AT LEAST listen to Olien on some podcasts- I highly recommend his interview on the Rich Roll podcast. The downside, while I understand he worked for Beach Body and developed the shake used I personally am not a huge fan of the pyramid scheme the company runs so the plugs weren't my taste. So a clean, whole fruit or vegetable is the go-between – a way for us to absorb substances that exist in the stars above us, and the soil beneath us. I agreed and believed 100% of this book while I was listening but, I just started the book Glucose Revolution: The Life-Changing Power of Balancing Your Blood Sugar which says a smoothie for breakfast is a bad idea.

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The grapefruit replaced the pizza, candy, soda, and all the rest of the junk I had been pouring into my body. It's not made of gym and protein and rules and stones that reflect energy, but of self-care and awareness that is based in the love of the self, not the hate of the self. It’s more technical than I like, almost enough to lose a whole star for my tastes, but the ideas are sound and the author repeatedly emphasizes that there are various ways to follow his advice. Eating is the most intimate thing we will ever do, and I know what you’re thinking, but eating is even more intimate than that, and I’ll tell you why.

Even whilst reading it, I began to make changes, I threw out all my syrups (low calorie), bought more salad stuff, invested in organic powders to put in the vegan protein shakes I'd already had. With a comprehensive, holistic, and unique approach to wellness, Olien teaches you how to harness the superpowers of food, water, oxygen, and pH balance to live your best life today, tomorrow, and on into the future.

My gripe, I guess, was that he went on and on mentioning multiple studies about things of which I was already convinced. Even mild dehydration reduces our ability to focus, perform at our best, and can also put us in a low mood. For those of you who are not familiar with what distilled water is, very briefly is water with a high purity. 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.

My operating manual is a lot simpler than the booklet that comes with a fancy Italian car, trust me. 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. This book is the classic example of how people, who unfortunately have a very influential position, use science incorrectly to prove their point no matter what. Whereas I'm sure that bad nutrition plays a part in some diseases, he seems to indicate that it is bad food and bad food only, and that modern medicine is therefore useless. He breaks the book down into 5 life forces to emphasize in your daily routine: nutrition, hydration, oxygenation, alkalization, and detoxification.

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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. 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. 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. If instead we deal with the big causes, then suddenly disease becomes something we can prevent rather than just treat.Our sweat glands, lungs, liver, kidneys, lymphatic system, intestinal microbes, and bladder work to “clear out the trash. How can it be that every beast, every fish, every insect—every other critter on the face of the planet—can figure this out so easily, and yet here we are, still wondering? This book helped me pick up a couple new habits, and more importantly to stop stressing so much about a couple bad habits as well. Honestly, although I have been on healthy eating since 1987 I never heard of Darin Olien until I saw Down To Earth, that wonderful documentary on Netflix on which Zac Efron and Darin Olien travel around the world on a quest to learn how to be more respectful of planet earth and of our bodies. But is it more miraculous than turning broccoli, walnuts, beets, apples, and water into bones and organs and blood and brains?