{"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.\nThe harder question is why so many of us struggle to sustain it, and who actually has the conditions to make it possible.\nIn 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.\nRather than offering a programme to follow, this episode asks a more durable question:\nIf the goal is to remain capable, not simply alive, decades from now, what does that require today?\nTogether, they explore:Why “just move more” sounds straightforward but often isn’t\nWhether weight loss has become too narrow a measure of health\nThe rise of longevity culture, and what it clarifies or distorts\nWhy resistance training is having a resurgence, and what the evidence actually supports\nHow wearables and performance data shape behaviour, for better and for worse\nThe reality that access to movement is structured by income, geography, and policy\nWhether governments can justify investing in prevention when the return may be decades away\nWhat it would mean to treat exercise as social infrastructure rather than personal virtue\nSick Society is a Haunted Mouse Productions podcast, hosted by Dr Alexis Paton and Sir Andrew Goddard, exploring how medicine and public life shape health.\nhttps://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}