#289 Ciaran Fairman, PhD – Exercise Interventions in Cancer Treatment

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🗓️ 5 July 2019

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Ciaran is a post-doc research fellow at the Exercise Medicine Research Institute (EMRI) at Edith Cowan University in Western Australia.

Ciaran completed his PhD in the Exercise and Behavioral Medicine Laboratory at The Ohio State University under the mentorship of Dr. Brian Focht. Here, his research focused on the physiological and psychosocial responses to physical activity lifestyle interventions in a variety of clinical populations including breast and prostate cancer, and individuals with knee osteoarthritis.

Ciaran is also strong advocate of the dissemination/translation of scientific research to a variety of audiences. He is the founder of REACH (Research in Exercise and Cancer Health), a company designed to provide evidence-based guidelines of physical activity to health/medical professionals and individuals with cancer.

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0:00.0	There's absolutely considerations of how you have to modify exercise, but people need to understand that modification does not mean limitation.
0:16.0	We'll have to tailor their exercise program around their treatment and around their
0:20.8	comorbidities and you know whatever's going on but we can absolutely give them a program that's
0:27.0	that's that's that's going to lead to some degree of improvement in whatever area they're interested in
0:31.1	and we we just have to make the case that our job in terms of screening and working with these people is not to create more
0:39.7	barriers for them. Our job is to understand the side effects of treatment to where we can enable
0:44.7	them and empower them to bring you the very best. to Sigma Nutrition Radio, the podcast where we try and go deep on nutritional and health
1:12.5	sciences to bring you the very best science-based information. Today we're at episode 289
1:20.5	of the podcast. And before getting into today's conversation, just a quick announcement
1:27.1	to remind you that those you can make it to
1:29.9	Dublin, Ireland on July 20th or 21st, there is a pair of seminars that I'll be conducting there.
1:37.4	The first is a nutrition for health enhancement seminar. We're going to go into all the
1:42.3	research and also application of topics that relate
1:46.3	specifically to health promotion through nutrition. And then the second day is a seminar
1:52.4	specifically on cutting weight and performance nutrition for combat sport athletes. So if either
1:59.7	of those seminars sounds of interest to you, you can
2:02.7	come along to one of them, hopefully, and I get to meet you in person. So they're happening in
2:06.5	Dublin in the middle of July. All the details are up on sigmautrition.com. So just go there and
2:12.1	check it out, and hopefully I see you there. Getting to our conversation today, and I'm being joined by Dr. Kieran Fairman, who was on the show
2:21.8	probably a couple of years ago now, where we talked about his work in exercise oncology. And in the
2:28.7	meantime, he has since based himself over at Edith Cowan University in Western Australia, where he's currently
2:36.5	a postdoc research fellow there. And he's been involved in a lot of very important and also
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