Superlife Quotes

“If the things we eat have been processed—manipulated, broken apart, adulterated, with most of the fiber (and nutrients) thrown away—then we end up consuming something that’s food, technically speaking, but lacks many of the health benefits that eating is supposed to bring us. We get calories—which we need to survive, of course—but little else. None of the nutrition. As Dr. Fuhrman puts it, we end up mechanically full but nutritionally starved. If we do that often enough, we will absolutely harm ourselves at the cellular level. Over time, that may bring about some chronic condition.”
― Darin Olien, SuperLife: The 5 Simple Fixes That Will Make You Healthy, Fit, and Eternally Awesome

“We make up 5 percent of the world’s population, and we take 80 percent of all prescription painkillers.”
― Darin Olien, SuperLife: The 5 Simple Fixes That Will Make You Healthy, Fit, and Eternally Awesome

“Water deficit is the primary cause of many other disease symptoms too. Chronic pain, digestive distress, migraines, depression—all may be attributed at least partly to a lack of cellular hydration.”
― Darin Olien, SuperLife: The 5 Simple Fixes That Will Make You Healthy, Fit, and Eternally Awesome

“It’s true, organic food is more expensive to grow, and we have to be willing to pay for it. Some people see that as a luxury. I always come back to the same question: Would we rather give our money to the farmer or the pharmacist, the grocer or the doctor? Do we want to spend a fortune in the future trying to fix the damage being done today? Once we compare the potential risk and reward, the extra cost of eating clean food may seem worth it. Eating is the single most important thing we can do to stay healthy. If good, clean food isn’t worth our money, what is? Organic blackberries cost double the normal kind? How does that compare to the price of chemotherapy? How does burning out your insides with toxic chemicals and destroying your immune system and puking out your guts and losing all your hair stack up against spending three dollars more on that organic produce? Your body responds to what you put inside it. It’s simple. How could anything else be possible? You’d accept that if we were talking about your car. Why not your body? Clean also means food that contains no genetically modified organisms—GMOs. This is the really scary stuff, and it’s in the news every day as the big corporations fight every effort to label engineered foods. The fact that the industry is against truth in labeling tells us all we need to know.”
― Darin Olien, SuperLife: The 5 Simple Fixes That Will Make You Healthy, Fit, and Eternally Awesome

“Rather than sending us to the pharmacy with prescriptions, our physicians should send us to the farmers’ market”
― Darin Olien, SuperLife: The 5 Simple Fixes That Will Make You Healthy, Fit, and Eternally Awesome

“Our intestinal length, our need for vitamin C from outside sources, and our ability to sweat link us more closely to herbivorous than to carnivorous mammals.”
― Darin Olien, SuperLife: The 5 Simple Fixes That Will Make You Healthy, Fit, and Eternally Awesome

“no disease, bacteria, or virus can flourish in an alkaline environment”
― Darin Olien, SuperLife: The 5 Simple Fixes That Will Make You Healthy, Fit, and Eternally Awesome

“Do what you can’t do, so you can do more of what you want to do.”
― Darin Olien, SuperLife: The 5 Simple Fixes That Will Make You Healthy, Fit, and Eternally Awesome

“Eat a wide variety of whole, fresh, clean foods—mostly vegetables, fruit, beans, nuts, seeds, grains, sprouts, and healthy fats. Eat a lot of it raw.”
― Darin Olien, SuperLife: The 5 Simple Fixes That Will Make You Healthy, Fit, and Eternally Awesome

“regions, but hard to process, so all over the developing world people”
― Darin Olien, SuperLife: The 5 Simple Fixes That Will Make You Healthy, Fit, and Eternally Awesome

“Soaked Chia Seeds To 4 cups of distilled water in a glass pitcher or jar, add 5 tbsp organic chia seeds. Shake once, let sit for 1 minute, shake again, and put in the fridge. Use after 8–12 hours, when it has taken on a gel-like consistency. It will keep in the fridge up to a week.”
― Darin Olien, SuperLife: The 5 Simple Fixes That Will Make You Healthy, Fit, and Eternally Awesome

“Yes, that’s correct—poop transplants. And not only did the recipients’ health improve, but they even ended up with food cravings similar to those of the donors.”
― Darin Olien, SuperLife: The 5 Simple Fixes That Will Make You Healthy, Fit, and Eternally Awesome

“Half a teaspoon of unprocessed crystal salt to a gallon of water does the trick. Or a pinch of salt in a twelve-ounce glass. If possible, use unrefined Himalayan crystal salt; formed 250 million years ago beneath the surface of the earth, it is as clean as salt can be. Because it’s unprocessed, it still contains all the minerals and trace”
― Darin Olien, SuperLife: The 5 Simple Fixes That Will Make You Healthy, Fit, and Eternally Awesome

“If something is bad for Earth, it’s probably not so great for us, either.”
― Darin Olien, SuperLife: The 5 Simple Fixes That Will Make You Healthy, Fit, and Eternally Awesome

