Brain Fog

Life-changing. This is the best word to describe my outcome with Dr. Lelazar. In a few month’s time, Dr. Lelazar identified the root issue of my  symptoms, which could taken been years (or never) with other medical professionals/treatments.In mid-March 2020, the same week as COVID-19 shutdowns, I came down with white coating and pain on my tongue. I knew immediately that I had oral thrush (Candida). However, I also began to experience extreme fatigue and brain fog – to the point that I couldn’t even really get out of bed or think clearly. I was thankfully working from home. In a given day I could barely walk across my apartment, prepare meals, use the restroom, and work on my laptop. Some days I couldn’t even shower, I was so tired. Exercise and driving became a struggle.

Dr. Lelazar advised me to change my diet to kill the Candida and prescribed supplements. That alone didn’t work, so Dr. Lelazar then identified that I had a large level of lead in my system, which was preventing the Candida from dying off. She advised me to pursue chelation to remove the lead in my system. I was initially skeptical of this treatment as I didn’t know if it would work, and it was expensive. However, I was desperate for help – so I chose the chelation treatment. Within 1-2 weeks of the chelation, I felt well enough to drive to Ventura from Los Angeles. I was stunned at the results. I still in disbelief at how well I am doing in such a short amount of time!

I cannot express how thankful I am for Dr. Lelazar’s wisdom, compassion, care, and efficiency in finding a solution to my debilitating symptoms. I am also very thankful for the nurse/office manager, Cindy, who is very caring, positive, competent, and kind. When I was searching for a doctor to help me, I prayed to ask the Lord for help. I felt such peace when I read Dr. Lelazar’s profile. I truly believe God brought me to Dr. Lelazar, and saved my life. I am so thankful!

After a year of agony and torment of seeing my primary doctor and several specialists. I realized that my current medical conditions were beyond their scope. With what started with one medical problem quickly resulted in a snowball effect. Through a series of incorrect diagnosis and recommendations which made my medical condition worsen throughout my time.

For EXAMPLE, I was prescribed so much antibiotics which deprived me of my good bacteria, which helps digest your food and fight invading microbes. This really affected my health. None of the doctors who prescribed me antibiotics ever recommended me probiotics to help retrieve my good bacteria. So over period of time I kept getting sicker and sicker. Just completely OFF, losing weight, hair loss, brain fog, tired all the time, and last but not least overgrowth of Candida.

Then I was fortunate to find  Dr. Lalezar on Google, I read and read. I was just amazed and almost felt a sense of relief once I read her reviews.

She tested me for EVERYTHING; urine, blood, etc.. Very meticulous in her process. After testing she discovered not only I had one problem but I had high mercury levels and toxins in my body. That’s why I wasn’t able to recover even though I tried several cleanses. She needed to clean me out from all the mercury and toxicity. So a series of Chelations was a MUST.

So after completing my series of sessions (chelations) I am COMPLETELY back to normal. I’m so thankful that I found Dr. Lalezar.I have never met a doctor more knowledgeable and attentive towards each of her patients. The level of comfort she made me feel by explaining why things were unfolding the way they were, I knew right there she was the BEST doctor for the job. She truly is very professional and knowledgeable. Also her entire staff is amazing and very friendly.

Thank you once again Dr. Lalezar.

Nedi R. – Downtown, Los Angeles

I cannot thank Dr. Lalezar enough for her help. Last year, while I was attending college in Los Angeles, I began suffering adrenal fatigue, IBS type symptoms, and overall feeling lousy- brain fog, tired all of the time, weight gain, hypothyroidism, etc. My previous doctor checked all of my hormone levels and found I was only making trace amounts of estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone, which explains why I was so fatigued and was no longer having my period. However, her only solution was to prescribe birth control. I was dissatisfied with this solution (or lack of) that I searched for a functional medicine physician to help me get to the root cause of my symptoms.

I was impressed by how determined Dr. Lalezar was to help me figure out my health issues. She did a few different lab tests including a heavy metal test and a stool analysis. Turns out a had high levels of mercury in my system and many of my symptoms stemmed from this toxicity. I continued going back to the Health and Vitality center routinely for chelation treatments and was also on an individualized supplement regimen. After the first couple of treatments my energy improved immensely and after a few months I was back to feeling my best.

Sherry, Christine and Dr. Lalezar are such nice people and the center itself is relaxing and welcoming. I definitely recommend Dr. Lalezar because she had a unique approach to addressing my issues and was able to solve my health problems when other doctors could not.

