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SuperHuman

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SuperHuman is a high-stakes, edge-of-your-seat docuseries that dives into the launch of what many have called the “Doping Olympics” - the Enhanced Games - a controversial new sporting event where performance-enhanced athletes openly compete for a $1 million prize and attempt to push the human body beyond its natural limits.  While the International Olympic Committee condemns it, broadcasters salivate over potential ratings, and critics decry it as grotesque even as they admit they’ll tune in.  The Games ignite urgent questions about ethics, medicine, and the human body itself. From retired Olympians hoping for a comeback, to struggling athletes chasing financial security, to Silicon Valley billionaires and scientists pushing the boundaries of enhancement, this series pulls viewers inside the drama, danger, and allure of sport without a safety net. For the past year, we've embedded with the games and the athletes to answer the high stakes question. What happens when enhancement becomes the norm? Is this the end of fair play or the beginning of a new frontier of human potential? Step inside the experiment with us. 

Latest episodes

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From How to Life Forever: The Longevinauts

When an astrologer tells Mangesh that he’ll (probably) die early, he takes it in stride. But his family and friends (not to mention all the Don’t Die longevity influencer

Aug 4
51 min

Billionaires, PEDs, and a $1M World Record with Michael Easter

Chris and Sam joined Michael Easter on his podcast, Two Percent with Michael Easter, to break down the aftermath of the Enhanced Games. Almost no world records fell. Clea

Jul 7
1 h 02 min

How We Got Here

What exactly is wrong with doping? It sounds like a simple question until you try to answer it. Dr. April Henning has spent her career studying exactly that. She’s a prof

Jun 30
43 min

What Nobody Tells You About Steroids with Dr. Mike Israetel

What does it actually feel like to use performance-enhancing drugs? Not the results everyone sees on the outside - the real stuff. The rage in the car on the way to the g

Jun 23
41 min

A Vegas Buffet

The Enhanced Games are finally here. We arrive at a makeshift arena on the Las Vegas Strip not knowing quite what to expect. Hours pass, event after event, and the world

Jun 16
31 min

New Normal

Performance enhancing drugs aren’t just for professional athletes anymore - they’re everywhere. We go inside the grey market, the underground world of steroids and peptid

Jun 9
30 min

The Protocol

The Enhanced athletes are training in Abu Dhabi - and their “enhancement” protocol keeps getting delayed. Week after week, the athletes are told it’s starting soon. Then

Jun 2
28 min

Vegas

Over Memorial Day weekend, we traveled  to Las Vegas for the inaugural Enhanced Games. Where things heated up.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

May 26
7 min

A New Age for Mankind

Before the athletes signed up, this all started with an idea. We go inside the minds of the men behind the Enhanced Games. They believe they’re doing something much bigge

May 19
33 min

Silver Medal Mentality

We travel to the Enhanced Games training camp in Las Vegas to meet the competitors at the heart of this experiment. Former world champion Ben Proud, who walked away from

May 12
37 min

The “Steroid Olympics”

When the Enhanced Games got announced a lot of people thought it was a joke. An Olympic style event where the athletes can take any kind of performance enhancing drugs th

May 5
33 min

Introducing: SuperHuman 

Imagine an Olympics where everyone is doping. No testing, no limits. Sounds like a joke? It’s not – the first ever Enhanced Games - a radical new competition designed to

Apr 28
2 min

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#16
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63
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#44 Documentary US

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Finally an athletic podcast that doesn’t sound judgmentally narrated by some coastal journalist who’s never stepped foot in the gym or seriously performed a competitive sport. The narrators sound like they’re really bout that life and have really struggled with the same mental and physical issues that a lot of these seasoned athletes have dealt with as they near retirement. With the popularity of PEDs, these topics need to be approached objectively and with grace instead of judgment and snark. The interview with Dr. Israetel at the end was the cherry on top.

coloradopow · Jun 2026

I am not a sports enthusiast so I was skeptical when I saw how this show was categorized, but the topic is so interesting and touches on so many aspects of today’s hyper-charged culture. I would have broadly judged the athletes who participate in this event, but hearing their stories I understand why they would inject a hibiscus-infused cocktail of peptides and other performance-enhancing drugs. The show takes a really excellent human angle on a topic that feels like clickbait headline fodder.

B_8_9 · May 2026

Thought it would be more of an insider’s look. Instead it seems to be a trope about fears of aging. Though it briefly touches on what effects this has on the kids watching, really leaves one wondering if this is just an advert dressed up as a podcast. Also, when mentioning the world record failed to mention the banned swimsuits. A complete journalistic fail.

Bdebarbeladen · Jun 2026

Thought it would be more of an insider’s look. Instead it seems to be a trope about fears of aging. Though it briefly touches on what effects this has on the kids watching, really leaves one wondering if this is just an advert dressed up as a podcast

Bdebarbeladen · Jun 2026

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