A doctor whose whole job is keeping you healthy.Not waiting until you’re sick.
One physician for all of it: concierge primary care plus the deep testing and planning that add healthy years.
- My direct number in your phone
- Same-day care, at home or virtually
- NC's only fully certified Health Optimization Medicine™ physician
Start with a consultation, specialty labs, or build your full concierge care and longevity plan.
- Medical University of South Carolina
- Board-certified Family Medicine
- Health Optimization Specialist
- Helms Medical Acupuncture
- Medical University of South Carolina
- Board-certified Family Medicine
- Health Optimization Specialist
- Helms Medical Acupuncture
If this sounds like you
You built the life.Now build the health to live it.
- You've been told everything looks normal. You know that's not the same as healthy. You want certainty.
- You handle it for everyone else. You're last on your own list. Here, you go first.
- You want the latest science applied to you. Not just more years, better ones.
- A diagnosis or a loss close to you changed how you think. The stakes are different now.
- You finally have the time you worked for. You want the strength to enjoy it for years to come.
Later works right up until it doesn’t.
The status quo
The system is broken.
Twelve rushed minutes with a doctor watching the screen, not you. The average PCP carries over 2,500 patients. Yours doesn't have time to know you.
You message the portal about something that is worrying you. Days later, a stranger replies.
“Your labs are normal. See you next 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.
A bill for every visit, a charge for every test, and no idea what anything costs until it arrives.
I built this practice to fix every one of these.
Unhurried time, my direct number, health as the actual goal, and every price stated up front.
What you get with me
It all comes from one thing:a doctor who actually knows you.
One physician, both jobs
Board-certified family medicine: your concierge primary care doctor, your longevity specialist, or both in the same physician.
In your home or on your screen
House calls across the Charlotte metro, virtual care across North Carolina and Michigan, and 24/7 access to my personal number if you want it.
Start small if you like
A consult or a lab panel is enough to find out how different this attention feels. No membership required to begin.
Meet the Physician
Third-generation physician. First to practice this way.
Hi. I’m Daniel Tagge, a husband and father. I trained at MUSC, completed my residency at Carolinas Medical Center, and spent years inside the conventional system treating illness. I left to build the practice I believe medicine has to become: measured to the molecule, enabled by the best technology, and stubbornly human.
“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 practice
One doctor. Order exactly as much doctor as you need.
Based in Charlotte, in your home or on your screen. Come for a single answer or for complete care, and move between them as life changes. Same physician either way.
01
A lab panel
Order the testing a standard visit will not, drawn at Quest and returned with my written interpretation. From $197, no membership.
Explore the panels02
A single consultation
One thorough visit. I read your complete history and prior records before we meet, and you leave with a written plan.
How the visit works03
Virtual primary care
Your doctor in your phone, across North Carolina and Michigan. Add 24/7 access to my personal number.
How membership works04
The Longevity Program
Quarterly testing, protocols, and retests. Your metabolism measured and corrected on a schedule, not guessed at.
How the program works05
Concierge care
House calls across the Charlotte metro, around-the-clock access, and your testing and prescriptions handled for you.
The concierge practiceIn-home medical acupuncture can be added to any Charlotte plan.
Two minutes. Transparent prices. No commitment.
Where longevity medicine fits in
Disease doesn’t start as disease. It starts as chemistry.
Longevity is a buzzword now, so let me be precise about what I mean by it. Healthspan is the goal; longevity is the echo. Every chronic disease moves through three stages, and longevity medicine is the discipline of working at stage one, before anything has a name.
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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
02
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
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 is its own program, and it can sit alongside primary care with me or alongside the doctor you already have. Read how the longevity practice works.
Not sure where you stand? Take the free Longevity Assessment.
Three steps
How this starts.
01
Build your care plan
Answer a few questions and watch your plan build itself, price included. Nothing is ordered and nothing is billed; it simply shows you what your care would look like.
02
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, priced as you saw it.
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Your first visit
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.
Prefer to start with a conversation? Talk to me first.
My 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.
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 which level of care actually fits you, 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.
The horizon
However much life you have left,spend it at full strength.
Whether you are forty and want to stay ahead of it, or seventy and want the next twenty years to be good ones, the picture is the same: energy that lasts the day, numbers trending the right way, and a doctor who answers when you call. Some things shift in weeks and the deeper work takes years. The only version that fails is the one that starts too late.