About

PRIME HUMAN PERFORMANCE

Hi there!

Welcome and thank you for taking the time to get to know about us.

We want to help you live, perform and achieve beyond average; to get closer to your goals and succeed - however you may define it. That's just it.

But what does it mean?

Let’s consider this:

Why do the best people fall short of their potential and fail? Is it due to lack of pride, ambition or will? Unlikely. They seek to be and perform at their best.

The answer lies elsewhere.

The fact is that merely wanting and hoping is not enough to live our best life and achieve success!

It is also essential to be resilient, energetic, focused, relaxed, and happy.

We don't mean having a million dollars in the bank or finishing an IronMan, but rather:

Coming home with the energy to play with your kids, pursue your dreams, and be able to enjoy life.

Unfortunately, we were made to believe that being, feeling, and living at 100% is too far-fetched and that having optimal physical, brain, and mental performance is too much to ask for. In fact, most live their life being tired, anxious, unfocused, burnt out, and unhappy.

This is why we needed to create

PRIME HUMAN PERFORMANCE

Crazy enough, it started when I, Miguel, chose to be a doctor, back in the early 2000's. However, I didn't want to be a doctor to only help sick people, but rather help healthy people get healthier, and get more out of life. Since then, life threw enough curveballs to put me on a different track, the biggest being the death of my mother.

My mother was one of the most pioneering doctors in the country and founded the Dra. Cristina Sales Clinic, which became a beacon of hope for people with the most complex and unsolved medical cases - she was referred to in a national magazine as "Our Dr. House". That's when I fell in her shoes and kept helping patients from literally all over the world, focusing on beating their chronic diseases, in particular autoimmunity.

  • A breakthrough.

    While on this journey, I kept a soft spot for people who felt tired, burnt out and frustrated about their health and performance level, who were willing to do whatever it took to resume their high-function and ability to keep on going.

    I clearly remember the first time I realized that burnout was not a mental health issue but rather a globally physical one.

  • The power to change.

    By providing resources to improve brain cells’ function and communication while supporting the body's stress responses, a patient in her early 30s was able to recover enough brain power and focus to finish her PhD thesis with flying colors.

    The satisfaction of knowing that I had been part of someone's success was enough to know that this was something I wanted more.

  • Making a difference.

    So I started to focus on entrepreneurs, lawyers, executives, managers and everyone who doesn't settle for the current status and in the process of uncovering the reasons behind their suboptimal health, performance and life. Over the years, I was able to replicate that same impact in people from all over the globe, from Australia to the US, from South Africa to the UK, from Portugal to the Middle East.

Miguel and I met during medical school, and we became very good friends in this period.

As our friendship grew, we discovered multiple common professional interests that lead to this project.

  • College years.

    As a medical student, I struggled with periods of great anxiety through the second half of my masters. It was difficult for me to control it, and peaks of stress began affecting me not only as a student, but also in my personal life. 

  • Beyond Family Medicine.

    This was the time when I began developing a growing interest in the personal performance area. I already knew that I wanted to specialize in Family Medicine in the near future, and some aspects (like focusing on lifestyle modifications) were common to both areas.

  • Exploring new fields.

    Miguel, the other half of this project, was already a resident in Family Medicine, by this time. We were college friends, but only then we discovered that we were both exploring this new area of health improvement.

    He had the chance to begin applying it in his medical practice, mainly through his work at Dra. Cristina Sales Clinic.

    Fortunately, I had the chance to do a small internship with him, to witness firsthand how he was treating people.

  • A different approach.

    Miguel and his more comprehensive personal health approach influenced me on a personal level and were important elements in my recovery process, which, as I began soon to understand, had a lot to do with some performance enhancement principles that we apply to what we do today.

  • Applying new strategies.

    I implemented in myself both the physiological and psychological tools I saw him prescribe to his patients and felt a tremendous difference in me.

    So much so that I started using them with my very own patients through my Family Medicine residency, and was able to have the same impact on other people.

  • The step further.

    Miguel’s approach influenced me, into focusing more on prevention and health optimization strategies from a functional broader perspective.

    So when he invited me to join him in the Prime Human Performance project I jumped right into the possibility of helping people achieve their goals and dreams.

This is the story how we created Prime Human Performance.

It's about helping you get closer to your goals and dreams by optimizing your performance levels.

  • “I am just a doctor who helps people live, work and achieve beyond average and get closer to their goals and dreams. I believe the "body" can never limit what we can achieve but rather help us achieve our goals and fulfill our dreams.”


    He combines his training as a family doctor, in functional and sports medicine and performance coaching with his passion for nutrition, psychology, and health tech to design and implement personalized and precision medicine strategies to help improve the level of health and performance of those who seek the best version of themselves. He is very open about his weight journey and how beating obesity allowed him to regain his life and health; learn what it feels like to be limited by our body, brain and mind; and the power of raising the standards for ourselves.

    Miguel has been working with entrepreneurs, managers and executives from more than 40 countries spread across 5 continents and, over the past few years, he has had the opportunity to speak in Europe, the Middle East and Asia about biohacking, optimizing human health and performance, and how to overcome limits and increase the level of success, both personally and professionally.


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  • He completed his masters in Medicine at Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar (University of Porto), and has a specialization in Family Medicine and postgraduate education in Geriatrics. This background provided the tools to pursuit specific interests in longevity and human metabolism (mainly lipidology).

    Being a professional in a medical speciality with a focus in prevention, this became an area of particular interest.

    From the daily application, with his patients, of strategies aimed at the prevention of pathologies associated with the individual lifestyle; the step further, to health optimization and performance enhancement, revealed itself as a natural path, which he tries to walk as a part of this project.


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