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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

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

Can intermittent fasting help with weight loss? featured image

Staying Healthy

Can intermittent fasting help with weight loss?

The end of painful sitting featured image

Pain

The end of painful sitting

Play the dating game featured image

Men's Health

Play the dating game

Side effects after a COVID shot indicate it's working featured image

Staying Healthy

Side effects after a COVID shot indicate it's working

A healthy lifestyle late in life still offers benefits featured image

Staying Healthy

A healthy lifestyle late in life still offers benefits

Try this: Take it outside featured image

Staying Healthy

Try this: Take it outside

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