Miracle Recovery: Man Declared Brain Dead Beats the Odds from Locked-In Syndrome 🧠

A man labelled "brain dead" has become the first ever to recover from an extreme form of locked-in syndrome which rendered him totally paralysed.

In 2017, Jacob Haendel was living a normal life as a head chef in Boston, Massachusetts.

But he space of just a few weeks, his life was turned upside down after he was diagnosed with acute toxic progressive leukoencephalopathy, which in turn progressed into locked-in syndrome and forced his body would slowly shut down.

An extreme form of locked-in syndrome is a condition in which a patient is aware but cannot move or communicate verbally due to complete paralysis and can be caused by a brain trauma, and infection, and exposure to toxins.

It is not known exactly how Jacob developed the condition, though he says his life as a chef consuming certain chemicals "willfully and otherwise" may have been a factor.