What are the major contributors to the aging process? Oxidative stress and inflammation are major contributors to aging, causing the destruction of important chemical molecules – the molecules of metabolism – in your body and brain. Examples of oxidation…
“If someone blew up a hospital or infected a water supply, we’d view it as an act of health terrorism. But pumping persistent organic pollutants into the atmosphere, clearing forests, over-using resources and contributing to global warming are equally inimical…
East Meets West – High Blood Pressure: Causes, Treatments & Preventions – Presented by Dr. Les Cole and Bob Linde, AP, RH East Meets West Seminar is the collaboration Les Cole, MD & Bob Linde, AP, RH. This month’s topic will be High Blood…
High Blood Pressure and Reversible Nutritional Deficiencies –Presented by Dr. Les Cole, MD Join us and meet the doctors of Vital Well-Being. Learn what blood pressure is and the effects of reversible nutritional deficiencies on high blood pressure. Light refreshments will be served….
What the Heck Is Functional Medicine? – Presented by Dr. Les Cole, MD I’m sure you’ve heard this term lately, but what does it mean? How is Functional Medicine different from Complimentary Medicine or Alternative Medicine? Join us and meet Les Cole, MD who is…
If you have Type 2 Diabetes (T2D), you’ve probably seen a doctor and been put on a blood sugar lowering medication (such as metformin) for it. If you asked how you got it, you may not have gotten an answer,…
Dr. Les Cole Hello, and welcome to my medical practice where you are treated as the individual you are, not as a particular disease. Too often, a one size fits all medication or surgical procedure is prescribed without taking…
There is no longer any doubt from the medical and nutritional literature that nutrition is the greatest contributor to health and malnutrition the greatest contributor to disease. Hippocrates is quoted as saying, “Let food be thy medicine and medicine…
The information for this article came from a paper written for my Master’s Thesis in Nutrition and Metabolism, Biomedical Section of The University of South Florida School of Medicine First, What Is Nutrition? We talk about nutrition, but what…
Our understanding of health and disease has changed through time. Evil spirits and vapors were once thought to be the causes of disease. Hippocrates advocated, “Let food be thy medicine.” With the Renaissance came an inquiry into science including that…
Nutrigenomic foods are foods that effect the expression of your genes! They actually turn on or off whole sets of genes that have similar functions. Oxidative stress and inflammation can both be diminished in this way. These are foods that…
Some Perspective There has been an explosion in nutritional research in the last decade and, by year, the number of scientific articles has increased exponentially. What this research is showing, and the CDC confirmed in 2000, is that health and…
Regenerative Medicine is based on the body’s ability to restore itself. At the center of this ability is the stem cell. Stem cells are cells that have the ability to differentiate or mature into cells that can replace damaged or…
Traditional Western Medicine or Allopathic Medicine sees the individual primarily as individualized organ systems: heart, lungs, kidneys, digestive tract, etc. It assigns diseases to these systems based on a set of symptoms, signs, abnormal labs and tissue pathology. Once the…
Dr. Les Cole will be speaking on Eating Your Way to Optimal Wellness from 2:45-3:30PM on Saturday July 13th at the Roosevelt 2.0 in Ybor City during Optimal Wellness; “A Day of Personal & Planetary Healing” from 10AM-6PM. Dr. Cole’s…
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