Hi, I'm Ethan Sopli, welcome to American Blood. Outside of acting, my two favorite things

to do are diet and eat. I have a very complicated relationship with food and on this podcast,

we're going to talk about all of it. Food is entertainment, food is sport, food as fuel.

I'll talk to experts and the average person, just like you and me.

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please take a moment to like, subscribe, rate, review, all of the above on whatever app you're getting

in front. Today on American Glutton, I'm talking to Darren O'Lean. He is an American author and

podcast host with a BA in exercise physiology. You may know him from his Netflix

docu-series down to earth with Zach Efron. We're here to talk about his new book, Fatal Conveniences,

The Toxic Products and Harmful Habits that are making you sick and the simple changes that will

save your health. Please enjoy. Darren O'Lean, welcome to the American Glutton podcast.

What's up, man? Good to be here, Ethan. I'm really excited to talk to you. I know you

have made health like a very big priority in your life and delivering tools to others so that they

can achieve health. What are toxic inconveniences? I want to hear about this because I do think that

a lot of the problems we have are just things we never think about and that we are in these

patterns and habits every day and encountering things and they're having an effects that we

don't even know about. Totally. Yeah, it's the modern day life has bred us incredible convenience.

We can turn on the faucet and have running water. We can go to a store and buy all our food and

shampoos and conditioners and laundry detergents and cleaning products and all of the stuff.

And I'm all for conveniences. It's certain way it's created our modern world. But what I came to

realize is that we'll unpack it maybe later but my dad suffered in the 90s with chemical

sensitivity. So that was my first and I was right in the middle of studying physiology, nutrition,

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