At that moment, a diver grabbed me by the ankle, brought me back to the 50 m, [music] and then >> Are you telling me you experience death? >> That was the experience. Absolutely. >> A happy man doesn't go to war. A happy man is not into greed. >> Are you happy when? >> Oh, yeah. I'm bloody happy and crazy, too. We just bring something that is [music] for free. Air and the breath. And with that we get to our soul. The breath is the spirit. This is the way we are born. It's the last thing we see when we die. If you had made love to your wife and you I like to go [music] again >> and it's not really there. Do a little breathing because then all the hormones [music] they get back. >> I'd rather just go to sleep. I'll be honest with him. >> Yeah. Yeah. Me too. Me too. Welcome back to The Good, The Bad, and the Beast. Today's guest is known around the world as the Iceman. He's climbed frozen mountains and shorts. He's sat for hours in ice, and he's taught millions around the world how to control their bodies through breath and cold. He's challenged science and shown what humans are capable of. Please welcome to the podcast, Mr. Whim Hoff. Thank you for having me. >> How are you doing, sir? >> Yes, great, Eddie. Good, thank you. >> We've had a good morning. We've uh we've been ice swimming. We went to an icy lake this morning and we went to a dip and we did the breathing and it was a lovely day. >> Yeah, it was uh amazing. Uh it it's even more amazing when a man who is uh at such a altitude of a a level of performance being is seeing performing even better. >> It is >> that is that is a good morning and
>> that is that is a good morning and therein lies a message to the world. >> Yeah. >> And uh I like to talk about that. I feel honored for you having me invited. Thank you for your hospitality and your family I met. It's uh Yeah, it's beautiful. It's beautiful. >> Thank you, Whim. It's an honor to have you on the show. An honor to be in your presence. An honor for the UK to have you here in the lands. >> How old are you now, Whim? >> 66. >> 66. Do you feel 66? >> Yeah, I feel up for my eighth child. >> Are you Are you going to say that again? You're you're pl you're trying for your eighth child. >> Trying that. No. Yeah. I'm a family. I'm alive. >> I'm kicking. And uh I tell my uh uh my grandchildren >> who are older than my uh newborn children. >> That um Yeah. That that life is amazing. >> Good. >> So there I am. And so I am every day. [laughter] >> How many grandkids have you got? You got seven kids then? >> I got seven kids myself. >> Seven kids. I got only three grandkids. >> Oh, that's nice. That's not a very good way. They need to need to >> probably They don't know how to do it, so I show it. >> So you Yeah. You see? [laughter] >> So you're just having more kids instead of having grandkids. >> Yes. And I tell them, "Hey, listen. If you guys think I'm getting older, I will outlive everybody of you." [laughter] >> Fair enough. I always ask my guests to bring in what I call the piece of the beast. And this can be something, an artifact or a picture. It can be a memory. It can be anything. Have you got that said artifact with you or that memory or picture with you? >> Yeah, there's so many pictures, so many experiences. I come here uh to a man like yourself and look at uh Britain right now. >> It's a a kind of a mess in the mentally. >> Yes. >> I think it needs sanity. Sanity be being
>> I think it needs sanity. Sanity be being brought by common sense. That is what I bring here because you are the man to bring it out. >> You are a man of common sense. You are you are the one who rises out out of this mental mess and we show the world what what real power is all about. That conviction that is what I took with me. I thought I can bring all kinds of stuff. I paint. I make music. I make poetry. I got pictures. I got a a the experience of a dead uh wife before the all the dramas of life. But let's go for sanity. >> Sanity >> to bring sanity. And that's what she s showed this today. >> That's what I saw. >> Yeah. >> I came here with a load with a charge. You're the strongest man in the world. So I come there because I can learn in that day something new. So I bring sanity to the table. And then in this podcast I want you to meet it and we will. >> Okay. Very intense women. >> Yes. That's that's who we are. Our wives love that. >> Yes. There is indeed. Are you are you married now or is it a wife or a girlfriend? it. Marriage or not, I got two children. I'm a loyal guy. I stay with the woman and uh that's it. I don't need a paper to uh make my marriage going. But I can't be deeper committed to a woman as I am right now. >> Good to hear. How many marriages have you had then? >> Three. >> This is the third. >> So this is the third one. >> Yes. >> Okay. Seven kids, three grandkids, more kids on the way, you say? >> Oh, yes. Here too. I'm working on it. I love it. Yeah. Sorry. But you know,
love it. Yeah. Sorry. But you know, there is an issue with testosterone in this world. Oh, it's >> the western world. It's declining the fertility. >> And here we are. >> I'm 66. I'm still going not only strong. Next month I meet Robert Dairo. and he is also an older man having a child recently. We're going to swap children, baby photos. >> You're going to have a play party with your >> Yeah. >> young kids. >> Yeah. Well, and that's it. And that's the way it should be cuz we are mammals. Yes. >> One day before a mammal goes, it still needs to find food, >> flee, fight probably as well. And that is the way I intend to keep on living. And until I'm gone, I am on. And testosterone, testosterone. That is no problem. If you go into cold water, >> cold water is for free. Get your lazy or hot ass out of the chair. Get in the morning into the cold shower or a cold body of water >> and you will revive to them factory settings of mother nature. >> I like that. The factory settings of mother nature. That's a great saying. >> And there is all the testosterone, there's the fertility, there is the sanity both mentally and physically is all there. Your philosophy is breath work and cold exposure. Where did it all begin, Whim? Because you're here today and you have, it's fair to say, millions, if not billions of people around the world that know Wimhof, that use the breathing method, that go into the cold because of you. So, you're responsible for a lot of sanity. You're responsible for a lot of the common sense that's coming back into the world. Where did it all begin? How did
world. Where did it all begin? How did the cold come into your life? And I've read your book, so I know, but tell us, how did the co go into your life? >> It came out of uh me running in my own brain on and on on what is this soul? What is esoterism? What is sacredness? What is the deeper meaning of life? >> And nobody could say. And then uh when I was 12, I was there with my friends and I told them hey if the world think it is normal that there is disease, wars, pollution, abuse, depression, darkness and all then I think the world is sick >> 12 years and I'm going to do something about it. What I don't know I just do it. That is where my journey started. my faith, my conscious faith within me to make the change and I believed I could make the change only it took 50 years. >> So at 12 years old you you put your mindset was to change the world. >> Yes sir. >> At 12 >> and I think it is because of my mother. >> Tell me about that. >> My mother at my birth I was the second of the twins. >> Okay. They never knew there was another guy. >> So >> you were the forgotten twin. >> Yes. >> Left in the womb. >> Okay. >> And almost they had to send me to the operation room to get me out >> with a cesarium. >> And my mother was afraid of that. Wasn't aware what what is this? And and she was god-fearing. So what she did was pushing me out just before the operation rubber doors with the words, "Oh God, let this child live. I will make him a missionary." >> That in me who was a nothing at that moment. She always called me little purple. >> Yeah. >> Little purple nothing. Yeah. Pimple
>> Little purple nothing. Yeah. Pimple pass. That's is Dutch for little nothing because I almost suffocated. I had no oxygen in the cold of the hole. That's where and that's where we were this morning. >> Yeah. >> In the cold. Holding our breath in in cold icy cold water is different than warm water and all. >> It is where the core body temperature maintains all the oxygen and the rest is not going to the extremities and therefore you cannot stay as long but you stayed like two minutes under the water. But amazing. I got that when I was a nothing, a baby with the invocation of my mother imprinted like a tattoo on my soul on my jeans. Epigenetics right there. Boom. And so I've always been different than my twin brother. Identical twin brother. >> Identical as in Luke's just like you. >> Yes. Uh and but he is completely like no mission, no >> no no drive. He's okay. >> He's a good guy. But >> he's not >> no look that is what my mother did. My mother made the change. And a mother who is in fear, god-fearing and loves to have her child being born as a miracle. That's the way she always said said those are powerful words. That's like a spell and it got into me and that made me different. And now I'm here at the citadel. I'm going to reach out to billions of people. We're going to change them from the inside. >> We just bring something that is for free. Air and the breath. >> Mhm. >> And with that we get to our soul. So that is my mission. That is the way it began. When I was 12, I told my friends, I'm going to change the world.
friends, I'm going to change the world. How? I don't know. I'm just going to do it. When I was 17, I got for the first time into cold water because I became a thinker. Between 12 and 17 years, I read so many books. >> Yeah. >> So you become a thinker. >> What kind of books would you read? uh all kinds from esoterism, traditional things, >> psychology, psychology, religion, uh languages, anything that is out there. >> Okay. >> And so, uh at a certain moment you become a a thinker >> and then I got into the cold when I was 17. >> Tell me about that first time you exposed yourself to cold. I exposed to the cold as feeling it as a hunch coming in and looking around on a Sunday morning >> and there was nobody around. Everybody sleeping still in the park. I was walking in Amsterdam in the middle of Amsterdam. So there in that park I saw a thin layer of ice like this and I thought it I just felt a treachure and I looked around stripped myself went in the water and I felt this is it without words. that feeling, that connection to the depth of myself through the cold and and I was playing with the eyes and the the cold was not >> that negative element that is dangerous and gets to you and you shoot not in it is crazy and all. No, it was just playing. It was not that concept. It was this connection which it gave me. I didn't go so long. I went out but I felt great. a rush coming through. >> So >> the other day I came back and did the same. >> I take it was the middle of winter then there was ice on the ice on the water and you're out and you're 17 years old straight bullet naked. >> Yes. >> Jump into a lake. >> Yes, sir.
