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Andrew Huberman
Huberman in 2016
BornAndrew David Huberman
(1975-09-26) September 26, 1975 (age 49)
Palo Alto, California, U.S.
Alma mater
ParentBernardo Huberman
Scientific career
FieldsNeuroscience
InstitutionsStanford University, University of California, San Diego
ThesisNeural activity and axon guidance cue regulation of eye-specific retinogeniculate development (2004)
Academic advisorsBarbara Chapman, Ben Barres
Websitehubermanlab.com

Andrew David Huberman (born September 26, 1975) is an American podcaster and neuroscientist. He is an associate professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford University School of Medicine. He hosts the Huberman Lab podcast, which he started in 2021. He is a partner of dietary supplement company Momentous.

Early life and education

Huberman was born in Palo Alto, California to his father, an Argentine physicist, and his mother, a children's book author.

Huberman received a B.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1998, an M.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2000, and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from the University of California, Davis, in 2004. He completed his postdoctoral training at Stanford under Ben Barres between 2006 and 2011.

Academic career

From 2011 to 2015, Huberman was an assistant professor of neurobiology and neuroscience at University of California, San Diego. In 2016, Huberman took a faculty position at Stanford University.

With David Spiegel, Huberman has carried out research on cortisol and anxiety-based depression. Huberman has led work investigating the regeneration of eye tissue in mice, which may have a future application in studying optical nerve regeneration in humans.

Podcasting and supplements

In 2021, with the encouragement of Pat Dossett, Huberman launched the Huberman Lab podcast. In episodes lasting several hours, Huberman talks about the state of research in a specific topic, both within and outside his specialty. By 2023, the podcast had become the 6th most popular podcast in the US on Spotify platforms. His YouTube channel has 4.3 million subscribers and his Instagram account 5.2 million.

In April 2022, Huberman entered into a partnership with a Utah-based sport and nutrition company, Momentous. With it, he offers a line of Huberman Lab–branded dietary supplements. He became Scientific Advisor for the supplements retailer Athletic Greens the same year.

Reception

In Time magazine, Jamie Ducharme has described Huberman as having a "massive and dedicated audience" with millions of fans. Joseph Zundell, a cancer biologist, trusts Huberman's expertise in neuroscience, but has criticized Huberman for extrapolating animal research for human use without appropriate scientific justification, and for straying away from his expertise. Neuroscientist David Berson says that Huberman's research is respected among neuroscientists, and described his podcast as "a fabulous service for the world," and a way to "open the doors" to the world of science.

Jonathan Jarry from the Office for Science and Society has questioned Huberman's promotion of "poorly regulated" dietary supplements. According to Jarry, The Huberman Lab podcast has been sponsored by "companies offering questionable products from the perspective of science-based medicine".

According to an article in Coda, Huberman has promoted anti-sunscreen views on his podcast, saying he's "as scared of sunscreen as I am of melanoma", and claiming that sunscreen molecules can be found in neurons 10 years after application; without providing any evidence. In a 2023 GQ article, Huberman said that he is not a "sunscreen truther", a term used to describe anti-sunscreen conspiracy theorists.

Selected publications

References

  1. "@hubermanlab" (Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D.) on Twitter
  2. Change Your Brain: Neuroscientist Dr. Andrew Huberman | Rich Roll Podcast (Video). July 20, 2020. Event occurs at 2:50. Retrieved December 19, 2022 – via YouTube.
  3. ^ Emma Brockes (31 August 2023). "Men, want to optimise yourselves with science? Then you need the help of neuroscience bro Andrew Huberman". The Guardian.
  4. ^ Béchard, Deni Ellis (July 2023). "The Huberman Effect". Stanford Magazine. Retrieved 2023-07-17.
  5. "How a Stanford professor became one of the world's top podcasters". SFgate.com. June 27, 2023. Retrieved June 27, 2023.
  6. ^ Wiseman, Shari (2023). "In conversation with Andrew Huberman". Nature Neuroscience. 26 (8): 1312–1315. doi:10.1038/s41593-023-01395-4. ISSN 1546-1726. PMID 37429915. S2CID 259657196.
  7. Barres, Ben (2018). "Ben A. Barres" (PDF). In Albright, Tom; R. Squire, Larry (eds.). The History of Neuroscience in Autobiography. Vol. 10. p. 62. ISBN 978-0-916110-10-9.
  8. Weintraub, Karen (11 July 2016). "Regrown Brain Cells Give Blind Mice a New View". Scientific American.
  9. Barres 2018, p. 45.
  10. ^ Ducharme, Jamie (2023-06-28). "How Andrew Huberman Got America to Care About Science". Time. Retrieved 2023-07-11.
  11. Spotify. "Podcast Charts". Podcast Charts. Retrieved 2022-12-19.
  12. "Apple Podcasts : United States of America : All Podcasts Podcast Charts - Top". chartable.com. Retrieved 2022-12-19.
  13. "Momentous Announces a Multi-Year Partnership with the Huberman Lab Podcast and Dr. Andrew Huberman as a Scientific Advisor" (Press release). PR Newswire. 25 April 2022.
  14. "Athletic Greens Announces Dr. Andrew Huberman as Scientific Advisor". BusinessWire. 21 March 2022. Archived from the original on 25 March 2022. Retrieved 6 September 2023.
  15. ^ Jarry, Jonathan (7 April 2023). "Andrew Huberman Has Supplements on the Brain". McGill University Office for Science and Society. Retrieved 2023-06-15.
  16. Beres, Derek (October 3, 2023). "The dangerous myths sold by the conspiritualists". Coda.
  17. Reiss, Sami (2023). "What's Behind the Rise of the Sunscreen Truther?". GQ. Retrieved 2023-10-06.

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