Rebuild the capacity your company depends on.
Doctor-led performance medicine for founders
Prime helps founders, executives and investors rebuild energy, sharpen focus and protect long-term health without burning through themselves.
6-month doctor-led program · €6,000 · Applications reviewed personally
Founders rarely break because they are weak.
They break because demand keeps rising while biological capacity silently falls.
At first, you compensate. More caffeine. More discipline. More control. Fewer breaks. Later, the cost becomes harder to ignore: lighter sleep, slower recovery, lower focus, poorer stress tolerance, and a body that no longer responds the way it used to.
Energy drops
You can still function, but your baseline is lower and recovery takes longer.
Focus narrows
Decisions feel heavier.
Deep work becomes harder. Creativity has less room.
The margin disappears
You are still performing, but at a higher biological cost.
Burnout is not just a mental health problem.
It is often a biological capacity problem.
At Prime, founder performance is viewed through physiology: metabolism, inflammation, sleep, autonomic balance, glucose regulation, nutrient status, training load, hormones, and recovery capacity.
The goal is not to push you harder. The goal is to rebuild the biological foundation that allows you to lead, think, train, create, and live with more range.
Less survival. More capacity.
Medical depth, built around founder reality.
Prime combines clinical reasoning, performance physiology and practical execution for people carrying high cognitive, emotional and operational load.
01
Assess
We map symptoms, personal history, biomarkers, sleep, recovery, metabolism, stress load and performance demands.
02
Rebuild
We create a personalized plan to restore energy, cognition, recovery and metabolic flexibility.
03
Integrate
We translate the plan into habits and decisions that fit your company, travel, family and training reality.
04
Sustain
We help you protect your capacity over time, not just feel better for a few weeks.
Flagship Program
Prime Founder Program
A 6-month doctor-led performance medicine program for founders, executives and investors who want to rebuild energy, focus, recovery and long-term health.
€6,000 for 6 months
What’s included
Initial medical and performance assessment
Baseline and mid-program DUTCH Plus and Organic Acids testing
Lab and biomarker review
Personalized health-performance strategy
Sleep, recovery, nutrition, training and stress architecture
Follow-up consultations and plan adjustments
Wearable-informed feedback when relevant
Transition into long-term maintenance
Built for serious people.
Not for everyone.
This is for you if:
You are a founder, executive, investor or high-responsibility operator
Your health is good enough to function, but not good enough to perform
You feel energy, focus, sleep or recovery declining
You want medical depth, not wellness noise
You are ready to treat health as infrastructure
This is not for you if:
You want a quick biohack
You want motivation without responsibility
You want generic fitness coaching
You are looking for a one-off lab interpretation
You are not ready to invest time, attention and money into your health
The Prime Method
01
Assess
Month 0-1
We understand what is happening now: symptoms, history, biomarkers, sleep, metabolism, recovery, stress and performance demands.
02
Rebuild
Month 1-4
We build and implement your health-performance strategy across energy, cognition, recovery, training, nutrition,
and stress load.
03
Stabilize
Month 4-6
We turn the work into a sustainable operating system so your body can support your ambition over the long
term.
Led by Dr. Miguel Damas
Medical doctor · Founder of Prime Human Performance · Endurance athlete
I am a medical doctor focused on health, resilience and performance for people carrying high responsibility. My work sits between medicine, physiology, endurance sport and founder reality.
I built Prime for people who do not want to separate health from ambition. The goal is not to slow your life into something unrecognizable. The goal is to rebuild the capacity that lets you lead, think, train, create and live with more freedom.
Trusted by high-performing people
who need more than generic advice.
“The impact on my ability to execute and perform has been huge: I’m now able to operate much closer to the best version of myself, especially when I’m leading demanding and complex projects. In short, it has been life changing.”
Filipa Matos
SVP Special Operations at Remote
“Dr Miguel is 10 years ahead of most medical practitioners. He connects the dots on a bespoke level.”
Marcelo Lebre
Founder and President of Remote
“With Dr. Miguel you finally feel like you're in the 21st century - and then people start noticing it too!”
Miguel Patrício
Head of Venture Capital, InnoWave
“I love having Dr. Miguel on my side. Together we tackle anything that comes up so I can perform at my best”
Cody Candee
Founder and CEO of Bounce
Your health is not a side project.
It is the infrastructure behind everything you are building.
If your energy, focus or recovery are no longer matching the responsibility you carry, apply for the Prime Founder Program.
Applications are reviewed personally. If there is a fit, we will invite you to a private consultation.