"EAT THESE SUPERFOODS To Enhance Your BRAIN, BODY & LIFE!" | Darin Olien & Lewis Howes

You are strengthening yourself vitamin D, vitamin K, vitamin A, vitamin C, whole plants, diversifications of tannins and phenolic compounds and antioxidants. Clearly, that's creating a terrain that is stronger for the immune system to thwart out disease, bacteria, cancer, all of that other stuff.

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The School of Greatness. Really?

Yeah. Please welcome Lewis Howes. But if you were stranded on an island and you could only eat five foods for the rest of your life. Hypothetical question. But it needed to keep you strong and healthy and happy and whole. What would those five key foods or ingredients be that you would eat? Kind of these core foods. And every doctor nutritionist has a different take, so I'm curious. your philosophy.

Okay. I love that you didn't ask me this before we turn the camera. I actually love because it's great that it's spontaneous. But I would say spirulina.

Okay.

Moringa alifera. You've got Moringa, which is the vitamin tree. That is another term for that as a. So that gives you the idea of the antioxidants, the micronutrients that in an. that are actually within the whole leaf of that tree. You've got spirulina quite possibly one of the most nutrient dense foods in its raw form. Different from the powder.

How do you get it raw?

There's a great company, they're gonna love me right now, I get nothing from it. Raw Living Spirulina, it comes to you fresh frozen. It is the only company that I know of that is doing it.

Okay. Moringa, what is Moringa?

Oh dude.

Well first off, what does spirulina do for the body when you're taking the raw form?

Well, in the raw form you've got all B vitamins including B12, B6, B9, B12, all of that.

Is this a liquid?

Is this a plant? Is this a root? So it's grown in fresh water. It's a type of algae, type of blue-green algae. So you've got a mimicking of hemoglobin, red blood cells, you've got chelation ability of heavy metals, you've got obviously the B vitamins, vitamin E, high amount of antioxidants, complete protein in its right form, not a huge amount because you can also make that argument too much protein is also as its detriment. And then you shifting over to Moringa, which is literally I've studied and researched Moringa in probably six to seven countries. And it is an extremely strong and powerful leaf. You just grind it up and literally call the vitamin tree or in Africa, they also call it Never die. So you take it and you never die.

Never die.

Never die.

Moringa. It's a tree. It's a leaf.

It's a, well, you eat the leaf. It's a tree, but you can actually.

It's a moringa tree.

It's a moringa. Yeah. So, it's technically a bush, but you can let it grow, but you want to, if you're growing it, you cut it off and then it proliferates the leaves and you actually get more harvest out of it. I've done some work with the, with the indigenous people throughout Arizona. And, I experimented and grew Moringa in Arizona. And, it turns out, and I worked with some processors in Palm Desert, friends of mine who have facilities, and I did the top selling Moringa that I had in the market with mine, and I blew the nutrition away just because of the understanding I have learned. So, the nutrients, calcium, magnesium, potassium, vitamin E, 36 different types of antioxidants. Again, complete protein. Now, if you're gonna say I get the Moringa shrub or tree with me in this journey on an island, now I actually get the oil, the beneficial oil from the seeds, which look like drumsticks. Right? And I can filter water with those seeds and create clean water. Whoa. So now you're kind of like, like layering it. Okay. And then so then I, where can.

You get the Moringa from? So, where's the best source?

I'm telling you, I've been wanting to put Moringa out in the marketplace for a long time because I haven't seen great Moringa yet. So, I don't have a clear, clean source of it.

Okay.

Because when you cut it and you don't process it, dry it and pulverize it and wash it right away and you transport it over time, the antioxidants, it starts degrading pretty quickly.

So, it's not as quality. It's not even worth taking unless it's.

It's not that it's not worth taking. You're just not quite getting all of the nutrients. I studied the nutrients in those forms. You're just not getting as quite as much of the vitamin and antioxidant capacity. And then I think I would pick the king of all fruits with me. So, notice I'm stacking up pretty heavily.

So, this is number three then.

Yeah. So, the three is probably the king of all fruits which is durian. D-U-R-I-A-N.

The fruit.

