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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: 4, Insightful) by JoeMerchant on Monday January 15 2018, @04:52PM (1 child)
He seems to be throwing open the invitation to anyone to gather whatever evidence they want, which is a whole lot better than drug development in secret - justified with mountains of impenetrable scientific "evidence" rammed through a regulatory agency that doesn't have the time or manpower to really analyze it, then promoted in saturation TV advertising that's 90% happy imagery followed by 10% mumbled cautions about potential side effects.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 16 2018, @07:47PM
I can understand the skepticism. This is exactly what Uri Geller and his ilk were doing in the 70s. They were doing feats that "science said was impossible", and verified by scientists! However, Uri could never seem to do these amazing feats when a magician was in the house [youtube.com].