The human body is an incredible machine in which the limits of are still being tested. Things that many of us, including the experts on such matters, believed to be impossible are now being done. A persons ability to consciously change the previously believed to be unconscious automated body processes has been vastly misunderstood. There is one gentleman in particular I have come across that is single handedly breaking the rules that were thought to exist of what we as humans can achieve.
Wim says that he is able to modulate his body temperature with his mind, allowing him to stay in extreme cold conditions for long periods with out injury or experiencing hypothermia. He has proven this time and time again, setting 20 world records and displaying these feats for thousands including interested researchers. He has run a full marathon around the arctic circle in temperatures around -20°C (-4°F) wearing only shorts and shoes, sat in ice water for almost two hours, and he climbed to 6.7 kilometres (22,000 ft) altitude at Mount Everest wearing nothing but shorts and shoes.
But his abilities are not simply the product of being to withstand the cold. They are something much deeper, intriguing and impactful. On 28 January 2012, an episode of the US television program Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files, featuring Hof, was broadcast. Hof was tested against a member of the team named Austin, both sitting in a tank full of ice. Austin sat in the tank for about 20 minutes. When he got out of the water, the other two team members used a heat camera to reveal that his surface body temperature was at about four degrees Celsius. Hof's core body temperature stayed the same for the entire twenty minutes, as did his heart rate.
In September, Hof also ran a full marathon in the Namib Desert without water.
And there was also this...
"On March 23, 2013, 24 scientific study participants were injected with a dead strain of Escherichia coli, a bacteria that normally induces violent sickness for days on end. To the scientists shock, however, none of the 12 people who were trained in the Wim Hof Method experienced any ailment whatsoever. Helping to substantiate Wim’s claim that humans can consciously control their immune system. The other 12, the untrained control group, were affected severely."
Showing us that his claim of being able to control processes in the body like temperature regulation, Ph, stress response, and even things as specific as hormone production may hold validity.
And the most interesting thing about all this, he says everyone has the capability.