Reclaim Your Health: A Common-Sense Approach to Food and Wellness | Darin Olien

Darin Olien (0:01)

Well, listen, you have to be disciplined to your life. You have to be the CEO of what you're doing in your life. Be aware of what you're putting in your damn mouth, because if you're not, you will be a victim of this ultra process craziness.

What? You're not proving that your product is safe to sell to children and family and moms? How is that possible? How can you put that on a shelf?

Michael Gervais (0:24)

Tastes good, price is cheap, it's easy to grab.

Darin Olien (0:28)

And it's killing you.

Michael Gervais (0:36)

Okay, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery podcast. I am your host, Dr. Michael Gervais, by trade and training, a high-performance psychologist. I've got to tell you, I love this podcast. I love what we're doing. And I want to say thank you for going along this adventure with us. I got a fun one here for you.

What would we do without all of our modern conveniences?

Instant access to food, water, clothing, information, entertainment, science, chemistry, technology. They've all made our lives bigger, better, maybe. Definitely faster and definitely more convenient. The question is, what's the cost?

Returning to the podcast this week is Darin Olien. Health entrepreneur, activist, podcaster. He's a cohost of the number one Netflix series Down to Earth with Zac Efron and author of bestsellers like Super Life and Fatal Conveniences.

Darin says the chemicals and systems that process our food, our water, what we wear, basically everything that we consume is killing us and it's destroying the planet. This is a problem. It's a big statement now. However, it's not shocking.

Darin's been traveling the world, sounding this alarm for decades with real concern for our collective health and the planet's future. And if he's intense about exposing the problems, he's even more passionate about finding the solutions. In our conversation today, we unravel how to turn that fear and concern into real action on a personal level and for the world. He provides easy alternatives to our modern fatal conveniences that can help us regain our health and maybe save the planet. It's a discussion that couldn't be more timely, more urgent. So with that, let's dive right into this incredible conversation with Darin Olien. Darin.

Darin Olien (2:41)

Hey, man.

Michael Gervais (2:42)

Yeah, this is great. Like I love how you show up in the world and I'm so stoked to sit down and have this conversation with you.

Darin Olien (2:50)

I could have a lot of conversations with you easily. Yeah.

Michael Gervais (2:53)

Cool, man. So let's just start. How are you? Like what's going on? How are you doing?

Darin Olien (2:58)

Yeah, I'm good.

Aside from a dog that's not doing so great acutely, we've had a lot of rain, which is great to see nature explode, which is a great kind of my counterpoint to life is always checking in with nature. And if nature can be resilient and powerful, so can I as we are that.

So, and I am that. So, you know, I'm good. Like, there's a lot of big projects that I'm working on. I think 2003 was maybe a lot of tending of the soil in a certain sense and planting some seeds and watering, we're starting to see some sprouts of a lot of creation right now. And a couple of TV shows that I'm working on in terms of docu-series, in terms of continuing the mission. And the mission is being an on-ramp potentially for people doing great things in the world and sharing that information because I think both big and small things of hope are really kind of important right now and it's also helpful for me in my own journey to just touch base with extraordinary people doing great things and then be able to tell the world about it. So I love that medium of docu-series and stuff like that. I love to also the producing of it, the digging underneath it, that I was just on a call with one of my producing partners and we're having countries reach out to us to come there, so that we can show, highlight the extraordinary things that certain countries are doing, both environmentally, sustainably, waste, all of these things, these inherent, the world, the schizophrenic world I find myself in, always, is I cannot see a fatal convenience, either someone doing something or a system in place that is inherently just toxic to the world, i.e. I'm finishing up a, not fashion, but a clothing documentary with my good friend, Jeff Gardner, who's been a plant-dyed fashion designer for 20 years, and we were in a lab on camera testing some garments, and the PFAS and the fluorine gas coming off of these things were like 10 times the legal limit, and the legal limit shouldn't even be legal.