A holistic doctor in Charlotte who is also a board-certified MD.

Holistic medicine means treating the whole person rather than the isolated complaint, and reading systems together instead of one organ at a time. It is a philosophy rather than a license, which is why the word covers everyone from a physician to a health coach. In my practice it means I read seven biological systems as one picture: metabolomics, mitochondria, the gut and immune system, evolutionary context, circadian rhythm, environmental exposure, and epigenetics. What makes it clinical rather than philosophical is that each of those is measured.

No. I am Daniel Tagge, MD, board-certified in family medicine by the American Board of Family Medicine, trained at the Medical University of South Carolina with residency at Carolinas Medical Center here in Charlotte. I share the lifestyle-first instinct that draws people to naturopathic care. I can also order any lab, prescribe, read imaging, and coordinate with your cardiologist or your surgeon when that is what the situation calls for.

It shares some ground with it. Functional medicine opened up the question of what sits upstream of a diagnosis, and I hold that interest too. I practice concierge longevity medicine, with Health Optimization Medicine as the methodology: an explicit definition of health, and a method for interpreting your physiology over time in the context of your history, goals, the clinical evidence and standard medical assessment. A hypothesis about optimization is not, on its own, a reason to treat. Where the approach sits beside functional, integrative and preventive medicine is explained on the longevity page.

Yes, when it is the right answer. Lifestyle first, bioidenticals second, phytoceuticals third, pharmaceuticals as a last resort. That ordering is not an ideology about avoiding drugs. It is about not reaching for one before the things underneath it have actually been worked, and about knowing what a medication is correcting because I measured it first.

I do not build margin into supplements. Where a nutrient gap is real and measured, I write for it at the supplier's own price with no markup from me, and the same holds for every lab I order: billed by the laboratory at its own price, $0 markup. A supplement-sales model is a conflict of interest I did not want to carry into my exam room, and it is one of the reasons I chose the framework I did.

Yes. I trained in medical acupuncture at the Helms Medical Institute, and for Charlotte-metro patients I practice it during home visits. It is used where it does real work: pain, sleep, stress physiology, headache, and musculoskeletal patterns. It sits alongside the testing rather than instead of it. If it interests you, mention it when we talk.

It depends on you. The starting point is a thorough history, a careful review of what you already have, and standard laboratory assessment. Markers such as ApoB, Lp(a), hs-CRP, fasting insulin, a fuller thyroid panel or hormones with SHBG are added when the picture calls for them, and deeper testing is ordered when the result is likely to change a decision rather than as a matter of course. Everything is interpreted in the context of your history and goals and written up as one prioritized plan rather than a stack of PDFs.

Yes. I work alongside the doctor you keep and hold the longitudinal longevity work: my practice is concierge longevity medicine, not a replacement for conventional primary care. Conventional medicine is essential: I work with the clinicians you already see, and the Plan I write is deliberately in a form you can hand to any of them.

No. The practice is cash-pay direct care. Not running insurance is what makes the at-cost labs and the unhurried visits possible in the first place.