WHM VA Beach

The start of a scientific breakthrough.

a higher degree of optimism was associated with higher plasma epinephrine levels. A more positive expectation of the effects of the training was associated with lower flu-like symptomps

If you think you can do it. You can.

After running several tests they couldn’t but admit that Wim and others are able to voluntarily influence the Autonomic Nervous System

Study 2014. Injecting with endotoxin, Normally causing flue like symptoms. But NOT in Wim.... Why?

Cortisol level went up and inflammatory markers are lower.

This means that he is suppressing his nervous system!

Science of stress.

Through the WHM you are able to consciously activate the nervous system in absence of real stress.

To prompt the release of adrenaline, thereby suppressing the immune response to the toxins.

These days we live more with an excessive inflammatory response of the immune system which can lead to various disease in the body.

Through the breathing you shift from Sympathetic to Parasympathetic in a conscious manner.

Recalibrating the system with each inhale and exhale.

Allowing the parasympathetic nervous system to act in a more effective and efficient way to modulate the innate immune response and prompt growth and restoration of the body on a cellular level

Acute stress & Chronic stress

Acute: Short lived, when you get challenged. helps with coping & adapting.

Allows you to remember an event.

Chronic: long term stress, toxic. adrenal glands don't receive signals to stop producing stress hormones. increase in free radical damage to neurons of the hippocampus, become anxious, paralyzed, less capable of analytical thinking, developing new neural networks to allow you to feel and think differently.

Neuroplasticity.

we can alter our brain function! Rewire yourself.

experience coupled with attention leads to physical changes in the structure of your nervous system. We can create pathways strong enough to overcome our instinctive emotional reactions. Shifting your limbicsystems old perception.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6jqaALpEFM

Diaphragmatic and Nose Breathing

Nose vs mouth...

whatever you prefer?

But...

Benefits of nose breathing

- air filtration

- smell

- deeper relaxation

- deeper breath

- More efficient oxygen

Bohr effect and Recovery.

Hemoglobin's oxygen binding) is inversely related both to acidity and to the concentration of carbon dioxide

Low CO2 curve has higher O2 saturation in

Body tissue.

The Bohr effect increases the efficiency of oxygen transportation through the blood.

After hemoglobin binds to oxygen in the lungs due to the high oxygen concentrations, the Bohr effect facilitates its release in the tissues.

It enables the body to adapt to changing conditions and makes it possible to supply extra oxygen to tissues that need it the most.

Breathing & safety.

Normal breathing

30 breahts

Exhale

Hold

Breath in

Hold for 15 seconds

Repeat.

WHM breathing

We are human.

The priority of survival. From primal to modern.

Reptilian / Primal: Fight Flight Freeze ....

Limbic / mammalian brain: Emotional, Feelings, Trauma, Reward system and Long term memory.

Hypothalamus: responsible for the regulation of certain metabolic processes and other activities of the autonomic nervous system and temperature regulation. (Influences release of Adrenaline, Cortisol)

Hippocampus: response inhibition, episodic memory, spatial awareness

Amygdala: projections to the hypothalamus. emotional learning, reward, memory modulation. Mental state.

Human/ Neocortex: Fantasy, Planning abstract thinking, Coding, Conditioning,

With both the breathing and the icebath you can get into the primal state of your brain.

Stay focussed and explore the experience with a fresh mind. Everything you need to deal with the cold is within your PRIMAL BRAIN!

Pain as a signal.

and the role of PAG

The periaqueductal gray is a brainstem region that is critical for autonomic regulation and for defensive responses.

Adelta & C Fibers:

Adeltaδ fibers, nociceptive stimuli. Cold, pressure, and acute pain, Quick respons, sharp pain.

C-Fibers non-myelated, slow thobbing pain.

Interneurons release endogenous opioid neurotransmitters, which bind to the axons of incoming C and A-delta fibers carrying pain signals from nociceptors activated in the periphery.

Key take away

"brain over body."

1. Forceful respiration followed by cold exposure and focused attention to one owns bodily state appears to activate primary control centers for descending pain/cold stimuli modulation in the PAG.

2.Engagement of higher-order cortical areas (left anterior and right middle insula) that are associated with self-reflection and which facilitate internal focus as well as sustained attention in the presence of averse stimuli

3. Increased sympathetic innervation and glucose consumption in intercostal muscle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YficBlvPwWQ

Cold Exposure.

100.000 KM of blood vessels... How do you train them?

62.000 Miles

Cold Exposure.

Heat

Body temp.

Brown fat and shivering

Hypothalamus

Vasodilation

Blood restriction to extremeties

Blood to the extremeties and skin

Cold

Body temp.

Vaso constriction

Sweat