Cold Trains Inner Stillness

Cold exposure at home can begin as a deliberate ritual for breath, steadier mood, and returning the nervous system toward equilibrium.

Breath, Cold, and the Practice of Returning

DrTalks brings cold exposure protocols and breath into focus through a conversation about practice, physiology, and the way the body learns from deliberate stress.

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Instead of shooting rockets to the moon and to Mars, we we're gonna go go and solve the problem on happiness, strength, and health just to be bloody happy. A happy man doesn't go to war. No, Ukrainian Russian war. It's all conflict and politics and bollocks, all that [__] Where's the mind of the people gone? This is Dr. Talks. Hello everyone and welcome to the Microbes and Mental Health Summit. I'm your host Dr. Miles Nichols here today with Wim Hoff who doesn't really need much of an introduction as many people already know Wimhof or the Iceman. He's become more than a sensation. And Whim has been an inspiration to me personally and has done immense amounts of work in scientific research and understanding of the immune system and of the brain and of mindset and of mental health and of physical health. And welcome Whim. Thank you so much for taking the time. Thanks Miles. As I said, uh we will go all the miles until we have done the distance. So when you have your own history with mental health back when you got started with cold exposure and breath work, how did that begin for you? Yes, I just explained it once again to people here with who suffering from ALS. And I they asked me how did you start? I said I was 17. I was a quite a philosopher. I had read a lot of books for a guy of my age. But then you know you you get into your head and it's so

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you you get into your head and it's so much that I was always pondering and debating with myself the question who we are what is this all about? What is there more? And and that made brought me in a Sunday morning out there in a park and there I saw a a thin layer on the ice and I just felt attracted. That is the God. The God let me by attraction into the cold water and you know without a doubt and there I got this uh I got it. This is it kind not in in words but in feeling and that gut feeling that felt like I was high on my own supply all day long and then I thought this cannot happen again. So I went again the other day and yeah really exceeded my expectations. So it felt so good and when something feels so good, so profound, instead of debating and philosophy about what is the purpose of life, what does control look like, what is there more than meets the eye and and all that, it was quenched right over there. And that feeling brought me, it gave me the motivation to go every day. And I did that for 25 years. Not only for 25 years, a few months after I initiated it all going into the by gut feeling into the cold water, I began to be conscious of my breathing because every time when you go into the cold water, you you automatically reflex by reflex you want to go and breathe deeply and that is to change the biochemistry deeply. So if we augment deep breathing within our daily uh say practice or daily life then we

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uh say practice or daily life then we bring extra nutrition to ourselves and that feels like great because I was mirroring that with the cold water in the cold water and I could prolong my time every time more just by controlled deep breathing. And so as as a certain moment I began to separate one from the other. So going into the cult that was already like I'm going to do this is mine and I did that for 25 years of my life and and people said I was crazy and idiot and also who goes into cold water and all that but I did it anyway because it felt so good. But then I separated also I did the breathing just deep breathing at home and then what I saw and the rats in all the esoteric books now I saw in the front of my eyes I could feel it I could see it I understood this fakedness of life the possible manipulation of a nervous system which is the light which is the electricity and then I of course in many years I saw many things and I began to debate about it, talk about it, contemplate about it, observe it, practice more, etc. And then when the time was apparently ripe or you get the lessons of life and the the way you get the lessons and you got to take them. Mine was I lost my woman in 95 uh from a traumatic I mean she jumped from eight stories down suicide that that means I was not transmitting what I was seeing in my daily practice. I tried to but it didn't get through and the whole psychiatry could not help her and with all these injections and and pills and all nothing nothing worked and she

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and all nothing nothing worked and she was the love of my life and it's so tragic then you cannot describe it you cannot understand you can't cope with it that's where I began to consciously go into cold icy cold water like as a remedy as Now the emotional agony stops when I go into icy water. I just survive. The the brain stops, the thinking stops, the hamster stops, the the whole thing stops. You shut down is where the healing began. And that emotional healing, I needed it. And I was left once again by the god to do it because I was left behind with four kids. So what do you do? You just survive and you take the mean. You follow your gut. It's not thinking anything. No method was there. Nothing was there. Was just an emotional rack coming back to life. That's incredible. Yes. I had to. And so now those four kids I work with them and we have a very successful company into say breathing into emotion into trauma healing into into icy water. I make jokes on stage. I say I must be A VERY GOOD SALESMAN BECAUSE I SELL gold and and bloody air, you know. But there is more to it. If you see the world how it is making money out of pharma uh gological means it is so corrupted so so yeah it's money does that so the thing is I bring back through science our innate capacity to heal coming from nature following my

