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Hof is a dangerous fraud. His identical twin brother doesn't follow these practices at all and has the exact same capabilities. They are just genetic outliers.

> Professor Mike Tipton of the University of Portsmouth, who has been studying the effects of cold water on the body for 40 years, found that young and healthy individuals had a 1 to 3 per cent chance of cardiac arrhythmia when in cold water.

> But when they were asked to hold their breath beforehand, that figure rose to 63 per cent. “It’s an incredible way of reproducing cardiac arrhythmias in otherwise fit and healthy individuals,” he said.

This man has blood on his hands and you're just lucky it isn't yours.

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