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12/15/2025

Our gift card special is back!

We do this only once a year! Give the gift of Performance and Longevity to someone you love (and take a little for yourself 😉)

Can be used with any service including our peptide programs!

DM for the link!

12/11/2025

Why didn’t you make it? Let’s start the convo…This is a safe space 👐🏽

We all probably have more in common why didn’t stay at the top of our list to pursue.

Lets connect down below ⬇️

12/09/2025

Been working in my element lately.

Feeling in the kind of alignment you feel in your chest before you can explain it.

A million reasons to be thankful for the timing, the placement, and the pressure to be the best in the world at something no one else can do because I’m exactly where I’m supposed to be 🏀

Shoutout to for the dope photos and capturing the event!

12/08/2025

When you wake up the day after a run with brain fog, irritability, and swollen joints, you tell yourself you’re “getting old.”

Clinically, you aren’t old.
You’re systemically inflamed.
I call this The Hooper’s Hangover.

And no — it doesn’t happen after every run.
But when the conditions line up just right — poor recovery, weak aerobic base, high stress, bad sleep — the reaction can hit hard.

The Mechanism:
Basketball is a high-intensity metabolic event. It dumps lactate and cellular waste into your system. At 20, your mitochondria cleared it instantly.
At 30+, without an aerobic base, you can’t clear the waste fast enough.

When that waste lingers, it triggers a Leukocytic Reaction — an immune cascade that mimics the flu.
That’s why some days your knees swell, your brain fogs, and your whole body feels “off.”

The Diagnostics (What I look for):
1. CBC: Immune cell shifts showing inflammatory stress.
2. Hs-CRP: Peaks 24–48 hours post-game when inflammation is highest.
3. Fasting Insulin & Cortisol: Many hoopers fuel effort with stress hormones, not clean metabolic energy.

You cannot “play yourself into shape.”
Stacking high-intensity games on a low-capacity engine only makes these episodes more frequent.

You need to rebuild mitochondrial density so your body can clear waste even on the hard days.

12/04/2025

Motor Unit Remodeling As we age, the neurons responsible for high-threshold (Fast-Twitch) motor units “detach” due to disuse. The nervous system “prunes” these connections because the metabolic cost of maintaining them is high if they aren’t being used.

The result isn’t just weakness; it’s what I call Neural Detachment. You are physiologically morphing into a slow-twitch athlete.

How to treat? Use Velocity as Medicine. We don’t treat this with more cardio conditioning. We treat this with High-Velocity Neuromuscular Stimulation. We need to send a “survival signal” to the Type II motor units.

Try this: Speed Microdosing Dosage: 2x/week, pre-activity

1️⃣ Stiffness Stimulus: Pogo Hops (Targeting tendon elasticity/RSI).

2️⃣ Deceleration Stimulus: Drop Squats (Targeting eccentric braking rate).

3️⃣ Velocity Stimulus: Short Sprints (Targeting maximal neural recruitment).

This addresses Pillar 1: Performance Longevity (The Signal).
In my clinical practice, we use a framework called The Hooper’s Longevity Triad. We view the body as a high-performance operating system. If you fix the software but the battery is dead, the system still fails:

Performance: (The Signal) Reconnecting the neural “Wi-Fi” so the lag disappears.

Metabolic: (The Power Supply) Fixing mitochondrial efficiency so the system doesn’t overheat or crash.

Structural: (The Hardware) Maintaining the integrity of the physical components so they don’t become brittle.

12/02/2025

Shoutout to my Dad…..I guess 🙄

Let me know below how you got into hooping ⬇️⬇️

12/01/2025

When a hooper 30+ tells me their body isn’t keeping up with their brain, they usually ask if it’s Sarcopenia (muscle loss). That is a term they’ve heard online somewhere.

Clinically, it almost never is.

I also almost never call it full-blown Dynapenia (age-related power loss), which is often too dramatic for a 35-year-old. The reality is more specific: You have an early strength-and-power drop-off because the body can’t produce or repeat force like it used to.

