What a family, Happy New Year and welcome to episode
210 of the genius life.
What up, everybody? Welcome back to another episode of the show. I'm your host. Max Lou, Guevara filmmaker health and science journalist, and author of The New York Times best-selling book, genius foods, and the genius life. I've dedicated my life to unraveling the science behind how our choices, including what we eat, and how we live affect our cognitive and physical performance, how we feel, and our health span and risk for disease. This podcast is all about how to live in that optimal state, which I call living like a genius. Today's episode of the show features.
The one and only brilliant. Mr. Wim Hof. Women's the creator of the Wim Hof method and he's known around the world. For being a guy who loves the cult like a lot. He has not only helped Advance scientific understanding of the human stress response over the past decade, but he has also accomplished extraordinary Feats of human endurance, which were going to talk about. He ran a half marathon above, the Arctic Circle, Barefoot only wearing shorts. He swam underneath ice 466 M. He is hung.
On with one finger at an altitude of 2,000 meters. He's climbed some of the highest mountains in the world wearing only his shorts. He ran a full marathon in the Namib Desert without drinking anything. So this guy, well, he's out there but he's also brilliant as I mentioned and what this episode, I think covers more more so than anything else is how to attain body out. Body, autonomy and resilience, which is not something that's going to come from your doctor's office. In most cases. It's not going to come from the supermarket. And is certainly not going to come from the government.
It's going to come from a mindset shift, looking Inward and seeking out things in life experiences ideas, that challenge you. And I can think of no better messenger than Wim Hof to really bring this idea into the fold for the genius life. And just a heads-up that whim connected remotely with me, over Wi-Fi from somewhere, God knows where. And so there were a very small handful maybe one or two places where we have a little bit of Wi-Fi trouble, but it is by no means obtrusive and
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Wim Hof, here we go. Mr. Wim Hof. Thank you so much for being on the genius life. How are you doing today? Yeah, good. Good. Good.
I'm here to, Let's chop some wood.
Let's chop some wood. I like
that. Yeah, we need we need to get some heat going from the inside like confidence eat. And that is because
We are all in lockdown, fear, arrested, and I think it's enough. We should guide the people to work self confidence based on a much deeper physiological control. We will show the way
we will show the way, that's why I'm so excited to have this this together. I've this has been a long time in the making. I'm I've been a huge fan of your work for a while, and I'm so excited to talk about.
About Coldwater, immersion, cold therapy, all the things with you because you are the man. You're the ice man, and there's no better person to talk about this with. So I'm excited to launch into it. So, you know, let's just start off, high level out of the gate. What are some daily steps that people can do to reduce inflammation and stop getting sick. Let's start there.
Yes, I as today. I got a another duck.
You're sending me another research results that covert or any other disease. Actually is much based on on acidity Ace or biochemistry in the body and by which viruses are able to latch into the cell with that soreness with that acidity on the cell.
Well, skins much better. Now. If you do breathing deep breathing exercises, the pH levels go up and they stay up. We showed that in the university studies in the blood, blood proof. So preventative medicine and therefore is deep breathing exercises, the way we show it they have shown themselves inside and in
Showing that the pH levels really go alkaline, they really Spike and then 5 hours later. They took the blood again, and they so it was still up there. And that means that it's preventative medicine for viruses and bacteria to be able to develop in our bodies causing inflammation. And inflammation is the
Image is the fever, the headaches, the all over Agony disease. So course an effect of disease is inflammation caused by a wrong biochemistry in the body by which our normal natural defense system goes down. Viruses, bacterial action womb into flames disease, depression. Anything? You can name it and can we do?
I'm thinking about that because since last year, Max, 5 million people died of covert, but every year, 60 to 70 million people, die of inflammation, related diseases that we showed in 2014 with breathing exercises in the University, being injected with the bacteria that they the bacteria.
Had no chance they're in.
Amazing. And the thing is it is simple. Anybody can do it. So anybody who is listening right now? Hey, man, this is a tool and that too. You don't need to go to the shop to buy the to. You don't need to go to a doctor to, to get the to. It is your breath. So that is what I Alec went, Lee say to any person in the world. Just breathe motherfucker.
It because to this so simple and it is so effective. We have shown in 2014 to bring down inflammation and all the symptoms that are called disease called by a coerced by a bacteria or virus. We can bring it down and if we stay high up with the pH levels, like doing it every morning, some breathing.
It's nice. It's free. It's powerful. We become invulnerable to where bacteria and inflammation, virus depression, name it anything, it is, as simple as this people don't like simple things or what guys, listen to me. It is simple, powerful effective and scientifically endorsed. Just breathing in the morning, empty stomach changing the pipe.
