Wim Hof is internationally known as the ‘Iceman’ and is called superhuman for his imposing ability to control his autonomic nervous system. ![]() Instead, we can regularly give ourselves a (primal) stimulus that enables our body to feel again what it is made for. But according to Wim Hof, a Dutch ‘daredevil’, that is not necessary either. However, there are few people who want to go back to prehistoric times. So it does not look like the environment in which we live is so optimal after all. Is that what our body actually wants? We are getting older, which sounds positive in itself, but our disease-free years are getting less and less. The question is whether this is really optimal. We dress warmer when it gets colder or we turn on the heating. In our time, however, we no longer have to defy that because we live in an environment that we can make as ‘optimal’ as possible. Cold brings about even greater changes in our physiology.Īs primeval humans, we were able to defy ancient dangers such as cold and energy shortages. ![]() If we move to a very warm environment, we will gradually lose less salt when sweating and we will excrete less urine. ![]() When we are at high altitude, we automatically produce more red blood cells to compensate for oxygen deficiency. In doing so, we have forgotten that there is a third, at least as important pillar: our environment. For half a century, health theory has been based on 2 pillars: nutrition and exercise.
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