get mobile with the alinker bike
BE (Barbara) is the inventor of Alinker bikes, a vehicle for social change and creator of the “Reverse-Design” way of approaching the world. BE is a paradigm-shifter, edge-walker and developed the "Reverse-Design" life's practice.
BE has gained appreciation of the power of community as a result of life-changing work in Afghanistan, Kenya, the Sudan, Ethiopia, Kosovo, and Indonesia. The common theme behind these projects is connecting people with each other by creating meaningful social contexts through which people can actively engage - based on who we are as humans. And based on who we chose to be.
BE also founded The Alinker Family Farm, which is in existence since mid 2019. Together, BE’s companies promote healthy living by building a community for people who are isolated and dismissed due to a disability. Alinker Bikes make activity and adventure possible and the Alinker Family Farm engages people in conversations about the food we grow and eat while building a community by us, for us.
“Disability and chronic illnesses [include] inflammation and auto immune disease, should not be in the medical system. You can treat those with lifestyle choices.”
In this episode, BE and Nicolette come together to share how they are partnering to help the Alinker Community reverse chronic disease using the power of food as medicine. On today’s podcast you can learn how food and mobility are linked and how you can participate in a community wide study where you’ll learn how to heal yourself with metabolic nutrition. Other engaging topics discussed include disability and chronic disease in a broken health care system, how the western capitalistic world has lost its community to the economic world of transactions and how the system has dictated our lives, including race, gender, and disability, with the pandemic only magnifying this. BE provides hope and shares how Alinker Bikes is helping people liberate themselves from isolation and improves depression, chronic illness, loneliness and access to food.