Naudi Aguilar, founder of Functional Patterns, credits the Wim Hof Method with saving his life after hearing Wim Hof discuss the autonomic nervous system on Joe Rogan. He calls the 10-week program an inexpensive reset that reverses damage from chronic stress and desk work, restoring the body's natural function.
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Well, my name is Naudy Aguilar. I've been training for like the last 10 years. I've spent a lot of time working with several different types of people, people who've had movement impairments, people who've had pain in their body, professional athletes. I've gone all across the board with the people that I've worked with. I'm still figuring more things out as I go along. It's a science and things continue to keep evolving, and that's generally what I am. I try and see myself as a human behavioral scientist from the brain all the way through the body. Wim was a piece of the puzzle, a very big part of the puzzle. I knew as soon as I saw him on an interview with Joe Rogan that he started talking about the autonomic nervous system and that he finally cracked the code. I was like, all right, if you crack the code on this, I want to find out what it is. I started practicing it and I felt it immediately, and I knew something was very, very different about my physiology. I'm very much into my body. I wouldn't have discovered the things, even what I have in my career, unless I was somewhat into my body and into my own mechanisms and my own behaviors. Wim Hof. Every human being will adapt to its environment. If you take a human being and you put it in a dog kennel, it will walk like a dog and it will bark like a dog. It will communicate itself like a dog. Its body language will be that just of a dog. If you are put in a cage where you're having to sit at a desk doing this for extended periods of time, if you're constantly under stress, if you're driving, if you're sitting, you're doing things that are counter to biological, our biological roots. We're completely disconnected from that. It's, it's completely clear. This is not pseudoscience. This is hard science. We are making adaptations to this and to this culture. When I tell somebody that they need to try Wim Hof, I'm telling them that they need to disassociate those patterns that they have ingrained into their body. If you ingrain these types of dysfunctions into yourself and you never do anything to release those problems or do anything to counteract them, illness and poor function with your body are inevitable. We need to get back to our connections with nature. There's no denying it. If you adapt to being in trees and things like that, and you adapt to connecting yourself with natural law, and you respect natural law, you're going to get all the advantages that come with that, whether it's strength, energy, all those types of things, mobility, everything that comes along with that. And the Wim Hof Method, in terms of how I'm seeing it, It works hand in hand with the system that I'm trying to employ to decondition people. Your physiology needs a reset. It needs to get kicked on. The 10-week program is something I would recommend for everybody. The value you're going to get is unbelievable. I forgot what I paid, but it was very, very— I mean, for the price, it was very cheap for the value you get. I mean, for the sake of rebooting your physiology in a way that you will never do with any other system, You can't put a price on that. So from my perception of it is that 10-week program definitely was amazing. I went through a great deal of stress in the last few years building this company, Functional Patterns, and you know, you work your 16 to 18-hour days almost 365 every single day, and you're working, working, working, and I feel like I did some damage to myself trying to do this. And so for Wim, it's like his system, his, at least even just the breathing and the cold immersion alone, they managed to help undo some of that crap that I did to myself. I put myself through a lot of punishment on myself physiologically, stress-wise, emotionally, a lot of stuff. And the fact that he managed to do this, I mean, he saved me. He pretty much saved my life. So there's only— if you tell somebody that, I mean, I don't know if you could pay any bigger respect. I don't think I need to really say anything else. If I say you saved my life, then I mean, that's as good as it gets. So thanks, Wim. I'm ultimately grateful.
