What up family? It's episode 125 of the genius life.
What's going on everybody? Welcome to another episode of The Genius life. I'm your host Max Luke of your health and science journalist. And author of The New York Times best-selling book genius foods and the genius life on this episode of the show. I'm super excited to welcome back my dear friend Darren Olin. Darren is the man. He is the co-host along with Zac Efron of the wildly popular Netflix docu-series.
Down to earth with Zac Efron. He's also the author of The New York Times best-selling book super life the five fixes that will keep you healthy fit and eternally awesome. He worked with the Fitness Company Beachbody to formulate one of the top superfood shakes in the USA a whole food supplement called Shakeology and he is also the founder of Baruch has which are a nut that I featured previously on the podcast. They are sort of like a peanut on steroids if you will really great product, and I've come on
The show previously to talk all about that nut. And so you can go back and listen to that. But over the course of the next hour we are going to talk about his experience traveling around the world and filming down to earth with Zac Efron. It's a show that a lot of people have been talking about lately. It's on Netflix and it is a wonderful show it super entertaining. It is beautifully produced and I could not be happier for Darren to land such an incredible opportunity to get to you know, expose the
Bit large to some of these ideas that you know, we talked about all the time in the wellness world as being important like the the value of having clean water and of reducing plastic waste and things like that and Darren has brought it with Zach to a massive stage. And so yeah, we had a great chat. We talked all about his experience on the show what it's like to work with Zach what it's like to you know be at the helm of a major production like the show down to earth. We also talked about some of his experiences on the show and
And specifically we go deep into the wondrous World of Water and this is not really a topic that we've done a deep dive on the you know into on the show in the past. And so I'm excited for Darren to take you there which he does. So eloquently so strap on your seatbelts and get ready to get down to earth with dairy. No lien before we dive in I Wanna Give a shout-out to for somatic, which is one of the sponsors of this show for stigmatic makes a number of medicinal Mushroom in
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Yeah, now without further Ado I'm pumped to get into this conversation. It was awesome. So here we go Darren. Thanks for coming over and being on the
show again. Oh man, it's this studio is just sets the tone does set the tone
and where it's now being adorned by your beautiful peruca your beru cannot over here, which regular listeners of my show will be familiar with because we did a whole episode talk.
About it. What's going on, man? You've had like a busy past couple of
months Jesus. Yeah, but this whole pandemic it was just like
I mean, obviously these things are in
motion, right? So there's a lot of I mean the show itself has been in motion since you know, we started tinkering around with that idea and
So cool, you know mid early to mid eighteen 2018 and then you know, the fire happened and all of my salmon like, you know, I got a I gotta get my own voice out there because it's a certain point I love being on podcast. But then you also miss out on certain things that you want to talk about. And so you get to just exercise that so then I was like, I just want to want to do it and of course all the you know, the Mind gives everyone's doing
It I'm like, well, it doesn't matter. I know some really cool people that no one knows
about so if I just did it on that, yeah, you know, so even your new podcast, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's so cool. I mean it's yeah, it's such an amazing. It's an excuse more than anything to be able to reach out to people who you admire who you want to
learn from. Yeah. I've really enjoyed having it. So congrats. Yeah. Thanks. It's super fun. I really enjoy it. Um,
And so I mean like on top of that you've got this Netflix show down to earth which is amazing. Like it's really really well done. When did you film that? Like, what's the backstory there? Yeah, the back story is
it's like it's so funny. It started with a podcast. So I'm rich rolls podcast Zach reached out to Connor Dwyer who is an Olympian swimmer who knew rich and he said I really like
Ever I said whatever I was getting into he was just he was touched by something. Hmm. And so he reached out to Connor Connor reach out to rich rich reach out to me and said hey, can I give Zac Efron your number wants to reach out to you?
And you know people reach out all the time of all sorts. And so I was like, yeah sure no problem. And then I just forgot about it. So the month later I just sitting on the couch one day and I get this text. Hey, it's Zac Efron and a really loved what you said. He was a very sweet just kind of poured his heart out on a text and I was like, wow, I can definitely go out to lunch of this kid. He seems very cool. And so yeah, we went out to eat.
The golden mean Cafe and nice little vegan joint nice and we just sat for hours and he just really ended up talking about are all asking me questions about what I do and all of those things and so it was really at the very end that so what else what else you doing? Well, I have this idea for a show because so for a decade people have been you should do a super food hunting show and yeah in theory, it sounds really great but in and out
of production, you know, it's like in Psych for those
things to line up to
really I just really has to feel right to do it because it takes a lot to do it and you're not making money on that thing and it and so I just kind of walked away from numerous meetings just it's just not and so I had this idea of I said, yeah Zach I have this idea of a little medicinal side of the adventure with the
Iron, mental side of things with highlighting maybe some longevity stuff and and getting into water a little I mean,
there's so much you can
explore I just had this this current interest list that I wanted to go with with experts like buddies and colleagues that was lined up on this on the show and he was like, you know, so this is like we're about getting in our car from the dinner or from the lunch and he goes that sounds amazing.
