Heart & Cardiovascular Support Protocol

Practitioner-designed nutritional support for heart-muscle function, healthy circulation, cardiovascular energy metabolism, blood-vessel function, and cardiometabolic health.

The cardiovascular system does much more than move blood through the body. The heart must continuously produce energy and maintain healthy muscular function, while blood vessels regulate the delivery of oxygen, nutrients, and metabolic fuel throughout the body.

Cardiovascular health is also closely connected with blood sugar regulation, lipid metabolism, oxidative stress, physical activity, and nutritional status. For that reason, supporting the heart involves more than adding a single “heart-health” nutrient.

This protocol combines whole-food B-vitamin nutrition, targeted heart-specific nutrition, traditional cardiovascular herbal support, and cardiometabolic support. An additional vitamin E and selenium formula can be selected when more targeted support for cardiovascular tissues and heart-muscle function is desired.

What This Protocol Supports

This protocol is designed to provide nutritional support for:

  • Healthy heart-muscle function
  • Normal cardiovascular function
  • Healthy circulation and blood flow
  • Cardiovascular energy metabolism
  • Healthy blood-vessel function
  • Normal neuromuscular function of cardiovascular tissues
  • Healthy glucose and lipid metabolism
  • Healthy insulin function
  • Antioxidant protection and healthy oxidative status
  • Cardiometabolic health

Who May Find This Relevant

This protocol may be relevant for adults looking to take a more comprehensive nutritional approach to heart and cardiovascular health, particularly when healthy circulation, cardiovascular energy, metabolic health, or maintaining cardiovascular function with age are priorities.

It may also be useful for people whose cardiovascular goals overlap with blood sugar regulation, lipid metabolism, exercise capacity, physical recovery, or maintaining healthy blood-vessel function.

Because cardiovascular symptoms can have many causes, nutritional support should complement—not replace—appropriate evaluation of new or unexplained cardiovascular symptoms.

Practitioner-Designed Nutritional Protocol

Build Your Protocol

Choose the nutritional support options that best fit your needs.

Cardio-Plus®, 90 Tablets

Heart & Cardiovascular Nutrition

Cardio-Plus®, 90 Tablets

Cardio-Plus provides targeted nutritional support with a specific emphasis on the heart and cardiovascular system.

The formula contains bovine heart PMG extract together with nutritional ingredients including B vitamins, vitamin C, vitamin E, selenium, choline, and complementary tissue extracts. Standard Process specifically positions Cardio-Plus to support heart health, healthy oxidative status of the heart and other muscles, neuromuscular health, and energy metabolism.

It serves as the primary heart-specific nutritional component of this protocol.

$22.80

Cataplex® B-Core, 120 Tablets

Cardiovascular B-Vitamin Nutrition

Cataplex® B-Core, 120 Tablets

Cataplex B-Core provides whole-food sources of B vitamins that serve as nutritional cofactors for cellular energy production, metabolic processes, heart function, and neuromuscular health.

Thiamin participates in energy-generating pathways and normal heart-muscle function, while folate participates in normal homocysteine metabolism. This makes Cataplex B-Core the foundational B-vitamin component of the cardiovascular strategy.

$52.20

SP® Red Food, 90 Capsules

Cardiometabolic & Blood-Flow Support

SP® Red Food, 90 Capsules

SP Red Food combines targeted nutrients and phytonutrients, including astaxanthin, to support cardiovascular and metabolic physiology.

Standard Process specifically positions SP Red Food for cardiometabolic health, including support for healthy blood flow and blood-vessel function, healthy insulin function, and healthy glucose and lipid metabolism. It also provides antioxidant support and has applications for exercise performance and recovery.

This component broadens the protocol beyond the heart itself by supporting the vascular and metabolic environment in which the cardiovascular system functions.

$60.00

Hawthorn, 60 Tablets

Botanical Heart & Circulatory Support

Hawthorn, 60 Tablets

Hawthorn provides a concentrated extract of hawthorn leaf and flower, standardized for naturally occurring flavonoids including vitexin-2-rhamnoside.

Hawthorn has a long history of traditional use in cardiovascular herbal medicine. Standard Process and MediHerb specifically position Hawthorn to support healthy heart-muscle function and cardiovascular-system health while providing antioxidant activity.

It provides the primary botanical cardiovascular component of the protocol.

