Darin Olien

Darin Olien TV Host 🌏 | Plant Based 🌱 | Author 📚 | Green Tech Entrepreneur ♻️ | Podcast Host🎙

Darin Olien is co-host with Zac Efron on the widely popular Netflix docu-series called “Down to Earth with Zac Efron” and host of the top 20 ranked podcast "The Darin Olien Show." Darin is also a highly recognized exotic superfoods hunter, supplement formulator, and author of the book, “SuperLife: The five fixes that will keep you healthy, fit and eternally awesome.”

He also launched in early 20

20 a health APP 121Tribe.com created to help people learn about whole food plant based eating, recipes, easy to follow education, habit tracking and exercise.

Self-sufficiency is not about being a doomsday prepper. It is about building a life where you are less dependent on syst...
06/03/2026

Self-sufficiency is not about being a doomsday prepper. It is about building a life where you are less dependent on systems that were never designed with your health or your sovereignty in mind.

One of the most powerful places to start is growing your own food. Not everyone has land for a full vegetable garden, and that is fine. A windowsill herb garden, a few containers on a balcony, some organic seeds and good soil. That is all it takes to begin. The investment is minimal but the return goes far beyond the food itself.

When you grow your own food, you learn something that no grocery store can teach you.

You develop a relationship with the process, season after season, through trial and error, through failures and small victories.

That knowledge compounds over time and it is the kind of knowledge you can pass on to your kids, your friends, and your community.

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The fitness industry has done a great job convincing people that building real strength requires complicated programming...
06/02/2026

The fitness industry has done a great job convincing people that building real strength requires complicated programming, expensive equipment, and hours in the gym. It doesn’t.

Two to three full body sessions a week, two to four sets per major muscle group, eight to twelve reps. That is the foundation.

Done consistently over time, that simple framework will improve your muscle strength, your metabolic health, your bone density, and your ability to move through life with energy and resilience.

The barrier to building a stronger body is not access to a perfect program. It is the belief that what you can actually do is not enough to make a difference. It is.

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Your cells don’t just need water. They need the minerals and electrical charge that allow water to do its job inside the...
06/01/2026

Your cells don’t just need water. They need the minerals and electrical charge that allow water to do its job inside the body.

The difference between drinking water and truly hydrating comes down to what is in that water. Minerals create the electrical gradients your cells depend on to communicate, generate energy, and regulate themselves. Strip those out, as most filtration systems do, and you are essentially sending empty signals into a system that needs far more than that to thrive.

Chronic fatigue, brain fog, and poor recovery are often less about how much you are drinking and more about what your water is actually delivering at the cellular level.

When you address that missing piece, the difference is felt in ways that are hard to attribute to anything else.

Manna Vitality was built to solve exactly that.

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05/29/2026

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Up to 80 to 90 percent of lip products may contain microplastics. Ingredients banned in food are legally present in products applied directly to the lips. And the fastest growing market for these products is girls between the ages of nine and seventeen.

In this conversation, I sit down with Laura D’Alamo, a clean beauty innovator and attorney who survived triple-negative breast cancer and then spent two years investigating what is actually in the lip products most people use without a second thought.

Laura shares what she uncovered, what the Lip Service Alliance is doing about it, and how the choices you make as a consumer are one of the most direct ways to drive real industry change.

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05/28/2026

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A study published in Nature Medicine found microplastics in one hundred percent of healthy human brains tested.

The average brain contained roughly seven grams of plastic, about the equivalent of a plastic spoon. And in brains affected by dementia, the concentration was ten times higher.

The science is moving fast enough that the U.S. government just launched a $144 million initiative specifically to study the effects of microplastics on the human body.

In this solo episode, I break down what the research actually shows, how nanoplastics are crossing the blood-brain barrier, what endocrine-disrupting chemicals like BPA, PFAS, and phthalates are doing once they get inside your tissues, and the practical steps you can take right now to meaningfully reduce your exposure.

🎧 Listen now on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

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05/27/2026

Knowing what to buy is one thing. Knowing how to navigate a real grocery store in real time is another.

That is exactly what this new Patreon series is about. I am taking you inside the grocery store with me, walking the aisles, and showing you exactly what I look for, what I avoid, and how to make smarter choices without overhauling your entire life or blowing your budget.

This series lives exclusively on Patreon where we can go deeper, get more specific, and build something genuinely useful together. Head to the link in my bio to join.

The body was built to move, to engage, to be challenged. Honoring that is not just about fitness. It is about showing up...
05/26/2026

The body was built to move, to engage, to be challenged. Honoring that is not just about fitness. It is about showing up fully for your life.

I train with my friend, the surf god Laird Hamilton, who said something wise while we were working out: “Do what you can’t do, so you can do more of what you want to do.””

That stuck with me. It means we should try new, hard things, and movements that challenge our weaknesses. That’s the only way we’ll get stronger.

The ability to respond, to play, and to show up for life, are the reasons I challenge myself when I work out. I don’t want to be limited by what my body can and can’t do. I want a super life!

Healing does not always begin in a therapist’s office. Sometimes it begins in a coffee shop, in a grocery line, or in th...
05/25/2026

Healing does not always begin in a therapist’s office. Sometimes it begins in a coffee shop, in a grocery line, or in the moment you finally call someone who changed your life and tell them exactly what they meant to you. The small acts of genuine human connection that most of us swallow every single day.

In this solo episode, I talk about why vulnerability has become one of the rarest and most powerful things a person can offer in a world that has quietly trained us to keep our guard up and our phones in our hands.

Vulnerability is not about being fearless. It is about being willing. Willing to go first, to say the real thing, to see the person in front of you and let them know they were seen.

That is where connection begins. And connection, it turns out, might be the most underrated medicine we have.

🎧 Listen now on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

05/23/2026

Life doesn’t happen to you,it happens for you.
I didn’t want the injury. But it course-corrected me in a way nothing else could have. The struggle revealed more of who I am and what I actually wanted. That’s why I’m grateful for ALL of it, not just the good, but the hard stuff too. Especially the hard stuff. Grateful for David and Jules, and for Manna — born from a vision to help humans experience their bodies at the highest level. That mission hits different when you’ve had to fight your way back to yours.

05/22/2026

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The GLP-1 drug phenomenon is one of the fastest growing trends in modern medicine, and the conversation around it rarely goes deeper than before and after photos.

In this conversation, I sit down with physician and metabolic health expert Dr. Dan Reardon for an honest look at what is really going on. We talk about the hidden side effects that are not making headlines, why most GLP-1 users are simply eating less junk food rather than building genuinely healthier habits, and what happens to the body when people stop taking the injections.

We also get into the pharmaceutical incentives driving mass prescriptions and why so many experienced physicians are quietly refusing to prescribe these drugs.

🎧 Listen now on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

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