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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: 3, Funny) by opinionated_science on Monday January 15 2018, @02:44PM (1 child)
This is utter BS.
I have posed a question to some of my students along the line of:
"Imagine you could convert your skin to be photosynthetic, how much energy would you gain?"
Not that much! That's why trees don't walk ;-)
The original article, however, does suggest there are mechanisms in the human body that are not purely "autonomic", and as with most things biological it is a matter of degree.
The ice submerging test is very easy to verify, so I am not sure what the controversy is.. assuming it was done under experimental conditions.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 15 2018, @05:35PM
Did you even watch the documentary? I know you did not and never will.