DO THIS First Thing In The Morning To END INFLAMMATION & Never Get Sick! | Wim Hof

If I'm able to make my skin temperature not go down while being exposed to ice-cold water, that skin temperature—that's power, and that power is the same power we can learn to embrace and awaken, in which we are able to tackle any stressor in the world, whether stresses emotionally, physically, or mentally. Whatever you come up with, we are built to be able to oppose that, to get through, and to learn, and not to be afraid, because we have the power of the mind. [Music] Hey everybody, welcome to Impact Theory!

Our goal with this show and company is to introduce you to the people and ideas that will help you actually execute on your dreams. Alright, today's guest is a real-life superhero. The first time I heard about him, I really could not believe that he was real.

He holds 26 official Guinness World Records for feats that were long believed to be fatal or just outright impossible. He has run a half marathon above the Arctic Circle barefoot, remained completely submerged in ice for nearly two hours, and climbed Mount Everest wearing only shorts. He has also hung more than a mile off the ground by a single finger, run an entire marathon in the Namib Desert without drinking a single drop of water, and swam underneath the ice of a frozen ocean for almost the entire length of a football field on a single breath.

His radical demonstrations of what the human animal is truly capable of have garnered him devotees and skeptics in equal measure, but he has systematically silenced the naysayers by subjecting himself to the rigors of science. He has allowed himself to be poked, prodded, and probed during his insane feats, and in one experiment even allowed himself to be injected with an endotoxin to prove, through conscious action, he could mobilize his immune system to neutralize the threat, which is exactly what he did. When people tried to dismiss him as a genetic freak who was simply beyond the rest of us, he taught twelve more people to do exactly what he did, and they all got the exact same results.

So please help me in welcoming the man who can raise his core body temperature while submerged in an ice bath, the Iceman himself, Wim Hof! [Applause] Welcome to the show, man. Great intro, thank you!

Wow, warm-hearted, not cold! Not cold at all! But now we're going to get into some of the cold-ass crazy [ __ ] that you do, and I want to talk about adaptation.

What is it about what you do that triggers the adaptation response, and what adaptation response does it trigger? The power to adapt to this stressor in general—we lost this connection. It's because we wear clothes all the time and we live in a comfort zone.

We think we can control nature, but by being non-stimulative in our behavior, we've lost the connection to the depth of our physiology. We are able to adapt to just about anything. We are built to adapt without stress into any stressful situation.

I get a solution; the body knows! But because we've gotten into this comfort zone behavior for hundreds of years, our genetics have changed, our physiology has changed, everything has changed, and we’ve lost actually the full power of the mind. I'm here to bring it back—impact!

You better listen to this conversation! Yes, I like that! Alright, so how do we bring it back?

I did many studies already because I don't like speculation. I go through studies, scrutiny, and let any scientist prove me wrong because I like to go through the truth. I think there is more than meets the eye.

I did many studies, and yes, I could resist the bacteria, a thought of not being able by humans. We changed medical history by showing a group of people compared to 1,634 people becoming sick after injection of an endotoxin. Suddenly, 1,200 percent scored within a quarter of our complete control over the innate immune system and the specific, by the way, the adaptive immune system.

How did I learn to do that and pass it on? Because it's already there in us; it only needs to awaken to find the adaptive immune system. The adaptive immune system is willfully regulating and controlling your T cells and B cells, and they are located in the bone marrow.

We are able to willfully influence the bone marrow and release the T and B cells, which are very specific in targeting bacteria and viruses, and apoptosis (cell death) occurs instead of fever and uncontrolled shivering and headaches and being sick—flu, fever, and all that is the second layer. We got into the third layer, into the depth of the immune system, into the deepest. So, willfully being able to get into the bone marrow and release the T and B cells in case of inflammation is what we are seeking.

Inflammation, I tell you, is the cause of any disease. Alright, that’s a lot to dive into! So first of all, let's set aside inflammation for a second.

I've heard you talk a lot about that, and we're definitely going to get into it because I struggle with inflammation, but did you just say that you can willfully control apoptosis? Yes! Anybody can!

For that, we have the breathing exercises, and it has been shown in the comparative study. All the guys who did their breathing exercises, the endotoxin normally creates inflammation and thus uncontrolled shivering, agony, headaches, and fever. The people really get sick after being injected with the bacteria E.

coli, and that’s normal, but it was not normal to be able to inoculate that reaction. How did we do that? By breathing exercises!

