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The Mark Groves Podcast

#237: Return to Nature & Take Your Power Back with Darin Olien

The Mark Groves Podcast

Mark Groves

Education, Relationships, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.9 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Themes: Food Systems, Nutrition, Health, Superfoods, Sovereignty, Environmental Health

Summary:

Join me for an epic chat with Darin Olien: co-host of the Emmy® award-winning docuseries, Down to Earth with Zac Efron, NYT best-selling author, chart-topping podcast host and passionate advocate for human and environmental health. For over 20 years, Darin has traveled the globe in search of ways to holistically heal our society through food, exercise, and mental health and I’m pumped to have had the opportunity to pick his brain in this episode.

Discover:

  • How Down to Earth with Zac Efron serendipitously came to be
  • The dire reality and consequences of ultra-processed foods and chemical agriculture
  • Why we need to return to ancient and indigenous agricultural practices for the health of ourselves and the planet
  • A strong argument for growing your own food
  • Darin’s tips for healthy living in a modern world

00:00 Intro

01:38 Down To Earth with Zac Efron

07:07 Hunting superfoods

13:27 Lack of integrity in the food industry

19:54 We’ve divorced nature

30:40 Lab-made foods

37:16 Food switches to make now

43:28 What’s really in your tap water

49:51 Why you should know about Barukas nuts

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0:00.0

So we need to get out of this. Oh my God, the problem's so big.

0:04.6

Someone else is going to handle it. No, someone else isn't going to handle it.

0:10.0

We drive the narrative. Hi, I'm Mark Groves.

0:14.0

I'm a human connection specialist and founder of Create the Love.

0:17.6

At an early point in my life, I became obsessed with understanding relationships,

0:21.6

the intricacies of how people connect.

0:24.3

And through this exploration, I have created a life in a business dedicated to learning

0:28.7

out loud and exploring how we interact with each other in the world.

0:33.5

This podcast brings the world's top thought leaders, spiritual luminaries,

0:37.0

physicians, scientists, researchers, best-selling authors and health and wellness experts

0:42.0

under one roof to discuss the good, the bad, the messy, and of course,

0:46.9

the beautiful parts of the human experience.

0:49.2

Welcome to the Mark Groves podcast.

0:51.0

Can't wait to dive in with you.

0:52.4

I'm super excited to have next guest, Darren O'Lean, who is a New York Times bestseller

1:03.2

of the book, Super Life, as well as the co-host of Emmy award-winning documentary

1:08.8

series on Netflix, Down Earth with the beautiful Zach Efron.

1:14.2

And I also was learning about the nut that you have, the baruchus nut.

1:20.3

Did I say that right?

1:22.0

Yeah, yeah, you nailed it.

1:24.6

Yeah, the baruchus, very special, special nut on so many different levels.

1:30.6

So we had to, we had to, we had to discover things like that.

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