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• Title:What doesn't kill us : how freezing water, extreme altitude, and environmental conditioning will renew our lost evolutionary strength / Scott Carney ; foreword by Wim Hof.
  
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• Author/Creator:Carney, Scott, 1978- author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Hof, Wim, 1959- author of introduction, etc.
  
• Published/Created:Brunswick, Victoria, Australia : Scribe Publications, 2017.
  ©2017
  

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  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: GV711.5 .C38 2017
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:c.1 On loan - Due on 06-15-2024
    
  • Links:Donor bookplate
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Physical education and training.
  Physical fitness--Physiological aspects.
  Human beings--Effect of environment on.
  Human evolution.
  Mind and body.
  Extreme environments.
  
• Medical Subjects: Adaptation, Biological
  
• Description:xxxii, 240 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits (chiefly colour) ; 24 cm
  
• Summary:We like to sit in air-conditioned comfort, yet each year millions of ordinary people train in CrossFit boxes, compete in Tough Mudders, and challenge themselves in Spartan races. They are connecting with their environment and, whether they realise it or not, unlocking their hidden evolutionary potential. No one exemplifies this better than Wim Hof, whose remarkable ability to control his body temperature in extreme cold has sparked a whirlwind of scientific study. Through him, we are just beginning to understand how cold adaptation might combat autoimmune diseases and chronic pain - and possibly even reverse the development of one of our greatest killers- diabetes. Award-winning journalist Scott Carney investigates the astonishing and sometimes dangerous world of body transformation. He reveals techniques you can try at home, but his own journey culminates in a record-bending, 28-hour climb to the snowy peak of Mt Kilimanjaro - wearing nothing but a pair of shorts and running shoes.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781925321999 (pbk.)
  1925321991 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:Foreword / by Wim Hof
  Preface : burning up
  Introduction : an ode to a jellyfish
  The iceman cometh
  Raiding evolution's dustbin
  Measuring the impossible
  The wedge
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  Art of the crash
  Swatting mosquitoes with hand grenades
  It's raining inside
  Parkinson's broken bones, arthritis, and Crohn's
  All-weather intervals
  Cold war and the vital principle
  Tough guy
  Kilimanjaro
  Epilogue : cold comfort.