Thing is, I was born too late.
Almost too late.
Suffocated, almost purple little nothing in the cold of the hallway before the operation room.
I was born through the fear of my mother, but also her belief.
She prayed.
She thought she was losing this child and she invocated or prayed while being shoved to the operation room.
Oh, God, let this child live.
I will make him a missionary.
So what if you could change your state of mind, your state of physiology, your internal inflammatory response, your risk for disease, your ability to diminish stress and fight illness, not by taking anything, but by actually doing some very simple shifts in breathing and state of mind and potentially also exposure to cold.
Well, that's what today's guest, Wim Hof, has been studying for decades now, and bringing what used to be esoteric practices into the world of science and validating them so that they are shareable with the world.
That's the conversation that we dive into today, where those things came from, how he became interested in these, and what's behind his mission to scientifically validate all these different practices.
I'm Jonathan Fields.
This is good life project.
You grew up in the Netherlands?
Yes, yes.
From what I read and what I hear and what I've listened to.
Nine kids.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I was just in the middle.
Yeah, nine kids, you know, four below, four up.