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to heal coming from nature following my gut I found something I got something past it's not mine it's for humanity That's why I bring it on and I can challenge any scientist to do so. I'm doing a lot of studies right now also on mental health care. Just yesterday morning we started a new study to together with Dr. King for God's sake for Dr. King from Queensland. I mean the queen and the king are coming together and we are doing a a study on depression, sleep, psychic well-being and and another one that the thing is they know they can see that this method is really an answer to modern day ailments and whatever inflammationbased kind of diseases come and in the end to cure a pandemic, a spiritual pandemic called depression. People do not no longer find how to pressure the pressure of the life force within. They get under pressure. That is depression. And it's spiritual, but spiritually with two feet on the ground. I learned it the hard way. And then I I'm I'm willing to share that of course because it's not mine. It's for humanity the humanity's awakening of the innate capacity to heal themselves and their children. Isn't that logical? That should be like in everybody's cupboard. The ability to heal, to be happy, strong, and healthy. Boom. That is a little bit my story. So I I got challenged in the in 1999 by television because they saw me doing

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by television because they saw me doing stuff on the ice and all and then they began to challenge me and I said I can do a lot more. What I've learned in nature is much more than we think is possible. And then in the end after I did 26 world records in the with Guinness world records, they began to experiment on me in in academic universarian hospitals. And then they saw I was doing things that in the books it was not existent. And then we broke the paradigm in 2014 by showing that the inflammatory markers h the inflammation the cause and effect of disease any disease can be brought down by breathing exercises and some cold training and using your bloody motivation or the the effect of placebo consciously. Hey man, I want to get down what the bacteria is going to inflict upon my system. I don't want to become sick. That that mentality plus breathing brings the inflammation boom down within a quarter of an hour. But first I did it and then they said, "But you are an anomaly. You are a superhuman. You are I don't know what kind of names they called it. always outside outside and then then I said no everybody can do this and then the professor said whim do you see all these book around here if that what you are stating right now that everybody is able to bring uh to control deeply the autonomic nervous system and the innate immune system then we need to change all these books and now they have to CHANGE ALL THESE BOOKS BOOKS you see because I showed with a comparative study with a whole group of people

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study with a whole group of people within four days to bring them after 16, 000 people showed all not to be able to do that suddenly 12 people I trained four days they were all able to go deeply influencing the innate immune system and the autonomic nervous system by which The symptoms of a disease, fever, headaches, agony caused by E. coli, bacteria, injection was no longer. It was just so much dampened that they made jokes. They made jokes like these doctors, they just uh insert injected us with sugar water. So, you know, THEY MADE FUN OUT OF IT. THERE WAS NOTHING going on. And that after 16, 000 people, 12 people, 100% showed otherwise. So the whole wide world should have awakened right over there. But now we know why that is not because trillions and trillions are related to our dependency on vaccines, on pharmaceutical means and yeah corruption. And we just let it. It's our psychology and we got to break it. So people like my wife back then with the psych all of psychiatry, all the injections, all the uh therapies didn't work at all. We got to bring back sense into real medical care and that is in autonomy. Everybody has the innate capacity to heal. That is the chaos of paraselus. So if people from hundreds of years ago knew it, then what are we doing, guys? It's incredible. And your story, you you learned by being

