Meanwhile, the coveted peer-reviewed process used to study, approve, and legalize patented pharmaceutical medications is experiencing a major loss in integrity. Those within the medical and research community are blowing the whistle on the ease and regularity of data manipulation, conflict of interests, and common inaccuracies that run rampant within the current peer-reviewed research process. This is especially the case when it comes to pharmaceutical drugs.
"It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgement of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of the "The New England Journal of Medicine." - Marcia Angell, MD, "Drug Companies and Doctors: A Story of Corruption." NY Review of Books Jan. 15, 2009
What is Possible
You are already complete. This is not metaphysical, new age rhetoric. This has become a demonstrated fact thanks to the life's work and teachable techniques of Wim Hof. He and anyone he teaches his simple techniques to are able to show consistently reproducible results to influence, for the better, their immune system, their hormonal system, and their body temperature. Hof's teachings, techniques, and wild demonstrations are rapidly grabbing hold of the public's attention. Super human feats like climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in his shorts, holding the world record for the longest ice bath, running a full marathon in Finland in -4 degree Celsius temperatures and more are done with the aim of shattering the limited beliefs of humanity causing onlookers to consider what is really possible.
While researchers are left speechless and clamoring for more, a bigger picture has been glimpsed. The results tell a story of a pharmaceutical establishment that may no longer be needed if Hof's ideas begin to influence and capture the consciousness of humanity. Hof's goals are for every person to have abundant health, happiness, and strength. Areas that he and anyone he teaches are able to influence at will. If you could influence your immunity at will, would you reach for a drug or risk getting a vaccine?
Hof's work and techniques are grounded and mirrored in many ancient religions and cultures. Although Hof isn't the first to reclaim and demonstrate his rightful human attributes free of limitation, perhaps he certainly has the best public relations and brand (developed by his son.) The 'Wim Hof Method' as it is referred to has three simple components:
- Breathing exercises
- Training of the mind/concentration
- Gradual exposure to the cold
It is known throughout the science and medical research that consistent, reproducible, and qualitative findings trump computer models, theories, and expectations. Hof's method can allow practitioners to influence their autonomic nervous system and their innate immune response. Up until this research was documented and published by the Nijmegen Institute for Infection, Inflammation and Immunity at Radboud University, Netherlands, both the autonomic nervous system and the innate immune system of humans were regarded as systems that could not be voluntary influenced. The researchers concluded the following:
Hof's findings are supported by a March 2000 study in the European Journal of Applied Sciences who concluded that water immersion of 14 degrees Celsius increased metabolic rate by 350 percent, norepinephrine by 530 percent & dopamine by 250 percent.The present study demonstrates that, through practicing techniques learned in a short-term training program, the sympathetic nervous system and immune system can indeed be voluntarily influenced. Healthy volunteers practicing the learned techniques exhibited profound increases in the release of epinephrine, which in turn led to increased production of anti-inflammatory mediators and subsequent dampening of the pro-inflammatory cytokine response elicited by intravenous administration of bacterial endotoxin. This study could have important implications for the treatment of a variety of conditions associated with excessive or persistent inflammation, especially autoimmune diseases in which therapies that antagonize pro-inflammatory cytokines have shown great benefit.
Let's see if this guy is for real or not, and just how much control he actually has, and how much he would wager on that control.
Control the innate immune response? The one that in certain circumstances causes cytokine storms that can reportedly kill a healthy man or woman in literally a few hours (i.e., the H1N1 avian flu of 1918, the 'Spanish Flu' pandemic)?
Yeah, sure. I'd wager not. And neither would he, I also very strongly suspect.
The 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic is legendary (and possibly a bio-weapon engineered by US Army medical scum to enable them to send infected soldiers to the WW1 fronts to decimate the enemy troops and populace, but kinda backfired a wee bit, and got totally out of hand, as these brainless, psychopathic schemes usually do. See here: http://henrymakow.com/001836.html.)
The infamous influenza virus that it is now estimated killed between 50-100 million world-wide was an H1N1 variety that crossed the species barrier and was wildly contagious and mind-bogglingly virulent (see: http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2005/10/scientists-recreate-1918-flu-virus-see-parallels-h5n1.) But more shocking than that was its target sufferers: young men and women who were VERY healthy and robust specimens, not just the immuno-compromised, the elderly or the very young, as the regular influenza generally targets for destruction. (See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic)
Why?
Because the method of death was the now well-known concept of the 'cytokine storm' (see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytokine_storm) where an absolutely unbelievably overwhelming response of cytokines from the body's own innate immune response literally destroys the victim's own body, resulting in the poor hapless sufferers literally drowning in their own fluids. Even more horrifying is the swiftness of the response: reports exist of apparently strong and healthy workers trudging off to their labors, only to be dead before nightfall that very same day!
So, Mr Hof, if you want to REALLY prove your 'super-human' abilities to control your innate immune response, take the 1918 H1N1 challenge: let yourself be injected with a whopping dose of live 1918 H1N1 reconstructed virus (maybe soon available from the infamous Baxter Pharmaceutical Labs, of course: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/03/26/were-tainted-vaccines-a-conspiracy-to-provoke-a-pandemic.aspx) and really show us how much control you have over these innate functions.
I strongly suspect he would decline such an offer to prove his extraordinary capabilities..... ;-)
JUST KIDDING, FOLKS!!
The guy's obviously a pretty special specimen to be able to do what he does. Very impressive, indeed.
(But if he really wants a challenge....... )