Wim Hof method randomised controlled trial
🎓 Academic research
Radboud University Medical Center, Kox et al. (PNAS 2014) · Netherlands, Nijmegen · 2014
12 Hof-trained volunteers injected with bacterial endotoxin actively activated the sympathetic system, spiked adrenaline and showed far lower inflammation than controls.
VerdictFirst proof humans can voluntarily influence the autonomic nervous and immune response.
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Harvard studies Tibetan tummo (g-tummo)
🎓 Academic research
Harvard Medical School, Herbert Benson (Nature 1982) · India, Dharamsala · 1982
While practising tummo, three monks raised finger and toe temperatures by up to 8.3°C and dried wet sheets draped over them.
VerdictThermoregulation control is real.
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Anna Bågenholm survives at 13.7°C
🎓 Academic research
Univ Hospital of North Norway (Lancet 2000) · Norway · 1999
After 80 minutes trapped under ice with ~3 hours of cardiac arrest, at 13.7°C, she is the lowest recorded body temperature to survive.
VerdictAn extreme-hypothermia medical case, not an ‘ability’.
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