Solving the Food crisis

Social movement

The world is suffering a food crisis, not in quantity – we are actually producing more food than the world needs – but in the quality that will lead us to expect a long and healthy life free of the modern diseases obesity, diabetes, heart attacks, dementia, etc.

This is not going to be solved by the Mega Corporations that control our food system or even the Governments we elect to safeguard our interests.

It is going to be solved by people saying I want to live a long and healthy life and not have my leg chopped off from diabetes.

One person makes absolutely no difference, it needs many people in a social movement. I don’t mean a movement with crowds blocking the streets, waving placards, and getting arrested, I mean a quiet social movement using the power that works – the power of the wallet.

I hope you join the movements and do the one thing that will make this movement work – tell your friends and ask them to join – it is only by getting enough people to join the movement that we will be successful.

Not a flash

But first I need to explain the technology and the best way of doing that is to tell the story of how this technology was developed.

There are ideas that change everything which seem to come as an instantaneous flash of inspiration.

But that is not the way it happens – there is a long and frustrating period of puzzling which culminates in a moment when things do suddenly fall into place.

Then there is an even longer period while this new way of thinking becomes accepted as the norm – the painful process of creating a paradigm shift.

Let me tell you my story.

My expertise is in computational fluid flow and I was recognised as one of Australia leading innovators. (Read My Story here)

I have a particular interest in how water moves through the soil and plants – something that is not as simple as it may at first seem. (See water).

Ethiopia

Some thirty years ago I was invited to go to Ethiopia to see if I could see any way of providing sustenance food in times of their periodic droughts.

It had to be really simple and cost next to nothing.

The idea I came up with was to dig a trench, line it with a plastic sheet, fill it with weeds (which contain a lot of nutrients) and back-fill.

When it rained the trench would catch the water which would otherwise drain away so the plants could be grown.

This was the birth of Wicking Beds. Watch my video here.

The idea caught on but some people thought that the weeds would cause problems with becoming putrid so they had the idea that they would replace the weeds with stones, which are inert.

Cover the stones with a layer of weed cloth and put a pipe so the water reservoir could be filled with clean water and hey presto the putrid problem is resolved.

They had developed an effective self watering bed without the problem of pesky microbes.

This idea that we should grow our food free of these pesky microbes became the accepted norm across food production systems.

The wrong fat in the wrong place

But then my wife, a medical doctor became diabetic – along with millions of other people across the globe.

What was the root cause?

Basically the wrong fat in the wrong place.

But why would our bodies suddenly start accumulating fat?

At first there was no scientific explanation.

But science keeps on moving ahead and we began to understand how important our gut biota was.

The tens of trillions microbes in our gut communicate with each other and our head brain to form a supercomputer that forms the intelligent control system for our bodies and regulates how much and where we store fat.

Microbes matter

It was pretty obvious that microbes really matter.

This idea that we should be producing food under inert conditions was a really bad idea and that we had better work out how to grow our food with beneficial microbes (but without the harmful microbes).

Good and bad microbes

That may sound like a nice idea but there is a practical problem of how to create a system with beneficial microbes but without harmful microbes.

They do much more than make a bit of smell, they make us sick and even kill us.

This seems an almost impossible problem, it is easy to kill bugs, and we have powerful chemicals that do this effectively but how do we kill the bad bugs without killing the good bugs? Not possible with chemicals.

Our immune system

But in the bleakest hour, a knight on a white horse appears and saves the day.

That white horse is our immune system which largely lives inside our gut, our intelligent control system.

It seems that we have grossly underestimated our gut brain. It is much more sophisticated than some simple on/off controller saying –

“you are full stop eating.”

It actually makes our attempts at developing Artificial Intelligence look pretty puny. From the minute we take our first feed, hopefully from mum, it is learning how the food we eat affects our bodies so it knows that certain foods provide us with specific critical nutrients and create craving for that food

Beer and peanuts

With all our super-sophisticated technology it seems amazing that no reputable scientist has noticed then when you spend the afternoon digging in the hot sun you fancy a beer and some peanuts.

What is happening is that your sophisticated gut brain has worked out how to tell you are low in critical salts (from all that sweating) and learned by experience that having a beer and peanuts replaces these salts.

That is how AI works it learns and remembers and that is what our gut brain does brilliantly.

Why do we get fat

Experts will give you all sorts of reasons why you get fat and tell you to go on some diet which reduces calorie intake.

If your super smart AI detects that you are low in some specific need, some mineral or vitamin, it will make you feel hungry, not just hungry but irresistible food cravings.

If you happen to respond by stuffing yourself with chicken wings and cheesecake rather than the specific mineral or vitamin you are missing then you will get fat.

Not satisfying an essential nutritional need is the real reason why we get fat.

We may consume extra calories but that is not the real reason, it is because we have a specific deficit which sets up food cravings so we end up eating extra calories.

A very different story.