“If we eat a healthy diet, with lots of vegetables and fruit, our food will keep us alkaline and high in natural oxygen, vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients, and antioxidants, all of which support the detox process and slow telomere loss, the measureable speed of aging of our DNA.”
― Darin Olien, SuperLife: The 5 Simple Fixes That Will Make You Healthy, Fit, and Eternally Awesome

“Eat whole foods, a wide variety of them, and make sure they’re fresh and clean and from trustworthy sources. Do that, and we’ll get what we need.”
― Darin Olien, SuperLife: The 5 Simple Fixes That Will Make You Healthy, Fit, and Eternally Awesome

“We can’t just eat crap, damage our tissues, and then swallow a pill to make everything better.”
― Darin Olien, SuperLife: The 5 Simple Fixes That Will Make You Healthy, Fit, and Eternally Awesome

“Eating a diet high in mineral-rich vegetables, the study found, got better results in preventing calcium depletion.”
― Darin Olien, SuperLife: The 5 Simple Fixes That Will Make You Healthy, Fit, and Eternally Awesome

“Not only is breathing meditative and good for calming stress, but it improves brain and immune system function, cleanses the body, and purifies our minds.”
― Darin Olien, SuperLife: The 5 Simple Fixes That Will Make You Healthy, Fit, and Eternally Awesome

“when we eat processed foods, unhealthy fats, and too much sugar, our red blood cells clump together and don’t flow as they should.”
― Darin Olien, SuperLife: The 5 Simple Fixes That Will Make You Healthy, Fit, and Eternally Awesome

“All chronic pain, suffering and diseases are caused from a lack of oxygen at the cell level.”
― Darin Olien, SuperLife: The 5 Simple Fixes That Will Make You Healthy, Fit, and Eternally Awesome

“We use up water as we sleep. First thing in the morning, our tank is low; we need a refill. In fact, the first meal of the day should be water—a liter is a healthy way to start the morning, and if we throw in a pinch of unrefined crystal salt, a pinch of cayenne pepper, and a squirt of fresh lemon juice, we have a great jump-start that prepares our digestion, hydrates us, and opens up proper secretions for detoxing.”
― Darin Olien, SuperLife: The 5 Simple Fixes That Will Make You Healthy, Fit, and Eternally Awesome

“stress causes dehydration, which leads to more stress.”
― Darin Olien, SuperLife: The 5 Simple Fixes That Will Make You Healthy, Fit, and Eternally Awesome

“the sprout almost always has a much higher nutrient content than the full-grown produce.”
― Darin Olien, SuperLife: The 5 Simple Fixes That Will Make You Healthy, Fit, and Eternally Awesome

“eat like Greek grandmothers do.”
― Darin Olien, SuperLife: The 5 Simple Fixes That Will Make You Healthy, Fit, and Eternally Awesome

“Now you may have noticed that my description of what we should eat includes a conspicuous omission: animal foods, meaning meat, fish, eggs, and dairy products. It”
― Darin Olien, SuperLife: The 5 Simple Fixes That Will Make You Healthy, Fit, and Eternally Awesome

“A study published in the journal Nature fed one group of human subjects an animal-based diet and another a plant diet. Then researchers studied the short-term results in the subjects’ gut microbes. Even after just a few days, the meat eaters experienced an increase in bacteria that cause inflammatory bowel disease. The plant eaters increased the number of microbes that rid the body of inflammation. “These results demonstrate that the gut microbiome can rapidly respond to altered diet,” the authors wrote.”
― Darin Olien, SuperLife: The 5 Simple Fixes That Will Make You Healthy, Fit, and Eternally Awesome

“Either way, ask yourself: Is this what I want to be made out of? Is this the being I want to be?”
― Darin Olien, SuperLife: The 5 Simple Fixes That Will Make You Healthy, Fit, and Eternally Awesome

“With our eager cooperation, food manufacturers and restaurant chains and fast-food giants get rich by making us sick. Then the pharmaceutical giants and the insurance companies and hospitals and other health care providers get rich by making us better. Not healthy, mind you, but well enough to work and pay the bills we’ve just run up. If we ate our broccoli and quinoa and salads and berries and almonds and drank our water and green tea and took long, vigorous hikes and got enough sleep, we might feel great, but who would profit? Nobody. What kind of system is that?”
― Darin Olien, SuperLife: The 5 Simple Fixes That Will Make You Healthy, Fit, and Eternally Awesome

“A study at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center tested mice’s rate of autophagy—a process that recycles cellular debris by burning it for energy—based on whether or not the mice exercised. The rate increased in the creatures who were forced to work out. This is especially important because autophagy is partly responsible for how well or badly we age. The implication is clear: physical activity keeps us young.”
― Darin Olien, SuperLife: The 5 Simple Fixes That Will Make You Healthy, Fit, and Eternally Awesome