Recent Blog Articles
How — and why — to fit more fiber and fermented food into your meals
Tick season is expanding: Protect yourself against Lyme disease
What? Another medical form to fill out?
How do trees and green spaces enhance our health?
A muscle-building obsession in boys: What to know and do
Harvard Health Ad Watch: New drug, old song, clever tagline
Concussion in children: What to know and do
What color is your tongue? What's healthy, what's not?
Your amazing parathyroid glands
When — and how — should you be screened for colon cancer?
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
Diseases & Conditions
The rundown on diarrhea
Staying Healthy
Natural ways to boost energy
Mind & Mood
Screening for cognitive dysfunction
Exercise & Fitness
Get a lift from body-weight workouts
Heart Health
Your guide to taking statins
Exercise & Fitness
Taking up adaptive sports
Diseases & Conditions
You don't say? The scoop on ice cream headaches
Pain
Walking for exercise may prevent knee pain
Mind & Mood
High-inflammatory diets linked with increased dementia risk
Heart Health
A lower blood pressure goal benefits some older adults
Staying Healthy
Is alcohol good for your heart?
Staying Healthy
Punch up your fitness
Men's Health
Treatment for an enlarged prostate
Mind & Mood
The mental powers of super-agers
Staying Healthy
Getting the most from your remaining years
Diseases & Conditions
Travel tummy troubles: Here's how to prevent or soothe them
Mind & Mood
Doing multiple types of activities improves cognitive health
Heart Health
A new drug to treat heart failure
Exercise & Fitness
Three moves for functional fitness
Staying Healthy
You don't say? Can your joints wear out?
Mind & Mood
Improving vision may help prevent dementia
Staying Healthy
Hospitalized patients can bring home infections
Staying Healthy
Is sugar unhealthy?
Mind & Mood
The art of monotasking
Recent Blog Articles
How — and why — to fit more fiber and fermented food into your meals
Tick season is expanding: Protect yourself against Lyme disease
What? Another medical form to fill out?
How do trees and green spaces enhance our health?
A muscle-building obsession in boys: What to know and do
Harvard Health Ad Watch: New drug, old song, clever tagline
Concussion in children: What to know and do
What color is your tongue? What's healthy, what's not?
Your amazing parathyroid glands
When — and how — should you be screened for colon cancer?