The Mechanism: Motor Unit Remodeling As we age, the neurons responsible for high-threshold (Fast-Twitch) motor units detach due to disuse. The nervous system “prunes” these connections because the metabolic cost of maintaining them is high if they aren’t being used. The result isn’t just weakness; it’s Neural Detachment. You are physiologically morphing into a slow-twitch athlete.

The fix: Velocity as Medicine. We don’t treat this with more cardio conditioning. We treat this with High-Velocity Neuromuscular Stimulation. We need to send a “survival signal” to the Type II motor units.

“The Rx”:
Speed Microdosing Dosage: 2x/week, pre-activity (Fresh).
1️⃣ Stiffness Stimulus: Pogo Hops (Targeting tendon elasticity/RSI).
2️⃣ Deceleration Stimulus: Drop Squats (Targeting eccentric braking rate).
3️⃣ Velocity Stimulus: Short Sprints (Targeting maximal neural recruitment).

THE BIGGER PICTURE
This only addresses Pillar 1: Performance Longevity (The Signal).

But in my clinical practice, we use a framework called The Hooper’s Longevity Triad. We view the body as a high-performance operating system. If you fix the software but the battery is dead, the system still fails:

Performance: (The Signal) Reconnecting the neural “Wi-Fi” so the lag disappears.

Metabolic: (The Power Supply) Fixing mitochondrial efficiency so the system doesn’t overheat or crash.

Structural: (The Hardware) Maintaining the integrity of the physical components so they don’t become brittle.

11/30/2025

No one said it would be easy….but, SHEESH 😮‍💨

11/25/2025

If you grew up in the “no pain, no gain” era of basketball, your relationship with your body was shaped long before you hit 30.

We were taught that toughness was sacred, but the unspoken rule was: “Real hoopers play through pain, and decline is inevitable.”
So now, as you step onto the court in your 30s or 40s, your nervous system treats every jump and cut like danger. You know the mind is still elite, but the body isn’t keeping up.

Here’s how that old conditioning still shows up in your game today 👇🏾

1️⃣ You treat ibuprofen like a pre-game meal. Because you learned to measure a “good run” by how exhausted you felt afterward. You learned to wear soreness as a badge of honor rather than a warning signal.

2️⃣ You accept losing your explosive edge as your new normal. Decades of generic training models taught you that losing your first step is just what happens when you age. So when you can’t blow by defenders anymore, you freeze and accept it, rather than asking why your engine is misfiring.

3️⃣ You equate “toughness” with ignoring chronic inflammation. You were told that listening to your body makes you “soft.” In reality, being deeply well-resourced and recovered is what allows you to stay on the court longer than everyone else.

4️⃣ You distrust rest. In your mind, grinding = progress. So even when your joints are on fire, you go get shots up just to feel like you’ve “earned” your game, unconsciously digging a deeper recovery hole.

5️⃣ You wait until something tears before you see a specialist. Conventional medicine rewards reactivity—fixing things only after they break. But longevity rewards proactivity and knowing your data—two traits traditional sports medicine rarely fosters.

The struggles in your game aren’t from lack of heart; they’re from using an outdated playbook.

Conventional medicine was built for the average person, not the aging athlete demanding peak performance.

When you shift from guessing to using advanced diagnostics, you stop playing with fear and start playing with ownership—extending your prime, not just maintaining it.

11/20/2025

If you don’t reset now, your body will decide for you in January.

The Year-End Recharge & Recovery Program is designed to help you finish the year strong by fixing what’s been dragging you down:

— Hidden inflammation
— Low immune resilience
— Fatigue that never fully lifts
— Stress hormones running your system
— Recovery that’s been inconsistent for months

You’ll get a targeted immune + fatigue lab panel, NAD+ IV or immune injections, and a 30-day recovery protocol to rebuild your energy from the cellular level.

If you want to feel clear, energized, and ready to hit 2026 at full speed—this is the move

Hit the link in my bio to join.

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950 Franklin Avenue
Garden City, NY
11530

Opening Hours

9am - 6pm

Website

http://www.kcperformance-ivdrip.com/

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