Health Optimization Medicine · Charlotte, NC
Health Optimization Medicine in Charlotte.
I am Dr. Daniel Tagge, MD, North Carolina’s only fully certified Health Optimization Medicine physician. I practice the HOMe framework from Charlotte and serve patients across the state.
The framework
The eight pillars of HOMe.
Health Optimization Medicine is a structured framework, not a brand. It reads across these eight pillars and intervenes where the biology says to.
Clinical metabolomics
Reading mitochondrial function, nutrient status, and detoxification through organic acids, amino acids, and oxidative stress markers.
Gut-immune system
Stool testing to read digestive function, the microbiome, inflammation, and the gut-immune axis that drives systemic disease.
Epigenetics
How environment, behavior, and exposure shape gene expression over a lifetime.
Bioenergetics
How the cell makes energy. Mitochondrial health as the upstream lever for fatigue, performance, and aging.
Evolutionary medicine
Aligning intervention with the physiology humans actually evolved with, not the environment we now live in.
Exposomics
The total environmental load: diet, toxins, electromagnetic exposure, light, chemicals, and what they do to the body.
Chronobiology
Circadian rhythm as a master regulator of hormones, metabolism, and recovery.
Peptide hormones
Advanced clinical use of peptide hormones, when the biology and the goals call for them.
Questions
Common questions about Health Optimization Medicine.
Health Optimization Medicine (HOMe) is a clinical framework that measures against optimal physiological function rather than against disease thresholds. It is built across eight evidence-based pillars: clinical metabolomics, the gut-immune system, epigenetics, bioenergetics, evolutionary medicine, exposomics, chronobiology, and peptide hormones. 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 eight-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 eight 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.
Every relationship starts with a free Precision Call. Twenty minutes. You describe what you are trying to solve and I tell you whether the Consult, the Workup, or the Partnership is the right starting point.