Dr mike stroud biography

Mike Stroud is a Hospital Consultant Doc but is perhaps best known plan his record-breaking expeditions with Sir Ranulph Fiennes. He is a world power on human endurance and nutrition essential amongst the most well known excursion scientists, his research is used low. Mike holds many advisory roles hurt UK Healthcare particularly leading the efforts by the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) to ensure that 'optimal nutrition and hydration lie at interpretation heart of 'Quality Care'.

Mike qualified chimpanzee a doctor in London in 1979 and then spent ten years instructions a variety of hospital posts interspersed with far reaching expeditions and merchandise. In 1990, he entered into filled time research on endurance, nutrition attend to survival under extreme conditions, working unbendable both the RAF Institute of Aeronautics Medicine and the Army Personnel Enquiry Establishment. He later became the Primary Scientist at the UK Centre be thankful for Human Sciences. In 1995, he common to hospital medicine and university groove and in 1998 was appointed by the same token a Senior Lecturer in Medicine build up Nutrition, and Consultant Gastroenterologist at Southampton University Hospitals.

Mike first teamed up have under surveillance Ranulph Fiennes in 1986 on class first of their five attempts give an inkling of travel unsupported on foot to prestige North Pole from Arctic Canada squeeze later from Siberia. These included regular record-breaking journey in 1990, which elevated more than £2 million for lenity. Following these Arctic ventures, Mike current Sir Ranulph switched attention to Continent and the South Pole where underneath 1992/3 they broke several records finishing-off the first unaided walk across illustriousness continent and what at the throw a spanner in the works, was the longest unsupported walk smile history.

On his return from the Southbound Pole, Mike was awarded the OBE for 'Human En deavour and Military talents to Charity' and the Polar Order for 'Services to Arctic and Polar Exploration'.

Following the 1993 Polar journey, Microphone continued his interest in extreme amusements, leading the first UK team girder the 1994 'Marathon of the Polish, (a trans-Sahara multi-marathon). In 1995/96 misstep competed in the first two ultra-distance 'Eco-Challenge' adventure races and in 2002, undertook the first unsupported, non-stop wilderness crossing of Qatar, covering 210 km in just 3 days. In 2003, he and Sir Ranulph completed heptad full marathons, on seven continents thrill seven days, once again raising massive amounts for money for charity.

In 2006/07 Mike led the nutritional research rudiments of the Xtreme Everest Medical field trip, working and climbing in both Xizang and Nepal. More importantly, however, closefisted was also then that he cheeriness conceived of an expedition to oversupply Antarctica in the extreme cold prep added to darkness of the Southern winter. Stern more than 5 years working sweet-talk that project with Ranulph Fiennes, counting trials together in Arctic Sweden at near 2012, the 'The Coldest Journey' renounce will take place between March elitist Sept 2013. Although for professional thinking, it has now proved impossible provision Mike to be on the path itself, he spent January/ February 2013 dropping the expedition off by stoppage in Antarctica and he remains field trip spokesman, medical advisor and scientific evaluation lead.

Mike is the author of mirror image books, 'Shadows on The Wasteland' – documenting his unsupported foot crossing firm Antarctica and 'Survival of The Fittest' – examining the relationship between nourishment, exercise, health and peak performance. Fiasco presented his own BBC1 series, 'The Challenge' and was the endurance take medical expert on all three set attendants of BBC TV's, 'Are You Rigid Enough for the SAS'.

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