Matt, a songwriter from Devon, developed a severe autoimmune condition and experienced dangerous side effects from hydroxychloroquine. After three months practicing the Wim Hof Method's breathing and cold exposure techniques, his autoimmune markers resolved and his anxiety and depression lifted.
Chapters
Hi, my name is Matt. I'm a songwriter and small business owner from Newton Abbott in Devon. I got into contact just to say thank you for everything that's happened in my life over the last few months. I was really, really sick. I was diagnosed with lichen planopilaris, which is an autoimmune disease. They put me on a prescription for hydroxychloroquine, which is quite a strong medication. They normally use the tablets to treat malaria, but what they— a side effect of that is they suppress your immune system. The drawback of that obviously is that you can't control how much you suppress. Within like a week, that made me really sick. I was just out of breath, like walking up hills. I was coughing up blood. It wasn't great. And they told me just to stick it out and see if the side effects would go away. I stuck it out for about another 3 weeks and it didn't go away. And at that point I was pretty fed up, so I just started practicing the Wim Hof Method, luckily. I had the blood test done after 3 months, and as far as they're concerned, they think I don't have an autoimmune disease now. I need to go again just to make sure and double-check, but as far as I could— like, they weren't really sure what I'd done, and when I told them, they didn't really seem overly interested. But they were surprised, but at the same time, I think it's not something that they can treat with medication. Yeah, they don't see it as a real treatment, even though it's clearly worked for me. So maybe they need to be more open-minded. I practice the Wim Hof Method every day. I just feel like I've got a lot more energy, and I feel a lot more relaxed. I don't have the anxiety that I used to. I used to suffer from really bad depression as well, and that's— I don't really experience that anymore. Really, Wim just gave me the ability to take back control, and it was a point in my life where I didn't really feel like I had much control because I was looking at an illness that I didn't really understand, and I was being told by all these doctors that I needed to take this medication that was making me really sick. And I just didn't really feel like I had any control. At that point in time, it wasn't looking good because if I had to take between 2 and 3 years off, it wasn't going to work out. Things are looking really good, and I owe that to Wim. I'd recommend the Wim Hof Method because it's really life-transforming, and it allows you to take back control of just Yeah, and just live life to the full.
