In conversation with Jamie Guida aka Darkside on the MotoXpod, Jason Anderson has revealed the true reason he had to take time off during the 2025 season due to health problems from his thyroid.
Anderson said: “I’ve just really been struggling over the years with with my thyroid and I have been on medicine for my thyroid to help, but my thyroid is kind of really been hard to manage. It also has to go with my EBV, which Epstein-Barr is like multiple different things. There’s eight different types.
“You can have mono [for example]. Basically I’m getting sick a lot. And from San Diego on until Seattle, I probably had a cold four times to where I wasn’t able to like really ride or anything like that. Then even in outdoors, same thing, you know, and I really just needed to give my body a rest.”
On the move to Suzuki, Anderson said it will be supercross only: “I think Kenny has really made their motorcycle look really, really good. And you could see that it is competitive enough to be able to be on the podium and win races. I think the program that we’re putting together is really nice because I’m not going to do outdoors. It’s not necessarily that I don’t want to do outdoors. I think it’s just me managing my body to be able to go as long as I can in my career because I’m gonna get to outdoors and feel really guilty about not doing them….I’m happy where I’m at. I’m excited to do this World Supercross thing. And I think being able to do supercross only will extend my career even further.“
Watch the full interview below:
