The 4-7-8 breathing technique for sleep is often recommend as an easy calming exercise for those who struggle to drift off, but how does it compare to the Wim Hof method? And which controlled ...

The Wim Hof Method combines breathing, cold therapy, and commitment to help you connect more deeply to your body. It involves powerful inhalation, relaxed exhalation, and prolonged breath holds. The ...

Wim Hof is an athlete and motivational speaker who has proposed that cold exposure combined with periods of hyperventilation and breath-holding can improve health and well-being. The method involves ...

The Wim Hof Method is named after the person who developed it—a man named Wim Hof from the Netherlands. He developed his method after years of pushing the physiological limits of his body and the ...

A systematic review of the impact of cold therapy and breath techniques involved in the Wim Hof Method has indicated that the practice has anti-inflammatory effects. Having come to the recent ...

Plunging into an ice bath and setting time aside in your busy day for deep breathing exercises might not be at the top of your to-do list. but for fans of the Wim Hof Method, it’s a ritual believed to ...

The Wim Hof method, which includes cold therapy, resulted in increased epinephrine and reduced pro-inflammatory cytokines, but had mixed effects on exercise performance The Wim Hof method may produce ...

Whenever I hear about a new under-the-radar wellness craze in my Silicon Valley circles, I like to test it out. In recent years, a growing cult following of performance junkies have fallen in love ...

In I Did The Thing, Rachel Sugar sacrifices her time and her sanity in the name of wellness "research." Up next: a day of ice baths at a Wim Hof Method class. I’m sitting in a blow-up birthing pool ...

Share on Pinterest There is insufficient quality evidence in support of cold water immersion’s health benefits, a new review says. Image credit: VISUALSPECTRUM/Stocksy. Wim Hof, a Dutch extreme ...

Extreme diver Mario Cyr led the way in cold exploration, but it was Wim Hof who popularized the benefits of cold. The Wim Hof method, developed by Dutchman Wim Hof, also known as the "Iceman", has ...