Computer Pioneer Fights Diabesity
Colin Austin, recognised as one of Australia’s top innovators, is using the internet to fight the diabesity epidemic through Gbiota food.
The trillions of cells in our gut (Gbiota™) communicate with one another as part of our body’s intelligent control system, regulating what we want to eat, how much we eat, and where we store fat.
But for our gut brain to function properly, we must feed it gut food—Gbiota food—containing a full spectrum of minerals, phytonutrients, and living, beneficial biology.
Colin formed the Gbiota Club so people can buy directly from growers who regenerate their soil, making it biologically active and nutrient rich.
Health Starts in the Soil
The earliest diets were nutrient-dense and gut-supportive, but low in energy.
There are good bugs and bad bugs—this is part of life—but beneficial bugs can control harmful ones. While we are alive, our bodies do not rot because we are protected by our immune system and beneficial biology.
Plants operate in the same way. While they are growing, beneficial soil biology protects them. Once harvested, the beneficial bugs begin to die off, harmful bugs take over, and the plant starts to go rotten.
A healthy gut thrives when we add to our diet plants grown in nutrient-rich, biologically active soil—and eaten while the beneficial biology is still living.
In the Gbiota Club, members can purchase plants from multiple regenerative growers while the plants are still growing in the soil.
The Boxer System
A club member known as a boxer collects each order from the various growers and delivers the boxes directly to members’ homes or to a local food hub.
By collecting from many growers for many buyers, this becomes a highly cost-effective system. Gbiota food can even be cheaper than food purchased through the conventional industrial system.
Making Healthy Food Taste Good
Many people are addicted to modern high-fat, high-sugar diets, making fruit- and vegetable-rich meals taste bland at first.
A skilled chef can use herbs and spices to make meals that are both delicious and healthy. Variety is key to both health and flavour. Blending vegetables with meats or fish can create meals that are deeply satisfying.
Restaurants and cafés in the Gbiota Club bring these skills to members, creating a communal, supportive environment—especially important when transitioning away from sugar and fat-dominant diets.
A Social Movement
Because members trade food and services directly with one another, the system can be cheaper and more convenient than the modern food economy. But Gbiota is not about profit.
It is a social movement so that anyone—regardless of wealth—can access a healthy, nutrient-rich, biologically active diet.
The club is open to anyone who places health above profit. You can become a member here.
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