SNR #199: Ciaran Fairman - Exercise-Oncology: Effects of Exercise in Cancer Treatment & Survivorship

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Danny Lennon

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🗓️ 25 September 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Ciaran Fairman, M.S. is currently working on his doctorate in the Kinesiology program at The Ohio State University. Ciaran received his M.S. in Kinesiology from Georgia Southern University, working in the Human Performance laboratory, and holds several nationally accredited certifications through the American College of Sports Medicine (CPT, HFS, CET), and International Society of Sports Nutrition (CISSN).

Ciaran's research interests focus on the effects of acute and chronic interventions on physiological and psychosocial outcomes in different populations. More recently, Ciaran has focused his interest on cancer survivors. He is the founder and chief exercise physiologist at REACH, a non- profit organization aimed at providing cancer patients and survivors with evidence based recommendations of physical activity and lifestyle behaviors to optimize survivorship. Ciaran has published over 15 peer-reviewed papers, book chapter, and abstracts on sports nutrition, supplementation, and training adaptations.

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0:00.0	You know, if you're surviving 5, 10, 15 years, what is the quality of those years?
0:14.0	Survive in 15 years if you're bedridden or if you can't play with your kids, if you can't do your regular activities,
0:20.9	the quality of that life has to be there.
0:23.6	A lot of people who are diagnosed,
0:25.8	particularly in the early stages of cancer,
0:27.6	aren't dying from the disease anymore.
0:30.3	They're not dying from cancer.
0:31.9	They're dying from comorbidities down the line.
0:35.0	And so you need to really poor outcomes in terms of body composition, physical
0:39.0	function. As you said, sarcopenae is massive, dramatic drop-offs in strength, physical
0:44.0	function. Again, they all just kind of, it's a vicious cycle where they compound each other. Hello and welcome to another episode of Sigma Nutrition Radio.
1:09.4	I am your host, Danny Lennon, and we're at episode
1:12.7	199 of the podcast today. And on today's show, I'm going to be talking with researcher
1:20.6	from Ohio State University, Kiran Fairman, who is involved in the field of exercise oncology,
1:27.2	really trying to look at how exercise is helping cancer patients and survivors
1:32.3	at really all stages from diagnosis through the treatment process
1:37.3	and all the way out into the longer term during the recovery and rehabilitation
1:42.3	and beyond process of how it has so many beneficial impacts
1:47.0	that we're going to discuss and how there's a build, a rapidly building base of literature
1:53.5	on this topic which is really exciting to see and it's going to be really exciting to see
1:57.8	where it goes and as it makes its way I think more and more into primary care, hopefully at some point.
2:04.6	So the show notes of this episode are going to be over at sigmanutrition.com slash episode
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