Like we would like travel to those. Are you traveling to those your meeting those I'm like, yeah course and so two hours later. He calls me and he said, you know, I have a deal with Netflix, but it's a show that I'm not really into huh. It has certain aspects of what you even saw on this show. It had travel it had eating Cuisine from a
amazing places and small business and all of that stuff and and then I had this element of environmental Fitness broader expansion of what your what life's about and all of this stuff and we just and so he wrestled with his team. I mean, obviously he's the commander of his own team, but they didn't know me from a hole in the wall, right? So he said I we're going to do this. I'm really I would really want to do it. So I met with all the produce.
Soon as I met with his whole team and that was that that whole
thing and he made it happen and walked in and we changed the whole essentially brought those two
concepts together that deal
was done. So it was already going to happen, but it wasn't happening because he didn't want to do that one. So so then he agreed to just travel along the whole time and we put the show together and the production team was unbelievable and it turns out
That was super nervous because I don't want to do I didn't want to do something so that I lived and breathed. I don't want to do a Hollywood thing. Hmm. I had no interest, you know people pitching that stuff. Well, okay cool. But well, let's have this person or that but I'm like no like and the so the way it happened and though he him reaching out to me and him admiring something that I was about set this.
Different tone because it wasn't me going to him then. Let's do his show and him going through his managers and all this shit. And and so yeah, we just went into development of that thing and sure enough. We we, you know, start traveling for three and a half months and it was incredible. So I mean
that you know, and this is something important
because when Zach he said these things to me that that seal
The deal
because I wasn't swooned
by Hollywood or needing to do that because I wanted to do something from my heart and do it. Right and he said I have all these followers.
But I want to use them for good. I want to do something for good. There's reasons why I'm not advertising and pushing products and all of this stuff because I want to do something and and better the planet and all of that and I believed him and ultimately Zach is a very empathic kind caring.
I mean I call him kid because he's like my little brother. But so yeah, it just it took off from there and it was scary
because it was like I'm usually
superfood hunting or driving or being out in the bush or just
going somewhere and leading a certain
March and it was a little
intimidating when I didn't have any of
my
Support in a certain sense, but I was surrounded by his team his production all of that stuff and I was like, oh my god, what have I done? Like I hope this turns out like and so I had to also let the production inform me. What was a good show right? So and if it was up to me, it would probably been way too intense. Well, I know it would have
been it would have been too intense too and formative too much
and the
Cool thing about this convergence of production and him and my ideas and their ideas. Was it balanced this whole thing out in a way that kind of reached to those people that aren't in this space like you and I or even someone else it reached across to that aisle to a massive amount of people that I mean thousands of messages a day. Wow like that show changed my life Wow.
Show changed my life and then you're like in my nine-year-old my 11 year old my 13 year old my seventy-year-old. You're like, it's just like
Wow. Wow, and so yeah, that was that's in the long version of that kind of stuff front story of how it all kind of came together in a beautiful way. It's actually kind of a miracle that you know, exact super busy and he's definitely got his own attention challenges like because he gets pulled everywhere. I'm sure and the fact that we were absolutely and able to get that done and
Travel and and accomplice this show was amazing. And you know again it was challenging because there was a couple times I didn't think it was going to happen and we got delayed and then it came out. It's what seems to be a kind of a perfect time.
I don't think I don't think like average people or civilians, you know, like people who are not in in the industry who are not in Hollywood realize how difficult it is to get a show greenlit. Yeah. It's what I mean, you know, it's
Of the hardest things to do. I mean I've been working, you know in air quotes like in Hollywood in media for more than a decade and the fact that you were you guys were able to get a show that is simultaneously both smart, but fun and adventurous. I mean, it's a really commendable. It's awesome.
Thank you and humbly just again thank God there was a team, you know, and listen you can always go how we could have done that we
Than this and but but they kept saying to me too because I had you know had my list of colleagues and and researchers and doctors and all of that said we're going to get into it and I had them all lined up and I talked to him I've been preparing and you know, obviously we still had dr. Longo and dr. Perez and we had you know, a lot of great people on the show and and there's so much to explore but the surrender was vital for me so that I wouldn't just sit.
Are and struggle inside myself and then the trust developed clearly on the road of everybody like listen, we it became their mission to and they felt it and it it kind of infused into everyone like this is not a show. It's never been a show for me. It's never been a Netflix and a thing and then that thing and I got a TV show. It's never been that and it still isn't it's a mission and we have to we can't just
And I just can't talk to the scene are same people. We do have to reach and be open and so that was humbling and great that that I certainly didn't know how to do that. But having a team that cared all the way up from the top and everyone on the ground from the camera guys. Everyone was altered from the show because you you're looking through this camera. You're learning.
Ting and we had so much footage. I mean there are so much we had and there's so many experiences that that I don't even know how they try to edit something like that, but they didn't we had you know stellar and Emmy award-winning.
