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Title: Dr. John Spencer Ellis Says Divorce Belongs on a Man's Medical Chart, Not Just His Legal File

 United States, 3rd Sep 2026 — When a man's marriage ends, he acquires an attorney, an accountant and sometimes a therapist.He almost never acquires a physician.Dr. John Spencer Ellis, an internationally recognized authority on men's health, longevity and human performance, argues that this is the single most consequential omission of the entire process — because the research treats divorce as a medical event even when the man going through it does not.Two independent meta-analyses reached the same conclusion. 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 covering 7,881,040 individuals found divorced and separated men carried higher all-cause mortality, and stronger cancer and cardiovascular mortality risk, than divorced women. The Japan Collaborative Cohort Study found the same elevation in men — with no equivalent trend in women."Divorce is treated as a legal problem and an emotional one, and almost never as a medical event," said Dr. Ellis. "But if you handed me a man's calendar for the eighteen months after a separation, I could predict his bloodwork with reasonable accuracy. That is not intuition. That is a documented sequence."The 90-day window nobody usesDr. Ellis frames the early period as the highest-leverage moment in the entire process."Everything that goes wrong over the following five years is set up in the first ninety days. Sleep collapses. Cortisol climbs and stays climbed. Alcohol creeps upward without a decision being made. Training stops. And all four of those become normal fast — because a...

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