Wellness Trends: Longevity, Sleep, Diets, and Morning Routines
Release Date: 11/06/2025
Dr. Richard J. Brown: Health Isn’t About Looking Better — It’s About Living Better
SuperLife with Darin Olien
In this wide-ranging and deeply grounded conversation, Darin sits down with Dr. Richard J. Brown to unpack some of the most pressing issues at the intersection of modern medicine, aesthetics, ethics, lifestyle, and personal responsibility. From GLP-1 medications and obesity treatment to body dysmorphia, medical ethics, AI in healthcare, and the urgent need to integrate lifestyle medicine into traditional care, this episode explores what it truly means to help people heal — not just shrink symptoms. Dr. Brown shares candid insights from the front lines of plastic surgery, preventative...
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Why Time Feels Like It’s Speeding Up (And How to Slow It Down)
SuperLife with Darin Olien
In this solo episode, Darin dives into one of the most universal modern experiences: the feeling that time is accelerating. Drawing from neuroscience, psychology, cognitive science, and lived experience, he breaks down why time doesn’t actually speed up, but our experience of it radically changes. From the impact of digital distraction and divided attention to the way novelty, memory, aging, and even COVID reshaped our internal sense of time, this episode offers both clarity and agency. Darin shows how reclaiming attention, breaking monotony, and creating richer experiences can give us the...
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Frank Zummo: "No Plan B" — A Rock Star’s Guide to Relentless Persistence
SuperLife with Darin Olien
In this raw, wide-ranging conversation, Darin sits down with Frank Zummo, award-winning drummer for Sum 41, founding member of Street Drum Corps, and current touring drummer for Electric Callboy, to explore what it really takes to sustain creativity, health, and purpose inside the extreme demands of the music industry. From high-pressure fill-in moments and massive tours to mental health, fatherhood, fear, discipline, and recovery, this episode is a masterclass in resilience. Frank opens up about grief, identity, panic, persistence, and how true success comes from staying available when...
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Your Environment is Stronger Than Your Willpower: The Neuroscience of Behavior Change
SuperLife with Darin Olien
In this solo episode, Darin breaks down one of the most misunderstood drivers of behavior change: environment. We’ve been taught that success comes down to discipline, motivation, and willpower, but neuroscience tells a very different story. Darin explains how modern environments hijack the brain’s reward system, override conscious choice, and quietly shape habits before we even realize it. This episode is a practical, science-backed roadmap for redesigning your surroundings so healthy behaviors become automatic and self-sabotaging patterns lose their grip. What You’ll...
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Hagen Thiers: The Real Reason Your Body Refuses to Change
SuperLife with Darin Olien
In this powerful and deeply personal conversation, Darin sits down with Hagen Thiers to unpack one of the most misunderstood journeys in health: why doing “everything right” still doesn’t always work — and how true transformation requires decoding the body’s survival signals, not fighting them. Hagen shares his remarkable physical transformation after decades of extreme metabolic adaptation, chronic gut inflammation, and stress-driven physiology. Together, they explore metabolism, inflammation, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, protein intake, discipline, and why sustainable health is built...
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Why You’re Exhausted All the Time (Even When You Do Everything Right)
SuperLife with Darin Olien
Are you exhausted all the time? In this solo episode, Darin breaks down why so many people feel chronically exhausted despite eating clean, exercising, and “doing everything right.” He explains how modern life disrupts mitochondrial function, circadian rhythm, stress signaling, and nutrient availability, and why fatigue is not a personal failure, but a biological signal. This episode offers a grounded, practical roadmap to restoring energy by realigning your environment, habits, and daily rhythms with how the body is actually designed to function. What You’ll Learn in This...
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Gregory Schwartz: Healing Ourselves, the Planet, and the Systems Between
SuperLife with Darin Olien
In this expansive and deeply honest conversation, Darin sits down with Gregory Schwartz for a wide-ranging exploration of awakening, ecology, food systems, energy, consciousness, and what it truly means to live in right relationship with the planet and ourselves. What begins as a conversation about athletic identity and environmental travel unfolds into a profound dialogue on political ecology, spiritual awakening, mitochondrial intelligence, community-scale solutions, and the collapse of outdated belief systems. This episode bridges the scientific, the spiritual, and the deeply...