Chemistry by which the viruses and bacteria who cost inflammation, cause and effect of disease called whatever. The disease is named is not able to pass within the body. That, that a simple breathing and then a cold shower a day keeps the doctor away. It's even that the doctors are doing this. Now by the millions. It's really to up to 100 million. People are doing this stuff now, because the
It works. The shit works. And so, a cold shower a day is is training of millions of little muscles in the vascular system, which is 100,000 kilometers long like 70,000 miles. We all have insight and it is composed with millions of little muscles hair. Thin, you can't even see them, but they are there and if you
Take a cold shower, you train them, like you all look on strong. No inside. There are the vascular muscle tone can be trained by taking a cold shower by which the blood flow goes much better through the system because it is helped through these muscles here contraction opening contraction opening. Helps the blood flow go much better through the system and that it reaches much better.
Are the cells, the nutrition, the nutrition through oxygen nutrition and vitamins, they are transported through a good vascular transportation system. Wherein the muscle tone is optimized through cold shower and then the heart rate goes down 20 to 30 beats. That means there is no stress anymore. In the body, stress relates to accelerated, heart rate and there you get high blood pressure.
Stereo sclerosis the killer number one, cardiovascular related to diseases, you take cold showers. You go out in cold bodies of water in the winter, anybody and he, and most best for the people after 60 years to that. My oldest participant is hundred years old. And she told her sister is here and she is 98. They both enjoying the call.
If you go into the called, you go back to the core. You got it. You got it. And you got to activate the power within which is adaptation. That means that they're suddenly the power within the oldest systems are activated become strong and suddenly you don't feel the cold anymore. Figure out how strong your body is at that moment. And that's what we never do. We never trained our vascular system. So it becomes
The muscle tone is weaker. And the blood flow needs to be pumped through an accelerated heart rate, which will create all the cardiovascular related diseases, which is millions and millions of people every year. It's good money, those people but help and you cannot buy it and you gotta pay a lot to do. Whatever is being done in this industry right now. On people.
People people got to rise to their autonomy today. Autonomy to regulate their own health, happiness and strength because it's there. And it's simple just breathing taking the cold and believe back in yourself instead of those doctors and nurses and hospitals, and pills and therapies and pharmaceutics, there a couple of months ago, three months ago in America.
They they came out with the information. 500,000 people killed through, oxycodone painkillers, 26 billion, dollar, settlement and goodbye. And there comes a s. They killed five thousand people in New York and they kill the whole countries and who is going to take care of these people who actually murderers with white colors and they cells.
Shit to us and they promised us to make us better and they kill half million people and they get away with money. It is a sick system.
Wow, there's so much there that you've said that I would love to to unpack and I couldn't agree more you. Nobody bodily autonomy, I think is so important and it's something that we've given up. So I'm glad that we're talking about this.
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man is just a have a ton, you know, a barrel. You fill it up with water and yet you get some ice, you know, all these bags of ice that you you get an ID. If I
If I really had it, I wasn't mazunte. More suit, is a place near on the Atlantic, the Pacific Ocean. I mean, and it's very hot there. You, you just sit and you sweat, man. That is quite said, you get adapted to anything, but those my moments, I really love to take a nice bath for force a half hours, 40 minutes.
But I enjoyed it is beautiful. Mexico is beautiful, but cat that went after a month. I had enough. I wanted to go back because I got things to do and I got to meet the people coming to make the Hollywood film very soon as I got the BBC series coming and January showing that through natural methods, they can get rid of pills.
Taking medicine taking for 10 or 20 years. I love this within six episodes. Well, make them able to have that autonomy, which the medical establishment is apparently not able to give
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Enjoy. Well, I love this. So I want to I want to take a step back for a moment. And you mentioned something that was done in 2014. A University study, where they injected you with a certain compound endotoxin lipopolysaccharide, which is one of the most potent inflammatory toxins known to exist, really? It's a component of the gram-negative bacteria that reside in our large and all of our colonic Flora in our
In our gut microbiome, which is safe in that context, but it's often used to it's injected into human subjects to see what inflammation does to the body. So we're talking about inflammation and they literally injected you with this substance, which would make anybody else sick on the spot, but somehow your body was a burr, able to not see the the inflammatory Cascade that would typically ensue. So talk to me about that.