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your story, you you learned by being drawn from your heart to go into the cold. And then that taught you the breathing to become aware of your breath. And then that taught you to shift your breathing that taught you to practice that even outside the cold. And then you dealt with incredible tragedy, a kind of experience to be with four children and a wife and to have the tragedy of suicide and to be able to deal with because it's one thing to have a practice that you think can be helpful, but then to be put it to be put to the test. anyone would have a hard time dealing with that situation. And for you to say you could go into the cold and it would stop the mind when whose mind is going to stop when you have four children and no more mother and why did this happen and you the mind does this? Why did this happen? What could I have done? How could I have helped prevent it? All this stuff to stop that by going into the cold. It's incredible that that can happen. And I myself I had my father pass when I was 15. And when I go into the cold, I'm I I'm brought back to that moment where I got the call where he passed on and I feel that sense of peace internally. That sense like it's training the physiology. It's training the physiology to relax. Story is so beautiful only we cannot touch upon our emotions anymore. And that's that that is such a shame because we are into the circling of the mind. We are brought by schooling like every day you have to know about mathematics and history, language. But how about happiness, strength and health? How about knowing how to deal with deep emotions and feel them and see them and being able to process them when they NEED PROCESSING? TRAUMA, deep trauma. So

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NEED PROCESSING? TRAUMA, deep trauma. So this is what we did. We I showed that in Detroit in the Wayne State University and we found out now we have the key components of the autonomous processes in the brain like emotions. Uh the uh now we have the key components of the autonomous processes in the brain related to mood regulation. How about that? And that is a a fundamental shift in the paradigm because we found them. And I want to pass on the keys to the people to learn to regulate their own mood. Especially when somebody has passed on, especially when you don't know what is a soul. And when it passes on and what you do here and what you do now, it's all been uh expressed by the sanity and the profoundity, the the depth of our emotions. And there it is. And it should be not only when we are in love. It should be all the time there. It's I remember I I was in Finland to run half a marathon barefoot in wintertime outside frozen and the the night before it was really cold going to be cold the other day and there I was and I I was like whoa I I've never done this. I was a and I was talking to the audio man and he said to me just run like [__] I got that, man. I got that. IT WAS A GREAT MANTRA. THEY SAID, "YEAH, [__] YOU. WELL, I'M GONNA DO IT." YOU KNOW, I'm not gonna think, I'm going to feel. That's what I did. It was one of the those are great spiritual moments. The

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those are great spiritual moments. The the But the thing is we should not be needing all that. We should be emotional aware beings all because if we don't listen then to our soul and when our soul gets in conflict because we suppress our emotions is when we become sick when we become depressed because the without the soul we are zombies without the soul there is no life force there is no purpose and it all these signs they are coming and we are just suppressing them for a system that is sodomizing the soul and the so and the earth's soul and soil and all that there the governments need to go and because they don't because they are in the into the system into the whatever they call it the matrix and the patrix and the satrix and the dominic tricks and I don't know what kind of tricks they use but it's a lot they got a lot on their sleeps only they lost the magic of life itself and now that's why we work here together I go miles and we go the distance yeah the the underlying feelings are have been lost touch with and by going into the cold by doing the breath work there's this sense of an ability to train the body because normally going into the cold the body everything tense so hard but by training and for me I've I've learned this from you by training to relax in the everything in the body wants to tense up but to feel deeply and to relax the system changes the relationship to when a stress comes. Even just two weeks ago, my mom passed on. And the feeling of being able to have trained my physiology to relax when

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have trained my physiology to relax when something bad happens, when everything in me wants to tense up and wants to run away, I I can hold the intensity. I can be present in the moment with the intensity. in part because I've been present with the intensity of the cold and I've learned to do that and same with the breath. How beautiful do you explain through the story the ability to hold the moment to not lose yourself because you don't understand somebody passed on. I think life is eternal once we get in connection with the soul. The soul is unbreakable. The soul is everlasting. SO THERE IS NO fear there. Only we have learned wrongly. That's why we cannot deal when somebody is passing on. We have to mourn. We have to do this and we have to do that. All these things and we're lost and we are emotionally damaged. We got to pick up the pace of life and all that. Where is the sense? Where's the purpose? I just love my mommy. I I just love my dad. I What is this? We cannot deal with these emotions and that is wrong. We we should be able to understand and that's the biggest challenge that the soul is forever and we are here to with a purpose and let's live up to the purpose and then then I come to yeah but don't be too self-indulgent about it about your emotions. I always say on stage [__] enlightenment. And especially when it's blue light in your room, you know, they use red light now. It's a different frequency and all thing, but that's not the thing. My house is red light at night only. Yeah. So that all that

