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Men's Health (MH), published by Hearst, is the world's largest men's magazine brand, with 35 editions in 59 countries. It is also the best-selling men's magazine on US newsstands.

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Featured Writers

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Mark Wilding

News and features journalist.

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Mary O'Brien

Voracious reader and devoted foodie who loves Netflix, coffee, and online shopping. DC-area Virginian by way of New York and Philadelphia. Quotes too many movies and owns too many notebooks.

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Anna Rubin

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Deidre Grieves

Specialist in online media and digital content.

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francesca conlin

writer + copywriter. nyc.

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Kristen Chanley

Freelance writer specializing in healthcare and content marketing

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Latest Articles

The Rock Is Wrestling With Himself in 'The Smashing Machine'

BEFORE ONE OF the big fights in the mixed martial arts biopic The Smashing Machine, prize fighter Mark Kerr (Dwayne Johnson) is arguing with his girlfriend Dawn Staples (Emily Blunt). The heavyweight wrestler was an emerging talent in the late 1990s, before MMA was a billion-dollar industry, and in this …
By Rory Doherty, film writer
• Men's Health

The Protein Bar King and the Battle for the Holy Grail of Fat Substitutes

Mckay Fugal woke up to an email one morning this past spring that made his stomach drop. The subject line was unremarkable, the tone polite. But the message in the attached document was devastating. Epogee, the supplier of the most critical ingredient in the line of low-fat, high-protein chocolate bars …
By Tom Foster
• Men's Health

‘Adolescence’ Is About Fathers

The following story contains spoilers for all four episodes of Netflix's Adolescence. IT'S EPISODE TWO of Adolescence, the four-part British miniseries that exploded on Netflix last week, and DI Luke Bascombe (Ashley Walters) is at a school investigating the death of teen Katie Leonard. Throughout the half hour of police …
By Rory Doherty, film writer
• Men's Health

Gene Hackman Brought Real Men to Movies

IF GENE HACKMAN movies want you to know one thing, it’s that Gene Hackman can’t have everything. No matter how close his anti-heroes get to catching their man, or getting off scot-free, or untangling themselves from conspiracy, there’s often some intangible, existential cost that their survival depends on. Consider the …
By Rory Doherty, film writer
• Men's Health

Gut Health Products Have Taken Over the Supermarket. Are They Making Us Any Healthier?

JUST BEFORE RAPPER-turned-country-phenom Post Malone took to the field at Super Bowl LVIII to belt out his rendition of “America the Beautiful,” he recorded a six-second video relayed to half a million TikTok followers. It wasn’t a shoutout to his Cowboys. It wasn’t a vocal warmup. It wasn’t even a …
By Talib Visram
• Men's Health

Spaceflight Will Warm Earth’s Stratosphere 4 Degrees, Study Finds

• A new study shows what will happen if spaceflight increases by a factor of ten. • This estimate is in line with the trajectory of increasing spaceflight. • The carbon emissions will heat the troposphere and scramble global wind currents. In new research published earlier this month, the National …
By Caroline Delbert
• Men's Health

These Sound Waves Could Make You Feel High, Scientists Say

• New research quantifies the use of binaural beats for the first time. • This sound technology pairs close frequency sounds to affect the brain. • Different types of binaural beats may have different effects. In the never-ending quest to either get high or feel better, people are using a …
By Caroline Delbert
• Men's Health

This Optical Illusion Claims to Separate ‘Male’ Brains From ‘Female’ Brains

• A viral optical illusion from Fact Factories can supposedly separate female brains from male brains. Spoiler alert: it’s definitely just for fun and by no means scientific. • Divisive claims help to drive “engagement” by making people upset or annoyed. • Men and women may think differently, but most …
By Caroline Delbert
• Men's Health

A YouTuber Built the World’s First Working, Retractable Lightsaber

• Guinness World Records has credited Russian inventor Alex Burkan with the world’s first working, retractable lightsaber. • To make it work, an electrolyzer splits water into hydrogen and oxygen, then it is heated. A YouTuber in Russia has set a new world record for the first working, retractable lightsaber. …
By Caroline Delbert
• Men's Health

This Expert Thinks Human Brains Can Be Hacked If We Don’t Regulate AI

• Historian Yuval Noah Harari told 60 Minutes he believes human brains will be “hacked,” and soon, saying artificial intelligence will use data to manipulate users into doing its bidding. • Three principles can help ensure that humans are unharmed by mass data gathering. Speaking to CBS’s 60 Minutes, Yuval …
By Caroline Delbert
• Men's Health

Bill Gates Wants Us to Eat 100% Synthetic Beef. He Has a Point.

• Bill Gates suggests synthetic beef like Beyond Meat is a key part of climate action. • Lab-grown meat still has extremely high costs, but taste-wise, it has passed muster. • Gates pushes meat alternatives because of meat’s high cost in global emissions. Bill Gates has a big idea to …
By Caroline Delbert
• Men's Health