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The 'Wim Hof Method' (Or… A Proven Way To Boost Immunity, Prevent Disease & Activate Your Full Human Potential!)

Nicknamed 'The Iceman', Wim Hof is a true freak of nature (except he's actually not as what he does can be trained & developed!)...

And over the years he has demonstrated this for the world, collecting himself a total of 20 Guinness World Records in the process...

One of his most remarkable feats occurred in 2007 when he climbed Mount Everest (where temperatures can drop as low as -50°) wearing just his underwear!

In one study, they buried him to his neck in ice for almost 2 hours...

...yet his body temperature actually went up (not down!) by 1 degree due to his breathing & the control he has developed over his own nervous system!

The best example of this was in another study where under laboratory conditions, researchers injected Wim's body with a endotoxins, flu-type bacteria (which causes strong flu-kind symptoms such as fever, chills & headaches in all of the 240 people previously) only to find that in Wim's case, he suffered no ill effects whatsoever! (thanks to the breathing patterns that he did beforehand.)

What's best is that he is not a freak of nature as we mentioned in the beginning...

To prove this, he has actually trained others ordinary people to also do the same & they have, proving that virtually anyone can do this, heal their body & boost their performance in these ways, as well as achieve the most incredible things previous thought to be impossible...

How can you do this?

Well, you follow the method he developed called the 'Wim Hof Method'.

It's made up of 3 core elements...

• 1. Cold Exposure — we won't cover this in this newsletter as we already covered it at length in a previous newsletter. But essentially, Wim loved the cold & uses it (from taking cold showers, to ice baths to swimming in the cold winter water!)
  

• 2. Breathing (he uses a specific breathing protocol which we’ll share with you in just a moment!)
  

• 3. Power of the mind (including interoception & visualization)

Each of these 3 components are powerful on their own… but when you bring them together, they are even more powerful (as Wim Hof demonstrates!)

Let's explore them...

🫁 The Wim Hof Breathing Protocol

Here is one of Wim’s basic breathing techniques that we highly recommend you test out if you don't do it already, starting today:

1. Take a few long, slow, deep, gentle breaths to focus, relax & prepare.
   

2. Take in 30 - 40 deep, full breaths & let the exhales out without any force (active inhale, passive exhale). Breathe in through your nose and out through your mouth, or breathe in and out through your mouth...
   

3. After completing 30-40 repetitions, take in one more long, deep breath, let that exhale out & proceed to hold your breath out (don’t breathe in) as long as you can.
   

4. When you feel a strong urge to breathe or your diaphragm begins to flutter, take in a full inhale & hold it in again (on the inhale this time) for 10 - 15 seconds) below letting go, exhaling & relaxing
   

5. Repeat the steps above for 3-5 rounds. Then repeat 2-3 times every day for the best results.

What you'll see is that over a few weeks your breathing will ease & capacity will increase dramatically...

You will be able to comfortably hold your breath for longer periods, & you will begin to notice many health & performance benefits!

And then, the 3rd pillar of the Wim Hof method is the mind, or mindset.

It includes the idea of will & the power to imagine, to meditate, to be self-aware, conscious & to visualize — the ability to transform conscious attention to any part of your body or mind or anything, to observe any bodily process, all as we please. It’s conscious control. And this is a power we all have, although some have trained it more than others...

By training the power of the mind, you are better able to implement the first 2 elements of the method, as well as do anything in life!

So, that's an overview of the Wim Hof Method (including cold showers, ice baths & more), breathing that hyper-oxygenated the body & harnessing the full power of the mind 😃

And if you’d like to learn more about how to apply the timeless practice of breathwork specifically to create visible, measurable & life-transforming changes to your health, fitness & performance…

…including healing asthma or allergies, aiding permanent fat loss, preventing disease, reversing aging & extending your lifespan…

…check out our recently released course on the topic called:

‘Breath & Body’

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🌿 HEALTHY RECIPE

Super Sweet Alkaline Juice

2 things to note to start about this juicing recipe...

• Firstly, helping our body maintain an alkaline blood state is key to preventing almost every disease — & that's what this juice recipe (& others like it) help you to do!
  

• Secondly, juicing in general is a great way to flood your body with nutrients while giving the digestive system a rest from today's world of heavily processed food — as covered in a previous newsletter!

And when juicing we want to use fruit very minimally because of it's high sugar content...

The only common fruits that should be regularly juiced are lemons, limes, grapefruit, rhubarb & pomegranate.

In this particular juicing recipe… we use some melon, which is fairly high in sugar, however, the extremely high water content does make it more alkaline than most other fruits...

We also use beetroot which is a very sweet tasting vegetable that packs a massive antioxidant punch!

The brightly coloured root vegetable has been proven to improve athletic performance & be amazing for circulation.

Because beetroot is rich in natural chemicals called nitrates which your body changes into nitric oxide, which helps with blood flow and lower blood pressure...

Added to the beautiful sweetness of the melon & the beetroot we have the alkaline goodness of spinach, french beans (any green bean will do), lemon, ginger & turmeric.

And remember…

• Serves: 2-4 servings

• Time: 10 minutes 

• Difficulty: Easy

Ingredients: 

Marinade: 

• 1/3 honeydew melon

• 2 beetroots

• 200g french beans

• 200g spinach

• 1 lemon

• 1 thumb fresh turmeric

• 1 thumb fresh ginger

Method:

1. Thoroughly wash all ingredients

2. Peel & cube melon

3. Roughly chop spinach into small juicable pieces

4. Top & tail french beans, cutting in half ready for juicing

5. Peel & roughly slice turmeric, lemon & ginger

6. Place all ingredients in juicer & juice it baby!

7. Serve & enjoy 😃