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Overheard At LongevityFest 2025: 5 Key Insights To Integrate For 2026 Practice Success

January 4, 2026

The longevity field has reached an inflection point: practitioners can extend lifespan, but the real clinical challenge lies in preserving the function and capacity that make those years worth living. Cognitive decline, muscle loss, and metabolic dysfunction are just a few of the conditions widening the gap between lifespan and healthspan as patients age without sustainable physiologic resilience.

Against this backdrop, LongevityFest 2025 unfolded December 12-14 at the Venetian Expo and Convention Center in Las Vegas. Over three intensive days, more than 9,000 healthcare practitioners engaged with 170+ leading experts across 220+ specialized sessions. This year’s record-setting gathering created a vital nexus for exploring the interventions that preserve brainspan, build metabolic resilience, and protect the physiologic systems that determine how patients age.

The following insights represent a fraction of what attendees learned and are implementing in 2026, including the frameworks, tools, and intervention strategies emerging from the world’s largest longevity medicine event that translate directly to patient care and practice success, putting them way ahead of the curve.

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Unlocking the Immune Code Leads to Better Outcomes…and a Nobel Prize

October 18, 2025

It’s the body’s first line of defense, shielding us from harmful microbes, viruses, and other invaders that attack and cause illness. But sometimes the human immune system fails or turns on itself to attack healthy cells and promote autoimmune diseases, like cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, and type 1 diabetes. For three scientists who conducted fundamental research on peripheral immune tolerance, a system that slows down the immune system and keeps it from harming the body, the result was a wealth of knowledge — and the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

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5 key insights from the Pediatric Immune Health Summit.

5 Key Insights From The Pediatric Immune Health Summit

November 4, 2023

Between October 26-28, dedicated pediatric health professionals gathered in Boston, MA, for three immersive days of cutting-edge education, hands-on clinical training, dynamic networking, and vital knowledge sharing at the Pediatric Immune Health Summit.

Throughout the expertly curated program, attendees gained exclusive access to the latest insights and integrative strategies from pioneering thought leaders in functional pediatric medicine. Across 30 information-packed sessions, presenters offered an in-depth exploration of timely pediatric immune health topics ranging from the implications of polyvagal theory for pediatric patients to optimizing early childhood development through the gut microbiome.

The Pediatric Immune Health Summit was an exceptional educational experience, and we want to ensure that the groundbreaking insights presented extend beyond the conference walls. We’ve distilled five of the most impactful lectures into key clinical takeaways so you, too, can benefit from the trailblazing education presented at this highly anticipated pediatric event.

Read on for a summary of standout sessions and actionable pearls you can integrate into your practice right away.

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