Men's Health

MINDS FAR MORE powerful than yours and ours have tried to figure out what drives Tom Cruise. For four decades, Thomas Cruise Mapother IV has been in the big leagues of Hollywood stars, a bankable vessel of A-list charm and heroism who maintains a tight grasp on his celebrity image …

You’ve had a cough for a couple of days. You’re tired and a little feverish, but you have meetings to get through, family members to shuttle around, and approximately zero interest in sitting in a waiting room. Besides, it’s probably just a cold or the flu. You’ll be fine.Sound familiar?“Particularly …

CHRISTOPHER NOLAN’S THE Odyssey is upon us, in all its prestige format rollout glory. The significance of a $250 million adaptation of Homer’s epic poem cannot be overstated: this is the first Odyssey blockbuster, and while the story of Ithaca’s king wandering across high seas and strange lands for ten …

FANCY ENTERING A world of smarmy mercenaries, expert street fighters, and both-sides-playing gangsters? It's impressive how much director Guy Ritchie insists on filling his work with his favorite tropes and stylistic flourishes from the action and crime worlds. Ever since his debut with the savvy 1998 gangster flick Lock, Stock, …

“I know it's freaky and abnormal looking—that's exactly what I like about it.”

Evan Baehr thought he had his body figured out. A clean-cut, 42-year-old tech entrepreneur and investor in Austin, Baehr lives the kind of performance-optimized, data-driven lifestyle that’s become so common in start-up culture. He works out five times a week. He takes 20 daily supplements, from B12 shots to creatine, …

The organizers claim the Enhanced Games are a science-backed effort to help humans reach their full physical potential, while detractors call them the 'doping Olympics' and see them as a threat to sport. What’s really going on?

Three servicemen sit shirtless around a wooden picnic table in the side room of a Catholic church in Sloviansk, a city in eastern Ukraine. Their faces are red and their bodies are covered in sweat as they pass around a large blue bottle of water. The men are sitting in …

JAY GLAZER, one of the biggest personalities in sports broadcasting, has built a career around high energy and quick delivery. Whether breaking major stories on live TV or doing exclusive interviews with the brightest stars in professional football, he thrives in big moments. On top of that, he’s become an …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Meet the men who have given up on dating in favor of artificial, inanimate partners.

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 …

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 …

ALL PERFORMANCE ENHANCERS claim to help you build muscle and stoke strength. But some of them come at a cost. Here's your guide to them all—and the risks they carry.

AS THE WAR in Ukraine rages on, the effects are omnipresent in the country. Even in the capital city of Kyiv, considered one of the “safe spots,” rockets zoom past buildings and drones are visible overhead. Yet Ukraine’s top athletes remain hell-bent on competing in this summer’s Olympic Games in …

It almost goes without saying—the food you eat is crucial to feeling and being healthy. Consider this: Poor diet has been found responsible for nearly half of the deaths from heart disease, stroke, and type 2 diabetes, and it can play a role in the development of at least 13 …

WHAT DO YOU get when you mix shrimp, asparagus, a blueberry waffle, and a can of haggis? Or, donuts, coconuts, cocktail sauce, and cod milt (that is, the fish’s sperm sac)? For most of us, a bout of nausea—but to the judges of Food Network’s Chopped, something usually edible and …

Jesus Triviño has his abuela to thank for exposing him to the Latinx stories he now shares with the world.

• 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 …

• Thankfully, the likelihood of a malicious alien civilization is vanishingly small, a scientist has found. Phew! • There may be as many as 4.42 in our vast galaxy, but just 0.22 could travel to us. • This research builds a cumulative math model that considers many factors. Most people …

• 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 …