A doctor whose whole job is keeping you healthy.Not waiting until you’re sick.
Concierge primary care and longevity medicine from NC’s only fully certified Health Optimization Medicine physician.
- My direct number in your phone
- Same-day care, at home or virtually
- Cutting-edge science aimed at building health, not managing disease
Start with a consultation, specialty labs, or a full concierge care plan. Every price is on the screen before you talk to me.
- 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 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 latest science 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 status quo
The system is broken.
Twelve rushed minutes with a doctor who looks at the screen more than at you.
You message the portal about something that is 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.
None of that is your doctor's fault. The average primary care physician carries a panel of over 2,500 patients. Yours cannot know you.
And the system is good at treating disease. If you want to improve your health, it has nothing to offer. It does not even have a definition of health.
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
It all comes from one thing:a doctor who actually knows you.
A real physician, either role or both
Board-certified family medicine as your concierge primary care doctor, health optimization and longevity specialist, or the same person doing both.
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.
What longevity medicine actually is
Disease doesn’t start as disease. It starts as chemistry.
01
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
03
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 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.
Take the Longevity AssessmentMeet the Physician
Third-generation physician. First to practice this way.
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 practice
One doctor. Exactly as much doctor as you want.
Based in Charlotte, in your home or on your screen. Buy one thing or hand me your whole picture, 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.
02
A single consultation
One thorough visit. I read your complete history and prior records before we meet, and you leave with a written plan.
03
Virtual primary care
Your doctor in your phone, across North Carolina and Michigan. Add 24/7 access to my personal number.
04
The Longevity Program
Quarterly testing, protocols, and retests. Your metabolism measured and corrected on a schedule, not guessed at.
05
Concierge care
House calls across the Charlotte metro, around-the-clock access, and your testing and prescriptions handled for you.
In-home medical acupuncture can be added to any Charlotte plan.
Two minutes. Transparent prices. No commitment.
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 in my system, priced as you saw it.
03
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 work is the same: measure what is actually happening, fix what is drifting, and have a physician who knows you while it happens. Some things shift in weeks and the deeper work takes years. The only version that fails is the one that starts too late.