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, @09:09PM
Well, if they're submerged when they're practicing their breathing, they're obviously doing it wrong!
In seriousness, just like the Tide Pod challenge, swimming alone is dangerous enough, swimming alone when you're deliberately messing with your consciousness (even if air is your drug of choice), should fall into that: "Do we really have to warn you?" category.
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