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Matthew Solan

Former Executive Editor, Harvard Men's Health Watch

Matthew Solan is the former 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’s 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

Lending a helping hand featured image

Mind & Mood

Lending a helping hand

An inside look at body fat featured image

Men's Health

An inside look at body fat

Step up your running and walking workouts featured image

Exercise and Fitness

Step up your running and walking workouts

No bones about it featured image

Diseases & Conditions

No bones about it

Try this: Take a tactical breather featured image

Mind & Mood

Try this: Take a tactical breather

Testosterone therapy may be safe for men at risk for heart attack and stroke featured image

Men's Health

Testosterone therapy may be safe for men at risk for heart attack and stroke

Cardiorespiratory fitness may protect men from some cancers featured image

Exercise and Fitness

Cardiorespiratory fitness may protect men from some cancers

Focusing on six food groups may help prevent cardiovascular disease featured image

Healthy aging and longevity

Focusing on six food groups may help prevent cardiovascular disease

Rising up from a fall featured image

Healthy aging and longevity

Rising up from a fall

Is it okay to take multivitamins? featured image

Healthy aging and longevity

Is it okay to take multivitamins?

Heart attacks strike in different ways featured image

Heart Health

Heart attacks strike in different ways

Rethinking PSA testing featured image

Men's Health

Rethinking PSA testing

Try this: All aboard for paddleboarding featured image

Exercise and Fitness

Try this: All aboard for paddleboarding

Eating junk food may affect deep sleep featured image

Healthy aging and longevity

Eating junk food may affect deep sleep

FDA approves new over-the-counter gel for erectile dysfunction featured image

Men's Health

FDA approves new over-the-counter gel for erectile dysfunction

Weekly aerobic exercise may help reduce flu and pneumonia deaths featured image

Exercise and Fitness

Weekly aerobic exercise may help reduce flu and pneumonia deaths

Can you feel younger than your age? featured image

Healthy aging and longevity

Can you feel younger than your age?

Heat rash: How to spot it and what to do featured image

Diseases & Conditions

Heat rash: How to spot it and what to do

Plyometrics: Three explosive exercises even beginners can try featured image

Exercise and Fitness

Plyometrics: Three explosive exercises even beginners can try

Try this: Swinging with kettlebells featured image

Exercise and Fitness

Try this: Swinging with kettlebells

When to worry about your memory featured image

Mind & Mood

When to worry about your memory

Diet and prostate cancer featured image

Men's Health

Diet and prostate cancer

Keep midday naps to less than 30 minutes featured image

Healthy aging and longevity

Keep midday naps to less than 30 minutes

Watch out for tainted sexual enhancement products featured image

Men's Health

Watch out for tainted sexual enhancement products

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