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Jancee Dunn dispenses tips, tricks and advice on how to build a sounder mind and body in The Times\u2019s Well newsletter.<\/p>\n

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Times Insider<\/a> explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together.<\/p>\n

Jancee Dunn, a health and lifestyle columnist for The New York Times, has learned from psychologists how to support a friend who\u2019s getting divorced<\/a>. She\u2019s picked up bargaining tips from a kidnap negotiator<\/a>. She\u2019s learned to extend her walks by counting the dogs she passes, instead of the passing minutes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m curious about how people live, and what makes them feel better when they don\u2019t feel good, and what issues are important to them,\u201d said Ms. Dunn, who shares the knowledge she picks up with her readers in The Times\u2019s Well newsletter every Thursday night. \u201cSo this is a dream job.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms. Dunn, who has written the Well newsletter since joining The Times in 2022, specializes in demystifying health problems and making the medical world accessible to readers. She shares anecdotes, advice and encouragement, all in a relatable, empathetic voice (and with more than occasional dry wit).<\/p>\n

In a recent conversation, Ms. Dunn, who lives in New Jersey with her husband, the journalist Tom Vanderbilt, and their daughter, talked about how she comes up with ideas, how she channels her distinctive voice and the pieces of her own advice she doesn\u2019t take, but should. These are edited excerpts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Jancee Dunn dispenses tips, tricks and advice on how to build a sounder mind and body in The Times\u2019s Well newsletter.Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together.Jancee Dunn, a health and lifestyle columnist for The New York Times, has learned from psychologists how to support a friend who\u2019s getting divorced. She\u2019s picked up bargaining tips from a kidnap negotiator. She\u2019s learned to extend her walks by counting the dogs she passes, instead of the passing minutes.\u201cI\u2019m curious about how people live, and what makes them feel better when they don\u2019t feel good, and what issues are important to them,\u201d said Ms. Dunn, who shares the knowledge she picks up with her readers in The Times\u2019s Well newsletter every Thursday night. \u201cSo this is a dream job.\u201dMs. Dunn, who has written the Well newsletter since joining The Times in 2022, specializes in demystifying health problems and making the medical world accessible to readers. She shares anecdotes, advice and encouragement, all in a relatable, empathetic voice (and with more than occasional dry wit).In a recent conversation, Ms. Dunn, who lives in New Jersey with her husband, the journalist Tom Vanderbilt, and their daughter, talked about how she comes up with ideas, how she channels her distinctive voice and the pieces of her own advice she doesn\u2019t take, but should. These are edited excerpts.What should readers expect when they sign up for the Well newsletter?It\u2019s very conversational \u2014 it\u2019s a dinner party, plus science and personal stories. Above all, it provides useful information. I\u2019m always thinking of little nuggets readers can use.Paint me a picture of the reader you imagine you\u2019re writing to.I sometimes use my parents as a stand-in for readers, because they read The New York Times voraciously and have a lot of the same concerns as other readers. My mother goes through every single comment, every single week, because she likes to tell me which ones to respond to. She\u2019s retired; she has the time to do this sort of thing.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16500,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16498"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16501,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16498\/revisions\/16501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}