Wim Hof claims humans can consciously control their autonomic nervous system and immune response through breathing techniques and willpower, even against deadly E. coli. He argues this ability to suppress inflammation overturns what medicine has always taught: that these systems are automatic and beyond our control.
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Science and medicine say you have no control over the autonomic nervous system, and yet you have proven even in the presence of deadly E. coli, through controlling your autonomic nervous system, influencing your own immune system.
Inflammation, which is the cause and effect of any disease, that innate immune system can now be controlled. We can suppress through breathing techniques and faith, belief, your intention, your willpower. Consciously, we can tap into the innate immune system. Into the autonomic nervous system, bring down inflammation. Once again, the cause and effect of disease. Since then, the whole academic world should have gotten alarmed that we found a direction to gain a power over us, which is a huge problem since ever— disease.