Built by Someone Who’s Done the Work
Mick Owar didn’t build Primal Recovery because it seemed like a good business opportunity. He built it because every skill, obsession, and hard lesson he’d accumulated over a lifetime pointed him toward it — and because he’d seen what happens when people don’t have access to the right tools for their health.
Born and raised in Melbourne, Mick has spent his adult life operating across worlds most people keep separate. Competitive basketball at Big V level.
Twenty years fronting heavy metal bands — including Knightmare AU, signed to German label Megapolis Records — writing, recording, and performing original music with the same obsessive energy he brings to everything else. Muay Thai. Bodybuilding. And running a recovery facility he designed, sourced, and physically built himself from the ground up.
He’s not a guy who dabbles. When something earns his attention, he goes all the way in.
The Obsession That Started It All
Mick’s interest in natural health and performance began in 2009 — long before biohacking became a buzzword. What started as a gym rat’s curiosity evolved into a deep, self-directed study of how the human body actually works — nutrition, recovery, hormones, nervous system regulation, cellular repair. The kind of knowledge you don’t get from a single certification, but from years of reading, testing, and applying it on yourself.
The tipping point came when he invested in a clinical-grade red light therapy machine — the same unit still running at Primal today. He bought it initially to address hair loss and to support his partner’s fertility. Within one month of use, she fell pregnant. Their son is now six months old and, in Mick’s words, strong for his age.
That result didn’t surprise him. It confirmed what he already knew — that these tools work, that most people don’t have access to them, and that someone needed to build a place that changed that.
Ice baths followed. Then infrared sauna. Then the idea kept growing until it became impossible to ignore. In February 2025, Mick pulled the pin and started building.
Blood, Sweat, and No Shortcuts
Primal Recovery opened after twelve months of work that Mick did himself — the design, the sourcing, the physical build, the systems, all of it. No project manager. No team handing him a finished facility. Just a vision and the willingness to make it real through sheer execution.
That’s not a marketing line. It’s visible in the space. Every piece of equipment was chosen deliberately. The steam sauna was custom hand-built in-house — something you won’t find anywhere else on Melbourne’s south side. The flow between heat and cold, the lighting, the energy of the room — it was all considered. Because Mick uses it himself, every single week.
His personal recovery routine runs across all the modalities — ice baths and red light are his anchors, the magnesium spa is where he decompresses, and he cycles through everything else at least once weekly. It keeps him operating at a level that a busy life — new father, business owner, musician, martial artist — demands.
The Supplements
The same obsessive self-experimentation that built Primal Recovery also produced its supplement line.
Rooster Booster came first — a single-scoop formula containing over 20 herbs, developed because Mick was tired of mixing individual compounds and wanted to simplify what worked into one product. The focus was men’s performance and hormonal health. Erectile dysfunction is something most men won’t talk about, but Mick will — because he’s seen what it does to confidence, relationships, and quality of life, and because Rooster Booster addresses it directly and effectively.
Hard Water followed — an electrolyte blend built with the same no-compromise approach. More products are in development. The supplement range sits under the Primal brand for now, with bigger plans behind it.
Why It Actually Matters
Mick wears his heart on his sleeve. He’ll tell you that directly, and you’ll feel it within five minutes of talking to him.
Part of that comes from loss. He has lost two family members to medical negligence. He knows what it does to a family — the fractures it leaves, the ripples that don’t stop. It shaped the way he thinks about health, about prevention, about giving people the tools to take control before the system fails them.
That’s the deeper reason Primal Recovery exists. Not just recovery. Not just performance. But genuine, practical health sovereignty — giving people access to what actually works, explained by someone who actually knows, in a space that respects their intelligence and their effort.
He’s not here to hold your hand. But he will notice things most people miss — in conversation, in how someone carries themselves, in what their body is telling them — and he’ll point you in the right direction if you’re open to it.
What He’s Building
In five years, Mick wants Primal Recovery to be the ultimate hub for health and performance seekers in Melbourne’s south — and beyond. The facility, the supplements, the knowledge, the community. A full ecosystem built around one idea: that the people willing to do what’s needed deserve access to what works.
Every skill he’s built across a lifetime — the discipline of competitive sport, the creative execution of twenty years in music, the physical demands of Muay Thai and bodybuilding, the obsessive study of natural health — all of it lives inside Primal Recovery.
It’s not a coincidence. It’s the whole point.
