The Tony Wrighton Podcast

Nike insist their new trainers improve your running speed by 4%. I was quite interested in this, especially as I've been getting involved recently in minimalist footwear. Turns out, that this 4% stat might not be all its cracked up to be. And you could get 4% exercise improvement by natural means, not by buying a flash pair of trainers. Check out today's podcast with the awesome Dr. Ray Mclanahan. And check out CorrectToes too - that stuff is GOOD!

We start today with a stat that may blow your mind.

Ever since Scott Nelson from Joovv told me this, I've been changing my daily routine quite considerably. Listen on to find out what it is.

Scott owns Joovv - the company that makes the infrared light I use most days - bonkers good for energy, skin health etc and the brightest thing you've ever seen in your life. He knows all about light, and the importance of getting plenty of good light.

Burning Man is on at the moment, so without being too worthy (promise) I ask, what could one festival in the desert teach us about life. What we can learn from my guest's experiences without heading to the middle of nowhere to get copious amounts of dust in our face?

And how does a productivity expert apply his professional skills to festival-going, and shouldn't he be just focusing on having fun?

Stever Robbins is a well-known productivity expert, and he also happens to love Burning Man. And when I say love, he plans months in advance for this thing.

He's known as the get-it-done guy, and it seems he's applied his get it done guy's skills to preparing for the world's most celebrated festival.

Our favourite Law of Attraction expert is back, as seen on Oprah and as heard on Zestology (multiple times).

Jeannette Maw is more fun and attracting more good vibes than ever before, after something small, unexpected, and weird happened. It led to big, big consequences and positive changes. Not surprising for the woman who describes herself as "full time manifesting geek".

• Choosing to feel good.
• Finding a way to feel better
• Expanding Consciousness (the biggie)

Dopamine is the chemical of desire that always asks for more — more stuff, more stimulation, and more surprises.

In pursuit of these things, it is undeterred by emotion, fear, or morality. Simply put, it is why we seek and succeed; it is why we discover and prosper. Yet, at the same time, it's why we gamble and squander.

Tech has a part to play with dopamine too. Daniel Z. Lieberman finds it as hard as any of us to put the dopamine-providing phone down. So he wrote a book on it...

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Dr. Satchin Panda is a bit of a ledge. He's possibly the world's most respected area in the field of Circadian rhythms and daily routines that optimise our health.

We talk;

• How to stop peeing in the middle of the night!
• Bright light at night and eye masks.
• All the fun of time-restricted eating
• Supplements - is it okay to take them outside the feeding window.
• My fasting experiments (geeky I know)
• coffee, can we drink it as part of an intermittent fast (you might not like this bit…)
• saturated fat… in evening
• melatonin supplements what to go for.
• And an amazing book recommendation too.

This is one of my favourites. Satchin is a real expert in his field. Enjoy.

And his new book is called

The Circadian Code: Lose Weight, Supercharge Your Energy, and Transform Your Health from Morning to Midnight.

• Brandon Block is a British club DJ. He has appeared on reality shows like Celebrity Come Dine with Me and Celebrity Big Brother. He's also had a high-profile battle with addiction, and now launched his own wellness project to bring self development to the masses. It's called Happy Days.

After his addiction issues, he trained to help others affected by drugs and alcohol. That training helped him to form his own ideas around his new self development project. Part of Happy Days is about mapping your dreams, and setting your goals in an effective way. Who would have thought it? Celebrity hellraiser Brandon Block is now on the straight and narrow, and he's an absolutely lovely chap as well.

He starts by talking about just how bad things had got, when he was at his substance-abusing worst.

Check out Brandon Block's Happy Days group on Facebook.

Listen up if you want the extra 5/10/15% in your day to day life.

As well as the crazy influence your thyroid has on your health, we talk lifestyle and weight loss plans in harmony with paleo/primal/ancestral health principles.

Elle Russ wrote The Paleo Thyroid Solution. It dispels outdated, conventional thyroid wisdom, and provides the in-depth guidance necessary to achieve vibrant health, and optimise thyroid fat-burning hormone metabolism.

She knows her stuff.

Is it possible to feel calm and strong at the same time? I think so...

I've been getting more and more into Qi Gong workshops and youtube videos over the last couple of years, there's something about it that makes me feel chilled out and powerful, all at the same time. But I don't really know what I'm doing, hence today's guest.

Breathing exercises, Qi Gong, and eastern healing, are the subjects of this week's podcast on Zestology.

With my cool new friend Justin Ehrlich - https://www.justinehrlich.com/about-justin