Questions and Answers

This page is under construction. I'm answering questions here that I've been asked over and over again. :)

I will expand the answers if necessary, if new questions comes up.

And new items are added all the time.

Thank you for your understanding that I cannot always answer the same questions in emails or the comments under my videos and more. Then I'll get nothing done. ;)

 

The following questions have been answered so far:

1. Why did you go from Sweden to Norway?

2. My health/illness

3. What about health insurance/pension and what do you live on?

4. What will you do later when you are old? Life as a self-sufficient person is window dressing...

5. Aren't you lonely? And what do you do if you need help when you're there alone?

6. Heating with wood

7. Religion

8. Self-sufficient/self-sufficient

9. What about bread, milk and what do the dogs and horses eat? No self-sufficiency!

10. You can only be self-sufficient if you have a farm and enough money!

11. But everyone who goes to work "normally" lacks the time for self-sufficiency!

12. We would love to come and help you

13. Why don't you have chickens, sheep or goats?

14. Why is Odin sometimes on the chain? And he's freezing! And a Rhodesian Ridgeback, why?

15. Why do I only use this "jingle music"?

16. Why do I have the GH5 camera and not this, or this, or this...

17. You just want to make money!!! (What you earn with YouTube)

18. My recommendations from the garden, kitchen, yard and more

19. Amazon links? How can I!

20. About the FAQ

 

1. Why did you move from Sweden to Norway?

 

In short: for health reasons. It could also have been another farm in a completely industry-free and completely quiet and poison-free area in Sweden. But after years of searching for the right farm, it became Norway. On the west coast the environment is still clean and non-toxic as long as you're not near a city.

For me, this is vital because my body doesn't detoxify like it should.

 

2. Health, my:

 

Again and again people want to "help" me and tell me what I'm missing and what I should do. Believe me, I know my body well and have everything under control.

Here I explain/answer a few questions that keep coming up.

 

My diagnoses in a nutshell (all proven by real doctors, no alternative medicine or anything else):

Graves' Disease (treated with radioiodine, now I'm on thyroid hormones, yeah I know, not great, but I had no choice, I was about to die), ME/CFS (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome), Histamine Intolerance, Fibromyalgia, Myalgia, Horton's Cluster headache, HPV, multiple enzyme deficiency (diamine oxidase leads to HIT, glutathione S transferase M1 and T1 as well as superoxide dismutase (SOD2) restricts detoxification in the body), all digestive enzymes restricted (pancreas) leads to restricted processing of fats, proteins and carbohydrates ), various allergies

In 2024, I also got bladder cancer. It was discovered by chance during an MRI of my pelvis. And no, I don't smoke, I don't drink, I'm not exposed to any toxins and I never have been. You can still get it. My experience report on bladder cancer (diagnosis, surgery, treatment and what it was like for me) can be found here: Experience report on bladder cancer (The report is not public for the following reasons: I use it to keep all wannabe experts, amateur psychologists, know-it-alls, gawkers, etc. away. Only those who are really interested pay a small fee.)

 

Sugar: I have no fructose intolerance and no diabetes.

For unknown reasons, I can only tolerate small amounts of sugar, no matter what kind. It's probably some kind of allergy. I get itching all over my body, but especially on all mucous membranes. itching to pain. So I don't eat white sugar at all and only eat sugar in the form of berries and fruits. For example, to sweeten my berry cake, I use apple juice. But I can only tolerate that in small amounts, so I eat it rarely and not in large quantities.

 

Allergies: Various, I won't list them all here, but there are many things I simply don't eat because I'm slightly allergic to them. And being slightly allergic is enough to raise histamine levels. Since I'm histamine intolerant, that's not desirable. If something I don't eat doesn't fall under histamine intolerance and I say I can't tolerate it, then assume I'm allergic

 

Intestine: Nothing was found. The problem is the missing enzymes, not the gut. And neither liver nor kidneys. I am intolerant to probiotics (because I am intolerant to yeast and acid bacteria. And all probiotics have additives that I am intolerant to). I already eat the prebiotics that I can tolerate.

I tolerate gluten well. I have also tried giving up anything containing gluten for several months, it makes no difference. I still eat very little gluten-containing foods.

 

Dairy: Most dairy products (such as cheese of all kinds, yogurt, all acidified milk products)

don't go because of the HIT. Others don't because they contain too much fat. Fresh milk worked until I could no longer tolerate it for various reasons.

 

Fruit:

But apricots, nectarines, peaches, dates, pomegranates, coconut, grapes, Sharon fruit can be eaten with HIT (histamine intolerance)?

Yes, but they don't grow here... (I'm self-sufficient)

From time to time I still treat myself to grapes and the like. But that's once a year. I like to live off what I grow myself. It's about having everything as poison-free as possible and saving money.