Hannah L. – Des Moines, United States

Dr Lalezar is absolutely amazing! I came in with skin issues, chronic fatigue, brian fog, and was well on my way to developing hypothyroid and Dr Lalezar changed my life. She did all of the tests that NO OTHER DR WOULD DO, to completely analyze the state of my health and tell me exactly what was going on in my body. She cleared up symptoms that I didn’t even realize were symptoms :). I have tons of energy, 0 brain fog, and my hormones are under control. We have chelated an obscene amount of mercury out of my system and are well on our way to repairing my leaky gut. I am forever grateful to Dr Lalezar for her continued help and support.

Aleksandra P. – Playa del Rey, United States

Ive never written a Yelp review, and I’d be hard pressed to write anything positive or negative about any business listed on this site, but my experience at health and vitality absolutely demanded I say something if it means that other people who are sick and at their wits end might find some help as a result of reading this.

About a year ago I started showing symptoms of food intolerances that caused me enough concern to see a doctor. I had every major test under the sun done in order to get the diagnosis of “your fine. All results are normal”. But I wasn’t fine. My body was telling me otherwise. Something was seriously wrong as my symptoms began to cascade and my health steadily declined: rashes, weight loss, muscle fatigue, brain fog, and the list goes on. I spent so much money seeing naturopaths and trying extreme diets, not to mention the thousands that my insurance company paid for testing at cedars. Don’t even get me started on the bottles of unused supplements in my cabinets. I spent hundreds of hours reading blogs and medical journal texts trying to diagnose myself until finally my family medicine doctor recommended Dr. Lalezar as they went to school together.

Within a week of starting treatment with her I was back on a full western diet with no problems. Within 4 weeks I put back on 15 pounds and am back to my full active lifestyle which was unimaginable a month ago as I was close to bedridden. What she did literally saved my life. I don’t think I even understood how sick I was until I started to feel better as a result of her treatment.

What she does is not quack science or herbal therapy either. She’s using completely allopathic treatments that have existed in Europe for 70 years that have had great effect to many people who were seriously ill. Do the research for yourself.

Yes her treatments seem pricey but if you compare them to what others charge for iv therapy you’ll find them to be reasonable, and fairly competitive.

She’s a smart, forward thinking doctor. Don’t fool yourself, the medical system in the United States is a business, and the reason why what she does is considered “alternative” is because there’s no way to make a long term profit off of you as a patient because once you’ve completed your treatment with her, you’re done, finished, no longer ill, because she’s treating the root cause and not the symptom. if all doctors used her approach to medical care then no one in this country would be sick, but again, you wouldn’t be a returning customer who someone in a white coat could make money off of. She’s what all doctors should aspire to be, someone who wants to see you not only heal, but thrive.

James r. – Manhattan, United States

This review is long but thorough, and I encourage anyone suffering from what I have suffered from (for years) to read on. I have been seeing Dr. Lalezar for 2 years and I can honestly say that she and her staff have given me back my life. Prior to seeing Dr. Lalezar I had: hair loss, weight gain, eczema all over my body, acne, brain fog, insomnia, lethargy, aches/pains and depression. I would have terrible mood swings and anxiety two weeks before my period, every month like clockwork. I was a monster, and I just couldn’t control myself. I wouldn’t leave my home during these times because I was afraid of getting into fights with co-workers, strangers at grocery stores and restaurants. My relationships with my friends, family and partner were all suffering as a result of my mood swings. Every month,  2 weeks before my period, I felt crazy. And not ha-ha crazy. I was a monster.

I saw several doctors in the 5 years prior to seeing Dr. Lalezar that 1) either didn’t know what I had and didn’t care to run any other labs besides the standard CBC and BMP, and  2) simply dismissed me as being depressed and prescribed anti-anxiety and anti-depressant meds. I have been on oral and topical steroids for my eczema for 5+ years and it was actually getting worse as months went by. Doctors were baffled, so they would just prescribe a different steroid. Other docs would put me on a cocktail of anti-anxiety and anti-depressants and constantly switch out meds to try and figure out what combo would work.  No combination of meds and/or steroids ever worked to alleviate my symptoms, not even a little.