How did that happen? What was going on in your body? How did you summon that? Kind
of to get? Yes, this is once again the believing and breathing this of us unknowing in science, that the autonomous nervous system related to the innate immune system, would be able to voluntarily being controlled. It was not there in the books. And now we have shown it. First. I showed it how to bring down the interlocking.
Number six and eight, which is also the damaging factor in covid. Mm how to bring it down within 15 minutes. Well, that's what I showed and then a pro-inflammatory or anti-inflammatory aisle. 10 going way up. And that is that that is what kills the inflammation, what controls the inflammation, and that is same as simply.
Because I think that reality and through my believing neurologically, I get contact with the specific immune system, which is skill killed. Bastard at the beginning. A system. You know, when the Intruder comes the back shell or the virus or the bacteria wants a multiply and go onto his processing Etc.
No, Sherlock Holmes is there and what I do through the breathing and believing believing now is is power is neurological power that is able to set on the neurological system, which is everywhere in our body. And with that you message through your will your body to be alert for whatever is going to come. This is what I have shown in the brain scan.
Studies fmris in Detroit. They say Wim Hof has found the secret of placebo. So Placebo is no longer. It is now you are the one on the buttons of your own plasticity. Neuroplasticity. Your healing power is by uke participating in your own body with your own will which is nothing more than logical that we are built.
That way, but because we live in an alienated kind of comfort zone Behavior. We we disconnected and now, through doing this breathing and believing, I showed what never had been. Shown in science to bring down voluntarily inflammation within 15 minutes and then it State there after an hour after injection.
Section of E. Coli bacterial. Polysaccharide that you get very sick. Fever headaches, Agony muscle, pains everywhere. Vomiting nausea. It's a controlled experiment of three to six hours. Now, 16,000 and 134 people have done it before they all became sick. Then I came, I did not became sick and then they looked inside the blood.
And then, they saw me influencing deeply voluntarily into the atomic nervous system related to the innate immune system. That means we are able to bring down the cause and effect of disease which is inflammation. It is not only the E.coli, a, we are actually talking inflammation and covid is also the damaging factor of covid is inflammation.
Ian care and now, is the question. Can we bring that down? I say yes, but it doesn't make money. That's the real disease and now I'm trying to get that down that disease.
Wow, so I mean, so very interesting that so what what is it that the breathing is doing, right? It's this is obviously an atypical State, your thrusting, your body, with your
It out of homeostasis, right? Balance, like what, what is what is happening? First of all, what is the method and what's happening? When you practice the method
soda method has three pillars. They believing believing or commitment is the same thing. You commit to something, that's you, you invest neurologically into something, then the direction where you go will manifest in the end because you are building up. That's, that's
Physical. So believing is no longer not physical. It is physical. It is a bit between what you want and until the manifestation and that is only possible. If there is really some substantial matter going on from the beginning that you better start to believe. So that is over. Now. They're Placebo is gone. We are really here to heal ourselves from trauma or to attain to our gold which in the end is
Like mint, which is an Enlightenment of old trauma, or whatever. The Earthly, existence, the doubting mind, whatever it is, we have all purpose and we are able to our belief, which is neurological neurologically investing to attain to our goals. That's why we are here. That feels good because we have a purpose. Now, that's number one. Number two, is the cold. The coal trains to
Tackle the cardiovascular related problems and how our society is the biggest killer in hours in the world. So, let's have a look into that. A cold shower trains. All these little muscles the millions by which the heart rate goes down, and he goes way up. And a vascular system is really optimized in that moment for a lot of other things very well.
The amazing what a cold shower does fully underestimated. People should do this all over the world is not good for the money guys. It's just unconditionally being there. That is you and your power from the deaf coming to the surface by just taking that little initial stressful, step out of your comfort zone Behavior. Hey, and that it happens, the magic happens. That is number two deer call.
Number three is the breathing in the bleeding is Magic. When I started to go into the cold. The I learned, what you do. When you go into the cold, you breathe deep, that means you begin to alter your Chemistry to with that and to activate deep mechanisms inside, that makes you stronger inside being able to adapt to the cold because the cold stays the same.
Mm, only you in yourself, you change your outer your biochemistry, which then in the end is electricity, or dinner the Neurology in the body become strong, relaxed. Fully Serene. Well, big stress is up on the body and that's amazing. So that is their breathing. I began to isolate and when I began to isolate, I
I saw I could stay like five to seven minutes without breathing. What is that? The beginning I was astounded. What is the do and all these what they call chakras and lights and older. I saw all up till boredom. I saw it all the whole via electrical. I've seen it all in all shapes until the crown chakra and I say, fuck self alignment. It's only indulging that people are so
In 2000. I mow her Beyond The Authority, but is my only friend David? Yeah, I'm the guru and all that shit. Real life means comes in healing others, in healing, my neighbor in the people who are suffering, unnecessarily, and taking care of this world. Taking care of our children, taking care of protecting innocence from Evil influence that, that is what really brings Enlightenment to the soul.
