Plants capture energy from sunlight and carbon from the air to make sugars, which they exude from their roots. This feeds microbes in the soil, which break down the rocks to provide minerals to the plants.The plants pull water from the soil together with microbes, which enter the plants. We eat plants that contain the microbes that enter our gut and break down our food, allowing us to digest it.
But the microbes do much more. They have crowd intelligence and regulate how much and what sort of food we want to eat, where and how much fat we store, power our immune system, and even affect our psychological state.
That’s how life works and has worked for many millions of years.
Then we changed our food system, relying on chemicals, often toxic, so this microbiological balance was upset and we, yes we, created an epidemic of chronic diseases – obesity, diabetes, heart attacks, cancer and dementia all for the sake of profit.
But we created this crisis, and we can fix it.
Gbiota provides growing kits comprising a mix of seeds selected to feed the microbes, together with an inoculant containing the initial beneficial microbes.
The Gut Brain at work
Biochemistry is an amazing technology. We understand the needs of the body from the basics of calories, through minerals, trace elements and vitamins, right down to micrograms.
So you would expect that we would all be healthier and living longer. But that is not the case, life span and particular health span – how long we remain fit and healthy – are decreasing.
What is going on?
Some facts can be really puzzling. We can take foods that are highly desirable – say, pizza and cheesecake. It is not surprising that some people will stuff themselves while others will eat in moderation.
It is hardly surprising that of those who stuff themselves on a regular basis, some will get fat, but what is surprising is that of those who stuff themselves, some will remain slim, fit and healthy.
To understand this, we require a new technology of control theory. This is again a highly sophisticated technology in the engineering world. We can balance a rocket on a stream of hot gases so it remains stable and land it on a faraway plant within metres of the target – truly amazing.
But we are just at the beginning of understanding how the control system that regulates our bodies works.
We know that the microbes in our gut play a critical part in this control system. The trillions of microbes in our gut communicate with each other to create genuine intelligence – it is like having a supercomputer inside us. Sadly, we do not have access to the code that drives this supercomputer, but we do know that it is essential for a long and healthy life.
We also know that in our desire to avoid infectious diseases, we have crippled our natural gut microbes. The gut microbes in existing hunter-gatherer tribes are far healthier and more diverse than those of people eating a modern, ultra-processed diet.
Modern science may have overcome the worst of infectious diseases, but we have created a new epidemic of chronic or non-infectious diseases, which is now by far the biggest health crisis facing humanity, causing great personal hardship and costing our health system trillions of dollars.
So what can we do about this?
We can develop the technology of breeding beneficial microbes without breeding harmful microbes.
This may sound incredibly difficult, particularly since we have yet to understand how the intelligent control system works.
In fact, it is relatively simple and is the basis for the Gbiota technology.
Our gut microbes originate in the soil, where they breed, enter the plants that we eat and then into our gut.
If we control the condition in the soil, we can breed the beneficial microbes, so they will out-compete and out-breed the harmful microbes.
The first step is to feed them. Plants naturally capture energy from the sunlight and carbon from the air to create sugars. They exude sugars from their roots, which feed the microbes on which the plants depend for their food.
Different plants exude different sugars, which attract different species, so all we have to do is grow a mixture of plants which will feed the spectrum of microbes we need.
But in addition, we need to control the water-to-air ratio. If the soil is too dry, the plants won’t grow. If the soil is too wet without air we will breed the wrong sort of microbes. This is easily done by the Gbiota flood and flush system, which sucks fresh air into the soil.
It is all so simple that virtually anyone can do it.
But therein lies another problem. How can a technology that is so simple solve the greatest health problem on the planet? It sounds unbelievable.
So how do we convince people that it works, by the simple method of getting people to try it and show it works. Seeing is believing. The results are obvious and very rapid, people just feel better.
So why not join the Gbiota movement, breed beneficial gut microbes and make the world a better place to live in?
The Gbiota mission
The essence
The Gbiota technology breeds beneficial microbes in the soil. Plants are grown in the soil which when eaten, transports the microbes from the soil into our guts.
