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.

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 for mankind, and a one-mile day that still counts.

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

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

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 way: medical department (echocardiogram and a coronary calcium score), hydration in a 60° hoodie, and a forest-communities plaque on oakhickory habitat.

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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 thing I should do is try to classify mine and then go from there to remedies.

My headaches have been occurring every day, starting mid-morning. I'm usually able to treat them with pain relievers, but it takes more than the usual dose, for example, four aspirin and four ibuprofen. The pain is located in the upper part of the sides of my head and cheekbones. I just started documenting the occurrence, so only a couple of days so far, but I will continue to document, as that seems to be a factor in diagnosis.

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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, of course, but if you look at the top 10 oldest men, you'll also see Japan on there multiple times. Two of them are Japanese, including the oldest man ever, Jiroemon Kimura, at 116. The United States is well-represented on the men's list, with three of the top 10, but other than that, no other country besides Japan has more than one on either list.

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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 jacket; I'm going to talk about pickles!

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