Eating Wild Part 2: Inside the Gut Microbiome

The Food Programme

BBC

Arts, Food

4.4 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Dan Saladino finds out what happened to people who embarked on a wild food adventure, including chef and Arctic explorer Mike Keen and a group of British foragers involved in the Wild Biome Project. After three months, their physical health has been analysed, including their gut microbiomes. Are there lessons for us all?

For more information on the test results: Mike Keen's Arctic exploration: https://www.mikekeen.co/#Greenland-Expedition Wild Biome Project: https://monicawilde.com/the-wildbiome-project/

Produced and presented by Dan Saladino.

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0:38.0	Hello, I'm Dan Saladino and this edition of the Food Programme is all about exploration.
0:44.3	That's because in one sense we'll be traveling with someone
0:47.7	as they venture into one of the planet's most extreme environments in search of food. And in another sense this is also a
0:56.8	journey into the human body and the mysteries of a part of all of us, the gut microbiome. Let the adventure begin.
1:07.0	Arctic Wind on the west coast of Greenland. It's 2 o'clock in the morning and minus 9 degrees.
1:18.0	Inside a small tent trying to shelter from the storm is an explorer and he's alone.
1:25.0	Chuck a little rain and ice and snow and the weather hasn't got very bare at all.
1:32.0	Not quite sure what to do it. This was day three of the
1:37.8	storm and ice was forming on the side of Mike Keend's tent and his sleeping bag.
1:45.0	By now he's at risk of frostbite.
1:48.0	The message to a couple of people
1:49.0	see if I can get a boat somewhere.
1:52.0	Is there everything I've got is wet and cold now.
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