Yeah people it looked it looked great. There was a lot of as they say there's a lot of money on the screen, you know, it looked like the production value was was amazing. I mean, what was it like for you experience because you know, obviously Zach is going to be
Very used to the rigors of production, you know and the ups and downs I go along with that but was that what was that like for you? Well the funny enough, you know, it's like
from being on the road and having I've had cruise with me for and articles written. So like super food hunting or something like that. It's just like I just being me like so that's not hard. I mean it was a little more intense because you have 13 people and you have your you you have but there's certain things that I we just
just like I never wanted to if I didn't have already met those people. I didn't want to meet them until the cameras wrong. I just want everything to be I don't want to set this up. I don't want to you know, and so so from that perspective like I'm cool just being me and letting it rip and and yeah, of course, it's weird because you you have you have cameras all over and but it became so fun. And again, it just mission-based so I for
I just kept going back to if I get into my head or I got uncomfortable. I just go back to that space and me like well, what am I here for? What is this all about? And and you know then Zach and I you know, there's several beautiful conversations that we're just too vulnerable and who you know, but you know, we just would forget the cameras were on several times and that and I think how they
they end up adding it that was just really us and I think that's reached a lot of people because it's I mean, obviously that if anyone hasn't seen the ending its there's an intense part of this happened that happened to me during the filming and and so I'll just lie, I mean most people probably will watch it by now, but you know that it's a very real it just, you know, losing my house and everything else but but you know in listen, it's a kanay.
Like he's always been a character to so he's always prepared and acted and all that stuff and you know for him to be him. Thus the first time he's really ever been doing that. So for him, it was like just opening up to letting people see him. So that was a different muscle for him. And yeah, he was he was uncomfortable and nervous at first and we talked about it and but at the
End of the day we just had a good time and just every every opportunity every meeting every kind of sitting there learning along the way we come away with just like real movement inside of ourselves. Like there's nothing like there's that part where we're picking up trash and we've picked up trash you've picked up trash on the beach or some cleanup, but just something just when you really
let yourself feel what it is that you're doing and feel the magnitude of microplastic in our environment and
becomes so intense because it's just like, oh my God, like nine point two billion metric tons of this plastic on this planet is just breaking down and then further just annihilating ecosystems after ecosystems and micro ecosystems and
it was just those
that wasn't like that was intense. Just sitting there all afternoon picking up plastic.
And you just sit there in a meditative State kind of emotional because it just feels and Zach said in that one of those clips. He was like, I feel like I don't even have to move in this one space and we have to take a step and I can just sit here all day picking up plastic. Wow.
Yeah, so so it's it it infused all of us on the crew and him and and you know, listen you never know how things are going to be received in the you never know. There's so many variables to everything and just to see
Regular people being so impacted is it's just it's just you know, one of the greatest kind of feelings to know that you've made another impact that reached over and touch somebody so, you know, it's been you have been pretty amazing.
It's so cool. I feel like many of your newer fans because I mean the show has been as blown up certainly, you know might not be
all that familiar with the fact that this is something that like you've embodied for a very long time. I mean you you're a superfood Hunter you're like the Indiana Jones of like the super super food world. So I'm just curious like over the course of the production process of this show, you know, you've been so steeped in this topic, you know, and these topics for such a long time. Like where there are there any moments like standout moments over the course of producing the show that even your mind was blown, you know, and that you felt like you were experiencing for the first
time. Yeah.
several I mean, I mean the listen the doctor at Lourdes the mirror the you know, so he's so the Miracles like them going through quantifiable miracles of bathing in the Lord's water that came from st. Bernadette digging in the sand from a Apparition of mother Mary and now millions of people Converge on this spring that keeps flowing at Lourdes and
So the doctor and the episode he his job is to be a doctor. So he receives these these claimed Miracles and he probably sits down and hears about a hundred plus a year and so his job is to wean out an explanation trying to find an explanation. Okay. Well this happened and you're healing well, it wasn't really spontaneous you were taking this medication.
Shin, and then they're like, okay well that but there's certain protocols and years and decades. No Miracle is less than 10 years of research. So there was one part in that episode you'll see that they reveal the first time again. I always loved just not meeting the people and let it all and he showed us this miracle that this guy had cancer all over the place and and you see it on the show and they should we put up the X-ray and it was just it had eaten his
Elvis it is just there was nothing there was really no bone left and you could see this huge mass and they had gone through all of the research over a decade and they couldn't figure out how a decade later. Well, it was a matter of I don't know how long it was before they did the second X-ray and the whole pelvis was intact and what on so
So this guy didn't believe in
this he they he was dying and his family said let's just try this and he went bathing. He felt tingly right away and and he had a remission of cancer immediately.
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spring. It's not a hot spring. It's
Just a spring, huh? That in the I don't know how long ago eighteen hundreds Saint Bernadette saw this Apparition and that Apparition mother married told her to dig and the spring would be a healing spring. Wow. And so now I mean there's a beautiful light ceremony candles and stuff with thousands and thousands and thousands of people so you see
Everyone from wheelchairs to cancer to everyone converges on this just amazing place and the doctor is there to wean out if in fact the spontaneous healing is well, he's not determining that these Miracle he's just trying to determine through science if there's an explanation and if he can't figure out anything hmm from well over a decade.
