Aims

I want my grandchildren to live in a society where everyone—regardless of income—has access to food that keeps them healthy. A society where a small number of people hold enormous wealth while others cannot afford proper food is not a good society.

But the issue is not only money. I write many articles on nutrient deficiency in modern diets, such as the importance of zinc for immunity and sexual function. What do affluent people do? They rush out to buy zinc supplements—completely missing the point. In blue zones, where people live active, healthy lives well into their nineties, no one takes expensive pills. They eat real, nutrient-rich food.

We have two central aims:

• To enable people to buy genuinely healthy, gut-supportive food at a reasonable price.
• To help individuals and organisations build viable, ethical businesses supplying genuinely healthy food within an alternative food system.

Why We Need an Alternative Food System

Over the last fifty years, global food systems have changed dramatically. Food is now cheap and available everywhere, but this has come at the cost of a major health epidemic: diabetes, obesity, dementia, and related chronic diseases.

Gut health is central to this problem. It acts as an intelligent control system regulating appetite, fat storage, and immune function, as documented by many respected scientists, including Dr Lisa Mosconi in her book Brain Food.

Not Just Technology

I once believed the problem was purely technical. I developed the Gbiota bed to grow food rich in biology and minerals to enhance gut health.

Result: minimal impact.

Not Just Communications

Many people already understand the importance of gut health and want better food. Many regenerative farmers are actively improving soil biology and growing nutrient-dense food.

Health begins in the soil, but it ends in the gut.

We Need a Completely New System

I analysed why both approaches failed. What we need is a new economic model—an alternative food system—where growers, transporters, cooks, and consumers can earn an honest income and operate ethically while providing genuinely healthy food.

Business Ethics

Another book I recommend is Feeding You Lies by Vani Hari, which exposes how food corporations manipulate people with sugary, fatty products that lead to diabetes, blindness, obesity, dementia, and early death.

Then and Now

The modern economic mindset comes from the Chicago School of Economics: the idea that a company’s sole responsibility is to maximise profit for shareholders. In reality, this leads to neo-monopolies that buy cheap, sell dear, and promote unhealthy products for maximum profit.

In traditional societies—including the blue zones—responsibility was shared between profits, workers, and the community. People cooperated naturally: farmers, consumers, cafés, shops, and local services all supported each other.

This cooperative model is the foundation of the Gbiota system.

The Gbiota Food System

The Gbiota food system works like a modernised traditional village—using the internet to connect people over large distances while preserving cooperation and transparency.

1. Biofoodies

In traditional villages, people talked face-to-face. Growers knew exactly what their neighbours wanted. No one had to choose between chemical farming and biologically rich soil—there were no chemicals. Soil biology and compost naturally produced gut-supportive food.

Today, consumers cannot tell whether a cabbage is nutrient-rich just by looking at it. One may be grown in depleted soil with chemicals; the other may be grown in mineral-rich, biologically active soil. They may look identical, but only one supports human health.

The earliest diets were nutrient-dense and gut-supportive, but low in energy.

Biofoodies want to buy biologically active, nutrient-rich food from growers they trust. They can visit grower pages to see exactly how each crop was grown, including soil tests and biological data.

2. Growers

Regenerative farmers understand that the future depends on improving soil biology and mineral content. They register as growers and create a page showing how they grow their food. Other members may leave reviews.

Growers list what they currently have and what will soon be available.

Plants begin to deteriorate as soon as they are harvested. Green vegetables—our main source of beneficial biology—have no protective skin, so biological decline begins immediately. In the Gbiota system, biofoodies order plants while they are still alive in the soil and receive them within hours of harvest.

3. Boxers

Boxers are the transport and distribution system. Healthy food must be affordable for everyone. Boxers collect produce from growers, pack it into biofoodie boxes, and deliver to homes or hubs.

This reduces waste. In conventional systems, crops are harvested speculatively and often discarded. In the Gbiota system, crops are harvested only after being purchased.

4. Multiple Categories

Members can belong to more than one category. For example, a boxer may organise produce for several small growers who don’t want their own page. They can run an online green grocery store.

Boxers can also organise seasonal or regional events, such as bulk cherry pickups during harvest season.

5. Food Hubs

Food hubs include cafés, restaurants, health stores, green grocers, markets, and even progressive independent supermarkets.

Biofoodies order online and collect from the hub. Cafés are especially important—transitioning from sugary diets to vegetable-rich diets is challenging. Herbs and spices can make nutrient-dense meals delicious without sugar.

Some cafés also act as boxers and hubs.

Support

Switching from high-sugar, high-fat diets to nutrient-rich Gbiota food can be difficult. Support from friends, health clinics, diabetes educators, and community groups makes the transition easier.

I serve as a support member, offering guidance on building and managing Gbiota beds and sharing information through my articles.

Registration

When registering, new members choose which of the five categories they belong to. Other members can then geolocate them on the map and browse products accordingly.

For help registering, contact: co*********@*****nd.com

Not Just a Mates Club

The Gbiota club is more than a place to chat about healthy food. It’s a business model that helps people build viable enterprises based on honest food, not a franchise with fees.

Members set their own prices. Buyers pay by credit card; payments are automatically distributed to each vendor. Some members also form cooperative buying arrangements to access wholesale pricing.

The admin receives a 5% commission to cover credit card fees, technical support, and operational costs.