I did my own research on mood swings that only happened during the 2 weeks before my period and wondered if I had PMDD. I was finally able to get an appointment at UCLA with doctors that specialized in PMDD and they confirmed the diagnosis. It was a relief to have a diagnosis (even if it wasn’t a good one) but it still didn’t explain the eczema, hair loss and acne. The UCLA docs continued my medication cocktail and I had some relief. I knew that I was going to get good, but standard treatment at UCLA and I wanted something more. I figured there had to be some sort of alternative therapies that could help me. That’s when I started looking for doctors providing alternative treatments for PMDD in the LA area and found Dr. Lalezar.

When I first saw Dr. Lalezar, I explained my entire history, brought labs from my previous doctors and all my medications that I had ever been on that did not work. I was apprehensive and almost expected to be dismissed again. But she didn’t dismiss me and instead, she promised we would get to the bottom of my issues. She is the ONLY doctor that has ever vowed to get to the bottom of my issues. She ran slew of hormone studies and found that I had low progesterone and testosterone. No other doctor had run hormone tests even though I told them I only had the mood swings before my period. Dr. Lalezar prescribed bio-identical hormone creams to treat the hormone deficiencies. I felt about 75% better with hormone replacement therapy. I was very happy with the outcome, but Dr. Lalezar wanted me to feel 100% better and decided to run more tests. That’s when she found that I had mercury toxicity from old fillings. She asked (did not demand) that I stop my cocktails of meds and steroids from the previous doctors. Since they weren’t really helping anyway, I had no problem stopping.

I immediately had my fillings removed and started IV chelation and vitamin therapy over the course of 14 weeks. The first 4 sessions, I felt worse, but I knew it was the mercury being mobilized from my tissues that needed to be excreted. By the 5th session, I was starting to feel better. I noticed my eczema clearing up and a bald patch on my head was starting to fill in. Treatment days made me so tired, but overall I felt better and my partner said that he was no longer of afraid of me during those two weeks before my period.  By the end of my 10th treatment, I felt normal. I hadn’t felt normal in years. My hair was growing back, my eczema completely cleared up, my acne disappeared, brain fog was gone, I could sleep, depression was non-existent and best of all, I wasn’t a monster before my period anymore.

I have continued to take all the supplements recommended by Dr. Lalezar. Again, these were recommended, she didn’t demand that I take them. Also, the nurses that do the IV therapy are so kind and patient and made the treatments much more tolerable.

Now, I’ll address the negative remarks that I have seen posted on yelp. Treatments are expensive and most are not covered by ANY insurance. It has nothing to do with the dr. prescribing them, it has to do with insurance. There IS a parking lot adjacent to the office. Dr. Lalezar and her staff are nothing but kind and courteous. I have seen patients be horrible to the Dr and her staff and yet they maintain their kindness and professionalism. I feel so lucky to have found Dr. Lalezar.

Rose T. – Los Angeles, United States

When I started gaining weight, quickly, for no reason back in 2012, I just KNEW something was off. I hadn’t suddenly starting eating cake and ice cream for breakfast, ya know? Not only was I gaining weight, but it was making me pretty depressed too.

I did a little bit of research online and found Suzanne Somers. I read a lot of her information online and it seemed to be the answer I was looking for. She had a doctor referral section on her website, and through that, I found Dr. Lalezar.

Dr. Lalezar has been a godsend! She discovered (thru simple blood tests) that my hormones were completely out of balance and that was the reason for the weight gain. WHO KNEW?!? I certainly didn’t. It was very simple to get my hormones back in balance. After balancing the hormones – and the hcg diet – the weight fell off. (I am happy to report that three years later, the weight is still gone.)

She also tested me for heavy metals (thru a simple urine test) and found that I had ELEVEN TIMES the amount of mercury in my system than what was considered normal. Heavy metals in your system can cause all sorts of problems, ie, alcohol intolerance (which was one of my questions to her as well…seemed I got a headache from even the teeniest amount of alcohol), brain fog (yep), inability to lose weight (yep), depression symptoms (yep), extreme fatigue (had this too), insomnia (yep), forgetfulness (yep), and the list goes on and on… I had the chelation treatments over the course of a year and got my mercury to the normal level. All of those symptoms went away and I felt (and still feel) really, really great.

I also had several vitamin and mineral deficiencies which were easily fixed with supplements.

It’s all a matter of data. Test the blood/urine for the data, get the answers. I haven’t felt better in YEARS. I take no pharmaceutical medication any longer an am healthy as a horse!

I highly recommend Dr. Lalezar to everyone!! I sing her praises to all of my friends.

Also, on a side note, her staff (especially Sherry!) is just so wonderful. You won’t be disappointed, I promise.

Karen P. – Los Angeles, United States