Jade because they don't give a miracle way without and and so there's there's I think 70 claimed Miracle. So if he can't they can't explain it in their whole research team and their doctors. They pass it off and go there's no explanation and this hit all the criteria of spontaneous remission and healing and and so then they deem this the miracle and the so when we saw the x-rays before and after of one of the latest
Two Miracles. It was like you're staring at this X-ray and you're like what it's unbelievable. Wow, so, you know, so things like that and then you know, I
think Iceland was was really great because we're underground in a
cave and and then them, you know, they're these boreholes of Mother Earth just exploding not volcanic, but just this energy and
They cap them and then they use that for geo that just huge deal thermal capture. And you know, there is some off-gassing of CO2. And so they take that CO2 and inject it back in there then basically becomes Rock again. So that was like we can do that all over the planet for energy for clean energy for
sequestering the CO2 know for sure for sure for geothermal not as easily as
Iceland because it's just there's so much geothermal activity.
But but for sequestering
CO2, just like injecting that CO2 back
into the Earth and it becomes Rock again. Wow, an end and crystals that you could then actually use and you know create jewelry from or whatever
like diamonds right aren't diamonds like yeah, they're a little more carbon. Yeah. It's just a little more I think pressure and time than they
actually become a diamond but these are like fake diamonds. Well, they can do it and receive that output and actually get rid of that CO2, so
Things like that, you know listen, I mean I did off camera. I did some Icelandic forging with this herb company and like that's an incredible area. But but just the feeling from this borehole the the Nature's just power is just so humbling and intense, but yeah, I mean the the several and obviously
A just you know running around and and in Costa Rica episode and we kind of jumped into puta Mona which you should get there by boat and it was like this.
I mean it came off as a little bit of a hippie calming but it was very much
steeped in and learning about reforestation and regeneration and plant education and Herb education and medicinal plant usage and stuff like that. So we just
Are really touched on those surface Iran Zack around in the Amazon and the last episode and you know, scraping off to choa see as a immune stimulant and and Dragons blood and you know, it's the healing properties a dragon's blood. What's that? What's dragons would
so dragon's blood is this incredible
mystery and you can hit it with the machete and it's literally dripping blood. Wow. It's all red. Yeah. It's almost the same composition as incredible.
Bill for scrapes and burns and scars and credible collagen acting properties on topically but you can also take it internally an incredible plant that you know, they've been studying it for a long time but hard to kind of harvest and keep and that's raw State and then we were drinking this amazing plant-based milk called but Ottawa and no one knows about this.
To do now, huh? But it was a very good friend of mine and we're still looking to get it into the market and he is single-handedly created climbing apparatus is for this
because because different than
like like açaà right so
acai ever a lot of people know so you can there's smaller you can put a
connected rope around your feet and then shimmy up pretty easily. This is a lot bigger so you can't really
Bear hug this thing and climate. So you need climbing apparatus has so my friend Tariq,
which is a PhD ecologist, but he's
worked in the Amazon for 35 years. He created climbing apparatus has to give away. So so now we can access but tawa we can climb up the tree and get the fruit creates an economy creates value back in the Amazon. So they don't have to you know, cut a lot of deforestation happens family to family because they're you know,
Five dollars for that tree, it's 10 for that. So they just kind of cut them down here and there but if you create value of those trees and other trees and other plants, then that's at that income that sustainable for them. So that's why I wanted to tell people about that. We didn't quite get into all of that reason, but the tau is like one of the most delicious like it's
kind of got a very similar
quality fatty acid fat quality.
Like as olive oil. Oh, wow. Yeah, and it's got this this antioxidant in it and this purple and it we drank it there. We made some and drinking is just one of the most delicious milk sever. So I mean that in the jungle doing that thing that's that's that's the fun for me,
but the one wild
thing is when we're doing we're at the Ayahuasca Foundation. Oh, no. Yeah. Yeah. We didn't do Iowa's got but you
didn't.
It wasn't in that episode now we didn't do I mean I've done Iowa was off camera. Yeah, the camera guys were still on it while there but yeah, so
I mean anniversary for me. It was 22 years ago when I first did Ayahuasca, but
so we ended up just talking about
plants and cleansing plants and then we actually went through some of the cleansing ceremonies and I was being smoked out at about which we looked at the Timeline. I didn't know yet that my
My house had burned
but I was literally being
smoked out at about the exact same time. My actual houses being burned my god. Wow, and that was just such a weird thing. So on some level it was probably preparing me for that news or that situation because that was a really powerful thing. So, yeah, so anyway, but that was its own intensity after that. But yeah, we just yeah that I'm
The
biggest challenge is all of that stuff. I could be in every any one of those situations
for a very long time because you know in and out and just do the filming just come like I want to get to it. I want to get working on something. Yeah. I
feel like I feel like Zack is probably not the first person to meet you and then think to themselves man. This guy needs to have his own show, you know, yeah. A lot of people have asked me actually there's an episode about water.
Which I haven't seen what is that about because I haven't yet seen it. But a lot of people it's like resonated with a lot of people. Yeah, it has I mean water
such a massive topic and was so challenging to even do it
because the Lord's episode was the second half
of that episodes were talking about the miraculousness of water and I wanted to get into the structuring the chemistry and all of the incredible things, you know, Duc de Pau Gerald Pollack and the fourth phase of water.
