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The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance

3 Pillars of Performance: Cold, Breath & Mind – Wim Hof with Dave Asprey : 750

The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance

Dave Asprey

Fat, Health & Fitness, Meditation, Biohacking, Lifestyle, Diet, Science, Self-improvement, Fasting, Nutrition, Hacking, Fitness, Brain, Wellness, Education

4.67.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

To Bulletproof Radio listeners: The audio on this particular episode is not our usual quality due to technical difficulties on an international connection. We ask for your understanding, as we didn't want to delay bringing this awesome guest to you.

In this episode of Bulletproof Radio, my guest is Wim Hof, aka, “The Iceman.” Wim holds multiple world records for his feats of endurance and exposure to cold. 

He’s based in the Netherlands and has taught breathing techniques all over the world. His methods can change your body chemistry, infuse you with energy, and focus your mind.

“The breath is a door,” Wim says. “Without the breath, what is there? It’s where you and I and everyone else began. It’s where all life begins.”

He’s taken his techniques and distilled them into a new book: “The Wim Hof Method: Activate Your Full Human Potential.”

Over a decade and in eight university research studies, his methods have proven that the autonomous nervous system, as related to the innate immune response, can be willfully influenced.  This is something that was previously unknown to science

In these studies, he has also proven that he can directly:

  • influence his autonomic nervous system, 
  • measurably reduce inflammation, 
  • regulate his internal PH levels and body temperature, 
  • activate his immune system to resist the effects of poisonous endotoxins, and
  • activated regions in the brain responsible for pain suppression.


Although Wim is best known for his seeming ability to go beyond human limits, his basic method is accessible to anyone: 20 minutes of breathing practice, a cold shower at the end of your warm one, and the persistence to stick with it. 

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0:00.0

You're listening to Bulletproof Radio with Dave Asprey.

0:10.3

Today's guest almost needs no introduction.

0:13.3

He's known as the Iceman or Wim Hof.

0:16.0

He's got multiple world records for crazy feats of endurance and exposure to cold.

0:21.7

And if you're a longtime listener, you heard him on episode 403 where we talked about

0:25.1

climbing Everest and a T-shirt in shorts, freezing yourself for long periods of time.

0:29.8

And you realize this guy really is a Superman.

0:32.4

He's basing the other lens and he's proven that his methods can change your body chemistry

0:37.2

and fuse you with a different kind of energy, change your brain focus.

0:41.9

And he just wrote a book that is coming out almost as soon as this is published for you

0:47.6

to hear.

0:48.6

And it's called the Wim Hof Method, activate you full human potential.

0:52.0

I and countless other people have been waiting for years for Wim to write a book.

0:57.4

The only book you could get was from someone he trained and it was not the official Wim

1:02.2

Hof message, which goes way beyond take a cold shower and get some ice.

1:06.3

There's a lot more in there.

1:08.1

So he finally did it.

1:09.1

He finally put it together.

1:11.3

And before we get going on the interview, Wim actually has a message that he just puts

1:16.1

out there and he says, you can literally do the impossible.

1:18.8

You can overcome disease, improve your mental health and physical performance and even control

1:23.0

your physiology so you can thrive in freezing temperatures.

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