That are like a controlled hypoxia, where, through the brain stem, the fight or flight suddenly activates the adrenaline and resets the body. Resetting the body is going past our comfort zone conditioning, going back to our primordial state, the way nature meant it to be. That is, being able effectively to battle dis-ease—very simple, very effective, and very accessible for any human in the world.

We go a step further; a "stepford" is the last study wherein I was exposed to cold water, and just by a thought, I was able to make the skin temperature not go down while I was exposed to cold water on my skin—ice water. Your skin temperature didn’t go down? Yes, and normally it goes down—that is what everybody thinks, isn’t it?

Yes, 74 people before me did it, and they saw all the same graphics: it goes down after exposure to cold water, and when warm water comes up, then it goes up again. It goes down, cold, warm, cold, warm, cold, warm. Then I did it—same.

I didn’t do anything. Why? Because I'm in command of my breath, and with that, I become in command of my alchemy, and I’m able then to send and manipulate any part of my body.

They looked inside the brain, and whereas normally stress comes to work on the body—and that could be heat, but could also be emotion, depression, bipolar, anxiety, fear, PTSD, trauma—it’s all stress in the brain, and it gets inflamed. We don’t know how to break the loop. Now, they looked inside my brain while this stressor was going on, and I stayed out of the stressor.

When the cold came in, I just stayed over there in a warmth-cold war; I stayed in control. Then they looked inside the brain, and whereas normally the activity of the stress is highlighting the prefrontal cortex, the conscious brain, because it’s cold—“Oh, I feel bad because I'm divorced now, and this and that, and my business is gone,” and whatever, you know, stress—real stress. Then I—the insula, which is normally activated, very activated when you go into deep meditation—then the insula becomes more red, and then this is blue because it deactivates the normal daily consciousness.

The insula, the deep meditation, is on; blood flow goes into the deeper parts of the brain, suddenly becomes all active, and it's pleasant; it's nice, euphoric. The stress coming to my body did not make my prefrontal cortex active. Then they saw something very remarkable, which is a robust activation of the PAG, which is part of the brain stem.

That is the deepest part of the brain—the fight or flight, the survival—but also the area of the hormonal periaqueductal gray hemisphere, which is responsible for the activation of opioids. We have an epidemic of opioids, don’t we? But we don’t know how to tap in and make these opioids work for us again.

It’s like pain-killing analgesia; natural ones are very strong inside of us. We lost the connection, but now it is here. The other one is the euphoric hormones or the cannabinoids—the endocannabinoid system.

Both are there, and they saw me activating, for the first time in medical science, robustly into that area. That’s why it did not only solve the stressor from not being cold; it was warm, and the professors had a difficult time putting more ice in the water because I was warming up the water, and I was doing nothing. That is the power of our mind, and what I can do, anybody is able to do.

So, when people are depressed or bipolar or anxious or fearful or traumatized or have PTSD, it’s stress, and they cannot break the loop. I tell you, we found the key to break the loop. That’s where I am right now with the science, and now this needs to be implemented for those in need, and there are many, many in need.

That is so extraordinary. The fact that I’m so glad you were doing a brain scan while you're doing that because I imagine when I think about what you must be doing, I think about something being tense, something being hardened. When I've practiced your breathing, it’s a very active, intense drive.

But hearing you talk about it as meditative, tapping into the insula, activating deeper regions of your brain and not the prefrontal cortex, brings a whole other emotional connection to what you’re doing, which changes entirely how I approach what you're talking about, which is really interesting. Another thing is, they say what we're doing right now—and we got it endorsed through the John W. Brick Mental Healthcare Foundation: 1.

2 million to endorse a study on the DNA in San Francisco with the top researchers over there. If you're changing DNA, it changes itself; it prolongs in cell activity, cell division, which is telomeres. The condition of the telomeres is about longevity and the quality of life.

If it is not attacked by inflamed transcription factors, then the genome expression is going to be just nice and right. Besides that, the protective proteins around the cell are then, through the hormetic exercises or the breathing you just mentioned together with the cold showers, about hormesis. Let’s define hormetic: it’s like positive stress, conscious stress.

Your neurology is inside that, and it connects with your body the way nature meant it to be. In the primordial state of our cells, the cells should be protected by proteins, but because of our comfort zone behavior, they are inactive. Does the inflammatory impulses through the.

