Health Optimization Medicine in Charlotte.

Health Optimization Medicine (HOMe) is a clinical framework that measures against optimal physiological function rather than against disease thresholds. It is built across seven evidence-based pillars: metabolomics, mitochondria, gut-immune health, evolutionary medicine, chronobiology, exposomics, and epigenetics. The work is to find the early signal of dysfunction long before a diagnosis is possible, and to intervene then.

The certification is offered through the Health Optimization Medicine and Practice (HOMe/HOPe) program founded by Dr. Ted Achacoso. It is a rigorous, multi-stage certification for physicians and practitioners. There are currently fewer than a hundred fully certified HOMe physicians worldwide.

I am the only fully certified Health Optimization Medicine physician in North Carolina. I am based in Charlotte and see patients across the state.

There is overlap. Both look upstream of disease. HOMe is narrower and more rigorous about evidence: it uses defined optimal ranges, structured testing, and a specific seven-pillar framework. The certification is harder to earn and the practice is more standardized across physicians who hold it.

In my practice it looks like a structured workup against the seven pillars, a written Precision Health Plan that prioritizes by impact, and an ongoing relationship in which the Plan is revised as your biology shifts. The standard diagnostic baseline includes Metabolomix+, the GI Effects gut panel, a food sensitivity panel, and an advanced blood panel.

Start with a free Precision Call. From there, three ways in: a single physician-interpreted panel from $197, the Precision Workup from $3,000, or the Precision Partnership at $150 a month with every lab at cost. The rate rises as the practice grows, and members keep the rate they joined at.