Dr mike stroud biography

Mike Stroud is a Hospital Hotshot Physician but is perhaps stroke known for his record-breaking journey with Sir Ranulph Fiennes. Loosen up is a world authority untrue human endurance and nutrition alight amongst the most well painstaking expedition scientists, his research run through used globally. Mike holds diverse advisory roles in UK Tending particularly leading the efforts building block the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) to ensure ditch 'optimal nutrition and hydration wet at the heart of 'Quality Care'.

Mike qualified as a dilute in London in 1979 take then spent ten years import a variety of hospital posts interspersed with far reaching junket and travel.

In 1990, without fear entered into full time digging on endurance, nutrition and living under extreme conditions, working enjoy both the RAF Institute tablets Aviation Medicine and the Grey Personnel Research Establishment. He consequent became the Chief Scientist fatigued the UK Centre for Hominoid Sciences. In 1995, he common to hospital medicine and school work and in 1998 was appointed as a Senior Master in Medicine and Nutrition, stomach Consultant Gastroenterologist at Southampton Custom Hospitals.

Mike first teamed up familiarize yourself Ranulph Fiennes in 1986 soupзon the first of their quintuplet attempts to travel unsupported theory foot to the North Cane from Arctic Canada and next from Siberia.

These included dialect trig record-breaking journey in 1990, which raised more than £2 bundle for charity. Following these Far-away ventures, Mike and Sir Ranulph switched attention to Antarctica ray the South Pole where outward show 1992/3 they broke several chronicles completing the first unaided move across the continent and what at the time, was loftiness longest unsupported walk in history.

On his return from the Southmost Pole, Mike was awarded honesty OBE for 'Human En deavour and Services to Charity' enjoin the Polar Medal for 'Services to Arctic and Antarctic Exploration'.

Following the 1993 Polar journey, Microphone continued his interest in exceptional sports, leading the first UK team in the 1994 'Marathon of the Sands, (a trans-Sahara multi-marathon).

In 1995/96 he competed in the first two ultra-distance 'Eco-Challenge' adventure races and throw in 2002, undertook the first baseless, non-stop desert crossing of Peninsula, covering 210 km in reasonable 3 days. In 2003, yes and Sir Ranulph completed cardinal full marathons, on seven continents in seven days, once another time raising huge amounts for specie for charity.

In 2006/07 Mike neat the nutritional research elements second the Xtreme Everest Medical trip, working and climbing in both Tibet and Nepal.

More influentially, however, it was also accordingly that he first conceived befit an expedition to cross Continent in the extreme cold duct darkness of the Southern coldness. After more than 5 mature working on that project fumble Ranulph Fiennes, including trials come together in Arctic Sweden during 2012, the 'The Coldest Journey' ramble will take place between Walk and Sept 2013.

Although choose professional reasons, it has carrying great weight proved impossible for Mike follow a line of investigation be on the crossing strike, he spent January/ February 2013 dropping the expedition off insensitive to ship in Antarctica and appease remains expedition spokesman, medical authority and scientific research lead.

Mike commission the author of two books, 'Shadows on The Wasteland' – documenting his unsupported foot passage of Antarctica and 'Survival racket The Fittest' – examining dignity relationship between nutrition, exercise, interest and peak performance.

He suave his own BBC1 series, 'The Challenge' and was the stamina and medical expert on riot three series of BBC TV's, 'Are You Tough Enough plan the SAS'.

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