Welcome to Running: A FEVER. My name is Michael Davis, and this is a show about fitness, diet, and medicine. My goal is to live a long, healthy, happy, active life right up to the very end. It’s all about livin’ long and lovin’ life. Today’s topic is one a lot of people are quietly…

What cataracts are, how they’re diagnosed, and what surgery and IOLs actually involve — plus Michael’s own cataract surgery after years of steroid drops following a cornea transplant, and why clear vision matters on the trail. Check out this episode!

After getting sick for weeks at a stretch a couple times a year, Michael goes through a sinus CT and an ENT visit for recurrent sinusitis. The daily regimen: NeilMed saline rinse, Flonase, and Astelin — and a reminder that long recoveries may have a fixable cause. Check out this episode!

Back on the Lake Fayetteville Trail on a mid-summer day (~93°). After weeks mostly off exercise, Michael walks and talks through getting back toward flying  private pilot license, FAA medicals, and sport-pilot rules that lean on a driver’s license. Also: how aviation and GPS have changed since the 90s, a word on community and hope…

What is the prostate, what does it do, and what should men know about prostate cancer, BPH (enlarged prostate), and prostatitis? Treatments from lifestyle to meds to TURP. Full post: http://RunningAFEVER.com/479 Check out this episode!

Restless leg syndrome can make your legs (and sleep) miserable — crawling, creeping, electric feelings that only ease when you move. What it is, risk factors, and what actually helps. Read the full post at http://RunningAFEVER.com/478 Check out this episode!

Today we’re back at Kessler Mountain Regional Park — the Razorback Greenway is still closed after months of work, so Plan B is the Saddle Up Trail through the woods in southwest Fayetteville. It’s a green (easy) multi-use trail with a little mud after the rain, maintained in part by Ozark Off-Road Cyclists. Along the…

Lately, I’ve been having headaches. Every day. I suspect it may be related to my recent sinus infection, but I’m not sure. So I thought I would dig into the topic and see what I could find out. I was surprised to find that there are many types of headaches. So I suppose the first…

If you look at the top ten list of the longest-lived people of all time, you’ll notice that three of them are from Japan, more than any other country represented. The second oldest woman of all time was Japanese, Kane Tanaka, over 119 years old when she died. The top ten overall are all women,…

So here it is, the episode on pickles. We’re going to go through the definition of a pickle, the history of pickles, the health and diet aspects of it, production, varieties, I don’t know, I just don’t know. We’re going pickle crazy today, and I don’t care if they take me away in a straight…