Cardiovascular Health: A Metabolic Perspective
Cardiovascular disease is still the world's leading cause of death, yet much of what we're taught about its causes and treatment is outdated and shaped by legacy dogma. This training rebuilds your understanding from the metabolic root up, so you can support patients safely, confidently, and with the evidence on your side.
Ever felt backed into a corner by the mainstream approach?
If any of these sound familiar, this training was built for you.
Statin pressure without full answers
Patients ask hard questions about statins and you're expected to defend a protocol you've never been given the full picture on: benefits, risks, mechanisms, and side effects.
Cholesterol myths that won't die
LDL is treated as the whole story while particle size, LP(a), LMHR profiles, and the actual predictive evidence rarely make it into the conversation.
High-risk patients, low confidence
You want to offer more than a prescription and a pamphlet, but you've never been trained to assess and manage cardiovascular risk through a metabolic lens.
Guidance stuck decades behind
The prevailing narrative around cardiovascular disease is outdated, incomplete, and heavily influenced by legacy dogma, while your patients need answers grounded in current evidence.
Cardiovascular disease through the metabolic lens
This training challenges and expands the conventional view. Instead of starting at cholesterol numbers, it starts at the root: insulin resistance, hyperinsulinemia, and the lifestyle factors that drive inflammation, endothelial dysfunction, atherosclerosis, and hypertension. From there, everything else falls into place.
Root cause, not symptom chasing
Understand the central role of insulin resistance in the development of CVD, and why treating it changes outcomes.
Evidence over dogma
A deep, critical look at the lipid-heart hypothesis, statins, diagnostic markers, and what the research actually supports.
Whole-person recovery
From nutrition and sleep to stress, rehab, and the psychological side of life after a cardiac event.
What you'll walk away with
A clear, evidence-backed understanding of how insulin resistance drives cardiovascular disease, from hyperinsulinemia to inflammation, endothelial dysfunction, atherosclerosis, and hypertension.
The confidence to challenge outdated cholesterol myths and navigate difficult clinical conversations about LDL, statins, LP(a), and risk, with the evidence at your fingertips.
Practical tools, nutrition protocols, and risk stratification methods you can apply in practice immediately, including blood tests, imaging, and clinical signs for tracking progress.
Direct guidance from leading clinicians and researchers across cardiology, nutrition, endocrinology, and lifestyle medicine, all reviewed by the Nutrition Network Medical Advisory Board.
The training outline
Twenty-two expert lectures organised across seven areas, each with a topic outline, learning objectives, and downloadable references to the journal literature.
Cardiovascular System & Pathophysiology
How the heart and vascular system function, what happens when they go wrong, and the key markers of cardiovascular health and early dysfunction.
The Root Cause: Insulin Resistance
The central role of insulin resistance in CVD, and how hyperinsulinemia drives inflammation, endothelial dysfunction, atherosclerosis, and hypertension.
Beyond LDL: Rethinking Cholesterol
A deep dive into the lipid-heart hypothesis, familial hypercholesterolemia, LP(a), and LMHR profiles, plus LDL particle size and its true relevance in predicting risk.
Statins and Other Medications
A balanced, critical look at statins: benefits, risks, mechanisms, and side effects, alongside other pharmacological agents and their place next to lifestyle medicine.
Lifestyle, Nutrition & Supplementation
Low-carb and ketogenic strategies for cardiovascular support, the impact of fasting, sleep, stress, movement, and circadian rhythm, and key cardioprotective nutraceuticals.
Assessment & Management
Blood tests, imaging, and clinical signs for assessing and tracking progress, coaching strategies for long-term change, and post-event care including depression, self-image, and rehab.
Identifying High-Risk Populations
How genetics, lifestyle, metabolic conditions, and socio-environmental factors influence CVD risk.
Learn from names you already know
Content reviewed by the Nutrition Network Medical Advisory Board and delivered by 16 clinicians and researchers across cardiology, nutrition, endocrinology, and lifestyle medicine.
Professor Tim Noakes
Scientist, author, and Emeritus Professor in the Division of Exercise Science and Sports Medicine at the University of Cape Town.
Dr Malcolm Kendrick
General practitioner, writer, and lecturer with a specialist interest in the epidemiology of cardiovascular disease.
Dr Aseem Malhotra, MD
Cardiologist, health campaigner, and author.
Dr Matthew Budoff, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and Director of Cardiac CT.
Dr Hassina Kajee, MD
Specialist Physician in metabolic health and lifestyle medicine.
Dr Mark Cucuzella, MD FAAFP
Professor at the West Virginia University School of Medicine.
Plus Dr Lily Johnston, Dr Rolandos Pavlou, Dr Stephen Hussey, Dr Manjunath Markandaya, Siobhan Huggins, and more.
Everything included with your enrolment
22 video lectures
Each module includes a topic outline, learning objectives, the expert's presentation, and short feedback forms to test your learning.
The practitioner's toolkit
Clinical reference guides, parameter sheets, clinician guides, and ready-to-use patient handouts, designed for immediate application in practice.
Downloadable references
Reference lists linking every lecture to the relevant journal articles and literature, so you can go deeper and cite your sources.
Certificate of Completion
Issued on completion, listed on the Wall of Practitioners, and counting toward certification as a Nutrition Network Practitioner. Accredited with 25 CPD hours.
Private expert community
Access to our members' community, moderated daily by our experts. Ask course questions, troubleshoot difficult cases, and network with fellow practitioners.
Self-paced, on any device
25 hours of learning you complete entirely at your own pace. No fixed schedule, no live sessions to attend, on any and all devices you own.
Designed for practitioners at every level
Not a medical professional? No problem. Anyone with an interest in metabolic health is welcome to enrol, and if you'd like a full professional coaching qualification, our Foundations of Metabolic Coaching is built exactly for that.
What graduates of this training say
Feedback from practitioners who completed the Cardiovascular Health training.
"This training has opened the door for me to add this educational option to my wellness practice and make a greater impact by helping increase awareness about this unnecessary and largely, preventable risk on the global population. I am grateful for this course and the Nutrition Network's mission in promoting change in this way."
"I enjoyed this course tremendously and look forward to rewatching again and again to solidify the depth of information for myself and my future practice."
"The lectures highlighted cardiovascular disease as a systems-level condition influenced by metabolic, inflammatory, psychosocial, circadian, and environmental factors. A key takeaway was the need to interpret biomarkers in context and to address stress and lifestyle factors alongside traditional risk markers."
Cardiovascular Health: A Metabolic Perspective
- 22 expert video lectures across 7 clinical areas
- 25 CPD hours, internationally recognised
- The full practitioner's toolkit: reference guides, parameter sheets, and patient handouts
- Certificate of Completion counting toward Nutrition Network Practitioner certification
- Private expert-moderated community access
- Listing on the Wall of Practitioners on completion
A portion of every enrolment funds Eat Better South Africa's community work.
Our 30-day money-back guarantee
We'd never want you to be unhappy. If you're unsatisfied with your purchase, contact us within the first 30 days and we'll give you a full refund, provided 30% or less of the training has been completed. That's more than enough time to watch the opening lectures and know this training is for you.
Frequently asked questions
Heart disease is the world's biggest killer. Be part of changing that.
Join practitioners in 100+ countries learning to treat cardiovascular disease at its metabolic root. 25 CPD hours, 22 expert lectures, and a toolkit you'll use with your very next patient.