The microbes in our gut have intelligence and regulate our appetite, how much and where we store fat, much of our immune system and our physiological well-being.
It is a simple and inexpensive process, but microbes have a short life, so the plants must be harvested and eaten straight away, which in practice means people growing their own plants at home.
The Challenge
Across the globe, people’s gut microbes have deteriorated as our food system has changed from growing plants under natural conditions to intense agriculture based on chemical inputs and the adoption of ultra-processed foods, which are inert and devoid of microbes.
There are three ways of changing the gut microbes.
Poo transplants are effective but are high-risk depending on the health of the donor.
Pro-biotic pills have not stood the test of scientific investigation and proved effective partly because the range of microbial species is limited and they die before they become part of the gut micro-biome.
Eating plants is highly effective, but plants are now typically grown using chemicals, which do not feed the microbes that would have died well before the plants are consumed anyway.
But by far the biggest challenge is the power of the food and drug industries, which have multi-billion dollar advertising budgets which are manipulative and highly effective, and dwarf any promotion from alternatives.
It is simply impossible to out-sell and out-promote the marketing power of the food and drug industries.
The Solution – create a social movement
We may think that people are driven purely by self-interest, and that may be true for some people, but the majority of people care deeply about the society in which they live.
The solution is to create a social movement of people who care about their, and their communities, gut health. They can breed their own gut microbes and see for themselves the improvements in their health, but above all, they can show their friends and contacts how they are improving their health, and there is no better way of spreading ideas than people seeing other people achieving benefits.
The message
The microbes in our gut have intelligence, controlling our appetite, how and where we store fat, much of our immune system and our physiological state.
The lack of these beneficial microbes is the underlying cause of the modern epidemic of chronic disease – the major health problem facing the world.
Solving this is incredibly important, so failure to achieve adoption was serious.
It was not working because the internet is so saturated with promotions for dubious magic pills, which are so obviously marketing crap that now no thinking person believes a word.
Then, out of the blue, I watched the Australian Story on Jane’s story. Just Google ‘Australian Story poo transplant’. This had 30,000 views on YouTube in the first day.
This showed me that I should forget about the fake world of internet marketing. Intelligent people tend to dismiss this as marketing hype.
They want to hear stories of sensible people who are prepared to take their health into their own hands, who have tried the new technology for themselves – not a load of marketing hype.
However, poo transplants are a risky business, presenting difficulties for large-scale trials, even if supervised by a recognised University or research institute.
By contrast, the Gbiota technology has minimal risk, making it suitable for such trials.
If you have an interest in changing your gut microbes and are prepared to pioneer a new technology by participating in a supervised trial, please email me here.
This would benefit you and many of your fellow human beings.
The Gbiota technology enables people to breed their own gut microbes.
Microbes have a short life of around a day. They breed and die rapidly, typically in a day, in a state of dynamic equilibrium.
Of the microbes you think you are buying as probiotics, some may just survive if they are kept cold enough, but the real solution is to breed them yourself.
It is better and cheaper.
Some people want to spend time studying some of the many articles about how to breed beneficial gut microbes before they start breeding themselves, while others want to start straight away. If you are one of these action people you can go straight to the post ‘How to breed gut microbes yourself’.
What does the Gbiota technology do?
The Gbiota technology enables people with minimal training to breed beneficial microbes in special soil in containers where plants are grown.
These beneficial microbes enter the plants and, when eaten fresh, enter our gut biome, so extending health span.
These beneficial microbes communicate with each other, providing genuine intelligence, creating hormones which regulate appetite, and where, how much, and what type of fats are stored.
The wrong fat in the wrong place is the cause of the modern epidemic of chronic diseases, and is caused by deficiencies in our modern diet. Our bodies sense these deficiencies and create hormones which make us want to eat more food, typically in our modern food system, sugary, fatty foods.
The problem is not the sugary, fatty foods themselves but the deficiencies, and the biggest deficiency of all is the lack of beneficial microbes in our gut.
It is simple – if you don’t have the right microbes in your gut, then you are likely to end up fat and sick with a reduced health span.
