A doctor whose whole job is keeping you healthy.Not waiting until you’re sick.
Concierge primary care, longevity medicine, or both. I am NC’s only fully certified Health Optimization Medicine physician: my direct number in your phone, same-day care at home or virtually, and cutting-edge science aimed at building health rather than managing disease. Start with a single consultation or build full concierge care, and see the price before you speak to anyone.
- Board-certified in Family Medicine
- Trained in medical acupuncture
- Medical University of South Carolina
- Third-generation physician
Daniel Tagge, MD
Charlotte, NC
Family Medicine
Health Optimization Medicine
- Board-certified in Family Medicine
- Trained in medical acupuncture
- Medical University of South Carolina
- Third-generation physician
One practice · every level of care
One doctor. Exactly as much doctor as you want.
Virtual and mobile, local and national. Start anywhere on this ladder and move along it as life changes, with the same physician the whole way.
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A single consultation
One thorough visit and a written plan. Your records read in full before we meet. No membership.
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Virtual primary care
Your doctor in your phone: ongoing visits and messaging across North Carolina & Michigan.
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24/7 access
My personal number. Nights, weekends, vacations: you call me, not an answering service.
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Home visits
I come to you, across the Charlotte metro, as often as your care needs it.
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Concierge + longevity
Everything above, with the longevity testing package built in: measure, fix, re-measure.
In-home medical acupuncture can be added to any Charlotte plan.
Two minutes. Transparent prices. No commitment.
The status quo
The system is broken.
The average primary care doctor carries a panel of over 2,500 patients. Does yours really know you?
Good doctors are leaving medicine in record numbers. Losing yours, or finding one at all, gets harder every year.
The system is good at treating disease. But if you want to improve your health, it has nothing to offer. It doesn't even have a definition of health.
The system doesn't see the whole person. It sees a billing code.
What you’re used to
Most medicine waits for disease.
- Twelve rushed minutes with a doctor who looks at the screen more than at you.
- You message the portal about something that's worrying you. Days later, a stranger replies.
- “Your labs are normal. See you next year.” But normal was never the goal.
- A bill for every visit, a charge for every test, and no idea what anything costs until it arrives.
Everyone needs a good doctor.
Would you like one you can reach 24/7, who comes to your house and is trained to make you healthier?
If so, keep reading!
What you get with me
One doctor who knows you.Everything flows from that.
Reach me anytime
My cell phone, 24/7. Same-day answers, unlimited virtual visits. No portal, no nurse line.
Medicine that comes to you
Sick visits, your annual exam, acupuncture. At your kitchen table, across the Charlotte metro.
Trained to make you healthier
Longevity medicine built in. I measure your health, build the plan to improve it, and then re-test. Not just disease management. Test, don't guess.
What longevity medicine actually is
Disease doesn’t start as disease. It starts as chemistry.
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Metabolism
Every chronic disease starts here: hormones drifting, nutrients depleting, inflammation smoldering. You feel it as fatigue, fog, and weight that won't move. Your labs still read “normal.”
Where I work
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Damage
Left alone, drift becomes damage: insulin resistance, plaque in the arteries, muscle and bone quietly lost. Still mostly silent. Still largely reversible, if anyone is looking.
Where I work
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Pathology
Then one day it has a name: diabetes, heart disease, dementia. This is where insurance medicine finally begins, decades after the chemistry went wrong.
Where insurance medicine begins
Longevity medicine works at stage one. We measure your metabolism directly with blood work, metabolomics, and gut testing, then fix what’s drifting and re-measure. That’s the discipline: catch it while it’s chemistry, not catastrophe.
It’s built into the top of the care ladder, or added to any plan as a testing package. Read how the longevity practice works.
Meet the Physician
Trained in disease. Practicing for health.
Hi. I’m Daniel Tagge. A husband, father, and third-generation physician. I trained at MUSC and completed my residency at Carolinas Medical Center. I spent years inside the conventional system treating illness. I made the difficult choice to leave and build a practice that delivers the care I know is better.
“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 founderMy promise to you
No markup on anything I order.
Labs and prescriptions at my cost, invoices visible. Wholesale discounts pass to you.
Not thrilled? Full refund in your first 30 days, pro-rated after that. One question only: what could I have done better?
— Daniel Tagge, MD
I practice as a health fiduciary: I never profit from what I order, so you know every recommendation is for your health alone. My fee is for my time, attention and access. Testing already performed isn’t refundable.
Getting started
How to sign up.
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Build your care plan
Answer a few questions and watch your plan build itself, price included. Two minutes, transparent numbers, no commitment.
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We talk it through
I call you, we walk through the plan you built, adjust anything, and make sure I'm what you're looking for. Then I build your exact package in my system, priced as you saw it.
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Your first visit is in your home
I come to you, in the comfort of your environment. That alone tells me a lot about your health. We'll walk through your preliminary Precision Care Plan and decide next steps together. Prefer virtual? That's an option too.
The membership
One membership. Everything I do.
Concierge Primary Care
with longevity medicine built in
- 24/7 direct access to your doctor
- Unlimited virtual visits
- House calls across the Charlotte metro
- Your annual well visit, at your home
- Home acupuncture, included
- Labs & medications at cost, invoices visible
Who I built this for
- You want to live as long, and as high a quality of life, as you possibly can.
- You would rather measure it now than be handed a diagnosis later.
- You would rather do it alongside your spouse than alone.
If that is you, you are exactly who this practice is for.
When you’re ready to go deeper
The full Health Optimization Medicine approach: reducing the metabolic damage that drives aging and disease. Metabolomics, DEXA, VO₂ max, and preventive imaging when it’s warranted. This testing is billed separately, at cost.
How the longevity work fits →Questions
Common questions.
It's an information-only call, a chance for us to meet. Complimentary, no commitment required. You'll learn how I practice and what the membership includes, and you're welcome to tell me what's going on with your health; I'll listen. If I can't serve your needs, I'll say so and refer you where I think is best.
If this sounds like you
You spent years trading your health for everything else.It’s time to get it back.
- You've been told everything looks normal. You know you could feel better.
- You handle it for everyone else. You're last on your own list.
- You want the cutting edge applied to you. Not just more years, better ones.
- A parent's diagnosis changed how you think. The stakes are different now.
Later works just fine until you have no choice.
The horizon
Healthspan is the goal.Longevity is its echo.
Some things shift in weeks. The deeper work takes years, and the relationship that supports it has to last just as long. The only version of this that fails is the one that starts too late.
Not ready to talk?
Take our Longevity Assessment to get a roadmap.