Superlife | Darin Olien
Darin Olien
Superfood hunter. NYT bestselling author.
Emmy Award–winning filmmaker. Wellness pioneer.
Building a better world — one clean choice at a time.
THE BEGINING
Born to fight,
built to heal.
Darin Olien arrived in this world two months early, weighing just four pounds — surviving an incubator when the odds said otherwise. He grew up alongside a resilient mother and older brother, navigating the weight of a home shaped by an alcoholic father. He channeled everything into sport: basketball, football, track, BMX, road cycling. Sport wasn’t escape. It was identity.
A college football injury ended his athletic career in an instant — and left him in chronic lower back pain for the next thirty years. That injury became his obsession. With a BA spanning exercise physiology, kinesiology, and nutrition, he spent seven years in rehabilitation, studying the body’s capacity to break and to heal. At 26, he started selling protein powder and creatine out of his gym locker. The seeds of SuperLife were planted.
"The injury that ended one life quietly launched another."
CAREER
A life lived
at the source.
Early Career
Rehabilitation & First Formulations
Seven years working in physical rehabilitation — studying human recovery from the inside out. Simultaneously began formulating with foods and supplements, moving to California to deepen his study of psychology and consciousness.
The Hunt
30+ Countries. One Mission.
Darin spent years crossing the Amazon, Andes, Africa, Peru, Southeast Asia, and tropical climates across the globe — hunting superfoods, botanicals, and ancient remedies at their source. Sitting with indigenous healers, farming communities, and ecosystems untouched by modern convenience. The world became his laboratory.
Beachbody
Shakeology — $5 Billion in Sales
Darin formulated Shakeology for Beachbody (now Bodi), bringing decades of superfood fieldwork into a single daily shake. One of the most successful nutrition products in American history — over $5 billion in sales across 20+ years.
2016
SuperLife — New York Times Bestseller
His first major book, laying out the five life forces behind extraordinary health — a framework drawn from years of global research, formulation science, and personal transformation. A New York Times bestseller.
Netflix
Down to Earth with Zac Efron — Emmy Award Winner
Darin executive produced one of Netflix’s most popular docuseries — two seasons, 300+ million households, multiple Emmy Awards. The show brought his life’s work — superfoods, sustainable living, indigenous wisdom — to the world’s largest screen.
2021
Fatal Conveniences
His second book — a deep investigation into the everyday toxins hidden in food, products, and environments that quietly undermine human health. A call to awareness and a roadmap for cleaner living.
2018–Now
The Fire & The Rebuild
While filming the final episode of Down to Earth in 2018, Darin learned his Malibu home had been destroyed in a fire started by a poorly maintained Edison power pole. He stayed on the land — living in a yurt on 50 wild acres in the Malibu Mountains with his two German Shepherds — quietly rebuilding with radical intention. Spring 2025 marks the completion of his first clean-built guest house: no EMF, no VOCs, clean power and water systems.
Accomplishments
The work
speaks.
NYT
Bestselling Author
SuperLife debuted as a New York Times bestseller, translating decades of global fieldwork into a definitive guide to extraordinary health. His follow-up, Fatal Conveniences, exposed the hidden costs of modern living.
3+
Emmy Awards
Executive producer of Down to Earth with Zac Efron on Netflix — two seasons, multiple Emmy Awards, and distribution to over 300 million households worldwide. One of the platform’s most watched docuseries.
$5B
Shakeology
Formulated one of the most successful nutrition shakes in American history for Beachbody (now Bodi) — over $5 billion in sales across two decades, built on superfood sourcing from 30+ countries.
500+
Solo SuperLife Podcast
Top 10 in Alternative Health with over 500 episodes. A long-running conversation about how to live better — spanning nutrition, consciousness, sovereignty, and what it actually means to be well.
30+
Countries Explored
Amazon, Andes, Africa, Peru, Southeast Asia, tropical climates across the globe — spending years at the source of the world’s most powerful foods, herbs, and botanical medicines alongside indigenous communities.
AlphaCor
Clean Energy Partner
Partner in AlphaCor — developing advanced green energy technology with the potential to reshape how the world powers itself. One of the most important infrastructure challenges of our time, met with real solutions.
50ac
Clean Living Laboratory
50 acres in the Malibu Mountains — rebuilt after the 2018 wildfire into a living proof of concept for clean, non-toxic living. No EMF, no VOCs, clean power and water systems. A sanctuary, not just a home.
THE DHARMA
One mission,
simply stated.
Darin’s life has never been about wellness as a trend or health as a product category. It has been a decades-long investigation into what it actually means to be alive — and what the world needs to look like for humans, and the planet, to truly thrive.
From a premature birth to a career-ending injury to 30 countries worth of fieldwork to losing everything in a fire — every chapter has deepened his conviction that the answers exist. They grow in the ground. They flow in clean water. They hum in clean energy. They live in community.
Beyond his media work, Darin is contributing to AlphaCor — a clean energy company working on real solutions for the planet’s energy future — and building the SuperLife community through Patreon, where people gather around what’s possible.
"I want to help build a world where the defaults are clean — clean water, clean power, clean food, clean shelter. That's not a dream. That's a design problem."
Now
Current
work.
01
Roadmap to Happiness
New docuseries — roadtohappy.net — asking the world’s most important question. Final episodes in production.
IN PRODUCTION
02
Solo SuperLife Podcast
Top 10 Alternative Health. 500+ episodes. Weekly conversations on living fully and intentionally.
ONGOING
03
SuperLife Patreon Community
A growing community built around health, sovereignty, and designing a life worth living.
ACTIVE
04
AlphaCor — Advanced Green Energy
Partner in AlphaCor, developing advanced green energy technology — real solutions to one of humanity’s most urgent infrastructure challenges.
PARTNER
05
The Malibu Rebuild
50 acres. First clean guest house completing Spring 2025. A living laboratory for non-toxic, intentional living.