Cardiovascular disease (CVD) continues to be the world’s leading cause of death. Yet, the narrative around its causes, risk factors, and treatment remains outdated and often influenced by legacy dogma. At Nutrition Network, we believe it’s time for a paradigm shift so that we can start turning the tide on this killer, once and for all!
That’s why we’re excited to launch our brand-new training: Cardiovascular Health: A Metabolic Perspective.
This new training offers an evidence-based, metabolic science approach to understanding, managing, and preventing cardiovascular disease. Whether you’re a healthcare professional or coach, this course will equip you with the tools and confidence to challenge myths, and apply therapeutic interventions that truly make a difference.
Why This Training Matters
Despite what we’re led to believe, CVD is not all about cholesterol – it’s about metabolic dysfunction, particularly insulin resistance. Many patients are being treated based on outdated risk models. It’s no wonder cardiovascular disease just continues to rise!
Unsure of the true underpinnings of cardiovascular disease, practitioners are at a loss on how to provide effective solutions that can truly change their patients’ health for the better. Instead fear-driven cholesterol-lowering-drug prescriptions (e.g., statins) is the go-to, despite evidence indicating their relative ineffectiveness at reducing cardiovascular mortality.
This training empowers you to move beyond fear, into evidence-based practice to change patient outcomes for the better.
What You’ll Learn
1. Cardiovascular System & Pathophysiology
- Understand how the heart and vascular system function.
- Recognise early signs of dysfunction.
2. The Root Cause: Insulin Resistance
- How hyperinsulinemia drives inflammation, endothelial damage, and hypertension.
- The real link between metabolic disease and CVD.
3. Beyond LDL: Rethinking Cholesterol
- Lipid-heart hypothesis, LP(a), LMHR profiles, and familial hypercholesterolemia.
- The truth about particle size and risk prediction.
4. Statins & Other Medications
- Explore risks and benefits in a balanced way.
- Understand when lifestyle medicine can be used first-line.
5. Identifying High-Risk Populations
- Genetic, environmental, and metabolic factors.
- How to stratify risk and personalise interventions.
6. Lifestyle, Nutrition & Supplementation
- Low-carb and ketogenic diets for CVD.
- Role of fasting, sleep, movement, and nutraceuticals.
7. Assessment & Management
- Lab markers, diagnostic tools, and patient tracking.
- Patient empowerment strategies and long-term coaching.
Meet the Lecturers
Learn from global experts across nutrition, cardiology, lifestyle medicine, and endocrinology:
- Dr Rolandos Pavlou – Cardiovascular system & statins
- Prof Tim Noakes – Familial hypercholesterolemia
- Dr Malcolm Kendrick – Insulin resistance in CVD
- Siobhan Huggins – LP(a), LMHR
- Dr Hassina Kajee – Risk populations, stress & diagnostics
- Dr Manjunath Markandaya – Congestive cardiac failure
- Dr Lily Johnston – Risk assessment
- Stephen Hussey – Sleep & circadian health
- Peter Cummings – Exercise and rehab
- Dr Aseem Malhotra – Ethical healthcare
Who Is This For?
Medical professionals | Nutritionists and dietitians| Health coaches | Cardiac rehab specialists
Anyone supporting patients with CVD or metabolic dysfunction
Why Join Now?
Ready to Transform the Way You Treat Cardiovascular Health?
