Ep 785: RIP Jim Abrahams, a hero in metabolic health
Power Athlete Radio
Power Athlete
4.8 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2024
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Jim Abrahams wasn’t just a master of comedy—he was a master of resilience. When doctors said “no hope,” he said “watch me.” His fight to save his son from 100 seizures a day led to a revolution in ketogenic nutrition. This week we pay tribute to this unstoppable warrior, as we bring back Ep 142 and dive into Jim’s journey from Hollywood heavyweight to life-saving advocate. Get ready to be inspired by a story of grit, resilience, and the power of taking action.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Power Athlete Radio, a podcast dedicated to empowering your performance every damn day. |
| 0:15.0 | Join former NFL Pro and Power Athlete founder John Wellborn as he dissects the greatest minds in strength, |
| 0:22.1 | conditioning and more. |
| 0:24.0 | So whether your goal is to be the hammer, destroy mediocrity, or simply move the dirt, |
| 0:29.8 | you've come to the right place. |
| 0:31.6 | Now with the warm up done, let the gains begin. |
| 0:34.3 | Hey, Power Thion, I want you to buckle up for a hard hitting podcast. |
| 0:37.0 | We have a reboot of the podcast we did back in 2016 with Mr. Jim Abrams. |
| 0:44.8 | Jim was recommended to us by Rob Wolf for the work that he has done with ketogenic diets. |
| 0:50.1 | And it was an amazing story. |
| 0:52.5 | His son was diagnosed with severe epilepsy as a baby. |
| 0:56.4 | And they went through all the traditional medical deal. |
| 0:59.3 | And while they were at UCLA getting ready to do a lobotomy on his son, he decided this can't be the outcome. |
| 1:06.3 | And went to the UCLA medical library and started digging into epilepsy and how they treated it up |
| 1:12.2 | into this point and came across ketogenic diets. And so went back, said, you know, let's not do |
| 1:17.4 | the lobotomy as of yet. Let's try this ketogenic diet approach and ended up putting his |
| 1:23.5 | seizures into remission. So we had Jim on the podcast to hear this just heroic story, |
| 1:29.2 | and he had started the Charlie Foundation for ketogenic therapies in 1994. They raised money, |
| 1:35.7 | educated families on all these different neurological disorders in terms of using ketogenic diets |
| 1:40.8 | as a treatment for it. And as we had them on the podcast, hearing the story as a fairly new parent at the time |
| 1:49.3 | was pretty impactful to the point where anything that happened to my kids, |
| 1:55.5 | you know, as you won't know, my son Cash is a type one diabetic. |
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