Episode 2375 – On this Friday’s show Vinnie Tortorich welcomes chef Mike Keen and they discuss everything about Mike’s adventure and experiments while kayaking up the coast of Greenland, and more.
ADVENTURE & EXPERIMENTS
- Vinnie welcomes Mike, who is a chef and has lived and adventured all over the world. (2:30)
- They discuss how all kinds of jobs can be fulfilling that don’t require a college degree.
- Mike found his path through being a chef.
- Many times the best education is travel and exploring cultures.
- Mike tells Vinnie how he got started in cooking and culinary school. (12:30)
- Vinnie asks about the story behind the Adventure Chef’s kayaking trip up the coast of Greenland. (17:00)
- Mike describes his trip and the specific goals he had.
- Gather seal poop samples (to test for microplastics).
- And to learn about the Inuit ancestral way of eating.
- Mike describes his trip and the specific goals he had.
- They discuss changes in how we treat various foods, especially after the development of things like refrigeration.
- Foods used to be preserved by fermentation, salting, etc.
- There is a direct link between eating processed foods with metabolic disease.
- Mike further shares some of the tough challenges he ran into during his adventure and experiments. (25:00)
- Vinnie asks a couple of questions regarding seal poop, plastics, and other environmental concerns. (28:30)
- They discuss more about nutrient-dense foods like meat and organ meats. (49:00)
THE RESULTS
- Mike shares some of his results regarding health tests he took pre- and post-kayak trip. (55:00)
- Mike also had a wonderful experience with the Inuit people he met–they were very welcoming and very proud of their culture.
- He was really intrigued by the differences in the test results; they discuss the variations in cholesterol, body fat, etc.
- Vinnie and Mike chat about Mike’s kayak and some of the other equipment he used during his trip. (1:01:00)
- They discuss a bit more on Mike’s solutions for eating the Inuit diet; but he learned quickly it wasn’t about fancy, it was about functional. (1:08:00)
- He also had fantastic energy, even after kayaking for 10 hours a day.
- Vinnie talks about his own high-fat content of his eating. (1:14:00)
- He also talks about changes he made in his day to get more movement in.
- Mike isn’t sure how he’s going to keep the physique and health gains he made now that he’s not kayaking for several hours or eating the same way.
- The talk about fitness from working vs fitness from the gym.
- You can find Mike on several social media platforms, especially Instagram @mikekeencooks. His website is mikekeen.co.
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