Let us be clear. We are not advocating a diet of sugary fatty food, nor are we saying that the fundamental laws of conservation of mass and energy do not apply to the human body.
To get fat, you must consume more than you use.
But eating fatty, sugary food is not the cause of why people get fat. It is an enabling factor, NOT the cause.
The cause is that our bodies, or more specifically, the control system that regulates our bodies, decides that we need to store more fat. It then produces hormones so we crave food, consume more than we use and then we get fat and sick.
Traffic lights enable or disable a car from crossing an intersection, but it is the drivers decision that causes the car to cross the intersection.
This is not some pedantic academic argument; it affects the entire strategy for combating the modern epidemic of chronic disease, which is what this website is all about.
The good news is that the strategy is so simple, easy and inexpensive to fix. The bad news is that no one will make a lot of money from such a simple and easy solution so promotion is left to community benefit organisations, like Gbiota, who are not into the mega budgets required for manipulative marketing, but we can afford good and innovative technology.
Why a plant-based diet
Observational trials
Many extensive trials involving many thousands of people have been conducted by reputable scientific organisations and have shown that people eating a predominantly plant-based diet are healthier, live longer and are relatively free of the modern epidemic of chronic diseases, such as overweight, diabetes, heart attacks, cancer and dementia.
We need to know why
But there are purely observational trials; they do not tell us why.
A diet of predominantly hydroponic lettuce will leave us short of protein and the essential vitamin B12.
By contrast, Flax is full of protein and the beneficial Omega-3 three, essential for managing cholesterol and avoiding heart problems.
But Flax also contains cyanide, which, if eaten in excess, can be dangerous.
We need to understand how the plant system works.
Phytonutrients
Plants do not have legs, so they cannot run away, so they have developed an incredible array of complex chemicals we call phytonutrients.
Some will deter predators like insects, while others will attract animals and birds to spread their seeds.
A single tomato will contain over a thousand different phytonutrients, so animals will find them delicious to eat, while the seeds are protected from gastric juices, so the plants will spread.
Specimen-quality plants can be grown chemically
It is perfectly possible to grow plants which appear near perfection by growing them in a biologically inactive soil and feeding them a carefully balanced chemical formulation.
Much of our modern food is produced this way and is why our Supermarkets are stocked with specimen quality fruit and vegetables.
But this is not the way plants grow naturally and is the root cause of the modern epidemic of chronic diseases.
Plants are naturally part of an eco-system
In the natural state plants thrive by being part of a natural Eco-system. They need microbes to break down the rocks and recycle dead organic matter so the nutrients become bio-available.
Plants exude nutrients from their roots so beneficial microbes can breed.
Different plants exude different nutrients so plants of different species naturally grow together with a broad range of creatures in the soil like worms and larvae to create a system which has proved sustainable for over a billion years.
Microbes and humans are synergistic
The microbes in the soil enter the plants and have become a natural part of us.
They do much more than help us digest our food, they communicate with each other to create genuine intelligence which regulates our bodies.
They control our appetite, what type and how much fat we store, and play a major role in our immune system.
The benefit of this intelligent control system far outweighs even the nutritional benefits of phytonutrients.
A billion years of evolution
This incredible eco-balance is not an accident; it is the product of a billion years of evolution.
If we maintain it, our species could survive another billion years.
If we destroy it, we face the same fate as countless extinct species.
The important and the critical
Eating a plant-based diet is important.
But how we grow those plants is critical.
If we grow plants using the principles developed through evolutionary eco-balance, we thrive.
If we ignore it, we risk collapse.
And as humans, we tend to ignore symptoms until we reach crisis… then scramble to fix what could have been prevented.
Action Plan
Saving our species from extinction by changing the global food system is not trivial and is made more difficult by our information system, which has trained us to have the attention span of a moth.
We need to breed the right sort of microbes in the soil, then eat the plants while fresh, so we have the microbes in our gut which regulate our appetite and how much, what sort and where we store fat.
Gbiota shows you how—it is not difficult. We have been doing it for a million years without thinking about it.
It only became a problem when we changed our food system to chemicals toxic to microbes and increased the delay between harvest and eating.
