Healthy Is Hot, The ‘Liver King’ Is Not

Whether it’s the “Tiger King” or the “Liver King,” anybody prancing around as the “king” of a miracle product or enterprise is almost certainly a con man exploiting gullible consumers who almost deserve to be conned.

On Monday, the throne of Brian Johnson, the man who coronated himself the “Liver King” with a fitness franchise that brought fame and fortune, finally collapsed under the weight of his own insecurity. Underneath his primitive persona, which sold a nature-based lifestyle with organic supplements to his millions of online followers, he was reportedly just some guy on steroids all along.

According to emails published on the “More Dates More Plates” podcast, Johnson, who claimed to have found the secret to longevity through ancestral living, had been pumping himself with a cocktail of performance-enhancing steroids to the tune of $11,000 a month.

Derek, the body-builder podcast host who broke the story in an hour-long episode, explained just how much the “Liver King” was actually exploiting his liver to live out a fantasy brought by manufactured products.

With 5.8 milligram vials of pharmacy-grade human growth hormone (GDH) injected 16 times a month, Derek said, that “is like a f-cking really, really high, super expensive dosage.”

“To be honest,” Derek added, “I know bodybuilders who compete at the open Mr. Olympia who’d use less form of grade GDH than that.”

Johnson’s leaked emails outline a veritable pharmacy of steroids he used to forge a fictional superhero who for 18 months sought to be a mascot for holistic natural living, a model for the wannabe “man.”

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SHOCKING: Liver King was on steroids 💉

Leaked emails shows that Liver King was taking almost $12k worth of pharmaceutical HGH per month, three injections per day. All while promoting his brand of holistic lifestyle, ancestral tenants, and eating raw meat on camera. pic.twitter.com/dl6AhuknBP

— OutKick (@Outkick) November 29, 2022

Careful to protect his ego, his persona, and his $100 million salary, Johnson denied his use of synthetic steroids on seemingly every major fitness podcast. A montage presented in the exposé by “More Dates More Plates” shows Johnson going on program after program to denounce any accusation that he was maybe, probably, almost definitely using steroids to build his Instagram physique in his mid-40s.

“For the record, I’ve never taken steroids,” Johnson said on the “No Jumper” show just a month ago.

“The short answer is no, I don’t touch this stuff,” Johnson said again on the CarnivoreMD podcast.

Johnson would even go on to attack those who assumed drug use as people who just “hate their lives,” while labeling those who did exploit steroids as “sub-primal.”

“Hate always comes from below, and hate always comes from within,” Johnson said of his critics with the hosts of the “H3 Podcast.” “When people really hate their lives, because most people do, they go to jobs they hate, they go to jobs they don’t love,