Sports Recovery & Performance Blood Screening
How Screening Helps
This screening checks key markers including Vitamin D, ferritin (iron stores), folate and cortisol, providing insight into nutritional status, energy production and your body’s response to physical and everyday stress.
Your results can help identify potential contributors to fatigue, reduced endurance, muscle soreness, slower recovery and impaired performance, including nutritional deficiencies and elevated stress levels.
Ideal for athletes and active individuals looking to optimise recovery, support training and gain a clearer understanding of their overall physical performance.
What is included
Vitamin D
Why it matters:
• Essential for muscle function, bone health and immune resilience.
• Low Vitamin D is linked to reduced strength, slower recovery and higher injury risk.
• Supports energy, mood and inflammation control.
Benefit for patients:
• Shows whether low Vitamin D could be undermining performance or recovery.
HBA1C
Why it matters:
• Ferritin reflects the body’s iron reserves.
• Low ferritin leads to fatigue, breathlessness and reduced stamina.
• Critical for oxygen delivery to muscles during training.
Benefit for patients:
• Identifies one of the most common causes of decreased endurance and exercise fatigue.
Folate
Why it matters:
• Supports red blood cell formation and energy metabolism.
• Key for tissue repair after exercise.
• Deficiency contributes to fatigue, slower recovery and impaired performance.
Benefit for patients:
• Helps reveal nutritional gaps that can delay muscle recovery and reduce training capacity.
Cortisol
Why it matters:
• Cortisol is the body’s primary stress hormone.
• Elevated levels indicate overtraining, poor sleep or chronic stress.
• High cortisol slows muscle repair, increases fatigue and raises injury risk.
Benefit for patients:
• Helps reveal nutritional gaps that can delay muscle recovery and reduce training capacity.