Next-Gen Leaders in Cardiometabolic Health & Vascular Aging: Paving the Path to Longevity & Healthy Aging

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    Cardiometabolic Health and Vascular Aging: Advancing Longevity & Healthy Aging

    Next-Gen Leaders in Cardiometabolic Health & Vascular Aging: Paving the Path to Longevity & Healthy Aging

    Redefining prevention through systems-level cardiometabolic insights

    As the global burden of cardiometabolic disease rises, a new generation of innovators is reshaping how we understand cardiometabolic health, vascular aging, and the drivers of longevity and healthy aging. By linking metabolism, inflammation, and vascular function, these leaders illuminate early signals—endothelial function, arterial stiffness, insulin resistance, dyslipidemia, and hypertension—that forecast lifetime risk. Their systems approach enables precision prevention and earlier intervention, targeting the root mechanisms that accelerate biological aging while elevating healthspan.

    Data-driven innovation: biomarkers, AI, and personalization

    From multi-omic biomarkers and advanced imaging to continuous glucose and blood pressure monitoring, next-gen teams are pairing real-world data with AI-enabled risk stratification to deliver truly personalized care. This convergence supports tailored strategies across nutrition, movement, sleep, and therapeutics, while optimizing cardiovascular prevention and metabolic resilience. Through rigorous translational research and inclusive clinical trials, they address sex-specific and population differences—advancing women’s cardiometabolic health, closing disparities, and scaling equitable, evidence-based solutions.

    Building resilient hearts and vessels for longer, better lives

    By slowing vascular aging, preserving nitric oxide signaling, reducing chronic inflammation, and improving mitochondrial and endothelial health, these pioneers are charting a measurable path to durable vitality. Their cross-sector collaborations—spanning academia, industry, and digital health—convert cutting-edge science into practical roadmaps that extend healthspan. Explore how next-gen leadership in cardiometabolic health is transforming prevention, accelerating innovation, and paving the way for resilient hearts, flexible metabolism, and a longer, stronger life.

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    Operationalizing Systems-Level Cardiometabolic Prevention

    From early signals to explainable, personalized risk trajectories

    Next-gen programs are translating complex biology into clinical action by converting multi-omic and imaging indicators—endothelial function (FMD), arterial stiffness (PWV), insulin resistance, dyslipidemia, and masked hypertension—into explainable risk trajectories. By fusing continuous monitoring with lab and imaging data through AI-enabled phenotyping, teams detect microvascular dysfunction, impaired nitric oxide signaling, mitochondrial inefficiency, and low-grade inflammation years before events. These insights anchor precision prevention that targets root mechanisms, advancing equitable cardiometabolic health, slowing vascular aging, and extending healthspan and longevity.

    Real-world data streams—continuous glucose monitoring, ambulatory blood pressure, lipids and apolipoproteins, heart rate variability, sleep architecture, and activity-derived VO2max proxies—feed dynamic “digital twins” that simulate intervention impact and optimize timing. Personalized plans adapt based on response, reducing glycemic variability, resting blood pressure, and inflammatory burden while improving endothelial function and arterial elasticity. With inclusive datasets and explainable AI, these platforms enhance cardiovascular prevention, reinforce metabolic resilience, and deliver measurable outcomes that matter to patients and populations.

    Interventions that slow vascular aging and extend healthspan

    A tiered, evidence-based toolkit targets the biology of aging across lifestyle and therapeutics. Nutritional strategies emphasize fiber-rich, polyphenol- and omega-3–dense patterns; movement blends aerobic “zone 2” with resistance training; and sleep and stress programs restore autonomic balance and circadian alignment. Where appropriate, guideline-directed therapies—lipid-lowering, antihypertensives, insulin-sensitizing and anti-inflammatory agents—are paired with approaches addressing the microbiome, nitric oxide bioavailability, and mitochondrial efficiency to preserve endothelial function, lower arterial stiffness, and stabilize atherosclerotic risk.

    To scale impact, cross-sector consortia enable interoperable, privacy-preserving data (FAIR principles, federated learning), pragmatic and inclusive trials, and value-based models that reward prevention. Standardized endpoints connect clinical events with surrogate markers—coronary calcium, pulse-wave velocity, flow-mediated dilation—and biological aging clocks, creating a continuous feedback loop from discovery to care. This operating system turns cutting-edge science into equitable, real-world outcomes: resilient hearts, flexible metabolism, and longer, stronger lives driven by proactive cardiometabolic care.

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    Get started with Longevity & Healthy Aging in 7 easy steps!

    • 1. Purchase a kit & create an account.

      Do not forget to buy the personalized nutrition advice and the 3-month Noory subscription to get maximum benefit for Longevity & Healthy Aging.

    • 2. Fill in 3 day food diary & survey

      In the survey select "Longevity & Healthy Aging" as your preferred target group. One FREE target group is included with every testkit.

    • 3. Take a stool sample

      And send it back in the return envelope with a prepaid return label. The return logistics and the laboratory process will generally take 3 to 4 weeks.

    • 4. View your results

      Once your results are uploaded and ready, you will receive an email. Login your dashboard to view all analysis results and recommendations. If you also included the nutrition advice and/or the 3-month Noory subscription in your purchase, these will also be available in your dashboard.

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      5. Noory platform

      If you bought the 3-month Noory subscription, you will receive direct access to personalized food recipes and meal plans on the Noory platform which AUTOMATICALLY take into account your gut microbiome nutrition advice, your allergies, intolerances and nutritional targets.

      Have ultimate real-time flexibility to choose the food recipes that you prefer to cook and eat. Accessible through desktop or mobile device.

