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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

Plant-based diets may help lower the risk of chronic constipation featured image

Staying Healthy

Plant-based diets may help lower the risk of chronic constipation

Exercising 150 minutes per week could help reverse prediabetes featured image

Diseases & Conditions

Exercising 150 minutes per week could help reverse prediabetes

Yoga, tai chi, walking, and running may help with insomnia featured image

Exercise & Fitness

Yoga, tai chi, walking, and running may help with insomnia

Managing chronic back pain featured image

Pain

Managing chronic back pain

Try this: Bear crawl featured image

Exercise & Fitness

Try this: Bear crawl

When do you really need an angioplasty and stenting? featured image

Heart Health

When do you really need an angioplasty and stenting?

What can you do to maintain exercise motivation? featured image

Exercise & Fitness

What can you do to maintain exercise motivation?

Lessons from women on longevity featured image

Staying Healthy

Lessons from women on longevity

Timing and consistency of activity linked to better fitness featured image

Exercise & Fitness

Timing and consistency of activity linked to better fitness

Eating diverse flavonoid foods may provide extra health protection featured image

Staying Healthy

Eating diverse flavonoid foods may provide extra health protection

Power play featured image

Exercise & Fitness

Power play

Try this: Warm-up for walking and running featured image

Exercise & Fitness

Try this: Warm-up for walking and running

When should you worry about abnormal heartbeats? featured image

Heart Health

When should you worry about abnormal heartbeats?

A look at nail problems featured image

Diseases & Conditions

A look at nail problems

Living in the Blue Zone featured image

Staying Healthy

Living in the Blue Zone

Analysis highlights best treatments for neuropathic pain featured image

Pain

Analysis highlights best treatments for neuropathic pain

Diabetes and obesity drug shows promise for fatty liver disease featured image

Diseases & Conditions

Diabetes and obesity drug shows promise for fatty liver disease

Raising potassium intake might lower high blood pressure featured image

Diseases & Conditions

Raising potassium intake might lower high blood pressure

Letting the air out of bloating featured image

Diseases & Conditions

Letting the air out of bloating

Try this: Hydration packs featured image

Staying Healthy

Try this: Hydration packs

Working during retirement years featured image

Staying Healthy

Working during retirement years

Coming full circle featured image

Exercise & Fitness

Coming full circle

The complex story of HDL cholesterol featured image

Heart Health

The complex story of HDL cholesterol

Daily vitamin D supplements may help slow aging featured image

Staying Healthy

Daily vitamin D supplements may help slow aging

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