 You can now follow me on all my social media platforms to find out who my latest guest will be and don't forget to click the subscribe button and the notifications button so you are notified for when my next podcast goes live. I see the world, I see so much suffering, wars, pollution, famine, cruelty, abuse, etc. And they keep on going and saying that it is normal. I think it is sick. I was the first one to show to tap into the autonomic nervous system. The autonomic nervous system and the immune system. Now if you are able to tap into the immune system to the level of the autonomic nervous system then you have a much greater control over that what causes disease. Before they asked me to be injected with the E. coli bacteria, same model. They became all sick. 16,134 people. The average all six. And then I came and I became not sick at all. I want to climb the Kilimanjaro in three days with 26 people with all kinds of diseases like cancer, arthritis, Crohn's disease, ulcerosa, asthma and all that. In three days, in shorts, that's what I said. And then all these doctors, all these physiologists, all these experts in alpinism, they came and said all these arguments, oh it's irresponsible, you cannot do this, people are going to die. We didn't do it in three days, we did it in two days. All successful. And the oldest person in the first ascent was 65 years with four coronary bypasses. And he did it too. She kissed him goodbye and then she jumped from eight stories down. That is what she did. And because she was suffering from mental disorder, schizophrenia, manic depression and the whole psychiatry, the world of psychiatry through all the injections and pills and this and that. If I would have had that knowledge back then with my wife then I could have treated her naturally. But I had no power then. But I pledged my oath to my wife. If I'm able to get out of this grief, to get out of where you have been then I will show the world. And all the people who are suffering mentally I will be able to pass on a natural way of how to get out of your grief. Pimperon. Hey. Yes. Here we are. And today's guest we've got the ace man himself, Wim Hof. Hey, right on man. How are you brother? Yeah, great, great. Thank you for coming. Yeah. And this is my place as you see and I will show you around later. Yeah. But yeah, yeah, I like your accent a lot. I like the Scotsman's. Yeah. I like the Scotsman and they say, if I take the high road and the, what is that? I don't even know. What is the low road? I don't even know. I think I've taken both to be sure to reach Scotland. Yeah. And I think, you know, of Scotland I always thought about it's the heart. It's the heart. It's like the backpipes. When you feel the backpipes, you have no fear. You feel you can keep on going. Yeah. And that's the way I feel. I want to go to a fearless state of my mind because I'm in the soul. That's where I want to go. Yeah. You're changing lives brother. You've done phenomenal things. You've broke over 20 records, world records. You've changed science. You've changed people's opinion of you. You've really went within to make mass changes. And I love that shit. I'm going to be honest. I totally love that. I've been a massive fan of yourself over the last five years. We do a lot of cold water exposure in Scotland all because of yourself. A lot of people struggling with suicide, addictions, people who are battling. You get into the cold water and it takes your pain away for some reason. It's cold as fuck. You lose your testicles, but it's a beautiful thing. I have to say cold water is also good for sex life. It's fucking good, as they say. But you've done amazing things, brother. First of all, proud of you. But I always go back to the start with my guests. Where you grew up and how it all began? I grew up, like, we are here in the Netherlands right now. Netherlands, just the other side of the Northern Sea. That's where I grew up, near the German border. One kilometer from the German border, 12 kilometers from the Belgian border. That means the most narrowest place of the Netherlands. 12 kilometers wide. And there I was born of a family of nine. Nine kids, mom, pop. My father, he worked in the mines, so there was very little money. My mother was like a hand on the eggs, always keeping it real. She always said, act normal is crazy enough. And I did that. I loved my mother very much. So we had a lot, a little money, but a lot of fun. We had a lot of fun because we played all of us. And my mother and my father included a lot of games. Hey, the Highland games. We got the lowland games. There is the low road, you know? Because they say in French, they say the Netherlands is the pay-e-ba. That is the land low, the lowlands. So, yeah, we had a lot of fun. That's it. And that, I think, it served the rest of my life. A loving family? Yeah, yeah, a loving family. You're a twin, but your mom didn't know you were coming? When I was born, nobody knew. There were no echoscopia, instruments, mechanisms, devices. It was all not there. So they did not detect another one when my twin brother was born. He was the child to be born, and the rest was contractions after. And it was not. It was another child. And then they hurried me because it was almost too late to the operation room. And just before entering into the operation room, my mother, who was a pious mother, a naive but very strong in her convictions and her beliefs, she said, oh, God, let this child live. I will make him a missionary. That's what she said in all her agony in the pain because they were going to cut into her to get me out. And that fear and that belief pushed me out before I entered into the operation room in the cold of the hall, suffocated almost, purple. And then those words, they must have tattooed upon that little nothing that came out. And it made me different of my twin brother. Identical, but I was always seeking for something different, always different. When I was 12, I was into psychology, Hinduism, Buddhism, esoteric disciplines, yoga, and in those times that was all on no end. Why is that? Because I had a drive I did not know about within myself, but it colored my life. It was there, and I had to live. I had to go for it. And it took me five years from 12 to 17 when I found cold water in attraction. I was debating and philosophizing again within myself like I always did. I was a big debater when I was 15, 16, 17. A lot I did. And then I found this attraction to the cold water that day in winter. And then you're entering into the water in a Sunday morning. I felt this is it. There is not words, but this is it is a feeling. It's like tilt electrified something like that. And I felt powerful playing with the eyes around me and I felt no pain. That was connection. And that connection brought me back the other day. And it gave me a rush every day, every day since. And very soon I began to find out that deep breathing impacts that made me able to stay longer in the freezing water. I did that for 25 times every time. And then I became very electrified. Carbon dioxide fully out. With the cold, you will really go deep. And I could stay for five to seven minutes every day under the ice. Was that your getaway, Wim? Oh yeah. Another place. How did people treat you at schooling when you're learning yoga and meditation and breathing? I always have been, you know, they call it a black sheep. I've been always the black sheep. Now I'm the widest sheep ever. Now I can show that everybody, hey man, where that guy began who was different than anybody else. And now he is able to change science as a dropout from school. But it all began when I was young. I always felt different and timid like within myself and being pushed therein. And my family, which was poor, like mining. My father was a miner and then he became invalid because of hernias. He could not work anymore. So the money was even smaller. And then nine children. That is classic disaster if you don't rule well over it. But that's my mother. My mother was the greatest. The thing is, when you have a little money and you are different then you have no way to express yourself. You don't know what's happening. But the trauma of my birth had made my stigma, my chains within. My psyche was different. And I did not know how to connect or have control over that. I didn't know what happened at the time of my birth. My mother later told me everything. But when you begin to do differently things because you feel so then everybody begins to stigmatize you and say he is doing strange things. He is no good to don't mingle with him. Just keep him outside. So that becomes a real force because you feel like alone. Alone? Absolutely. But I went on anyway. And when I was 17, I lived in Amsterdam