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      6. Link your Healthcare Professional (HCP) (optional)

      Both InnerBuddies and Noory are able to provide FREE access to the platform to your healthcare professional. But we need your EXPLICIT consent to do so given all privacy and health regulations. In the InnerBuddies platform you can also download all report sections in PDF format for sharing.

      Noory can also provide HCP access through NooryMed, a remote monitoring platform built for HCP's that allows sharing symptoms, food tracking and also takes into account Food - Drug interactions.

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      7. Retest your Gut Microbiome

      After your 3-month Noory subscription has ended, you can perform a new gut microbiome test and hopefully see the desired improvements in your test results. A new gut test will also update your nutrition recommendations and nutritional targets to the Noory platform so that you can start another 3-month improvement process. You can also select a new target group in the InnerBuddies platform if you want to set different objectives for the new 3-month period.

    The InnerBuddies module "Longevity & Healthy Aging" gives you insight in:

    • Gut Microbiome & Short-Chain Fatty Acids (SCFAs)

      SCFAs contribute to anti-inflammation, gut health, and metabolic regulation, all linked to longevity. SCFA's functions as the base mechanism for the other categories. Butyrate gets high weight because of its robust evidence base in inflammation control, gut barrier integrity, and mitochondrial health — all critical for longevity. Propionate pathways are also key, especially for metabolic aging. Acetate is more abundant but generally has broader and more moderate effects; still important, especially as a substrate and signaling molecule.

    • Anti-Inflammatory & Immune Modulation

      Chronic inflammation accelerates aging; these pathways reduce inflammatory markers. Bile acids are among the most potent microbial immunomodulators with systemic relevance (gut-liver-brain axis, mucosal immunity). Tryptophan-derived indoles are among the most potent microbial immunomodulators with systemic relevance (gut-liver-brain axis, mucosal immunity). Polyamines offer both immunomodulatory and cell-protective benefits, especially in aging tissue. LPS and ammonia detox are supportive pathways—critical but more indirect in their effects.

    • Energy Metabolism & Mitochondrial Health

      Efficient energy metabolism supports cellular function, reduces oxidative stress, and enhances lifespan. TCA cycle and ETC dominate due to their centrality in mitochondrial health, bioenergetics, and ROS control — all of which are strongly linked to aging processes. Fat oxidation (FAO) supports metabolic flexibility, ketogenesis, and fasting states — overlapping with caloric restriction benefits. BCAA metabolism is double-edged: essential for mitochondrial function but excessive levels may promote mTOR activation and insulin resistance — balance is critical.

    • Cellular Repair, DNA Protection & Autophagy

      These pathways regulate DNA repair, cellular stress resistance, and autophagy, essential for longevity. Methionine / glutathione gets top weight for direct protection against oxidative stress, a primary driver of DNA damage. NAD⁺ biosynthesis is central to sirtuin-driven longevity mechanisms and DNA repair. Folate supports DNA stability but has more indirect or cofactor-like effects compared to the above.

    • Caloric Restriction & Fasting Mimicry

      Certain pathways mimic the benefits of fasting and caloric restriction, which are linked to lifespan extension.

    Targeted Recommendations

    The module "Longevity & Healthy Aging" provides you with targeted nuttrition recommendations. Targeted not only on your unique gut microbiome but also targeted on the metabolic pathways that, according to the latest scientific publications, are important for Longevity & Healthy Aging.

    • Personalized on the DNA of your own Gut Microbiome

      Receive nutrition recommendations that according to our self-learning algorithms and our large customer database have the highest impact on your own unique gut microbiome.

    • Approved by our Dieticians

      We use Responsible A.I. techniques and built an algorithm that uses both our own proprietary databases but also the knowledge and experience of our strong dietician team.

    • Actionable

      Nutrition recommendations that you can just buy in your local supermarket. For your convenience, we also provide daily dosage recommendations.

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    Focus on your Biological Age and support Longevity & Healthy Aging - Order the gut test that:

    • Provides a score between 0 and 100 of how your gut microbiome composition is optimized for Biological Age / Longevity / Healthy Aging
    • Provides detailed insight in how you rank for each of the microbial metabolic pathways that have been linked to Biological Age / Longevity / Healthy Aging according to the latest scientific publications
    • Uses a cutting-edge and science-based DNA technology
    • Provides you with nutritional and supplement recommendations based on your microbial results that are specifically optimized to lower your Biological Age and support Longevity & Healthy Aging
    • Is developed by an expert team of dieticians, specialists, and scientists to offer you the most accurate gut microbiome analysis
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    How can InnerBuddies support in reducing your Biological Age and supporting Longevity & Healthy Aging?

    • Improved Digestive Health

      Optimizing the gut microbiome enhances digestion and nutrient absorption, ensuring the body gets vital vitamins and minerals necessary for cellular repair and maintenance, which supports overall health and slows biological aging.

    • Reduced Inflammation

      A balanced gut microbiome helps reduce chronic systemic inflammation—a major driver of aging and age-related diseases—thereby protecting tissues and organs and promoting healthy aging.

    • Enhanced Immune Function

      Gut health directly influences the immune system. Strengthening the microbiome boosts immunity, lowering the risk of infections and age-related immune decline, contributing to longevity.

    • Mental Health and Cognitive Function

      The gut-brain axis connects gut health with brain function. A healthy microbiome can improve mood, reduce anxiety, and support cognitive health, helping maintain mental sharpness with age.

    • Metabolic Health and Weight Management

      Microbiome-based nutrition helps regulate metabolism and blood sugar levels, reducing risks for diabetes and cardiovascular disease, which are linked to accelerated aging.

    • Antioxidant Support and Cellular Repair

      Supplements tailored to the gut microbiome can enhance antioxidant activity and promote cellular repair processes, protecting DNA from damage and slowing biological aging.