What is the Lifestyle Center of America?

Imagine having three weeks of personalized medical care, during which specialized professionals focused on your individual needs and helped you discover, and put you on a path to correct, everything that might be medically wrong with you!

A lifestyle resort in the Arbuckle Mountains of southern Oklahoma, the Lifestyle Center of America does just that. Built on the dream and fortune of Dr. Otey Johnson, a physician-turned-oil-tycoon, the Lifestyle Center opened its doors in 1996. Since then, the Lifestyle Center has offered comprehensive health education to more than 3000 clients, primarily individuals with diabetes, but also people battling heart disease and obesity as well as other lifestyle-related diseases. The Lifestyle Center works to “stop diabetes before it stops you,” implementing the old wisdom of plant-based nutrition and exercise, and teaching you new habits that will improve your quality of life, all within a non-denominational Christian context. In 2007, the Lifestyle Center expanded to offer a 5-day program at an offsite location in Sedona, Arizona.

On nearly every day of the year and a half I worked there, one of our guests experienced a miracle. Perhaps the miracle was a tally of upwards of 20 pounds lost; perhaps it was gaining control of a previously out-of-control blood sugar; perhaps it was restored sensation in the feet or hands of a diabetes patient with severe neuropathy; perhaps it was lowering cholesterol by 80-100 points; perhaps it was a re-awakened spiritual connection; perhaps it was walking a mile for the first time in ten years.

Participants of the 12- or 19-day programs come to the Lifestyle Center’s 5-star Sulphur, Oklahoma facility and receive personalized care from physicians, nurses, dieticians, personal trainers and massage therapists. The health education program includes dietary counseling, cooking instruction, personal training and massage therapy throughout their stay. Today, the Lifestyle Center offers a variety of additional programs to meet just about anyone’s time or financial constraints, from teleseminars you can participate in at home to 5-day residential programs at their remote location in Sedona, Arizona.