Name: Could You Survive In These Extreme Conditions?
Uploaded: 2018-02-06T04:55:17.000Z
Duration: 3 min 38 s
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The human body seems like a pretty fragile thing.

Your bones can break after falling just a few feet.

One piece of bad food and you're hugging the toilet for hours.

But while your body may be pretty fickle in those kinds of ways, it can actually withstand

While all humans have similar makeups, each body has different thresholds for different

Your diet, genes, exercise habits and overall health can all impact how your body faces

So just because one person was able to do some crazy feat, that does not mean that your

Humans have reached some insane heights, depths, distances and temperatures to prove the human

Take Wim Hof for example, aka “The Iceman”.

He's hiked Everest in just shorts, run a half marathon barefoot in the snow, and taken

Almost 2 hours![2] His practice of meditation, specific breathing techniques, and regular

exposure to cold temperatures has been proven to help prep the body for strenuous activity

How much cold one person can handle before it gets deadly depends on a lot of things,

from the person's health to whether they're wet or dry.

But as far as core body temperature vgoes, it's generally thought that anything below

The lowest temperature ever recorded that didn't end in death?

Heat is similar in the sense that every situation is different.

Humidity, personal limits, access to water all affect how likely you'd be to kick the

But the body starts to overheat and heat stroke sets in when your body temperature exceeds

And dying from heat is more common than you may think.

Almost 700 Americans die from it every year.

Some athletes can do some pretty extreme stuff too.

I have no idea how he went to the bathroom and honestly, I don't want to know.

He holds the record for the heaviest deadlift, at 1,100 pounds.

This lift burst a ton of blood vessels in his head and almost killed him though.

Just like all the other things we've mentioned, this timeframe depends on a lot, especially

how much fluid has been expelled by sweating, urinating and exhaling.

3 days is the most commonly cited number for the average person, but one guy allegedly

Again, it's hard to define the threshold for everyone but three weeks is said to be

the average length of time a human can go without it.

The longest anyone ever went before dying was 74 days in 1920.

To sum it up, you humans are so strong and can withstand so much.

Again, we don't recommend you do any of these things.

But if you do consider safely trying any, may I suggest scuba diving?

What do you think is the coolest thing the human body can do?

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Could You Survive In These Extreme Conditions?

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