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It will go into the cell, and they begin to mess up the telomeres, the longevity, the cell division, the condition thereof, and we live shorter and better. So, less, and we are becoming vulnerable to the wrong genome expressions, and that causes diseases. Yeah, this is really interesting.

If this is really, um, shaking down to hormesis, which said another way is a little bit of bad does you a lot of good. Yeah, and so you actually need something that stresses the system in a way that most people would think of as bad. Yeah, it actually ends up being good.

This is where, um, I'm jarred in the best way possible with what you were saying about it being this meditative experience for you because I think of going in ice as brutally painful, requiring all of my discipline and desire to battle through. I wouldn't have thought of it as being something that I have to relax into, of, you know, really sort of releasing, letting go, relaxing, almost removing myself from the, certainly removing myself from the suffering of the pain. But I'm curious, are you, when you're doing this—and you've talked about dipping under the ice and going into this meditative state—you've described it with these sound effects, which I always found really interesting.

But when you're going into that, do you feel the pain and divorce yourself from the suffering, or do you literally not feel any discomfort? You feel anything, but you learn to let go. You follow the breath, and thus the hormonal system, the endocrine system, which we have shown in scientific research is really active within your command.

And with that comes the adrenaline, the epinephrine, the opiates, and cannabinoids. All right, now they are very strong; they have a really. .

. they’re really strong painkillers as well. Yes, right.

Yes. So that's interesting. So you're saying that you're actually killing the pain by tapping into that system because you've kicked off all this neuropharmacology, basically?

Yes, okay, that's super interesting. What I want to know is, when you're going into the meditative state, you know, you've just been injected with, um, the endotoxins, yes. What are you visualizing?

Like, what are you actually thinking when you're trying to get to adrenaline or bone marrow? Or, I tell you, um, if you go into the ice, you're really not thinking about your mortgage or your wife or this or that. You're not going to a picnic.

You feel the focus will be on your feeling, how to get this feeling into adaptation and to overcome whatever is coming. It goes directly. And I tell you, the cult has been my teacher.

I just followed the teacher—the feeling learned to let go. Intuitively, I felt I want to do this. I did yoga; I did kung fu; I did all kinds of things.

And, uh, great. But the cold is really merciless but righteous, and I was ready to go in. I felt intuitively I want to go in because it has got something—I don't know what it is.

And yes, I went in, and I felt it. The connection was there beyond any word, and that's what I was looking for—just tapping into deeper parts of the brain, feeling pure energy, feeling power, innate capacitated power we have to deal with. I was looking for that.

And since then, I went on and on and on and on. I did all these records and many more challenges. I did crazy stuff, really—sitting all night in your shorts outside in freezing temperatures and feeling great.

That is something that is power. And I've been venturing and discovering more and more, and finally, I began to realize, but it's all in the mind. Oh yes!

So, learning to let go in the right way, following your breath. The breath is able to prime the body, and then your mind—the neurology of the mind. If I'm able to make my skin temperature not go down while being exposed to ice-cold water, skin temperature—that's power.

And that power is the same power we can learn to embrace and awaken in which we are able to tackle any stressor in the world—any stressor emotionally and physically and mentally, whatever you come up with. We are built to be able to oppose that, to get through and to learn and not to be afraid because we have the power of the mind. You can't imagine to what degree I want that to become real in my life.

So, I'm gonna start pinning you down on some things so that I can walk away from this knowing. Please do. Um, okay, so it seems like there are two things to your method.

Number one is the breath. So, what I want to know is when you're breathing in the way that you're breathing—which there's a lot of great video on there that we'll link to in the show notes—so when you're breathing like that, why do you think that allows you to begin to reconnect to something that everyone will call the autonomic system, meaning that you don't have conscious control over? How does that link?

Yes, very simple. These breathing techniques I've learned to do in extreme cold, so they are extremely effective. Very soon, I was able to stay and prolong my time in ice water, feeling great.

But is the breath just about oxygenating the tissues? Oxygenating not only to go past—in this case—to go past the lymphatic knots, which normally inhibit the oxygen from going deeper. Now we've found a way to go past these knots into the lymphatic system, and with that, you come into the depth of your body and make yourself able to alkalize your blood within a couple of.

. . Minutes, and with that, a when the blood is the right pH degree, then suddenly the neurology of the mind, which is like electricity, is able to run through on a subtle basis.

How familiar are you with hyperbaric oxygen? Um, not too much. I never did that, but I know it heals infections and skin problems and things.