in a squatting place. I had no money. Squatting place, no money. Just for gas and electricity. Less than 50 euros a month. No wages, no money. I got money there, money there, money there. A little bit here and working there. Things like that. But a very happy place. Why? Because it was a building, a squatting place with free thinkers. People who are not into careers and all that. No, they settle there and being together. Much more together. The world out there is too individualized. Competing, competing, competing. Following protocol. Following a set of regulations instead of living. But there I was 17, found myself into the water that Sunday morning and I felt connection. Deep connection. And that deep connection made me go since then and that is 44 years ago when I started with my ice bathing. Going into the cold, finding a deep connection with the physiology in the depth 44 years ago. And that since then I did it every day. Like this morning I was 20 minutes in the barrel. It's full of ice. I got a freezer, I made chopped ice. Get it in, mingle it. It's a soup and then it becomes really cold. I go in 20 minutes. I love it. I did it. Then I felt this is it. Began to develop very soon. I developed breathing exercises because for the first time you feel the need to breathe deep. When you go into cold water it is that. That is logical. But we in society we live shallow in shallow breathing because there is no need. There is no forces, environmental stress coming to you. So you learn to just breathe shallow. And that creates a lot of disconnection of the deeper physiology which is logical. If you don't feed yourself in the depth then it's not fat. Then it doesn't grow. That is connection. It's all neurology in the end and the hormonal system. Now we know but before I did not know. I was driven through my trauma from my birth. Then I got connection and then of course everybody was saying that man is crazy. He is going into freezing water in the winter and he is walking out for hours outside barefoot in the snow. He's doing all kinds of exercises. He is crazy. This is not normal. He must be out of his mind and all that. But I just felt good. So whenever you feel good it's like when you love somebody even if the whole family Romeo and Juliet are against each other making war they still want to be together. I think that's a powerful message as well because I watch so many of your videos guys like David Goggins, Joe Dispenza whether he's running 200 miles while you're swimming underwater holding your breath in ice cold waters Joe Dispenza says he fixed his spine as well. When you actually break it all down it just comes down to the power of the mind and what you believe up here. Do you think having that trauma from birth and then kind of being the outsider all your life did you ever question that maybe I am crazy and that I'm going to take a step back or that it just feels so right for you you are so connected that I don't give a fuck what anyone says this is me except me or get the fuck out of my way. Exactly get the fuck out of my way but let the love come in and the love came in and the only thing that made sense to me when I was 12 I may have pledged to myself I see the world I see so much suffering wars, pollution, famine, cruelty, abuse, etc. and they keep on going and saying that it is normal I think it is sick so I pledged there within myself deeply within myself I'm gonna do something about it what I did not know but I followed it so and I kept on being so different and so suppressed because of that and now look at where the world is in full of confusion it's polluted and what is what we don't have love because what we give to our children is production not nature production not health production not happiness production and more and exploiting at the cost of others and that is not love so we don't love our children because we are forced to be in a system that is getting a parasite upon our energy and we don't know no longer know what is real love the purpose of life anymore and this is the crisis within the world and I tell you because me talking like this everybody was saying yeah he's a hippie or something and then I said okay let the scientists come hey I will show that I can beat disease I can show how to beat inflammation I can show how to beat that what causes depression I can beat all these things I can train the best of the world to become better within one week than the ceiling where they have been being the best in the world like olympics MMA fighters they all come within a week and make them better why? because we always lived according a certain kind of thinking paradigm which has come from the schools and in the schools they teach you about history about language and mathematics but they should actually teach our children to be happy and strong and healthy and that is the core and the essence and they forgot about it and they don't know about it and I'm a drop out of school but I change science fundamentally I will because it doesn't make sense the schooling is kind of I don't believe in the schooling the curriculum at school because you're told to sit at a desk from 9 to 3 years old and then you go into an office 9 to 5, you're there 60 years you should be about love, compassion yoga, meditation, breathing techniques how to handle money, relationships even death we don't speak about death enough because when someone dies it spirals us out of control we then mask it with alcohol, drugs whatever it is, overeating anger is to try and understand that this is life shit does happen but we are in control and how we handle it afterwards life can be beautiful the prime example we're all a little loopy every single person as in people who judge and call you crazy that's the ones who really need their love because then it's a reflection of image people get scared of other people's success people get scared of how far other people can go to the extremes so they then question it why can't I do that but everybody can no matter if you're in your 20s, 30s, 40s 70s or 80s, whatever age you are you can make changes to better your life to become a better person to make the people around you become better life is beautiful don't get me wrong it's a little fucked up I do have my moments where I think what the fuck is this about what am I doing here but I know what I'm doing is creating awareness having men like yourself on is creating more awareness and yes it's beautiful and for what you've achieved is second to none but this is only the beginning because you always raise the bar you always set new heights to keep proving people wrong and I think that's where you strive more when people say that you can't do it so when you started going through your transition at 17 and understanding this is where I feel alive what was the process of your life like then after that after I just began to do this that makes me feel good I will keep on doing it's like they say you are a donkey I don't feel the ears I don't feel a tail and what I do makes me feel good so I think you also maybe sneakingly or whatever you do what makes you feel good only it could collide with the regulations it could collide with the way we are taught to be that could be a collide there with but my thing is what I do is like natural drugs if you go into the cold the cold is my teacher it's merciless but righteous and it gives me all the energy afterwards it trains my cardiovascular system which is 100,000 km inside everybody of us killer number one in our society is cardiovascular related diseases still and how can you tackle it I say just keep it simple cold shower a day keeps the doctor away but back then I just felt it from I was 17 I did all the cold practices every day, every winter and then at a certain moment I was doing 5 to 7 minutes under the eyes breathing exercises they really brought me into the depth and then I discovered the secrets of our neurology the electricity system of ours the nervous system and how to work with it all what they talk about in these esoteric books of the yoga of the chakras and the mystical ways and all when I was reading it yeah, I don't get any of it because I don't experience it it's there, it must be somewhere oh, 20 years of training no, it took me a couple of months to get really into myself into the deepest, into all the lights all the chakras, all the mysticism and from there of course that practice I never let go I always practiced I always did that and then I combined with stretching like splits and staying a whole night outside in shorts in winter time just finding out following my feeling and brought me when I was 23 or 22, I met my wife my future wife and that she was yeah, not only pretty she was amazingly vivid and