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Oct 26, 20161h 23mWatch on YouTube

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0:00 – 0:04
Intro
1. LHLewis Howes
  [upbeat music]
0:04 – 5:04
Meeting Wim Hof and his extreme world records
1. LHLewis Howes
  Welcome everyone back to the School of Greatness Podcast. Got a very special guest, the legendary Wim Hof, the Iceman-
2. WHWim Hof
  Wow
3. LHLewis Howes
  ... in the house.
4. WHWim Hof
  Thank you.
5. LHLewis Howes
  Thank you for being here. You just put me through an incredible experience, uh, where I almost fainted and passed out a number of times, but also felt completely free and in the zone throughout the entire time as well, and feel like I... I just came back from a week-long experience throwing a big event in Columbus, Ohio, and it was a lot of energy, a lot of people came in from all over the world, a lot of production behind the scenes. And last night and this morning I felt very groggy, and now I feel, like, cleansed, fresh, clean, like energized. I feel like I didn't even have that week.
6. WHWim Hof
  So almost and podcast. [laughs]
7. LHLewis Howes
  Exactly, yes. [laughs]
8. WHWim Hof
  I mean, the proof is in the pudding.
9. LHLewis Howes
  Exactly.
10. WHWim Hof
  You showed it. You can show the techniques to, uh, uh-
11. LHLewis Howes
  It was amazing
12. WHWim Hof
  ... uh, you know, by the podcast or to everybody.
13. LHLewis Howes
  Yeah.
14. WHWim Hof
  But we g- are going to explain-
15. LHLewis Howes
  Yeah
16. WHWim Hof
  ... and going into the depth right now.
17. LHLewis Howes
  It was amazing. And before you go into it, I'm curious to know, you know, I first heard about you about two years ago I believe it was. There was a thing online called the Ice Bucket Challenge. Do you remember hearing about this?
18. WHWim Hof
  Yes, yes.
19. LHLewis Howes
  The ALS Ice Bu- Ice Bucket Challenge?
20. WHWim Hof
  Yes.
21. LHLewis Howes
  And a friend of mine named Aubrey Marcus, he's the CEO of a company called Onnit, and he's good friends with Joe Rogan, who I know you've been on his podcast. He mentioned, he was like, "There's this guy in somewhere in, like, the Netherlands or Amsterdam who's like, can sit under the water in an ice bucket for a, you know, an hour or something."
22. WHWim Hof
  Two hours, yeah.
23. LHLewis Howes
  Two hours. And, um, and he goes, "So I'm gonna try to, like, figure out his techniques so I can do this Ice Bucket Challenge and not feel cold." And that's when I first heard about you. And then I did a workout with Laird Hamilton about a year ago-
24. WHWim Hof
  Yeah
25. LHLewis Howes
  ... for an hour, and all we did was breathing this for an hour. And I remember feel- feeling, "Man, I gotta meet this guy, this Wim Hof guy, and figure out how to learn this and how to share it with my audience." So first off, how did you get into all this? Before we get into the science behind it and what you've actually done. You've broken 27 world records? Is that correct?
26. WHWim Hof
  Six, six, six.
27. LHLewis Howes
  Oh, it's not-
28. WHWim Hof
  But very soon 27.
29. LHLewis Howes
  Very soon 27.
30. WHWim Hof
  I, I aim for 30.
5:04 – 1:23:34
What the university tests revealed about mind, immune system and stress
1. WHWim Hof
  So, and, and, uh, uh, you know, scientists get, uh, they saw this and they, uh, they saw a- actually a person doing impossible feats physiologically measured by scientific, uh, uh, investigations, research, et cetera, tells us, "We are... Hey, man, what, what he is doing is, is not possible."
2. LHLewis Howes
  Mm.
3. WHWim Hof
  "So let's test him." And I, uh, they, I was tested in a physiological lab department somewhere in the university in Amster- uh, uh, in the, in the Netherlands. I live in Amsterdam. It, this was somewhere else in the Netherlands. And they hooked me up with wires everywhere and took my blood while I was standing, uh, 80 minutes in ice.
4. LHLewis Howes
  One eight?
5. WHWim Hof
  Direct.
6. LHLewis Howes
  Eight zero?
7. WHWim Hof
  Yes.
8. LHLewis Howes
  Eight-
9. WHWim Hof
  Eight zero minutes
10. LHLewis Howes
  ... eight zero.
11. WHWim Hof
  [clears throat] Uh, uh, 80, one hour, 20 minutes. That was in-
12. LHLewis Howes
  Just standing all the way up to the neck or...?
13. WHWim Hof
  Yes.
14. LHLewis Howes
  Wow.
15. WHWim Hof
  Uh, up to the neck. And they had my blood, uh, being drawn And they saw that the blood, uh, uh, which later was exposed to a bacteria, had zero reaction. So no immun- immunological reaction on the bacteria, and that means, uh, that's, that's not possible normally.
16. LHLewis Howes
  Mm.
17. WHWim Hof
  Where, because the immune system, uh, creates this reactions which in a human creates fever, headaches, uncontrolled shivering, all over agony, and all that. And this guy, i- i- its immune cells, uh, it doesn't, uh, it doesn't react.
18. LHLewis Howes
  Mm.
19. WHWim Hof
  So that's a, a direct relationship with the immune system which could not be influenced, and now show that it can be influenced. So they saw that. They saw also that we, uh, while I was in there, uh, my core body temperature remained 37 degrees all throughout. They saw also, and that's very remarkable, being motionless in front of the tank without being inside, no trigger, just standing, taking blood, being analyzed that blood, because I knew I gotta go in. So I programmed my body up to cell level apparently, because there was 300% more metabolic activity.
20. LHLewis Howes
  Mm.
21. WHWim Hof
  And that was in the blood, without moving. It's like you are running, and it's only because your mind says, "I gotta go in there."
22. LHLewis Howes
  [laughs]
23. WHWim Hof
  It programs the cell, cell activity which you need to perform.
24. LHLewis Howes
  Wow.
25. WHWim Hof
  And that's the mind. So and that could be, uh, not only good for sporters who are into winning. They-
26. LHLewis Howes
  Mm
27. WHWim Hof
  ... learn to program their cell to create more cell activity-
28. LHLewis Howes
  Yeah
29. WHWim Hof
  ... at will, and that's very important that they know that, and that they just focused instead of being, "Oh, yeah, yeah, well, I-"
30. LHLewis Howes
  Mm.

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Intro

Meeting Wim Hof and his extreme world records

What the university tests revealed about mind, immune system and stress

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