RAF437: Screentime & Your Health Part 4 - Digital Distress in Families
Running: A FEVER
Happy New Year! This is our first episode of 2026. I hope you had a great 2025 and are ready to accomplish great things this year. For me, it's always a moment of disbelief that another year has passed, seemingly so quickly, but I'm determined this year to pack everything good that I can into the stream of life.
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RAF436: Driver Training
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Well, I'm out on the Spring Creek Trail, north side, today. And it looks pretty different from the last time here. The main difference is that the construction site is completely gone. I mean, the construction is gone, but the site, obviously, remains. It is very different. And no video today. One reason is that it's dark. But the trail is actually lighted now. It might have been for a while. It probably has, but I haven't been out here in a while. Read the full post at
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RAF435: The Drive for Happiness
Running: A FEVER
So why is it fun to drive a car? Scientifically, I mean. The most apt word I can think of to describe the feeling of driving a fast car on a curvy road is exhilaration. Biologically, this is caused by a combination of neurotransmitters and hormones, primarily dopamine, norepinephrine, and epinephrine (also known as adrenaline). These chemicals, when combined, create a feeling of joy, excitement, and increased alertness. Dopamine drives the reward system and is released in response to novel and exciting stimuli. Adrenaline and norepinephrine, on the other hand, prepare the body for action by...
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RAF434: Screentime and Your Health Part 3 - Digital Fog: What Screens To to Your Brain
Running: A FEVER
We're in the middle of a series about Screentime and Your Health. And by the way, you can access the entire series on a YouTube playlist called Screentime and Health. You can find it on my channel at YouTube.com/@runningafever. We've already enlightened ourselves on two aspects of this topic: sedentary life and sleep effects. Today, we're moving on to how screen time affects our brains. Read the full post at
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RAF433: Screentime and Your Health Part 2 - Screens vs. Sleep
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This series, "Screentime and Your Health," highlights the health risks of overusing electronic devices. I think I was previously unaware of the dangers involved. But I'm starting to get the picture. In the last episode, we discussed how excessive screen time can hinder our ability to lead an active life by making us more sedentary and decreasing our motivation to be physically active. This is part two of the series, focusing on the topic of "Screens vs. Sleep." Read the full post at
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RAF432: Screentime and Your Health Part 1 - The Sedentary Trap
Running: A FEVER
As usual, when I'm finding topics for the show, I started hearing about how screen time should be limited and maybe we should all be wearing glasses that block out "blue light." Why? There are screens everywhere now. At work, you have at least one, maybe more, computer screens; I have three. Plus the smartphone, which goes everywhere with you. How about the TV you turn on when you get home from work? Even when working out, we have screens on our exercise bikes or treadmills that show us stats or video that lets us imagine we're outside somewhere, or let us watch the news while we sweat. Maybe...
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RAF431:Hot Flashes, Cold Truth 6 - Reclaiming Power: Menopause as a New Beginning
Running: A FEVER
It's part 6 of our series on Menopause. Today we’re closing out our series with something bold, beautiful, and deeply personal: reclaiming power. Menopause is often framed as an ending — the end of fertility, the end of youth, the end of vitality. But what if it’s actually a beginning? What if this transition is an invitation to rewrite your story, rediscover your voice, and realign with what truly matters? In this episode, we’re flipping the script. You’ll hear stories of reinvention, creativity, and courage. We’ll talk about how menopause can spark new purpose, new passions, and...
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RAF430: Hot Flashes, Cold Truth 5 - Relationships: Navigating Change Together
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It's our birthday! Believe it or not, we've been running a fever for eight years now. And this episode is the first of our ninth year. Yes, the anniversary date is two days ago, November 17. Back in 2017, we started with literally a walk in the park. Four hundred thirty episodes later, we can look back on a wealth of information and the sharing of my health journey over the long term. Read the full post at
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RAF429: Hot Flashes, Cold Truth 4 - Running Through the Change - Fitness, Fatigue, and Recovery
Running: A FEVER
Menopause isn’t just a hormonal shift — for active women, it can feel like the body’s playbook has been rewritten mid‑game. Endurance that once came easily may fade faster, recovery can take longer, and the fuel that used to power a run might suddenly fall short. But this isn’t the end of the race — it’s a new course to master. In this 4th episode of our series on menopause, we’ll explore how midlife changes in metabolism, muscle repair, and energy balance affect training, and how smart adjustments in workouts, nutrition, and hydration can help you stay strong. We'll also...
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RAF428: Hot Flashes,Cold Truth 3 - Andropause: The Silent Transition
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What if one day you woke up and felt like a stranger in your own body—but no one ever warned you it could happen? We're in the middle of a series on menopause. In the last episode, we discussed the emotional and mental impact and how it works in the brain and body, and shared some stories from real people on the issue. This time we're talking about an even more taboo subject: andopause, sometimes called male menopause. I think we'll get some insight on this. It's not just a medical phenomenon but a cultural blind spot. Let's start again with some true stories: Read the full post at...
info_outlineWelcome to Running: A FEVER, a podcast about fitness, diet, and medicine. My name is Michael Davis. My goal is to live a long, healthy, happy, active life by loving my life enough to make it last as long as possible.
And long life is what this series, called Aging Reversed is all about. What if aging were really just a disease? A disease that could be treated? What if the Fountain of Youth consisted of behaviors and medication? What if you could live 150 years, or even forever? You won't find the answers to those questions in this series, but we will talk about how this could all come about, some of the research going into it, and what resources are available right now to lengthen your life scientifically.
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