very expressive and talkative and just a beautiful being you fall in love and you keep on falling and you wanna go and you fly that's where I met her and a year later she was gone first three quarters of a year and then we met again and from there a year we lived without sex and then suddenly boom four times four times sex I had my older son probably know him through the mail or something but he is now working with me with that woman I only had 50 times sex during 15 years that is very little why is that? because it was enough connection connection was bloody there and it's not based on too much sex or porn or this or that it was fulfilled in whatever way it was it was I had four children with her within the 15 times sex four children and that was good I felt always full later I had different relationships I had sex every day three times a day whatever I feel I follow so 15 years I was with that woman until the day when she jumped from after kissing four children goodbye from the age of 7 to 12 years she kissed him goodbye and then she jumped from eight stories down that is what she did and because she was suffering from mental disorder schizophrenia manic depression and the whole psychiatry the world of psychiatry through all the injections and pills and this and that because it was declining a mental state of years before 10 years after our we had four children and then 10 years after the first was born 31 the decline began she went to the doctors and nobody could help her and there that is a very important point in my life because I lost a lot of love of my life the mother of my children the one with whom I should have been all my life she went away I was broken inside but I had no time nor to heal nor to sit there with my grief because I had four children very little money left behind their owners and I always say my children made me survive the cold healed me because the cold the intense pain of going into freezing water makes you shut up in your mind makes you survive that was the only moment I got stillness in my mind only possibility to get peace in my mind and that that broke the loop that broke the loop of the of the grief of the grieving and thus I began to regain myself became very energetic lot of energy became papa and mama from 35 years on that is 26 years ago and yes a lot of energy with the kids being little money and trying began to ride began to garden began to become a mountain a guide I did and there the challenges came and when the challenges came I said to the television who came to me first through a radio newspaper article where I said I go into the ice all the time because I love it and I love do exercising and all this nobody believed it and they got it into the newspaper and then television came and television is crazy because they begin to challenge you so when they challenge me I could do everything I got 26 world records but numerous more challenges done and they are all led to the extremes of what a mind and a body is able to do even past what in science was thought possible physiologically possible so I did all these television shows the National Geographic Discovery Channel and more and more and more I don't know probably have done 5200 documentaries now from BBC to the 2020 to National Geographic whatever I did it all but now they are going to make a Hollywood film next year on top why is that? that is because I gained to something in 3 years ago I was in Detroit in the brain scans and they gave me cold water upon the skin I could do nothing just use my mind and I made the skin temperature not going down that is the power of the mind make having physical consequences in the body to defy stress coming in just using the mind this was unknown in psychiatry if I would have had that knowledge back then with my wife then I could have treated her naturally but I had no power then but I pledged my oath to my wife if I am able to get out of this grief to get out of where you have been then I will show the world and all the people who are suffering mentally I will be able to pass on a natural way of how to get out of your grief how to bring your spouse or husband out of there and be a good parent was that your breaking point then when you lost the love of your life thinking you could have went two ways either went the same way or I am going to push myself to the extreme limits I listen to a lot of audiobooks I watch a lot of inspirational people when you actually break it all down they have all felt severe trauma where they think fuck it and just push themselves to the extreme limits I don't know if that is to maybe block out some of the pain still or to maybe think the answers how is it now for you to when you know the information and looking back thinking because I believe pharmaceutical kill more people than any other drug in the world so how does it feel now knowing some answers to how change the mindset to control your temperature some people have cured cancer some people have cured depression addictions through cold water exposure now you have this information how does it feel looking back thinking that people are getting lied to to take this but your wife is still committed suicide first of all is what I say as well you come from Scotland and I know the film with Mel Gibson who's in Australia give me back my son or the freedom in Scotland and we fight all those things this is what happens when a a simple man is being broken down and has to kneel for the train of everyday keep on going well he lost his wife and why and he could not do anything a man like that can be he can be touched so deeply that he is going to find the answers the whole world of psychiatry and medical care and the whole system is incapable of and that is not science through eye schooling I'm a drop out but I'm teaching psychiatrists doctors, professors all over the world why? because I had a genuine broken heart I had a genuine simple mind just to be happy and strong and healthy and take care of my children and they didn't let me the society didn't let me and it has no name and it has no person you cannot talk to it but it is still ongoing so I did something about it and how? I did not know but I began to rise my steps little by little and when the television came can you do this? can you do this? can you climb Mount Everest in your shorts? can you swim under the ice big distances? can you run a marathon beyond the polar circle I can do it all because compared to a grieving heart it is nothing yeah, powerful stuff so when you because you went to Kilimanjaro and you took people who were out amazing what I can teach now yeah, how long to take to teach them to go this walk with you just for afternoons imagine take the comparison what physiologically is possible in mountaineering and say the Kilimanjaro which is almost 6 kilometers high takes about 5 to 9 days fully dressed with a lot of layers very cold up there then still takes 5 to 9 days then only 40% will succeed summit those are the numbers we did it in 20 and a half hours that is 4 and a half hours more than one day in shorts and wait a minute and not only me the oldest participant without former experience in mountaineering suffering from Lyme's disease he did it in 31 hours in his shorts he has no Lyme's disease anymore he has a deep connection inside he used his mind consciously and his breathing and he did it 76 years old suffering from Lyme's disease in shorts no former experience in mountaineering he is healing a lot of people with Lyme's disease right now because he found this deep connection how many days did I train with them for afternoons and I say you better do your homework that means you do some running and you go and challenge yourself follow your feeling because the Kilimanjaro is going to come and it is going to kill you and torture you if you didn't do well within your homework and they all understood it was not only he where people with cancer there were people with Crohn's disease arthritis with asthma, with depression all one thing in common they had that was motivation that there is more than meets the eye and they all did it amazing it was a lot of things suicide heart attacks on the eyes cancer on the eyes suicide for example a lot of people want to commit suicide they alienated so much of their own life force they are like not living something is pulling them out of the consciousness the awareness of their own life force this is the way our society got us into traveling into always out amen inside there is an unconditional power that makes you not need anything or need very little that inner peace exists it's no longer a mystical experience it is but it's not far away it is here and now and here we got it and the margin therein is enormous you can keep