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Mike Stroud (physician)

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On Tuesday 22 July 2014 Stroud joined four others (Chris Buckton, Barry Robson, Mark Harding and Ian Smith) in kayaking 77.3 miles across the English Channel on sit-on-top kayaks helping to raise money and awareness for Macmillan Cancer Support and Heroes on the Water UK. This took 19 hours 21
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Stroud, together with Fiennes, is a supporter of rigorous exercise to help slow down the aging process. He points out that historically the human body is pre-tuned to undergo bouts of hard work and in particular can cope remarkably well with endurance events in hot climates. He argues that our
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researching the nutritional needs of soldiers in action and the effects of heat and cold on human performance. In 1998 he became a Senior Lecturer in Nutrition and Medicine and a Consultant Gastroenterologist at the
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water and collecting regular blood and urine samples, Stroud discovered that their energy expenditure averaged nearly 7,000 calories per day, with one ten day period that averaged over 11,000 calories per day.
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and in 2017 he was given a personal Professorial chair in Clinical Nutrition. He has taken time out from his medical career over the years to participate in various expeditions.
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minutes during which he never left the kayak. It is believed that this is the first time this has been done before in this direction as paddling South is notoriously difficult.
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current sedentary lifestyle conflicts with our body's design and is leading to the health issues that an increasing proportion of the Western world is experiencing today.
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in 1984 and a Fellow in 1995. He has studied human endurance under extreme conditions based on personal experience including running marathons in the
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unsupported. In 1992/3 Stroud and Fiennes made the first unsupported crossing of the Antarctic continent, although they were unable to cross the
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In 2003 Stroud and Fiennes both completed seven marathons on seven continents in seven days in the Land Rover 7x7x7 Challenge for the
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Stroud married Thea de Moel in 1987; Thea died in September 2018. They have a son and a daughter.
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Stroud was the on-screen expert on endurance performance for all 3 of the
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After qualifying, and working junior hospital jobs, Stroud specialised in
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and trekking across polar ice. He has worked for the
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in 1976, before qualifying as a medical doctor from
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England
University College London
St George's Hospital Medical School
Physician
http://drmikestroud.com/
OBE
FRCP
Ranulph Fiennes
Trinity School of John Whitgift
London Borough of Croydon
University College London
anthropology
genetics
St George's Hospital Medical School
nutrition
gastroenterology
Member
Royal College of Physicians
Sahara
Ministry of Defence
Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust
Antarctic
Ranulph Fiennes
North Pole
Ross Ice Shelf
isotope labelled
British Heart Foundation
BBC TV
SAS: Are You Tough Enough?
The Challenge

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