Abel James is an American author, musician, podcast host, and entrepreneur. He is best known for founding and hosting the popular health podcast Fat-Burning Man.
Wiki/Biography
Abel James was born as “Abel James Bascom” in Meredith, New Hampshire on Thursday, August 23, 1984 (36 years old in 2020). His star sign is Leo. He graduated from New Hampton School, where he graduated with honors. He graduated from Dartmouth College in New Hampshire as a senior fellow with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and brain sciences. He studied music at the Royal Academy of Music in London.
appearance
Height: 5′ 9″
Eye Color: Blue
Hair color: dark brown
Family and Race
Parents and siblings
His mother is a holistic care nurse practitioner and herbalist. His father worked in a restaurant. He has an older brother who is an organic farmer.
Abel James and his parents
Relationship with wife
He married Alyson Bridge on January 3, 2015. The two currently live in Austin, Texas.
Abel James and his wife
Profession
In 1999, he began his career as a music teacher, teaching music theory and instruments for nearly 7 years. At the same time, he also worked as an eBay reseller. After graduation, he began working as a senior consultant at Kaiser Electronics, a boutique strategic consulting firm, to pay off his loans. After working there for a year, he worked as an information services consultant and system designer at the Information Sciences Institute for more than two years. He then worked as a management consultant at Manhattan Strategy Group for four years. While working as a consultant, he also ran a health blog called Honest Abes Tips. In 2011, he started his own podcast and blog “The Fat-Burning Man” to help people get fit through paleo, ancestral eating, and real food principles.
In March 2012, he published his first book, The Musical Brain.
The Musical Brain (2012)
He is also the author of The Paleo Diet Primer (2012), The Wild Diet (2015), and Designer Babies Still Get Scabies: A Little Book of Mostly Silly Poetry (2019). Abel has also co-authored cookbooks with George Bryant: Quick and Easy Paleo Slow Cooker Recipes (2013), Quick and Easy Paleo Dessert Recipes (2013), Quick and Easy Paleo Side Dishes and Sauces Recipes (2013), and Quick and Easy Paleo Breakfast Recipes (2013).
In 2018, he founded Wild Superfoods, which specializes in dietary supplements.
Wild Superfoods Logo
He is also a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist; Abel has toured internationally and has won several awards for his writing and performing arts.
Awards and Achievements
- Greatist’s 100 Most Influential People in Health and Fitness for 2015 and 2016
- Paleo F(x) – The Best Paleo Podcast for Fat Burners in 2015
Abel James talks about the F(x) Awards in his Instagram post
- Podcast Awards – Fat-Burning Man wins People’s Choice Best Health and Fitness Podcast
- Mindshare Summit – Best “Fat-Burning Man” Podcast
- The Fat-Burning Man Podcast was named one of the top 3 podcasts of all time by The Huffington Post
- ‘Fat-Burning Man Podcast’ reaches #1 on Apple iTunes charts in over 8 countries
Favorite things
- Food: Pumpkin Pie, Bacon Bourbon Apple Pie
Facts/Trivia
- Abel has delivered keynote addresses for the federal government, lectured at Ivy League schools, and consulted for companies including Microsoft, Danaher, and Lockheed Martin.
- In 2013, he launched his own cooking app, Caveman Feast. With the launch of the app, Abel became the first independent publisher to rank #1 in the Apple Store’s Food App Charts and #6 overall in 2013.
Caveman Feast App
- When he was still working as a consultant, he suffered from obesity. He began to visit dietitians and nutritionists, hoping that they could help him control his obese body. However, it did not work for him. According to James,
I was already running 20 to 30 miles a week. After about a year of following this advice, I was over 30 pounds overweight. My thyroid had blown up, and I couldn’t keep my body temperature above 96 degrees Fahrenheit. I was sweating all the time. I was bloated and a mess. All the problems we were trying to avoid were showing up in my life even though I was in my early 20s. It wasn’t until then that I looked in the mirror and realized how unhealthy I was, because I had been an athlete before that. I looked like a 45-year-old man who was in absolutely no shape, and I was like, this is obviously not working. My life is a mess. Let’s make this a project. Within a few months, all the weight was gone. I had a six-pack. I basically became a fat-burning person because I was doing the opposite of what the doctors told me to do. By embracing the alternative health philosophies that I was exposed to growing up, I used a lot of plants, ate a lot of plant-based foods, and wasn’t afraid of fat.”
Abel James before and after photos
- In 2011, he participated in the Austin Marathon, an annual marathon held in Austin, Texas.
Abel James during the Austin Marathon
- He loves dogs very much and has a yellow Labrador named “Bailey”.
Abel James talks about his pets in his Instagram post
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