Science

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Wim Hof, the creator of the Wim Hof Method, photographed in 2019
Breath · Science
The Wim Hof Method: The Practice, the Claims, and What Independent Trials Found
10 Sep 2026 · 11 min read
Wim Hof, the Dutch athlete and speaker known publicly as the Iceman, was born on 20 April 1959. Guinness World Records, which k...
Yang-style tai chi chuan Grandmaster Yang Zhen Duo performing the posture Golden Rooster Stands On One Leg
Techniques · Science · Traditions
Wave Hands Like Clouds: What the Tai Chi Fall-Prevention Trials Actually Found
09 Sep 2026 · 10 min read
Three times a week for six months, between 2001 and 2002, physically inactive adults aged 70 and over — recruited through a Por...
Barry Kerzin, a physician and Buddhist monk, wearing a high-density EEG net during meditation research
Science
Joe Dispenza: The Meditation Method, the Man, and the Data He Built Around It
08 Sep 2026 · 9 min read
In November 2025 the journal Communications Biology published something unusual in the literature on commercial meditation retr...
A signed entrance to the Bowman Gray Center for Medical Education, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Techniques · Science
Blocking the Body's Painkillers: What a Naloxone Trial Revealed About Meditation and Pain
03 Sep 2026 · 12 min read
In a lab at Wake Forest School of Medicine, volunteers lay with a thermal probe pressed against the back of the right calf, an ...