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Can Breathing Like Wim Hof Make Us Superhuman?
By Nathaniel Scharping — 2017
Wim Hof has run marathons barefoot and shirtless above the Arctic Circle, dove under the ice at the North Pole and languished in ice baths for north of 90 minutes—all feats that he attributes to a special kind of breathing practice.
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