Library Note I have just added many new files - currently they are catalogued in the date section but not in the subject section so suggest you search the date section for now  - Colin Click on the icons below to go to your topic of interest. To look for the latest information search the list below - latest at the top To search for the really old file go to the archives at old library   For the latest updates read files in reverse chronological order below New videos in the food for health project Join the Gbiota Club Aims of the Gbiota Club  In the last thirty years there has been a dramatic reduction in peoples health with a global epidemic of chronic diseases with people becoming fat and sick from poor food - high in toxins and lacking in nutrients. The aim of the Gbiota Club is to grow food which makes people healthy - to be widely available at a price they can afford. We are trying to do much more than develop an improved way of growing healthy food, we have already achieved this with the Gbiota beds (developed from Wicking Beds), which technically are highly successful being productive - growing high quality food which enhances health particularly the critical gut biology (Gbiota). But we want to make this widely available and accessible to anyone concerned about their health. We are really trying to create an alternative food system where people can grow or buy food which is nutrient rich and free of toxic chemicals directly from the grower with a high level of trust that the food is genuinely healthy and not just someclever marketing. It is neither a charity or a business but a community project which will succeed or fail depending whether individual people believe in what we are trying to do and participate. This document explains the technical and economic principles which will provide healthy food to the community. You are invited to study the plan, decide if you are willing to participate and at the very least circulate to your friends and contacts who may be willing to participate. Read more Technical information If you are looking for technical information on Wicking or Gbiota beds I suggest you go straight to the library You can see more review articles here review articles Please read, and feel free to contact me at colinaustin@bigpond.com or distribute the The Club.pdf Colin Austin     New videos in the food for health project   Food for health - making it happen  Technically we know how to grow food to make people healthy and to reverse the chronic disease epidemic. But any new technology changes the way society works. Here we look at how society needs to change to take advantage of the improved ways of growing healthy foods.  https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=bPTcb3jK7Ps&list= PLZTl8QH0bk5 _pc9qEc0Ot_s8kKH9cAvz F&index=7&t=906s    Food for Health - overview   Overview of how food affects our health by changing our gut biology which controls what and how much we want to eathttps://youtu.be/Yw-3 YwuFow4?list =PLZTl8QH0bk5_pc9q Ec0Ot_s8kKH9cAvzF  Food for health - quick and easy   Colin - the engineer - shows how he can make a meal in 5 minutes from garden to plate https://youtu.be/h9_ZfgAIGGM? list=PLZTl8QH0bk5_pc9q Ec0Ot_s8kKH9cAvzF  Food for health - food shopping Candy and Nana go shopping and we learn what kids want to buy https://youtu.be/_Q95q6032n0?list= PLZTl8QH0bk5_ pc9qEc0Ot_s8kKH9cAvzF  Food for health - cooking for taste Lina shares her tips on how to cook food so it tastes good after a busy day at work  https://youtu.be/eiiO39fQy6o?list= PLZTl8QH0bk5_ pc9qEc0Ot_s8kKH9cAvzF   Newfood 30 April 2019 Setting up alternative food system to provide food to make us healthy Sugar blockers and baby greens 30 april 2019 how baby greens act as sugar blockers and change gut biology to control appetite babygreens 22 apr 19 how baby greens make effective sugar blockers now old see babygreens and sugar blockers above Joining the Gbiota club 12 April 19  How to join and conditions phytonutrients.pdf 12april19 how Gbiota bed imporve health by phytonutrients Food revolution11Apr19.pdf how we plan to reverse the health epidemic by food Gbiota manual update.pdf 11 April 19 Very important update on how to make Gbiota beds wantedfarmers.html 19 April 19 appeal to farmers to grow high nutrient food to fight the health crisis modtradag.html 11 April 19 about how