All that stuff, but but we
actually in these were the producers idea. So we had Martin
this guy this water Somali a so he brought out all these naturally found Waters and these beautiful glass bottles and we tried water from all of these different places ones had like 7,000 TDS
total dissolve solids while minerals that is how did that taste like you're drinking
alcohol?
Ulcer or one was like someone just you know dissolved in coin in here. Wow, I mean and and what we
weren't able to really clarify as
that's not necessarily what you want to be drinking that's like
almost on the side of
like every once in a while maybe this high magnesium water. You can just take a little shot glass but it's not something and the other thing is
so so we talked a
little bit about you know, obviously this
Eh, there's total dissolved solids. There is dissolved oxygen. There's dissolved hydrogen there structure of water. There's memory of water. There's
tons of stuff which is why we went to Lourdes it kind of say
hey, there's a lot going on with water. Hmm and that's kind of our entryway into potentially. I'd love to do like literally pun intended a deeper dive on on some of that stuff. I actually was just talking to a guy who's
Claimed he's found the most perfect water and Austria and it in it. He lates down through the mountains about takes about eight years and there's no purification. There's no it's there's no it's all coming directly from the pressure. So this it's not touching anything. Wow, and so
so yeah, so the water episode
was again this this
Water is not just water. It's got this H2O molecule, but then all of a sudden okay, you have gas you have water you have Vapor well, which is gas and then you have it freezes, but then you have this fourth phase
and so we didn't really get
into all of that stuff. We just kind of left it to hey, didn't you know that there's a lot going on with this with this
water. So so it started the conversation but
being so light.
In that information and starting to describe what PH is starting to describe what total dissolved solids is because
the other side of total dissolved solids and that just
doesn't mean mineral content in this day and age
total dissolved
solids also means the Fatal conveniences that
the Pharmaceuticals the
inorganic compounds fluorides heavy metals chlorine all of this the volatile compounds that interact with the chlorine.
In the makeup other, you know
challenging a means for us to deal with and it just like it's a massive thing. So we didn't really get to but we then in the episode we went into a water treatment plant in France and then France before we went to
Lourdes France is doing a hell of a job getting good quality pure water for everyone. Hmm, so you can go to any of those fountains and they've gone through, you know UV
ozone they do.
Do you
still very low amounts? Because you still have to in order for chlorine to kill bacteria that's harmful in pipes, you
know miles away. Yeah, the chlorination of Municipal Water. It's like it's an important Public Health. Yeah, even though it might not be good for the individual right like the microbiome and everything because it's a it's an antibiotic essentially. It's
probably important for just like yeah, you know societal
infrastructure. Yeah and the Grilli good point because
You do it's the only way
we've been able to have clean water or not kill ourselves by turning on that tap. However, we do need to take now because of pharmaceuticals because of all these other constituents that get into the water
that we do need to unless you have your own aquifer unless
you have your own stream that's been tested and not touched by any anything in this modern world, which is almost impossible. You have to kind of deconstruct and filter all of
That and then reconstruct it again. And so that's adding some electrolytes back in and then of course you can go down the rabbit hole of Xiao burgers for Tatian. There's a bunch of spinning water so that it vort eights and that structures and increases the surface area and tension and frequency. So that vibrate it so it so it resonates more and creates that osmotic.
Well
along with the electrolyte so there's a
lot. I mean, it's just like I mean we could sit here for a week and talk about all the intricacies. I've been to some of the most intense water conferences in Europe. Wow, the top scientists on the planet. We don't know about I'm sitting there. I literally stood up and go. Do you realize that no one knows any of this research that all of you are spending your entire life on? Yeah. It's
My like, yeah, it's probably a good idea that we
create some sort
of way to share this. I'm like, but the way their share I can't follow it. Like it's so intense. I'm like the science behind. I mean think of it that they're starting to see science that a droplet of water has more memory space than a room that were sitting in full of hard drives.
That's insane. I don't really know what that means.
Ends though, like so break that down for me. So basically they realized
that water has its being influenced well, and it's also delivering information. So
they're they're realizing that it exchanges
information all the time. Whatever. It's up against and Lou
Monte a a French. He's he actually was
one that that he's still alive not well.
Well, but he's still alive. He discovered HIV was one of the people that discovered HIV HIV and what he did one of his test was this is describing some of what water can do so he put physical DNA in a glass of water. Okay right next to it. He had purified water and nothing in it just the glass next to it. Not touching not the water was separated
just
That Association next to it
they could then measure the physical imprint of the DNA that had given itself over to the water sitting next to it. Wow,
so they could reproduce DNA
information that didn't have the physical DNA but had the electrical frequency and imprint into that water. So then you extrapolate that.
That back and if water
is being influenced by the
electromagnetic electromagnetics of the earth,
it's being influenced by the UV and the radiation
from the planet and the electrical conduction of that. It's being it's
allowing information and electricity to flow because of the chelation of the minerals and and the vibration of that
so
Structured water is happening by this battery. That's the Earth. And so
that is the normal way that we are supposed to receive
that water and receiving end or cells and resonates with ourselves.