Because the soul is here in the light and it does and it is able to go past any deep dark moments Outside Inside. It's not matter. But there I am with the breathing. Now, what happens with the breathing physiologically because this old song Rosalie philosophical and all that and that people say yeah. What do you say Batman? I was the first
I want to show that we are able to breathing techniques or problematic manipulation how to alter the blood chemistry inside so much. That the that we produced is spiking adrenaline twice as much just lying on the on the ground or on a sofa doing breathing exercises twice as much Pike of adrenaline than somebody who goes
Goes in fear into his first bungee jump. This is blood proof comparison. That means you are really resetting the body to face the danger, whatever the dangerous danger could be a biological, physical mental, emotional. It's all cell, biological stress. And now, we are able just to reset the body to face the danger, no matter the way it comes.
We have a buddy that is capacitated to take on environmental extreme stress, easy. And but we alienated they're from and that's why.
We don't, we become fearful little beings dependent on doctors and this and that Etc. So, the breathing really is, it is only starting and I get 100 million people already following and doing this, but I want to change the world. I want to just show that everybody through manipulating the life force within is able to return to an absolute autonomy within themselves to
Maintain activate and charest happiness, strength and health happiness is the hormonal system. Health is the immune system, and the metabolic systems is the power, the energy mitochondrial and all we have, all shown that anybody can do this by manipulating the bread, and it is not difficult. You can learn it within say, 10 minutes, 10 minutes, they have,
Been showing the results in the brain to go deeper within 10 minutes. Doing the breathing exercises. Hey, Tony your visitor.
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Little guy.
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All right. He's a rock star. You gotta listen to him. He plays the guitar full. Full monty microphone and then he dances amazing.
Have you thrown him into the ice yet?
All right. He does it by
himself. Wow, amazing.
Barefoot outside in the snow. He comes just follows and he you know, he's not trembling or anything. They just followed by themselves and they
You know, how to naturally make it the immune system, triggered, stop stronger, memory cells, and all that. So what we did with these breathing techniques is showing that everybody because after me, I had a group of people who had no training like the Iceman. And I said, no, anybody can learn this.
Give me a group then. We are a comparative study and then they showed after 16,000 134 people. Suddenly 12 people 100%, Okay, with the same and the doc seen injection and the whole world should have been shaken to to Awakening to. Hey, man, this is Reka. We found it. We got it. We got a way to bring down.
Formation unnecessary suffering, but this is the, the real disease. That is where we are in now. Manipulated, by outside forces, making us fearful with a, with a virus, which exists already for millions of years. As if we to, after millions of years immune system, development have no answer to that in natural ways we have and it's simply
They're only what they do it. Some people are playing for God and they bring it out. They are just assholes. They are not happy themselves. Yeah, just a sick of power and control. They are abstracted their mind so much. They don't understand what it is to be at home. Happy taking care of your children,
crazy people. No, it's great. It
dangerous lie, crazy.
I agree. It. Did, you know, it doesn't make money and so that's why.
Going to hear about it, especially in a world where all of mainstream media is controlled to some degree. Right? Bye-bye, Global pharmaceutical companies.
Yes. And a
They are very good for the pharmaceutical directors and all those assholes. Does it matter love should be unconditionally, they're composed by absolute autonomous control over our happiness, strength and health without a delete of outside dependency in in anything. Yeah. It should be simply that we need, we have obstructed so much through technology and the revolution. How do you say the Industrial Revolution?
So cold and now didn't digital a revolution. We've abstracted so much. We don't know anymore. But the best is there always
is it all comes back to body autonomy, you know, and I just I love this topic so much. It's so important. But for somebody who's never, you know, heard of your work, what is the can you just describe like what the breathing looks like to somebody who is just completely unfamiliar? I mean it to me, it kind of seems like
Voluntary. Hyperventilate ventilation. Is that essentially what you're doing with the, with the wind off
method? Yeah. It's that makes it understood. Yes. It is. First of all, this is very simple.
It is very simple, very accessible, very powerful and scientifically endorsed. And it is a way to get into the deep axis control which is able to, you know, when there is danger, you shitting your pants, you pee in your pants. It's like you got to get rid of the Superfluous fluids and whatever shit is inside to be ready. This is what the adrenal axis does.