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Yeah. So that all that that is great. We are doing a study with the WHM with the method and red light both are enhancing like mitochondrially like 20 15 to 20% better just using the red light. Okay. But and then the method is also very much into aerobic dissimilation on the mitochondria which means a lot more energy will be coming and less dutarium less [__] is being produced and so you got uh you just have more energy, more ATP, more adenos and and that should be common knowledge or you know very logic that that logic is there and with that logic we are able to deal besides of the maintenance of our body and soul and emotions. We are able to deal with a a loss with a loss which goes beyond our capacity to understand from our normal conditioning and that we have now. If you go into the cold you learn to exercise the cardiovascular system which then becomes so much stronger by which the heart rate goes down, energy goes up because the transportation is just a lot better. all the millions of little muscles going to help with the blood flow. So logically the pumping needs to be less. Yeah. That it goes to a natural state of tranquility instead of being too high a rate which is causing cortisol in the liver and glucose and the sympathetic mode all the time depleting all the energy and so that that is over. So you you learn to have a system in physiology that is able to deal with any situation. You always have the energy and with that the cell's understanding, the cell's memory of why we are here because without our DNA we are nothing. Only now

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without our DNA we are nothing. Only now we learn how to uh influence into the DNA the past the time space uh barrier of our mind because there is also ancestry genetics and that is of the past our time and space consciousness which is the rhythm through our prefrontal cortex. So there are different areas and once you begin to get into that and this is what we are showing that a simple guy like me who is a drop out of school I'm able to get along with doctors and professors all over the world I'm even teaching them we are teaching we are finally learning about the investigative spirit to bring solutions to real modern day living problems. s instead of shooting rockets to the moon and to Mars, we we going to go go and solve the problem on happiness, strength, and health just to be bloody happy. A happy man doesn't go to war. No, Ukrainian Russian war. It's all conflict and politics and bollocks, all that [__] Where's the mind of the people gone? while we have a innate capacity to understand and exercise the power of healing ourselves. So that's where I go, where you go and and together and no ego, [__] enlightenment. We go and we want to share and in into sharing there's even more happiness and more common sense and there we are the future, Miles. We are the future that so we are just in the middle of the paradigm shifting and we just keep on pushing. Yeah. the the problems of today really are we look at the Centers for Disease Control in the United States say six out of 10 Americans have at least one chronic disease four out of 10 have two

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chronic disease four out of 10 have two or more chronic diseases and that's a very conservative estimate and when we look at mood when we look at depression on the rise anxiety on the rise we really see that the biggest problems of today the kinds of problems that modern medicine is not solving that are getting worse, that are potentially going to bankrupt the economy because so much money is being spent trying to deal with these issues on very high tech solutions where we have some simple capacity to activate the innate healing as you showed in that seinal study that 2014 where they took an exogenous toxin. They took dead E. coli coli and injected it direct into the bloodstream where everyone up until that point showed all the signs of chronic illness. They showed the inflammation and they showed the symptoms of feeling ill and simple breathing with cold training was able to be able to overcome those underpinnings of chronic disease and depression. Now there's a lot of research on depression having inflammation. And there's a whole cytoine theory for depression that show that inflammatory cytoines are making depressive symptoms worse when they're higher and better when they're lower. And you've shown that the breathing can with cold training or even without cold training in the most recent study can lower those inflammatory markers dramatically. And this may be a huge part of a solution for depression. And in the survey that that was done for the Wimhof method, anxiety was one of the top things to become better as well. So depression, anxiety and this new study looking at depression as well. I think you're showing some amazing capacity for people to without high-tech solutions be able to resolve some of the