So so they're just finding
that that information side of things that this has a it's kind of like if we took a hard drive and put it on this table. It doesn't really have a point of view what you put in it.
Right,
but it will take
anything that you put in it. So water is like that mmm. So that's why the work of dr. Emoto
back in the day was like
if you put love on your glass it literally creates a structure that the geometry of love and if you put hate
it distorts the geometry, there's no uniformity to that frequency. So it goes on and on and on with that so then we're
like
What am I drinking because you can filter water you can do all the macro
3D stuff to it. But also there's this other influence to it. So anyway, it's a big it's amazing. Yeah, it's and when you're hearing this read this
research from these from these doctors, you're just like this is this is almost like they're testing something that it's Quantum. So it's it's it's it's
Taneous Lee receiving information. So it
reacts in the quantum
World a tax chemically biologically. So water
is kind of the celestial
body that as we drink water. Yeah
so good. Yeah. So anyway, but but we just we probably put, you know, we
just scratched the surface of what water is on the
episode. Okay, so should I so I
II have a reverse osmosis water purifier at my kitchen. Should
I write the word love on the
tank on a prison a hundred percent. Will there's no downside? Yeah, there's there is none of you
look at it and you go. Oh cool love not only is it affecting the water in your body? Right? 70% Yeah central nervous system over 90% Well over that in your blood. So hey your water why not? Placebo gives you 30%
anyway, so
Yeah, so so why not but but the work of these guys clearly show that were absolutely
affecting and then you go into
dude, we could go down rabbit hole. Then you go into
prayer you go into what are we telling ourselves. What are we saying to ourselves on a daily on a subconscious? Unconscious? What are we doing? Are we in judgment? Are we in fear?
And that is
literally
Quantum physical chemical biological affecting our water right now instantaneously,
so that just takes it to a whole nother
mind-blower of like, okay. If in fact this is true and water is influenced by anything. What am I saying doing being in myself? Because that will show up physically. Hmm, and it's going to definitely show up with the water in.
print and the flow and the nature of the I mean, it's
I mean after sitting
for
80 hours and research and listening to the guys. I mean you just walk away going if you think it's just H2O then you haven't looked wow. Yeah, that's me.
How do you where do you get your water
from?
So so I filter everything coming in? Well currently I've my guest house that is
currently my house on the property. So I filter everything coming.
So my shower is my head. So I have big filtered and then I have or Tater so it's structures
the water so all the water coming in. So that's just coming in. Okay, and then I have RO unit. So then it's going through getting out all the micro. Mike owes microplastics all over the place to so that's how everyone other you know endocrine just Annihilator of us men and women and all of that stuff and then and then I also run through an on.
Demand hydrogen units in high amounts of antioxidants antioxidants hydrogen's the number one antioxidant the world and the elements. So so that's kind of it and then I have all kinds of little structure and
devices right? So I have my blue bottle
that has love engraved on it. I've got this which is incredible company because you can just whatever
symbols you want on there just in blue is a
frequency of a healthy cell. It's
Blue is a it's between like get me wrong, but it's between 25 and 30 micro votes volts. I believe the frequency of blue and that's a healthy cell and so so so I love my blue bottle. I've got in the car and then there's another company called flask. A' that uses the crystal in the glass. They embed it with frequency generating.
Technology.
So those are a couple crazy things and then I have some other
Vortex things and I've got some coming from some for tating machines coming from Austria that we're just created. So yeah, just all of that. I definitely love to to play with it after it's
fixed. So it's a really important thing to as we've discussed
deconstruct water so that you can reconstruct it.
Great. Hmm and add your elements and you need the physical side of things. You need the electrolytes that's conduction that's opening up the cell walls for
hydrogen, excuse me for water to go in and out of the
cell you need that kind of stuff and you need that frequency in that that structuring side of it as well.
Yeah speaking of electrolytes to you remineralize
your water. I do hundred percent. What do you like with what
it more insults the easiest, you know, if there's a God just like a pinch is the pinch. You don't have to go crazy.
You don't have to make a sole out
of it make if superintend lets you want to do a colon cleanse, like easily take a liter of water and put for
2 tablespoons to I should probably shouldn't say this because people just going to do it. Yeah, I won't say anything but but you can duel and spilling out all over the place. I do a colon cleanse every once in a while that
way reverse cleanse like through this I have something about that way of cleansing is feels better to me than
well. I mean, we know that certain minerals.
Magnesium magnesium citrate for example
draws water into the gut and right exactly
so so the cool thing about
Himalayan salt is it's in that the angstrom sighs electrolyte that you need. So if you putting, you know gives magnesium
citrate it's a molecule
that's too big for
cells. So the cellular hydration is
super important. You don't want to just go heavy on the salt, you know and put tablespoons in there and drink that all the time you just
A pinch
now you have electrical conduction again. It's every cell
is is has to resonate and it healthy cell or
healing cell is
that point is excuse me, 25
millivolts to 35 millivolts. And then when you get heard it jumps
up to 50 and that because your body
kicks in a higher amount of electrical conduction order to heal, but if you don't have electrolytes if you don't have a proper
pH
System if you don't have you know from the food itself and proper mechanisms, then your body has a hard time and then you're in pain but can't jump up to that kind of amount of millivolts. Then you're in pain all the time. So anyway, that's a big
discussion. But but super important to
remineralize the water don't be drinking all the time at all distilled water or reverse osmosis.