Our immune system

But our immune system lies largely in our gut and also uses the same self-learning process.

It learns that certain bugs are bad and need to be ‘dealt with’ (killed or immobilised).

That’s what vaccines are all about – they don’t kill the bugs – they just teach our immune system which bugs need to be dealt with.

Not sleepy

We tend to think that our immune system is just lying there having a little sleep until along comes a baddie and it wakes up and sorts out the baddies – hopefully.

But that is not the way it works. We are surrounded by all sorts of microbes, they are just everywhere, anything we touch, in the food we eat, and in the air we breathe. I am told that with every breath we may take in four fungi spores.

Our immune system is not dozy, it is working 24/7 and it so effectively deals with any baddies that we just don’t appreciate how hard-working it is.

We only notice it when it gets completely overwhelmed with baddies or a new baddie (that it has not been trained to deal with) comes along.

The knight on the white horse

Our immune system is the knight on the white horse that saves the day. We don’t have to find some miraculous chemical that kills off ALL the baddies – we just have to kill off most of the baddies so our immune system does not get overwhelmed.

If this sounds like a risky procedure let me tell you that this is the way that nature has worked for the last few billion years with great success.

We now give it the flash name of ‘Eco balance’ which means that all we need to do is to create the right conditions so the good bugs our compete and out-breed the bad bugs and problem solved.

We can now look forward to a long and healthy life.

It is simply a question of creating the right conditions so the good bugs out-breed the bad bugs – an easy engineering problem.

Soil blood

We tend to think of soil as something solid, maybe with a bit of water in it.

That is not the way that plants see it. Plants can’t eat soil, rather they drink (actually they do it by osmosis but let’s not get picky) a liquid, which I call soil blood because it does the same job as our blood, which contains the nutrients and microbes the plants, and we, need.

Microbes in the soil break down the minerals in the soil so they are soluble and bio-available to the plants.

But these microbes in the soil do much more than a bit of chemistry, they will become part of our gut brain which regulates our bodies.

All we have to do is make the soil breathe, which we do by flood and drain, flooding to expel the stale air and draining to suck in the fresh air and circulate the soil blood so it is never stagnant long enough to become putrid.

That is what the Gbiota system does.

Problem solved?

Technically yes but we are not quite there yet.

There are a couple of issues.

The first is already solved – but not adopted. The microbes in the plants which will eventually become our gut brain have a very short life.

One hour of a microbe is equivalent to a year of human life which means that the plants must be eaten fresh, really fresh, and living.

Not the ‘fresh’ meaning not gone rotten that the supermarkets mean by fresh.

Technically that is already solved as it is so easy to have a Gbiota box with growing plants in any home or flat.

It is perfectly practical for someone, even if they live in a flat to go through the whole process of making Gbiota boxes, creating the soil and growing the plants.

But many people, particularly the young people with babies are just too busy in this frenetic modern life.

That is why we need to look at setting up a system where some people or companies set up an operation to supply Gbiota boxes already planted out so all that is needed it to water, pick and eat.

This is easier and cheaper than buying food from the Supermarket.

I expect that the easiest way to get this going is with older people who have a bit more time (and growing experience) to give the boxes to their pregnant daughters. In my article The best pro-biotic ever I explain why it is so important for babies to develop a healthy gut biota. (The best pro-biotic ever is breast milk and sets the babies future gut biota and health for life.)

Are we there yet?

Think we are there now – not yet. What we are really looking at here is de-centralising that part of our food system that provides gut brain food.

(The energy part of the food system is working fine, no need to fix that.)

The food Paradigm shift

We are talking about a paradigm shift in creating an understanding of gut brain food. How do we create a paradigm shift?

Not by advertising and conventional promotion.

Paradigm shifts are brought about by individual people trying it for themselves, convincing themselves by first hand experience that this really works then telling their direct contacts.

In this era of alternative facts and manipulative marketing people want to hear it from real people they trust.

That is what the Gbiota social movement is all about – convincing people, your friends on a one to one basis, that they can have a long and healthy life and avoid having a leg chopped off from diabetes, dying of a heart attack or the horror of dementia by growing their own gut food.

So why not join the Gbiota movement. It is free at this moment but you need to enter a valid email and click on the notify me button at the bottom of every post.

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https://www.gbiota.com/2024/01/03/gbiota-overview-2024/

https://www.gbiota.com/2023/11/20/gbiota-soil/

https://www.gbiota.com/2023/07/12/growing-gut-food-2/

https://www.gbiota.com/2023/05/15/lamborghini-and-our-gut/

https://www.gbiota.com/2023/04/17/unks-and-ununks/

https://www.gbiota.com/2022/12/11/overview-2/

https://www.gbiota.com/2022/10/14/soaker-beds/

https://www.gbiota.com/2022/10/04/water/

https://www.gbiota.com/2022/08/22/health-starts-in-the-soil-2/