the bullshit really out of you because we did the science now we did the science and showed how to connect with the depth of our brain and once you are able to go into the deepest of the brain consciously then where else can you not go we have not learned how to own our own mind now we bring this to the people and you do this through this platform through the urge the instinctive urge to bring life itself to the people and remember them through very interesting people all over the world who have gone their mile pass their fear into the unknown which should be known because mysticism is not about thinking and you should feel tremendously good every day because that's who you are by birthright there we are bringing it here like in the beginning of the conversation we have no structure we have no protocols we don't follow a question number one it pops up and we just go with our thinking into this mystical experience where there is no thinking all the answers are there so no questions anyone go with the flow yes sir so when the TV started coming along newspapers, magazines, radio they never try to embarrass you at the start a ridicule you in the beginning of course they called me the the ice rabbit in the beginning before that the crazy man and an idiot one who is shouting out so much it's all not good they tried many of them all let me try this is a story that exemplifies the way it was so I sat out in public saying I want to climb the Kilimanjaro in three days with 26 people with all kinds of diseases like cancer arthritis Crohn's disease asthma and all that in three days in shorts that's what I said and then all these doctors all these physiologists all these experts in alpinism they came and said all these arguments oh it's irresponsible you cannot do this people are going to die it takes five to nine days and a fully dressed if you have no clothes it's too cold up there there is no oxygen people are going to die especially people with cancer and arthritis what are you doing irresponsible we are not going to link with this expedition whatsoever don't do it we didn't do it in three days we did it in two days all successful and the oldest person in the first ascent was 65 years with four coronary bypasses and he did it too amen when I came back in the Netherlands I did not hear anybody and there is really no problem with my hearing when I went back in the Netherlands I did not hear any of those doctors who had millions of arguments why it was to show why it was all not good and irresponsible based on scientific arguments and logic and now I did not hear them they at least could have sat and asked how did you pull it off this is unknown this is amazing of course those arguments are legit but what you guys have done must be then outside of what is scientifically discovered cause 65 years old four coronary bypasses going in three days in shorts up Kilimanjaro to six kilometers cancer and Crohn's disease and arthritis they joined so no they felt great at least they could have asked how did you pull it off possibly there are a number of answers of what we are capable of and what we do not know in science up till now to solve problems which we have like arthritis, Crohn's disease, ulcerative coronary bypasses cancer we don't know the answers and here you go with them and do it in record time into the unknown cause it was not known before I said three days it became two days in 48 hours that was the first ascent I did with a group of people and that's the way people are when then you come back and you show that all those arguments do not count in that then you really rumble the foundations of their beliefs then they become fearful then they are not able to get you so that's what I found out did no one ever come forward to apologize and say sorry for calling you crazy sorry for doubting your methods exactly no one how did that make you feel this makes me does that give you the fire to keep pushing forward exactly yes of course of course and I will keep on I know my enemy my enemy is ignorance ignorance and a careless being and I don't will not succumb to it I'm not attacking it I think people have a rightful right to be that way if they like to I just keep on going to show a non-doc medic a scientifically endorsed a method that makes people able to reach their deeper self no matter what really endorsed by experience science and sense there I am there I stay I know now my enemy I know my enemy will backfire at me first or attack me and then when I prove them wrong they will be not there because they flee like the rats because that's the real true nature that's what we do do you become afraid then one see for the man who is changing science for the man who is creating nature to be your medicine to help cure people, help people when you were getting injected by a virus did you ever question what if they were trying to kill you or what if people were out to get you because potentially you become afraid for the pharmaceutical companies who make billions per year I think they are cowards and they got maybe money but did you ever question that yeah of course I did the first time I was on television national report like the journal of the day saying I was the first one to show to tap into the autonomic nervous system the autonomic nervous system and the immune system now if you are able to tap into the immune system to the level of the autonomic nervous system then you have a much greater control over that what causes disease so I possibly at that moment was a great danger not anymore because now millions of people you got to kill millions of people doing this method now and that's it but back then I was the first one to show in medical history to tap into the autonomic nervous system that means the perspective of what we as humans at will are able against a disease has completely changed that means a lot of clients will go from the pharmaceutical dependency it will go there from and I tell you we are the future now and the future should be sane and even the pharmaceuticals are people if they have a real sense of oh yeah we are here to heal people that's why we make medicine I heal people I don't need medicine maybe medicine still exists and all the say orthopedic instruments and things like that we cannot do all but I go for all I think nature has got the answers I found a way I am now working with the top researchers in the world on the DNA to show that the building stones of life itself we are able to influence which was considered to be not done back then the first time when I was on the journal the other day I drove with my road with my bicycle through Amsterdam and there I got this image there on the roof and he pops look that's a drunk man on the street and then the so called paramedics not the real ones just a scheme the man in black and they just throw me in a car ditch me somewhere and he was gone and he is gone and that's it they should have done that no because now I am too far gone I am like a virus but in this case a positive one you got to kill it in the beginning it's just spread all over so how does that make you feel scientifically proving that you are changing life you are creating the chemistry in your body changing the temperature to the limits when you also got the virus when you got the bacteria injected into you what was the method behind this this is called an endotoxemia experiment mental model in science to get to know to gain more knowledge over what is the immune system in people can we get more knowledge more control and so they did 16,134 test subjects experimented with the endotoxin endotoxin is an E. coli part of an E. coli bacteria E. coli bacteria causes nausea, uncontrolled shivering severe headaches severe back aches muscle aches all over agony and fever also vomiting and in this experimental model you become sick for 3 to 6 hours that's it so 16,134 people before they asked me to be injected with the E. coli bacteria same model they became all sick 16,134 people they average all 6 and then I came and I became sick at all not sick but then they said but you are the icemen you have trained your body so different even your ice accomplishments they are impossible to do in our physiology the way we see that as medics but you are doing it because you are an anomaly you are outside you are super human whatever you are you are not representing the humans as it is in the physiology and I said no everybody is able to do this and then they said finally they said okay let's have a group and see that would be ground breaking and never been shown in medical history how to enter into the immune system and enter into the autonomic nervous system that is unprecedented but they got the curiosity because I did it I showed the blood