Wim Hof: They’re Lying To You About Disease & Inflammation!

Steven Bartlett (0:00)

Very soon, you will be in the ice bath with me, but I don't like the cold.

SPEAKER_3 (0:08)

Same with your breath.

Steven Bartlett (0:11)

Wim Hof has defied logic time and time again.

SPEAKER_4 (0:13)

He's able to withstand extreme colds and even ran to the top of Everest in his underwear.

SPEAKER_5 (0:19)

He's proven we're all capable of pushing our minds and bodies way past what was thought possible.

Wim Hof (0:24)

They call me The Iceman. What is the purpose of living? Happiness, strength and health. The rest is bullsh**. In fact, this society is sick and we cannot deal with stress. It drains us. But if we listen to our body, we can change that through science.

Steven Bartlett (0:40)

So what is the first step?

Wim Hof (0:42)

Breathing exercises. It's about handling our emotion and feel that we are on top of it. No matter what. But we have never learned in our schooling how to do it. Next, through the power of the mind, we learn to make our bad feelings, the disease go away.

Steven Bartlett (1:00)

You were injected with E coli. You had no negative immune response. You took volunteers, trained them on your techniques. And when they were injected, their responses were similar to your own.

Wim Hof (1:10)

It's all possible.

SPEAKER_3 (1:11)

How do you do that? First, we have to...

Steven Bartlett (1:15)

Wim, was there ever a time where the pain was even too much for you?

Wim Hof (1:19)

My wife took her own life. And that led to depression. And I was not able to do anything.

Steven Bartlett (1:33)

There's so many people that are going through different forms of grief. What would you say to those people?

Wim Hof (1:37)

The only way to break that is...

Steven Bartlett (1:52)

Wim, what is your mission?

Wim Hof (1:56)

My mission is to bring love and power. Very simple, but then through signs. So there is no speculation about it. In all the songs you hear, love is the greatest power and all that. But we should be able to feel it. And because we could not feel that anymore, we want to be too consumed through consumerism, through everyday very hectic, stressful lives. We get confused in it all. We are depleted in our energy. Our energy is being drained through a system that is unequally being divided in its wealth. And therefore people are not able to use their energy to bring up the right values back in the family, which is patience, which is empathy, creativity, love, composed by happiness, strength and health. So, because there is confusion in that area, that's why I thought, hey, I'm gonna start somewhere. Here and now, I'm gonna change the world. And I see the wars, I see unhappiness, I see depression, I see pollution, I see abuse, I see all that. And people think that is normal. And we have to abide to those realities. And I think, no, it's sick. And what I'm gonna do about it, I'm gonna start looking, searching inside. Because I think every mother in the world should be able to bring happiness, strength and health to their children and keep it there. So that's my mission, to bring it. And because nobody is listening to a person like me saying that from the roof, we've got you, love is the power and all this. That's why I go through signs. But first I went into the cold.

And the cold I met because intuitively I felt, hey, the cold is able to bring down my thinking.

Steven Bartlett (4:16)

What is it about the nature of society, when you look out on society at the moment, that makes you sad or concerned? What is it about the way we live, the way we've built this thing called society?

Wim Hof (4:28)

Society is a very complexed opportunistic way through time. Nobody is able to trace down where the problems are, how it has been arisen. It's too complex, too confused. Now, and there I say, hey, okay, this look at the establishment, is this perfect? Is this paradise? Noah, there's nothing wrong with our knowledge, understanding and intelligence, but the way we use it, we have to change our consciousness. And our consciousness is our way to perceive. Perceive is what we see and what we are able to deal with. And we cannot deal with the stress coming in our lives. It consumes us, it drains us. And there we are.

And look what we can do. We can go to the moon, we can go to Mars, we can build bridges, we can create AI, all those things. But we cannot create happiness, strength and health. We gotta reset. Let's stop massively in the world and elevate our consciousness to being good to each other, not to be competitive.