Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter explains how athletes like Tom Brady extend their careers through hormone optimization and functional medicine. Sex hormone levels drop starting in your early 30s, so baseline testing in youth lets you restore peak performance later with targeted replacement therapies.
Tom Brady played football into his mid-40s right at a very elite level. That is not magic that is because he worked very hard. He had a nutritionist he probably did a lot of these other therapies that we're talking about and so there are definitely options for improving athletic performance there with functional medicine. Where we can really make inroads particularly in an athlete as they enter their middle or late career is in hormone replacement therapies. I'm not talking about steroid abuse I'm talking about hormone replacement therapies to keep their body working in the optimal fashion. We know that when we hit our early 30s we start to have significant declines in our sex hormone levels. The ideal situation is we would take a young athlete like in their 18 years old and then we would do a hormone profile we would do a metabolic profile and then we would compare that in their 30s and then we can work to correct their hormone profile back to what would be optimal right at the peak of their athletic performance.
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