104. Exercise is Medicine with Rob Newton

As you've seen in the title, today's episode will be all about exercise!

We have invited Professor Robert Newton to give us all the information about why exercise is medicine and how it can help with fighting cancer.

Kendall (NP from Restorative Sexual Health Clinic) will be joining me as my co-presenter for this episode.

So... if you've been putting off adding exercise as part of your treatment plan, Dr Newton's detailed explanation will encourage you to take that leap.

As will be explained in the podcast, exercise can play a big role in your recovery, especially with providing an environment that is anti-cancer.

Dr Robert has emphasised the importance of using highly targeted exercises to address various issues. To help you understand this better, he has provided a great example that we hope will make this clearer.

Further into the discussion, Dr Rob shares valuable tips about:

• types of exercise that is most beneficial
• inflammation-how exercise fights this
• statistics from his own research on how powerful the effect of exercise is to improve recovery (50-60% increase on survival)
• t-cells, myocoids, and other cells that get activated when we exercise
• the correlation of survival and muscle mass (not fat mass)
• ideal number of repetitions for exercise
• how to reach out to an exercise specialist
• and a lot more

These all might sound a bit scientific but Dr Rob will elaborate on these things to make it easy for everyone to understand.

In summary, exercise has the power to supercharge your immune system. How? Dr Robert will explain all.

But how about sexual function? Well, you must listen to the podcast to know his answer to that!

Enjoy listening and we hope you get to learn a lot about the importance of exercise to your life.

As always, we encourage you to share this episode to the people you feel who needs it too.

Website:

https://www.jsams.org/article/S1440-2440(18)31270-2/fulltext

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BRIEF BIOGRAPHY

Robert Newton, PhD, DSc, AEP, CSCS*D, FACSM, FESSA, FNSCA

Professor Robert Newton is Professor of Exercise Medicine in the Exercise Medicine Research Institute that he established (2004) at Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia. Current major research directions include: exercise medicine as neoadjuvant, adjuvant and rehabilitative cancer therapy to reduce side-effects and enhance effectiveness of surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy; the influence of targeted exercise medicine on tumour biology and exercise medicine for reducing decline in quality of life, strength, body composition and functional ability in cancer patients.

Professor Newton is an Accredited Exercise Physiologist, Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine, and Fellow of Exercise and Sports Science Australia. In 2018 he received the career achievement award from the Cancer Council WA and was a finalist for Western Australian of the Year and finalist for the Premier’s Science Award. In 2019, Professor Newton was named the Western Australian Premier’s Scientist of the Year. In 2021, The University of Queensland awarded Professor Newton a Higher Doctorate (DSc) for his research into exercise oncology. Professor Newton was a finalist in the Research Australia Health and Medical Research Awards for 2021 and received a Highly Commended Frontiers Award.

Professor Newton has published over 1000 scientific papers including 502 refereed scientific journal articles, 450 conference abstracts and papers, three books, 17 book chapters and has a current Scopus h-Index of 88 with his work being cited over 26,500 times. Topic of greatest publication output is exercise and cancer for a field-weighted citation impact of 3.00 and prominence percentile of 99.31. As of 2022 Professor Newton had attracted over $42 Million in competitive research funding.

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