#380 5 Weeks on Life Support: How I Survived Total Organ Failure | Jared Maynard
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🗓️ 4 November 2025
⏱️ 148 minutes
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Summary
Jared Maynard is a Canadian physiotherapist, strength coach, and competitive powerlifter who specializes in resilience through strength training. In January 2023, what began as a mild cold quickly escalated into Secondary Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH), a rare and deadly hyper-inflammatory disorder. Despite being strong and healthy, Jared rapidly suffered multi-organ failure, including liver and kidney failure, requiring him to be placed on life support in the ICU for five weeks. Facing fatality odds often described as worse than a coin flip, doctors prepared his family for the worst, but he made a miraculous turnaround, earning him the nickname "Miracle Man" from ICU staff.
Jared's survival was critically aided by his years of consistent strength training, with doctors confirming that the 40 pounds of muscle mass he lost served as a vital nutritional reserve during his illness. His harrowing recovery required him to relearn basic functions like walking, talking, and swallowing. Just over a year after leaving the hospital, Jared made a powerful return to the powerlifting platform on May 25, 2024, achieving a lifetime personal record deadlift of 501.5 lbs and a PR DOTS score. Jared continues to compete and uses his story—which includes facing the progressive genetic eye disease, Choroideremia (CHM)—to share the transformative power of strength and inspire others to persevere.
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| 0:00.0 | They started having conversations about there's nothing else we can do past this. |
| 0:03.6 | And they were prepping my parents and my wife to say goodbye to me. |
| 0:06.4 | Coming back stronger doesn't always mean physically or doesn't always mean in the exact same ways as before. |
| 0:11.6 | Stronger, stronger. That idea of you're not done yet resonated because that's how I felt in the hospital. |
| 0:17.1 | You're not dead yet. You got work to do. Go and do it. |
| 0:34.7 | It's time to sit down, keep it real and cut the bullshit. Welcome to Table Talk. |
| 0:37.8 | Okay, guys, we're back with another episode of Table Talk. |
| 0:42.8 | Today, my guest is Jared Maynard, strength coach, physiotherapist. |
| 0:45.1 | I always kind of physio, I always screw that one up. |
| 0:49.4 | I always screw something up in the introduction, so I purposely need to make sure I do it. |
| 0:50.0 | It's consistent. |
| 0:51.3 | Every time now to be consistent. |
| 1:09.3 | Competitive powerless lifter, husband, father, survived a rare life-threatening disease, H-L-H, which will discuss, legally blind, still competing, and live, I don't say you live by, but the message that you're trying to put out is you're not done yet. |
| 1:09.7 | Correct. |
| 1:10.4 | All right. Where I want to jump off is I've had, |
| 1:15.0 | I've been trying to figure out how to kind of introduce |
| 1:17.1 | what I want to say. |
| 1:18.3 | I've had a lot of power lifters on the podcast |
| 1:22.5 | that have broken all time world records |
| 1:25.4 | that basically have made their whole life and identity about it. |
| 1:29.3 | And which is, which is fine. I did that for a lot of years. A lot of people do that for a lot of times. |
| 1:34.3 | And at a certain point in time, they forget why they got into the sport in the first place. |
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