Health Optimization Medicine in Charlotte

Health Optimization Medicine (HOMe) is a clinical methodology built around a formal definition of health rather than only a definition of disease. It starts from standard medical assessment and adds a longer view: how well physiology is functioning, how it is changing over time, and whether the balance of building and breaking down in the body is appropriate for where you are in life. It organizes that work across seven interacting pillars: metabolomics, mitochondria, gut-immune health, evolutionary medicine, chronobiology, exposomics, and epigenetics.

I practice concierge longevity medicine. Health Optimization Medicine is the methodology inside it: the definition of health I work from, and the method of measuring, interpreting and rebalancing physiology over the life cycle. It sits on top of conventional assessment, not in place of it. I interpret your physiology longitudinally, in the context of your history, goals, the clinical evidence and standard medical assessment.

The certification is offered through the Health Optimization Medicine and Practice (HOMe/HOPe) program founded by Dr. Ted Achacoso. Health Optimization Medicine (HOMe) is the physician application of the framework, which is what I practice. Health Optimization Practice (HOPe) applies related health-optimization principles in non-clinical practice settings and is not the practice of medicine. HOMe certification is completed in stages, and mine can be verified with the certifying body.

It is an advanced certification offered through Health Optimization Medicine covering the clinical use of peptide hormones in optimization care. It builds on the core HOMe certification, and I hold it. Whether any of that is relevant to you is a clinical question answered from your own history and assessment, not something anyone receives by default.

Yes. Certification is completed in stages, and I have completed all of them, which makes me certified to practice Health Optimization Medicine. You can verify it with the certifying body. I am based in Charlotte and see patients across North Carolina.

They share real ground: both look upstream of a diagnosis and take lifestyle seriously as treatment. HOMe adds an explicit definition of health and a specific seven-pillar structure for the work. In my practice, the more important difference is where it is anchored: in standard medical assessment and the clinical evidence, with a board-certified family physician responsible for the interpretation, and with the understanding that a hypothesis about optimization is not on its own a reason to treat.

A thorough history and a careful read of everything you already have, standard laboratory assessment, and then further testing only when a result is likely to change a decision. From that, a written Precision Health Plan with priorities ranked, and an ongoing relationship in which the Plan is revised as your physiology and your life change. Metabolomics and other advanced testing are tools used when they help, not a package everyone receives.

You apply, I read it myself, and I follow up with you after review. If we are a good fit, care begins with the Precision Health Assessment: one thorough visit, in your home across the Charlotte metro or by video, with your written plan after. Testing is separate unless explicitly included, and its cost is agreed before anything is ordered.