Name: Joe Rogan Experience #712 - Wim Hof
Uploaded: 2015-10-21T17:45:36.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #712 - Wim Hof' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2015-10-21. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #712 - Wim Hof' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2015-10-21. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #712 - Wim Hof

and boom we're live you're here thanks not a wolf t-shirt on nonetheless yes
endurance you know is
that what it is yeah something i bought it this morning i thought it's of the
Lakota Indians in
the Venice Beach uh Venice Beach Lakota Indians they're probably not legit
probably Pakistan or
something oh yeah yeah probably but the symbol it symbolizes endurance but not
you know not physical
endurance do i did stuff but they're more like believing you have a very
fascinating life my
friend and you have done some amazing things i've been paying attention to you
for the last couple
months pretty pretty intensely and leading up to this podcast i've been
researching you a lot and
and first of all i want to know how did all this get started for people who don't
know who you are
you've you've accomplished a ton of world records you've endured things that
most people think may
be physically impossible you've proven they're possible you've shown that you
can alter your
immune system on demand you can you can regulate levels of stress hormones that
people thought
were unable to be controlled by the human mind that were autonomous and you're
doing this all like on your
own i've never heard of anybody else doing this first of all how did you get
started in this and what led you to
this yes like many probably i was in a soul search and i visited many countries
traditions languages
esoteric disciplines and also like you you know karate and kung fu and yoga and
but also the dervish the sufi buddhism
all kinds of traditions and disciplines but it could not really fulfill me in
the depth
a certain day it was a sunday i was attracted to cold water i don't know why
but uh because i was seeking already for years you have a charge within you you
always keep on
looking searching seeking and at that moment i felt the attraction and i knew i'm
gonna go in you know
ice water and it only took me uh uh 30 seconds or one minute it took but i felt
this is it this is able to
connect me with the depth of my physiology the way nature has meant it to be
so it felt too good i felt connected this is not something you were drawn to
before
not really not yeah per accident i was more conscious at that moment
and uh from there i began to do it uh every day 17 years old i was done that's
about uh 38 years ago
and uh from there i began to do it uh on daily uh you know every day and this
is in holland
that this is in the netherlands and the netherlands in the world it's cold
water and water transmits the
temperature like 25 times more than the air so um but i i returned the other
day and uh and the other
day because i felt so good i felt connected and it's all about it's all about
the connection
within which i was looking for the depth which i could not find in books i i
read about hundreds of
books in on philosophy on on religion on esoteric disciplines uh all kinds of
books you know it's
searching searching searching but the answer is not in the head the answer is
in the body and the brain
together and cold water triggered this and then from there around uh the cold
water at a certain point
when you do it regularly you become conscious your breathing pattern is going
to change because you
got to be more effective you need more oxygen to withstand the impact of the
cold and that needs
oxygen it needs combustion in the cell and um feeling it i was doing that and i
changed my breathing pattern and when i changed my breathing pattern is when
the magic began
then i began to see you know lights by manipulating the breathing uh
differently lights like how so yeah
they got in in the yoga they call it the chakras in in china they call it the
key the chi
and uh and so forth and uh i found out uh that this was very possible in a very
short period of time
and this is nothing someone showed you how to do this is something you figured
out on your own
the cold is my only master the cold is my only teacher and the breathing when
you say you altered
your breathing patterns like what do you mean exactly like uh when i went in at
a certain point i knew how
to be you know very relaxed going in and then let the cold uh impact uh go
within and then begin breathing deeper
and then a certain dance between the cold and your breath it begins to start up
begins to charge your
body and after 25 breaths like that
very conscious in the cold the cold is a force and it has its impact and you go
along with the cold and
what it does in the uh on the physiology and you use your breathing now i know
what happens physiological
but then those days it was all by feeling and after what does happen physiologically
you become fully
charged the the carbon dioxide goes out uh o2 begins to roam freely throughout
the body and fills up every cell
and ph levels go up now when you when you say you altered your breathing what
you're showing me here
is just breathing in and breathing out like what is split specifically
different about that than normal
breathing the the way i used it um it was like after 25 breaths it was so fully
charged uh i i could stay
like five to seven minutes under the ice every time very controlled and that
means that there is not
only a whole lot of oxygen inside the body in the but the ph levels go up now
this and later on i began
to understand by signs by by thinking about it and uh yeah deducting and all
that i i saw that uh that we are
able to tap into the brain stem the adrenaline we showed lying in bed people uh
producing more adrenaline
now i know how to show to people just in a couple of days that means every
listener right now is able
to do that so we have proven this scientifically and it showed that people
lying in bed were able to
produce more adrenaline than somebody in fear going for its first bungee jump a
bungee jump and when but
