The microfarm

I started Mikrofarmen by growing and selling something called microgreens. My passion has been health for several years and with the help of the diet I have managed to get rid of severe allergies to most things that bloom in the summer such as pollen, ragweed, birch and others. I have also felt that the diet has had a big impact on my mood, energy and general well-being. I have also felt a big difference in my immune system as I almost never get sick anymore. I started reading about Stig Bengmark who is a professor, researcher and author. I started changing my diet and the first thing I felt was that my mood improved and that I had a lot more energy! I had never thought before that diet could make such a big difference but I have previously in my life gone through depressions that lasted for several years and had chronic fatigue syndrome as well as other health problems/mental problems and I noticed how much impact diet had on all these problems that I no longer have today. After a few years of eating healthy and a lot of what Stig Bengmark and other researchers recommend, I wanted to try taking my health to the next level and see how much difference diet can actually make. I then went “All in” and read up even more and tried to eat like our ancestors did tens of thousands of years ago. A big difference between today's diet and the diet of our ancestors is the amount of fiber in the diet, in the past we consumed about 100-150 grams of fiber per day and today the average is 15 grams of fiber/day and the fiber today comes from a few sources and in the past we consumed several hundred plants so the diversity of fiber was much greater! Research is clear that the diversity of prebiotics (fiber, phytochemicals) is very important for an optimal intestinal flora. Fiber is the main food for our intestinal bacteria that causes the right bacteria to increase in number and which is crucial for a healthy intestinal flora. We have more bacteria in our body compared to human cells and about 70-90 percent of the immune system is in the intestine and this is well established in research. The intestine not only has a big impact on the immune system but also on mood as about 90 percent of one's serotonin (the main feel-good hormone) is also made in the intestine by all the intestinal bacteria that are there. Other neurotransmitters/hormones that are also created by gut bacteria are dopamine (50%), noradrenaline, GABA, melatonin, as well as acetylcholine and hundreds of other chemicals that are necessary for mood, learning, memory and much more. If we then have an unhealthy gut flora where certain bacterial strains are missing or there are simply too few of certain types of bacteria, this can greatly affect one's well-being! Another important aspect of beneficial gut bacteria is that they produce something called postbiotics such as butyric acid. This postbiotic is crucial for not having a leaky gut, which is suspected to be the cause of many of the diseases we see today linked to inflammation. When you have a leaky gut, the stomach wall (one cell thick) lets contents from the stomach into the blood, such as protein, fat and toxins that the stomach wall should otherwise protect against. This creates inflammation throughout the body and brain. This is much more common than you think because of our diet today, which is very unfavorable for the stomach wall and the bacteria that should keep the stomach wall strong. The right form of prebiotics causes the probiotics/bacteria to grow strongly in the stomach, which in turn creates postbiotics. A good example of an indigenous population that eats about 100-150 grams of fiber daily is the Hadza people in Tanzania, who have virtually no incidence of the diseases we see here in the Western world! Even those over 60 years old in the Hadza population have >5 percent incidence of the diseases we see here in the Western world. It has also been seen that the old men in the Hadza population have the same testosterone levels as young men, so it does not decrease with age and it is very different compared to what we see here in the Western world. The Hadza are considered to have a perfect intestinal flora and many researchers believe that this is why they are so healthy! They have a 40 percent greater diversity of bacterial strains in the intestine compared to us modern humans.

Stig Bengmark recommends eating 1-2 kg of vegetables every day and I have tried doing this for periods and the first time I tested this was during the peak pollen season. I wanted to see how this would affect my allergies, I am very allergic to almost everything that blooms in the summer and during this first test I kept track of the pollen levels online and decided to eat 1.5 kg of raw vegetables every day, I landed on an average of about 1.3 kg of vegetables daily. After 10 days all my allergies started to disappear and the pollen levels were then 4/5 almost every day, around the 14th day all my allergies were completely gone! I even tried to induce the allergy by exposing myself more than ever and still didn't get an allergy. Since then I have replicated this test many times on myself when there has been a lot of pollen and have always got the same results. Something else I noticed during these tests was how strongly this amount of vegetables affected my mood, energy and general well-being! I have never felt such a big difference in my mood from anything else. The problem was that it is very difficult to get this large amount of vegetables every day and it is very expensive, organic vegetables can be 60kr/kg and that would be 1800kr/month for one person. All of this made me want to create a nutritional supplement that corresponds to these 1.5 kg or more of vegetables in a natural and minimally processed way that is also sustainable where you can easily get all the vitamins, minerals, phytochemicals, antioxidants, bioflavonoids and water-soluble/non-water-soluble fibers in a drink of about 3 dl. I have succeeded in this when it comes to the Nutrition in 1.5 kg of vegetables but not the fibers yet as it is a product that I am in the process of developing. The nutrition is naturally extracted with co2 + water from the following raw materials: Broccoli, spinach, kale, pumpkin, sweet potato, peas, cranberries, chlorella, maitake mushroom, shiitake mushroom. 0.5 grams of this nutritional powder that is made in the USA gives you the daily requirement for all vitamins as well as 8 minerals and a large amount of phytochemicals, antioxidants and bioflavonoids. My plan with Mikrofarmen is to be able to add what is missing from our diet today in a simple, sustainable and natural way and make people healthier!