Move over Almond Moms, we’ve got a new health-conscious relative giving us anxiety: the Huberman Husband. Just ask TikToker Sierra Campbell, whose husband is an avid follower of Dr. Andrew Huberman, a neuroscientist from Stanford known for his work on the Huberman Lab podcast. Huberman is a proponent of “biohacking,” or trying to improve one’s health through “targeted lifestyle tweaks” like intermittent fasting or ice baths.


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Huberman has been criticized for promoting expensive dietary supplements on his podcast despite the fact that most people don’t need such supplements — for most, they act as expensive placebos that provide the illusion of a healthy lifestyle — as well as companies like InsideTracker, which uses blood and DNA testing to offer advice on weight management and the like.



Anyway, back to Campbell, who calls herself a “Huberman Husband Wife” and explains that this means she’s regularly made aware of the fact that she breathes out of her mouth, is reminded to take beef liver supplements, has had all of her light bulbs replaced with red light bulbs and is asked to use blue-light blocking glasses if she watches TV at night, just to name a few. According to Campbell, “The practices are truly endless, and there’s a new one discovered every week.” She concludes that she’s not sure which is worse, an Almond Mom or a Huberman Husband, but with Huberman Husbands, “not only do I have to live with him my whole life, but I’m also going to live forever.”




Far from being put off by Campbell’s description of her husband’s quirks, many commenters argued that a man putting so much thought into his health and lifestyle choices is appealing. Others wondered if Almond Moms raise Huberman Husbands, which is an interesting theory; the focus is usually on how Almond Moms influence their daughters with their investment in diet culture and fixation on body image, but you don’t often hear how they influence their son’s relationship with food, health and body image.


Regardless, send up a prayer for all of the women caught between their Almond Moms and their Huberman Husbands; it sounds like they need some sort of supplement to deal with the exhaustion from constantly being told they’re breathing wrong, drinking coffee wrong, and absorbing light wrong.