Peer-reviewed research on vascular function, blood pressure, circulation, and cardiovascular risk in men.
This study looked at how a lifetime of endurance exercise affects heart health and muscle strength in older men. It followed 59 men, average age 67, who had been doing…
This study looked at whether low testosterone in middle-aged and older men is tied to worse blood vessel health through effects on mitochondria, the tiny power plants inside cells. Researchers…
This study looked at whether a man's TyG index tracks with his risk of low testosterone as he ages. The TyG index is a simple score figured from fasting blood…
This study tested whether a six-week, unsupervised high-intensity interval training (HIIT) running program on campus could improve fitness, sleep, and body composition in sedentary male university students. Fifty-six students were…
This study looked at whether adding avocado and mango to the diet improves blood vessel function and metabolic health in adults with prediabetes. It was a randomized trial where 82…
This study compared two exercise approaches, high-intensity functional training (HIFT) and traditional resistance training (RT), for improving metabolic, inflammatory, and physical health in overweight men. Thirty-four men with an average…
This study set out to see if physical fitness is linked to semen quality in Spanish men. Researchers analyzed semen samples from 324 men without known fertility issues, comparing self-reported…
This systematic review and meta-analysis looked at how combining aerobic exercise with other interventions affects metabolic, heart, and inflammation markers in men. It pooled data from 14 randomized controlled trials…
This study looked at whether a standard heart-risk calculator misses important risks in people with mental illness, who tend to get heart disease more often. SCORE2 is a widely used…
This study looked at how a man's testosterone and SHBG relate to where his body stores fat. SHBG, or sex hormone-binding globulin, is a protein that binds testosterone and sets…
This study compared two ways of organising the same lifting session in untrained young men. The test method was cluster set resistance training, meaning a set is broken into small…
This study tested whether a workplace canteen could improve the health of men with metabolic syndrome (a cluster of a large waist, high blood pressure, high blood sugar, high triglycerides,…
This study set out to see whether ashwagandha, a herb widely sold for stress and performance, adds anything to interval training. Interval training here meant repeated hard efforts on a…
This study followed 2,575 Finnish men aged 42 to 61 for a median of 27.8 years and asked whether sauna habits change how dangerous high blood pressure is. Over that…
This study set out to measure how the amount of caffeine in the blood tracks with sleep depth and heart activity. Twenty-one healthy young men took either 160 mg of…
This narrative review argues that a man's fertility is a readable signal of his health generally, not just of his ability to father a child. The reasoning runs like this:…
This study set out to test whether ashwagandha, a traditional herb, could reduce stress and fatigue in overweight or mildly obese adults aged 40-75 who reported high stress and fatigue.…
This study set out to see whether testosterone in men varies with the season, independently of age, weight and existing illness. It used the medical records of 27,328 Israeli men…
This study set out to see if regular sauna use is linked to lower inflammation and oxidative stress over time. It tracked 2269 middle-aged men for 11 years, measuring markers…
This study set out to review the evidence on whether sauna could help people with heart failure. It pooled data from nine studies, seven of which were included in a…
This study set out to test whether the benefits of intermittent fasting come only from losing weight. Men with prediabetes ate all their meals inside a 6 hour window early…
This study set out to see how combined lifestyle factors affect the risk of death from any cause, heart disease, and cancer in Chinese men. It followed over 61,000 men…
This study set out to see whether regular sauna use might lower the risk of developing high blood pressure. It tracked 1,621 middle-aged Finnish men without hypertension at the start,…
This study set out to see whether how much oxygen a man's body uses at his aerobic threshold, the point where easy effort starts to get hard, predicts his risk…
This study set out to see whether how often a man used a sauna tracked with his chance of dying, of heart disease or of anything at all. It followed…
This study looked at whether spending time relaxing in a forest (forest therapy) could lower blood pressure and stress in middle-aged men with high-normal blood pressure. Men walked and did…
This study set out to see if quitting smoking helps Japanese men live longer, given that Japan has had high smoking rates among men. Researchers followed 1,083 Japanese men aged…
This study set out to see whether heat on its own triggers some of the same responses in the body as exercise. Twenty-five healthy young adults, 13 men and 12…
This study set out to see how cutting sleep affects glucose handling and hormones in young men. Fourteen healthy men were kept in a laboratory for two nights of 10…
This study looked at whether cutting back on cigarettes later in life affects how long men live. It tracked 4,633 Israeli working men who smoked in 1963, checked their smoking…
This study set out to see how changes in fitness and in body weight affect a man's risk of dying, from any cause and from heart disease. It followed 14,345…