To make ourselves ready. Empty of all the shit that is in the in the and that could be shit like poop and pee but also biochemical rusted you, hmm, and that's what it does through these. And we had no ways not showing in science and not effectively shown through yogic pranayama techniques and all from a long time ago. How to deal with
Shit, and a lot of people in the world are full of shit. And now we found a way to get rich off it and that's the breathing. So, don't underestimate the saying when I say it is simple, it is effective, but it is also very powerful and scientifically endorsed. If you are able to make use of these techniques, where, which look like,
Relation, but at this negative connotation correlation say hyperventilation is a condition of too shallow breathing and that results in losing your control because you pH levels, go berserk, and then at a certain moment, you get disconnection. No,
no, no.
Logically in the brain and that, but you lose the, you lose the control or
Over thing is with this one, you are able to go. So deep into the system that we are able to release to go into the lymphatic system, which is the deepest thought of inaccessible by humans. And now it is there. And now we can bring down inflammation and now we can process the deepest parts of our brain by doing these
breathing techniques, which will result in having a much greater control over our brain, which is the seat of the unlimited power of our mind. Finally. We found a way to regain. What is ours? And that is our brain, the seat of our mind, which then, in the end, is able to get into the so-called unlimited power of the mind and a lot of and the Soul. Now, it
No longer abstract it's here. And their breath is the bridge that is able to alter the biochemistry in the depth by which the the will which is neurological neurotransmitters. Suddenly, connects with the rest of the Neurology of the body by which it is able to out balance when it is out of
balance.
You see? So how does it look like we got a breathing bubble, which has been visited 35 million times or 40 million. I don't know anymore. It doesn't matter. I just keep on saying the same thing. Sorry guys. It is very simple, but do it. Well, then it becomes very powerful and the science is there to back it up so you can just shut up. Get your mind out of here and just do it. Just do it. It's good for
You got to feel great. You're going to feel Who You Are by the laws of nature, not by the laws of the, our schooling and to fit in his system, which it makes us depressed. Sick defendant and all that shit educator over. We gotta stand up. Bring the people very clear techniques that enable them to enjoy their Beautiful
Minds and bodies. Amen. That's what we do. Amen, when it comes to cold.
Old. What temperatures are we talking about specifically? And what what duration are we talking about? Are the most for getting the most bang for our
buck? Yes, it all starts with 15 seconds of a cold
shower after a hot one.
So because our, like the muscle tone of our vascular system. It's really weakened through D stimulative Behavior, which is
Wearing clothes all the time. It's like duress has been no exercise for the internal vascular, muscle tone and dusted is not so strong. So you begin with 15 seconds and you will see if you everyday do 15 seconds more and it increasingly and progressively grows naturally and you feel better better, better better better in 10 days. You will be in there for two and a half minutes called after him.
A warm and all and then your body is back in business, the way nature manner to be, and there you are, suddenly able to go out there or Barefoot in the snow into your Lake and then make a hole in the ice and sit there for a couple of minutes and Fields. Body is adapting. The muscle working the contraction and opening of all the 100,000 kilometers inside. It's just working. Its way to preserve your buddy.
And the inner core perfectly and then you feel great because then the body is at work. It is talking to you and you feel just great that body awareness is amazing. I still feel it. If I don't go into the cold hits a day or two and then go back into cold. It's the same cold as the first time it's always merciless, but it really guys it is righteous.
It brings you to the best of who you are, what you are. It answers you from the depth of your own body and it comes to your mind and it's amazing. You can't trick the gold. We are very good in tricking ourselves and everybody else, but you can't trick your body, you cannot. Yeah. People who are doing this after this 60s 200 years or more. They don't become.
Big because the body is so much stronger than the way we are left in this society. And this is what we bring Max. We are here now at platform to bring simple techniques that they are unbelievable. Almost unbelievable. This shit, but because science is behind it and experience of I'm 62. I met when I become 63 and 28 April, I will go 63
Two minutes into icy water and they happy birthday to me. Happy birthday, you know, and a good warming up technique is peeing and in the final
and the warmth.
Yeah, make jokes, but the body is so much stronger. If we just look inside the cold, how fast we adapt is by which the internal power is activated.
And that it overwhelms your your
thinking brain. Absolutely.
It's like love love is stronger than your thinking brain. You also you don't wear your already. Love you fly. Don't think this is so much stronger. So the cold alter learnt you to love life.
I agree. It's the, you know, personally just add my own anecdote to the mix. It's the most powerful mind-altering activity.
