Today we’d like to introduce you to Melissa Mondala
Hi Melissa, so excited to have you on the platform. So before we get into questions about your work-life, maybe you can bring our readers up to speed on your story and how you got to where you are today?
Dr. Lifestyle is a women owned, family owned, physician owned small business since 2019 that brings back health to patients with complex diseases. Dr. Yu is a quadruple board certified rheumatologist and Dr. Mondala is a triple specialist in Family, Lifestyle, and Integrative Psychiatry. They are patients themselves who wanted to heal naturally. Dr. Yu was diganosed at a young age with gout, pseudogout, and spondylitis and Dr. Mondala had GERD, acne, IBS, and mood imbalance. They combine the best of traditional medicine, lifestyle medicine, integrative medicine, and functional medicine that reversed their diseases but also thousands of their patients. Because of their health journey and love for life long healing and people, they decided to create Dr. Lifestyle as a hydrid in-person and telemedicine practice that serves patients nationally and globally.
They aim to restore the doctor-patient relationship through trust, prevention, and reversal of chronic diseases including metabolic disease, autoimmune diseases, depression, anxiety, and digestive disorders.
Alright, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
There are always highs and lows to building a small practice from scratch. It truly humbles you and tests hour patience and endurance. We stayed grounded in our values, faith, mission, and life purpose. There were waves of sucesss and times of challenges, but the we were consistent in but the time and strategy in. At times, we weren’t sure if we could get see results from our marketing efforts, but through consistent social media health education @myuautoimmunemd, @drmelissaskitchen, @drlifestyleclinic patients got to know who we were all about and how we stand out from the rest. We had to trust we were one of kind doctors and that our services were not found anywhere else. We met lovely people in our community and enjoyed walking with our patients, hosting meditation and gentle purposeful movement exercise, and tasting plantbased meals. Most importantly, we have seen peoples lives changes and seen improvement in 95% of our patients and over 60% of them return back to feeling “normal again” or better than before.
As you know, we’re big fans of Dr Lifestyle. For our readers who might not be as familiar what can you tell them about the brand?
See our website please for services, disesease we treat, media features, and even recipes 🙂
We go beyond most doctors and practice root cause medicine who addresses nutrition, exercise, sleep, stress, harmful substances and toxins, and mind-body- spirit connection. We also have longer comprehensive visits, frequent follow-up, and direct access us physicians to get to earlier diagnosis, sooner treatment, and game changing health results.
What do you like and dislike about the city?
We love Newport Beach, California because it’s next to the beautiful Pacfic Ocean with blue water and blue skies. It’s rejuvinating and can easily help one detox from the hustle and bustle of modern America. The local plant forward restaurants, places to stay active and meditate, and lovely weather is life to us.
Pricing:
- Book your Free Meet & Greet
- $ 500 Integrative Rheumatology Visit
- $450 Lifestyle Medicine Visit
- Membership options are available
Contact Info:
- Website: https://drlifestyle.org/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drlifestyleclinic/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drlifestyleclinic/
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@MYAutoimmuneMD
