RECOVERY & PERFORMANCE
MEET chris
NOT READY TO SLOW DOWN
Chris is 47. Division I golfer in college. Amateur competitor in his thirties. He runs a financial advisory practice and treats his 5am tee times with the same discipline he applies to client portfolios.
He's been carrying a nagging lower back for a decade. A left hip that tightens mid-round. Wrist stiffness that takes the first few holes to shake out, every single time. He plays through it — always has. But the calculus is shifting.
73%
of recreational athletes over 45 report chronic joint pain — yet fewer than 1 in 5 have explored anything beyond cortisone or PT.
His sports medicine doctor manages symptoms. Cortisone when it gets bad. The unspoken message: this is the cost of an athletic life. Chris didn't accept that framing. He'd watched too many guys his age step off the course and never come back.
"I wasn't looking for a miracle. I was looking for someone who understood that staying in the game wasn't optional."
Performance-Based Biomarker Insights
LIVV ran a comprehensive longevity panel, a full picture of the biology that determines how well a body repairs and holds up under sustained athletic demand.
hs-CRP and IL-6: chronically elevated
→ Persistent inflammation slowing repair, amplifying pain
Testosterone and IGF-1: declining
→ Limited connective tissue repair capacity
DHEA-S: depleted
→ Adrenal fatigue from decades of high output
NAD+ levels: depleted
→ Direct driver of afternoon crashes and fog
NAD+: significantly low
→ Mitochondrial recovery below training demands
The data, alongside a deep review of Chris' lifestyle, health history, and goals with LIVV's physician, provided a clear path forward to keep him in the game.
A Personalized & Evolving Health Strategy
LIVV built Chris a protocol aimed at one thing: keeping him on the course by implementing recovery and regenerative strategies. All of the treatments were available to him at home or at the club, making it easy to fit into his schedule.
Peptide Therapy
BPC-157 / TB-500 for targeted joint and tendon repair to support the areas limiting his game, along with anti-inflammation and systemic tissue regeneration to bring back the integrity of his swing.
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
To flood tissues with oxygen at the cellular level, reduce systemic inflammatory load, accelerate healing in chronic injury sites, and extend his recovery window between rounds.
PRP Joint Injections
His own concentrated growth factors delivered directly into the joint structure that had been tightening mid-round, stimulating cartilage repair and reducing the chronic inflammation cortisone had only been masking.
Contrast Therapy
Structured hot/cold protocols around his rounds to reduce joint stiffness, drive circulation to chronic injury sites, and eliminate the warm-up routine he'd resigned himself to as permanent
Hormone Optimization
To restore his anabolic baseline, support connective tissue repair, and close the gap between how hard he played and how well his body rebuilt afterward.
NAD+ IV Infusions
To support mitochondrial recovery, reduce oxidative stress from sustained training volume, and address the biological age gap his markers were tracking.
Chris’ medical team maintained weekly touchpoints to ensure consistency and momentum, while quarterly labs allowed his protocol to be continuously refined, adapting in real time to support the results he was working toward. He was also able to have his deep tissue massages at the club so that everything was in one place.
THE SHIFT: 30 DAYS IN
Wrist stiffness — gone. Full round in week three without reaching for his advil once. Played 27 holes on a Saturday for the first time in over a year.
"I'd spent years learning how to work around the problem. Month one, I started wondering if I didn't have to anymore."
THE SHIFT: 6 MONTHS IN
Regional amateur tournament — first competitive event in two years. Finished in the top third. Hip hadn't flared in eight weeks. Sports medicine doctor asked what changed.
He still had the history. The back, the hip, the years of load. But for the first time, his body felt like an asset he was investing in rather than a liability he was managing.
"I wasn't trying to go back in time. I just wanted to stay in the game. That's what LIVV gave me."
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