Vail Health Provides Direction to Those Overwhelmed by Modern Health Care Options for Longevity

With so many tests, supplements, and medical advances competing for attention, it can be difficult to know where to start. Lindley urged the audience to master the basics before spending money on anything else — lifting heavy weights weekly, eating enough protein, sleeping consistently, and building strong social connections and purpose. “Don’t waste your money going and spending it on supplements or tests or any other influencer thing if you’re not doing the hard things,” he said.

O’Meara walked through routine cancer screenings and how everyone should be getting annually, as well as newer tools like continuous glucose monitors, full-body scans, liquid biopsies, and genome testing, cautioning that each carries its own limitations and is not right for everyone. Schuetze tackled heart health, explaining how plaque buildup in the body’s vessels can lead to heart attacks and strokes, and made the case for statins as a broadly protective measure.

Vail Health also introduced its concierge medicine program to fill a gap the community identified, offering a subscription-based model that gives patients more access to their physician and advanced screenings not yet available through traditional primary care. David Kaplan, president of Colorado Mountain Medical, expressed hope those tools would soon reach a wider audience. It has become increasingly difficult, particularly since the pandemic, for Eagle County residents to access primary care providers, and the program aims to address that.