I don't tolerate dates and coconut for other reasons.

Spicy: I don't tolerate anything that is spicy, various reasons. So no pepper, ginger, onions, garlic etc.

 

Conclusion:

I know that you only want to help me with tips and ideas regarding my health, but you can assume that with my obsession with reading after 15 years of illness, I have found everything there is online about it. In German, English, Swedish and Norwegian. (Yes, also Anthony Williams, HPU/KPU and many more). If something really groundbreaking comes along, I'm open to testing it as long as it doesn't interfere with all my other problems.

 

I have found my way, I am doing better than I have in almost 30 years. My energy is still limited, but if I stick to as toxin-free as possible and live as slowly and stress-free as possible, then I'm fine. This means that I can only work from home at my pace, so I have difficulties earning my own money. I get neither help from a health insurance nor a social security fund, hence the self-sufficiency, my videos and my books. Because I have to live from something. I have NO tolerance for supplements, so please don't offer me any.

 

ME/CFS: You have that and you think I'm giving the wrong picture because I'm doing so much? Please read here before you judge:

If you want to read my story, you can do so here.

 

What is ME/CFS

What is HIT

What is fibromyalgia

 

Do you still have many questions for me? Please keep in mind that every email or comment with tips and experiences costs me a lot of time and energy, which I don't have for many inquiries per day, I have to divide my time to do something that gives me money to live on. You can find everything I share for free here or in my videos. General information and tips and more. It's all a lot of work, but I'm generally offering it for free. If you explicitly want more from me and my experiences and tips, or a personal exchange with me, or tips for your situation, then look here: Advice

 

 

3. You let your husband work and make a nice life for yourself on the farm...

 

And what about health insurance and pension and what do you live on?

Yes, I have to listen to something like that again and again.

Firstly, my husband works full-time as a Tow Truck driver. One has to make enough money or else you can't pay the bills. And you have to pay bills even if you live somewhere in the forest, property taxes and more are everywhere. It's never possible without money.

Secondly, if my husband were ill and not me, we would do it the other way around. We even had that for a few years. I was the only one working there and my husband was at home.

Third:

I also work because I'm a writer and blogger, you have to pay tax on what you earn, so I registered a company. You have health insurance in the north as soon as you are registered. Like everyone else in the north, you pay up to a country-specific cap per year yourself per visit to the doctor. You have to earn a pension, just like in Germany or other countries. But there is a minimum pension for everyone who, for example, was ill and could not have a normal work.

And anyone who says that I only live from my husband (as some not only imply, but also say with contemptuous accusation), fails to recognize that I not only do everything to earn money within my possibilities, but that I do everything to grow our own food and to catsh fishes. That's work, too, a lot of work that saves a lot of money. I continue to renovate here, which also saves money, because otherwise you would have to pay craftsmen for everything. We are a team, everyone does what they can.

But even if it were the case that I didn't earn anything, but "only" ran the whole farm with self-sufficiency, I would hardly take advantage of my husband. And even if I couldn't do anything and my husband had to take care of me because the health insurance companies don't pay me anything, even though the doctors write me 100% sick, it would be more than okay, because you're married in good as in bad times. You don't choose to be sick.

 

 

4. What will you do later when you are old? Life as a self-sufficient person is not possible ...

 

Later I'll do what other people do when they can't do it like they used to. I slow down. Are you retiring? Imagine I can do that too. Like my husband, I pay into the pension fund.

As long as I can, I will grow my own food, make art and music and everything that goes with it. That will certainly decrease at some point, but I know "old" people who only really started in the garden after retirement because they now have time and notice how good working in the garden is for them. Then you do what you can, grow as much as you can. And when it's no longer possible, then you stop, just like everyone else with a "normal" job.

But I have to eat organic? Yes, you can buy that too, unfortunately very expensive, but you can buy it.

 

 

5. Aren't you lonely? And what do you do if you need help when you're there alone?

 

No, I'm not lonely. I really like being alone. I feel comfortable in my own company and love the quiet.

If I need help, I get it. And if I want contact, then I have it. Just because I like being alone doesn't mean I don't have friends. I have enough friends and acquaintances, also here in Norway. True friends understand when someone can't be in constant contact and doesn't have as much energy for daily interactions. I have such real friends and acquaintances, also here in Norway.

Just because you live in the countryside, where it is not swarming with people, does not mean that you are alone, even if you live alone. (My husband commutes, so he's not here often.)

In the city, with people everywhere, you are often much lonelier and you can definitely sit alone in an apartment and never have contact because you have nobody. Everyone knows everyone here in the countryside. It is noticeable when someone is absent or in a bad mood.

 

 

 

 

I´m working on translating the rest from german to English. Please take a look again tomorrow.