Direct Health Optimization Membership
NC’s only certified Health Optimization Medicine physician.
Built for the long arc of your health.
The Founder’s Tier is limited to 30 founding members.
Founding rate locked in.
Want to talk to me first? Book a 20-minute call.
Why this exists
Medicine was built for disease. Not for you.
Conventional medicine is designed to screen for, diagnose, and manage disease. Concierge medicine offers better access to the same disease-oriented system. Functional medicine claims to get to the root cause of your disease.
All three are focused on disease.
So who is in charge of taking care of your health?
Well, you should be. And I want to help. It’s why I founded this practice.
The Physician
I left conventional medicine. This is why.
I’m a third-generation physician. I trained at MUSC and completed my residency at Carolinas Medical Center. I spent years inside the conventional system trying to make it work before finally leaving to build a practice oriented around health, not disease.
I’m board-certified in family medicine and fully certified in Health Optimization Medicine, the only clinical framework built around a definition of health.
The framework
Beyond disease management
Health Optimization Medicine starts with a definition for health. From there, clinical metabolomics shows what’s actually happening in your biology. I read your data against optimal ranges, not disease cutoffs. The result: a plan built from your data, not a protocol built for everyone.
What’s included
What you get for $150 a month.
After you enroll, send me your data.
Our first visit: as much time as it takes to set a foundation.
Then I build your Plan.
Everything after lives in the app. Message me. I respond. Schedule your monthly video check-ins. Your health, in your pocket.
- Your Precision Health Plan, built from your data
- Direct access to me through the mobile app
- Monthly physician video check-in
- Wholesale supplement access
- Wholesale lab testing
This is not primary care or urgent care. It’s something medicine hasn’t offered before. Focused exclusively on optimizing your health.
The deliverable
Inside the Plan.
A clinical synthesis of your health, specific to you.
- Your priorities, ranked by impact
- Your biology, interpreted against optimal ranges
- Your protocol, with the reasoning behind every recommendation
- What to track over the next thirty days
The investment
Health is the long game.
What matters in your biology, muscle, mitochondria, microbiome, resilience, takes years to build. The relationship that builds it should take just as long.
Many other programs run into the thousands for three to six months and just end. This isn’t a program. It’s a practice. The work compounds.
A physician who actually knows you. Your patterns. Your history. Your biology. That takes years to build.
$150 a month. $1,800 a year. Your supplements run 35% below retail. For many patients, that alone covers the membership.
The price was never the point. The relationship is.
The Founder’s Tier is limited to 30 founding members.
Founding rate locked in.
The guarantee
The first 30 days are on me.
If by the end of your first month I’m not the right physician for you, email me and I’ll refund the membership in full. No phone call. No retention pitch.
HSA/FSA cards accepted.
In their words
A different kind of physician.
Dr Tagge was fantastic. He was approachable and professional, answering questions and outlining a plan- all while truly, actively listening. I didn't expect the level of care that he provided, but I'm confident in his assessment and the plan we have moving forward towards better health!
Katie C.
Former Patient
Dr. Tagge takes a different approach to the health system that is tailored specifically to the individual and does not group you with the masses based on standard data. He evaluates your metrics and creates a health plan that is just for you.
Gordon G.
Gibson Properties LLC
I'm an optometrist who built and sold a practice. I know what good medicine looks like and I know what it costs to deliver it. 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. If you're tired of being told everything looks fine, or you know your health could be better, start here.
Matt V.
Optometrist, Practice Founder
Talk first
Not ready to enroll? Let’s talk.
This is a fit call to see if my practice is right for you. Twenty minutes. No agenda. No pitch.
Complimentary. Not a clinical visit. No doctor-patient relationship is formed. Information only.
Questions
Frequently asked.
Concierge medicine is better access to your provider and the conventional system. This is different. You have direct access to me, but I'm delivering a categorically different type of care. Think of me as your health optimization concierge.
No. Functional medicine looks for the root cause of your disease. Health Optimization Medicine looks for the root cause of your health. Same tools, different foundation.
No. We do not provide primary care or urgent care services. We recommend you maintain a relationship with a primary care provider. I'm happy to communicate with that provider directly and give you documentation of our work and recommendations to share with them.
No. My fees are cash-pay, which means I work for you, not a payer. Labs and prescriptions may be covered by your insurance plan depending on your benefits. I provide superbills for you to submit toward your deductible.
Yes. I'm a board-certified family physician with full prescribing authority.
Yes. Recent labs are a great starting point. Your health is a function of everything, what you eat, what you're exposed to, how you sleep, how you move, your stress, your history. I want all of it. The patterns are where the work happens.
First visit at enrollment. Monthly check-ins. Messaging in between.
Currently licensed in North Carolina. Multi-state licensing is in process. If you're outside NC, book a call and we'll figure it out.
Cancel anytime through your portal. No phone calls. First month is fully refundable.
Because your health is a lifelong project. I'd rather be your physician for ten years than your consultant for six months.
Begin now
No reason not to start.
This is for you if your labs are normal and you don’t feel normal. If you’ve never had a physician focused on your health. If you want something medicine hasn’t offered before. This is medicine built for the long arc of your health.
The Founder’s Tier is limited to 30 founding members.
Founding rate locked in.
Want to talk to me first? Book a 20-minute call.