Pritikin’s health resort is nestled in a private enclave, a gracious work of Italianate architecture, and is surrounded by 650 acres of tropical paradise at the famed Doral Golf Resort & Spa in Miami. Swimming Pools. Five championship golf courses. Tennis courts. Dazzling fountains. Meditative labyrinths. Country Inns Magazine rated Pritikin as "the resort spa of choice in Florida."

This outside beauty provides the perfect setting for the life-changing events that take place within. Pritikin is known internationally for results unparalleled at any other health resort. Recently, the London Business Times hailed Pritikin as "arguably the most effective diet, exercise, and lifestyle change program in the world." For 30 years, Pritikin has attracted a wide variety of guests, totally more than 100,000. Some come to prevent or reverse health challenges like heart disease, diabetes, obesity, and hypertension. Others come simply because they want more out of life -- more energy, more satisfaction,“ and they want to look and feel younger, too.

No other lifestyle program has been more closely studied by the scientific community - or has achieved such phenomenal success. More than 100 studies published in prestigious medical journals like The New England Journal of Medicine have documented Pritikin's remarkable results, which include:

• Significant and lasting weight loss.
• Lowering of blood pressure to normal, medication-free levels.
• Dramatic reductions in virtually all risk factors for heart disease, including cholesterol, triglycerides, and inflammatory markers like C-reactive protein.
• For many, reductions or elimination of cholesterol medications and avoidance of heart surgery.
• Control of Type 2 diabetes, and for the vast majority, reductions or elimination of drugs, including insulin injections.

A One-Week Stay at Pritikin Includes:

• Premier Medical Services
  Comprehensive health evaluation and fitness assessments by board-certified physicians, including cardiometabolic stress testing, state-of-the-art entrance and exit blood panels, dietary analysis, and weight-loss planning.
• Eye-Opening Education
  Workshops that teach healthy living in the "real world" - restaurant dining, cooking workshops, personal exercise training, stress management, and much more. Pritikin's faculty are acclaimed as the best lifestyle-change educators in the world.
• Exercise - For Life
  Highly customized exercise plans that help guests shed fat and build muscle like never before. All instructors are university-degreed and lead 10+ classes daily, including cardiovascular training on treadmills, aquatics, Pilates, yoga, and strength training.
• Healthful Gourmet Dining
  Six sumptuous meals served daily, such as roasted lobster, paella, wild mushroom risotto, and chocolate mousse, prepared by award-winning chefs.

Every day at Pritikin, you're immersed in exercise classes based on your personal fitness prescription, stress management workshops, one-on-one counseling with physicians, and education classes lead by nationally acclaimed nutritionists, scientists, and lifestyle counselors.

The classes, notes frequent guest Jeff Garlin, co-star/co-producer of HBO's Emmy award-winning comedy Curb Your Enthusiasm, "come right out and punch you in the face!" I thought I knew everything about food and fat, but, boy oh boy, was I wrong. The information was completely enlightening. "This is tremendous, "I kept telling myself." This is the way to go."

As you can see from the bountiful menu below, guests at the Pritikin Longevity Center are encouraged TO EAT. Hunger is NEVER an issue. In fact, many of our guests say they're eating more than they ever have, and they're losing weight.

Healthy living can be very pleasurable and very filling, Pritikin guests quickly learn. That's why they stay on track when they return home.

One of our long-time guests, Leonard Riggio, Founder and Chairman of Barnes and Noble, Inc., recently summed it well. He said, "Pritikin is not self-sacrifice. It's self-indulgence."