trational agriculture can be modernised to fight the health crisis Health crisis 15 Mar 19  about the current diabetes epidemic and lack of advice on nutrition Gbiota update 15 mar 19.pdf  results of latest experiments (club members) paradigm29Jan19.pdf    changing the healthy food paradigm Gbiotaprogressreport11dec18.pdf  update on building gbiota bed (club members) Gbiotaupdate21Nov18.pdf  update on blocked pipes (club members) strategynov18.pdf overview of gbiota project gbiota thinking.pdf 13/11/18 Honest food.pdf  17 Sep 18 retreat1.html  reversing diabetes by village stay GBchat August18.pdf  general update Stay at our eco village.pdf  7 Aug 18 summary of how diabetes can be reversed in an eco village Reversing Diabetes and gut biota.pdf  10 Aug 18 Yangtou_way.pdf  6 Aug 18  Reversing diabetes and chronic diseases at Yangtou eco-village soilvdirt.pdf  3 Aug 18  difference between soil and dirt Yangtouoperation.pdf  20 July 18  informal notes on diabetes sadtale.pdf 18july18  informal note on diabetes reversal news11july18.pdf  newsletter choice.pdf  pdf version for download 7 July 2018  Scientific evidence showing that diabetes is reversible Summary.htm  9 July 18  overview of gbiota project reversing diabetes (html version loaded 21 June 2018) role of eco-villages  pdf version for download reversing diabetes (.pdf) 20 June 2018 credibility14june18.pdf  reversing diabetes Summary of Gbiota files 18 May 2018  Gbiota Adoption (.pdf) 18 April principles of Gbiota bed and how to get them adopted DodgingDiabesity.pdf  6 April 18  detailed analysis of the cause and solutions of diabesity   Gbiotamaster.pdf 22 Mar 18  Master page for gbiota technology Gbiota club overview (.pdf)  29 mar 2018 Making a Gbiota bed 20 March 2018  Master file for Gbiota project Making a Gbiota bed (updated) 13 Mar 18  Latest report on making a Gbiota bed (members only) Soils for wicking beds  13 Mar 2018 Update of old Newsletter Gutivas strike back  1 Mar 18 screen play for Steven Spielberg film on diet Join the Gbiota club  21 Feb 18 How to join and participate in the Gbiota club gbiota club 15 Feb 18 Home page of the Gbiota club  Motives 15 Feb 2018 Why the Gbiota project Principles of a Gbiota Bed.pdf  14 Feb 2018  reviews basic principles underlying a Gbiota bed Gbiota Project  14 Feb 2018  overview of Gbiota project Preventing diabetes  23 Jan 2018  How to prevent chronic diseases gbiotaclub 21 Nov 17  Community Research project on gut biology Newsletter1nov2015.htm how our food affect our health and missing micronutrients gutbfood  22 Oct 17  Growing food in biologically active soil to improve gut biology Muttering on soils  23 Aug 17 answers recent questions on soil for wicking bed Wild Swans  25 Aug 17  Notes on Wicking Beds and life Diabetes 25 Aug 17  Notes on diabetes Living soil 25 Aug 17 Life in the soil Bed depths 25 Aug 17 about depth of wicking beds Vision 25 Aug 17 why I run this sight Shanghai-Wuhan talk 25 Aug 17  talk I gave at Wuhan University Soil Maker 24 Aug 17 how to make soil Wiki-Mix Manual 24 Aug 17 about soil for wicking beds Parent soils 24 Aug 17 about natural soils Soil_biology 24 Aug 17 Soil Journey 24 Aug  How nature makes soils Real soil 24 Aug 17 How soil affects health WickiMix poem 24 Aug 17 making fun of marketing hype on soils Yunnan 24 Aug 17  my trip to Yunnan China to look at native agriculture Yunnan.pdf 24 Aug 17 .pdf version Healthy Bodies 24 Aug 17 Growing Wiki-Mix 24 Aug 17  How I grow wikimix soil for wicking beds Living Soils updated 24 Aug 17 Nutrition chain 24 Aug 17 soils to grow food that will make us healthy Soils for Wicking Beds Update of 2013 Newsletter on soils Pragging.pdf  19 July 2017  After my time gawking in Jiangkpu it is now time to analyse what it all means.  Not for the feint haearted but it does lead to a new way of combating diabetes (and other non communicable deceases) by measuring the sensitivity of an individual to beneficial or harmful affects Jiangkou.pdf  18 June 2017  Gawking in Jiangkou I wanted to learn why so many elderly Chinese are fit and healthy so I embeded myself ina family in rural China to see for myself. Certainly very different from what I was expecting but it makes a good story China trip     10 May 2017  I went to China to study how to ferment vegetables to improve gut biology.  