Wim Hof - Cold Water cures all ills?

Anyone heard of the Wim Hof method? He says if you use cold water therapy with deep breathing you can cure all major diseases.

Apparently he has mastered the cold and climbed Mt. Kilaminjaro with just shorts and no nerve damage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=389c...ature=youtu.be

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24799686
http://www.icemanwimhof.com/files/pnas.pdf

Briefly, sustained deep breathing mimics and breath retention stimulates the production of epinephrin/adrenalin and influences the autonomic nervous system.

Here is something I dug up:

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As for the method itself, like I wrote before, it is nothing new. It is controlled hyperventilation (and cold showers). Like many kids, I discovered it when competing with friends in who could hold their breath the longest. It has also been used by free-divers for a long time, and there is evidence that it may cause brain injury when done repeatedly (in addition to blacking out and drowning). Which is why I would not recommend anyone to "just try it".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13513485

And

https://www.parool.nl/binnenland/-ic...leven~a4332186

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Thousands of people swear by the breathing exercises of 'Iceman' Wim Hof Again a man drowned doing the breathing exercises of 'Iceman' Wim Hof. Last year at least three followers of the Wim Hof ​​Method died. By: Roelf Jan Duin 2 July 2016, 08:44 The most recent death is a 33-year-old Dutchman who drowned in a swimming pool on the Chinese island of Hainan on May 13, where he lived. Since December he followed the Wim Hof ​​Method via an online course. It consists of a number of series of deep inhalation and not completely exhale, followed by a period in which there is no breathing. This way, the breath can be kept longer and longer, which is why some participants also apply the technique while swimming. However, the technique can also result in hyperventilation, and sometimes even loss of consciousness. If people go 'out' under water, the consequences can be fatal. Nuclear The man, whose name remains unmentioned at the request of his family, was perfectly healthy, says his sister. "He was very sporty and has been very fanatically engaged in Hof's breathing exercises since a few months, and he felt stronger than ever." Most likely he did the breathing exercises in the pool, where there were more people. The autopsy report showed that he died due to drowning. At the end of May Het Parool reported on the death of three practitioners of Hof's breathing techniques: a Dutchman, a South African and a Canadian. They too were found dead in a swimming pool and also with them autopsy reports showed that drowning was the cause of death. Relatives of all deceased people accuse Hof that he does not sufficiently warn of the risk of a shallow water blackout, drowning in shallow water due to lack of oxygen in the brain. Tip of the iceberg The sister of the Dutchman who died in China, fears that the four deaths that are now known only form the tip of the iceberg. "Thousands of people follow the method, I think they are not aware of the dangers, but my brother was not." Hof, who gained world fame by, for example, sitting in a bowl of ice for almost two hours and swimming fifty meters under polar ice, had regretted the deaths as a result of earlier reports. Innerfire, Hof's company, would make it clear in all possible ways that the exercises should not be done in the vicinity of water. According to the surviving relatives, this has only happened since a few months after people died. Enahm Hof, son of Wim and director of Innerfire, says in connection with the latest death: "It's pretty awkward, but then you should not do the exercises under water." Everywhere on our site and in all our expressions we warn people, we can not do more.

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