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able to resolve some of the underpinnings for the immense problems in the world today. practical solutions and simple solutions are really happening here and you're showing it with science. You're demonstrating it in yourself. You're training other people and they're showing it with science as well. And that is absolutely incredible. [clears throat] What do you hope? Yeah. Say say what what do you hope is going to come of this? I know you you feel Yeah. You feel like you want to change the world. Oh, yeah. And I do that. I new studies are coming up and I just did a big study in San Francisco with the best DNA researchers and some crazy beautiful outcomes related to depression at least and there is more and I'm doing a study in Queensland now say since yesterday I'm doing a study with the neuroscientists here Rotterdam and Penn State University Pennsylvania it's a a collaborative universityarian study and in Adelaide I'm doing a study on for to get it in schooling system how to bring up cognitive awareness is related directly to emotionalware awareness isn't that logical amazing in the schools we really need that yes that that's where it all starts we need to bring people the children the new pupils the new generation the ability to control and guarantee their own control of say the immune system, endocrine system, energy systems inside that is a the dopamine, serotonins, the adrenal axis system and it can all by what you say simple techniques take away the underpinnings of autoimmune uh disorders which is long-term chronic uh chronically built

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long-term chronic uh chronically built up a a slow level of low levels of acidic state of being and we just need to take that all away and it's so simple by which we are able to create a new generation that is able to guarantee their own happiness, strength and health. Imagine a happy man doesn't go to war. He is not into position and all that and there's so much more and it's so close to us a breath away. So what is my future uh vision? my future. We are the future. Uh Miles the you me like likeminded and just leveling up and I I see beautiful stories of yours but everybody has beautiful stories. The stories need to come back. That is the emotionality. The real body of ours is spiritual, not just being part of a system that is sodomizing the planet and the soul of ours. We are the avatars, the real ones. I'm making a right now a Hollywood film. They are making a Hollywood film about my life etc. But the Holywood is every day. That's us. We are in the middle of it. and let's shine like stars in this and move it all. That's what we do. So a into the future I go very excited and especially after this beautiful creative uh conversation I I love you. I love you for your work, for your being, for your smile, for being present and to bring it on to so many others. That that is love. That is the happiness. That is enlightenment. Let's enlighten each other, guys. That's what I want. That's that. Give it to me because I'm going to give it to you.

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because I'm going to give it to you. That's amazing. And what challenges are you experiencing because you're doing so much work in the world. You have all these studies happening. You're really Hollywood movie. You did the the BBC the thing that there's lots happening. You're doing studies with I just made a book in 10 hours audio and made a new New York Time bestseller. Amazing. Imagine if it is 10 hours once we break through it's now like I think a couple of hundred million people know this now but it needs to be billions and and when we reach the 25 m critical mass thing the population of the world it just runs off it's really goes to the positive to the future to harmony with nature and inner nature is going to breathe again like synchronized like the way it should be but then all consciously that is autonomy. Autonomy is the future in people and we give it just it's a breath away and a cold shower. Come on man you feel so so good afterwards. You first take a warm shower but don't stay all day warm. This is the way you we keep our dicks and balls in all day in the heat. Of course you get prostrate cancer, man. It needs retraction. It needs exercise. And it does in nature. It does. In when you run in nature, the dick goes in, the balls go in. It's exercise. And now it's every day that. And so it's our whole body. Our whole body is logically we are suffering all those diseases. So take the damn cold shower. It's good for you to remember yourselves that you are present not some comfort zone learned behavior and then uh

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zone learned behavior and then uh breathing breathing is going into the depth and giving nutrients to this on cell level and and even yeah there's so much I mean we go to the deepest of the brain with that we we are into a new study with the cardiology and it shows if we do these breathing exercises, we uh we can make five times more blood flushing into the brain and into the heart. They saw it in heart films. It's new. This is the future of cardiology. Imagine if you can reboot the heart with so much more blood flowing in where it because of the the wrong condition of the cardiovascular system long term creates a deficit. every time a little bit but until attack collapse arterial arterial collapse anorism [__] in the blood flow because it doesn't a good river flows it takes all the [__] out it flushes like any toilet it flushes well so I can keep on going I got a very beautiful poem on the toilet to me it's best meditation temple in the house it's where you let go You release, you let it go. And and that's why it that a momentary elapse of reason. That's the reason to be here on the toilet. Great meditation. Good [__] You know, we make fun out of it, but let's make our lives sacred again. Let's be HOLY AS WE ARE. WE ARE HOLY BEINGS. WHEN where once we connect with our deep emotional ability to express the soul again and it's nothing abstract it's real it's a part of the