you're still i'm still confused as to how you're you're doing anything
differently other than deep
breathing you're taking a deep breathe in and deep breathe out and no we retent
from breathing after
exhalation retent we stop breathing after exhalation once breathe in like show
me the method like if if
you if you go with me all right 30 times okay let go fully in once again fully
in letting go
right on fully in but letting go not fully out just letting go but fully in
once again and once again
come on don't hesitate give it it's about changing the chemistry right now in
your body so i'm breathing
you become lightheaded and at a certain point you're so fully charged and ph
levels go to a very high
level you're able to stay without air in the lung for minutes just keep on that
feeling is understanding
go on and deeply in let it go deeply in let it go deeply in let it go 10 times
more deeply in let it go
deeply in letting go i'm gonna time it let it go deeply in let it go give it
fully take him in let it go
take him in let it go take him in let it go no hesitation i do this with the ovary
as well and he feels wonderful
take him in fully letting go
okay five times more deeply in letting go deeply in let it go deeply in let it
go
deeply in let it go two times more
letting go and stop just stop witness without air in the lungs you are able to
stay much more than
normally than normally why because we change your chemistry carbon dioxide went
out o2 went up
filled up all the cells and the ph levels go up then we are able to tap into
the
central nervous system and at the end we got the brain stem and that's the
place of the pineal gland
hypothalamus pituitary gland and the pineal gland makes the secretion of
adrenaline in dangerous
situations normally we do not get into it because of our shallow breathing but
this is the way to get into the
the most primitive part the reptilian brain without many difficulties and fend
off
bacteria getting better into the endocrine systems
we'll talk about later you're past one one ten in minutes and you're still on
that shows that the
capacity to fill yourself up with oxygen is a lot more than we normally use and
as we do not use it we
are not making a use of the full capacity of our physiology now we found out we
got a different
layers and we never use it and this is the way to learn to use it to tap in and
bang into the primitive
brain into the endocrine systems immune systems the way nature has meant it to
be
everybody is able to do it 145 and this is only around one if we would do like
three rounds you would
go to three minutes four minutes without air without training it only shows the
capacity to store up
oxygen inside we never use that you're doing great he's doing already two two
five almost two ten
whenever you feel the urge to breathe you don't need to force it's only
learning
how to oxygenize the body and all the cells you're going great man nice one
feels good huh hey yeah
yeah yeah yeah that's okay 230 yeah when you feel the urge to breathe you
breathe in
fully and keep it for 10 15 seconds then that's one round fully in and keep it
and now you press your belly
the neck and then the head and now you are able to tap into the brain stem and
yeah that's him
if we would do it again you would you know i got very lightheaded it was
interesting in the breathing
the breathing in part sure sure so what to explain to people at home what i'm
doing is i'm breathing in
all the way as deeply as i can but i'm not breathing out all the way yeah i'm
just breathing out a little
bit and then i'm breathing in more and i'm just breathing out a little bit i'm
breathing in more
and breathing out a little bit yes and if you breathe breathe in completely you
get all the oxygen
possible inside if you just let it go then you get it to uh where the exchange
of the gases happen and
this is the way uh best to uh oxygenize the body so uh it's a different way to
get into the chemistry
of the body and we we have shown this now you that's one of the fascinating
things if if people
are listening this go this guy's crazy yeah all of you are definitely crazy
crazy about my wife in a
beautiful way in a beautiful way i know i know what you've done is you've
allowed scientists to test
you every step of the way and you've proven that all this is true when we're
saying these things i mean
this is these are things that have been studied at universities what was the
university in holland that
it rodboud university rodboud and they injected you with an endotoxin endotoxin
yes to prove that you can
you can auto regulate your immune system exactly exactly uh normally it is a uh
it's a controlled
experiment and they did it with thousands of people already and nobody was able
to control uh to the
depth of the immune system because the endotoxin provokes a response in the
immune system you
you become feverish you get headaches all over agony uncontrolled shivering
vomiting uh you know
things like that happen but uh the the people i trained first i did it myself
then they said yeah but
you are the eyes man you are an exception on the rule and you confirmed the
rule because of this
no i said ever anybody can do this why would they say that you confirm the rule
if they have a rule
and one person can do something different then the rule doesn't work it's not a
rule anymore it is that
that's absolutely true between us but in science it only works it's only
validated if it is a group
who's doing it right but the how many in the group are doing your method that's
the thing when when
when they test normal people on things the the amount of people that are doing
what you're doing and trying
these kind of experiments and going under ice and breathing the way you're
breathing it's almost none
worldwide i mean i'm sure more people now are inspired to do it because of you
but so i don't understand
how they could say that you confirm the rule because you don't uh here you know
you don't it doesn't
apply to you yeah that's a saying you know the exception confirms the rule that's
a dutch saying
so i i told yes i'm the ice man i got so much experience i did so many
challenges and records
but no the thing my mission is to sh