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Matthew Solan

Executive Editor, Harvard Men's Health Watch

Matthew Solan is the executive editor of Harvard Men’s Health Watch. He previously served as executive editor for UCLA Health’s Healthy Years and as a contributor to Duke Medicine’s Health News and Weill Cornell Medical College’s Women Nutrition Connection and Women’s Health Advisor. Matthew’s articles on medicine, exercise science, and nutrition have appeared in Men’s Health, Men’s Fitness, Muscle & Fitness, Runner’s World, and Yoga Journal. He earned a master of fine arts in writing from the University of San Francisco and a bachelor of science in journalism from the University of Florida.

Posts by Matthew Solan

10 minutes of daily mindfulness may help change your outlook about health improvements featured image

Mind & Mood

10 minutes of daily mindfulness may help change your outlook about health improvements

Try this: Build a healthier sandwich featured image

Nutrition

Try this: Build a healthier sandwich

A test of strength featured image

Staying Healthy

A test of strength

Happy days featured image

Mind & Mood

Happy days

The latest on long COVID featured image

Diseases & Conditions

The latest on long COVID

Prostate cancer treatments: What you need to know featured image

Men's Health

Prostate cancer treatments: What you need to know

What's the right blood pressure? featured image

Heart Health

What's the right blood pressure?

Greater flexibility linked with longer lives featured image

Staying Healthy

Greater flexibility linked with longer lives

Three times as many people have atrial fibrillation than previously known featured image

Men's Health

Three times as many people have atrial fibrillation than previously known

Low-dose aspirin now the preferred agent to help prevent blood clots after knee replacement featured image

Staying Healthy

Low-dose aspirin now the preferred agent to help prevent blood clots after knee replacement

New guidelines released for vitamin D testing and supplementation featured image

Staying Healthy

New guidelines released for vitamin D testing and supplementation

Eating more fruits and vegetables may prevent chronic kidney disease featured image

Staying Healthy

Eating more fruits and vegetables may prevent chronic kidney disease

Try this: The ABCs of loosening stiff muscles featured image

Staying Healthy

Try this: The ABCs of loosening stiff muscles

How to love the exercises you hate featured image

Exercise & Fitness

How to love the exercises you hate

The facts on fiber featured image

Nutrition

The facts on fiber

Why you may need therapy featured image

Mind & Mood

Why you may need therapy

Keeping score of prostate cancer featured image

Men's Health

Keeping score of prostate cancer

The hidden dangers of prediabetes featured image

Diseases & Conditions

The hidden dangers of prediabetes

What does it mean to have a heart attack? featured image

Heart Health

What does it mean to have a heart attack?

Erratic sleeping behavior may increase diabetes risk featured image

Staying Healthy

Erratic sleeping behavior may increase diabetes risk

Eating ultra-processed food may shorten life span among older adults featured image

Staying Healthy

Eating ultra-processed food may shorten life span among older adults

Cognitive benefits from high-intensity interval training may last for years featured image

Exercise & Fitness

Cognitive benefits from high-intensity interval training may last for years

Try this: Helping the medicine go down easier featured image

Staying Healthy

Try this: Helping the medicine go down easier

Unraveling dizziness featured image

Diseases & Conditions

Unraveling dizziness

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