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abstract it's real it's a part of the brain for God's sake we see it in neurology how it all works so when that works again then we become 100% of the brain at work it's amazing it's like LSD but now get high on your own supply. [laughter] Now, it's very clear that you're speaking from the heart. You're passionate. You are on fire. You're just exuding this energy. I can feel it. I think the audience can feel that this isn't just a mind interest of yours. This is whole body. This is heart. This is soul. This is everything in you. And a lot of people when they're becoming more well-known and when they're when when they get some fame, when they get a lot of attention, when they're they're dealing with a lot of people wanting their time and energy, this can do weird things to people. Power can do weird things to people. People can become burnt out. It can be hard to deal with. They can get very stressed. But you seem so passionate, so on fire. How do you keep up the energy, keep the momentum? I'm just starting miles. I will go all the way all the distance and I like it more and more. Why? Because I want to share this. I want to [__] out of the world and make everybody happy, strong, and healthy. And it's simply there. And I go through signs. I'm not going through spec speculation. And I took it on. I took the heavyweights and signs on and they cannot prove me wrong. No, they become fans. They are doing it themselves. The biggest critics, they do it themselves suddenly. And why is it? Because the [__] works and it's good. And once I heal somebody else or brings them a a lifestyle suddenly, which gives them so much more energy and mind control, mood control, and and all that, they pass it not only to their families

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they pass it not only to their families and make their families happy and strong and healthy. They bring it back to me and they show they are happy and that makes my soul blessed man that is I'm very egocentric therein. I WANT TO HEAL THE [__] WHOLE WORLD AND I will go do it and to get if I can do it then what can we do together? So, let's get move on. Do it. And I'm just starting. The more I get I I said always on stage, I'm going to be the president of the world. And the first thing I decree I will enforce is to abolish politics and [snorts] and enforce a police that if you are depressed, you're going to be h going to the cell to meditate until you're happy, strong, and healthy again. They you will be released. society. [laughter] We're going to be just a happy bunch all together because that's the way we are built. We are all families, man. Families is full of love because nobody listen to that [__] in the 70s with the flower power and all. That's why I came. This is what Russell Brand is saying in the 70s. They missed out on you because I'm a just a practical shaman with a [__] big belief. You know what he says on stage? He says Wimhof is a mighty dick that [__] you back to consciousness. [laughter] I THINK OKAY WHATEVER IT takes man I just keep on going through science then to sense to bring this most sensitive which we should share with all of us uninhibitedly without fear our soul our sensitivity our inner child we should be able to feel it all the time once we feel that there is no need for more And that's where we got lost. And then we get these

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where we got lost. And then we get these alternatives, substitutes. Then the whole commercials, they begin to to advocate their [__] and they promise us disguise while it is hell. So let's stop that [__] and get back to ourselves. Get back to some love. Power to you. Love to you who is watching this, listening to this. We love you because we know what it is. And once you get the love, you bring it back. When when you are in love with life, then then I see it and that makes me [__] happy. That's my enlightenment. So [__] enlightenment as self-indulgent yogic shitty practice. But if I heal you, if I make you a little bit happier, that enlightens me that I go for that. And that feeling of that you're saying that it's enough that that sense that for me it was this sense of that I was seeking I was trying to get something for myself in seeking enlightenment like trying to like I oh I want the next practice I want the next thing I want the and then after some time I I felt like I was complete inside there was nothing more that I needed nothing different the piece was already there and then it became came now it's not I don't need anything more for me now I want to help others to feel this too I want to help others to find that because I believe and I know you do too that that the the default that the underlying innate default is this incredible love that emanates out that can handle anything no matter what comes conditional it's not based on the external It's this energy that is no matter what profoundly loving and at peace and content and whole and nothing can touch

