Though I am a certified personal trainer, group fitness in They serve as our body's first line of defense and work to filter blood and remove toxins and foreign invaders. My operating manual is a lot simpler than the booklet that comes with a fancy Italian car, trust me. He is known uniquely within the health and wellness community as an exotic superfood expert, supplement formulator, and environmental activist who travels the planet to discover new and underutilized medicinal plants. 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.

AT LEAST listen to Olien on some podcasts- I highly recommend his interview on the Rich Roll podcast. The chapter on nutrition was a little frustrating, and not because I disagree (I totally agree) with what Darin says about the importance of nutrition, but because as I read the chapter I just wanted to say, "But it's just not that easy. But even our genes and chromosomes respond to their environment—to the conditions we create by our choices. I like a book that doesn't just give me information but also stirs me into action and Superlofe did that for me.As host of the widely popular podcast The Darin Olien Show, Darin curiously explores people, solutions, and health as well as life’s Fatal Conveniences™ – a segment of the show uncovering modern-day flaws and challenges that may be undermining our health and our environment.

Clean means free from harmful chemical pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers, and is organic or harvested wild. The environmental toxins found in these products create a cascade of problems, including chemical sensitivities, auto-immune issues, obesity, chronic health diseases, and more.If everyone follows the guidelines in this book I can't see how they wouldn't live a better, healthier life. Surprisingly, some healthy foods, such as most beans, lentils, and peanuts, are slightly acidifying. In this book Darin Olien, superfood hunter extraordinaire, presents his five life forces: nutrition, hydration, oxygenation, alkalization, detoxification. Olien suggests adding half a teaspoon of salt, preferably Himalayan Crystal salt, to about a gallon of water to supplement the lost minerals.

For starters, we can take the stress off our livers and kidneys by cutting down on alcohol, drugs, and processed foods. I drank it religiously and loved it for years, but stopped drinking it when I was pregnant with P and never really got back into it.For those of you who are not familiar with what distilled water is, very briefly is water with a high purity. It starts with the beautiful freaking miracle that carries us through our lives from start to finish—our bodies. In "Fatal Conveniences," Darin Olien aspires to reach billions of people, “I hope the information in my book, gets out to the billions of people on this planet so they can make more informed choices because we are suffering unnecessarily.

I know more about my body now then I ever have before, I also feel better equipped to face my endometriosis and IVF head on. I listened to this book on my runs, because Olien is getting a lot of attention right now and I’m a big fan of anyone that promotes a plant-based diet. We need to get plenty of iron, copper, zinc, folic acid, Coenzyme q 10, and vitamins A, B's, C, and E, so our immune system can fight pathogens and function properly.As a western manifestation of a wholesome eastern, ancient wise philosophy of living well and focusing on what really matters, understanding that you yourself are made of this world and to strive in it you have to really connect to the essence of life in every bodily aspect. I feel the same way about this book as I did about The Life-changing Magic of Tidying Up; on one level I could recognize that parts of the book were pretty bogus, and maybe even harmful. Without realizing it, some of our habits make it difficult for our bodies to do what they're supposed to do naturally.