Ep. 452: The Guru Comes Up for Air
The MeatEater Podcast
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The Inner Fire of Wim the Madman
Wim Hof sells a course on his website for $99. In week eight of their 10-week course, there's Wim Hof saying, here's what you do. And then next to it, in a warning, says, don't believe your lion eyes. What you are seeing is not Wim Hof leading someone in ice immersion. It is him teaching cold tolerance. So never do this in water. He conflates repeatedly these dangerous practices and the organization might be- maybe it's just a callous legal thing. Either way he's still teaching hyperventilation in water despite knowing about this. But they put warnings over videos of people doing the exact thing they're warning them not
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