What we do is the same thing, but then, naturally, we do controlled hypoxia, like controlled high-stage training. We just did a study in the Andes Mountains in South America, and 4,500 meters is about 14,000 feet. They compared Diamox, which is used for acute mountain sickness—a very strong medicine—to the breathing, and the breathing won.

So, the breathing is more effective at those heights and in those extremes than a medicine, and this is unknown. We’ve got eight more studies coming out! Hey man, we’ve got the power to be the alchemist within our body; that's the way nature meant it to be.

Another thing is they say 20% of our brain is working. That, man, it is 100%, and we’ve got the innate capacity to enter into any part of our brain. Now we have shown how to get into the deepest, and with that, we become the commanders of our own mind and body.

So, actually, we are mammals. We are built, you know, we are built after millions of years as mammals. If your geology is inside, the wiring and everything is inside, and three times the world's length is vascular systems inside of us.

Killer number one in our society is cardiovascular-related. It’s big time, and that is because we wear clothes; we are never stimulated through cold, warmth, and pressure—it’s no longer there. So, there is a mediocre state of our vascular conditioning, and for that, we take cold showers.

Then there's some shock to the system that does—yes, hormesis. We do it consciously, and with that, we connect even with the brain and the vascular system all over. It’s amazing how simple it can be, how simply we can tackle this serial killer, their cardiovascular-related diseases.

We can tackle it; a cold shower a day keeps the doctor away! I love that. So, something that I didn’t expect when I started Impact Theory is the number of people that stop me, the number of people that write to me and tell me that they’re contemplating suicide.

So, we’ve got so many people who don’t commit suicide because they found this. Because nobody wants not to live, but they don’t know how to live, right? This reactivates and resets their body to the way nature meant it to be, and that is to be happy, strong, and healthy.

Yeah, talk to me about your wife and how this is the way. I started; my wife jumped from an eight-story building down in ’95. Four children, had no money, just there with four children.

My children made me survive, and nature healed me. That was the cold, because in the cold, you shut up. All this turmoil, the emotional confusion, the broken heart, it’s all physical; it’s all real.

The cold is able to shut it up, shut it down, and survive. With that, I came, slowly but surely, in control over my emotions, and now I’m able to make people aware of that capacity, even without cold showers and all these things. But that’s where it came from.

Now I was powerless then, with my wife who was schizophrenic, and the psychos that put all kinds of pills and injections didn’t work whatsoever. I was powerless, but now I’m in power. In the subcurrent, I’m working now with those kids, and they work with me, and we spread this all over the world.

We found a way to deal with emotions—with the cold, with heat, with the stress in the brain and body. We found it, and now I’m almost so far that I’m dealing with a new comparative study with Wayne State University in Michigan on a comparative study on bipolar people within four days, and we will make them have an absolute sense of control, wherein they are able to redirect their brain and balance within the out-of-balance hormonal manic depressions and all. With that, my circle is around from being powerless to power, and I’m a dropout from school.

I’m teaching professors and doctors now all over the world, and they say after seeing the results of me in the brain scans and the way I activate parts of the brain thought impossible by humans, they say this is a transformational technique that will change mental health care. We see it—the cold is my warm friend. Wow, Jesus dude, that's so powerful!

So, I wanna walk through what you're doing in these four days with people that are in this situation—taking them from not feeling like they have control to feeling like they’re in control. Is it the exact same thing that you would teach somebody that’s getting the injection with the endotoxin? Yeah, there’s literally no difference.

There’s no difference. If people get to me and they want to learn how to beat inflammation, both with the physical course and my effect as a mentor, then come, and I’ll teach you. Because nature is my master; nature is my teacher.

I just obey the rules, and I know its tricks, etc. I’m gonna hand you over within four days; you know it all. Then you learn to go into depth, into the sixth and seventh sense, eighth sense—all controlled the way nature meant it to be.

I reset people within a couple of days, and then go past the. . .

Conditioning, and then it is up to them to get out of the trodden neurological pathways and get into the new one. And then they say, "Hey, Whim, what is enlightenment? " because I never asked it, but I have to ask you since it seems you got some answers.

I say, "Well, okay, all Bibles and Qur'ans are written about that. " So I tell you in one sentence what it is: just be happy, strong, and healthy, and the rest is [__]. Yes, the way we are schooled is to take on autoimmune diseases, cancer, depression, and alike, and power gaining, power, and being insensitive is considered normal.