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content and whole and nothing can touch it. It's unbreakable. And now it is through the interceptive focus that we are able to ignite to activate that. So we got it. And this time it's not a terrorist or so or it is taking out the terrorist of our mind and bring peace profound peace and love an unlimited reservoir of energy every day with great purpose. I go for that. And as you're busier, I know some people want to be more productive. They want to be not just happier, but they also want to do good in the world. They also want to help others. What practices and perspectives sustain you in being able to continue this high level of work? Yeah, I just see it all the time around me. uh the the amount of people awakening and uh uh healing of their depression that if I walk over the street now that's now then people stop me and they say not like I'm famous no they stop me and say you changed my life you saved my life and they look me in the eyes man what kind of motivation do you need more and then they asked, "Can I make a photo?" Are you not bothered to make a photo? I say, "Hey, man. I'm bothered if you don't." I'm honored. I'm I'm bloody honored with it all, but I'm also just at the beginning. I want to get power now. I want to break the wall of ignorance. And I'm still at the beginning. So, I am not sitting on my chair like, "Oh, look at what I did."because it's still [__] where I am if I look into the world and

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where I am if I look into the world and until I don't I keep on it's not stopping I just keep on going. This is wonderful and I think that there's this sense of ability to have the default mode of profound peace and love and then an energy that comes from serving and supporting others. they're telling you that they changed their life. this energy that comes and I think that's there for everyone this sense that there can be this motivation not around feeling better yourself because once you feel fine yourself and you get to that wholeness the motivation comes from serving and supporting others and that other feeding back and saying my life's been transformed feeds the energy to keep going to keep building to keep motivating and the science supporting this builds that energy even further further and I think this is really inspiring to people the transformation that you've gone through from being in very intense and stressful situations to finding a solution for yourself to showing in science that solution can work for others to training others and having others demonstrate that it does indeed work for them and that's scientifically shown and then to be able to be engaged in media and movies and starting to become something that is on the ability for people to access and see and go to the website and learn more and go get the app and learn more and it's so accessible to people all over the world and it's not something that only a few have access to and that is brilliant and that is going to be an inspiration to the audience here who want to do something for themselves but Not just stop there. Don't stop at doing something for yourself. Doing something for yourself is just one step

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something for yourself is just one step to being able to serve and support others in a way that brings them love and transformation. If you can do it for yourself, do that first and then inspire others to see your transformation, to see that you found peace, you found contentment so that others can feel, wait, if you can do it, so can I. And that's how it spreads. Wow. That's a bloody a real corona virus. But then positive. You know the corona virus we while the corona virus was going on it was Dr. Kevin Tracy who called me and he said you know what you have found the pathway of the corona radiata. Coronial radiata is a nerve endings in all our brain and you can compare it to the crown chakra in yoga. The highest of yoga. Now we can make that highest of exercising yoga in the crown chakra braharandra samadei and all that [__] also is esoteric. We can make it work in seven minutes, eight minutes. And so that's what he said. So we are spreading a consciousness a ability to ignite the the highest of our brain wherein expanding consciousness is neurology is perception is physical and we can bring that onward to anybody. Everybody is a not just by symbol a king or queen. You are there to be like a feel like a king on earth, like a queen on earth, to be proud of who you are and to reign with radiant energy throughout. Yeah. Blessing the people with your energy and know that that happens. exercise the right to be like a king,

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exercise the right to be like a king, like a queen, to be like a healer instead of to be holy instead of half. And that will bounce back. And it's such an amazing energy what you then feel. So if you really want pleasure, do this [__] because it's going to work. And this now is universal. So it's good for anybody and it's very accessible, very effective and very powerful. So guys, whomever is listening, if you are not motivated or convinced, hey, that's okay because we are not a religion. We just want to make you divine. And I know many are motivated and do want to get started. Where do you suggest that they start? Where's the place to begin? I saw that the breathing bubble has been downloaded like 60 million times. I think that one is good [laughter] because that's why people take it on and it's you know it's it's nothing commercial or something. Yeah. Just look into it. It's so simple. It is a breath away. We have been talking about it. I heard your story about your dad, about your mom, about your how to contain you yourself and now to bring it onward and transcend within yourself past your conditioning of mind and body into becoming you your your beautiful self and it's a breath away. Just go do the breathing bubble or as I very eloquently say in French, breathe, [__] So the Wim the Wimhof method app has the breathing bubble available and that's something that you can download for free from the app store and that's a way to begin with the breathing bubble. Anything else for if people want more information is the best place to go the

