Exercise: the evidence
Movers and Shakers: a podcast about life with Parkinson's
Podot
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
If certain windsurfing former Judges are to be believed, there's nothing quite like a bout of vigorous exercise for easing the symptoms of Parkinson's. But does the medical evidence support this? Cramped into their booth in the Notting Hill pub, the Movers & Shakers pick over the verifiable scientific facts behind the assumption that exercise can alleviate PD symptoms. Is it possible to fairly analyse the impact of exercise? Could the effect be more psychological than physical? And might exercise, one day, be prescribed by your neurologist? We're discussing all this (and more) with top experts and the gang.
Movers & Shakers is brought to you by Cure Parkinson's.
Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, Gillian Lacey-Solymar, Mark Mardell, Paul Mayhew-Archer, Sir Nicholas Mostyn and Jeremy Paxman.
Produced and edited by Nick Hilton for Podot.
Sound mixing by Ewan Cameron.
Music by Alex Stobbs.
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| 0:00.0 | Pod-O |
| 0:02.0 | You're listening to Movers and Shakers, a podcast about living with Parkinson's. |
| 0:10.0 | The show is sponsored by Cure Parkinson's, whose urgent and only goal is to find a cure, |
| 0:15.0 | and funded by Bordwave, a networking community for technology leaders and a passionate supporter of Cure Parkinson's. |
| 0:23.0 | For more details on the charity's progress around research and its fundraising, please visit |
| 0:27.9 | cureparkinsons.org.uk. |
| 0:35.2 | Hello and welcome to Movers and Shakers, the award-winning podcast about Living with Parkinson's. |
| 0:42.0 | I'm Rory Catalan Jones and we're back in the pub for some excellent conversations with some brilliant guests. |
| 0:48.2 | First of all, let's see who is here from the home team. |
| 0:51.1 | Nicholas Mostyn. |
| 0:52.1 | Gillian Lacey Solomon. |
| 0:53.6 | Mark Maudill. Paul May he, Archer. Very good indeed. Now, this week's subject is exercise and its impact on your Parkinson's symptoms. It's a subject we've talked about before, but we've a different angle this time. It's often said that exercise is the one and only thing that can slow down the advance of Parkinson's. But what's the evidence |
| 1:12.0 | for that big statement? We'll be talking to a group of academics trying to come up with proof. |
| 1:17.0 | We'll be asking whether you can run clinical trials of exercise in the same way you test drugs, |
| 1:21.6 | whether particular forms of exercise are likely to be more beneficial than others, and whether |
| 1:26.2 | if it's so good, your doctor should start |
| 1:28.7 | prescribing it. But first, let's go around the table and see what we all think about the value |
| 1:33.6 | of exercise. Mark, is it fair to say that you're not the biggest fan? Well, I'm not the biggest |
| 1:39.6 | fan. I haven't been the biggest fan. I'm not the biggest fan of sport. I don't like chasing |
| 1:43.6 | balls around. |
| 2:02.5 | I'm a cat, not a dog, you know, throw a ball on a stick and I just stare at you. Ignore it. But I do think exercise is very valuable. I do two or three stints a week with neuroheroes, and I should be at Tai Chi today if I wasn't here. Oh, well, I'm sorry we're keeping you away. I've done an exercise session with you quite recently. |
| 2:03.1 | Yes. And you really profited from it, didn't you? if it wasn't here. Oh well, I'm sorry we're keeping you away. I've done an exercise session with |
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