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The Superhuman World of Wim Hof: The Iceman

VICE · 10.6M views · 2015-07-16 · 39:43

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Overview

A VICE documentary profiling Wim Hof, the Iceman, covering his feats of cold endurance, his breathing and meditation method, and scientific studies of his control over his autonomic and immune systems.

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HN mentions it as evidence that the Wim Hof method can be learned and as the documentary that led some to try breathing and cold exposure, while others dispute the claims.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2016–2024

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What people said

justarandombobo · 2022-01 · Recommendation

Hey man, try some breathing exercises and cold showers if you can - I watched this documentary [LINK] and then the original vice documentary: [VIDEO] and then tried the breathing: [LINK] and cold showers and they've been helping a lot with inflammation! There are tons of benefits of cold showers, so if you can start doing that, that might already help a lot! Here's a bunch of results you could check out: [LINK]

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tarkin2 · 2024-09 · Criticism

Can someone clean up the title? "'The Iceman' Wim Hof's family suffered domestic voilence." I noticed that first Vice video Wim had a strange interaction with his son, normalising strange interactions, jokingly calling his son the biggest bastard he'd known. Seemed odd to me. [VIDEO]

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jasonshen · 2020-10 · Reference

Wim Hof "Iceman" definitely gives me "cult leader" vibes but cool to see this research get published in a very reputable scientific journal. [VIDEO]

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