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Wim Hof first caught the attention of scientists when he proved he was able to use meditation to stay submerged in ice for 1 hour and 53 minutes without his core body temperature changing. Since then, he's climbed Mount Everest in his shorts, resisted altitude sickness, completed a marathon in the Namib Desert with no water and proven under a laboratory setting that he's able to influence his autonomic nervous system and immune system at will.
Almost everything Wim has done was previously thought to be impossible - but he's not a freak of nature.
To demonstrate that any human can learn his methods, Wim offered to teach Matt Shea and Daisy-May Hudson to climb a freezing cold mountain in their shorts without getting cold.
Buddhist breathing techniques repackaged for westerners? There's an app for that.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 15 2018, @01:07PM
Don't know. The summary provides no useful information and offering something isn't the same thing as actually doing it. Still, autonomic nervous system, immune system, brown fat cells, and the pain response all have been shown to be influenced by self-hypnosis, so nothing he's claimed can be simply dismissed as bullshit or explained as a freak of nature. At the novice level, all those things are easy but aren't too useful. It takes more practice in order to do noticeably useful things with those skills.