THE WIM HOF METHOD DIFFERENTIATES ITSELF BY TWO MAIN PILLARS: EFFECTIVENESS AND SIMPLICITY. FOR THE SAKE OF PLAINNESS, THIS METHOD HAS BEEN DUBBED THE WIM HOF METHOD (WHM).
THE RIGHT AND DUTY FOR EVERY- ONE 4 Innerfireĥ INTRODUCTION THROUGHOUT THE YEARS, WIM HOF HAS DEVELOPED AND FINE-TUNED HIS METHOD WITH ONE MAIN FOCUS: TESTING AND EXTENDING MENTAL AND PHYSICAL BOUNDARIES. No part of this document may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system without express written permission from the author / publisher. Any unauthorized reprint or use of this material is prohibited. This document contains material protected under International and Federal Copyright Laws and Treaties. It is not being released by the hemoglobin.3 CONTENT WHM ACADEMY Introduction 5 History 7 Science 7 Academy 8 Module I - Basic 9 Module II - Advanced 10 Module III - Master 12 InnerFire, Wim Hof, Amsterdam, 2016 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Oxygen to the organs would be less because You may haveīlood that has a high Oxygen level, but the You breathe the less Carbon Dioxide there Oxygen is released by the presence of Carbonĭioxide you can understand that the harder You can see that chronic hyperventilation is not Restriction of our blood flow up to our brain. FirstĪnd foremost breathing should be very passiveĪnd with little effort. "Let me simplify why mouth breathing is bad. When hyperventilating, you are saturating your hemoglobin with oxygen and makes the o2 molecules stick to hemoglobin more strongly, leading to less release of o2. Wim Hof method isn't intermittent hypoxia though. Damage may not be immediately obvious gradual and non-acute brain damage like this is difficult to notice initially, however the effect is real and practitioners of any breathing method that involves hyperventilation should keep this in mind." The effect of a single instance would not be acute, but if you keep putting your brain in a hypoxic state (even if only moderate and not enough to cause fainting) over time then damage adds up (see studies of brain damage in mountain climbers, one example here - ). Fainting is a protective measure, but you must realise that the brain is already in a hypoxic state by the time it occurs, so there will likely have been brain cell death. The blood is already saturated with oxygen, so more breathing just makes things worse as it gets rid of the CO2 that is required to allow this oxygen to be used by the body. The second control mentioned (urge to breathe from CO2) also obviously does not apply as hyperventilation is by definition breathing too much. The first safety control mentioned in this video (compensatory increased blood flow to the brain) does not apply as it is disabled via vascular constriction (another effect of low CO2 levels in blood). Low CO2 causes Haemoglobin to bond tighter to oxygen in the blood (Bohr effect - ), so even though the blood is saturated with Oxygen it is not released to the cells in the Brain/Body for use. Excessive exhalation of CO2, causing low CO2 levels in the blood 2. Hypoxia from hyperventilation is caused due to the following sequence of events: 1. "The hyperventilation phase of Wim Hof could definitely cause brain damage over time due to hypoxia (low oxygen in the brain).