinction? Probably not. Is our modern comfortable lifestyle in danger of extinction? Definitely yes and it is happening right now. Can we do anything to...
Your choice
We are at a crossroads and have two options. In option one we can live in a society dominated by marketing hype, where we buy health bars full of sugars...
Gbiota introduction
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...
Organics save us
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...
Introducing the Gbiota technology
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...
Welcome
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...
Changing the Health Paradigm
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...
Mind and body
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...
Game changer
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...
Summary
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...
Essence
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...
The Trial
We know that the world’s biggest health issue is the epidemic of chronic diseases, obesity, diabetes, heart attacks and dementia and that these are caused by the wrong fat in...
Healthy food – intro
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...
Community Benefit
My wife Xiulan, a medical doctor and surgeon became diabetic, the professional medical advice given to us was that diabetes is an irreversible chronic disease, it will steadily get worse,...
Ecosystems
We must create an ecosystem, a food ecosystem in which humans can thrive. Charles Darwin taught us that creatures evolve to thrive in their local environment. Humans now have the...
Chronic disease
Gbiota is a community benefit organisation aiming to prevent the current epidemic of chronic diseases, overweight, diabetes, heart attacks and dementia. These are all caused by the wrong fat in...
Health paradox
Chronic diseases, obesity, diabetes, heart attacks and dementia cause a great deal of personal distress and cost Governments billions of dollars. They are very difficult to cure but can be...
Prevention better than cure
Two-thirds of the population are overweight, the wrong fat in the wrong place is the root cause of all chronic diseases. Diabetes is the fastest-growing disease with half a billion...
Health – prevention first
Across the globe, we are suffering from an epidemic of chronic or non-infectious diseases. We know that these chronic diseases are caused by the wrong fat in the wrong place...
Society
Two-thirds of the population are overweight, the wrong fat in the wrong place is the root cause of all chronic diseases. Health systems are creaking at the joints with not...
Food – we love it
Food – we love it. But it is making us fat and sick and growing it is destroying the soils and planet on which we all depend. What has gone...
Prevention
Across the globe we are suffering from an epidemic of chronic or non infectious diseases. Three out of four people die prematurely from a chronic disease. The social and economic...
Friendly bugs
Our bodies have an intelligent control system which regulates our bodies, particularly our appetite and immune system. Our gut is an integral part of this control system. If we have...
Welcome to Gbiota
We teach how to grow plants as pre and pro-biotics. That is the easy bit, understanding and applying the science of breeding beneficial microbes in a special soil, Wickimix largely...
Community Health
We are in the midst of an epidemic of chronic diseases, overweight, diabetes, heart attacks and dementia. They say eat less exercise more but that does not work. Our gut-brain...
Jenny
Jenny, one of our Gbiota members asked a simple question. I am told that my answer is one of the most important articles on how to sustainably grow healthy food...
Applying technology
With all our modern technology and automated production capacity, we should only need to work a couple of days a week to have everything we need and live a healthy...
Technology
I do hold this belief that technology should work for the benefit of the community and it is not. It may be making a handful of people rich beyond imagination...
Serious think about food
Has the world gone mad? We have mega companies spending billions of dollars on advertising so we buy food that makes us fat and sick and die before our time....
Think smarter
I want to sell you a concept. It is free you don’t have to pay me anything but you do have to think seriously about it for five minutes and...
Thrive and survive
At the start, the earth was just a dead inert rock. Then the microbiota appeared, we don’t know from where, but they broke down the rocks making the nutrients in...
Smart young girl
There is a nice story about a smart young lady who stalled her ageing car on a busy road. Try as she might she could not get the car started...
Tim Spector
It is well known that our gut biota plays a major roles in our health. Many researchers, such as Tim Spector, Professor at Imperial College, London explains this in his...
Enhancing gut health
This was made as a page by a professional graphics designer, I am republishing as a post as I like the graphics
Food not pills
A million years ago the first humanoids appeared, they had a food Eco-system based on eating plants from living soils. These microbes bred in the soil, protected them and they...
Library
List of all articles
Real food
Ever think about what food is doing to your body? There are foods for energy, replace parts as they age and wear and to feed our gut. There is more...
Gbiota overview
Pick and eat plants grown in living soil – that is the way to feed your gut-brain which controls your appetite and how much fat your body stores. The wrong...
The essence
Describes the underlying principles of the Gbiota movement
My teddy
The heartless massacre of ordinary people by powerful militia and the possibility of World War 3 cannot go unnoticed. Neither can the waves of hungry refugees moving across the globe...
Growers wanted
Growers wanted At this moment Gbiota is used by a pretty determined bunch who are prepared to the bother of making their own Gbiota beds and boxes. However, it is...
