Meet Mike
I’m doing my best to travel about and deep dive into the last few remaining proper diets we have left in the world. I’ve spent the last 5 summers and this current winter in Greenland – and in the last few years have been gradually eating solely an ancestral Inuit diet whilst I’m here. I’ve been questioning the modern diet for a few years now – our reliance on the fridge, temperature checks, labels and use-by dates just doesn’t sit right with the evidence of a million years of evolution – what and how have we been eating for all that time? It sure as shit wasn’t ready meals, soda, white bread and muesli bars. And what damage has our new-found reliance on super processed food done to us? I’m discovering our ancient diets and testing myself on them – from there I’ll be speaking with experts across the board to see if and how there is a compromise between feeding 7 billion people and the way we are built to eat. I kayaked 3200km solo up the west coast of Greenland in 2024 eating only an Inuit diet and had some fantastic results. I ate exactly the same diet again in Tasiilaq, East Greenland for two months as well – with extensive Before and After tests to measure the results. And that time it was without the extreme physicality of the qajaqing. And AGAIN, with almost the same results. Check out the Diet Results page of you wanna deep dive into what happened to my bod during the adventures.
There are so many crazy things wrong with our global food system, join me as I discover and try to make sense of it all.
Mike in the Amazon.
Join me on the next epic adventure!
In early 2025 I’ll head off to Manaus, deep in the Brazilian Amazon and will travel upriver through Colombia and Peru, ending up on the banks of the Napo river in Ecuador where I’ll spend a couple of months with the Kichwas and Huaorani tribes.
I’ll be getting the same in-depth tests as per the Greenland adventure and those Before and After results are gonna be incredibly fascinating, especially when viewed in context with the Greenland results. What will this completely different yet still ancestral diet do to my bod? Will it be as dramatic as the Inuit experience? This adventure will be filmed and made in to a documentary as well and promises to be a groundbreaking look into ancient diets, indigenous peoples and will hopefully round out my look into what foods we should be eating.
I’ll try and whack up a map with a live tracker on this page at some point..
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Righto – I’m now well into my final week here in East Greenland and I’d [...]
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A regular speaker and chef at Food Festivals he is based in Suffolk, England where he has built (and is continually developing) a wild cooking area. Very much available for private events as well – with an emphasis on smaller, bespoke parties and gatherings where the food has to be interesting and slightly different from the norm!