That I know of it's one of my favorite things to do. I have access to a cold plunge near where I live in LA. It's about 9 degrees Celsius 9 to 10 degrees Celsius. So that's about 50, 47 to 50 degrees or Genesis Fahrenheit. Yeah, it's so cold. But, you know, it's like my brain, there's such a state shift, as a result of getting into the water even just for 15 seconds, but to be honest, I love staying in for, you know.
A minute two minutes, three minutes at a time. One thing that I find, you know, living in south, southern California, the shower, the water that comes from. My shower isn't actually that cold. So for people that are sort of in that situation where they don't have access to the kind of cold plunge that I have access to, are there any tricks that people can use to really get down to that temperature? I've, I understand that there's some evidence in the literature that by immersing your hands.
And feet in cold water. It's an effective way. So, you know of all you have access to are some bowls, you can put some ice in there and it's an effective way of lowering your core body. Temperature. Is there any truth to that?
Yes, it is vascular system is a closed system. So all it's connected inside. If you do your hands, it affects your heart, your it affects your feet. It affects you had
Because it's all veins. It says, like 70,000 miles inside, and all those muscles will contract by just putting your hands inside a bucket of icy water and or a defeat and it's great. It's also good to do that for people who have trouble with their extremities, maybe not in Los Angeles, but in a lot of other countries, a lot of people have Reno's condition, that means the extremities
It's painful when the temperature goes down, the blood flow suddenly is blocked because the vascular system closest when it gets cold. It's a reaction. It's a trigger. Then no blood is being flown, flushed into the hands and or feet, no more. That's the Reino condition and it's abnormal condition. It's a trigger, which normally should be there to protect.
I had to protect you call from too much heat going. When it is cold outside. This will be sacrificed first, the hands and the feet in case of danger, through cold at. That's a trigger a physiological mechanism. That is for those people, do is very good to do two minutes inside, which is very painful for one minute and then get them out and then shake it and that it is easy.
Which could be there for 30 years with a lot of Innovations during the winter people get phobias of the called they have layers and layers and and and all corkage of warming devices. They type with their hand gloves on because it's in Winter inside and all that, you know, and then it just takes two minutes, but it did. I get people who have 30 years those ailments.
All kinds of medicines. They don't work and then they come it, within two minutes. It's gone 30 years of pills and medicines, and the gloves, and the warming devices, and their heating bill, you know, the energy bill goes down because you don't need to heat up your house no more. So, so high because you enter vascular system is working great producing all the energy through blood flow, which is going
great.
Eight
because that it's a people have in a patient's blockages by which the cardiovascular system. It's not for nothing that a cardiovascular related diseases. Kill a number one in our society. It's because of this stimulative Behavior. It is logic. So we should get into some cold showers or a get in a Los Angeles in. Winter time. It's altered. The ocean is very good. It's great there.
I know that there's a day said, these currents are quite fresh coming from the old tartans and they go past there. It's good water. You do it in the winter time. I train here in the summertime. It's warm here as well. Not as warm as a Los Angeles, are all of course not but it is warm. Like we can tip here between 20 and 30 degrees and that is Celsius, which is
Warm and sometimes over it and because of global warming, some time. So we hit now, 40 degrees. We never had that. That's the global shit. And the people playing God again, but guy coming back then, in Winter, I train outside like, September begins to cool down slowly September. The water is still quite warm because of warming up. It's the last day in October really begins to go down.
And then I swim outside everyday and November December January. Priest, may be frozen. I make my holes and all that. I, so once I had this in June, I got this invitation to go do. We will record standing in the eyes and immersion full. Immersion is in direct. Contact with eyes had to do one hour, 35, something like 35 minutes.
And then
to watch the Guinness World Record for that. Did you
not? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, several times. But the thing is at that moment. It was June. And in June, I had no money for buying eyes and training and all but I said, yes. Yeah, I needed the money. So yeah, so I will do it but then because I had no training time and it was June, it was sunny outside, was no ice was no gold.
And, and in September, I had to do the records. Then I because I set my mind so strong and it's like going into the unknown because normally, I got to all winter, I'm training every day and all. I'm so fit man. I make of the winter is summer. You know, I behaved like it is summer in my short outside playing like people to the days. Look at that.
That crazy man. He must be run loose from a Psychiatry Asylum or something. It is thinks it this summer. But the thing is if he can make, if you can't behave like it is summer in Winter, then you mind is really there because it takes the power of the mind. But I did not know that at that time in June. But I did what I did was stop.
