This would be a less complicated subject if meat, fish, and all the rest hadn’t been turned into industrial products that often come with unhealthy, unnatural baggage. Founder and visionary of SuperLife, is the first ever health and wellness expert to be coined a “Superfood Hunter. As host of the widely popular podcast The Darin Olien Show, Darin explores solutions to life's "Fatal Conveniences" - a segment of the show uncovering modern-day flaws and challenges that may be undermining our health and our environment.

Fatal Conveniences offers a fresh perspective and achievable, small tweaks that will lead to big, life-enhancing changes. In 2009, the Environmental Working Group analyzed drinking water throughout the United States and discovered hundreds of pollutants in tap water.

If we really had to stop and think about every amazing, breathtaking, jaw-dropping thing that our bodies are constantly doing, completely on their own and without any conscious effort on our part, without us even knowing about it, we wouldn’t have time to do anything else. According to the Environmental Working Group, “the PFAS pollution crisis is a public health emergency. From his years of experience within the health space, he wrote the New York Times best-selling book, SuperLife: The Five Fixes That Will Keep You Healthy, Fit and Eternally Awesome .

According to Olien, 'The list of jobs that water does puts other organs to shame, and just like any other organ, water supply can be healthy, and functioning well, or can be insufficient to do its job right. Darin’s interest in food and nutrition began when a college football injury drove him to uncover better ways to heal his body. In this groundbreaking health and lifestyle guide, Darin Olien-superfoods expert, nutritionist, creator of Shakeology, and co-host of the Netflix docuseries Down to Earth with Zac Efron-provides the key to understanding and utilizing five life forces, the sole factors that determine whether or not we will be healthy, fit, and free of illness. Nutritionist and superfoods expert Darin Olien reminds us that we can maximize our body’s natural potential by focusing on the five simple forces—Quality Nutrition, Hydration, Detoxification, Oxygenation, and Alkalization—that determine whether we will be healthy, fit, and free of illness. Studies show that hospital patients with plants in their rooms recover quicker than those with no plants.It's our body's transport system, the vehicle for every nutrient, hormone, chemical, messenger, enzyme, electrolyte, and brain pulse. And don’t forget phthalates, pesticides, EMFs, parabens, and hundreds more that we are exposed to every day that add up to many unnecessary stressors on our bodies,” he added. This book has taken my journey to the next level with lots of accessible information and useful tips. Our sweat glands, lungs, liver, kidneys, lymphatic system, intestinal microbes, and bladder work to “clear out the trash.

And, above what we eat, drink, and how we breathe, we also need to address our mental health matters. Eat a wide variety of whole, fresh, clean foods—mostly vegetables, fruit, beans, nuts, seeds, grains, sprouts, and healthy fats. I like a book that doesn't just give me information but also stirs me into action and Superlofe did that for me. I liked the rationality about additives and processed foods, not sure if very scientific but still good points: our body maybe goes through stress when it's being given "foreign" ingredients. If you care about your health and have health skepticism for what goes on as conventional treatment from the Medical-Industrial-Complex, this is a book worth a read.

For those of us who are active and need a fair bit of calories, trying to follow the diet he suggests would be a pain in the rear -- getting enough calories would probably be a chore. The author has a clear passion for health and for sure practices what he preaches for a healthy lifestyle.