results and the diagrams and everything the graphics completely different of the chart so then they gave me a group and another group a control group who did the my training within 4 days when they came in the hospital receiving the E. coli bacteria and this once again is after 16.134 people having all becoming all sick severely sick for 3 to 6 hours my group of 12 people trained in 4 days no 100% score no sickness no disease no symptoms all low and then they looked inside the blood and they saw them all within a quarter of an hour after the injection of E. coli bacteria which causes deep inflammation which is the same with COVID-19 by the way and we have checked the numbers of the damaging factor of the COVID-19 which is interleukinous inflammatory markers those are number 1, number 6, number 8 and number 11 are responsible for the damage and it all begins with symptoms now within a quarter of an hour those 12 were able to bring down the inflammation caused by the E. coli bacteria see what we can do with the COVID-19 we don't need vaccines we need proper breathing so that's how you beat it then from breathing techniques yes sir we do a lot of breathing techniques in Scotland me and my friend Gerald and James sometimes when I done the breathing techniques I was getting angry was that triggering a lot of stuff for me do I need to push through that biochemical it's all biochemical and we talked a little bit before this conversation about DMT DMT dimetrile tryptamine which is a deep drug inside of our head through the breathing techniques you are also able to activate that so whatever is the trauma inside dimetrile tryptamine we are here to solve it to go to the trauma and whatever that was doesn't matter anger is another one but in the end if you go back it's biochemical it's all biochemical neurotransmitters suddenly being released making you angry serotonin makes you feel nice dopamine makes you feel great wow nice it's all drugs man it's inside and we are able to tap in to that pharmacy which is in our head connected to the whole of the body once you know how to when you take an asset you know a trip it's just a little thing no it's only a trigger but now through the breathing techniques right righteously done we are able to trigger the area of the amygdala of the hippocampus of the peri aqueductal et cetera all those great places where the pharmacy of ours is existent but we have never learned how to connect with our will with that and now I found ways I found ways driven by my wife going down 8 stories down through the grief I had to handle and learn how to deal with my own grief because I had to serve 4 children that is my drive that is the way I use my drugs to heal myself and now I know how to heal others to bring others to the same ability to trigger themselves into the depth so whenever you feel anger or this or that man it's coming to the surface now keep on doing the breathing because the nature of your biochemistry and your will is to heal to work it out and it should be done within 10 minutes a quarter of an hour we spoke about ayahuasca earlier I had done an ayahuasca documentary a lot of people asked me about it but I am still unsure about it because I just felt I believe changes can be made within I believe a lot of people have been through more trauma than me but still do a lot better than me in life I am more happier than me there was a documentary that I was supposed to do next year it was to be in a dark room for 7 days just pure darkness all black they says when you are in the room for after 3-4 days the brain will release the DMT and that's the natural chemical without taking it externally it's a powerful one I never knew much about it until a few months ago when I seen somebody else doing it in a dark room 7 days just pure darkness and then you eventually see life through pumpers some deep deep shit that's natural, that's not drinking teas no no, I believe you completely I am going to try that next year yeah, that's great and I just did apparently people around me did a documentary with my techniques and naming it Wim Hof this and da da da da together with a stressman professor stressman who is an expert on DMT in the world among that ayahuasca and ibugaine and psychedelics like that that triggers the deeper images in the subconscious and now you are talking about the darkness that yes, that is a way because our daily eyesight is taking a lot of energy so if that is going on then the deeper part of your brain is consumed all the energy gets into the eyesight but if you close your eyes and you do that long enough then that energy it's not consumed anymore it goes to the deeper areas of the brain and then it is able to release now through these breathing techniques we are able to bring energy into those areas we have seen in brain scans in Germany in Hanover people doing these breathing techniques making not 16% at will of the brain activated but 100 100 100% neural activity through doing these breathing techniques that means that all the parts in our brain suddenly are nourished and that means that the nature of our mind is to solve things not to be in a narrowed mind consciousness of the mind which is only capable of being having a lot of our brain on standby when you have deep trauma and this is where we should teach the children in school to never get accumulating trauma and to have it stay there for 30 years or 40 years consuming or blocking the equality of your life the depth of your life and influencing it for the bad it's like something is torn and it wants to come out so we never knew the ability and now we found through these breathing techniques whenever you feel that there is shit going on deep shit and you do not even know it but you suspect it to be get into the breathing get into the breathing get 100% score neural activity done it happens they have compared these breathing techniques with the result in the brain scan to see what kind of activity and what areas of the brain are being activated so people doing this breathing for 10 minutes they activate deeper parts of the brain than people doing 4 hours of mindfulness for years so the shit works but you have to make it work within yourself and we are built to be able to tap into the deepest of our brain anytime anytime when it's needed sometimes when there is danger we get a shock something is happening and it's a confusion the short circuit and trauma and then you cannot handle in that dangerous situation you are able to get out of the situation then you should be able to get into the trauma and work it out but we have never learned how to do that and now we found this way and this I want again I'm into the studies with the people who are doing work on the top researchers on the DNA and on depression it's now going to get to the outer so everybody is able to see that we found the keys it's human beings though we don't like to feel uncomfortable we don't like to feel pain so we just mask it even more we just wrap ourselves around like an onion we don't want to feel no more pain so for people who maybe are struggling and do you need to face the pain to heal it do you need to accept it but there is no force involved you can go gradually and we have innate capacities we are born with them to deal with whatever comes to us so the last explanation was quite good like I never explained it this way but it comes out because this is a new conversation and it's a nice conversation by the way it's a good one it's common sense and here we get into issue solving where psychiatrists still are groping groping in the dark they still need some DMT to understand that the shit is in and not in analytics and pills and injections it's all not, it's inside inside inside so we have the capacity to take on trauma when something really bad happens to us and still get out of this situation which cost it that is the danger we get into the brainstem when the danger happens the pain comes and the trauma to our whole person because it was all too overwhelming we couldn't understand it shattered our belief and everything it's really too much it's like an imprint and bang inside you can't do anything then to receive it but you still have the ability to get out and then you should be able to work it out and for that we got these breathing techniques and these when I got people people begin to cry to yell they see faces and what am I I'm a simple man who has come from a suicide of his wife whom he loved with four children and they are being left alone I just tried to get out of that hole out of that trauma and that taught me something that is not in the books and now I teach the psychiatrist and I show the brain scans that we have a much greater possible control at will to tap