Justly getting ready through my mind and when it was September, I did the best record ever. So, whatever the people are thinking. No, I have no cold showers over here because it's too warm and this and that. Hey, there is no excuse, you can train your mind any time because the in the end that will make the difference, your mind is the captain of your own ship. The your
Will is in connection with the rest of the Neurology of your body just because I use the cold because it is merciless and righteous it rains absolutely. The cardiovascular system to do the best. As you said before when you go there is nothing that makes you mind. So ready. It's going into the cold in the cold plunge that that it's all natural. It's there. People have to understand.
They're held their happiness and strength, something you cannot buy, but you can, you can obtain it. You can get into that. You yourself. This is not the way we are schooled. But this is the way life tell
schools us.
There is success as CN n--'s a do a CNC demonstrative a No-No on this fact, a suit said, blue result or convenient day.
That is something like demonstrative science, has not covered. All what is there? There is much more that should be discovered and researched for and that is us. We shoot the research into our self introspection and learn to become the captain of our own ship.
Couldn't agree more. So beautifully said where, where were you with him in your life and you discovered initially the
Of
cold.
It was in Amsterdam where I am. Right now. Amsterdam is like a northern hemisphere. It's called to call 20 Winters clouded and was this Sunday morning when I was 17, which is a 45 years ago. And I saw this thin layer on the eyes in the park and I just felt this attraction to go in and I did it. And that was the yeah.
Following the intuition and Instinct at that moment that brought me down from being. So minding. I wasn't minding person being philosophizing, debating to into Traditions languages disciplines as of tarek disciplines and always thinking, thinking thinking that creates a kind of state of mind, which is like everyday and then going into the cold, just broke through that.
Conditioning that conditioned mind and then I filed, I do from the inside. This is it, this is the I was looking for this that day. You can't find it by thinking, by pondering about it. You have to dive literally into the cold, Dark Water, and then that means into the dark mess of yourself, your dark side of yourself and give yourself away. Don't be afraid.
You are made to be light of light everywhere in your body and to become that and to manifest light everywhere, in our body, even into the subconscious, which we showed by the way, and one of the best brain scans in Germany. Imagine. Imagine what that means. That means we have gone. We've discovered terrain where we never had.
Have been but we it's the new West, the new West we have found a new West for Humanity.
I found the new West. Well, when it comes to mental health, I mean, how, what role does Coldplay for you?
Yeah, you say it Coldplay, you know the music he hasn't like this good band. I just said 10 days ago and french guy who's piano, real P30 be Phillip anymore. He played together with Coldplay. That got a gold play. Guys. Gave him a piano.
It's a nice
gift. Yeah, that is playing on it is
Cool, but the coal really is a pill without side effects. It's like the dopamine and noradrenalin which is lacking in depression, crucial. They are essential. These are essentially lacking and that moment of depression, depression is just lack of pressure caused by imbalance of dopamine and
noradrenalin, mostly
you go into the
Cold, you spike into icy water, you spike the dopamine with 250%. Well and noradrenaline with five hundred forty percent. That means that is a Like a Pill without side effects. This should be getting it implemented into Mental Health Care all over the world. We need to the these signals of depression or inflammation actually signals almost like, SI CE que NOS you
Signals. They are they say I'm sick. You gotta go back. Yeah, it's in here. It's not out there. It's in here. Yeah, come here. I'll make you, don't, you notice me. Why do you ignore me? Why do you go to somebody who is killing the messenger man? And, oh, I want this to happen. Structurally to call does it. And the breathing, does it, and your mindset, your mind don't be outside.
I'd be inside. And this is what we have shown that that neurology neurological. Power of our will now is able to connect with the deeper systems and
control and demand and out
ballads or do anything. That is necessary. It's all there. And so we Max we are the future. We bring this through the platforms like this. We bring a we bring the right nutrition, which is good.
Breathing brings in like my to control processing and brings energy ATP molecules, but good deep breathing does the same. It's not only that we then bring the right oxygen amount and a lot more kinds of gases and molecules out there like aerosols, but positive ones, inside our bodies new to you our ourselves, by which they become strong.
Um and a into the depth by which they are able to function the way nature, meant it to be because the breathing does it it brings a deep gas exchange into the right biochemistry to the cells in our tones and nothing is left behind everything will saturate to the right amount and then the body is going to work completely different. This people should do in a
So Healthcare with mental disorders because then inflammation is not able to happen. If the right biochemistry is there when it becomes alkaline, like we talked in the beginning then that is preventative medicine and it is also able to create more energy, which is resulting in to maintenance of the body and healing because then you have more energy, you can
If you direct it in words, you do deeper breathing.
