The neuroscientist, health guru, and controversial podcaster Andrew Huberman just revealed something that has his fans fuming \u2014 but also not all that surprised.<\/p>\n
During a nearly three-hour interview<\/a> with British bodybuilding legend Dorian Yates, Huberman asked the six-time Mr. Olympia winner about his thoughts on starting testosterone replacement therapy, which is basically the medically-supervised way of taking steroids. And the reason Huberman was interested, it turned out, is because he himself was on the stuff.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m on low-dose TRT. I started when I was 45,\u201d Huberman said, claiming he had been \u201cvery open\u201d about his use. \u201cAbout 125 milligrams a week.\u201d<\/p>\n This in itself is not controversial. Plenty of people are receiving gender-affirming care of one type or another. But Huberman \u2014 who made a name for himself by bringing a veneer of a science-backed approach to health discussions \u2014 is a huge biohacking nut who preaches about taking all kinds of supplements to \u201creverse aging,\u201d and crucially to elevate testosterone levels, using his own chiseled bod as proof that they work. In other words, he\u2019s a \u201clongevity<\/a>\u201d bro in a similar vein to guys like Bryan Johnson<\/a>, who trot out all kinds of science to justify why they have to do stuff like track their nighttime boners<\/a> and get zooted on ketamine<\/a>.<\/p>\n And of course, there\u2019s an angle to these health nuggets of wisdom: Huberman\u2019s podcast business is sponsored by dozens of supplement companies. That he\u2019s been injecting testosterone the whole time makes for a pretty disingenuous sales pitch \u2014 like a weight loss coach peddling diet and exercise tips who carefully left out the part that they got most of their results by taking Ozempic.<\/p>\n Fans on the r\/HubermanLab subreddit fumed about the admission, calling him a \u201cscam artist\u201d and a \u201ccharlatan\u201d who was \u201ctricking his followers\u201d into buying \u201cuseless supplements.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI think the problem is testosterone is often so effective that Huberman taking it minimizes everything he has said about all other supplements,\u201d wrote<\/a> one user, articulating the hypocrisy. \u201cWho cares about AG1 or valerium [sic] root or whatever when you can get some juice?\u201d<\/p>\n Another was more succinct: \u201cI am disappointed.\u201d<\/p>\n Some fans aren\u2019t shocked by the news, given that Huberman is suspiciously jacked for a 50-year-old man. And they also say he\u2019s mentioned using TRT here on there on podcast episodes over the years. But that\u2019s not quite what you\u2019d consider being \u201cvery open\u201d about his habit like Huberman claims he\u2019s been. Unless you\u2019re well versed in Huberman Lore, you might be under the impression that this was guy was completely, as the bodybuilding parlance goes, \u201cnatty.\u201d<\/p>\n The Reddit post that called out Huberman\u2019s admission is one of the subreddit\u2019s most upvoted in a year. Clearly, it was at least considered a noteworthy development to many of his followers.<\/p>\n Huberman has his fair share of questionable behavior. He advocated against taking the flu vaccine, and while not stooping to the outright anti-vaccine crank levels of an Alex Jones or RFK Jr, has platformed vaccine \u201cskeptical\u201d talking points and did an over-four-hour podcast interview with Jay Bhattacharya, Trump\u2019s director of the National Institutes of Health, who has raised doubts about mRNA vaccines and slashed half a billion in funding in government contracts<\/a> towards their development.<\/p>\n And this isn\u2019t the first time Huberman has let down his fans, either. A 2024 New York Magazine story<\/a> detailed how he had allegedly been dating at least five women in secret<\/a> at the same time, some of whom came forward to accuse him of lying about his fidelity, and manipulating them into having unprotected sex. This also caused a storm of critical posts<\/a> on the r\/AndrewHuberman subreddit, which went private after the scandal.<\/p>\n In all, these paint a sleazy picture of a man who is viewed as a scientific authority by millions of listeners, and whose reach may have an even greater impact going forward. On Tuesday, Huberman announced that he was joining CBS News as a contributor, which comes amid the news agency\u2019s right-wing realignment<\/a> under the ownership of a pro-Trump billionaire.<\/p>\n