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Wallin said as she was receiving her rst of four NAD infusions, she could begin to feel her ngers again.

“I was like, `Wow, this is incredible,’” she said. “I wasn’t doing cardio at the time. I wasn’t doing anything di erently. Just those infusions helped me so much.”

Of all the items on Hydrate’s menu, the NAD infusions especially aren’t cheap. Wallin paid north of $1,000 for the four IVs.

But for Wallin, it wasn’t so much a matter of “Can I a ord to do this?” It was more a matter of “Can I a ord not to do this”?

“I’m doing [an NAD injection] once a month right now because I love the results and don’t want them to go away,” Wallin said.

Hydrate owner Jessica Hackney, a nurse by trade, said Wallin is just one kind of client who walks through her doors. She said she serves a lot of athletes (CrossFiters, cyclists, hikers, powerlifters, triathletes); middle-aged men and women who are trying to slow down the aging process; and people with autoimmune diseases such as celiac disease, lupus and Lyme disease.

A local dentist also refers all of his clients to Hydrate for high-dose vitamin C IVs and injections, Hackney said.

“It’s like bartending for healthy people because you’re making them these cocktails to help them feel better, no matter what their situation is. It’s so cool,” she said. Also on Hydrate’s menu of IVs are “ e Katie Cocktail,” “Myers Cocktail,” “Anti-Aging,” “Athletic Performance,” “Immunity,” “Jet Lag” and “Recovery.” Customers can also build their own IV if they so choose. e positive e ects of the injections typically last between four and six days, depending on the person’s metabolism and how active he or she is, Hackney said. Regarding the IVs, Hackney recommends getting them once a month for maintenance purposes.

Hydrate also o ers seven di erent vitamin injections. e injections go into a person’s muscle or tissue and are absorbed at a slower rate, whereas the IVs go directly into the bloodstream and are absorbed immediately.

So why can’t people just go to a grocery store and pick up several bottles of vitamins and take them orally?

“You’re going to absorb less than 20% of that because those vitamins have to be broken down and by the time they’ve been broken down, hardly anything is absorbed. And so we call it `expensive urine’ when people pay a lot of money for overthe-counter vitamins,” Hackney said. “With this, you absorb 100% of it and it’s instant. It’s liquid, and that liquid is the purest form of that vitamin. It’s already broken down and ready to be absorbed.”

And what would she say to people who have a fear of needles?

“Nobody likes needles, but there’s nothing that stays in your body. After the poke has been initiated, it’s a little plastic catheter that stays. You can move, bend, walk around, do whatever you want with it,” she said. “Also, I say to try it just once, because once people see how they feel with it, most of them sign up for a membership.

“To be honest, I’ve never had anyone say they didn’t like it or didn’t feel better.”

Hydrate IV Bar is located at 9245 S. Broadway, suite 600, in Highlands Ranch. A monthly membership is $139. e facility also has walk-in prices. People can learn more at highlandsranch. hydrateivbar.com.

All-American USFL nose tackle by the Pro Football Review in 1984, Tim said. Je then su ered a major knee injury, bringing his football career to a close. But as an athlete, he was only getting started.

At a gym in San Antonio, Je was o ered the opportunity to train to be a wrestler.

“Je , with his impressive physique, had done some bodybuilding competitions,” Tim said. “He trained for four months for his debut in professional wrestling in 1985.”

He carried the nickname “ e Missouri Tiger” into the new sport, competing for the Universal Wrestling Federation, World Class Champion Wrestling, United States Wrestling Association and American Wrestling Federation.

Among many accomplishments, he won the USWA World Tag Team Championship twice with Je Jarrett. From stardom to the streets

After 12 years as a professional wrestler, Je decided to start a career that would take less of a toll on his body. He worked successfully in the automobile eld, but after a few years, he began to face some personal and nancial struggles.

“In 1999, Je left Gaylord Sales and Leasing and went to work for another dealer,” Tim said. “ ings didn’t work out well for Je and he blamed his personal nancial conditions and turned to becoming a bank robber.”

Je committed a couple bank robberies and served about 12 years in prison, Tim said at the service. While Je was in prison, his wife passed away.

“ at was a crushing blow to my brother,” Tim said. “After his release from prison, with no hope, Je went to live on the streets while selfmedicating with whatever he could nd.”

Treasure House of Hope

For about two decades, Tim said, he prayed for his brother. In 2020,

Jeff said he was ready for a change. This is when he started participating in the Christian-based recovery program, Treasure House of Hope.

“It’s a house and it’s a safe place where broken, hurt … people come, voluntarily come here, and we saturate them with love, compassion, and give them hope for a better future, a better tomorrow,” said Anderson, the executive director.

At the home, Je joined other men who were struggling with addiction, mental health, homelessness and other challenges in a journey to improve themselves physically, mentally and spiritually.

During the year-long program, Je developed an identity in Christianity and was baptized. For his family and many in his church community, these decisions were monumental.

“ e best parts of the Je Gaylord story have been the last two years,” his nephew TJ Gaylord said at the memorial. “Je Gaylord nally coming to the Lord ... makes the story complete, makes it a story of joy instead of one of tragedy.”

After graduating from Treasure House of Hope in Aurora, Je stayed at the house to support the men by providing nutrition guidance and physical training.

“Everybody just loved Je , you know?” Anderson said. “He was just that kind of guy. He just always tried to help somebody else … that’s just who he was.”

Living at Treasure House came with its challenges for Je , however. He was older than most of the other program participants and he tended to bottle up his frustration and pain, said housing director Rick Alston.

As time went on, Je began drinking again, Alston said, turning to alcohol as a remedy for signi cant pain from his athletic career. is resurfaced behavior was against house rules and began to impact others who also struggled with alcoholism.

“ e biggest problem that we began to have is that it started to a ect others in the home,” Alston said. “It did get to the point where we just could not have him in the home.” e Treasure House team found several alternative treatment facility options for Je , but he decided to return to the streets, Alston said.

Champion of love

On the day Je died, Tina Hayhurst, executive director of the

Englewood organization Movement 5280, informed his family of his passing.

Movement 5280 acts as a support system for many who are unhoused, o ering shelter, food, clothing, showers, mental health support, housing navigation, health and dental services, addiction recovery services, Christian Bible studies and more.

Hayhurst said she wishes more people would recognize that those who struggle with homelessness are human.

“When you get to know them, they’re a person and they’re somebody’s son and daughter and uncle — and they’re not that much different from us,” she said. “We have a fear of what people on the streets are like. And when you sit with them and you have a cup of co ee with them, you realize that they’re just the same (as) us.”

During the last year of his life, Je re-started using several services that he relied on before Treasure House, including Movement 5280. Not only was he a part of the community, but he constantly brought others to help connect them with services.

“You can talk about a lot about his days in football … e champion I saw in him was, while he was on the street, he was helping others on the street to get services,” said Jim Hayhurst, a board member for the organization. “I don’t know that, if I was living on the streets, I could be as sel essly generous as he was in trying to help others.”

Je leaves behind the legacy of a gentle giant who, despite his challenges and mistakes, lived hard and loved even harder.

For Anderson, who has experienced homelessness herself, people like Je are worth getting to know.

“People are so beautiful,” she said. “Before you judge, before you be critical and stereotype, take a moment. It takes just as much energy to be negative and to be judgmental as it does to go and say ‘Hey, what’s your name? How did you get here? What could we do to get you out of here?’... Just share some compassion. Just share some love. at’s all it takes.”