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information is the best place to go the website for that? the wimhofmethod. com that is our website if you want to go deeper or further or anything you know if you maybe have generic diseases in your family I don't know what doesn't matter we can deal with that all because we have a big big community and all the people there's no taboo not even over sex not nothing anything is a condition and we are able to decondition ourselves to become to get into our true nature which is marvelous. It's amazing that nature. So if you got some difficulties, who are you going to call? Wim off. No, don't call me. Just get into the community and that there's so many people healed and they can exactly that. It's like a natural hospital of experienced people to work with natural ways how to heal themselves. It's just bloody amazing what we can do. Get there. Wimoff method. com. Find out. Another thing is I've never been on my own website. You know that? [laughter] AND I'M NOT PLANNING TO because man, I'm just talking to you now. You know my I'm talking to Miles. I'm having great conversations and I keep on I live my talk. I walk my talk. I live what I do. I live from what you say to me. Once again, your beautiful story and everybody's beautiful story should be told, should be lived, should be aware of that everybody is beautiful. And until that is not happening, we keep on banging on you your heaven's door there. Yes, the corona radiata, this sense of activation and the crown area. So the Wimhofmemethod. com website, the Wimhof method app, there's also the book, Wimhofmethod book, and that's audio or

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Wimhofmethod book, and that's audio or written. And then there's also the BBC series, the freeze the fear. There's also the Hollywood movie that will be coming at some point. So lots of resources and way documentary is also beautiful. Vice Dr. documentary and yes theory. Yeah, a lot of documentaries going on. So YouTube is a great resource as well. Yeah. There's a lot of resources in the end. You are the source. Yeah. So final parting words. What do you want to inspire people with? What do you want them to take to heart as the main summary for what we've discussed today? Find your beautiful self because it's there and it's closer than you think. Closer than you think is stop the thinking. Be it. And if you cannot be it because the thinking is so strong, then do the breathing and do the cold showers because that will activate your deeper physiology which is connected to the deeper parts of your brain and learn to get a hold over that. Learn to get a hold over disease, over depression, over inflammation which is the cause and effect of disease itself. So you are able to innately cap uh h capacitate yourself consciously now to connect with that ability to heal yourself and to prevent from disease coming in. And with that I wish you a very happy life and a great purpose and make all your not I wish you all all your dreams come true. They will become true. It's you. It's your choice, all the love, all the power. You've heard it direct from the Iceman himself, Wim Hoff. Thank you so much for watching. This has been another episode of Microbes and Mental Health Summit.

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of Microbes and Mental Health Summit. I'm Dr. Miles. Have a wonderful, healthy, and happy day. Thank you for tuning in to Doctor Talks. We hope today's episode has enlightened and inspired you on your path to optimal health. Each day is a new opportunity to make choices that empower your well-being. For more insights [music] and strategies, subscribe to our podcast and visit our website, www. dalks. com. [music] Stay connected, stay healthy, and join us next time on Doctor Talks. Real talks from real doctors on the issues that matter to you most.

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The useful lesson is measured. Thermal practice is not a performance. It is a clear signal, applied with care, followed by recovery.

The Body Learns Through Contrast

Heat, cold, breath, and movement all speak to the same adaptive system. They create a temporary shift in state, then ask the body to return with more skill.

That return is where the practice becomes meaningful. A good session leaves the nervous system clearer, not overwhelmed.

Dose Matters More Than Drama

The strongest protocol is rarely the most extreme one. Duration, temperature, breathing, health status, and the science of recovery all shape the result.

When the dose is right, discomfort becomes information. When it is too high, the same stimulus becomes strain.

Practice Should Build Agency

The best thermal rituals help people feel more capable inside their own body. They create a direct experience of meeting pressure, staying present, and coming back to equilibrium.

That agency is quiet. It does not need spectacle. It needs consistency, respect, and enough restraint to keep returning.

Words Worth Hearing

The pause after the stimulus is part of the protocol.

Practical Takeaways

  1. Begin with a dose you can repeat without depletion.

  2. Use breath as a guide. If control disappears, reduce intensity.

  3. Track sleep, mood, energy, and calm after the session.