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A Greenland explorer will eat only decaying seal for a month

Researchers think fermentation helped Inuit thrive only on meat. A monthlong trek tests that

Greenland explorer Mike Green follows an almost all meat traditional Inuit diet while traveling.

When explorer Mike Keen, pictured, kayaked across Greenland a few years ago, researchers tracked changes to his gut microbiome as he ate a meat-heavy Inuit diet. Now, researchers are observing changes to his gut as he skis across the country, eating only fermented seal meat.

Mike Keen

By Sujata Gupta

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