{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Sick Society","title":"Exercise, Ageing, and the Politics of Staying Active (with Dr Jon Houghton)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3435,"description":"Most people already know exercise is good for them. The harder question is why so many of us struggle to sustain it, and who actually has the conditions to make it possible.In Episode 5 of Sick Society, Dr Alexis Paton and Sir Andrew “Bod” Goddard are joined by Dr Jon Houghton, a sports and exercise physician whose work spans military rehabilitation, NHS practice, and elite professional sport. His clinical focus is helping people remain active when age, injury, illness, or circumstance intervene.Rather than offering a programme to follow, this episode asks a more durable question:If the goal is to remain capable, not simply alive, decades from now, what does that require today?Together, they explore:Why “just move more” sounds straightforward but often isn’tWhether weight loss has become too narrow a measure of healthThe rise of longevity culture, and what it clarifies or distortsWhy resistance training is having a resurgence, and what the evidence actually supportsHow wearables and performance data shape behaviour, for better and for worseThe reality that access to movement is structured by income, geography, and policyWhether governments can justify investing in prevention when the return may be decades awayWhat it would mean to treat exercise as social infrastructure rather than personal virtueSick Society is a Haunted Mouse Productions podcast, hosted by Dr Alexis Paton and Sir Andrew Goddard, exploring how medicine and public life shape health.https://linktr.ee/hauntedmouseproductions","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/8Oga5VtgZGBABEocBZVpU_xBusPvf69fJa1Cri9Hl4k/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9iM2Rj/Zjc0N2Y3MzYyMzFl/ZmY4YjYzMTA1OWYy/ZDViZi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}