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Liver King
Born
Brian Johnson

1976 or 1977 (age 46–47)[1]
Years active2021–present
TikTok information
Followers5.7 million
Likes105.2 million
Last updated: 17 March 2024
YouTube information
Subscribers748,000
Total views66.6 million
Last updated: 17 March 2024

Brian Johnson, known by his online alias Liver King, is an American fitness social media influencer and businessman.[2][3] He is known for promoting what he calls an "ancestral lifestyle", which includes eating large amounts of raw unprocessed organs and meat focusing on a daily intake of liver.[4] His dietary advice has been criticized by nutritionists for promoting potentially dangerous misinformation.[2][5][4]

Johnson's lifestyle is based around nine "ancestral tenets".

performance enhancing drugs. He then apologized for his conduct on a YouTube video.[7][8]

Early life

Brian Johnson was born in 1976 or 1977.

US Air Force, and soon after relocated to Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. When Brian's father, Philip D. Johnson, died suddenly while Brian was still an infant, he and his brother Henry stayed in San Antonio due to a military-assisted living situation and were raised by a single mother.[9]

Johnson grew up very active in sports and especially loved

speech impediment that required extensive vocal therapy, and was bullied frequently. On the first day of middle school, Johnson was allegedly knocked unconscious after a bully punched him in the back of the head.[9]

Johnson attended John Marshall High School in Leon Valley, Texas, where he lettered in football.[10] He was a very poor student and was "laughed out of the admission office" when he tried applying to the University of Texas. He instead attended San Antonio Community College, flunking out once, before turning his grades around and enrolling at Texas Tech University, where he majored in biochemistry studies and graduated with honors.[11] He later relocated to Houston to pursue a job as a pharmaceutical rep.[12]

Career

Johnson spent over a decade working at his wife's dental practice in Houston, but the two retired when they agreed to focus on raising their kids. Around this time, Johnson founded Ancestral Lifestyle, a social media platform that would promote health and lifestyle. Johnson and his wife raised money for Ancestral Lifestyle by

paleo diet consisting of raw flesh, bone marrow, and animal liver, pushing the human body to its limits, and exposure to cold water.[citation needed
]

Johnson owns several fitness-related supplement companies, including The Fittest, Medicine Man Mushrooms, and Heart & Soil, the latter of which he manages with fellow influencer Paul Saladino.[15] In 2023, Liver King made $105 million in endorsements from companies like Snapchat, Instagram, and TikTok, amongst others, making him the most profitable fitness influencer of 2023.[16]

Controversy

Johnson's dietary recommendation of

high cholesterol levels, and may also result in digestive issues.[2][5] Health science professors Nicholas Gibbs and Timothy Piatkowski advise that "following Liver King's dietary advice is undoutably dangerous" and that doing so could "lead to potential bodily injury and severe physiological peril."[17]

Despite repeatedly denying having ever used

IGF1 and testosterone, and spent $11,000 on pharmaceuticals a month.[18] After emails showing his use of steroids and hormones came to light, Johnson made a video in which he admitted to taking around 120 mg of testosterone per week and apologized for misleading his viewers about his "pharmacological intervention", while also adding that there is "a time and place" for such interventions to be made.[19]

In the aftermath of the revelations, some of Johnson's followers filed a lawsuit, accusing Johnson of deception and demanding $25 million in compensation.[14] The lawsuit was later discontinued.[20]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Joe Rogan Accuses Dwayne Johnson & Others of 'Not Being Clean'". Men's Health. 6 December 2022. Retrieved 12 November 2023.
  2. ^ a b c d Cao, Steffi (2022-03-02). "Liver King Might Be The Biggest Bro Influencer We Have Ever Seen". BuzzFeed News. Retrieved 3 December 2022.
  3. ^ Aggeler, Madeleine (5 May 2022). "How the Liver King Built an Empire by Eating Raw Organ Meat". GQ. Retrieved 3 December 2022.
  4. ^ a b Jarry, Jonathan (28 January 2022). "The Liver King Wants You to Dominate Your Health Like a Caveman". Office for Science and Society. McGill University. Retrieved 3 December 2022.
  5. ^ a b Taylor, Anne (29 August 2022). "What A Nutritionist Really Thinks About The Liver King Diet – Exclusive". Health Digest. Retrieved 3 December 2022.
  6. ^ Weiss, Geoff (2022-12-30). "Raw-meat influencer The Liver King is facing a $25 million class-action lawsuit after admitting he secretly used steroids". Business Insider. Retrieved 2024-03-26.
  7. ISSN 0190-8286
    . Retrieved 2023-06-07.
  8. ^ Landsverk, Gabby. "The Liver King claimed he got ripped by eating raw organs when he was really taking $11,000 worth of steroids a month. Now he says he regrets lying to his followers". Insider. Retrieved 2023-06-07.
  9. ^ a b "LIVER KING STATS: HEIGHT, WEIGHT, AGE, DIET AND MOOOOAR!". Liverking.com. Archived from the original on 7 October 2023. Retrieved 25 May 2024.
  10. ^ "Liver King Biography, age, real name, wife, children, degree, occupation, net worth".
  11. ^ "TT alumn embroiled in STRONG controversy". KKAM.com.
  12. ^ "NEVER APOLOGIZE… "NOPE, NOT SORRY AFTERALL" – LK 2.0". Liverking.com. Archived from the original on 25 May 2024. Retrieved 25 May 2024.
  13. ^ "Liver King's net worth in 2024: Earnings, property, and business". MSN.com.
  14. ^ a b Catalina, Goanta. "The rise and fall of the Liver King—a social media sensation who is now being sued by his followers for $25 million".
  15. ^ "Is an All-Meat Diet What Nature Intended?". The New Yorker. 2023-09-25. Retrieved 2023-12-21.
  16. ^ Olumide Olajide. "Rich Dudes│How Liver King Built His $12M Net Worth". MoneyMade.
  17. ISSN 0955-3959
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  18. ^ Cao, Steffi (2022-12-02). "Liver King, The TikTok Creator Who Eats Raw Bull Testicles For Dinner, Is On Steroids". BuzzFeed News. Retrieved 3 December 2022.
  19. ^ Weiss, Geoff (2 December 2022). "The Liver King, an influencer who eats raw meat and preaches a primal lifestyle, admits to lying about steroid use". Insider. Retrieved 3 December 2022.
  20. ^ Xie, Teresa (2023-09-22). "Raw Meat-Eating Liver King And Other Health Influencers Face Mounting Lawsuits". Bloomberg. Retrieved 2023-12-21.
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