International Sports Science Network Forum in Nagano 2016 International Sports Science Network Forum in Nagano 2016 International Symposium of Institute for Biomedical Sciences

1.Outline

2.Background and objective of the forum

As we face the arrival of a hyper-aged society, it is an urgent requirement to establish “a society facilitating healthy longevity”, in which aged people can maintain their “health” and find a “meaning for living” to the ends of their lives. Especially, a system of preventive medicine must be promptly devised for the control of medical costs. Exercise therapy is attracting attention as a technique indispensable in preventive medicine. However, there is no scientifically based exercise prescription that is employed worldwide in the field of preventive medicine. We, therefore, aim to create “longevity-promoting health science” as a new field of preventive medicine by setting sports medicine, which is directly related to exercise prescription, as the core and integrating related fields such as clinical medicine, nutrition, and information technology around it. This forum was designed to gather distinguished domestic and overseas researchers together for discussion.

3.Program

Invited Speakers：International 10, Domestic 9
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4.Contents of discussion

The aging of society, prevalence of lifestyle-related diseases, and deterioration of our ability to adapt to the environment are among the current social problems. The consequent demand for improved comfort increases energy consumption, which causes various adverse environmental effects associated with global warming. To break this vicious cycle, sports medicine is expected: 1. At the laboratory level, to elucidate the (1) effects of exercise prescriptions for the prevention of lifestyle-related diseases and disabilities requiring support, (2) effects of intake of nutritional foods, (3) mechanism of improvements in our ability to adapt to the environment, (4) application of exercise prescription systems to large populations and data mining, and (5) search for genes responsive to exercise prescriptions. Discussion will be held on how new knowledge acquired at the laboratory level should be applied clinically, and, inversely, how problems identified at the clinical level should be reflected in laboratory activities, how the problems can be solved, and how the solutions should be fed back to clinical settings. Measures for the international standardization of exercise prescriptions will also be evaluated.

Details of the contents of discussion will be as follows:

1. Effects of exercise prescriptions for the prevention of lifestyle-related diseases and disabilities requiring support: The effects of exercise prescriptions on elderly people and patients with lifestyle-related diseases will be discussed concerning cardiovascular functions (atherosclerosis, hypertension), glucose tolerance (diabetes), exercise abilities (endurance capacity, muscle strength), and cognitive function.
2. Effects of intake of nutritional foods: The intake of nutritional supplements considered effective in exercise training for elderly subjects will be discussed.
3. Mechanism of improvements in our ability to adapt to the environment: From their advent, humans have widened their habitat from cold to hot regions or from sea level to high altitude regions due to their marked ability to adapt to the environment. The innate ability of humans to adapt to the environment will be discussed.
4. Application of exercise prescription systems to large populations and data mining: In Japan, exercise facilities and trained staff that enable elderly people to undergo exercise training are extremely inadequate, and this deficiency greatly restricts the spread of exercise prescriptions. Recently, telecommunication-based individual exercise prescription systems using IT networks are being developed. Their effectiveness and prospects for their future development will be discussed.
5. Search for genes responsive to exercise prescriptions: The effects of exercise prescriptions show individual variation, which is derived from constitutions, i.e., inherited characters of individuals. There are polymorphisms in some genes related to indices of lifestyle-related diseases and disabilities requiring support, and these have indeed been shown to be involved in individual variation in responsiveness to exercise prescriptions. The development of programs centered primarily on genetics-based approaches will be discussed.

5.Organizing Committee

Honorary President

President

Vice Presidents

Advisors

Program Committee

Executing Committee

Department of Sports Medical Sciences, Shinshu University Graduate School of Medicine

Participant

International

Domestic

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Countries of Participants

Japan, US, Denmark, Spain, Korea etc.

6.Conference Office

Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Interdisciplinary Cluster for Cutting Edge Research of Shinshu University
Shiho Shimoosa, Noriko Shimizu, Tomoka Ozawa, Kaoru Kumagai
3-1-1 Asahi Matsumoto 390-8621, Japan
TEL: +81-263-37-3548/ FAX: +81-263-37-3549
E-mail: biomedical@shinshu-u.ac.jp