Midlife Health Fails Quietly. Here’s Where It Starts

Missed sleep, unmanaged stress, postponed visits to the doctor—it's easy for our health to fall wayside as we enter our 40s. If that sounds familiar, listen up: research out of Stanford University points to three pressure points that matter more than most people want to admit: sleep and recovery, proactive health monitoring, and stress buffered by real social connection.  There's no magic cure, but there are preventions. Get better sleep. Go to the doctor regularly. Hell, go the dentist twice a year while you're at it. Checkups aren’t about finding problems—they’re about catching the ones already forming. And more men would live longer, healthier lives if they clued into that fact.