Durian fruit is A spiky, gnarly Southeast Asia is typically where it's from. It actually can kill people when it falls off a tree and it actually does. It's got spikes on it. When you crack it open, it looks.

Like a coconut with spikes.

Yeah. Wow. And it breaks open and it looks like brains and it smells like a sewer. Oh, man. And it's illegal in Southeast Asia. to actually bring it in public buildings.

To eat it, because it smells so bad.

You can't bring it in on buses, you can't bring it on planes, you can't bring it in hotels, because it smells so bad.

So the nutritional value is so high though?

So high.

Really?

Yeah. It's antioxidants again, huge array of vitamins, and they call it the king of all fruits because of its interesting composition.

Can people get that here?

There used to be a group that was sending it frozen here. I'm not sure that they still are in existence. And I used to eat it dried. So, there was a group that didn't smell as bad. Didn't smell as bad. And my God, it is my favorite fruit.

It tastes good.

Yeah.

Smelly brains taste good.

Some people don't like it. But if you like it, it's It's one of the favorites. So that one for sure.

Number four.

And I think I would pull in the king of all mushrooms. This is a royalty we're talking about. You just asked the superfood hunter. You just asked the superfood hunter what you're gonna bring in. So I would bring in the king of all mushrooms and that is chaga mushrooms. And I named my dog chaga. There you go. The reverence that I have for chaga mushrooms, probably the most highest antioxidant whole compound mushroom in the world. So, it's going to keep, I'm on this desert island, I'm definitely going to keep my immune system cranking. I'm going to keep the cortisol levels low. I'm going to keep my endocrine system balanced. So, I'm going to sip on chaga tea all day, every day. Wow.

Okay. And, where can we get that?

Chaga mushrooms everywhere. I mean, Tero at Four Sigmatic has a dual extracted chaga. You can also get chaga. There's a great company, Rose Mountain Herbs, that does a lot of harvesting well, and you can get the full chunks of chaga, and you can You just simmer that for hours and hours and hours and keep that just simmering. Drink it as a tea. Yep. And drink it as a tea, you can add cacao with it, a little.

Sweetener, it's decadent and delicious. Wow.

Okay. King of mushrooms, chaga mushrooms, and number five? Yeah, number five. Let me see. I would probably pick, I'm gonna go back to the adaptogens. It is a berry, sweet, sour, bitter, pungent, and salty have all five flavors.

In one berry?

In one berry.

What's it called?

Called shizandra.

Shizandra.

If you want to name your first child.

Shizandra.

Call her shizandra.

How do you spell that?

Oh man, there's a few different spellings, but it's S-C-H-I-Z-A-N-D-R-A, something like that.

Shizandra.

Yeah.

Berry.

Berry. So, it's this beautiful berry that grows in some sovereign areas near Tibet and the eastern area of China. I've been there.

You picked the berries and eat them raw?

Absolutely pick the berries and eat them raw. You can ferment and make even a decadent little wine out of it. I've celebrated with the remote China people. in that area with Schizandra celebrations when they've harvested it. So it is, and traditional Chinese medicine, it has been used probably is one of the oldest in record adaptogenic herbs that traditional Chinese medicine use. And they use it as kind of a base because it's so well balanced and it balances out your body over time. both in stress response, cortisol, endocrine, overall strength, and then of course stress. But, if you're on an island, you don't have to worry about it unless some animals are going to come and jump on you. So, I think that's it, man. I think that's, I'm beautiful with eating that and sipping on that and eating those berries.

Okay. Those are the five main things you would eat. Okay, so for how many of these do you actually have on a regular basis?

I have all of those on a regular basis, almost for sure weekly. I accept durian.

Okay.

I have a hard time getting durian myself unless I'm in Southeast Asia at.

Some point, Bali or... Then you're getting it a lot.

Then I'm getting... Overloading it. I'm paying someone to... To go get it for you. For sure. Is that good? And then that's my breakfast every day. Wow. Yep.

So for the rest of the humans, what would be a starter kit to start optimizing your health? Where should we think about in terms of our health if we're a little bit overweight or not feeling the way we want to? How would we start to assess our health to get on a better path for a journey moving forward? In terms of I mean, everything you covered in this book, Super Life, but also in Down to Earth, you cover a lot of things in there. What would be the kind of starter kit you think from that journey?

