Seminar: What the Heck Is Functional Medicine?

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...
Type 2 Diabetes – How Did I Get Here?

Type 2 Diabetes – How Did I Get Here?

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, other than been told to diet, lose weight and exercise. If...

My Medical Practice – St. Petersburg Health & Wellness – Les Cole, MD

  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 into consideration individual...
Functional Medicine

Functional Medicine

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....