Andrew Huberman: 10 things to know about the podcaster and his multiple 'affairs'

March 27, 2024 / 05:00 PM IST

Andrew Huberman's podcast 'The Huberman Lab' ranked in the top ten of Spotify and Apple's top podcasts of 2023 in the US. (Image credit: hubermanlab.com)

Andrew Huberman is a neuroscientist and professor based in the US who hosts a celebrated podcast called Huberman Lab. He made headlines recently after several women accused him of manipulation, bizarre behavior, and cheating. One of the women also alleged that his infidelity might have led to a sexually transmitted infection.

A recent exposé published by New York Magazine put the spotlight on the private life of Huberman as someone who promotes physical and mental health and wellness but engaged in weird behaviour with friends and acquaintances, and secretly dated five women simultaneously.

Here are 10 things to know about Andrew Huberman:

1.) Andrew Huberman is a 48-year-old associate professor of neurology and ophthalmology at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He has been associated with the university since 2016.

2.) Previously, he taught at the University of California at San Diego from 2011 until 2015.

3.) He launched his "The Huberman Lab" podcast in 2021 and, according to its site, often ranks in the top 10 of all podcasts globally. It did, however, rank in the top ten of Spotify and Apple's top podcasts of 2023 in the US, The Sun reported.

4.) The podcast explores topics within neuroscience and, as per its official description, it discusses "how our brain and its connections with the organs of our body control our perceptions, our behaviors, and our health."

4.) Huberman keeps his private life mostly under wraps. It is unclear if he is dating anyone, his marital status is unconfirmed and he has never revealed if he's in a relationship or if he has any children.

5.) In his podcast, Huberman shared that as an adolescent, he endured the difficult divorce of his parents. His father was a Stanford professor who worked in the tech industry and his mother was an author of children's books. The period after the separation was, he says, one of "pure neglect."

6.) In one of the anecdotes shared in the New York Magazine's exposé, a woman whose identity was not revealed, claimed she dated Huberman for years believing it to be an exclusive relationship. Later, however, she accused him of cheating on her and even causing her HPV, a treatable sexually transmitted infection that men can carry.

7.) Sarah, name changed, also described Huberman as intense and controlling. She said he constantly belittled her romantic and reproductive decisions from back before they were together. Sarah had two children from a previous relationship.

8.) The New York Magazine spoke to multiple women who claimed to have been in a relationship with Huberman simultaneously and discovered that the neuroscientist flew one of them out to his house in California, had a serious relationship talk with another, while he had his sometimes-live-in-girlfriend waiting for him back in Berkeley.

9.) Sarah told the publication that she found Huberman sending commitment-centric messages to another woman while they'd been on a camping trip together. During the same time, he was injecting her regularly for in-vitro fertilization because they were trying to have a baby together.

10.) In one anecdote shared by the magazine, Huberman allegedly left anthropologist and investigative journalist Scott Carney alone in his house with his dog for a day-and-a-half after he invited him to go camping. "It was extremely weird," Carney said.

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