My finding were not what I expected but perhaps more revealing. GBiota response 31March 2017  Response to the many reply on the GBiota article GBiota  7 Mar 2017 Technical analysis of how diet and gut biology affects diabetes Tips for stinky beds.pdf  19 Jan 2017  Reply to a customer having problems with her wickng bed survival.html 24 Jan 2017  A look at ecology and survival Revolution.html 28 Dec 2106 about the gut biology revolution Spongebeds.pdf  26 Aug 2016  alternative to wicking beds Diabeteseco.htm 1 Aug 2016  Growing your own food to defend against diabetes Fat tummies.pdf 26 July 2016   weight and gut bacteria Types of Wicking Beds.htm 14 March 2016 overview of wicking beds vision.htm 9 April 2016  diet, health and gut biology soil that makes us healthy.pdf 28 feb 2016  lenghty article on how soils work Living soils, fungal composting and health.htm 1 Feb 2016 Living soils, fungal composting and health.pdf 1 Feb 2016 Types of Wicking Beds.pdf The nutrition chain.htm  Looks at the nutrient chain from mineral to our bodies. Also available as .pdf The nutrition chain.pdf Living soils, fungal composting and health.htm Living soils, fungal composting and health.pdf Growing WickiMix how WickiMix is grown healthy bodies from healthy food from healthy plants from healthy soil 17Dec 2015 How healthy bodies come from healthy soil and how soil is created diabetes.html  1 Aug 2016 food and diabetes Yunnan.htm  Jan 2106  My trip to Yunnan Yunnan.pdf  Jan 2016 My Creepy Crawlies 17Dec2015  marketing hype v telling it how it is real soil 17Dec 2015  Explains why living soil is so much better than sterile soil SoilJourney 17Dec2015   how soil in created in nature soil_biology 17 Dec2015   the chemistry, physics and biology of soil parentsoil 17Dec 2015  the process of converting parent soil into nutritious soil wmmanual  17Dec 2015 instructions for using WickiMix bed_depths.htm 9 Dec 2015  repy to questions about bed depths Newsletter.htm  16 Dec 2015  directory of newletters up to Dec 2015 How to grow (or buy) healthy food (Xiulan1-10) 28 June 2015 Newsletter_Jan_2015.htm personal comments on diabetes water.html directory of water articles up to Dec 2015 nutrition.htm  directory of nutrition articles up to Dec 2015 wickingbed_html directory of nutrition articles up to Dec 2015 Newsletter17Nov2015.pdf     About wickimix soil for wicking beds Once upon a time.pdf  Jan 2015   interesting story about my experiences with soil Soil.pdf 25 March 2013 Newsletter17Nov2015.pdf     About wickimix soil for wicking beds Diabetes.htm  12 Nov 2014  preview of the food revolution foodrevolution.pdf  12 Nov 2014  the coming food revolution soils_for_wicking_beds_2013.html  classic on soils soil_maker.html  classic aticle on soil regeneration wicking_bed_history.html  oldy but goldy wicking_bed_technology.pdf where it all started Soil.htm  2012 early article on soil and soil biology gin_gin.htm  wicking beds in local school  11 feb 207  old format Previous pages go to old library   Back to top Gbiota beds  latest version of wicking beds designed to prevent diabetes and chronic diseases by improving gut biology, providing trace minerals and phytonutrients paradigm29Jan19.pdf    changing the healthy food paradigm Gbiota Adoption 18 April principles of Gbiota bed and how to get them adopted DodgingDiabesity.pdf  6 April 18  detailed analysis of the cause and solutions of diabesity Gbiotamaster.pdf 22 Mar 18  Master page for gbiota technology Gutivas strike back  screen play for Steven Spielberg film on diet Join the Gbiota club  How to join and participate in the Gbiota club gbiota club Home page of the Gbiota club Motives for the Gbiota project 15 Feb 2018 Principles of a Gbiota Bed.pdf  14 Feb 2018  reviews basic principles underlying a Gbiota bed Gbiota Project  14 Feb 2018  overview of Gbiota project Preventing diabetes  23 Jan 2018  How to prevent chronic diseases gbiotaclub 21 Nov 17  Community Research project on gut biology gutbfood  22 Oct 17  Growing food in biologically active soil to improve gut biology How to grow (or buy) healthy food (Xiulan1-10) 28 June 2015 Club confidential files Gbiotamaster.pdf 22 Mar 18  Master page for gbiota technology Remaking my Gbiota bed  13 Mar 18 latest update on my experiments on the Gbiota system How to build a Gbiota bed  13 Mat 18 Ongoing description of my experiments in building Gbiota beds   Back to top

