The Longevity Baseline
Your health, measured properly.All 200 markers of it.
A standard annual measures about 40 markers, and nearly every one is looking for disease that has already arrived. This measures more than 200, read against optimal ranges instead of disease cutoffs. It is the foundation the rest of your care gets built on.
Talk to Dr. TaggeOne free call. No obligation either way.
What a standard annual sees
Forty markers. Then two hundred.
Standard annual physical
About 40 markers
The Longevity Baseline
More than 200 markers
The forty are not wrong. They are answering a different question.
What gets measured
Three panels. Three different questions.
Each panel sees something the other two cannot. Read separately they are three folders of results. Read together they are one picture.
01
Advanced blood
Hormones, thyroid, nutrient status, inflammation, and the cardiometabolic markers a standard draw leaves out.
ApoB · Lp(a) · hs-CRP · fasting insulin · full thyroid · sex hormones with binding globulin · homocysteine · ferritin and iron studies
02
Organic acids
A metabolomic read from urine. How your mitochondria are running, where your B vitamins actually sit, what your detoxification pathways are carrying, and where the bottlenecks are.
Mitochondrial energy intermediates · neurotransmitter metabolites · functional vitamin markers · oxidative stress · bacterial and yeast metabolites
03
The gut
A full stool analysis with food sensitivity testing. Digestion, absorption, inflammation, and the microbiome, which quietly decides how much of everything else lands.
Pancreatic elastase · calprotectin · secretory IgA · short-chain fatty acids · bacterial and fungal culture · food sensitivity panel
All of it read through Health Optimization Medicine and synthesized into one picture. That is what makes it a foundation rather than a folder of results.
How it runs
Three stages, about two months
Metabolomics and stool analysis take the time they take. Reading them together is the point, so nothing gets interpreted until all of it is back.
01
The intake
A visit at your kitchen table. Full history, exam, and a look at what you live in and how you move. I collect the specimens there and order your blood in advance at a Quest near you, so none of the logistics land on you.
02
The measurement
Three panels and more than 200 markers, six to eight weeks while the labs run. You have my number the whole time, not only at the end.
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The synthesis
This is the work. Every result read together against optimal ranges rather than disease cutoffs, then walked through with you at your table, marker by marker, until it makes sense.
The deliverable
You keep the Precision Health Plan
Not a portal login, and not a stack of PDFs from three labs. One written document in plain language: what your chemistry shows, what matters most and why, and the protocol to start. Every recommendation traces back to a specific finding. If I cannot point to the marker that prompted it, it does not go in the plan.
Thirty days of direct access afterward, so the first month of doing the work is not done alone.
The price
Two formats, by where the visits happen.
In your home
Charlotte metro
Two home visits. I collect the specimens myself, and the visit includes the context that needs me in the room: what you live in, and how you move.
Virtual
Anywhere in North Carolina
Two virtual visits. The kits ship to you and your blood is drawn at a lab near you. Same panels, same synthesis, same plan.
The testing is the same either way. The panels are billed at my actual cost, with the invoice visible, and I make nothing on them. What changes between the two is whether I come to you.
I perform every visit myself. If I’m full when you call, I’ll tell you when I can start.
Talk to Dr. TaggeWe decide together whether this is the right measurement for you.
My commitment to you.
The Health Fiduciary Standard
When I recommend something, it's because you need it, not because I make money on it.
The Fire Your Doctor Guarantee
Sixty days to decide it wasn't worth it, and the fee comes back.
The Same Day Guarantee
Reach me during business hours and I respond that same day. If I don't, your thirty days of access extends by thirty more.
Every panel on this page is read by me
Daniel Tagge, MD. Board-certified family physician, fully certified in Health Optimization Medicine. No nurse practitioner, no algorithm, and no report generated by the lab and forwarded to you with a signature on it. I do the intake, I read the results, and I sit with you while we go through them.
More about how I practice →Worth it if.
This is for you if
- You want to know what your biology is doing, not whether you have crossed a line yet.
- You have symptoms nobody has explained and standard panels keep coming back fine.
- You are already doing the work and want to know what to aim it at.
- You want the measurement once, properly, before deciding anything else.
“I came to Daniel after trying everything. He found bottlenecks in my metabolism that nobody had even looked for. The work he does is a different category of medicine.”
How this relates to the practice.
Members of the Private Physician Year get their testing at cost with interpretation included as part of ongoing care. A Longevity Baseline can be the way into the practice or a one-time measurement, whichever serves you.
Common questions
Find out what is actually going on.
One free call. We decide together whether this is the right measurement for you, and if it is, I will tell you when I can start.