Wim Hof

You have always gone back to the cold as a way to channel that stress and to get back in touch with yourself.

And, you know, for those of you that are not familiar, I really encourage you to watch this documentary, and I'll put a link to it in the show notes below.

But this man has run marathons in the Arctic barefoot in a board shorts, no shirt, no water, has run marathons in the, what is it?

Namib Desert.

Namib Desert.

Not exactly a hospitable place.

Also, you know, no shirt, pair of board shorts.

No drinking.

No drinking.

A nearly scaled Mount Everest, had a foot injury and it had to,

to come off the mountain, but scaled Kilimanjaro.

And so the physical feats packed in ice for an hour and 53 minutes, and no human being should be able to survive that, being packed up in ice, solid ice up to your neck for almost two consecutive unbroken hours.

And what it has proven is the amount of control that you have been able to take back into your own body.

The most fascinating thing for me

as a data scientist is that you have broken the mold of the autonomic nervous system.

And science and medicine say you have no control over the autonomic nervous system.

You cannot influence your heart rate.

You cannot influence your respiratory rate unconsciously.

You cannot influence your immune system.

And yet you have proven by actually the introduction of biotoxins into your bloodstream with hundreds of other Wim Hof practitioners that even in the presence of deadly E. coli, which should inflame the immune system and immediately cause a dramatic immune cytokine storm response, that through controlling your autonomic nervous system, influencing your own body,