Wim Hof breaks down as he explains how cold water therapy helped him cope after his wife’s suicide – amid claims he is promoting ‘dangerous’ therapies [Video]

Wim Hof teared up as he explained how cold water therapy helped him cope with the death of his wife – amid claims he is promoting ‘dangerous’ practices.

The Dutch motivational speaker and athlete, who is renowned for promoting cold water therapy, appeared on Dragons’ Den star Steven Bartlett‘s The Diary of a CEO podcast.

The 65-year-old repeated his claims that breathing, meditation and cold water can fix trauma and boost your health while recalling the tragic loss of his wife Olaya in 1995.

Mother-of-four Olaya took her own life by leaping from the eighth floor of a building.

‘My wife took her own life and that led to depression, and I was not able to do anything,’ Hof said. 

Looking at a photograph of Olaya, he said: ‘Sweetheart, an amazing soul, very expressive, very talkative to everybody, very open and then she went into the shadows of her own mind and …