Stay-at-home mom Cristi Harris noticed during COVID that her husband Morgan seemed a little run down.
At first, she chalked it up to depression, but eventually sent him to a doctor, who diagnosed him with low testosterone.
He reacted extremely well to testosterone shots but the catch was, the Harrises live in Cave Creek and the clinic Morgan visited was in Glendale.
“That’s when we thought, ‘You know what, we need to do something up here,” Cristi said.
But a stay-at-home mom and a real estate agent didn’t know anything about opening a medical office until Morgan met Evan Miller, who started Gameday Men’s Health, during a race in Baja.
The next thing you know, Cristi was on a plan to meet him and was opening a Gameday Men’s Health clinic franchise in far north Scottsdale, 33739 N. Scottsdale Road, Suite 101.
But to open, they were required to test the blood of 30 men to ensure their machines were calibrated correctly.
Only, when they tested Morgan’s blood, they found his PSA levels were a little high — it turned out he had prostate cancer.
Of course, it was terrifying at first but Morgan, who was relatively young for prostate cancer at 58, calls the early detection a blessing.
“Prostate cancer, in my opinion, is the best cancer to get if you early detect, because it’s not a life sentence,” Morgan said.
He had his prostrate removed, though a small tumor has grown back. It hasn’t metastasized and he’s going through more therapy, but the situation was a clarion call to the Harrises.
They have taken Gameday’s policy of offering free prostate exams to all men to heart.
“It’s really become a mission for us personally with Morgan’s story,” Cristi said. “We sponsor dozens of golf tournaments every year. We do a lot of charity work with veterans and with the Cave Creek Rodeo. Just basically donating. We’ll even go out to different companies have asked us to come out to their location to test their employees. I joke, I mean, obviously we’re trying to run a business, but we’ve almost turned it into a nonprofit with all of the work that we do.”
September is prostate cancer awareness month and with free exam - done completely done with blood work, there's no digital testing any more - it's a good time to get checked, the Harrises say.
Gameday Men’s Health also offers other services such as testosterone shots, bioidentical hormone replacement (administered either through injections or orally) and peptide therapy.
Cristi calls Morgan the clinic’s best customer. He was supposed to have hip and shoulder surgeries but responded so well to peptide therapy that he didn’t need them any more.
“He’s back to swimming and biking and doing everything ... We always say, come to us first, let’s see what we can do, because surgery should always be your last option,” Cristi said.
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Graber joined Independent Newsmedia, Inc., USA, in February 2023, starting his career as a staff writer covering the City of Scottsdale and was named news editor of the Scottsdale Independent in 2024.
Community: He serves on the altar guild as well as being an usher at St. Mathews Episcopal Church in Chandler.
Education: He earned his BA in creative writing with a minor in journalism from the University of Arizona. He then earned an MS in Mass Communications from the University of Oregon.
Random Fact: He enjoys reading novels by Russian authors.
Hobbies: Playing classical guitar, reading, fishing, going to the gym, watching sports and spending time with his family.
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