The Heart of Longevity: Innovations in Cardiovascular and Metabolic Care
Thursday, Sept. 25th and Friday, Sept. 26th 2025 | Breakout Room 1
When Standard Labs Miss the Mark, Precision Testing Guides the Way
Cardiometabolic decline is a leading—but often hidden—driver of accelerated aging. Normal cholesterol panels may appear reassuring, yet patients still experience fatigue, poor circulation, insulin resistance, and vascular inflammation. This track equips you with advanced tools to decode and reverse early-stage dysfunction before clinical endpoints emerge.

The Silent Threat Undermining Healthspan
You’ve dialed in lifestyle and optimized hormones, yet cardiovascular and metabolic risks often remain undetected using conventional tools. Silent drivers like oxidized lipids, clotting mutations, and micronutrient deficits can go unnoticed until damage is done.
This session shows you how to uncover these hidden threats using advanced inflammatory, lipid, and genetic markers. You’ll learn to interpret results from Vibrant’s CardiaX, ApoE, and MTHFR panels, and apply that data in targeted protocols that restore vascular health and metabolic balance.
Key Learning Objectives
Cardiovascular and metabolic resilience is essential for long-term health. This track offers a test-guided model for prevention, performance optimization, and patient retention.
- Reveal hidden risk patterns: Go beyond LDL and HDL. Use oxidized LDL, ApoB, Lp(a), hs-CRP, and homocysteine to assess vascular inflammation, endothelial stress, and methylation impairments linked to CVD risk.
- Genetically stratify your patients: Understand how ApoE4 status, Factor II–V mutations, and MTHFR polymorphisms impact lipid metabolism, clotting risk, and nitric oxide signaling.
- Design precise interventions: Create protocols that target blood sugar dysregulation, inflammatory load, and nutrient deficiencies. Use micronutrient panels to personalize repletion strategies for B vitamins, magnesium, and antioxidants that support cardiovascular health.
- Deliver programs with measurable results: Bundle testing into 3–6-month care arcs, monitor changes in inflammatory and metabolic markers, and use visible data to engage patients in long-term cardiovascular prevention.
You’ll leave with protocols, report interpretation skills, and ready-to-launch cardiometabolic optimization programs.
Clinical Snapshot
When Genetics and Lipids Told a New Story
Patient: 50-year-old male, active lifestyle, with strong family history of early heart disease
History: Normal LDL and HDL, no current medications, but increasing fatigue and concern over long-term risk
Findings:
- Elevated Lp(a), oxidized LDL, and hs-CRP
- ApoE4 heterozygous status
- Homozygous MTHFR C677T mutation
- Low magnesium, B6, and folate on micronutrient testing
Protocol:
- 12-week anti-inflammatory protocol including omega-3s, nattokinase, and CoQ10
- Methylation support with methylated B-vitamins
- Magnesium and antioxidant repletion
- Cardiovascular-focused lifestyle plan with nitric oxide support
Outcome: Improved energy, reduced inflammation markers (hs-CRP normalized), enhanced methylation profile on retest.
Conventional Care vs. Precision Cardiometabolic Longevity
Generic labs miss early signs of dysfunction. Precision cardiometabolic care uses phased testing to address inflammation, oxidation, and genetic risk before symptoms begin.
Focus
Protocol Design
Monitoring
Patient Engagement
Long Term Impact
Traditional Cardiometabolic Care
Basic cholesterol, glucose
Statins, low-fat diet
Annual basic labs
Reactive
Limited prevention
Precision Longevity Approach
Inflammation, oxidation, methylation, genetics
SNP-informed, nutrient-based, multi-pathway
Phased lab cycles, pre/post intervention comparisons
Proactive, performance-focused
Resilient metabolism, vascular protection
Who This Track Is For
Longevity and functional medicine providers treating inflammation, insulin resistance, or vascular aging
Clinicians frustrated with normal lipid panels that don’t match patient risk profiles
Practices seeking to differentiate with precision cardiometabolic programs
Anyone who believes cardiovascular health is the foundation for extended vitality
Make Cardiometabolic Care a Core Offering
This session helps you integrate cardiovascular and metabolic care into the preventive model that your patients expect. It’s not just about avoiding disease. Instead, it’s about optimizing the body’s most essential systems for performance and longevity.
You'll learn how to:
- Detect hidden cardiovascular risks with advanced testing
- Use genetic data to drive personalized care
- Deliver 3–6-month programs that balance inflammation, lipids, glucose, and clotting risk
- Create structured offerings that resonate with high-risk and high-performance patients alike
Speaker Lineup

Dr. Joel K Kahn, MD, FACC
Learning Track Speaker

Dr. Christopher Davis MD
Learning Track Speaker

Dr. Giovanni Campanile M.D., FACC, ABIHM, FAARM
Learning Track Speaker

Dr. Jack Wolfson DO
Learning Track Speaker

Interested in locking in your spot at The Heart of Longevity: Innovations in Cardiovascular and Metabolic Care
Be sure to sign up for this learning track at registration when you arrive at The Vibrant Longevity Summit.