This is accelerated and they create more molecules, which you need like, building blocks for that. What needs to be repaired. But if we only breathe shallow, then we have no energy left. And then the healing is not able to take place as simple as it is. So be, this is not mystical because life is Mystical. I just want to bring life to
out of the people like an undocumented Choice. Guys. We are, we love you. We bring this is the real shit. They're all these governments, and all this. They have no autonomy. They have no control. We lost our control. We have given it away and let them be they, in the end will also take this autonomous feeling that makes them unconditionally able to connect with the, the splendors of life itself.
Day and pass it on to their children and make the world a great place. That's that's what we do right now. And we do it face-to-face straight. This is the way we bring it, this, I can very soon. It was the, I wasn't not for go with would be talking like this in front of the National Institute of Health together, with Professor it pal from San Francisco. UCSF with the new findings.
On the DNA and the pressure, we have to change the system. We have to change the health care to make people understand that they have absolutely innate capacity to find autonomy over depression and inflammation, the cause and effect of disease. Let's bring some happiness. Power to our families and everybody around us. That's love. That's what we do. And there we are in, we go to the max.
We go to, we go straight and you're good, man. We are just Rising. I'm a father of a, little innocent being I will take care. I will protect the Innocence, the energy of malignant whatsoever and whatever the way it comes in. I know what to do. Because nature, gave it all to me,
unconditionally. And so this is what we pass
on.
Beautiful beautifully said, I mean, I oh man, I love what you're doing. It's so important and you know breath. I think people people tend to under appreciate that. It is our most important nutrient, you know, I mean a person could go a month, two months, three months, without food, maybe a few days at the most without water to 3 days, but only a few minutes without, breaths, without oxygen. It really is our most important nutrient. And we seldom talked about it as such.
Yes, it is. As a nutrient, it is molecules molecules is what food produces had a breath is able to do that. And when we feel bad we need molecules, but we at that moment we are in Provence because we have a lack of those molecules to repair and to to even out what is gone wrong. But now we have here bringing it to man. It's there you take control.
Control as Dave, asprey. They asked me in this podcast. When what is Enlightenment? That seems you've got some answers here, but real answers and please say it. In one sentence. He said, hey, all Bibles and Carranza written on the chit and I gotta say, the one sentence here. It comes. Just be happy, strong and healthy. The rest is bullshit. So, let's not be in the bullshit. No more. Because this is what they are.
Don't ask you take their boo shit. We are built to be happy strong and healthy every day. And if you don't find the connection directly through the breathing, the breathing is a cleaning to a cleansing tool. Then straighten up and connect with your body, through your believed to have a, can he control of your beautiful mind and body and spread the love every day.
Hear hear when. Where can people find you on social media?
Social media that I think that's the Iceman? Yeah, just look me up. I'm very bad in these things when Hof method.com. That is my website. And there is the breathing bubble as a lot for free and that route because healthy and health, happiness, and strength, you cannot buy. But if you want to see me, you got a payment.
You got a beta dead. The Aeroplane coming down, then all that, all those things better better, make think so online visible, because we have a good contact right now. Don't
you eat? Absolutely. Like.
Yeah, so we can go like this to. The thing is they can fight me through all these little films on YouTube, hundreds of them and documentaries. What is it? Instagram Iceman? Yeah, I think it is. I
Iceman. I spend way more
for something you're easy to find. You're a famous man. We're very grateful to have had the past hour with you. On a on the podcast has been really fun. You come back whenever you want, would love to would love to hang out with you in person. You know, it's kind of a shame the technology has gotten so good.
But yeah, I know. But I did the real thing is the best and that's what it is. And we are like now workers on the, on the path where people are able to
Through these dark confusing times. That's what we bring. We bring new insights and it is simple and powerful and scientifically endorse it all is. And there we are doing this great work of hours you and me. Thank you for that. Absolutely
anytime we work. Thank you so much. My friend. This has been again. So fun, love your work. And all you guys out there should check out with him and
And embrace the cold. I love this. I mean it's really is one of the most powerful things that I do every almost every single day. And so I'm just grateful for you for getting the science out there and really being an advocate for this is such a powerful healing modality. Text me everybody. Let me know what you thought about this episode of the show. You can do that by hitting up 3 1 0 to 999 401. Share this episode with your friends and loved ones. It has the potential to do a lot of good. But only if you share it and spread the word about what we're doing here at the genius life. Thank
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