More than just a noisy night Most of us know somebody who snores. For many couples it simply becomes part of life. Elbows are deployed in the middle of the night. Strange clicking noises somehow seem to encourage the snorer to reduce the volume. Some couples even resort to separate bedrooms. But sometimes snoring is the body's way of telling us something rather more important. Like many areas of men's health, the challenge is recognising when a common nuisance has become a me

Following on from last week’s blog about central and visceral fat, it feels right to look more closely at fatty liver and why it matters. Most of us think of liver disease as something caused by alcohol. That is understandable. Alcohol can damage the liver, and for many years it dominated the public conversation. But there is another form of liver disease that is now extremely common. It is linked less to alcohol and more to the way modern life affects our metabolism, through

I say this as a GP, but also as a man who has had to deal with it. Central weight can creep on quietly. It can happen during busy years, stressful years, family years, working years, or simply because habits change and the body changes with them.