Medicine Men Go Wild: Healthiest Hearts| 48mins
Director: Wayne Derrick, Dan Kendall, Tom Beard | Producer: Wayne Derrick, Dan Kendall, Tom Beard, Executive Producers, Zam Baring and Andrew Palmer
Focus Years: 2008 | Country: United Kingdom
Synopsis:
Chris and Xand are once again immersed in the culture, including the challenge of both eating and hunting walrus and whale. They are struck by the respect the hunters have for their prey, and learn about a lot more than medicine during their time with the Chukotka people.
Chris and Xand are doctors. They're also identical twins. Trained in tropical medicine, they are ideally equipped to experiment with life beyond Paracetamol and Prozac. Embracing the strange practices of remote communities in pursuit of new medical knowledge, together they discover how people thrive in the fetid swamps of the Congo, experience extraordinary Eastern approaches to pain, are won over by the unhealthiest looking Arctic diet, and test the healing power of Amazonian spirits.
Chukotka is the farthest northeast region of Russia. An icy peninsula, it is washed by the Bering Sea, a section of the Pacific Ocean, and part of the Arctic Ocean. Its vast geographical area is home to a population of only around 55,000.
Much of the mainly rural population still exists on subsistence reindeer herding, hunting, and fishing. Their diet consists almost entirely of sea mammals, mainly protein and fat. Yet, mysteriously, the people of Chukotka report no incidence of heart disease, and their cholesterol levels are incredibly healthy. Could this change the way we think about the diet/health connection, and go against everything the twins have been taught about nutrition?
Medicine Men Go Wild: Healthiest Hearts
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