15. The Rise and Fall of the Wim Hof Empire
Scott Carney Investigates
The Proliferation of Wim Hof Breathing in Water
In June 2020, I was practicing the Wim Hof method. I ended up having a hypoxic blackout under water. In another case out of New Zealand, a young man named Hamish Jamison did several rounds of Wim Hof breathing in a community pool and passed out. Two years ago, Josh Wattskin, the kid from the movie searching for Bobby Fisher, told the author and podcaster Tim Ferriss that he enthusiastically tried to prolong his breath holds under water. He passed out for four minutes, only to be rescued by a fellow swimmer. No more young Americans should die doing the Wim Hof breathing methods, which we've seen have a proven track record of leaving deaths and drownings in
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