Wim Hof

And I think this is why it doesn't get the adoption that it deserves, because it's so accessible.

It can't be that good.

You know, or else, you know, somebody would have a patent on it.

You know, Pfizer would sell it in a, you know,

And then when you add the hormetic stress and you think I'm cleansing, I'm releasing trauma, I'm shifting the state of my nervous system.

We talked about this on the balcony earlier, how 82% of all autoimmune disease is found in females.

It's not because autoimmune disease is selective by sex.

It's selective by weakness.

And very often women don't feel safe in their own bodies.

When you don't feel safe,

you're trapped in this sympathetic state, this state of fight or flight, and the immune system doesn't work in that state.

And so what happens is it weakens and you're susceptible to attack.

And so, I mean, if there's no other message that comes out of this podcast is that breath work just has to be a part of your daily routine.

Full stop.

Absolutely.

So I want to go back to this study.

So they did 20 minutes of...

this controlled breathing.

At the end of either 20 or 30 rounds of breath, they did a prolonged breath hold.

And it was during this breath hold that the CO2 was building up.