It was the spring of 2019 and then 17-year-old Davis Warren, a high school quarterback from Los Angeles, sat down on the bench press to start a 6 a.m. weightlifting session.
He couldn’t finish a single warm-up rep with the 135-pound bar.
“I was dizzy, light headed,” Warren said on the L.A.B. podcast with Jake Butt last month. “I knew something was off.”
Soon Warren and his parents were at an area hospital when doctors informed them Warren had acute myeloid leukemia. The five-year survival rate for kids is just 66 percent (and just 29.