I think it is sick, and we’ve got to stand up and show, through scientific research—not speculation—that it is not so. And it sounds like what you're saying is that the thing that stops us all from that, at a really like cellular level, is inflammation. Yes, so the sort of general root cause, because you've talked about being able to alleviate symptoms of arthritis, even thrown in cancer, because to you the root cause of all that is inflammation: inflammation causing deregulation on a cell level in the DNA, in the genome expression—it's all the same thing.

Now, we have learned to tap into the lymphatic system. We just finished this study: within 20 minutes, we can alkalize the blood in the lymphatic system, which is the deepest one and considered to be inaccessible. Now it is accessible, and it’s actually the storage of garbage chemistry within our body.

Now we know, with these breathing techniques, how to get past the knots, get into the slight acidic state of the storage capacity of the lymphatic system, and change it into becoming alkaline or cleanse it when we're getting past the knots. So, we're admittedly, for anybody watching, way out of my depth, so I'm going to be asking probing questions that are educated, but I fully understand I’m out of my depth here. But, when you sleep, your brain actually shrinks because the inflammation goes down and allows certain—I'm going to use the word—toxins to be flushed out of the brain, things like the amyloid plaques and things that can build up in somebody that ultimately will show signs of Alzheimer’s.

Do you think that what's happening at the lymphatic level is a similar kind of reduction in inflammation caused by the breathing? Absolutely, pulling the oxygen in. I mean, at least there’s like an internal logic that I can wrap my head around, which would be immediately clear.

It is paired with the parasympathetic activity, which is done on the autonomic nervous system level. Now we have shown how to get into the autonomic nervous system and to create both sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system activity at will. So if you do the breathing before you go to sleep, or if you do the cold showers, then you will sleep better.

So, a cold shower a day keeps the doctor away! Yes, and it's good. All right, so for everybody that's about to embark on this journey—and I'll include myself in that—I want to go back to when you were 17.

Yes, the ice water starts calling to you. And also part of what makes this fascinating is you have an identical twin. Yes, so it’s fascinating that you guys took very divergent paths.

If I understand right, you've begun to teach him your method. Yes. But when you're there at the water and it’s calling to you, what is that like at 17?

I know you've been searching, searching for like "I need this, this whatever this is, I need it all to make sense. I need to connect to a god or something to fill me up, to let me connect to something bigger than myself. " So, yeah, you have that calling.

I don’t know what, but it is there, and it is inside of me, and it’s more than meets the eye. And all that made me, at the age of 12, study psychology and delve into Hinduism, Buddhism, and all kinds of esoteric disciplines. When I was 17, I just had this feeling, and my twin brother, who is identical, is not able to do it—only after my training could he come up with the results.

Because it’s not genetic; it is trained. And so this one is able to be trained by anybody. God, the fact that you're an identical twin, it’s like you’re the perfect subject; I mean, it's literally crazy!

You have an identical twin to be like the perfect control subject. Yes, absolutely! It’s like a 100 percent genetic score match, and he is not able to do it, while I am able to do it.

They did certain kinds of experiments, and they saw this in a scientific environment that I was able to do things and he could not. Later, when I trained him, he was able to do about the same. Jesus, that’s extraordinary!

We all are able to battle inflammation, to have a control top-down in our body much more than we thought possible—at least to be able to guarantee happiness, strength, and health, which is all related to hormones and the control over the immune system and nervous system. All right, let’s go the next step. So you’ve got happiness, strength, and health.

So, what is happiness? Happiness is all the euphoric hormones related to the endocannabinoid system. We have absolute access therein at will; we only need to invest and exercise into that, like a child has to learn to walk.

So, what do you want? Do you want to be dependent on pills and this and that and drugs, etc. , or do you want to get high on your own supply?

It’s there. Why do. .

. You play guitar? Uh, music is the voice of the heart, of course, of your feelings, and its resonance gets into the brain waves.

We have tested this with NASA equipment. Doing the breathing makes you able to go into these deep alpha, delta, gamma waves—fully controlled. But music shifts your brain waves just at will.

Yes, anybody can do that. How far could you go? If I said, "We're all gonna make noise, but I want you to get into a gamma wave state," which is like deep meditation, could you do that in like five minutes or less?

A couple of minutes? I'm getting there. Wow, I'm resonating with that voice, with that resonance, and that affects certain parts of the brain—deeper parts of the brain that are connected with the voice and the resonance.

