The 'Wim Hof Method' - Effective? What Science Can Tell Us
If someone markets his program the way Hof does, i.e. as a means to "Become A 'Super' Version Of Yourself In Just 10 Short, Life Transforming Weeks" (WimHofMethod.com), you should rightly be skeptical. You know that I am no fan of "works for me (N=1) , so buy my e-book"-approaches. Until recently, the so-called "Wim Hof Method" was yet exactly that: an N=1 (+ dubious X) approach to health and performance enhancement... and yes, that is "until recently", or rather "until two years ago", because two years ago, Matthijs Kox and colleagues from the Nijmegen Institute for Infection, Inflammation and Immunity , the Radboud University (will wonders never cease) the Yale University School of Medicine (Kox. 2014) published a study with the not so telling title "Voluntary activation of the sympathetic nervous system and attenuation of the innate immune response in humans" in the peer-reviewed scientific journal PNAS. T...