Well, you can say the normal things of like, there's a lot, I mean, that's a big question because, you know, making sure you're sleeping well.

Sleep, yeah.

Making sure you're turning off your electronics, making sure you're doing those things, which is also like, it would take me 30 minutes to even unpack all of what that is, but then I would go to water. Of course, water is a big thing. And so water, which was the most.

Fascinating episode I think you guys had.

Yeah, it was pretty great. And that was one half of one percent of what water is. And I've studied water. I've studied and I've been shoulder to shoulder with some of, I've four days in Bulgaria at a water conference with some of the greatest researchers of living today doing research that will blow your mind on water.

So, so not all waters are created equal.

Not at all. And water, but water is influenced by everything. So everything it's around our field, our energetic field, our frequencies, the electronics, the pipes it's going through or in nature. Victor Schauberger, incredible researcher and observer of nature and watched watched and was one of the first people to understand the vortative nature of water, that it doesn't move in a straight line. It's flowing, it's flowing and vortexing. It's like a snake or a vortexing. So, it's a vortexing and that is structuring it plus the electromagnetic field naturally of this big battery that we sit on, which is the Earth, and then the influence of the fields of the Sun, right, is creating electrolysis. So it's helping as well as chelating the minerals. So all of that being said, it's structuring the water. And so that is alive water with high oxygen, high amount of hydrogen and essential minerals. So now what you're really talking about is you're talking about a conductive live force that you're taking in because we are 70 trillion batteries. We are an electrical being. Same with like and then so water deconstruct the water and then build the water back up because unless you can find your own spring, that's number one. If it's clean and doesn't have pesticides or herbicides or runoff or whatever weird chemicals we've put into our world, right? We have 90,000 new chemicals being emitted in our world every year. Of that, 9% is tested. So that is on our planet, in our waterways. So that being said, I want to make sure that people understand if you have fresh, clean, alive spring water, That's the best. But it's very hard.

How many springs are there in America?

Exactly. And are, and, you know, so for most of us, very hard to have access.

Is there such a thing as clean water that can make you sick?

Well, that's a very interesting question. Of course, on the one hand, But there is no water that is the same. And water isn't 100% clean unless your reverse osmosis and distillation is probably your best bet to make sure that nothing's traveling in it. But they absolutely have energetic fields that are influencing the water. So, Dr. Imoto's work, you know, he took x-ray or he took photographs of the geometry of water when they put love on a bottle and all of that stuff. That work has been proliferated by scientists all over the world. And Dr. Luc Montagnier did a DNA test of physical DNA in water and then a glass next to it And it just being in proximity, the physical DNA transmitted the frequency information in the water next to it.

As a dem- and two different glass jars just by being in proximity.

Yeah. So it picked up the energetic fingerprint of the DNA that was in the one glass. The point to that is- Wow. Yeah. That's how think of water as an empty hard drive. If we put an empty hard drive right here and we plugged in our computers, would it decipher or would it reject input that you would have or I would have? We could put completely different things. It would just accept whatever information. We're saying there. Exactly. Water is the same thing. Now. Absolutely. So physically, chemically, biologically, and quantumly, they're showing that water is being influenced by all of those things. And they believe, and they're already working on this, that a droplet of water is equal to enabling to be able to have and store the amount of hard drives it would take to fill up this room in one droplet of water. The ability to- the amount of what? The energy- the amount of water that you could infuse and store information.

It's just one droplet.

One droplet as much as the room we're sitting in.

How is that possible?

I don't know how it's possible. But this is what they're discovering. Here's the thing of all of those- who's they?

Just so I'm aware.

So I attended So, Dr. Jerry Pollock, you should have him on. Dr. Gerald Pollock or Jerry Pollock, he wrote a book called the Fourth Phase of Water. Now, we're getting into it heavy right here, right? So, I'm having to pull back because our whole episode would be about water.

That's great though, yeah.

But, Gerald Pollock discovered that there's what's called, and now he's influenced the way all researchers are looking at water because he discovered a fourth phase of water.

What's the first three phases?