Definitely want to pinch of salt or half a teaspoon per gallon half a teaspoon per gallon. Yeah. I just think of it in terms of like, you know, when you put water in your battery, it needs the elements in order for electrical conduction to happen. So so so
we put distilled water in there because it's got
the the electrolytes
to wait distilled water has nothing right and the distilled water is nothing but you you in order for us to use it
for our batteries in ourselves. We need to have the electrical conduction or
It's going to reach out in the body and grab it from somewhere else. It's going to create an imbalance.
So yeah, I I definitely remember remineralize my water. I use a like drops drops of like different minerals, but I like the Himalaya just putting salt in it. Yes, cheap easy easy peasy. We don't have that much time left. This was so fun. I feel like it would be remiss to my female listeners. If I didn't ask what it was
like working working with
Zach.
Jack what what? He's like, I mean,
he's a sweetheart he is. I mean he cared from the beginning he cares on the road. He was curious about about learning and he still is and he's always up for a good Adventure. Yeah. I mean he loves he loves getting out. He loves I mean so much so he'll go dark for a while just like not even turn a cell phone on and people like where Zach in like he just needs to get out.
Its intent, you know, it's intense from that perspective. You really get a glimpse of you know, the worldwide Fame of him and the intensity that he has to deal with, you know, thinking thinking about there's certain places where you think I'm in the middle of we're in the middle of nowhere essentially like and people people know flock
like so it's it's it's it you can't help but to
feel that part
Of the intense moments and that's where I think he really likes to unplug and so to be on it Adventure to be out in nature. Like that's for sure like he resonates with that big time. So yeah. Yeah, he's a he's a I love the guy. I mean, he's just a big sweet guy and I didn't obviously know him or follow him before that. So I just know him as this this kid and so when you
When you see that hit him, then you just kind of like yeah, it's like weird. It's like shit he has to do with that. Yeah,
it's a it's a lot. I mean, you know not saying that you know, I'm on a scale like, you know, even remotely close to him, but it's a lot for me to deal with what I've got. Yeah, you know, so like for somebody who's who has like International Fame like that. Well think about it like you go on a
certain pockets and it's more intense
right closer to people that like and then it's like boom boom.
Bowman picture picture picture and dada but he goes
anywhere like we we
can shut that off. Like it just doesn't you know,
but it that is probably why he's like I'm out like I just need to so yeah, it's a
and listen he
you know, he started it is he got catapulted at 14 15 years old. So you're trying to figure life out even at that.
I'm and that's just a massive shift in any normal see that you and I grew up because at least now is like, okay. Well, I've had a normal.
Sort of upbringing so I don't have to deal with that and he's you know half of his life has been this so it's you can't you can't really understand it. Yeah, you can't hard to put your you know, you see it. But yeah, you know,
what's next for you. Are you this must have been a for somebody who's so used to just jet-setting around looking for the
next you know latest and greatest
super food. You've been you've been grounded for the past couple of months.
It's essentially right? Yeah. I mean, I think I think with this whole thing, you know creating my own podcast
creating my my exercise and food app and and and on the side working on a ton of green energy Tech stuff. Like I've been doubling down. I haven't publicly come out with it, but we're working directly with New Zealand and Australia and the Aborigines and like like we're hammering some stuff.
That's game-changing technology for you know for power or water food like so so, you know and for doing that and I've actually spent a lot of time in the converting plastic, I wasn't converting but looking at the technology incur converting plastic to usable Fuel and electricity and stuff. So, yeah, so I've been just like I'm just hunkering down more and more than ever and making these in from the show.
Aligning with a lot of incredible companies that are kicking some ass in a really good way. Another one. Is this amazing company called footprint where they're billion dollar company? No one knows about and they're supplying non plastics for packaging to all the big boys ConAgra Pepsi McDonald's like no plastics like alternative packaging single-use packaging for these guys.
