Kriti Mehrotra
Born in the late 1940s or 1950s to Dorothy Koeze Huizenga and John Huizenga, as one of their four children, Robert “Rob” Huizenga primarily grew up in Rochester, New York. There was love and support for one another at every step of the way in this household, especially since the patriarch himself was a basketball and baseball athlete turned physicist — he even worked on the Manhattan Project. Thus, Rob chose to loosely follow in his footsteps by thriving as a wrestler and a rugby player before honing in on his passion for medicine, unaware he’d eventually become Dr. H.
How Did Dr. Robert Huizenga Earn His Money?
It was shortly after Robert Huizenga earned his Bachelor’s in Math and Biology from the University of Michigan that he enrolled at Harvard Medical School as an Immunology major. He subsequently continued down this path and did his residency at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, during which he found his true calling in the fields of internal medicine and sports medicine. He was then appointed Chief Medical Resident before also garnering a fellowship, yet he left once he evolved into a Team Physician for the Los Angeles Raiders (NFL) in 1983.
Robert actually received a lot of attention while he was the Raiders’ Team Physician, which only multiplied when he was appointed the President of the NFL Physicians’ Society. He served in the former position for 8 years, followed by another 4 in the latter, all the while also dabbling as a medical correspondent for Fox’s ‘Breakaway’ and ABC’s ‘The Home Show.’ Once all this was over, he published his debut book ‘You’re OK, It’s Just a Bruise — A Doctor’s Sideline Secrets about Pro-Football’s Most Outrageous Team’ (1994), wherein he detailed not only his experiences with the team but the use of anabolic steroids and the unfortunate deminse of athlete Lyle Alzado, among much more. This poignant book went on to inspire the 1999 sports drama ‘Any Given Sunday,’ but Robert almost immediately sued the studios responsible due to a lack of credit — he eventually won the case with an undisclosed settlement.
Following all this, Robert chose to focus primarily on serving as an advisor, correspondent, and writer for various television shows and feature-length movies across genres, such as NBC’s ‘The Biggest Loser’ for all 17 seasons, ABC’s ‘Extreme Makeover,’ Oxygen’s ‘Dance Your Ass Off,’ the 2007 biographical drama ‘Into the Wild,’ and the 2024 psychological thriller ‘Gone Girl.’ Then, the doctor penned ‘Where Did All the Fat Go? The Wow! Prescription to Reach Your Ideal Weight and Stay There’ to let the audience know more about working weight loss treatments.
It was in early 2013 when Robert, or Dr. H as he was now lovingly referred to, thanks to his stint on ‘The Biggest Loser,’ expanded his wings even further by launching The Clinic. This establishment in the heart of Los Angeles, California, is a combination resort offering both spa therapy and medical facilities related to obesity to help patients fall in love with their bodies all over again. Since then, this professional has proudly served as the owner-operator of this business while also writing another book, ‘Sex, Lies and STDs: The Must Read Before You Swipe Right,’ becoming Charlie Sheen’s personal physician, and doing in-depth research about metabolism, COVID-19, and age-reversal, among much more.
Dr. Robert Huizenga’s Earnings and Net Worth
Considering the fact that Dr. Robert Huizenga has around 45 years of experience as a physician as of writing, it goes without saying that he has done quite well in his life. He has understandably never made the details of his income public, but we do believe it has always been higher than average — even for a medical professional — considering the kind of jobs he has held. From what we can tell, in the 1980s, he likely made $50,000 per year as a Team Physician for the Los Angeles Raiders, which probably went up to over $100,000 when he became the NFL Physicians’ Society’s President.
Unfortunately, calculating Robert’s revenue from his books or his work as an advisor is almost impossible since it’s unclear how many copies he sold or the precise duration he worked on each project. Nevertheless, per our best conservative estimates, we assume he was making around $250,000-$350,000 per year during the 2000s and over $1-3 million per year in the 2010s owing to the addition of The Clinic. Therefore, now that the doctor is also a Beverly Hills Internist, Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA), and a Medical Researcher, it’s likely he earns more than $5 million a year.
It’s also imperative to note that despite all this, Robert hasn’t stopped serving as an advisor or making television appearances, as evidenced by Netflix’s ‘Fit For TV: The Reality of The Biggest Loser.’ So, taking all this into account, along with aspects such as inflation, the doctor’s assets, his expenses, his lifestyle as a jet-setting partner, father, and grandfather, his investments, as well as his returns, we believe Robert Huizenga’s net worth to be close to $30 million.
Disclaimer: The estimated net worth above is based on publicly available clues and educated guesses. The only person who truly knows the real figure is Dr. Robert Huizenga himself.
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