It turns out the body and mind are not separate departments with different managers. What you eat, how you sleep, how much you drink and how little you move all have a measurable effect on your mental health — and vice versa. This section covers the physical side of men's wellbeing, from everyday habits to chronic illness, without turning into a lecture about kale.
Body and Mind
Birdwatching has an image problem. It is associated, in the popular imagination, with a specific type of person standing in a field in waterproof clothing, writing something in a notebook, apparently content. This article is an argument that the 'apparent content' part is not a coincidence.
Body and Mind
Men have an extraordinary capacity for explaining away symptoms that would send most sensible people to a doctor. The chest pain is probably nothing. The lump has probably always been there. The persistent fatigue is probably just stress.
Body and Mind
Testosterone has become the explanation of choice for an impressive range of male problems — aggression, risk-taking, mid-life misery, and the invention of the leaf blower. The reality is considerably more interesting and considerably less tidy.
Body and Mind
Most men will cheerfully admit to surviving on five hours' sleep as though it's a point of pride. It isn't. It's a slow-motion act of self-sabotage with a remarkably comprehensive list of consequences.
Body and Mind
For centuries, medicine treated the body and mind as entirely distinct concerns. This turned out to be wrong in almost every direction you care to look.