Football Star to Plant-Based Sensation: The Gabriel Miller Story
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 29 May 2020
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Gabriel Miller dreamed of running onto the field Sunday afternoons in the fall as a player in the NFL. It seemed as though that dream was on the verge of coming true until a freak injury cut short his college football career.
With one goal snatched away the 19-year-old set a new goal for himself, to be able to walk without the use of a walker. He was facing a lifetime of surgeries and debilitating pain unless he lost a significant amount of weight. There was only one problem. After gorging on the standard American diet for years (and then some) as a football player, he really had no clue how to do it.
Then he had an epiphany. It was one word, really. Plants.
On this episode of The Exam Room™ podcast, Gabriel joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll to share what led him down that healthier path that didn't include countless medical procedures and unrelenting pain.
Although he may not have achieved riches in the NFL, he has found abundant prosperity by sharing his story and helping others overcome their own health obstacles. This is one remarkable conversation.
Plus, Dr. Jasmol Sardana joins the show as Chuck opens up the Doctor's Mailbag to answer your health and nutrition questions.
- Is it better to get too much sodium or too little?
- Is orange juice actually healthy?
- Are agave and maple syrup healthier than sugar?
- Are there foods people with eczema should avoid?
- What can be used for salad dressing that is low fat and vegan?
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Gabriel Miller
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Chuck Carroll
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| 0:00.0 | A few months previous, playing in front of a hundred thousand people in the biggest stage in all college football. |
| 0:05.8 | Then just a few months later, I'm on a walker. |
| 0:07.8 | My surgery and the doctors finally they offered me a little bit of, I believe that probably should have been asked to meet before I went in for a six and a half hour back surgery. |
| 0:15.2 | If you don't want to have to come back here and have another back surgery soon, then you're going to have to lose weight. |
| 0:19.8 | Well, hello there! And welcome to the Exameral Podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:33.5 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:36.0 | Thank you so very much for giving the show a listen, or a view, or a download, wherever it is in the world that you are. |
| 0:43.2 | We appreciate the fact that you are here. |
| 0:48.4 | And today you will be hearing the incredible story of Gabriel Miller. |
| 0:54.4 | Now, Gabriel is an author, he is a plant-based chef, he is even a vegan organic vegetable farmer, and he also happens to be a weight loss success. |
| 1:06.0 | But just a few years ago, if you would have said Gabriel would have been any one of those things, he probably would have told you that you were crazy. |
| 1:15.8 | He would have told you, no way man, I'm going to be in the NFL. |
| 1:22.2 | And there is a better than good chance that Gabriel would have been shooting up and taking the field on Sundays. |
| 1:31.7 | He was already playing elite college football at the University of Nebraska. |
| 1:38.4 | And for those of you who are not familiar, Nebraska is one of the biggest college football programs in the country. |
| 1:48.4 | So many iconic football players have come out of Lincoln. |
| 1:54.4 | And there was Gabriel as a freshman starting for the Huskers. |
| 2:03.2 | But then fate intervened in Gabriel's plants. |
| 2:08.3 | A freak injury in the weight room derailed his career. |
| 2:15.3 | And in the blink of an eye, his dreams of running through the tunnel on Sunday afternoons were squashed. |
| 2:29.6 | But Gabriel didn't soak. |
| 2:33.4 | He picked himself up. He does did himself off like the tough guy that he was and he made some difficult decisions. |
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