If you only have 5 seconds: About ten minutes of cold water immersion and one hour of sauna per week, all spread over 2 to 3 sessions, can improve your metabolism, your thermoregulation and your sleep. Otherwise, let’s dive deeper… Winter swimming is popular in the Scandinavian and Baltic countries as well as in Finland. […]

So, it’s not every day that a prestigious journal like Cell Metabolism publishes on exposure to cold. So let’s appreciate this accordingly. The body is constantly spending energy either to grow or reproduce or to maintain itself. In the latter case, we speak of homeostasis: maintaining a stable temperature, a stable pH, protecting against pathogenic

This question has crossed the mind of every ice bath enthusiast. Wether you are a Wim Hof Method instructor setting up an ice bath for a workshop, or you are throwing a party and you want your beers at the perfect temperature, this is a crucial question that needs a reliable answer. When it deals

Winter is upon us in the northern hemisphere. The cold is back, depending on where we are, and also what global warming leaves us with. In Quebec, where I live, the cold has set in. Mercury has fluctuated between -20˚C and -10˚C in recent days. With peaks (valleys we should say) at -25˚C. Aeolus sometimes

This post is a reaction to a medical article on the management of patients with a long form of Covid-19. The article can be viewed here: https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3026 The very high contagiousness of SARS-Cov2 means that a large part of the population already has or will contract this virus. If it kills relatively little, and less

In recent months, the pandemic situation and its consequences (especially regarding health measures and media coverage) have led many to exchange messages which deal with fear: some are afraid, others accuse some of being afraid, some try to ward off their fear, others urge them not to give in to fear, etc. For about two

I have seen this article shared numerous times by followers of the Wim Hof ​​Method, and the comments associated with it are at times ambiguous to say the least. Here is my opinion: Does the article present a beneficial medical use of cold? Absolutely! And it’s very interesting! It can apparently save lives. Let’s be

By Leonardo Pelagotti and Sébastien Zappa, PhD. Foreword: this article is a response to a short article originally published in French in the magazine Futura. I decided to post a translation of this response since English readers might still enjoy getting the caveats of the original article, how we responded to them, and thus getting

A response to Loris Vitry’s opinion on the Wim Hof Method By Leonardo Pelagotti and Sébastien Zappa, PhD With supervision by Mr. Schlachet D.O., Director of CFPCO Quick foreword: This article is a response to misconceptions originally published in an article written in French. Non-French speaking readers interested in the Wim Hof Method may still

So Wim ​​wants to have SARS-Cov2 injected …?!? That’s what a Dutch newspaper seems to say. I can’t read the entire article so I will react cautiously. Indeed, we do not know on what tone Wim said that. Maybe he was joking. Perhaps it was second degree that was taken out of context. And of