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.
No enrollment fee. Cancel anytime.
The framework
The seven pillars of HOMe.
Health Optimization Medicine is a structured framework, not a brand. It reads across these seven pillars and intervenes where the biology says to.
Metabolomics
Reading nutrient status, mitochondrial function, and detoxification through organic acids, amino acids, and oxidative stress markers.
Mitochondria
How the cell makes energy. Mitochondrial health as the upstream lever for fatigue, performance, and aging.
Gut-Immune Health
Stool testing to read digestive function, the microbiome, inflammation, and the gut-immune axis that drives systemic disease.
Evolutionary medicine
Aligning intervention with the physiology humans actually evolved with, not the environment we now live in.
Chronobiology
Circadian rhythm as a master regulator of hormones, metabolism, and recovery.
Exposomics
The total environmental load: diet, toxins, electromagnetic exposure, light, chemicals, and what they do to the body.
Epigenetics
How environment, behavior, and exposure shape gene expression over a lifetime.
Written by
Daniel Tagge, MD
Board-certified family physician. North Carolina’s only physician certified in Health Optimization Medicine. Third-generation physician. NPI 1225562218.
About Dr. TaggeThe seven pillars
Every biological system I read.
HOMe is built on seven biological pillars. Each one gets its own page, written for the people I treat.
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 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 Precision Call. Membership is access to me, with no enrollment fee, billed month to month. From there I order your diagnostic baseline (you pay the lab vendor's price at cost, separate from the membership) and interpret it into your written Plan as part of the relationship.
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Want HOMe applied to your biology?
A complimentary 30-minute call by phone or video with me. You tell me what is going on. I tell you how I would approach it. You decide if I am the right physician for you.
No enrollment fee. Cancel anytime.