
Gratitude enhances health, brings happiness — and may even lengthen lives

Respiratory health harms often follow flooding: Taking these steps can help

Could tea tree oil help treat acne or athlete’s foot?

Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c): What to know if you have diabetes or prediabetes or are at risk for these conditions

What could be causing your blurry vision?

Avocado nutrition: Health benefits and easy recipes

Swimming lessons save lives: What parents should know

Preventing and treating iliotibial (IT) band syndrome: Tips for pain-free movement

Wildfires: How to cope when smoke affects air quality and health

What can magnesium do for you and how much do you need?

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

Staying Healthy
New guidelines released for vitamin D testing and supplementation

Staying Healthy
Eating more fruits and vegetables may prevent chronic kidney disease

Staying Healthy
Try this: The ABCs of loosening stiff muscles

Exercise & Fitness
How to love the exercises you hate

Nutrition
The facts on fiber

Mind & Mood
Why you may need therapy

Men's Health
Keeping score of prostate cancer

Diseases & Conditions
The hidden dangers of prediabetes

Heart Health
What does it mean to have a heart attack?

Staying Healthy
Erratic sleeping behavior may increase diabetes risk

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

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

Staying Healthy
Try this: Helping the medicine go down easier

Diseases & Conditions
Unraveling dizziness

Staying Healthy
Can intermittent fasting help with weight loss?

Pain
The end of painful sitting

Men's Health
Play the dating game

Staying Healthy
Side effects after a COVID shot indicate it's working

Staying Healthy
A healthy lifestyle late in life still offers benefits

Staying Healthy
Try this: Take it outside

Staying Healthy
Body roundness may beat body mass for identifying risky fat

Men's Health
Choosing erectile dysfunction drugs

Diseases & Conditions
The point of knee shots

Diseases & Conditions
Cooling off heartburn

Gratitude enhances health, brings happiness — and may even lengthen lives

Respiratory health harms often follow flooding: Taking these steps can help

Could tea tree oil help treat acne or athlete’s foot?

Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c): What to know if you have diabetes or prediabetes or are at risk for these conditions

What could be causing your blurry vision?

Avocado nutrition: Health benefits and easy recipes

Swimming lessons save lives: What parents should know

Preventing and treating iliotibial (IT) band syndrome: Tips for pain-free movement

Wildfires: How to cope when smoke affects air quality and health

What can magnesium do for you and how much do you need?