>> Yes, sir. >> And you just sit and feel the cold and what what what do you think at that time? Do you think like that what was your thought process? What's that doing for you the first time you did it? >> I was not thinking. I was just feeling and and at a certain moment became aware, hey, the cold is totally not what people think it is. >> It [clears throat] is not negative or aggressive. It is a nice feeling. >> Yes. >> So, it was completely contra contradictory to my concept of the way I I was taught it all was. Oh, and then there I left it. And then I came back the other day with the doubt. Yeah, today I will not have that same feeling. This was unique. No, it was not unique. >> And every time it is once again cold. It is cold. And like we met just like with Steve. Yes. >> And Steve is sometimes Yeah. I take a cold shower always, but sometimes my feeling is saying, "Ah, no, no, not today. It's okay." But you get to get rid of that psychology. >> That is comfort zone behavior. >> Comfort zone behavior. >> Yeah. That psychology. It weakens us. >> Well, us as homo sapiens, we've sort of been brought up to be cuddled, you know, clothing kept warm, fires, central heating, and you're out in the cold and straight away get a coat on, get gloves on, get a hat on. So, we are never exposed to the cold. And I I guess you know back in the cave band days that's all we had. It was cold. You know you were cold all the time. You wear wear a bit of rabbit skin over your over your bull sack and that's about it, wasn't it? So we've become disconnected. >> From the cold. What do you think when you got those feelings after you did the cold therapy? Was it like a happy feeling or a self-worth feeling or >> it's a now [clears throat] it know shows
>> it's a now [clears throat] it know shows the hormones the dopamine which is lacking in people who are depressive. >> Yes. >> 250% more. >> So after you've exposed yourself to cold you have two on average I'm going to imagine 250% more dopamine levels. >> Dopamine levels. And that's that's insane cuz dopamine is like the biggest thing for our hormones and and that triggers so much like triggers our testosterone. It triggers our immune system. >> It's our neurot connectors in the body. >> Yeah. >> Then you get these sequences of neurotransmitter neural activity going on. Flow >> you get flow and it is stronger than our conditioned mind and body uh schooled by our comfort zone behavior. >> Yes. And that makes us feel who we are and what we are. And that is excellent. >> So in your opinion, is that why do you think is that why you think depression's crept in on us? We're not exposing ourselves to the cold enough. >> Oh yes, absolutely. There's no danger. Depression is a lack of blood flow in certain areas in the brain. >> Depression, the name says it. >> It's nothing abstract. It is no pressure. Yeah. Pressure loss. Depression. If you take take a tire of your wheels, hey yeah it's deinflated it's de the pressure is gone we understand but in us we don't understand >> it's the same thing we have life force it is dependent on neurotransmitters on hormones >> when they are lacking because the blood flow is lacking inside the brain long term just 20% less or 10 20% less long-term causes depression. >> And now you go into the cold and suddenly a whole lot of blood flow with all the neurotransmitters is getting in and a depression is gone. >> Why are they not taking that up? That is
>> Why are they not taking that up? That is my question. >> Well, [laughter] can you imagine? Right. So, going to the doctor and this I'm seeing saying this. So, imagine going to the doctor and he diagnoses you with depression. Instead of prescribing you a tablet such as Prozac or or whatever to to to cure that depression, imagine if he prescribed you three ice baths a week. >> Yes. Exactly. >> It sounds ridiculous, but it's actually what the doctors need to say, isn't it? >> Yes. And you know what? the uh the breathing exercises >> which derived derived uh from going into the ice once I learned to breathe like we did this morning slowly and long I could stay longer and longer and longer in the cold water that means I was uh uh influencing into the biochemistry that enables me to adapt to the cold water. Cold water is power comes to you and it wants to fatigue you. You be get cold because you have no fuel anymore to feed the adrenal axis. Your body becomes weaker and you begin to uh to become feeble and all. No, through this breathing technique I could stay longer and longer and longer and longer. At a certain moment, I began to separate the the breathing from the cold and do it at home. And then I saw so many things. >> All all what was written in these esoteric books about chakras and lights and Christianity and all they all come to me now. The Catholics the Christians they come now. PhDs they come now because breath is ruach breath is the spirit. This is the way we were born. This is the way got in. And this is uh uh now taken up by the psychiatry the world of psychiatric and uh mental disorders >> when cognitive therapies do not work anymore. >> Do the whim up breathing. >> Yeah.
>> Yeah. >> And you break the chemistry and suddenly you feel great. >> Yeah. I mean I'm I'm all aboard whim. I've been doing your breathing methods and the cold exposure for years now and it's made such a huge difference to my life and it's it's nice to see uh practices taking your methods and in like what's the right word putting it in infrastructure in people's lives. Um I mean for instance we've probably all seen the the stuff going on on social media. In Japan, if people are depressed, a doctor can actually prescribe you to go and have a walk in a forest for 2 hours and you have to have time off work and you have to go and do that walk and that's a prescription and it's and you see it and it's like all the comments are like that's stupid, laughable, but it's like that's so sensible rather than prescribing a tablet that's going to get you stuck in the in the mindset of oh I'm just going to keep keep carrying Keep taking these tablets. Hopefully, you'll get better. >> Versus going out for a walk in the woods, breathing deep. Because walking makes you breathe deep anyway, doesn't it? Seeing the nature, getting vitamin D, changing you. >> Yeah. That That's it. That's it. Forest give oxygen. >> Yes. >> And forests take their food is our CO2. >> So we are actually one >> thriving off each other. >> Yeah. This is omniresence. And when you live in the omnipresence, you live in the cycle. Then the flow comes and it goes through your body to the trees and back. It's the way the nature works. So forest bathing, it's called a a forest bath. >> Forest bathing. I like that. >> Yeah. And uh and that that is just Yeah. Amazing. Now we can even do it without forest bathing. >> Just do this 25 minutes of ritual every day and you feel not only grounded, you are completely reset. you completely cleanse you of the wrong biochemistry. You perform better, you feel better and
You perform better, you feel better and and uh you are connected to a deeper physiology and you have it in control. >> Yeah, I agree. >> That's your mood, your emotion. >> There's been times where I've woke up in the morning and felt groggy as hell, puffy face, stuffy nose, and I've actually traveled and gone to a wooded area and gone for a walk with my dog. And I get back in the car after and my stuffy nose is gone. >> Yeah. >> My puffiness is gone. I feel better. I feel lighter. I feel more energetic. And it's just getting out. As I say, it's just getting out. >> Being amongst the natural and the nature, the Ca2 exchange with the trees. >> Such a big such a big thing. Such a big thing. Take me take me back to the cold though. So, at 17, you start start going into lakes and you start exposing yourself to the cold and you start implementing the breathing. How long were you spending in those lakes? What would be like like a minute, five minutes, 10 minutes, an hour? >> You know, sometimes I would be a whole night outside in my shorts sitting >> in >> freezing temperatures >> in water or in just outside. >> Outside and we got a lake there in Amsterdam. M >> I would swim in December like now I would swim to the other side like 800 m that way and 800 m back. >> Wow. So a mile. Yeah. >> A mile and that on regular basis and that is being alone. >> Just being into the wild to me that is the cold. >> So I mean >> it is not climbing Mount Everest or something like that. No, you go into the cold you find yourself in the depth. So swimming uh so 800 meters, how long would that take? It take you about 15 minutes each way. >> Oh yeah. >> Thereabouts. A steady swim. >> So you took it a good half an hour just swimming across a lake. >> Oh yeah. Yes. >> And that was like enjoyable for you. You loved it. And the >> normal bath discipline, normal ritual. >> And then the when did the breath work
>> And then the when did the breath work start to come away? So you use the breath to sort of steady yourself in the water, become one with the water, slow your heart rate, get your breathing down, control >> doing breath work outside, this is where you caught my attention was the breath work you did outside. [snorts] Where did that come from? How did you sort of realize what you do makes a difference to the human body? >> Going back to when I was 17 for the first time, I went into the icy water and I didn't feel it as gold. So, so I went back and so I went back every day in that whole winter and then I found out if I slowly breathe I get a trance. I I'm changing my bio biochemistry inside. You can feel it. >> How did you feel it? >> If you if we would do it like >> tingle sensation or >> Yes. tingling sensations. You feel you're really filling up. You're you're charging up. >> I could stay like for for four, five, six, seven minutes under the water. >> Under the water. >> Oh, under the water. On what? >> Hey, this is not the Wimhof method. This is my experience. I'm in a extreme sportsman. >> This is your trial and error. >> Yeah, that's it. That's it. Nothing to do with the Wimhof method. We have to be very cautious about it because people >> So you don't want anybody out there going out >> try to copy if he can do it I can do it. No >> the whim of method which is derived from going into these extremes because originally it was because I wanted to find my soul. What is the deeper meaning of life? Where are my limits? Who am I in the depth? All those questions were running around. The cold made it shut up. And then I started to do this breathing. Then I separated because I saw it so being so effective being longer and
being so effective being longer and longer in the cold water. That must be a power. So then I separated. I did the same breathing but inside the house in warm and all. And then I saw all the lights, >> all whatever is the nervous system to the depth and go the the whole thing and [clears throat] and then you don't need you you you see it's not in books, >> it's in yourself >> and the breath is the most closest companion. I I I tell this to even special forces in Pearl Harbor. Yeah. with the Britain don't go you know what is the real h companion that is your breath when you have to make decisions of life and death be a human >> control your emotions through controlling the through deep breathing the moment of stress of life and death and there it is so uh [clears throat] uh this is what I teach uh people and this should for example being taught in the schools in in America where they where these shootings are because these kids don't know what that is their emotion and a a a a way a a system that is uh only schooling children all the same way. Well, everybody is different. One loses his identity >> and they they then shoot their parents and their siblings and then they shoot everybody else. They so gone they are. This is what the system does. And so I say, hey, get back to the breath. The breath is your companion and is a companion that makes you able to stay connected to your soul >> in good emotion, peaceful and powerful. So that is what I saw with the breathing in the beginning. Uh and I cultivated it
in the beginning. Uh and I cultivated it and I did it at nausea. ridiculum all kinds of variance and I would say controlled past out >> and do oh so and then wake up get high on your own supply the breath is able to knock you out. >> Yeah. And that is what I some I did all these things and [laughter] then I came in contact with TV at a certain moment. But before that happened my wife drama of life. >> My wife suicided in 95 having a depression manic depressed schizophrenia. I wasn't aware at that moment about the method being so strong, being able to regulate depression. I wasn't aware. I was pract practicing it for myself, but I was not passing it on. So, she the mother of my four children is that stays forever. >> It's soul bound. She is here. To me, the afterlife is here. >> I just have contact and they she looks over my shoulder. She helps us. I got I have a company with my four kids, her kids. Yeah. >> And it's going great. It's going great. >> For 40 years, nobody gave a [ __ ] about I what I was doing. >> Only when my oldest son came in, put a framework around what I was doing, it became successful. That was one for money. The other thing is sides. I brought it to sides and now it appears to be that we have broken what we understand is possible in the human mind and body. >> Yeah, >> that is the autonomic nervous system,
>> that is the autonomic nervous system, the innate immune system and now it is the central nervous system. Now I will sit in a couple of months with the authority in the world on the Vegas nerve who is one of the most cited scientists in the world. I'm sitting next to him in a panel in the biggest scientific conference in the world. That's where who I am. A drop out of school taught by nature. When I lost my wife, I really intensified going into the practice to get a hold of this broken heart >> to get back my emotion and emotional warmth and life for my four kids because we were stayed behind and we had no money at all. >> And it worked. And if that works in this society where uh individualism is so strong and community is actually gone then you are on your own in the middle of a city you can feel so alone and then with four kids and a broken heart how to get out that's the cold and that's where I say the cold is your warm friend and the breath is the cleanser You become the alchemist. You get control over your emotion by controlling the breath. And the emotion is the expression of our soul. >> So how you dealt with the loss of your wife then breathing cold exposure. >> Oh that that that that it was >> it was not complicated. I did not need pills. Said I I never never ever took a pill. >> Wait a minute. That is not true. Once once no but here it is at one time once I I had a double pneumonia. >> Okay. >> In the middle of the summer, >> right? >> Yeah. And then uh I I collapsed like
>> Yeah. And then uh I I collapsed like this and I went to the doctor and he gave me a prescription antibiotics for six weeks. I just took one pill and it was gone. >> Okay. So that pill was amazing. I think it is more that I thought it was going to help me. So I just a little of that and that placebo power >> that is their power >> and we forget about it >> because we give our power to others while we have it in us. >> Yeah. >> So 1995 how old were you then when? >> That is 30 years ago. 36. >> 36. So 36, you've got four kids. Yes. What a age they would have been about like 10. >> Yeah. 12 to old. Old oldest >> down to seven. Wow. So that's that's a [ __ ] I mean to bring it up four kids on your own at that age. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Tough. [ __ ] hard. What was What was money like for you then? >> Every penny had to be uh Yeah. looked at. So uh >> what were you what were you doing for work then when how what was your income? >> No, I had an allowance >> and uh social security income but I worked on the sides as a garden and whatever I could do I did. >> And so uh but it it really is the cold and the breathing my discipline. Every morning at 4:00 I was up doing my discipline and then I was ready for the day before they went to school and I served my kids and they they had a great youth. >> Sounds like your kids are thriving now. Those those four kids especially sounds like they're thriving. >> They are very grounded, very down to earth and very lovable. >> Good. Are those the four kids that work with you in your business? Yes. Today? All four of them?