$48.60

Cataplex® E2, 90 Tablets

Targeted Heart-Muscle & Cardiovascular Support

Cataplex® E2, 90 Tablets

Cataplex E2 provides vitamin E and selenium, antioxidant nutrients involved in biological processes important to cardiovascular and cellular health.

Standard Process specifically identifies these nutrients as playing key roles in processes essential for cardiovascular health. Cataplex E2 is included as an optional component when additional nutritional emphasis on cardiovascular tissues, healthy oxidative status, and heart-muscle support is desired beyond the foundational protocol.

$22.20

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How the Products Work Together

The heart is both a muscle and a metabolically active organ that must continuously generate energy while maintaining coordinated muscular and electrical activity. At the same time, healthy cardiovascular function depends on the blood vessels and metabolic systems responsible for delivering oxygen and fuel to cardiovascular tissues.

Cardio-Plus then provides more targeted nutritional support for the heart itself, including nutrients and tissue-derived ingredients selected specifically for cardiovascular, muscular, and energy-related support. Standard Process describes Cardio-Plus as supporting cardiovascular health and the healthy oxidative status of the heart and other muscles.

Cataplex B-Core provides foundational whole-food B-vitamin nutrition for energy metabolism, heart function, and neuromuscular physiology.

SP Red Food expands the strategy to the broader cardiometabolic environment by supporting blood flow, blood-vessel function, insulin function, and healthy glucose and lipid metabolism.

Hawthorn adds traditional botanical support directed toward healthy heart-muscle and cardiovascular function.

Cataplex E2 can then be added when more concentrated nutritional support for cardiovascular tissues and heart-muscle function is desired.

Together, the products address several complementary aspects of cardiovascular physiology:

Heart-muscle support → Nutritional foundation → Vascular and metabolic support → Botanical cardiovascular support → Additional targeted cardiovascular support

Suggested Use

Follow the suggested use and label directions for each selected product unless otherwise directed by a qualified healthcare professional.

Because this protocol contains multiple formulas and an optional cardiovascular component, serving recommendations should be based on the specific products selected rather than a single protocol-wide dosing schedule.

Review the current product label before use.

Customize Your Protocol

Cataplex B-Core, Cardio-Plus, Hawthorn, and SP Red Food form the core cardiovascular strategy.

Cataplex B-Core emphasizes nutritional cofactors involved in heart function, neuromuscular physiology, and energy metabolism.

Cardio-Plus provides the most directly heart-focused nutritional foundation.

Hawthorn provides traditional botanical support for healthy heart-muscle and cardiovascular function.

SP Red Food becomes particularly useful where cardiovascular and metabolic health overlap, providing support for healthy blood flow, blood-vessel function, insulin function, and glucose and lipid metabolism.

Cataplex E2 is optional and can be added when additional emphasis on heart-muscle function, cardiovascular tissues, antioxidant nutrition, and cardiovascular support is desired. Its vitamin E and selenium content provides a distinct nutritional strategy beyond the foundational components.

Important Information

This protocol is intended to support normal cardiovascular physiology, heart-muscle function, circulation, and cardiometabolic health. It is not intended to diagnose, prevent, or treat coronary artery disease, angina, heart failure, arrhythmia, hypertension, or another cardiovascular disease.

Cataplex E2 is included for targeted cardiovascular nutritional support. It should not be interpreted as a treatment for angina or as a product intended to relieve chest pain.

Hawthorn is a clinically active botanical and may interact with cardiovascular and other medications. People taking prescription medications for heart rhythm, blood pressure, blood clotting, heart failure, or other cardiovascular conditions should review Hawthorn and the complete protocol with an appropriate healthcare professional before use. Hawthorn should not be used during pregnancy or lactation unless directed by a qualified healthcare professional.

People taking medications for blood sugar, blood pressure, cholesterol, blood clotting, or cardiovascular disease should review the complete protocol with an appropriate healthcare professional because nutritional and botanical products may alter the overall management of these conditions.

New, unexplained, persistent, or worsening chest pain, chest pressure or tightness, shortness of breath, pain spreading to the arm, shoulder, back, neck or jaw, fainting, marked weakness, or other symptoms that could indicate an acute cardiovascular problem require prompt medical evaluation and should not be self-treated with nutritional supplements.