My calling
The Physician Behind the Practice
Medicine was never a career choice in my family. It was a calling passed down. My parents are surgeons. Both grandfathers were physicians. I grew up understanding that medicine means being of service.
That understanding drove me into medical school and through the challenges of residency. Eventually, it drove me out of the conventional system and toward something that desperately needs to be built. A practice focused on health, not disease.
My training
From disease to health.
I trained at the Medical University of South Carolina and completed my family medicine residency at Carolinas Medical Center. I spent years in conventional practice delivering underserved care in both rural and urban areas.
The training was rigorous. The system was not enough.
The questions that drove me were not the questions conventional medicine was built to answer. What is health? What is healing? What is medicine? I could not find those answers inside the system. So I started looking outside it.
My transformation
I understood that conventional medicine was missing the mark but not because of bad physicians. Because of the wrong framework.
When medicine is built around the origin of disease, you get a system optimized for managing sickness.
I wanted to build something oriented around the origin of health.
That shift changes everything. What you measure. What you treat. What you call healthy. I could not find that inside of the existing system. So I left to build it.
The Future
A Standard of Care for Health
The answers I was looking for existed. They were just not inside conventional medicine. I found them in Health Optimization Medicine, a clinical framework built around a definition of health rather than the detection of disease.
I completed the full HOMe and HOPe curriculum, every module, including the advanced Peptide Hormones certification. I am one of a small number of practitioners in the United States to have completed the full curriculum. I also trained in medical acupuncture at the Helms Medical Institute, where the US Military sends its physicians.
This is a rigorous, evidence-informed clinical system built by physicians for physicians. These are the domains it operates across:
What was built
Tagge Precision Health.
The practice built around a definition of health the conventional system never had. Health is an optimal physiological state characterized by the absence of disease and the balance of metabolism, anabolism and catabolism, according to where you are in your life cycle.
Healthspan is what we are after. Longevity is its echo.