How can a diet of fish and sea animals and almost no vegetables lower cholesterol and improve your health? In part three of the Medicine Men Go Wild , medical doctors and identical twins Chris and Xand van Tulleken travel to eastern Siberia to find out why the Chukchi people, surviving on “the ultimate sea-mammal Atkins diet”, almost never die of heart attacks. What makes this meagre diet so supremely healthy?

Tuesday 5 February 2008
9:00pm Channel 4