The Gbiota Club

Why changing how we grow food may be the key to changing our gut biology — and our health.

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This is an invitation to join the Gbiota Club. Why form a club at all? Because if we want to improve our health by improving our gut biology, we need a practical system — a top-down way of growing food in biologically active soil and seeing what actually works in the real world.

Why Gut Biology Matters

We’ve known for a long time that gut biology helps us digest food, but modern research shows it is far more than a fermentation tank. Our gut is an intelligent control centre made of trillions of cells communicating like a biological computer. It supports immunity, produces vitamins, regulates appetite, controls weight, influences mood, and affects chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, strokes, and depression.

We don’t simply “get fat because we eat too much.” Our gut sends hormonal signals — leptin, ghrelin, insulin — telling our body whether to store fat, burn fat, or keep eating. Why different people store fat differently remains one of the gut brain’s mysteries. But one thing is clear: if we want long-term health, we must manage our gut biology, not just our calories.

Why Science Isn’t There Yet

Modern medicine can give me a titanium knee that works beautifully, but when it comes to gut biology, we are still scratching the surface. We can identify thousands of microbial species, but we still don’t fully understand how they work together as a computer system controlling our health.

Thousands of scientists are working on it, but real breakthroughs may take decades — and I don’t have decades to wait. Like many older people, I am less philosophical and more impatient. So I turned to self-experimentation.

Self-Experimentation: What Happened

I read everything I could about gut biology, then bought commercial probiotics. What changed? Absolutely nothing. Bottle after bottle. No noticeable improvement in health or energy.

But when I switched to a diet of plants grown in biologically active soil — what I call a “wild ecosystem diet” — something finally happened. My gut behaved like an internal brewery. Noisy, active, alive. Fermented foods and garden-fresh plants triggered dramatic changes that I could feel, not just theorise.

Subjectively I felt better. Objectively, well, my pulse still increased when a pretty girl walked by, which was at least scientific confirmation that I was alive.

Why Modern Food Isn’t Enough

The explosion of chronic disease is recent. Something has changed. Yes, processed foods, sugars, refined carbs, and inactivity are part of the problem — but so is the way we grow our food. Our soils have been stripped of minerals, phytonutrients, and biology. Produce is cleaner, stored longer, and biologically emptier. Tribes living traditional lifestyles don’t suffer these chronic diseases. They eat wild food harvested from functioning ecosystems and have far richer gut biology than we do.

The conclusion is simple: we can improve our gut biology by changing our diet, but only if that diet contains both probiotics (the bugs) and prebiotics (the food the bugs eat). The best source is food grown in biologically rich soil — not sterile mass-produced supermarket vegetables.

Gbiota Beds: Phase 1

The first step is gathering people willing to grow biologically active food — Gbiota beds — and actually eat it to see what happens. This is citizen research. Not double-blind statistical trials, but practical case histories. If enough people notice improved health, we’ll know we’re onto something valuable.

Some eating habits may need to change: less sugar, fewer high-glycaemic carbs, maybe some intermittent fasting. And yes, red wine and chocolate remain exempt — life needs pleasure.

We can measure outcomes simply: energy levels, waist circumference, weight, blood sugar readings for diabetics. Enough real-world data can show whether this approach works.

Gbiota Beds: Phase 2

I made a mistake with Wicking Beds: I released everything freely, they went viral, but the technology was altered, misinterpreted, and complicated unnecessarily. Commercial growers lost interest because the system seemed too complex and expensive.

If Gbiota beds can genuinely help fight chronic diseases — especially diabetes — we must protect the system from corruption. That means protecting the name “Gbiota” and licensing the technology so growers can produce genuine Gbiota food and earn a fair return.

Commercial growers need a brand the public recognises for its health benefits. They also need confidence that the technology is robust, scaleable, and scientifically grounded.

The Gbiota Manual

The system will be documented in the confidential Gbiota Manual — a living document available to club members. Every member agrees not to share it publicly, helping preserve the integrity of the technology.

Members can contribute their own findings, and I will incorporate them into the manual. No one person can know everything about soil, water, microbiology, hydraulics, horticulture, and the vast array of plants with potential health benefits. But together, a group can.

Membership

There are two membership types:

• Home growers — $20 per year, for private non-commercial use.
• Commercial growers — $100 per year, licensed to sell food under the Gbiota name.

Citizen Research: Why Top-Down Matters

Scientific progress often starts with practical discovery, not theory. Agriculture came before genetics. Steam engines came before thermodynamics. Computing evolved from codebreaking before it became the science we know today.

Top-down technology shows a method is useful. Bottom-up science later explains why. We don’t need perfect scientific understanding before taking action. We only need evidence that something works well enough to pursue it — and refine it.

If improving gut biology can reduce chronic disease, we cannot wait decades for perfect science. We must learn pragmatically, like the Hadza, Pima, and Yanomami, whose gut biology adapts seasonally and thrives without laboratories.

Why Form a Club?

Because the stakes are enormous. Diabetes alone affects over a billion people. If Gbiota beds or “wild food” diets can help restore gut biology, the benefits are global. But the only way to know for sure is collective experimentation.

And on a personal note — forming this club is a way to pass on what I know before I reach my “final Wicking Bed grave,” where the worms may appreciate me more than the living world does.

If you feel the same urgency — the same “grandfather’s disease” of wanting your grandchildren to live healthy lives — then consider joining the Gbiota Club.

Email me at co*********@*****nd.com if you’re interested.

To read the full document, you can download the complete PDF below.