by Les Cole | Nov 8, 2020 | Articles, Healthy Eating, Live Well, Metabolic Syndrome, Metabolic Syndrome, Metabolism, Nutrition, Overweight, Weight Loss
By Les Cole, MD, St. Petersburg Health & Wellness How would you like to finally lose weight this year and keep it off? Skeptical? Understandable! You’ve probably dieted (no matter the diet) and exercised (no matter the exercise) and wound up hitting a plateau that...
by Les Cole | May 6, 2020 | Articles, Overweight, Weight Loss
by Les Cole, MD & Kathie Gonzales, ARNP What do we mean when we say “I want to lose weight”?Of course, we mean we want to lose fat. No one says, “I want to lose muscle!” Weight loss is not really the goal; fat loss is. So, how do you lose fat? You have to first...
by Les Cole | Sep 2, 2017 | Aging, Andropause, Anti-Aging, Atherosclerosis, Bio-Identical Hormone, Bioidentical Hormones, Blood Pressure, Cancer, Chronic Fatigue, Depression, Diabetes, Energy, Fatigue, Functional Medicine, Heart Attack (MI), Heart Disease, Hormones, Male, Obesity, Overweight, Testosterone
What is Andropause? Previously called “Male Menopause” and now also referred to as “Low-T”, Andropause is the condition in men characterized by having lower Testosterone levels usually peak in the late teens and early twenties. There is a slow decline thereafter,...
by Les Cole | Jan 11, 2017 | Diabetes, Energy, Food Cravings, Functional Medicine, Healthy Eating, Healthy Lifestyle, Insulin Resistance, Live Well, Metabolic Syndrome, Metabolic Syndrome, Natural Medicine, Obesity, Overweight, Pre-Diabetes, Weight Loss, Wellness
What is the Live Well Weight Management Program? To begin, let’s talk about what it isn’t. It is not a diet and it’s not a weight loss program. It does not use pharmaceuticals or diet pills to make you lose weight or to suppress your appetite. It is not designed to...
by Les Cole | Dec 30, 2016 | Diabetes, Exercise, Food Cravings, Insulin Resistance, Lifestyle Medicine, Metabolic Syndrome, Metabolic Syndrome, Metabolism, Natural Medicine, Nutrition, Obesity, Overweight, Pre-Diabetes, Supplements, Weight Loss
Our Paleolithic ancestor’s genes grew up with the world, when we were dependent on what we could hunt or gather for food. At that time there wasn’t growing or shipping of food. They relied on animals, roots, leaves and during one season of the year fruit and...
by Les Cole | May 8, 2015 | Aging, Andropause, Anti-Aging, Atherosclerosis, Bio-Identical Hormone, Bioidentical Hormones, Cancer, Chronic Fatigue, Depression, Diabetes, Erectile Dysfunction (ED), Fatigue, Heart Disease, Hormones, Insulin Resistance, Male, Metabolic Syndrome, Metabolic Syndrome, Obesity, Overweight, Pre-Diabetes, Prostate Cancer, Replacement, Sexual Health, Testosterone, Testosterone
For years and even still today many doctors will not prescribe testosterone to men with low testosterone levels because they believe it will increase the risk of prostate cancer. This is the medical dogma that has never been based on science. It comes from the...
