Now podcaster Andrew Huberman is accused of pushing pseudoscience by top doctors, including casting doubt on life-saving vaccines - days after reports of his love rat behavior

His individual life has been thrust into nan spotlight - pinch accusations of aggregate affairs and sexually irresponsible behavior, including passing an STIs to 1 lover.

Now, nan business has worsened for celebrated wellness influencer Andrew Huberman, who is facing nan wrath of skeptical doctors, who opportunity his wellness claims 'lead distant from nan truth.'

The podcaster, who denies each accusations of promiscuity, including giving 1 female an STI, has 5.2 cardinal subscribers to his podcast Huberman Lab - wherever he offers recommendations connected each mode of wellness topics from oral wellness to autism.

But experts person called overmuch of his contented 'pseudoscientific' - accusing him of  pushing questionable herbs for worry platforming 'dangerous' views that demonize benign ingredients and casting uncertainty connected nan flu shot's effectiveness.

In 1 clip Huberman tin beryllium seen saying: 'The flu changeable is wholly ineffective astatine combating immoderate different forms of nan flu microorganism [strains that aren't successful existent circulation], colds aliases immoderate different types of precocious respiratory infections.'

However, nan CDC contradicts this, saying nan flu jab 'may still connection immoderate protection', while good as recommendations from East Carolina University which opportunity 'antibodies made successful consequence to nan vaccine tin supply immoderate protection (cross-protection) against different, but related strains of influenza virus.'

The CDC recommends everyone six months and older, pinch uncommon exception, get a flu vaccine each season. 

Between 4,900 and 51,000 Americans dice each twelvemonth because of nan flu, nan agency estimated, and 1,100 lives are saved annually owed to nan shots.

Dr Andrea Love, a microbiologist and immunologist, said: Andrew Huberman 'fills his podcast pinch assured displays of pseudoscience.'

'It contains grains of truth, but those grains of truth are exaggerated beyond nan constituent of usefulness, moreover truthful acold arsenic to lead distant from nan truth,' she wrote successful Slate.

Other critics of Huberman's see Drs Spencer and Karl Nadolsky who discussed 'the ways that Huberman has blurred nan statement betwixt subject and pseudoscience' connected Dr Love's podcast.

One of nan claims being questioned, made successful a podcast section titled 'How to Prevent & Treat Colds & Flu', is that nan flu changeable only useful if it is protective against nan ascendant strain.

He goes connected to authorities that this is 1 of nan main reasons he does not get nan flu changeable - which is recommended by wellness officials, including nan CDC.

He claimed that nan flu vaccine tin beryllium 'completely ineffective' if it does not protect against nan strain of flu circulating that year.

But sloppy of nan circulating strain, flu shots still offers protection against illness, hospitalization, and decease from immoderate flu viruses owed to nan wide immunity we make successful response, according to Dr Love.

As explained by nan CDC, flu forecasts are made to expect which flu viruses are nan astir apt to move and origin nan astir unwellness during nan season, utilizing information from different countries connected existent strains. Shots are past tweaked accordingly year-to-year.

Huberman does urge that group pinch 'family members that are immune compromised' aliases those 'concerned astir transmitting flu to immoderate 1 individual aliases group of individuals' speak to their expert earlier deciding whether aliases not to get nan flu shot.

Another of Huberman's claims, made successful nan podcast titled 'Using Cortisol & Adrenaline to Boost Our Energy & Immune System Function', is that ashwagandha, a supplement made from an evergreen shrub, 'has a profound effect connected anxiety' and tin trim stress, cortisol and even depression.

He makes 'bold claims' including that ashwagandha whitethorn punctual aggregate knock-on effects, improving vision cardiovascular health, sleep, and memory.

But nan grounds is questionable, pinch mini samples sizes and self-reported data, said Dr Love.

Dr Love reviewed nan lit and said she recovered that nan information successful humans provided a 'conflicting and much constricted picture.'

One study from 2012 suggested it tin amended chronic accent but had conscionable 64 participants.

A meta-analysis which looked astatine 5 mini randomized controlled trials, concluded that it whitethorn assistance sleep, particularly successful group pinch insomnia, but recovered 'no important effect connected value of life.'

There is besides grounds of nan supplement causing liver damage, according to a study successful 2020, which looked astatine 5 cases of liver wounded attributed to ashwagandha-containing supplements.

All patients developed jaundice and symptoms specified arsenic nausea, lethargy, terrible itching of nan tegument and abdominal discomfort.

'I wouldn’t propose anyone slope their wellness connected this stuff,' said Dr Love. 

But Huberman said that ashwagandha 'comes done arsenic nan dense hitter,' while being judge to adhd nan liability caveat: 'You're responsible for making judge [supplements are] safe for you if you determine to usage them.'

In different instance, Huberman said a study was done connected group erstwhile it was successful truth performed connected rats.

In nan episode, titled 'How Sugar & Processed Foods Impact Your Healthy', Huberman was joined by pediatric endocrinologist Dr Robert Lustig, who has a history of making utmost claims astir food, specified arsenic calling sweetener a 'poison.'

Critics including The Health Sciences Academy, who train nutritionists, have said that it is 'dangerous' to demonize immoderate azygous nutrient specified arsenic fructose, arsenic it could mislead nan nationalist to trim their consequence intake.

Dr Lustig cites a study to support his claim that ultra-processed nutrient depletion slows bony growth.

Huberman asked him: 'Was this successful vitro aliases successful vivo?'. Lustig replied: 'In vivo.'

Huberman past said: 'So these are group that are eating precocious amounts of highly processed food; precisely really did [the researcher] find those successful nan Middle East?'

Lustig answered: 'In Israel.'

In vivo intends a study that is done connected a surviving organism, and while it tin mention to studies done connected humans, nan investigation Lustig was talking astir was done successful rats.

'To declare that nan results person a nonstop relevance to group is simply a chaotic misinterpretation of data,' Dr Love told Slate. '...Huberman presents his conclusions arsenic if they are facts, and truthful his listeners spot him.'

Mr Huberman did not reply to a petition for remark from DailyMail.com.