All four of them? >> Yeah. All four of them. All four of those kids with your first wife. >> Yes. >> Work with you today. How how special is that? >> Yeah. This just amazing. >> We got We think now of moving all to Madiraa. >> Madira is like a Spanish island. >> Yeah. Yeah. Portuguese island tropical. >> Okay. >> And we got a business over there already. >> Yeah. What's the business? >> Yeah. uh about apps, wellness, uh all that retreat, keynotes, >> all all that. It's >> So, you're all hopefully picking up shop and moving to Madira. Yeah. Is that the plan? >> Yeah, >> that's sounds awesome. Yeah. >> Taking your whole family there. >> The whole family. >> Are they the ones with the grandkids as well? >> mate. That's awesome. >> Yeah. Yeah. It's going to be a big bunch over there. Yeah. >> Beautiful. So, you're all selling up and just buggering off Madiraa. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> That's great. >> That's the plan. >> That's great. I just born last week, >> by the way, last week this idea. >> Oh, right. Born. >> I just showed you the photo. >> So, it's a brand new idea. >> Yeah. With the big heater and all >> the that big fireplace. So, that's is that the place you're going about buying >> and all these guys. >> Wow. Yeah. >> They're present. We decided we're going to go over there. First one, then another then. Oh, let's go. Oh, >> nice. >> Cohesion family. >> Amazing. Look, good for you, mate. That sounds really if you can get all your family involved and that's a dream of mine is to >> when I grow old is to have all my family in one place, you know, a big ranch in Texas or something and just all live on a farm, live off the land and just all be together is the thing >> that it is. And I think this is in society lacks. >> The family, the the the mama, pop, kids in harmony, in happiness, strength and health. That's my message. >> Yes. I think that's so important. You see a lot there's so many uh kids and it's not a purpose thing they do, but
it's not a purpose thing they do, but everyone tends to want to move away from the parents these days. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Get away and get away from where they're from. And I'm like, why? It's like these are your roots. You know, your mom and dad are here. Like I I live just around the corner from my mom and dad. >> And honestly, it fills me with so much love and joy being close to my parents. Having them involved in my kids' lives. It's so nice. It is so nice. Yeah. So, >> yeah. That there was in 1920 was an epidemic in the America going on of heart attacks in 1920. >> Yeah. 1920 around there and they had there was a Italian immigration from Ros Ros Rosittita Rosita or Rosetta something like that. and they went to America and they lived over there in a equal kind of climate, you know, Tosskadi there in that neighborhood. So they had vines and and they work and they live together. They work together and they they talk to each other. They got this verbal communication. Where do you go? That is kind of a music and puppy, their grandpa is home. The grandma is taking care of the little kids and it all thrives. >> Yeah. >> So the epidemic was everywhere in America except for there. And then they were looking ass because the fathers and the and the granddads it's all living together >> from the heart. >> Yeah, I get that. >> Then you don't get that. >> I I get that. >> So that that is what results if you don't live in the harmony of the family structure. I've seen some studies recently of um kids that spend regular time with their grandparents have something like a 50% less chance of suffering with depression.
suffering with depression. It's the the the stats. I remember reading the study. I was like that's insane. The difference it makes being around family is so powerful. Yes. >> So I that I believe that like when people are splitting families up I can believe that. It's like broken hearts, isn't it? >> Yes. Yes. >> And brings stress. It is natural. You do not even notice how it works. >> Subconscious. >> Yeah, it is subconscious. We are social interactive human beings >> and we need to live in a community. Yes. >> We need to talk to each other. It all has functionality. >> Yeah. >> So if it is not we are one body with different organs. Different people in different stages of life have different functionality >> and that needs to come back. >> Yes. Uh because we live in a with all these technological extensions and telephones and television. Being entertained of uh who we actually are >> alienates us from our nature and logically we get mental disorders, autoimmune diseases. Conflict with the soul itself >> causes it. Long term you don't notice it and there it is. Boom. But suddenly it creeps in. It's neurotoxic. >> I get it. I get it. Whim, talk to me about some of the scientific studies you've done because you've done I remember seeing and this is probably when you got quite well known. I would imagine you did a study where they injected you or gave you eoli. >> Ecoli bacteria >> and you fought it off via breath work and cold exposure. Am I right thinking that? No, no, not even cold exposure. Just breath breath work. >> Okay. Tell me expos with cold exposure would work even better. Okay. >> So, well, I got in contact with uh uh in 2007. 2007 I was in New York with uh Dr. Kevin
2007 I was in New York with uh Dr. Kevin Tracy who wanted to do a test on me >> in Manhasset, New York. He is New York State healthcare person number one. >> Yes. He supervises in his institute that's the Feinsteate Institute and he is the boss and he controls he invited me invited me to get blood from here and this was connected to a heart and a lunger. >> Yeah. Okay. >> So there there I sat in a warm uh uh chair in a in a room and now you do what you do. Say I don't know what you're doing. I'm going to just do the breathing. So they while they were taking the blood and I was doing my breathing and because the long and heart meter they only go for when you two minutes don't breathe >> then it goes flatline the person is dead or they thought because I was into my breathing I was longer than two minutes without breathing they they they thought me me a red light and then a a doctor came in and took away the machine thinking it was defect. >> Yes. >> You got a new machine in and then 10 minutes later. >> So why was that going off? Because you were holding your breath. >> Yeah. >> Right. >> I was simply doing what? Hey, do what you do. What I do? I'm doing breathing exercises and I I give it all I got. >> And and so I did that. I And after the third machine, I was on. I was on and after one and a half hour uh uh it was done and week later I got a week later I got a telephone call with the results. The results were based upon 307 uh blood markers. >> Uhhuh. which uh would be able to show uh
>> Uhhuh. which uh would be able to show uh uh the influence of the vagus nerve and the vagus nerve is the one who brings down inflammation in our bodies. >> Yes. >> And nobody had shown before how to bring down inflammation because nobody was able to control according to medical science the autonomic activated and controlled vag nerve. >> Yes. So then these 307 blood markers were being uh examined and they said and they saw and then I got a phone call. I got a phone call. Listen well said Dr. uh can come talking to me whim if you are able to reproduce what you did in other people that that means huge consequences for human mankind >> and it's now in a book and oh I can tomorrow can I can send it all then you see it of the most cited scientists saying thish >> and then but this was 2007 so I got this phone Paul looking over the central park in somewhere in a hotel and said wow say while he was saying it huge consequences for human mankind remember what my mother had told I want him to be a missionary >> or God let this child live I make him a missionary is what she said so I got that right there at that moment the missionary was born hey that's my mission because I can easily reproduce what I did and what I always believed I can to influence deeply into the immune system and bring down inflammation. So there at that moment my the missionary was born my mission was born 20 >> what did those results show? >> Yeah it showed that I uh was activating uh the vagus nerve in such a manner that
uh the vagus nerve in such a manner that inflammation effectively all went down. Okay. So you just reduced mass inflammation markers in the blood. >> The inflammation markers and inflammation is the cause and effect of disease itself. >> Yes. And that comes back to the E.coli. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> How is it? How is it? How are you exposed to it? >> Yeah. >> They eject it >> into an arm or a vein. >> Yeah. In a vein. >> In a vein. >> In a vein. Directly. >> [ __ ] That's >> So yeah, there I did the same breathing as I did in 2007. Now fast forward is 2011. But half hour later when I received that phone call in 2007 of Dr. Ken Karma with the result of the Vegas nerve and the inflammation going down, I got a phone call that my mother had died. Half hour half hour later. >> Wow. Okay. >> You see? >> Yeah. Yeah. So you connected the dots. >> Ah that Oh yeah. >> That is your mission. Yeah. >> Boom. So I'm a man on a mission now. And then I heard nothing anymore >> suddenly and then I thought oh what what's going on because these uh uh um results were amazing according to the doctors and and now suddenly nothing later I found out they are into neuro stimulative devices to bring down information by a device >> a a chip in the vagus nerve >> and and that makes money. Yes. >> If you if it is natural, doesn't make money. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. >> Oh, there's the deal. >> I'm guilty. I've got one of those Vegas devices. >> I know. And it's okay because I got the originator. He's a friend now of mine. >> Neurosim is the one. >> Yeah. Neurosim. He's got 130 medical patents. Okay. >> Dr. Kevin Tracy and he is the expert in the world. I can show you all that. But that there's nothing. Fast forward four years later, I get connection with the
years later, I get connection with the Radouti University because I was going to show how to within 80 minutes in direct contact with ice h how I was able to maintain core body temperature. I even went one degree up. >> So you were sat in so you were sat in and you managed to increase >> Yes. >> your body temperature. >> Yeah. What? Like one degree and then it stayed there 80 minutes long and they took the blood. >> Yeah. >> And that blood was being exposed in the laboratory setting with endotoxin. Endotoxin is ecoli by >> and normally in that serum of the blood it makes an aggressive reaction in my case zero. >> Okay. This was after 16,000 times that they had examined the same blood types of all types of humans and all aggressive reactions aggressive that same information. >> So in my case, >> you supercharged your blood. >> Yeah, that's it. I supercharged my blood. That is what the cold breathing and believing do. And that is healing. >> What do you think it does? Healings power. >> What do you think it does to your blood? What do you think does it >> it alkalizes? >> Alkalizes. So explain to me what alkalize. Alkalizing is pa p you got a pH level. Yes. In your blood >> and uh when you become acidic, it's being stored up in the lymphatic system. >> And for example, today you did 60 times 30 kilos or 60 kilos or 60 kilos. It's like 3,600 kilos >> in in a minute. Something like that. And then and then you did a little bit of supercharging. So we call it that way now. >> Okay. >> And and you did uh uh uh over 30.
