The Way of the Iceman by Wim Hof & Koen de Jong

Author:Wim Hof & Koen de Jong [Hof, Wim]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Dragon Door Publications
Published: 2016-12-18T21:00:00+00:00

D IET

Many people who start applying the Wim Hof Method also start eating differently. Hof hardly eats at all—he rarely has breakfast and doesn’t eat lunch. He only eats in the evenings, but as much as he wants and whatever he feels like eating. Jack Egberts was one of the first people to study Hof’s eating habits. Jack is the lawyer from Leeuwaarden who we mentioned earlier in the chapter about cold training. We will examine his detective work more closely here, because his results show parallels with the WHM. Jack’s approach to eating is simple to do, but effectively penetrates to the core of many diseases related to prosperity.

Egberts discovered a dietary philosophy very similar to the way Hof eats, the “fast-5 diet”. Just to be clear, Wim does not encourage people to actively adopt this way of eating, but eats this way instinctively. What Hof and Jack Egberts do can be summed up very simply:

Eat during a five-hour period each day, no more.

The fast-5 diet was (re)discovered by Bert Herring, a former Air Force doctor. As a doctor, he knew that there is no physiological reason for all men and women over the age of 40 to become overweight. And yet, in the mirror he saw a man with a large double chin, breasts, and a belly. He wanted to get rid of his excess weight. But, instead of going straight to the gym, he first went to the library. He learned more about diseases of prosperity and their causes. He re-read his old textbooks. He discovered that it is not only important what we eat, but how often.

Often, other large mammals eat only once a day. They are hardly ever overweight and rarely suffer from cardiovascular disease, diabetes or cancer. Since we are also large mammals, Herring felt that people are not made to eat all day. He talked to his wife Judi—also a doctor and a few pounds too heavy—about it, and they decided to do an experiment together.

For a month, they ate as much as they liked and whatever they liked, but only between five in the afternoon and ten o’clock at night. The results were astounding. Herring saw muscles appearing in places where he only knew of their existence because of his anatomical knowledge. He shed the pounds, his blood pressure fell, his gums were no longer infected. He felt much more energetic and had the desire to go running. The same thing happened to his wife. She was also pleasantly surprised at the effects. Curious friends adopted the new eating habits and experienced similar results.

Herring decided to name the method of eating for only five hours a day the “fast-5 diet”. He wrote an e-book about it, which he made available for free on the internet. The former Air Force doctor said that he didn’t want to earn money from such a simple physiological truth. He emphasized that the basis of his method could be written on the back of a beer-mat: only eat for a period of five hours a day.

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