into our brain and to deal with the trauma whatever it is when did you start getting the recognition when did you start feeling ok what I'm doing is right because you must have questioned yourself even though it felt right for you what if I'm doing is wrong because I asked the whole question I'm in a good place I'm gambling free it feels right for me but sometimes I question it what if I'm talking shit when did you start getting the recognition that this man is pushing himself to limits and creating mass changes in the world that it is James I never question to really myself and even though I was considered to be crazy man and all these things I kept on doing what I was doing because what I was doing was not based on thinking on pondering or philosophizing we're just going into the bloody ice cold water for too long a time according to the physiological laws and then I found deeper realities logical because I had to survive and I felt I could survive and I'm an investigator of life I think everybody in nature in this spiritual nature is an investigator to see what life really is all about but we lost this connection through all this schooling and too much thinking thinking thinking but I was not my feelings were not based in thinking was out of practice today like I go to my love I go to my practice and that for 44 years I've been doing that without questioning myself and then people say that I'm crazy man I'm sitting here an hour in cold water and you with your scarf and tan layers you're saying that I'm crazy this much it goes I went to school my young kids primary school and I went to school in winter time in short it's freezing in the Dutch winters like Scotland freezing so you go I went there like I say make of your winter a summer so act like this summer and then you are done that's the philosophy the rest is doing so you do it you go in shorts open sandals a t-shirt to school and I was doing handstands in the school yard waiting for the kids to come out splits jumping around being alive and people at the side the parents smoking he's crazy he is crazy and my children then they told me act normal act normal I said no kept on doing it because it felt good I felt strong had no money just felt strong and happy I needed no money I just needed to be the way I was and that finally resulted into groundbreaking for the science and I flabber casted all the TV world to make a Hollywood film about this and you know what the beautiful thing they're gonna make in the Hollywood film is not only to show that a simple man is able to make groundbreaking changes in medical understanding and science not only the pharmaceutical industry the way it works upon our physiology and psychology and then physiology of course is so a natural method of one person they don't come through even when I went in 2014 to scientists and show for the first time in medical history how to tap into the autonomic nervous system and immune system both not a little bit big time and then showing it with 12 people publishing in the best of papers of the world and then they don't take it up because the industry doesn't make money what I do doesn't make money and let me tell this to the viewers to the viewers let me tell this to the viewers guys you got it all make sure you get it all you get it all changes and easy medicine yourself have changed the world it isn't easy people laugh people ridicule how did it affect your kids when you were doing all that stuff and they were grown up even though you were doing the right thing it felt right for you but everybody else in their small box made you feel crazy made your kids feel as if the dad was a weird one when really they're smoking drinking taking drugs probably fucking around for me how did that affect you and the kids how did that affect the kids yes right now those daughters daughters are extremely sensitive have a daughter adapt age and now they have become instructors in the method that bears their father's name and they are both graduates from university and everything one has done psychology other one did two masters and they are girls in society but they know now that what happened before is the bullshit going on right now and what we are really all about they love their workshops because they see people change they feel people change and it all comes back so much healing so much love going on and this of course they touch a shattered belief about love because their mother jumped from eight stories down but now in the psychiatry in my daughter is a psychologist in psychiatry I went with her to Detroit Wayne State University and I showed in the brain scans to go so deep at will into the brain which was unprecedented deep and then professors they told this is a transformational technique that will change mental healthcare that is number one that is big already man I am talking mental disorders any kind any kind at least ask yourself is this possible what he is saying where there is must be full of shit check me out please check me out and if you then find the answers through what you have been checking out just through objectivity then help those who need it it's funny though a lot of pressure from the outside noise and other people can put you back into your very small box and if you didn't this is why it's important for people watching consistency is key if you believe in something so much and you don't care as long as you are not hurting anyone then stay true to your passion I think people can get caught up in relationships jobs and think that's the final piece of the puzzle in life and realistically they have stopped working on themselves this is why I think people struggle so much because they are not fulfilling that potential that they have the greatness to make changes in the world you have changed the world anybody can do it I am a simple guy you see me I could be a hobo somewhere in the street being ignored by everybody asking for money you know that's me but no there is something else behind the disguise and the thing now is that what we bring we bring it for everybody in the world through the science and it's test out it's simple it's very effective so what's the the benefits then for cold water exposure for people just starting off getting in a shower or getting in a cold bath getting in the icy lakes what's the health benefits many benefits the principle is of cold a cold shower a day keeps the doctor away that is the simple one the other one is we have 100,000 km of blood vessels inside very primitive ones like capillary and then you have arteries and you have veins they are all connected to the heart we all know killer number one was cardiovascular related diseases in society why? because all the cardiovascular related system and related organs and everything are very bad exercised they contain millions of little muscles to help the blood flow go through but because we wear clothes all the time we de-stimulate we have a de-stimulative kind of behavior conditioned so the muscles don't work as much who's got to pay for that? your heart your heart needs to pump more to get the blood flow through because the tone of the muscles in the vascular system that means the millions of little muscles they are not helping as much so if you go into the cold shower what happens these little muscles begin to work they begin to be stimulated what happens more if you do this regularly then the heart rate goes down with 20 to 30 beats I mean it's 24 hours a day and that means there is no stress anymore besides of that all the little muscles begin to work and help the blood flow less stress and the energy because the vascular system is a transportation system of the blood flow it reaches much better the cells and thus you get a lot more nutrients and vitamins into the cells that means a lot more energy so much more energy and much less stress that's the result of a cold shower how you hold your breath you could hold your breath for 7 minutes under water is that correct? yes yes but it's not about competition anybody my oldest participant is 98 years old she loves it she loves it so much she told me I told my sister 96 years old and they are doing it and so many people all the people they say this is the principle of the rabbit all the life you go until you die you should be able like the rabbit to flee, fight and to find food isn't it? that is normal what we see now in the elder homes people stashed away with 20 25 kinds of medicines staring in front of a TV waiting until the agony of death is setting in what kind of life is that? it's not there what we should do every day is reminding I say die once a day learn to fully live is where the fear of dying of the quality the inequality of living is no longer there this is what