>> And and you did uh uh uh over 30. >> Yeah. 5,400 kilos in in the same amount of time. Maybe a little longer, but not so much. And that is exactly what we miss out in in our society. Deep breathing cuz the breathing the breath is the spirit. This is the way we were born. It's the last thing we see when we die. >> So there is the spirit. So [gasps] we live in a society that makes us conditioned weaker >> and the breath is able to get past conditioning. So the alkalizing of the blood, you think that's the key? >> And and breath and the cold. >> Absolutely. One of the keys. >> And what's what's the magic pH level? Do you know it >> here? The the normally it's three 7.3 7.4. >> Okay. >> Yeah. Too much is not good. Too little is not good. But what we do is bring it spike it a little bit out of the normal. Too high. >> Yeah. And when it becomes too high, you don't feel because the breathing trigger is dependent on the carbon dioxide in the body. When it builds up, you need to breathe to equalize it. >> So now whether it is too alkaline sort of this is the bioact you don't need to breathe. There's nothing wrong with the biochemistry in your body when it is too alkaline. It just goes back. M >> but there is a time that you don't breathe and there is where the oxygen goes down yet the biochemistry is still okay >> okay >> but you don't need oxygen but now it goes to the deep brain saying hey this is dangerous but we are doing this consciously as a bioac >> so what happens now is that the deep brain activates the adrenal axis
brain activates the adrenal axis >> okay >> and this is what we miss out in our comfort zone behavior. There is no tiger. There is no uh cold anymore. There's no heat. There is no danger anymore. >> Yeah. >> This is the deep brain that activates the adrenal axis, hypothalamus, pitutary gland, adrenal glands. And that one is able to expel all the [ __ ] out of your body to be the best of functionality to flee and fight. >> So it expels all the [ __ ] How does it expel all the [ __ ] It goes so deep adrenaline that when somebody has danger of heart they put adrenaline directly in. >> Yes. Yeah. Yeah. >> That property it has to get get even past death or clinical death and get people back. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> It gets into the depth of our body and anything that is not should not be there will be expelled like in a moment. Boom. Out like poison, neurotoxins, cancer cells. >> So pushed into the bladder, the >> a bladder intestic testicles anywhere. >> Anywhere it's good for anything. that besides of that if you had made love to your wife and you like to go again and it's not really there do a little breathing >> because then all the hormones they get back the testosterone >> probably just get to sleep I'll be honest with him >> yeah yes yeah me too me too but sometimes I just like another round >> you just want to yeah you want to cement that eighth kid >> yes >> yeah absolutely yeah just for that it is already good and uh and and your wife would love it too. >> So whip are you telling me right? So so you you give your misses a good scene too, right? And then you you you lay in bed and do your breath work.
bed and do your breath work. >> Yeah. >> And she just lays there and what did you do? And then you jump on her again. >> Oh yeah, I did. I tested out many times. It works. It really works. [laughter] Yeah. Hey guys, quick one from me and a word from our sponsor. Now, you know, I'm always looking for ways to stay strong, recover faster, and keep my [music] energy up, which is why I've been using do not age.org. They're a health research organization focusing on real science for better health and longevity. Lately, I've been taking their NMN product for energy and their C 6 activator for [music] longevity and naturalist to keep my blood flow on point. And I'm genuinely feeling a big difference. So visit do notage.org and fuel your performance [music] from the cells up. And you can use code beast for 10% off all ingredients. That's do not age.org. Thank you. And let's get back to the podcast. >> Brilliant. >> Have you got your MS doing the breath work? Is Is she on it? Yeah. >> Oh yeah. This is where my M's name is uh Eron White. >> Erin White. White. Erin White. Why Erin White? Like what was it today? Wit more. >> Yes. Yeah. Yeah. >> Witmore the the lakes and all the cold water. And I say wipe more. It's so I remembered it's a thing is I met her on one of my retreats. >> Okay. So >> she was not in my group. >> So she was a part of a group learning from you. >> Yes. 10 years ago. >> And uh the last day I met her on the way back we climbed a mountain. All of us like 150 people. And uh I met her on the slopes going back from the top summit down there. And that was Miss White, Aaron White, in the snow in her bikinis. >> She is Snow White. And I'm the iceman. This is the way we met. This >> is meant to be.
>> is meant to be. >> And and there we got a a random talk about Yeah. What do you do this the last day? What are you going to do tomorrow? I'm going to do uh uh some uh uh freelance work somewhere, you know, where philanthropic work or something >> for nothing. It's a go somewhere. Said, oh, why don't you come with me? I said I used to take people the last when I go back to the Netherlands, hey, stay stay with me. It's nice. Not women. And I said there's no sex involved. a job directly after when she came in. But that's another story. It was not premeditated. Okay. It was not premeditated. >> Of course, it was it was her name. Aaron White. Snow White. I found her in the snow. This is the way she came with me the other day. I forgot about her. And I said, I said, "Goodbye hotel and goodbye." And there she stood in the lobby >> and there Oh, yeah. No, come on in. As soon as she got in the car and I was driving in the curve down toward the mountain, >> I had her in and I was on the hunt. [laughter] >> And when I came in in Germany >> in a rashet, a parking lot and I did I had a trainee with me and it was all decent and nice. She sat in the back and I was all trying to get get the lines going. So, uh, she came with a coffee, none asked for, not requested by me. I had some exercise. I said she gave it to me. Is a coffee and said I said you got to be you should be my wife. I told her and she said why not? So that evening I jumped on her and since ever I am on. >> Yeah. I got two kids now. >> And two kids later
>> And two kids later >> and uh and you probably coming. >> Yeah. Yeah. How How old is your wife? >> Uh 38. >> Oh wow. I mean I'm I'm like I'm 38 next month. >> So your wife's my age. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 38. So 38 and 66. >> Yeah. So it's 28 years difference. >> Yeah. But you see it yourself. Look at yourself. You are a world teacher. >> You [clears throat] you are around a the Yeah. You're great man. >> Thanks. >> It doesn't age doesn't make great men. >> It does not experience. >> It's the courage, the spirit that does it. Absolutely. >> So a 12 year old can be more advanced than a six year old. >> Yes. Okay. So there it is. And this is the way I want to bring faith back into our children. Yeah. Superman, that's marvelous. Superman, superwoman. No, be superb. >> Be the best in yourself. That's the best thing you can do in the whole of the universe. >> What's What's your goal with the breath work in the cold? What's your goal with it ultimately? uh just to give people a tool to get the best out of themselves, >> to get past their conditioning, to past the confines of the mind. >> Keep that simple. >> Would you like to see it implemented into early education? >> Oh yes. Four years. >> This is the solution in America. And any uh person from America listening to this who's got some uh uh power to pull strings whatever >> to get this in the schooling system there brings children with the ability to regulate their emotions. >> Maybe you get the sack, maybe you get a divorce, maybe you get death. But if you
divorce, maybe you get death. But if you are in control over the breath and your biochemistry does you feel still feel okay still the suffering is there but you remain in the core okay you can deal with it isn't that logical that you should have that capability instead of only being overwhelmed all the time getting depressed and you don't know what to do and there you are and you got the sh take the [ __ ] cuz it hits the fan No, you are the one. >> I mean, it's it's it's almost so obvious that it's not obvious. Does that make sense? Like, >> yes, >> we as humans need I mean, what do we need to survive? We need oxygen, right? We need fuel. And that's pretty much it. We need a bit of sun. And why would we not want to thrive in those three elements? Why would you not want to thrive in the breath? Why would you not want to thrive in your diet? And why would you not want to thrive in the sun? You get those three things nailed down. Your your health, your mental health, everything's going to go through the roof. So I I completely get the vision. Like if we can teach people to use the breath. We we're breathing right [ __ ] now. And people like we've just I I guess we've forgotten how to breathe, haven't we? >> That that's it. >> We've forgotten how to [ __ ] >> We are breathing properly. >> Shallow breathers. >> Shallow brevers. And and this is because of the narratives of the governments of the systems >> that are not necessarily serving the soul. It serves a a a kind of a dual a dualistic a kind of mindset of people wanting to control others. >> Yes. >> Who have actually no control over themselves. But we live in that paradigm and with that we get into a conditioning confines. We get entangled. We get narrowminded