So we need that we have
to shut off this
faucet. We have to shut off this
pollution faucet of single use plastic. So I've
aligned with them and just gonna you know use whatever this is and just kick some ass because we have two man like we have to do something so health of people health of the planet if it doesn't have that I'm just don't care like I have to
Use everything I can to focus on those two big things. I'm with you when
we see because I feel like you're the person to ask when we see disposable, you know cops or Cutlery that says that you know, they're they're biodegradable. Maybe they're like plant or vegetable based are those like truly safe to use some are so I mean, I think that's getting more and more there's a
demand but you know, the good news is I believe that most of these big companies
Want the solution there there and some now are are investing into it. But let's just be very clear. It is good to separate your your Plastics and put it in the blue bin or whatever color it is in your country or whatever and separate that stuff. But let's also be clear recycling largely doesn't exist nine percent and that's probably blown out of proportion like the
East is buried in Mother Earth. It's not being recycled. So we have to vote with our dollars. We have to be aware of companies doing this stuff because we are putting it out to the curb the recycling trucks coming but it's not being recycled. So that is the
dupe. Where's a where's that break in the Chain
break in the chain is there's no demand and the demand it's infinitely cheaper to make
Plastic then recycle the old plastic. Yeah, the refine it if the clean it if to get the
glues out, there's all kinds of weird layering because even a Starbucks cup that
you look at it like oh, yeah, it's it's it's cardboard. No, it's not there's layers of plastic inside that so it's not recyclable plastic in there. And so, you know not to mention the top itself is completely plastic in the straws and then everything else so we have to have companies like for print that are
actually
We at
scale at Big scale
able to create those
Alternatives and turn off that and work everything we can to actually start gobbling up and using this plastic. There's a bunch of you know, companies that are trying to do it, but we have to raise the attention because it's not just a cool and recycling. No, you're not you're separating. Hmm, and it's good to do again. We need to
do that because
Once we're ready, we need to unburied the plastic
and we need to actually get rid of it and do something with in transmute it and change it and actually recycle
it and the more people the more people recycle. I mean, is there a point at which it could it could become cheaper to to manufacture using recycled plastic supposed to do plastic. I hope so, I mean it is
probably 15 20 percent over wow, but they want to do it and end.
Listen, they can work it in their business model.
That's the green tax. Right? I mean that's basically why you end up paying more for conscientious product. I'll run
around as much as possible and pay more for the company. I'll pay more for board chores. I'll pay more for this because of the recycling because of the transparency
because they're doing it right the same thing we do with
Brutus like yeah, it's a premium not you know freaking hard it is to crack that open and get it out here and but we're also going to plant trees. We're also
going to you know, it's that transparency that sustainability. It's like
God damn it, we have to do this step because I go back to the damn episode when we're setting it up and just grabbing all that freaking plastic and you you expand that to billions of metric tons and the ocean and you know, this
great company for ocean which are trying to do a lot of stuff there gobbling up there big Basin Bali because the jet the not jet stream, but the the ocean currents are bringing
so much plastic to certain areas in
Bali, so it's like they're trying
Trying to do and they're creating and there's businesses doing this
and and so we just need to be aware of it. And we need to support these companies me too. Sometimes I like that term the green tax just pay a little more you'll appreciate it. You'll know, you know, man in the mirror. Okay, cool. I spent my hard-earned money towards a company that actually cares because these other companies they don't they don't as much and I hope that we create more and more solutions for
Of these big boys that continue to move and and having had good conversations this week. There are some really big companies that want to do it. So they have teams of people that are wanting to do these alternative things. So
we just have to keep making
entrepreneurs out there just keep you know, extrapolating and finding ways because this is the future we have to move in this direction. So yeah couldn't agree more
to thank you so much for being
In here,
absolutely. Um
where can listeners I got one last question for you, but we're can listeners find you on social media. And also I know you have a book and we've got veruca's which I think people should go check out. We have a promo code genius or they'll get to say 15% off. Its ya boy Genius. We did a whole episode on your note, which you discovered and brought to Market and I've referred to it as like a peanut on steroids. Yeah. That's how I that's how I kind of describe.
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Yeah and super Life the book super Life the book just became today I found out I don't know when this is coming out but the Wall Street Journal bestseller amazing USA Today bestseller and Amazon best
seller isn't it? Amazing that because your book came out a few years ago. Yeah, and it's like yeah, it's just life or no. Yeah just didn't have the
I didn't choose to buy PR teams and stuff. I just kind of hey, I did it. I'm letting it out and
And so got a little love and kind of blew
up. So it's awesome. It's a good lesson to people to to just do what gets you excited, you know to get out of bed every morning like you and you know, like eventually, you know, there's going to be a comet and it's going to take all your stuff to the to the next level. It's a not just keep going. Yeah. Just keep going keep
doing it. Keep you keep keep plugging. I mean, that's what we need to do. And we need to just focus on beyond beyond just this current situation.
Shannon everything else and
just take care of yourself be healthy be happy and then you know think of ways to contribute is the planet needs. It needs it
last question that gets everybody to show. What does it mean to you Darren Eileen to live a genius life.
Hmm.
Great question. I think it's it's integration. It's kind of the discovery of self learning more about yourself learning more about myself informs my relationships and informs my passions it informs my my my North Star if you want to call it that Compass inside.
and and when I live my genius I listened to the compass inside myself and I Forge every opportunity to say yes to it because the more I say yes to my knowing the more it grows and the more I trust it and the more
It just expands and the gifts of the universe continued even though they may not look like gifts. I think everything happens for you. Not to you. Hmm, beautiful. I love that.
Well, thank you again for being here. This was awesome and congrats on the show. Thanks. It's great to all you guys out there and podcast land. Thank you for tuning in. Appreciate you text me. Let me know what you thought about this episode of the show three 1029.
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