Robert Huizenga
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Robert Huizenga, also known as "Dr. H" on The Biggest Loser, is a former team physician for the Los Angeles Raiders. He has been a contributor on reality television shows, is the author of three books including one that was the basis for Oliver Stone's film Any Given Sunday, and has performed research in sports medicine, metabolism (including reversal of AODM2), COVID-19 treatment and age-reversal.
Huizenga grew up in Rochester, New York, and was valedictorian and all-county football, wrestling and track at Penfield High. At the University of Michigan, he was honors math and biology and an NCAA All-American wrestler setting the NCAA record for takedown percent (he was not taken down). While at Harvard Medical School, he was an immunology major and an all-star rugby player. He did his medical residency at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, focusing on internal medicine and sports medicine, and was appointed Chief Medical Resident, following which he entered a pulmonary fellowship before leaving to work as a team physician for the Los Angeles Raiders as well as to be the national medical correspondent for Breakaway (FOX) and several years later for The Home Show (ABC).