This Trick Reduce Stress, Anxiety and Depression _ Wim Hof

What happens if you take a cold shower every day? The heart rate is going to go down with 20-30 beats a minute, 24 hours a day. That means stress is gone. And can we start about your morning routines? How does your morning routine look like? Yeah, opening the eyes and I begin with a good deep breath. And then very soon later, I'll take a cold shower. How long? Something until four hours. No, no, no, no, it's too much. You know, if you take a couple of minutes and you make sure all the body adapts to the cold, because you know, you are very warm, you're warm like a hot dog when you wake up, you know, nice and easy, like a marmot, like a lemming. I go directly straight to the cold and get the biggest of reactions on my body. And within 30 seconds or something, I'm completely not feeling the cold anymore. And then two minutes later, I've just finished it. It's okay. It doesn't need anymore. But what the importance of that in the morning is that you wake up your vascular system. And your vascular system is like two and a half times the world around in the length of the veins, arteries and capillaries. Everybody has it. And it contains millions of little muscles. And they are trained if you go and adapt to a cold shower a day. And that way your vascular system is optimized. And then your heart doesn't need to pump so much. Because all these millions of little muscles, they help the work with each other. Yes, it's one closed system. And the originator is the heart. What happens if you take a cold shower every day, the heart rate is going to go down with 20-30 beats a minute, 24 hours a day. That means stress is gone. This is what we do. It's a hormetic exercising. Hormetic stress exercising is a cold shower. Cold shower a day keeps the doctor away. What happens more is that the blood flow runs much better through the system. The nutrients, vitamins and minerals and oxygen, they get better to the cells. So it produces more energy. That's why everybody feels so energized directly after the cold shower. Because the system is getting better into feeding all the cells of ours, which makes up molecules, which is energy. You feel more energy. How long time do you recommend? Is it one minute, two minutes? You begin with every second. I say to the people, just take your hot shower. And I love hot showers or after. Not me. Now, because my vascular system is really trained, I just take the cold shower. And when I take my ice bath, which is even more colder, then afterwards, I recommend two minutes. But then very soon, you are able to go five minutes. And today, you and me, Alexander, we go for 10 minutes. That's awesome. Because we're going to set our mind right. And the power of the mind is amazing. This is what I've been showing the last study, to be able to make my skin temperature not going down while ice water gets on the skin just by using the mind. Isn't that amazing? That's amazing. And that means we are able to make stress go away just by using our mind. And this is the result after so much training and exposing myself into the cold that I've learned to awaken direct connections in the brain that enables me just by thought to make the difference in my body whenever there is stress. And that stress could be emotional, physical, bacterial, virus stress, mental stress, daily stress, stress and congestions, stress that you cannot sit well, whatever, you know, stress is stress. And you are able just by using your mind to deal with that type or any type of stress. That is the message. And what is the negative effects from stress? You get oxidative stress and hormetic stress. Oxidative stress is negative. That means that things you cannot handle and they get into the cell mechanisms and they have an absolute negative influence on the cell mechanisms and the mechanics and the telomeres, the longevity, the cell division, the DNA, and it produces wrong genome expressions which makes you sick or even cancer in the end. So all the stress is like an attack on our healthy mechanisms. And if we learn how to deal with stress, the healthy mechanisms stay healthy. That's the whole trick. And this is what we do right now in San Francisco with 140 people, with the top researchers on the DNA to show how to protect the cell by exercising. The cold showers and the breathing exercises, they are into positive stress activation, which is hormetic stress. And that makes the cell protected by proteins around the cell like little guards, like little warriors who fend off viruses, bacteria, inflammation, and oxidative stress. So then the cell remains intact and the healthy production of the mechanics of the cell, they are able to flourish and to keep on going. It's amazing what we found. Yeah, it's amazing. And that's also what you did with the deadly bacterial E. coli. Yeah. And this is so crazy. Yeah. That you inject E. coli in your bloodstream. Yes. Can you tell us a little bit about this? Because of me doing a study, and I will show you the study, the first study, I was staying like 80 minutes in ice up till here. And I showed they took blood, like 36 of tubes out of my arm while I was 80 minutes up till here, up till my neck in ice. And my core body temperature remained 37 degrees, 80 minutes long. And then they took the blood and their blood, they injected E. coli ex vivo. So I was not there, but my blood was there. And normally you have a very violent reaction of the immune cells on the E. coli bacteria injected in the blood serum. And now there was zero reaction. They never had seen that. And then they said, can you do this? That's crazy. Yes. Can you do this when we inject you directly in your veins? I said, yeah, hey, let's try it out. I think so. Let's try that. What is the worst that can happen? I die. Yeah. You get a little sick or heavily sick, but only for six hours. But I did not become sick. I did my breathing techniques. I used my mind and I did not become sick. I felt great. And they saw that I was influencing directly at conscious will, the autonomic nervous system thought of inaccessible in medical scientific literature that humans are able to do that. And I was showing the contrary. So with that, they said, yeah, but you are the Iceman. You are special. You are different. You are a freak of nature. And this is with normal people, not possible. Then I told them, yes, give me people for 10 days and I will make them able what science is saying that is not possible with the human physiology at will. I will make them able at will to influence so deep within their bodies. And with that, we will change medical literature as it is. And they said, okay, finally they said, yes, let's do it. And we did a comparative study with 18 people there who did not train with me and 18 people who I trained. 12 of them were randomly chosen to take part of the injection of the E. coli bacteria. And all of them non-trained and trained. The non-trained people, they became all sick. And the trained people after only four days of training, they did not became sick. And then they saw 16,134 people who had been exposed to the same experiment all became sick. And then suddenly 12 people did 100% score in one comparative study. They showed not to become sick. 100% score. But this is only for that you trained them for four days with the breathing technique, the focus, and also the cold. Yes, exactly. And what did you do with them? What I do always with people is to go to the mountains. I have a house in Poland, somewhere at the mountain slopes. And I trained the people over there every day, inside and outside, in the snow, barefoot, in shorts, going to the waterfall, and slowly but surely in four days, climb a mountain in shorts for five hours in freezing temperatures, and have a great time. Then when we arrived on the top of the mountain, I knew these guys are ready. Let it come. Let the injection come of the bacteria. They will show the difference. And four days later, they were in the hospital, got the injection, and they showed turned around scientific literature as it is. We are able to do so much more than has been believed by science and scientific community. And we have to bring this to the people.