Feed your gut brain
We need the right sort of microbes in our gut to be healthy. The microbes in our gut communicate with each other to form our intelligent control system which regulates...
Community benefit
My wife Xiulan, a medical doctor and surgeon became diabetic, the professional medical given to us was that diabetes is an irreversible chronic disease, that will steadily get worse, we...
Does it work
Overweight, diabetes, heart attacks, and dementia all have a common underlying cause – the wrong fat in the wrong place. This is not because we have turned into little piggies...
Getting started
How to grow gut brain food and live a long and healthy life
Save 100,000 legs from diabetic amputation
I have set myself the target of saving 100,000 people from a diabetic leg amputation before the end of 2025. I know how to do this, I am an engineer...
Food crisis
Food is one of the major threats to humanity, not an absolute lack of food – we produce more than enough energy food, carbs, fats and sugars, to feed the...
Your turn
How to reduce 8 million amputation
User posts
Enables users to make posts
Why we get fat
We get fat because our gut-brain says so
Not little piggies
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...
Eco-balance
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...
Compost – Bin or Bury?
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...
Food, health and wealth for all
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...
Why we need to act
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...
Gbiota boxes – made easy
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....
Survival
Humans are the great survivors. We are the dominant species on Earth, spreading across the globe to every corner of the Earth that is vaguely habitable. Now we are under...
Map
This is a map of the site to direct you to the most appropriate posts
Newsletter 11 March 2024
“Colin, we know you are trying to persuade people of the benefits of eating healthy food full of living beneficial microbes, but we already know that, and what we want...
Innovation and managing ignorance
I recently wrote an article rethinking food and diabetes that described a simple and inexpensive technology which could dramatically reduce the eight million amputations that occur every year. You may...
Learning plan
There are hundreds of posts and videos on this site. This post arranges the key posts into a convenient learning schedule
Rethinking food and diabetes
We have known for at least twenty years that Diabetes gets serious when fat levels in the Pancreas increase preventing the Pancreas from making insulin. All the experts say the...
The Gbiota project
Overview of the Gbiota strategy
Growers and gut biota
Microbes breed in the soil, enter plants which act as natural pre and pro biotics which we eat to form our gut biota. This process is the result of millions...
Recycle to survive
Round and round it goes For some million years humanoid creatures have survived on this planet by eating fresh plants grown in living soil. The way it worked is simple....
Learning experience
Homeostasis Many of my readers know that I am a bit OCDish about how our food system is compromising community health. The medical facts are simple, everyone has an inbuilt...
Become a Gbiota supplier
The modern chemical industrial food system is highly productive producing large quantities of standardised energy food at economic prices. But the food is inert lacking the essential microbes to feed...
Help wanted with digital marketing
Help wanted with digital marketing Gbiota interest is how to grow gut brain food. Few people are going to Google ‘how to grow gut brain food’ and if they do...
Hello
Gbiota Hello Many people know that chemical industrial agriculture and highly processes foods are not good for us. People react in different ways. Some people see this as their mission...
Join help
Explains the various membership levels and how to join
Try it
Just try it – it is neither expensive or difficult I am proposing that you make your own soil from food and organic waste, add mineral and microbes to create...
True Brain
Our gut is a true brain with intelligence. All those trillions of cells are communicating with each other like some super computer. Unfortunately we have no idea of the code...
Fire and food
Homo eructus, our ancient ancestor was a puny little creature that barely survived. But it discovered fire and learned to cook and the extra nutrients led to a bigger brain...
Conflict and aggression
Conflict and aggression or peaceful coexistence – these are the options facing humanity. Just look at what is happening in the world – people killing other people on every continent....
Modern Epidemic
Modern epidemic Food is the root cause of the modern epidemics of diabetes, heart attacks, dementia and feeling hangry. Hangry – angry because we feel hungry and not satisfied.
Help me help you
Help me help you My wife, Xiulan, is a medical doctor. She became diabetic and her foot started to turn black and our medical advisers told us they may have...
Fire, water and technology
Fire, water and technology There is an old saying that fire and water are good servants but bad masters, we must now add technology.
Fat and sick
Across the globe people are getting fat a sick from an epidemic of diseases like diabetes, heart attacks and dementia. Why? Our gut brain has trillions of cells which communicate...
Food and our nature
We know for sure that the food we eat can make us fat and sick, but what if it can affect our very nature, our DNA and make us a...
Try it
I am proposing that you make your own soil from food and organic waste, add mineral and microbes to create a soil teaming with beneficial microbes and nutrients and grow...
Gut Biology Sources
Technical references on food, health and gut.