This post of mine today is about amazing and well not so amazing medical conditions people have developed or have had since they were born. These people have gone through so many tests and have been examined for years; they have been almost named real life super humans because of their capabilities. Then there are the other kind of people that you feel sorry for and you as a normal person may wonder why and how this or that could have happened to a person. Here are some people that I am going to introduce you to and maybe just maybe you won’t laugh but be amazed how they could get through everyday life like this.
His name is Wim Hof he is forty nine years old, he lives in the Netherlands. His certain condition is the extreme resistance to the cold. For example, in 1999 he ran a half a marathon which was around the Arctic Circle near the North Pole. Wim ran this distance in his bare feet only in shorts. He also scaled Mount Everest in a pair of black shorts, the average temperature for the Arctic Circle during the day is about 13 degrees Fahrenheit and the temperature for Mount Everest is 31 degrees Fahrenheit near the bottom. So as you can see he must be a special man to do this as for a normal person doing this would mean hypothermia and eventually death. They have called Wim “The Ice Man,” I myself am stunned by his capabilities. This would be crazy to be able to withstand these temperatures almost in all bare skinned. People like him make the world interesting in its own little way. The next person I will be talking about to you has a condition called hyperthymesic syndrome, which essentially means “hyper memory.” 52 year old Brad Williams from Wisconsin will never forget anything in his life, and I mean never. Once something has reached his eyes there is no forgetting for him. You know when you’re a kid in school and you always wished you had a photographic memory and remembered everything so you wouldn’t have to study. Well that’s exactly what Brad has; he is like a human Google in a way. And Brad has not always had this capability earlier this year he just recalled having an enormous amount of memory stored up. I think it is amazing what Brad Williams has, if he had this condition earlier in life who knows what he could have accomplished with it. He could have never failed a test, passed college like a breeze and worked just about anywhere if he could control his memories well. Because he may have the ability to remember everything and anything but sifting through all those memories in his head may take a few minutes to recall.
Ladies and gentlemen I have one last thing to say to you all there is even a syndrome where a person has a foreign accent, like there born with it somehow. I don’t know I just thought that was really interesting. Having American parents, growing up in the United States but always having a British or Asian accent for no reason at all and not being able to overcome that accent very well through out your life, now that would suck. All of these conditions I have explained to you all in some detail are all very unique in there own way but there people just like you and me that have gotten these things and yet . . . no explanation for it, no reasoning. SOURCES: http://www.abcnews.com/, and http://www.cnn.com/
These amazing people are considered genetic rejects in the social world but they hold potential scientific breakthroughs in the studies of the genetic make-up. Theoretically, all of these "super-humans" are miracles in disguise.
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