I learned when I swam under the ice I lost sight because my cornea froze I had no goggles on swimming swimming I couldn't see where I was going there was a meter of thick ice beyond I swam I swam I swam twice the record distance and more 113 meters at that time the other day I had to do that it was a piece of cake because I got out alive why? I kept on swimming swimming trying to find a hole and then a diver finally almost swimming swimming and sleeping sleeping sleeping there I was I never had felt the agony of drowning being that claustrophobic situation fear knowing nothing when they brought me back to the 50 meter hole the first thing you got where was everybody but I did it and there at that moment I had a peak absolute peak into a fearless state of being we don't die I found the way we think about dying it all ends over there and that's why we have fear but that's wrong we have to go deeper to understand that fear is bullshit that we live forever and that we have a purpose here in this life to fulfill the soul itself and to make it understand instead of what we do now with the world serving people who gain too much money and who are abusing corrupting polluting the world the cruelty in the world against animals and people war zones disease and all it is not necessary it's time for change and I went into nature and I found through going into the extremes following my feeling my feeling is my guide do not force your feeling will show you are capable of so much more and at least to realize the soul who you are and what you are and that is love it's driven by love it's a fearless state of being and that is what I want to teach my children, your children everyone I love so you have nearly died fighting for this couple of times people do fear death and that's fear it controls the world and you don't know what it's like before you're born so you're not going to know after death we're constantly searching I'm a searcher, I'm at the beginning of my journey, I know I'm going to change the world at some point, I believe I'm doing the steps to do that I've yet to find, I do what I love I've found my passion, I believe something bigger is going to come I just need to keep working on myself when you got scientifically proven as changing lives you broke down, you started crying why? Yes, of course it's finally after 40 years of not being recognized after 40 years of misery, after 40 years carrying your grief alone you get finally recognition of a world which was always blaspheming me saying that I was an idiot crazy and I should go on, don't stick with your feelings it's not important what is important is to produce to have a career, to have a position better than somebody else to gain money and to gain more money and that's it so all that was a feeling at that moment that broke down just through those words of that doctor it's amazing what happened and I said something good what happened, namely the suppression of my own being went down and at the same time I was able, if I'm able to do this I can bring it on for others that there is more than meets the eye and now it's time that it is getting in our sight tangible, strong effectively there that's my method, that's my mission and conversations like this brings and sheds light, right over there was that a release for you when all the years are getting cold? potentially getting verbally abused mentally abused, cold, crazy was that a release to say not as if to say fuck you, I told you so but look what I've done I'm quite humble about that only humble about that because I know a lot more people are suffering and let us now give the example if I can get out and I'm a simple guy really I have no schooling no real schooling but life has taught me and now I'm better than anybody and anything what is that? no I'm the simple guy but now I'm freed I'm freed of my suppression and I stay simple I stay humble because what is happening is great and I want to see in the greatness of life every day and that is what I want to share with everybody who is suppressed right now the pine new gland the seat of the soul, the collar which is in the middle of the brain and it gives you higher powers to certain things is cold water, does this help the pine new gland? yes absolutely why because the adrenal axis will be turned on and it resets the blood chemistry cleanses it once it is cleansed it will take away what is wrongly built up through acidity through a long stand by of those parts of the brain then becoming acidic and then becoming petrified calcified 45, 48 yes and now through these breathing techniques and going into the cold you learn to change the biochemistry make it absolutely alkaline then the adrenal axis is activated and they resets the body towards the way mother nature meant it to be, that means clean cleansed deeply within the lymphatic system and also the neural activity at will all 100% within our brain that means then the blood flow is able to follow with alkaline blood and that decalcifies the pineal gland and then anything that is needed to solve trauma that is the purpose of dimethyl tryptamine DMT is able to get to whatever needs to be done the trauma could be an accident the trauma could be the loss of your wife your child this or that it does not matter it's there at your will present to help you claiming not being there but it's the claiming Mount Everest on your shorts by the danger zone what was the thinking behind this and did you get scared at any point no no no I remember a couple of things of course the first was nobody had done it so you go into the unknown that turned you on a bit but no it's never been done before always always always I now figure that out with my wife that's a joke guys but the thing going into the Mount Everest I just thought by myself first they did it with oxygen and clothes then they did it without oxygen but with clothes let me be the one who is doing it without clothes and without oxygen just you know shorts and that's what I did and I went there and all alpinistic world was upside down and the man goes this way and he is planning to go and I did what I found on Mount Everest on the height of six kilometers about was a was me being alone because I was just too fast for the people I'm a very a very athletic just being with nature not in sports competition nature makes me the best of me and there I had sat out with the mindset I want to do this so then you get a drive inside you grow while you go and I went but then snow came and I was there and there is no path there is only ice and ice snow white it's cold and that's it and the rest you have to find out I'll go but there I was in a white out suddenly in my shorts in a white out on that height with less than half the oxygen I found the way I didn't feel this paranoia I didn't feel anxiety I felt hey I'm okay I don't see anything but I'm okay I feel okay I'm connected I got my drive I go I just go three hours later I found myself in the advanced base camp at 6400 meters and I was received by Tibetans and they I think they have been looking to a person like the Yeti like a pilgrim like a pilgrim coming out of their white out in shorts they served me tea and all those things and then later that was the greatest moment on Mount Everest for me because I found out I had no paranoia no anxiety while being amidst a white out and that was the greatest of discovery. Do you think you find yourself more than when you are with yourself when you are alone do you think you find who you really are yourself with too many people who have got noise from radio, TV, oh yeah social media do you think you find your true purpose when you spend more time alone yes of course but right now talking to you we get to insights we get to a conversation I never had and it's beautiful the light which is shining right now between us is beautiful and the light coming from the neurology of talking this way is saying this is common sense and this is going to the deepest this is giving new insights we are helping the people we are like in the tribe and we solve any problem that is coming up in this conversation and we will solve it because the nature of our mind is capable of doing that if we only go past our fears and that's what we do so that is nice that is great I love it I just go out I am sitting 20 minutes so we are 30 minutes into the ice water then I shut up inside it shuts up and you are just there and that's who you are so going through all that trauma all the pain and misery you are still human you still battle that shit every day you just handle it better than everybody else all the records you have broke your world proving that everything is within proving that your belief can change whatever the fuck you are thinking you can