Functional Medicine in St. Petersburg, FL
Every symptom has a source. Dr. Leo’s practice is built around finding it, tracing what your body is experiencing back to the biochemical, hormonal, and lifestyle factors generating it. The care plan that follows is as specific as the investigation that preceded it.
Book a ConsultationFunctional medicine begins with a different question. Instead of asking what to call a cluster of symptoms, it asks what is producing them. The answer almost always lives upstream of where the symptoms appear, in the biochemistry, the gut microbiome, the endocrine system, or the cumulative load of stress, sleep, and nutrition that your body has been managing for years.
Dr. Leo holds a Doctorate in Acupuncture from Won Institute of Graduate Studies and is a Nationally Board Certified Diplomate of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. He completed a two-year clinical apprenticeship at the Sarasota Center for Acupuncture and Nutrition under Dr. Christina Captain, training in functional medicine, targeted nutritional therapy, and acupuncture injection therapy. The combination gives him an unusually broad set of clinical tools for evaluating chronic and complex conditions.
In practice, he uses whichever tools give the clearest picture of your physiology. Functional lab panels, tongue and pulse assessment, hormone mapping, and nutritional analysis are drawn on as your case calls for them. The information each piece of testing reveals informs everything that follows. A care plan grounded in your actual data tends to produce results that a generic protocol cannot.
Dr. Leo’s primary clinical focus is digestive health. Gut function connects directly to immune regulation, hormonal balance, neurological health, and mood, and patients who restore digestive health properly tend to experience improvements across all of these areas, often in ways they had not anticipated when they first came in.
Dr. Leo’s process follows a consistent clinical logic: understand your full history first, gather the specific data your case requires second, and then design treatment from what the evidence reveals. Every step is informed by what came before it.
Your first visit is 60 minutes. Dr. Leo takes your full health history, including symptoms, sleep, digestion, stress, hormonal patterns, and emotional health, giving him a thorough picture of where you are and how you arrived there before any testing or treatment begins.
When your case calls for it, Dr. Leo uses targeted lab work, which may include comprehensive stool analysis, blood panels, hormone mapping, organic acids testing, and food sensitivity panels. Every treatment decision follows from what the data shows about your specific biochemistry.
Your care plan is built from what your history and testing reveal. Dr. Leo draws on dietary guidance, targeted supplementation, herbal medicine, acupuncture, and detox support as your physiology indicates, adjusted continually as your body responds to treatment.
Dr. Leo Gallego holds a Doctorate in Acupuncture from Won Institute of Graduate Studies and is a Nationally Board Certified Diplomate of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. His clinical training integrates Traditional Chinese Medicine with functional lab testing, nutritional science, and western diagnostics, giving him an unusually broad set of tools for evaluating chronic health conditions.
He completed a two-year clinical apprenticeship with Dr. Christina Captain at the Sarasota Center for Acupuncture and Nutrition, where he trained in functional medicine, targeted nutritional therapy, and acupuncture injection therapy. His primary clinical focus is digestive health. Gut function connects directly to immune regulation, hormonal balance, neurological health, and mood, and patients who restore digestive health properly tend to experience improvements across all of these areas, often in ways they had not anticipated.
He takes time with every case and adjusts your care plan as your body responds. You will leave each visit with a clear explanation of what was found, what it means, and what comes next.
Dr. Leo sees patients in English and Spanish. También atiende en español.
Dr. Leo came to acupuncture through public health, and that background shaped how he thinks about care. He works with patients across acupuncture, functional medicine, and nutritional therapy, and puts emphasis on helping people genuinely understand their own health. He grew up in Cali, Colombia and sees patients in both English and Spanish.
Read Dr. Leo’s full storyThe starting point is why, not what. Dr. Leo’s evaluation begins with your full health history, the patterns in your symptoms over time, and what your lab work reveals about your biochemistry. The care plan that follows addresses the factors producing your symptoms at the level where they actually originate. Your first visit is 60 minutes, enough time to understand your history properly before anything else begins.
Dr. Leo works with patients experiencing digestive disorders and IBS, hormonal imbalances, thyroid and adrenal dysfunction, autoimmune conditions, chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia, recurring migraines, blood sugar dysregulation, anxiety, inflammatory skin conditions, and post-viral recovery. These are conditions with layered underlying causes, and his approach is built for that kind of clinical complexity.
Dr. Leo selects testing based on what your history and symptoms indicate. That may include comprehensive stool analysis, blood panels, hormone mapping, organic acids testing, and food sensitivity panels. The goal is to gather the specific information your case calls for, then build treatment from what it reveals.
Both focus on underlying causes, and Dr. Leo’s training covers distinct clinical ground. He holds a Doctorate in Acupuncture and is a Nationally Board Certified Diplomate of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, with deep training in Traditional Chinese Medicine and western clinical diagnostics. That combination gives him particular breadth in evaluating and treating chronic and complex health conditions.
The initial visit is 60 minutes. Dr. Leo spends that time taking your full health history, including symptoms, sleep, digestion, stress, and emotional health, so that any testing or treatment that follows is grounded in a complete understanding of you. Subsequent appointments are scheduled based on what your care requires at each stage.
Yes. Dr. Leo Gallego sees patients in both English and Spanish. For patients who are more comfortable discussing their health history in Spanish, this makes a real difference in how thoroughly and comfortably that conversation happens. Neuroplasticity St. Pete serves patients throughout St. Petersburg, Clearwater, and the greater Tampa Bay area.
A Patient’s Experience
I had abdominal bloating and discomfort for months. After working with Dr. Leo Gallego he diagnosed SIBO. He is extremely thorough, has a variety of treatment options, and I subsequently feel much better. I would highly recommend him. He is a great person.
Schedule a functional medicine consultation in St. Petersburg. Your first visit is 60 minutes, time for Dr. Leo to take your full history, understand what your body has been experiencing, and begin building a care plan grounded in your actual physiology.
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