About Amy Garza, MD
The Background
Most people get to pick one lane. Medicine or sport. Science or competition. Work or the game they love. I spent over a decade in one lane -- and then I came back to the other one and realized they were always the same road.
For over a decade I practiced anesthesiology. I saw what years of "I'll deal with it later" actually look like from the inside of an operating room. And I kept thinking the same thing.
We were treating the wrong end of the problem.
It inspired me to build something different. A practice where midlife isn't managed as decline. Where the goal isn't to slow the fade, it's to protect what makes you feel alive in the first place. Strength. Clarity. Desire. Drive. The capacity to keep doing the things you worked so hard to build a life around. To age on your own terms.
I love golf. I played college golf at Vanderbilt -- SEC competition, the whole grind. Then medicine (and life) took over, and my clubs went in the garage for over 25 years.
When I came back to the game, I noticed something I couldn't unsee. Everything I was seeing in my patients -- the energy crashes, the fade in the second half, the way performance drops off when the body stops getting what it needs -- was showing up on my own scorecard. Every single round.
I'm 52. Single digit handicap. Sights on competitive golf before I turn 60. I'm living the protocols I prescribe -- every day, every round, every lab draw.
Where It Comes Together
The back nine doesn't lie. Neither do labs.
That's the connection nobody's talking about. And it's where I live now. The space between medicine and golf, between how your body works and how you actually perform when it matters.
What I Believe
Aging is inevitable. Aging well is a choice.
Discipline isn't punishment. It's how you protect your energy, your relationships, your purpose, your freedom.
Health isn't a list of numbers. It's whether you can still move, still think clearly, still love deeply, still play.
You were not made to merely get by. You were made to live fully, love deeply, lead powerfully, and play for life.
The Official Stuff
Board-certified in anesthesiology. Certified in Age Management Medicine, Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy, and Peptide Therapy. Certified life coach. Founder, CEO, and physician at AgeWell, with locations in Austin and Amarillo, Texas. Former Division I collegiate golfer.
I love Jesus, my four kids, and saving marriages.
Still figuring some of it out. Come along for the ride.
Where to Next?
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