Wim Hof
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They felt fine.
CO2 is the main vasodilator in the body.
It's dilating the microvasculature, which by the way, our heart is only circulating 30% of the blood in our body.
70% of the blood in our body is circulated by vasomotor activity.
So there's no pressure in those vessels.
So if we can dilate and relax them,
Think about the amount of blood flow that's going to tissues that previously were not getting any nutrients, any oxygen.
We were trapping inflammation in there and not getting it out.
So they would do this 20 or 30 minutes of controlled breathing.
And then would they go into cold water?
They would do cold water immersion?
Yes.
Cold showers and once a week coming together.
As you mentioned in the beginning, we are over individualized in this society.
We are social human beings.
And that is not just flower power.
It is energy.
Yeah.
and it interacts with our nervous system.
It just runs better.