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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

High-intensity walking may reduce leg pain from artery disease featured image

Pain

High-intensity walking may reduce leg pain from artery disease

High-glycemic diets could lead to big health problems featured image

Healthy aging and longevity

High-glycemic diets could lead to big health problems

Sleeping five hours or less may raise dementia risk featured image

Mind & Mood

Sleeping five hours or less may raise dementia risk

How to hydrate featured image

Healthy aging and longevity

How to hydrate

Listen to your heart featured image

Heart Health

Listen to your heart

Vitamin D and the big C featured image

Cancer

Vitamin D and the big C

Steps to treating an enlarged prostate featured image

Men's Health

Steps to treating an enlarged prostate

Thoughts on optimism featured image

Mind & Mood

Thoughts on optimism

MRI looking better for detecting prostate cancer featured image

Men's Health

MRI looking better for detecting prostate cancer

The numbers add up for eating your five-a-day of fruits and vegetables featured image

Healthy aging and longevity

The numbers add up for eating your five-a-day of fruits and vegetables

Coming out of COVID featured image

Healthy aging and longevity

Coming out of COVID

No equipment necessary featured image

Healthy aging and longevity

No equipment necessary

Choosing the right ED drug featured image

Men's Health

Choosing the right ED drug

Facts about fiber featured image

Healthy aging and longevity

Facts about fiber

More people now eligible for lung cancer screening featured image

Cancer

More people now eligible for lung cancer screening

The weighty issue of weight loss featured image

Healthy aging and longevity

The weighty issue of weight loss

Resistance bands: 3 great ways to build upper body strength featured image

Exercise and Fitness

Resistance bands: 3 great ways to build upper body strength

Happy trails: Take a hike, now featured image

Healthy aging and longevity

Happy trails: Take a hike, now

4 essential nutrients — are you getting enough? featured image

Diet and nutrition

4 essential nutrients — are you getting enough?

Natural remedies for hemorrhoids featured image

Diseases & Conditions

Natural remedies for hemorrhoids

3 easy ways to get active — right now featured image

Exercise and Fitness

3 easy ways to get active — right now

Stiff and achy in the mornings? How to fix that featured image

Exercise and Fitness

Stiff and achy in the mornings? How to fix that

Dreaming of a good night's rest featured image

Healthy aging and longevity

Dreaming of a good night's rest

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Healthy aging and longevity

Don't let muscle mass go to waste

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