We get entangled. We get narrowminded and we don't know how to get out of that. >> So the breath is the one that is able to go past these confines, past the conditioning. Then you only remember who you are, what you are, and what you are here for. Because every person has a mission. Every person has a purpose. Once you live up to your purpose and you can feel it through the life force coming in everywhere then it comes then sanity comes the soul comes appears then this place becomes a paradise because I I just did a study with 500 people and it's been published in nature and it it's compared >> what's nature is that like a website >> scientific journal >> yeah Okay. >> It's a scientific >> called nature. >> Yeah. Called nature scientific reports and they there we are in uh with that big study of 500 people >> and it shows that this method is able to battle stress much better than meditation. Meditation was thought of it that will salage your mind will bring down anxiety and stress and inflammation and you are more peaceful equanimity control all that. This works better. This works better because cold can imagine you go into distress directly. >> Yes. >> And you have to adapt and you have to learn to abide to the laws of nature itself. And the laws of nature gave all the power to battle strap. That's why we adapt. That's why we feel so good afterwards. But that afterwards is only because we went out of our conditioning. Now our being out of our conditioning would make people feel unconditionally in love with life. And there is no
in love with life. And there is no disease, no conflict with the soul, no inflammation, no whatsoever dualism, no doubt. It is just being. >> It's like when you are looking at your little child, you are unconditional in love. And that should be with anything else in life. And we are missing out. We are living in these narratives, governments, systems, sodomizing the planet and giving us the blame. >> Yeah. the the normal people. It should stop. People should not drain others or control others but learning to control themselves >> and to have that unconditional power of life. A power which is stronger than our thinking brain every day present by which you don't need any motivation. You are just there and you do what your purpose is telling you. Everybody is having a purpose. That's why we got this incarnation, this body of ours, >> but nobody is living to it and too much doubt going on, too much depression and disease and wars and all that. So the breath simply gives you back the steer wheel of your soul, your emotion. Once you learn to control, this is what they said the neuroscientist. Now we have the compelling evidence of the key components of the autonomous processes in the brain. Autonomous is outside the will. Now we got the key and we it's inside of our will. Re now we got the key components of the autonomous processes in the brain related to mood regulation. That's emotion. >> Yeah. >> And emotion is who we are. A happy man doesn't go to war. A happy man is not into greed. But do you control yourself, your emotion? Are you able to connect there with with the deepest of that
there with with the deepest of that purpose that makes you happy? Cuz then nothing else you need. You don't need to grab others. You are >> equinimity itself, a Buddhist or something. I don't know spiritual spiritually. You are simply fully there. And that is what I wish for every person in the world. >> Are you happy when >> Oh yeah, I'm bloody happy and [ __ ] crazy too. >> Crazy happy >> about my h life and my wife. >> Yes. >> I'm driven by my purpose. That's why I'm sitting here >> making babies >> next to next to a man who is driven by purpose as well. >> Nice. >> And I made babies. Yes. I love babies. Yeah. What makes you happiest? >> Yeah, my babies. >> Your babies? Your kids? >> Yeah. But also, I was ecstatic a couple of days ago when the article came out because that and this morning when I saw you doing instead of 60 reps >> a little 10 minutes later. >> Yeah. So you did 90 reps >> and you gave it all you got the first time >> and you gave it all you got and it's for was 50% more moment. >> Yeah. >> That that those moments make me happy. Why? Because it is documented. Yes. >> It's documented by which we can spread it out and give it to people who still live in confusion. This is doubt and all. >> Yeah. This is the problem is you you can sit here and talk about these things and people will be listening in like surely just breathing cannot do this for me but I've been there and done it like today. So, for those listening in and and and and watching, me and Win went the gym and I picked 30 kilo dumbbells up and I did a shoulder press and I did I just said to myself, I'm going to go until I can't go anymore until my shoulders are burning and everything's hurting. And I did 60 reps on 30 kilo dumbbells in a
did 60 reps on 30 kilo dumbbells in a shoulder press position. And then give myself about four or five minutes rest. Had a drink. I [snorts] did the breathing method with whim which did how many breaths do you reckon we did? About 30 40 deep breaths. >> That's it. >> 30 40 deep breaths and I did the same weight. I did 30 kilo but I did 90 reps and it was easier. >> So So I did 50% more reps and I honestly felt as though I could have done more. I don't know why I stopped. It just felt so so easy. I think I stopped just through sheer shock of I there's no way I can do 100. I didn't want to push my body that hard. Um, but yeah, it's it's stuff like that really does make me believe it. And I've I've been doing breath work for a long time with using your method, doing the cold therapy, and I've got a hyperbaric chamber as well. So, you know, I'm very in with my oxygen and recovery and it's made such a difference to my life, like such a big difference. More >> I'd say more mentally than physically, but it's had some great physical benefits as well. You know, I do it before my fight training. I'll do it. If I'm getting stressed, I'll just go sit in my car and do it, you know? Um, doing it before weights. And it all helps. It all makes such a big difference. And you just got to go out and [ __ ] try it. There's people out there that sit there confused and >> you just got to try it. And and and what pisses me and >> like a lot of these people that are ill and feeling down and feeling feel stuck in a rut is they'll make an effort to go to the doctors, right? old people, you know, fat, decrepit, whatever, ill, and they'll go to the doctors and they'll sit there and pray for a prescription, for a tablet or a medicine or something that will make them feel better. But just imagine if that doctor sat there and went, "Right, I'm going to prescribe you 30 deep breaths and you'll feel better." And they'll be like, "No, I'll just take the tablet." And that that's the problem with today's society is they don't want to believe
society is they don't want to believe that natural remedies and natural methods can work. We're so governed and led to believe that that is the only way to fix yourself. It's [ __ ] obscene. And you you're right, Whim. You need to spread this message, mate, of >> So that made me happy this morning >> very much. >> And you did it. Yeah, you are a world champ because of your deeds. >> Living proof. Like it's on my YouTube channel. It's titled the the Iceman versus World's Strongest Man. Go and check it out. And we say we did this thing in the gym and I was honestly my mind was blown how many more reps I did. >> It was insane. >> Amazing. >> And and this is the way we can we can break our mental patterns, our conditioning, our narrowmindedness. We have so much more power in store than we think. Yes. Think about that. >> That is what I say to the viewer. Look at Eddie. Look, he is a mirror of what human like is possible and he does more. >> So what can you do? This the principle we want to pass on is that the breath is the one that gives you back the power of alchemy within your own body to make you feel good. Do you want to feel good? Try it out. If it doesn't work, blame me. But try it out at least once. >> If it doesn't work, blame me. I like that. >> How do people find you, Whim? You've got a website, whimhofme method.com. >> Exactly. and an app. >> Yeah, we we got an app. The thing is I've I've never been on my own website. >> Okay. >> It's all around me. You you can find these breathing tutorials on YouTube. Wimhof breathing. It says then over the 100 million. >> Yeah. I tell you what, things like that.
>> Yeah. I tell you what, things like that. >> Can you bring up that breathing method video on YouTube, please, Sam? >> So, and this is this is something I I found on you very early on. um was the Wimhof breathing method and this is what got me think and we'll talk about this in a second but the buzz this breathing exercise gave me was [ __ ] insane. So it's the 30 deep breaths >> and then you exhale. >> Exhale. >> So fully empty your lungs >> and then hold your breath. >> Yeah. >> And you'd think within 15 20 seconds you'd be panicking and gasping for air. But >> honestly I have lasted the most I've ever done is 4 minutes. >> And I tell people and they're like [ __ ] off. That's not true. And I swear to God, I have exhaled and I have held my breath. I've timed it for 4 minutes. >> Wow. >> Without a single bit of oxygen in my lungs. >> Yes. >> So, let's um So, it's got like uh a mill 100 million views or something. Which one is it? >> 108. >> Tell you what, let's do it. >> Let's do it. >> Everyone do it. Breathe in. Breathe out. Breathe in. Breathe out. Just go with the flow of the breath. In, out, in, [music] exhale in. 3 2 one. Let it go. >> Round number two. >> Yeah. This is nice. This is what we did in the hospital. >> This is by which the immune system goes way up. Like my fingertips are tingling. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> When the toes are tingling >> system suddenly is electric. >> Everything's [clears throat] heightened. >> Yeah. Yeah. Get high on your own supply. That's what I'm saying about this. But this is exactly what I did. And then they gave me an injection of endo ecoli bacteria. >> Okay. So this bacteria didn't do anything. >> It's incredible, man. I mean, I do this.