Well, the first phase is water, liquid, steam, right? And then ice, of course. Okay. And so, the fourth phase, and I'm going to try to make this very simple. What he discovered was when water came up against a hydrophilic surface, meaning that It was not accepting water, just it wasn't- Bouncing off. Yeah, bouncing off. So it's coming up a cell membrane. Yeah, so if it came up against this and it just didn't infuse itself right in, or a cell, so he was looking at a cell membrane, which is essentially fatty acids. He discovered that through a microscope, there was a zone that the water pushed the electrons and protons away from each other.

What does that mean?

Means that it demonstrated battery-like activity. It created polarity when it came up against this fil- it created, this is going to blow your mind, it created energy by just coming up to that, by pushing those electrons away from each other. This was called, what he termed, an exclusion zone. Within that tiny band, the protons and electrons, battery-like activity, there was distillation water. Essentially, it created clean water.

So, water that goes up against this mug inside?

Potentially.

Could go against it and create this.

So, that was monumental because what that shows us is when you are hydrated and it's interacting with cells that literally creates energy of every cell of the 70 trillion plus cells we have. So, literally and you look through the research, What is the number one consequence of dehydration? Overall fatigue. Look it up.

Being tired.

Bingo. And you now add on top of it, Louis, nearly about 7%, so let's call it 10%. About 30 million people in the United States do not drink an ounce of water a day. Really? Sweat.

Wait, how many people?

Nearly 30 million people. Don't drink water. Don't drink an ounce of water a day. They're just drinking coffee. You wake up, you reach out, you're like, oh, I'm fatigued. I reach out for the stimulant.

I reach out for the coffee. I reach out for whatever. So they're drinking water in different forms.

But they're drinking Coke or coffee. Exactly. Or juice or something else. And they're probably not eating any fresh fruits or vegetables, which actually has this exclusion zone water in it already. So when you're eating fruit, nature has already sorted it. So you actually can get quite hydrated by the watermelon, by the fresh oranges, by the apples, by the things, by the grapes, by the... So that's a tight... So Gerald Pollack created a water conference. I think it's 15 years going. And I was at the 2018 in Bulgaria. So in between us filming, we were all over the place for three and a half months and I said, Screw it, I'm going to this water conference.

You were filming and you left.

Well, we had a two weeks. Where we had a break before we were going to our next location. So I took off to Bulgaria and.

I got- you-'re already in Europe, so.

You might as well. So I said, I'm hanging out with the smartest people in the world. I couldn't even follow 10% of the heavy, heavy science that they were getting into, but I met a lot of incredible researchers to the point where I'm creating vortexing machines and jugs and stuff to be able to create exclusion water and to create live water again. So, I have some of that stuff from researchers from that conference that I'm bringing out in the world. So, water deadens. as it's going through our pipes. It loses that energy, that exclusion zone, that type of live energy. So essentially, we're drinking, even though it's clean, we need to clean it. RO, reverse osmosis with distillation, add a pinch of Himalayan crystal salt. Make sure that you're creating it and you're looking through the lens of voltage. Our bodies are alive. It's electrical. It's voltage. Cells work. through voltage. When we get injured, our body increases cellular voltage to increase healing potential. And that could be looked at as pH. That in the body is looked at as pH and a lot of people don't realize that is just the measurement in that form of voltage. So, when you look at water, you need to make it alive again so that it's conductive and so that your body doesn't have to steal things from inside and zap your energy. So if I take live water, boom, it's gonna go into my cells and it's gonna allow for hydration to increase. So anyway, that's a tiny bit, but I spent a lot of time with those guys and it's a deep rabbit. Even in the show, we chose to go into lourds and just Talk about something's going on with water.

So for 99% of people who get bottled water, they drink out of a tap, maybe they have a glass jug that comes to them once a week, whatever, like myself, 99% of America and probably the world, 99.9%, what can they do to make their own water more alive, more efficient, more optimized? Is there a way when you have just bottled water or water at a tap to do this yourself at home?

The first thing is clean it on a deep level. So, you want to reverse osmosis or distillation.

Some type of filter.

