Healthy soil, healthy plants, healthy people
The journey from the earth to your gut
At microbz, we believe your health starts long before food reaches your plate.
It begins in the soil, the original home of the microbes that support life. When the soil is thriving, everything it grows becomes richer, more vibrant and more nourishing.
When you eat food grown in healthy soil, you feed the trillions of microbes inside you that protect your digestion, immunity and wellbeing.
This is the soil-to-stomach connection and it underpins everything we do.
Healthy soil
Soil is alive.
A single teaspoon contains more organisms than there are people on the planet.
These microbes break down organic matter, cycle nutrients, build soil structure and protect plants from disease. Healthy, living soils hold more carbon and water, and deliver nutrients more effectively to crops.
When soils lose their microbial life, plants struggle and there could be a decrease in nutrient density.
Healthy soil isn’t dirt. It’s an ecosystem.
Nutrient-rich vs depleted soil
What should your soil look like?
without microbes
with microbes
Healthy plants
We believe that plants grown in microbially rich soil are more nutrient dense.
The relationship between a plant and the microbes in soil is complex.
There is an area called the rhizosphere: a thin layer of soil immediately surrounding plant roots.
Here plant roots release exudates - sugars and amino acids - that selectively attract and feed specific microbes.
In return, those microbes make nutrients from the soil available to the plant, protect it from pathogens and stimulate processes that affect the plant's own chemistry.
Plants grown in healthy soils may contain:
- more vitamins and minerals
- higher antioxidant levels
- a broader spectrum of polyphenols
Healthy people
Your gut is home to trillions of microbes that rely on the nutrients, fibres and natural compounds found in food to deliver health.
When you eat food born from living soil, you feed your gut microbiome with the diversity it needs to thrive.
Your microbes convert plant fibres and polyphenols into short-chain fatty acids, which are powerful compounds that:
- strengthen the gut lining
- reduce inflammation
- support immunity
- influence mood and mental wellbeing
- improve metabolic health
A rich soil microbiome supports a rich gut microbiome.
Good soil → good plants → good guts → good health.
Why this matters
We live in a time when soils are depleted, crops are less nutrient-dense, and our modern diets don’t give our gut microbes the diversity they evolved for.
Rebuilding our connection to nature, through the food we eat, the way we farm, and the microbes we consume, is one of the simplest, most powerful ways to support human health.
What you can do
If you want a world with healthy soils and nutrient-dense food you can:
Buy food from regenerative farms or grow your own
This can be expensive but perhaps the health implications of eating food that has less nutrition in them is also expensive
Support the movement to build back healthy soil
Some organisations are listed below:
Rewild your microbiomes with soil-based microbes
Sourced from healthy soils, these resilient organisms reintroduce missing beneficial bacteria to your system, supporting balance, digestion, immunity, and overall resilience.