>> It's incredible, man. I mean, I do this. So I do this breathing when I'm in my hyperbaric chamber. So when I'm breathing pure oxygen >> and obviously all the oxygen molecules are crushed down >> cuz it's under pressure. So I'm really ramping it up. And when I'm in my chamber, I can exhale and hold my breath for 4 minutes >> doing this. And that is honestly I can't do that on a full lung of air. I can't I couldn't I couldn't hold my breath for 4 minutes, but on the exhale I can. Yeah. >> Which is insane. >> Yeah. Yeah. That's a it's quite insane how we are able to manipulate through this biohack >> our body's alchemy bring down the carbon dioxide and then suddenly a cascade of uh the brain stem the survival brain jumps in >> and that is the adrenal axis. That is the access to the piaqueductal gray at hemisphere. all the canabonoids and the endockinabonoids and the opioids. >> We don't know how to deal with pain. But this is the one >> if you don't breathe. Imagine not breathing is like painful. >> But you can learn to control that. That means the impact of not breathing and being painful. You can biohack by which you get into these deep systems and and create all the opioids to deal with pain. Not only physical pain, also emotional and mental pain, >> spiritual pain. It's everything. It's the spirit. >> The beautiful beautiful thing is when you're doing that breathing. So, I empower you to go and find that YouTube video and just do it. There's three rounds of that. And every round you exhale and you hold your exhale a little bit longer. It goes like 1 minute 15, 1 minute 30. >> Yeah. >> But when you've got the method in your head, forget the minute, forget the minute half. Just do the 30 breaths, exhale, put a timer on, and just sink
exhale, put a timer on, and just sink into a chair. Just lie down and just say, "Oh, you'll be amazed how long you can do." And when you've done that three or four times, you forget everything. Like anything you had was in your brain beforehand, any depression, any negative thoughts, even if it's just for a short period, it's gone because all you are just so full of life. Everything's buzzing. Every feels ecstatic as you say. >> Yes. You you cleanse yourself. >> Cleanse yourself. That's how it feels. >> The adrenal access is on, expels all the [ __ ] and you feel the way unconditionally life is. M. >> So that was the breathing method you were doing in when they injected you with E.coli. >> Yes. >> And that fought off the E.coli cuz it alkalined your blood and p you know everything was >> And first [snorts] it was me alone. >> Then they [clears throat] thought whim how long does it take to get a little bit to the results the blood results of yours? Does it take a year one and a half year? I said no 10 days. I got two hands. >> 10 days. It became four days. Yeah, >> in 4 days I trained these people, these guys, 18 of them and they were compared to 18 others who had done something else but not that the 18 others they became all sick after injection of E.coli bacteria and the 18 I trained all not sick. >> Wow. So they carried on that study. >> So they did 18 people >> without the breathing. They all got sick. Yes. And they did 18 people with the breathing method and none of those got sick. >> 100% score. >> Wow. >> Then they uh they tripled the amount of people. The same thing. >> Doesn't sound believable. >> That it should have had the Nobel Prize. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's the university. >> That's insane. It's genuinely insane. Where's that study? Is it Is it available? >> It's done. It's a You can uh look it up. >> What's it called? >> Um E.coli endotoxmia experiment. Yeah.
>> Um E.coli endotoxmia experiment. Yeah. >> Rat about uni university. >> Okay. >> Wimhof. >> That's method. >> That's incredible. >> Yes, sir. >> You know, and you got to think if it's doing that to E.coli, what's it doing for every everything else? >> Yeah. E.oli. E.oli is quite a nasty bug. >> Yeah, it is. So, what's it doing? You know, when you've got the common cold, when you've got a bit of a bit of a stomach bug or Yeah. Lately, we did another little study with 51 people drinking alcohol. >> Mhm. >> Alcohol is like poison. >> Yes. >> But 2.4 billion people in the West drink alcohol >> regular or too much or this or that. Doesn't matter. It It does. I drank a lot, but now I don't drink anything anymore and I'm drunk of life anyway. >> So, it doesn't matter. Enjoy your drink, I would say. But in the end, it is poison. >> Because you get a hangover that is neurotoxic. Yes. >> Yeah. It's inside the body and you feel miserable. So we had 51 people peeing and breathalyzes to measure their amount of alcohol in the blood. There was nothing of course in the beginning and they did all kinds of exercises all protocol scientifically drink >> and then uh we had them drink drink with bracelets. You had to really go for it. And then the other day they all stayed over 51 people. We had them measured again all hangover. You could see that in the pee. You could see that in the breath. Yes. You could see that they were not able to perform cognitive tasks as good as without that neurotoxic residue, the hangover. And then they did breathing and they did the cold. Say one half hour to total.
half hour to total. All cured. So all the hang Yeah. Okay. >> All the hangovers. >> It got rid of all the toxins through the breathing and the cold experience. >> Yeah. And so what else is toxic to us? PFAS, microlastics, >> toxic relationships, uh, spike proteins, a medicine, side effects of medicines, a a whole set of things, >> normal food with all the additives. It's all poison. It's all poison. And that's what it is. Can we deal with poison? Yes. Use the breath. >> The breath is clean. I just explained it to a three-year-old. Look this clean here. >> Well, we hope it is >> if Yeah, we hope that also. Yeah, nowadays with the with the microplastics and all it does, but it is clean enough for if you take a little bit in and that's what the children do. They play they don't know what to do. >> Yeah. But I I I said but if you do this then it goes into the lungs then it goes into the blood goes to your toes to your fingertips goes everywhere and it cleanses it brings the this air inside there >> that is deep breathing and we don't breathe deep anymore. Yes. >> Because there is no danger. We not running only when we have sex. Why only when you have sex? You should have sex with life every day. Love life deeply [clears throat] and know what life is all about. >> Making babies. >> Yes. Oh, that could be. >> You're completely right though. We We have completely lost touch of those natural responses like how would we wash less than what 200 years ago? It would be cold water, wouldn't it? >> Yes. But the difference between 200 years ago and now is that we have a much
years ago and now is that we have a much more neural activity in our brain. >> That's uh because of our extension tools like iPhones and television and all it's all radiation getting into our brain waves and it mingles. It creates much more uh neurology neurological traffic. So there is a lot more going on but it does it's amazing what technology can do. >> Yeah. >> But are we happy? >> Are we strong? Are we healthy >> in general? We're not as as happy, strong and healthy as we were two years ago. >> That that and we forgot about that >> because our thinking brain has created all the technology >> and now the technology has taken over our brain >> and it doesn't let us live our feelings, our purpose of life that is no longer there. It's a it's a interchange of our extension of our minds, a human brain, but not necessarily the community of love and understanding with each other, living with each other. This is what the cold does. When you go with a group into the cold in just a couple of days, people naturally come together because they feel there is a an enigmatic there is a a opposing power outside and we and then naturally they cling to each other again it's community and the if there's doctor carpenter doesn't matter it's a just humans coming together this is what I see in all the retreats I do with 250 people The main thing that astonishes them is not only that they are hours on end in bikinis and shorts outside in freezing cold, but they're coming together that human social love and understanding without words. That is the missing link >> that creates so much depression and disease.
disease. >> How often do you do these retreats? You you do them quite regular. Are they all over the world as well? >> Yes. Uh uh I just did it in Sweden before and what Poland >> this one in Sweden you just done. What did you do then? >> You strip everyone naked and go climb a mountain. What do you do? >> Yeah. Yes. [laughter] I'm very disruptive in the beginning. >> Okay. >> And uh but I will not repeat the words I use to disrupt the minds of the people because I'm absolutely not political correct. >> Uhhuh. Don't want to get cancelceled. I am not politically correct because you look what the politics did. >> Uhhuh. Yeah. >> I don't want that correctness. I want to live and I show the people. Hey, do you want to go to the fullest of who you are and what you are? >> Hey, are you there? Are you really committed? The natural transformation of that will occur when you are motivated. I got the last time I climbed the Kilimanjaro. >> Mhm. I did it in 28 hours. A mountain which normally you can do between five and nine days. >> You did it in 28 hours? Yes. Non-stop. >> Yeah. Non-stop. >> In your pants. Probably. >> In in my pants. I made the joke that I do it in my shorts because I have no money for clothes. >> This is this kind of thing like you be at the pub with your mates and be like, I could do that in the pants, you know, like like a gig. But you actually went and climbed clarity. >> Not only me it normally this mountain is being done between 5 and nine days and fully dressed and then only 40% summit. >> Yeah. Only 40% make it to the top. >> Yes. >> So I uh the oldest person who was with me he was suffering from a limes disease. 76 years old. >> I never remember seeing this. >> 76 years old. Yes. And uh and he went with me. He did it the 31 hours. >> Wow. >> He had never climbed a mountain before. That's motivation.
That's motivation. >> That's it. >> We lack motivation. >> If we only have motivation, try out this method is what I say to all the people who are watching this. Please, because we love you. >> We w we love you to get to the bottom of who you are and what you are. You have so much more power to meet. It's all in there. Then try it out once and if you feel [ __ ] once again, blame me. But if you feel great, pass it on. >> Yeah, that's nuts. This guy was just 76. Did you >> 76? >> This climbing a mountain at that age at 76 is [ __ ] insane. Yeah. >> Did he do it in his pants as well? >> Yes, >> he did. >> He did. >> What's wrong with you both? >> Wrong is that we are no longer part of society of being normal. Would you powerful? [laughter] >> Would you empower anyone that's capable to go and climb Kilamandara in their pants? >> Yeah, sure. >> You would encourage that. >> Yeah. So many more did it. >> So many more in in Poland. >> Do you think I could climb Kilimanjaro? Yeah. >> Sure. Of course. Even you. I don't know how I think you're 160 or something. >> 160 kilos. >> Yeah. Yeah. I mean that is really tough. >> Is it all >> bring all that weight up? >> Yeah. Is it all climbing? Did Is there any like ladders or cliffs? It's all just >> foot up. Okay. >> Yeah. Like a little bit of rockets. >> What do you need? >> What do you need to take with you? >> And nothing. Some food and >> food and a drink. >> Yeah, >> that's it. >> All [clears throat] right. I think I might I might be climbing Killer Man. >> It is an experience. >> Yeah. How high up is that? >> 5,895 m. >> [ __ ] Okay. So, what's that? Like >> that's almost 6 km. >> 16,000 ft. >> Yeah. 18 >> 18,000 ft.
