Men! Do you yearn to be healthy, virile and handsome? To become herculean in stature, and to live a long life while retaining the vim and vigour of youth?
You might consider taking the following steps: daily cold-water plunges. Ditching caffeine and booze. Eliminating carbs from your diet. Controlling your sexual appetites. Getting outdoors. And hitting the gym to lift, lift, lift. Do all this and you’ll be on your way to attaining the “highest powers” reserved for the “robust and perfect man”.
Such is the advice issued by an unlikely wellness influencer: the long-dead American poet and self-styled Bard of Democracy, Walt Whitman, whose magnum opus, Leaves of Grass, made him one of the country’s most influential artists.