change the way you think the way you feel, the way you talk the way you act if you ain't happy, you can't be happy you are living proof of that many other people are so going forward for the future what is plans for Wim Hof what are the other goals you want to take where are the levels you want to go I want this method I want a children to teach to be taught happiness, strength and health no more only the bullshit how to fit in in a society that is sodomizing the planet it's going to be over it's inequality going on and it's ruling us a system, a hierarchy where a couple of people are earning 10,000 times more than somebody else what makes them a person and the other to have 10 times 10,000 times more needed than this person that is a system that doesn't work they are not brighter or anything they are just sneaky able to manipulate that system in a way that it all comes to and where is the energy coming from from all those because there is no more energy than the amount of people in the world and so that is represented into money money is only a symbol of what is the energy in all the people and that's why we have poverty that's why we have starvation because we are thieves the guys who are ruling over us and those are the criminals and those people they kill and nobody sees it they open those eyes if I have a mission it's not me anymore I don't need to play with the Mount Everest no more to see what I am capable of now I will use my mind and my heart to bring just tests to the world through the schooling where children get to learn about happiness to never lose the core of their wealth inside and when it happens in a society you got to work you got to do this, you got to do burnouts and autoimmune disease and cancer and shit happens, no this is what Dave Asprey asked me in his podcast Wim I never asked this but how to reach enlightenment and I told him and please put it in one sentence hey shit man they put Bible, Koran and all those things all these scriptures I say keep it simple I got it just be happy, strong and healthy because the rest is bullshit and that bullshit nobody should be satisfied with in any way not succumb to it, not being suppressed it's bullshit, it's not yours you are identifying with bullshit and that's why you feel shy you feel timid and others are able to manipulate you because you have no control over your own mind now we are showing you own your own mind we have the tools we talk about it like two guys, they talk, they stand up they say something is wrong here let's find out that is the ability of nature given to us through speech and that's what we do the guys are talking we are leading here because we have no fear, we want to solve in the love for all those who are suffering that's what we do so what I'm doing the rest of my life what you are doing as well we bring common sense love back to our families manifest like a rock that's what we do what should they let a teen like one start today with a good breathing session because the breathing session it has shown in the university to alkalise the blood that means acidity is out there that means that the performance is going to be a lot better when the blood is alkaline you do this as soon as you are up I read an article that the first hour of your day and the last hour of your day is your most creative also read the Tibetan monks of women I think nuns also when they done the breathing techniques they wrapped wet clothes over them they done the breathing techniques and visualised themselves drying the clothes the body temperature went up and the clothes went dry do you do that first thing all these things we don't need to visualise when you do it we don't need to go into visualisations and all that there is a big margin just do a little bit of breathing take the cold shower be able to understand the depth of yourself you get a control over your mood the mood regulation is done through these breathing techniques and the cold shower and at certain moment you are able to go and swim in cold natural bodies of water like this swimming pool there what you see there that one I never use in the summer I only use it in the winter I love it and sometimes I go into the lakes and into the rivers because I'm not shy my condition of my vascular system is just right there when you are able to take on the cold shower on a regular basis you are able to take on stress and that's the world you want to know how to deal with stress of the world and bacterial stress and viral stress and emotional stress etc. the congestion this and that learn to handle yourself go into the cold shower you learn your psych to direct to inner power the adrenal axis activation becoming strong while nobody sees something you have the ability to change yourself to become stronger within in a second just by thought and that is done through the cold shower coming back cold shower a day keeps the doctor away some breathing deep breathing makes your body alkaline great preparation for much more outcome than normal in the day how's your eating one? I eat once a day I didn't eat until is that a 5 hour thing? 5 hour window? not even 2 hours is enough is it vegetarian vegan? yes it is have you ever heard of a thing called sun gazing? I did that 15 years ago I watch a lot of stuff about India people think I'm crazy for doing this but everything that's grown from this universe trees, fruit, veg has grown from the sun the sun reserves so if you look directly at the sun and now before sunrise I can look at the sun anytime now so if you do that but now before sunset and now before sunrise if you mean everything back in your body they say if you look at the sun for over half an hour it will cure you all disease as well they say people can go blind by looking at the sun that is a myth but don't look at that build up the eyesight build up gradual gradual exposure touched on that there's many things about it on youtube about sun gazing we can maybe change lives I loved it I was doing it for hours when I was younger and now still I'm doing it I love this sun the contact with the visual cortex it becomes blue and then you're just feeling it is amazing and yes vegetarian because the phyto power is still within the plants it directly received the sunlight so it's there and in animals it's indirect they eat their plants so they already digested the sun power so we think meat, meat, meat, meat but meat in the end is very needs a lot of processing inside it's a wrong diet it's a wrong diet for people watching one they get them down, maybe lost a loved one battling depression maybe they got addiction issues what advice would you give for them what maybe tools and techniques would you give for them for people to go do you know what, because people will watch us and it will trigger something and someones minding to go fuck it I want change what advice would you give for them first of all we have shown through science already that we as humans are not breathing us only with pills and dependency on therapies and psychiatry and all that it's not necessary you with your breath with these breathing techniques and we got a free app for that to show you to have an absolute sense of control you within unprecedented much and then you will feel a feeling is the understanding to that feeling oh shit, I never felt this and then you don't need too many words you want to get rid of the shit and that shit is gonna go because you're gonna adopt an absolute sense of control try out the free app I don't know what it is called it's on my website and they develop it every month possibly the Wim Hof Method app or something I don't use it because I developed it it's logical but I tell you the shit works the shit works and it's good and it's scientifically endorsed I can talk in English I can talk in French about it it's good shit so yeah for the people watching just get involved with the Wim Hof Method watch our social media and stuff on Instagram, YouTube you've got so many videos and documentaries the very first one I watched was on VICE that young boy just a decent guy so we've moved on to everything for the future we've touched on a lot of things would you like to finish up on anything yourself brother? just keep on the work and the common sense bring it together with your beautiful accent I love the Scots way and the Highlands I think we have reached the Highlands here definitely Wim for coming on today brother and telling your story it's very much appreciated I think what you're doing is phenomenal I believe you've only just scratched the surface you've got a lot more to come I'll be following your journey till as long as we're on this planet we will bring the soul to everybody who needs it so the last question thank you brother God bless you