>> 18,000 ft. >> Yes. 3 ft in one meter. >> Wow. >> A man that is a for, you know, four socials and all that. >> Yeah, >> that would be amazing. Such are such an emblem. >> I've never done anything like that. I've never done like a a massive ex expedition of like right I'm going to go and swim the channel or you know I've never done anything like that and I feel like I'm getting >> No, you lift 500 kilos the first time. >> I've done it in other ways I guess. Yeah. Um but yeah, I've never done anything endurance wise like that and I feel like it'd be a real humbling lifechanging experience. >> It is. It is spiritual >> and I feel like I have to do it in my pants now. >> Whoa. Yeah. Amazing. >> It'd be a failure if I didn't do it in my pants. >> Yeah. Did you get any injuries? Did you get any iceburn or >> what about your your mate that your psycho mate? >> Not not only he was also a 65 one >> who had four coronary bypasses. >> [ __ ] a. Okay. >> He did it also >> in his pants. >> In his pants. They all did it. And people with >> What time of year? >> Crohn's disease and arthritis. I took them all on. I said motivation. September. >> September. September. So is that like um where is where's kilt? >> Tanzania Tanzania Kenya Kenya border. >> Okay. So September it's going to be quite it's cold cuz it's higher >> down there. It's nice up there. It's >> Yeah, it's it gets chilly as you get hot. >> Yeah, chilly. >> Okay. >> What's your degrees? What degrees do you reckon it was at the top? >> It you know it is not even the cold >> the sun's on you. Less than half the oxygen is there. >> Yes. That's the problem. Yeah. >> And therefore you do the Wimhof method breathing. >> And then you oxenize, you charge up. >> Yeah. >> And suddenly you are able to do it. >> When was the last time you did it? >> What is it? 10 years ago or something? >> 10 years. >> How often did you do it? >> Uh four times.
>> Uh four times. >> Four times. >> Four times faster. >> You fancy doing it again with you? >> Yeah. >> Yes. >> Okay. [laughter] Oh, I don't I don't know when, but I'm up for it. Yeah. Okay. In our pants, >> of course. >> Okay, there we go. >> Because we got no money for clothes. >> Yeah, we're bored. [laughter] >> Always keep on laughing, guys. >> 28 hours. So, it's 28 hours off. How long does it take to get back down? >> That's it. Just roll down. [laughter] Let yourself go. You fall there. You scoop it out to take quite a big rock sack of food. 30 30 uh 37 km >> up and down >> up [snorts] 37 km. >> Wow. Oh wow. Okay. So that's Yeah, that's that'll take you a good day to do 37 km. >> Oh yeah, it it is that we go up say in a Yeah. In a day. >> What's your pace like? Are you really stomping up or just casual? >> Breathe. >> Consciously. >> Okay. [snorts] way. >> And keep track because we go up up up up and normally the oxygen gets less less less less. >> So if you keep up the breathing, you hold your trance, you hold your control and you you feel good. >> Sometimes if there is a lag, you feel a little bit dizzy >> becoming you stand still or or little bit slower level. >> Marsbar. >> No, no, no, no. Bob, where the hell is Bob? >> Just breathing 10 times. Take him in. >> A little bit squeezing as if you got a [ __ ] >> Yeah. Yeah. Okay. >> And then it gets back in otherwise you get the headaches. >> That is altitude sickness. >> So you avoid that by doing the the the Wimhof method breathing up there. And it showed that this bayak deceived the physiological alpinistic laws
physiological alpinistic laws >> of high altitude sickness. >> I reck I reckon we smash that. We're going to take a few whisper golds with us. We'll smash that. You You ever heard of whisper gold, by the way? You know what whisper gold is? I thought I had some here. Who's had the [ __ ] Whisper Golds? >> You whisper of course. >> Yeah. >> Oh, nice. >> Yeah. Yeah. Have you Did you have them? You had you had the whisper girls, did you? >> There was someone on the table. Hey, he's li licking he's wiping it off his lips as we speak. I'm absolutely gutted. The whisper golds is like the best chocolate on planet earth. Whim, I'm so so shameful. I am. >> I know. Chocolate is a and especially the pure one. Whisper gold. You go >> whisper gold. It's it's it's like >> dig that one up. >> It's it's like honest eat. It's chocolate made for Jesus Christ himself. >> Yeah, >> it's that good. >> So, yeah, that that that's us on the mountain. >> Okay. Me, you in a pants. >> Yes. >> Whisper golds breathing away up. Killar. >> Yes, sir. >> We're on. I guess a good a good one here is helping me to lose weight. >> Hey. Yeah. Losing weight is spike boost the metabolism. What you did today has been boosting the metabolism. goes faster. You have to go faster than what you normally do. You are amazing and great, but you need to be more amazing and great. >> And so that steer wheel you need to take back. >> So for that I would say not 30 breaths but you do what you did today every day for a time then with the intention I want to get slimmer. >> So >> your body will listen. >> Yes. Okay. So, I've hovered at around 160 kilo body weight for I'm going to say like the past four, five years now. And it's not really changed. Like I've done fight camps and
changed. Like I've done fight camps and I've come down to like 150 151 I think I was from my my last fight this time last year >> or or eight months ago, nine months ago or something. Um, I've got a fight potentially coming up in the summer with a guy called Dylan Dis who's uh a very light I say he's light. He's a what do they call cruiserw weight. Um, it's about 20 say 210 something like 200 lb. And as part of the contract I've got to weigh under£300. So I've got to lose 65 lb >> to fight this guy. M >> do you think the cold exposure and the breathing could help me to reset and lose weight and maybe get my metal metabolism a bit more active? How how would you how could you help me with that? >> I would say what you did today that is disruptive for your conditioning. You have been the last five years more or less in a conditioned state which you cannot really make better. M >> it's great and all but now you your body needs to listen to your will. Your will is a neuros signal but for that you need to be disruptive in your own body. >> You have to get out and then simply do this what you did today every day. >> So go and jump in an icy lake >> something crazy every day that disrupts your conditioning. Just make yourself uncomfortable. >> Yes. >> Correct. >> And then find comfort. >> And then find comfort in it. Yeah. >> And that will change your body's uh conditioning and then your uh influencing by your will. It will happen. >> When do when would you suggest doing the cold exposure? When do you do it? >> I do it every morning. >> First thing before you eat, before you brush your teeth? >> How how do you do it? Just jump in a in a pond or what? How do you do it? I I in I live in Queensland now.
I live in Queensland now. >> Queens in Australia. Wow. So you've got to have an ice bath then cuz there'll be no cold water around. >> Yeah. No cold water. Okay. >> Uh [clears throat] ice bath. >> Yeah. >> So every day I do my ritual and uh Yeah. So sometimes I forget I'm I'm making telephone calls. Don't do that. That's not the way to be doing it. But and then suddenly I'm 25 minutes it. Wow. >> Oh [ __ ] It's okay. You know, >> so you'll go and sit in a cold ice bath at what? Like 6 to 8°? >> No, no, less. >> Less what? >> Like two two. >> Wow. Okay. >> And you spend as just as long as you feel comfortable in there just till you get comfortable. >> Most of time less than 10 minutes. >> 10 minutes. >> But uh most of the time, >> but sometimes longer. >> Hey, that's what I do. I do exercise. I don't train as much as you do, but I like to I got two of 10. I do with 200 >> 10 kilo dumbbells. Yeah, >> like 20 kilos in total and go. >> So you just So you do cold exposure and then do a little bit of a workout straight after >> and then uh stretching >> the swimming pool. I like the swimming pool exercises like Le Hamilton does. >> I love swimming. >> Yeah. And walking on on the on the floor. >> Yeah. But that is not the Wimhof method. >> The Wimhof method is clearly explained. It's controlled breathing, lying on a bed on a sofa, cold exposure, not in warm uh pools or anything like that. It's always cold. >> People don't mess with the cold. >> Would you do your breathing whilst you're in the cold? I know you don't you wouldn't recommend that to anyone. >> No, no, no. I don't do that. Uh what we did today was something different than the whim of method. There is two pioneers. >> They come together and try out stuff.
>> They come together and try out stuff. >> Yeah. >> That's what they do. And then they come up with something new that they can pass on to others. >> Yes. >> Make it accessible in a in a way in a method facilitators we are there in. That is what we did today. But uh it it's absolutely not in a pool. This breathing breathing needs to be done lying on bed or as we did know the 30 sitting comfortable cuz you can pass out. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. >> Imagine what you if you pass out in a swimming pool. >> Easy done. >> Or in a in a car driving. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Over and out. So never ever do it in those situations. So not in a swimming pool and not while she driving. >> Anywhere where you can lose motoral control >> by fainting that results into danger, >> don't do it. >> Okay. Okay. I think I've been guilty of doing your breathing work while I've been driving. I'm going to stop that. And we can talk about it, but there are a lot of people who have no control as I have. >> And they will suffer. >> And for those, we have to say don't do it. >> Yeah. Fair enough. You've got some amazing records. Whim, the the one I saw was I think something like 50 m swimming underwater in an ice lake. >> Yeah. Yeah. 50 57 and a half. >> 57 and a2 m. >> Tell us about that, mate. How did that come about? Yeah, in in Finland. >> Finland. Okay. >> Yeah, I'd say the that was not even so difficult. What was more difficult was the day before >> when there were no security divers and I went into the lake >> on my own. >> And they said, "Ah, just do the 25 m and uh and then you know for tomorrow." No, I today I do the whole distance because
I today I do the whole distance because then I know what I'm uh looking uh up against. >> So uh I prepared myself. But I had no Google zone. >> Yes. Oh dear. >> And then I went on I had was very oxenized charged you know. >> Yeah. fully uh supercharged and uh and I was go after 35 m. I could not see clearly anymore. >> So your eyes were freezing over >> and they were the coronaire was freezing over could not see anymore. We are no seals and you don't think at those moments. >> You just >> Yeah. the [laughter] and the the hole was there, the 50 m hole was there and I went that way. >> So I passed it. >> Jesus. >> And I had it calculated 42 strokes uh 1 m 20 each. That's my distance I do >> is 49 m 60 cm. And then you see the hole. >> Yes. >> So uh [clears throat] when my uh corner froze uh I got into a subconscious but I kept on uh counting my strokes. It goes subconscious. >> When I had 48 that means six strokes too much then 42. >> You knew that test. >> Oh six. >> Six back. [laughter] Oh Jesus. >> Takes a long time. Eh. >> Yeah. longer when you were down there breath hold and I already did like 70 meters. >> So I didn't find the hole and then certain moment I got this tunnel vision. You only see this my physically and uh
You only see this my physically and uh then slowly but surely I went to sleep and this is where uh claustrophobia drowning agoning was not there. Why? Because the alkalinity in my blood was so high my oxygen was gone. So slowly you go to sleep >> and at that moment a diver took me by the grabbed me by the ankle brought me back to the 50 m hole and then that moment I lost the fear of the concept of what is that was no longer because I knew how know how to control at the time of death I will control my passing away, passing over while being alkaline. And then the the the agony, the letting go, the whatever there is that is not there. >> You just go to sleep. >> Are you telling me you experience death? >> Oh yes. Yeah. Right there. >> Wow. >> Right. >> And you felt at home at peace. Peace. >> That was the experience. Absolutely. Incredible man. >> That is what the power of breath is all about. We can biohack our bodies with consciousness and defy say death >> as it should. >> That's a hell of a story. So you you so the day before you basically basically alive yourself. >> Death was much more incredible than the the racket was a piece of cake. >> Yeah, I bet it was after that. >> Yeah. >> Jeez. I had done to double the distance. >> Okay. So that's one world record. Climbing Kilamanjaro in your pants is another. You some kind of Arctic marathon or I know you've done stuff in the desert as well. Tell me about those.
