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Title: Dr. John Spencer Ellis: Divorced Men Get Two Pieces of Advice, and Both Miss the Point

LAS VEGAS, NV — When a man's marriage ends, the advice arrives quickly and it is always the same two items. Get a good attorney. Talk to someone. Both are reasonable. Neither addresses what the research says is happening to him."Nobody says get your bloodwork done," said Dr. John Spencer Ellis, an internationally recognized authority on men's health, longevity and human performance. "Nobody says fix your wake time before you do anything else. Nobody says count your drinks honestly for two weeks. And those three are the ones with mortality data behind them."The evidence for a third phone callTwo independent meta-analyses reached identical findings. Sbarra and colleagues (2011), pooling 32 studies covering more than six million people, found a hazard ratio of 1.30 for mortality among divorced adults, with stronger effect sizes in men. Shor and colleagues (2012), analyzing 104 studies, arrived at HR 1.30 as well.A systematic review of 7,881,040 individuals found divorced and separated men carried higher all-cause mortality, plus stronger cancer and cardiovascular mortality risk, than divorced and separated women. The Japan Collaborative Cohort Study found the same elevation in men and no equivalent trend in women."Two separate research teams, using different methods on different datasets, landed on the same number," said Dr. Ellis. "That is not a soft finding. And the male skew appears consistently enough that it deserves to change what we tell men."What is happening while he handles the legal sideDr. Ellis describes a sequence he sees with unusual consistency.Sleep degrades first, and it matters more than men realize — the majority of daily testosterone release occurs during sleep. Six fragmented hours becomes the new normal within two months, and by m...

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