For more information on Wicking Bed soils see soils below

Tips for stinky beds.pdf

Spongebeds.pdf  26 Aug 2016  alternative to wicking beds

Types of Wicking Beds.htm  23 March 2016

Types of Wicking Beds.pdf  23 March 2016

bed_depths.htm 9 Dec 2015  repy to questions about bed depths

Once upon a time.pdf  Jan 2015   interesting story about my experiences with soil 

wickingbed_html directory of nutrition articles up to Dec 2015

Mark 11 Wicking Beds 18/Nov/2015

New wicking bed system

Newsletter_Oct_2015

About Mk 11 Wicking Beds and answering questions from Facebook

Newsletter_sep_2015

Regenerating Soils and diet

How to grow (or buy) healthy food (Xiulan1-10) 28 June 2015

Once upon a time.pdf  Jan 2015   interesting story about my experiences with soil

Wicking_Bed_Technology.pdf  1 Jan 2015

First published in 2010 this is still a classic and is the most popular file on this site

how water moves through the soil 16/09/2014

various mechanisms for water moving through the soil

stones again 6/09/2014

ongoing battle between soil versus stones and cloth

stones 16/09/2014

principles 16/09/2014

how_water_moves.htm 12/1/2014

aeration.htm 12/1/2014

Soils for Wicking Beds Update of 2013 Newsletter on soils

Growing vegetables in wicking bed baskets

Hot article about why Wicking Beds go stinky and other disasters from bad design

Growing healthy plants

I called this Wild Swans after a Chinese book which got my web banned in China -good stuff

wicking_bed_history.html  oldy but goldy

wicking_bed_technology.pdf where it all started

Soil

gbiotaclub 21 Nov 17  Community Research project on gut biology

gutbfood  22 Oct 17  Growing food in biologically active soil to improve gut biology

Muttering on soils  23 Aug 17 answers recent questions on soil for wicking bed

The nutrition chain

Looks at the nutrient chain from mineral to our bodies. Also available as .pdf

The nutrition chain.pdf 

soil that makes us healthy.pdf 28 feb 2016  lenghty article on how soils work

Newsletter17Nov2015.pdf     About wickimix soil for wicking beds

WickiMix    17Dec2015 How to turn dirt into soil

 healthy bodies from healthy food from healthy plants from healthy soil   17Dec2015 How healthy bodies come from healthy soil and how soil is created

My Creepy Crawlies 17Dec2015  marketing hype v telling it how it is

real soil 17Dec2015  Explains why living soil is so much better than sterile soil

SoilJourney 17Dec2015   how soil in created in nature

soil_biology 17 Dec2015   the chemistry, physics and biology of soil

parentsoil 17Dec2015  the process of converting parent soil into nutritious soil

wmmanual  17Dec2015 instructions for using WickiMix

Newsletter1nov2015.htm how our food affect our health and missing micronutrients

How to grow (or buy) healthy food (Xiulan1-10) 28 June 2015

Once upon a time.pdf  Jan 2015   interesting story about my experiences with soil

The nutrition chain.htm

Looks at the nutrient chain from mineral to our bodies. Also available as .pdf

The nutrition chain.pdf

Living soils, fungal composting and health.htm 1 Feb 2016

Living soils, fungal composting and health.pdf 1 Feb 2016

Growing WickiMix how WickiMix is grown

 healthy bodies from healthy food from healthy plants from healthy soil   17Dec2015 How healthy bodies come from healthy soil and how soil is created

soils_for_wicking_beds_2013.html  classic on soils

Soils for Wicking Beds Update of 2013 Newsletter on soils

Back to top

Nutrition, diet and health
(with a special focus on chronic diseases and diabetes)