well. Tell me about those. >> Yeah. Yeah. As soon as I did a a marathon beyond the polish circle in shorts. And >> so you did a marathon in where the Antarctica. >> Yeah. In Finland. [clears throat] So, how how many miles is a marathon? 26. >> Uh, miles 26. >> 26. >> You said 26, 27, something like that. >> Miles 42 km >> in your pants. You had shoes on. >> Yeah. Yeah. Sandals. >> Yeah. Sandals. >> Yeah. So, open sandals. >> [ __ ] hell. >> Yeah. Yeah. I did a half marathon barefoot, too. >> Wow. In the Arctic. >> Yeah. In the Arctic. >> How do you not like lose your toes and stuff? Because >> Yeah. I had some frostbite. >> I bet you did. And then the professor told me dermatologist professor then this is irreparable damage we have to cut away pieces and in three months come back and I thought you I need to take these medicins never used anything of it. I used cowbomb grease. He he told me keep it dry. >> Cow bomb. >> Cow bomb. Grease. Grease. >> Cow fat. >> Yeah. Cow fat >> on the feet. And I I started to >> keep it moist. >> Yeah. Moist. Took me one month. >> Have you back? >> Did you lose any toes? Lose any flesh? All good. >> That's all good. >> So you did 12 miles, >> 13 miles in the snow. Yeah. >> And you kept all your toes. >> Yes. Yes. >> Anyone else would have lost like half a leg, I swear. >> Yeah. Possibly. Possibly. But I was kind of trained also. >> Yeah. So um then when I did that I decided I did everything in the cold. >> Yes. >> I did it under the water. I did it standing in the ice running and going up mountains in the snow and all in shorts is all done. I in half a year I will be climbing. H No, I will be running in the desert in the heat. >> Without drinking. >> So that was your next venture.
>> So that was your next venture. >> Yeah. >> The Sahara Desert was it? >> No. Namibia in a sausage flight in Namibia. South Africa. >> South Africa. >> Yeah. A little bit above. >> Okay. And that was that a marathon? [snorts] >> Marathon >> in the summer. >> Just trying to build a picture here. So like 30 40° heat. >> Yeah. And and then without drinking. >> So So 26 miles without a sip of water. >> How how was that? >> And yeah. >> Barefoot as well in in your pants. >> No, I had Yeah, pants of course. But [clears throat] >> my preparation was two coffees. >> Okay. >> That was it. >> When you go, you go. >> Do you do much running? Did you do training? >> Not at all. >> So you just >> I just Yeah. Get get it in my head. >> Yeah. [ __ ] it. Yeah. >> And I do it. >> So there I was running and after 15 kilometers because of not drinking and sweating uh like crazy, I lost 5.2 liter water. Wow. Did they weigh you as you were going on? Five. So you lost five kilo in body weight in fluids. >> Wow. What were you at the end? >> Uh after I back then I drank beer when I celebrated. >> Yeah. I I drank a couple of beers and I smoke a cigarette. >> Good. >> Don't tell nobody. [laughter] >> Do you know Do you know how much weight you lost in the total of that marathon though? >> No, I don't know. I But >> that would have been really interesting. Yeah. I I don't know. Uh but quite some. The thing was after 15 kilometers my feet really got swollen because of the lack of water. >> Oh yeah. Okay. Okay. Yeah. >> And uh so I uh that is where I uh started to slow down in my pace. So it took me a lot longer to fulfill the marathon, but I did it. >> How long did it take you? Do you remember? I think seven hours of something.
>> Okay. >> Yeah. >> But did it done it? >> What What is it about with you about pushing limits? Is it Is it for your own sake? Is it to prove people wrong? Is it to prove people what's possible? Or is it something deeper? >> Yeah. I think absolutely deeper. It is uh my uh way to connect with myself. >> It takes just more than normal. So [clears throat] imagine these people who are so alienated of their bodies psychically and they push cigarettes against themselves. >> Mhm. >> Because they don't feel themselves. >> Yes. I think I had this relationship with that woman, the mother of my children who was alienating within herself. I could not understand. I I had to go deeper, deeper, deeper, deeper, deeper. I was going uh the journey with her psychically to because I loved her and uh that brought me into um yeah uh trainings exercising beyond my thinking just go further further further. I want to capture that what I have in and see in my wife. So it pushes a person and that's where I was and once she was gone which took quite the years of heaviness going down the decline >> uh I really took it up to get more into the cold and deeper into the breathing. And then uh television came around by accident and they asked can you do this? I said [clears throat] I can do that easy. I can do that. Can
I can do that easy. I can do that. Can you do this? And television. If you think I'm crazy, look at television. They are really crazy cuz they challenge you for more and more and more because I never did any records. >> Yeah. >> I had no need for records to be with my wife and my family. But once the television came in, they can you do this, can you do this? Can you do this? I say yes, yes, yes, yes. 26 times, 26 records. >> No problem. At a certain moment, I thought now it's over. >> Maybe I walk on my hand barefoot up Mount Kilimanjaro in or Mount Everest in Matanga in a tanga. you know ridiculous thoughts came to me >> there I left it but what it had shown is that I got into documentaries >> and those documentaries are being watched by physiologists and doctors and they started to invite me to go do experimental research on my body and all and then the real thing started >> and that was the 2007 a research with Dr. Ken Kamla showed hey if you are able to reproduce this then that means huge consequences for human mankind >> and he he mentioned all these diseases related to the vagus nerve possible activation at will which I had shown for the first in medical science >> so there the real mission started and some sometimes you don't know why things happen to you until the puzzle pieces of puzzle come together and then ah and now I go that's purpose there I am and I I just keep on going right now I want to change the world that's why I'm here I'm
change the world that's why I'm here I'm here with a great man who knows how to handle things to bring it out in the world for the good of people to make common sense back on strong happy and healthy that's where we Ah, that's what we do. >> Of all your records when you've done 26 world records. >> Yeah. Which one means the most or you most proud of? >> Those were the the moment which I just explained about death. >> I had no clue what is death, how does it work, what happens at death, what is the purpose of life, what is life itself. All that in one moment, split moment. The fear of that was their god. >> Now I live my life fully and fear has no space therein. Life's too short to be in fear. I just want to live. What's next for you? whim. You've done a hell of a lot in 66 years of your life and I feel like you're really just getting going. >> Yeah. >> What's next? >> Exactly. Um the thing is and I explained it to today to to India as well in the gym when we were in the gym. >> It it it is not about what I do all. It's about bringing the the a happy man doesn't go to war. M >> a happy man is not into greed. We would make it a paradise on earth if we made people happy >> and it is not difficult but it is difficult to bring the simplicity of it to the people back on again. >> Yeah, >> that's my mission now. That's why I once again I'm here to spread it >> and uh and it's going to happen. I just uh recently had a big article in a in a
uh recently had a big article in a in a scientific magazine out with 500 people showing that this is going to be stress tool number one in the world. >> Stress tool number one in the world. >> Yes sir. And that is a breathing and a cold. >> That's your aim. That's your goal. >> Yes. To bring back common sense through using this. You wake up in yourself >> and then see and feel that you have much more power than you thought before. >> Nice. So your goals are still the same. >> Yes. >> Change the world. >> Yes sir. >> Make the world a better place. >> Leave the world a slightly better place than when you went. >> Slightly big time. >> Better. Bigger. >> Yeah. >> Massive. >> Whim Hoff. We have been at this table for 2 hours >> talking all sorts. It's been fascinating. Your your life story is uh pretty insane and and the way you carry yourself and expel your mission around the world is incredible. You're making a big difference. You made a big difference to my life. I'd like to say, well, I know that you've made a big difference to thousands, millions, if not billions of people around the world. And keep being awesome. Keep being you, mate. >> Yes, sir. >> Thank you so much. Really appreciate you. Right. Then if you want to follow Mr. Wimhof, he's got whimhofmethod.com. He has got the app as well. So you go on your Android. It's the Wimhof app. I'm going to assume his Instagram handle is iceman_hoff. So go give him a follow on there as well. Go give him a follow on YouTube. Go watch some of his videos and make sure you go onto his YouTube and do that breathing method. So go and show some love. Go and show him some support to Whim. is doing an amazing thing, spreading spreading the wealth of knowledge to everybody around the world. How to better yourself. We're so quick to go to the doctors and get a prescription for a pill to remedy all sorts of things that can probably be remedied by a good a good breath work, a
remedied by a good a good breath work, a good dip, a good walk in the forest. And I think that's that's a very powerful and beautiful message that Whim is spreading around the world. And I'm I'm all for it. Thank you, Whim. >> Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. >> Right then, guys, hope you enjoyed that. Thank you for listening. Thank you for watching. Don't forget to check out the other episodes and I'll see you next time. Big love the beast. >> Yeah. >> Take care.