Andrew D. Huberman

Andrew David Huberman (born September 26, 1975) is an American neuroscientist and podcaster. He is an associate professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He has been the host of the popular health and science-focused podcast Huberman Lab since 2021, and has a Google H-index of 45 with over 14,742 citations. Huberman has drawn criticism from scientists for promoting dietary supplements and for making poorly evidenced health claims.

Huberman is the son of Argentine physicist Bernardo Huberman. He earned a B.A. in psychology from UC Santa Barbara in 1998, an M.A. in psychology from UC Berkeley in 2000, and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UC Davis in 2004. Huberman conducted postdoctoral research at Stanford under Ben Barres, focusing on the visual system, and held faculty positions at UC San Diego and later Stanford, where his lab studies vision regeneration, stress mitigation, and non-pharmacological interventions for anxiety.

Early life and education Huberman was born in 1975 at Stanford Hospital in Palo Alto, California. His father, the Argentine physicist Bernardo Huberman, is also a professor at Stanford, and his mother is a children's book author.

As a child, Huberman was involved in athletics, including soccer and swimming. Huberman obtained a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UC Davis in 2004.

Academic career Huberman spent five years at Stanford University as a postdoc under Ben Barres between 2006 and 2011. From 2006 to 2009, he was a Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellow. The lab also researched non-pharmacological interventions for anxiety disorders, including VR exposure to controlled stressors and breathing techniques.

In 2023, Huberman's lab, with David Spiegel, published a research paper on stress mitigation and carried out research on cortisol.

In 2024, New York Magazine stated that Huberman's lab at Stanford "barely exists", with only a single postdoctoral researcher working there and the lab having been scaled back significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic. A spokesperson for Huberman said that the lab was still operational.

Podcasts Huberman was introduced to Robert Mohr in 2019, a New York-based health and fitness publicist who produced "The Fight with Teddy Atlas," a boxing podcast. As the COVID-19 pandemic progressed, Huberman grew dissatisfied with what he viewed as health authorities' narrow focus on the virus without providing guidance for improving public health. Mohr facilitated Huberman's appearances on major podcasts, including those hosted by Joe Rogan and Rich Roll. These appearances helped increase his social media following. By the end of 2020, Huberman had appeared on Lex Fridman's technology podcast. Fridman encouraged him to start his own podcast. In 2023, GQ magazine called it "one of the most listened to shows in the world." His YouTube channel has 7.5 million subscribers and his Instagram account has 7.4 million. In 2025, The Huberman Lab podcast won the 'Best Wellness & Fitness Podcast' award at the iHeartPodcast Awards.

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", including AG1 (formerly Athletic Greens). Joseph Zundell, a cancer biologist, trusts Huberman's expertise in neuroscience but also criticized him for extrapolating animal research for human use without appropriate scientific justification and straying from his area of expertise. Enrique Alpañés, writing in El Pais in 2025, described Huberman as "He-Man in a lab coat: a bearded, muscular jock with an impressive resume and even better oratory skills ... [preaching] a Silicon Valley-style self-help approach, a kind of “pop neuroscience” focused on lifestyle changes and supplements to work faster and live longer", though opining that Huberman often "recommends activities that are more befitting a deranged shaman than a scientist".

According to an article in Coda, Huberman stated on his podcast that he was "... as scared of sunscreen as I am of melanoma" and discussed concerns about certain sunscreen ingredients, including claims that molecules from some formulations could persist in the body for years. In a subsequent appearance on the Sara Grynberg Podcast, Huberman said his earlier remarks had been taken out of context and clarified that he supports sunscreen use to prevent skin cancer, stating: “There is definitely a case for sunscreen … You don’t want skin cancer. You don’t want to burn … So I use sunscreen.” Huberman has also expressed skepticism towards fluoridation.

Awards and grants Cogan Award for Contributions to Vision Science and Ophthalmology (2017) Pew Biomedical Scholar Award (2013–2017) McKnight Neuroscience Scholar Award (2013–2016) Allan G. Marr Prize (2005)

Selected publications