Wim Hof Says He Holds the Key to a Healthy Life

WIM HOF IS THE DEPUTY OF 23 WORLD RECORDS
Wim Hof’s position on big-big-name celebrities like Jim Carrey, Harrison Ford and Tom Cruise is that they are going to help take him and his far-out, revolutionary, health-restoring way of deep breathing, known as the Wim Hof Method (WHM), to the next level. The level it’s at now is disappointing. Here he is, claiming to hold the secret to curing MS, arthritis, diabetes, fear, depression, anxiety, pain, PTSD, bipolar disorder, cancer, you name it, and nobody seems to care. It doesn’t matter to him that over the past few years he’s become some kind of global cultural phenomenon, making media appearances all over (Discovery Channel, ABC, NBC, National Geographic Channel) to provide the lowdown on not only his breathing technique but also his nearly superhuman ability to withstand cold, which is another part of his method and always a crowdpleaser. In all, he has claimed 26 world records for his various feats, including the Guinness World Record for longest ice bath (1 hour, 52 minutes and 42 seconds), enabling him to rightfully be called “the Iceman.” But that’s not enough for him. He wants more. He wants to change the world.

His master plan involves meeting with all those celebrities and getting them to bang around the world singing the praises of the WHM. Toward that end, he’s going to sign them up to climb Mount Kilimanjaro with him, wearing shorts and scaling the summit in a day or less — the whole project overseen by a team of researchers and filmed by a crew from Netflix. “We’re gonna show the world what the human body is capable of,” he says. “And the celebrities are gonna use their influence to help bring this out to the world.”