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Discipline Is Freedom: Reclaiming Your Energy, Health, and Joy
SuperLife with Darin Olien
In this solo New Year episode, Darin Olien strips everything back to what actually works. Not hacks. Not trends. The fundamentals. Discipline, food, movement, stillness, sleep, hydration, and real human connection. Darin explains why sovereignty is built through small daily practices — and how mastering the basics is what creates freedom, resilience, joy, and a truly SuperLife. What You’ll Learn 00:00 – 02:00 Welcome to SuperLife + why this episode is about foundations, not quick fixes 02:00 – 03:21 Why New Year change fails — and how discipline actually creates...
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SuperLife Best of 2025 Holiday Special — Year-End Reflection & Awakening
SuperLife with Darin Olien
As we close out the year, this special Holiday episode of the SuperLife Podcast weaves together the most powerful moments, conversations, and awakenings from an extraordinary season of inquiry. From environmental toxins and metabolic health to resilience, trauma, consciousness, and human potential, this episode is a reminder that living a SuperLife isn’t about perfection — it’s about awareness, sovereignty, and choosing differently. This year challenged assumptions, exposed broken systems, and offered real tools for healing — physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. This...
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The Real Reason Being Tired Has Nothing to Do With Sleep or Food
SuperLife with Darin Olien
In this solo episode of The SuperLife Podcast, Darin Olien dives deep into the true biology of energy—not motivation, not stimulants, not willpower, but the mitochondria themselves. Inspired by a groundbreaking conversation between Dr. Andrew Huberman and Dr. Martin Picard, Darin reframes energy as an emergent property of how we live, not just what we eat or how much we sleep. This episode explores how mitochondria act as signal translators, listening to your food, stress, sleep, movement, emotions, purpose, and environment—and turning those signals into either vitality or depletion. Darin...
info_outlineIn this solo episode, Darin takes a grounded and research-backed look at some of the most popular wellness trends circulating today — from creatine and cold plunging to plant-based eating, morning routines, healthspan vs. lifespan, and what it actually means to build long-term vitality. Instead of hype, Darin focuses on common sense, context, and listening to your body. This one is all about clarity, discernment, and sovereignty over your wellness path.
What You’ll Learn
00:00 — Welcome to SuperLife + intention of the show
00:32 — Sponsor: Mana Vitality + why real minerals matter
02:23 — Darin’s shift away from social media + why he built the Patreon community
03:35 — The purpose of this episode: not to preach, but to provoke reflection
04:07 — Why creatine is more than a gym supplement
05:50 — Creatine’s cellular energy role (ATP regeneration explained simply)
07:45 — Creatine for brain performance + neuroprotective support
09:09 — Who benefits most: athletes, women, older adults
10:55 — Safe dosing, cycling, hydration, and kidney myth clarification
12:22 — Longevity vs. healthspan — and why we should care more about how we live
15:50 — The research behind lifestyle, mortality, and meaningful aging
17:50 — Your set point is not your potential: feeling “fine” is not the goal
19:10 — Community, joy, purpose, emotional expression & biological longevity
20:04 — “Good genes are nice — but joy is better.”
21:01 — Sleep is not hackable — it’s rhythm-based physiology
22:07 — Light exposure, circadian biology, temperature, and nighttime stimulation
23:11 — Darin’s grounding nightly wind-down routine
24:07 — Patreon invitation: deeper conversations + decentralized wellness community
25:13 — The carnivore diet — what the science says and what it doesn’t
26:01 — Why eliminating plants is metabolically expensive and microbiome-damaging
27:12 — The Blue Zones don’t eat like carnivores — and that matters
28:05 — You can get all essential amino acids from plants
29:43 — Cold exposure benefits, risks, timing, and overstimulation
31:57 — Why cold plunging after workouts may reduce gains
33:20 — Dose, duration, nervous system load — “more” is not better
33:44 — Morning routines as spiritual alignment practice, not productivity trend
35:12 — The deeper gift of sitting with yourself
35:39 — Closing: health is common-sense discipline + inner listening
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Key Takeaway
“Good genes are nice — but joy is better. Your lifestyle, your community, your purpose, your sleep, your alignment — these shape your healthspan more than anything else.”