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my body and get out of my head. This month
I’m obsessed with the next-level “super snatch” MEN’S HEALTH
burpees on page 20 that leave me completely
spent. Like most other sentient beings, I don’t love
burpees, but the only thing I’m second- guessing
when I’m doing them is my decision to do them in Q. Should I be
the fi rst place. That’s a mental-health win. wearing sleep
Then there’s meditation. I won’t bore you with
a hard sell, since it’s 2019 and you can’t fi ll up your tech? Is it even
car without having someone tell you about how accurate?
amazing meditation is and how you have to try it, —RON, Chicago, IL
but it’s all true. I inhaaaaaale and exhaaaaaale
and count to whatever every morning for about A. Consumer sleep
20 minutes, and it helps ground me in my day and technology is
surprisingly accurate—
relieve any anxieties that built up overnight.
in fact, it may soon
There are crossword puzzles, but that could
eclipse what we have
just be me. in the lab. There’s tech
And then there is medication. It’s not for that measures things
everyone, and as Oliver Broudy explores on page like motion, heartbeat,
86, there’s still a lot that we don’t know about the sweating, and body
Q+A WITH THE E.I.C.
long-term eff ects of drugs used to treat depression temperature, but
I FIND MYSELF and anxiety. But in my own life, a daily SSRI has this data? If you suffer
what do you do with
been a lifesaver. I used to worry. A lot. I’d worry
from insomnia, buying
about the future and about the past and about
sleep tech might help
stuck in my own every moment in between, and I started to worry alleviate anxiety about
so much that I couldn’t eat or sleep or enjoy pretty
not sleeping; many
head a lot! What much anything. I was a full-time occupant of my of my patients sleep
own head. But then, fortunately for me, I fi nally
much longer than they
are some ways you followed a friend’s advice and did what Joshua believe. Some data
with a bit more context?
David Stein recommends on page 112—got myself
distract yourself? to a therapist—and found the help I needed. Moving 30 to 40
times during the night
For a long time I was self-conscious about it. I
is actually perfectly
—@bkiel13 thought people would think I was weak. I thought
normal. If you’re
people would think I was unreliable. And I bought
moving or waking
’M GONNA GO out on a limb and guess you’re into the whole strength myth that Oliver Lee
up 100 times a night,
not all that psyched about being cooped up Bateman and Ben Court examine on page 81,
though, you may want
I in there. I get it. I’ve always envied those which is pretty much how most American boys to consult an expert.
people who seem totally content to sit alone with born in the past, oh, three centuries were raised.
—W. CHRISTOPHER WINTER, M.D.
their own thoughts, enjoying whatever whole- But as I’ve grown older, and maybe a little wiser, AUTHOR OF THE SLEEP SOLUTION: WHY
some Inside Out situation is playing out in their I’ve come to realize that asking for help, and YOUR SLEEP IS BROKEN AND HOW TO FIX IT
heads while all hell is breaking loose inside mine. accepting it with enthusiasm and gratitude, only
Some days it’s like the bar scene in Star Wars in makes me stronger and healthier—inside and
For more on recovery
here, and when I’m tired or stressed and analyz- out. I also make for much better company.
technology, check out
ing every little thing, it can get pretty ugly.
page 28 of this issue.
When I want to distract myself from, uh,
myself, I start with a sweat. One of the best
things about working at Men’s Health is that I’m
constantly discovering new ways to challenge Richard Dorment, Editor-in-Chief LIKE WHAT YOU SEE?
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