Stay at our eco village.pdf  7 Aug 18 summary of how diabetes can be reversed in an eco village

Yangtou_way.pdf  6 Aug 18  Reversing diabetes and chronic diseases at Yangtou eco-village

choice.pdf  pdf version for download 7 July 2018  Scientific evidence showing that diabetes is reversible

reversing diabetes (html version loaded 21 June 2018)
 pdf version for download

reversing diabetes (.pdf) 20 June 2018

Gutivas strike back  1 Mar 18 screen play for Steven Spielberg film on diet

Gbiota Adoption (.pdf) 18 April principles of Gbiota bed and how to get them adopted

DodgingDiabesity.pdf  6 April 18  detailed analysis of the cause and solutions of diabesity

Preventing diabetes  23 Jan 2018  How to prevent chronic diseases

gbiotaclub 21 Nov 17  Community Research project on gut biology

Newsletter1nov2015.htm how our food affect our health and missing micronutrients

gutbfood  22 Oct 17  Growing food in biologically active soil to improve gut biology

Diabetes 25 Aug 17  Notes on diabetes

Pragging.pdf  19 July 2017  After my time gawking in Jiangkpu it is now time to analyse what it all means.  Not for the feint haearted but it does lead to a new way of combating diabetes (and other non communicable deceases) by measuring the sensitivity of an individual to beneficial or harmful affects

Jiangkou.pdf  18 June 2017  Gawking in Jiangkou I wanted to learn why so many elderly Chinese are fit and healthy so I embeded myself ina family in rural China to see for myself. Certainly very different from what I was expecting but it makes a good story

China trip     10 May 2017  I went to China to study how to ferment vegetables to improve gut biology.  My finding were not what I expected but perhaps more revealing.

GBiota response 31March 2017  Response to the many reply on the GBiota article

GBiota  7 Mar 2017 Technical analysis of how diet and gut biology affects diabetes

survival.html 24 Jan 2017  A look at ecology and survival

diabetes.html  1Aug 2016 food and diabetes

Revolution.html 28 Dec 2106 about the gut biology revolution

Diabeteseco.htm 1 Aug 2016  Growing your own food to devend against diabetes

Fat tummies.pdf 26 July 2016   weight and gut bacteria

vision.htm 9 April 2016  diet, health and gut biology

nutrition.htm  directory of nutrition articles up to Dec 2015

The nutrition chain.htm

Looks at the nutrient chain from mineral to our bodies. Also available as .pdf

The nutrition chain.pdf

Living soils, fungal composting and health.htm

Living soils, fungal composting and health.pdf

 healthy bodies from healthy food from healthy plants from healthy soil   17Dec2015 How healthy bodies come from healthy soil and how soil is created

My Creepy Crawlies 17Dec 2015  marketing hype v telling it how it is

How to grow (or buy) healthy food (Xiulan1-10) 28 June 2015

Once upon a time.pdf  Jan 2015   interesting story about my experiences with soil

Diabetes.htm  12 Nov 2014  preview of the food revolution

foodrevolution.pdf  12 Nov 2014  the coming food revolution

Soil.pdf 25 March 2013 

Living soils, fungal composting and health.htm

Living soils, fungal composting and health.pdf

How to grow (or buy) healthy food.pdf

Back to top

Pragging.pdf  19 July 2017  After my time gawking in Jiangkpu it is now time to analyse what it all means.  Not for the feint haearted but it does lead to a new way of combating diabetes (and other non communicable deceases) by measuring the sensitivity of an individual to beneficial or harmful affects

Jiangkou.pdf  18 June 2017  Gawking in Jiangkou I wanted to learn why so many elderly Chinese are fit and healthy so I embeded myself ina family in rural China to see for myself. Certainly very different from what I was expecting but it makes a good story

China trip     10 May 2017  I went to China to study how to ferment vegetables to improve gut biology.  My finding were not what I expected but perhaps more revealing.

Yunnan.htm  Jan 2106  My trip to Yunnan

Yunnan.pdf  Jan 2016

Shanghai Wuhan talk 10 May 2014

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