This deeper part of the brain begins to be activated; thus, the blood flow begins to descend into the depth of the brain, and then it becomes enlightened and activated, getting the nutrients and the biochemistry—that's what meditation is all about. Now, mindfulness is very much researched, and it shows that through mindfulness, you are able to activate deeper parts of the brain. They become more alive because simply the blood flow goes to these deeper parts.

But what we have seen now in the brain scans is that not even seasoned practitioners in mindfulness are able to activate those parts you've been activating. I say it's innately capacitated for anybody, but it needs the conscious technique and the passing on of that—not money, etc. —but it is there.

It needs to be awakened; it needs to be shown. If you always walk this way to the house because that's your knowledge, you don't know the shortcut, which was always there. God, is there any way for you to put it into words?

Obviously, there's no substitute for the training, but what is it like? There are such practiced meditators, but they can't do what you can do. So what is that thing that you're able to pass on?

In four days, it's the confidence. Opening up your heart, you suddenly become aware that it is simply there. Within four days, we get into a tribal sense together—there is no me and you; we are together in nature, battling cold.

There is no thought—you help each other. You get this natural sense of helping each other, which enables me, like oxytocin. I help you; it's really strong, that oxytocin.

And within those groups I do in nature, within one and a half days, they are out of their conditioned state of the mind. They're holding in tension, and they're completely open and relaxed. Then they are able to let go and let the body do what the body is able to do in extreme situations because they are no longer confined in their narrowed consciousness.

Everything reacts directly and finds the answer, and with that, everybody suddenly makes sense that love is the greatest power of the universe and that we lost the tribal sense of helping each other. That makes them able, in just four days, to go in temperatures like way down and freezing conditions, and then have great fun, doing the Harlem Shake and taking off their socks on the mountaintop after hours in those conditions. That makes the depth suddenly aware to one's consciousness, and that is like, "I never felt this.

" "I never. . .

" Yeah, but that's you, and we are here to promote, to show that everybody has it. So all the problems in the world—we have a system inside, in willful possible command if we only exercise and awaken to it—to handle anything that comes to us. Because that's the way we were built: not hopeless, full of hope, and not twenty percent of the brain capacity within our command, but a hundred.

And there it is. With a hundred, we find freedom because we can go anywhere without fear, because we are in control. God damn, I love that.

Before I ask my last question, tell these guys where they can find you. I got a website—it's wimhoffmethod. com.

There is a free app, and you can get it all for free on there. Then you try it out, because feeling is understanding. Alright, my last question: what's the impact that you want to have on the world?

Together with Impact Theory, we go into the deeds and make it possible. Impact Theory is not only Impact Theory; you guys are a platform, and you bring it out—and there are the deeds because people will take this up through common sense. "Hey man, this works!

" And with that, it's going to run, because when it works, it gets all the place. Do you want to see this in school systems? Oh, absolutely!

I think they should not only be trained in mathematics, history, and language, but also in happiness, strength, and health. Children know—they are naturally still at the core. We got alienated; they are still there.

They are born with it. We should never go away from that because that unconditional love, that unconditional power to be healthy, strong, and happy, doesn't need six cars or ten houses. No, it's already there.

And with that, we go away from this possessive way of thinking and this insensitive trying to find a position to secure our life—all that fear-based. No, you have full control over your own mind. We were born with it, and we are never going to teach our children again to become narrowed in their consciousness, but learn from the beginning to expand to it.

All, and that's the real school of life. And where in this soul is a flower. And it's amazing; I love it.

Thank you so much for coming on the show, man. That was incredible! Guys, I am literally speechless.

That was one of the most incredible hours of my life. I hope that you guys were as hit by that as I was. That was beyond extraordinary to think that so many problems come down to inflammation and that we really can take conscious control of that.

This is a journey that anyone can go on, and I think the biggest mistake you could possibly make in your life, if he's right about this, is to dismiss him as being genetically more advantaged than anybody else. Instead, see that you can train your way to that. The fact that he was born an identical twin—this is so crazy!

I don't believe in fate, man, but it's like it was set up perfectly to show us just how much is possible. That is exactly what I think he represents: just how much is humanly possible. I think that we are literally only beginning to scratch the surface.

If you want to be inspired with how much you can do, follow this man, train with this man, try what he says. Go look at his website and see how much he offers for free. Get into it; it will change you if you let it.

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