Yeah, but these are RO is a type of membrane that doesn't allow for anything to get through. Got it. And distillation is liquid vaporization reconstitute again. So, nothing gets to carry with it. So, you're cleaning it now. Very important not to just drink that water, okay? Because now you need the electrolytes. You have to have the electrolytes. So there's some electrolyte companies out there. Most are kind of not okay. So easiest thing for people to do, unrefined salt, crystal salt, Himalayan salt, a pinch per glass, a half a teaspoon per gallon will now create a conductive thing. Now, make sure, just buy this filter. You can get these things for a few hundred bucks. Eliminate plastic.

Which filter?

What'S so called? So I even have a discount for people. So Aqua True is a great reverse osmosis. So if you go to darinel.com and my affiliates, they give all people who want to order that, like 150 bucks off. That is not even meant to plug. It's just great that people get a hell of a discount. And for a few hundred bucks, you've eliminated your need to go outside your home.

Aqua True.

Aqua True.

When you put the water through, Or it's in like a... Yeah, you pour.

It in the back and then it goes through an RO system. Wow. Boom, comes out right there.

And then you put the salt in afterwards?

Boom, put the salt in it.

And that's good drinking water.

And now that's good. So now I would also take it up a notch. Buy like, they're gonna love me. I get nothing from this blue bottle love. So now they've took Emoto's work and they've written Gratitude, Love, etched it in the crystal glass. Ooh, right? And they've created cobalt blue, which some of the science has shown that that blue, that deep blue, is the frequency of healthy cells. So now you've got the etched words that is infusing that, and you can take those bottles and put that in the sun, and now you're supercharging.

Should water be in the sun?

If it's in glass, it can be.

If it's in plastic.

If it's in plastic, you are You are leaching the many chemicals. Keep in mind plastic is petroleum. It's oil. And then to make it malleable, they use a mimicking compound that mimics estrogen. So, the softer plastic run away from. Right? The harder better or BPA free. Right.

That's okay.

That's better. Right? Glass, glass, glass. As much as you can. Hard plastic, pretty much okay. Yeah. Right. So that's an easy way. And then when I get some of these vortators out, these things are incredible.

How do we get one of those?

It's coming soon. Probably when this is out, I'll have them available.

Okay.

Yeah.

So you put it through the vortator.

So yeah, so you literally, it's all mathematics. this little vortator, and it's literally spinning. It's creating a. A tornado in your water and increasing oxygen, which we need, helps the immune system, helps the body, helps the absorption, activates mitochondria, all that stuff. And then you're increasing the hydrogen comp as well.

Let's just say you're making the. Let's just say you're. You don't have all this and you got a plastic bottle right now. soft plastic bottle, normal bottle that you see everywhere. Can you swirl it and oxygenate it yourself?

Yes.

And get some benefits?

Something. I would shake it up, make it alive.

Shake it.

Yeah, and get a marker and put love on it.

Right, you think that's gonna change?

Yes.

Within 10 seconds, putting love on a bottle is gonna make it that much more magnetic.

Listen, it's an intention too.

Of course.

Absolutely. Right? So think about this. If I've intended it, now I've also intended it for my own body. What are we? We're mostly water. So if that is my intention, that is a prayer and that is activated, that is not passive. Just doing whatever that is activating for sure. So listen, everything, health is not magic. bullets, it's not the perfect superfood, it's everything. It is the small things added up over time. It is setting your mark the one degree, the next degree, the next degree and setting your trajectory towards what you want. So you don't have to get overwhelmed with this, just adopt what you can. what resonates now, adopt that. And then as you become healthier, more activated, more energy, more all, then you'll be like, you'll naturally go, okay, cool, now what? Okay, cool, now what? Okay, cool, let me eat more plants. You know, that's another thing. I would just say eat more plants.

Yeah.

Just start increasing the amount of diversification of colors. in your life because that is information for your body. Information. Reductionism, I can go into, it's got compounds, each color is a phenolic compound, it's an antioxidant, each other color operates a different antioxidant or tannin or everything else. All you have to remember is it's beautiful diversification that's giving you different minerals, different vitamins, different antioxidants and different information for your body. And also, when it's fresh fruits, vegetables, you're getting that structured water. That's information. That's nature communicating directly to you through that water.

What do you say to the, I'm hearing you say eat more plants. There seems to be a thesis or a trend that is becoming more of the only eat meat. It's the purest protein, people getting super.