Customize Your Stay
Wellness Packages and A La Carte Services
You're going to love the way your body feels.
Your core Pritikin stay includes extensive wellness-prevention education and physician services, but some guests wish to enhance their stay with additional education and services. These optional services let you focus on specific issues while getting the maximum benefit of the Pritikin Program.
These services and packages target specific needs, such as Heart Health, Optimal Weight Loss and Comprehensive Diabetic Care.
Choose Any Of These Pritikin Wellness Packages
To secure the best rates, book these packages before you arrive.
Heart Health Package
Best For Guests Who Have Hypertension, High Cholesterol, and/or Heart Disease.
No program or medication has proven more effective than the Pritikin Program in lowering virtually all lifestyle-related risk factors for a heart attack, including high cholesterol, high levels of inflammatory factors like C-reactive protein, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, and excess weight. Reap the best results from your stay at Pritikin by adding to your core program this Heart Health Package..
This Package Includes
This exam images the major arteries supplying blood to the brain and identifies at a highly sensitive location any development of plaque formation.
A scan that measures your percentage of lean muscle and body fat, and helps your Pritikin team set goals that enhance heart health as well as a leaner, fitter body.
Includes a Cardiac Risk Assessment based on the newest American Heart Association guidelines.
This test measures the wall of the carotid arteries, correlating with the effects of hypertension or the earliest identification of the atherosclerotic process. It may be used as a predictor of the development of this disorder in the remainder of the body’s arterial circulation, including the coronary arteries of the heart.
This consult will help you achieve the best returns from each workout. The focus is cardiovascular fitness, helping your heart become the strongest and healthiest it can be.
This consult will help you prioritize your dietary goals for optimal heart health. It will also pinpoint any personal areas of challenge, from restaurants to cooking, and provide smart, simple solutions.
This study evaluates the capacity of the body to metabolize foods (burn calories) and assists in identifying possible alterations in lifestyle that can promote weight loss.
Your new heart monitor will make it easy to stay in your target heart rate zone. It will help you get fitter faster, and will add motivation and fun to every exercise workout.
We will evaluate function of the beating heart, imaging noninvasively your heart muscle and valves of the heart. We will also define both contractile and relaxation phases of the heartbeat as well as function of the heart valves.
Optimal Weight Loss Package
Best For Guests Whose Focus is Weight Loss
Want ultra-personal attention and tools for losing weight? If so, this Pritikin Optimal Weight-Loss Package is for you. You’ll take full advantage of our renowned faculty of weight-loss experts. Get ready to transformyour life! You’re going to love the results.
This Package Includes
More important than what you weigh is what your body is made of, particularly your amount of muscle mass and fat tissue. Put simply, you’re much healthier (and better-looking) if you’re 220 pounds with a high percentage of muscle tissue than 220 pounds with little muscle. Our Body Comp Scan calculates your percentage of lean muscle and body fat. The results are often very motivating. Regardless of what the bathroom scale says, you’re getting results that you can see and feel. They also serve as a baseline for future reference.
Your individual coaching with a Pritikin exercise physiologist will put you on the best path for burning fat and reaching your weight-loss goals.
Lifestyle coaching at Pritikin has proven effective in helping people evaluate emotional and environmental triggers that lead to unhealthy eating. Your consult will help you take charge of your feelings and your food.
Creating a customized eating plan with a Pritikin registered dietitian is beneficial for guests with weight-loss goals. A one-on-one consult can zero in on those areas of real-world eating that challenge you most. Sometimes, just a few simple changes can make all the difference.
This study evaluates the capacity of the body to metabolize foods (burn calories) and assists in identifying possible alterations in lifestyle that can promote weight loss.
Women's Health Package
Best For Guests Looking for a Package Focused on Women’s Health Concerns, Specifically
This Women’s Health Package is packed with eye-opening tests and information on women specific health concerns, all designed to help you look better, feel better, and, best of all, live better.
This Package Includes
Your weight as measured by the scale is far from the whole story. The scale does not tell you, as our Body Comp Scan does, how much muscle mass and body fat you have. It’s important to know because the more lean muscle you have, the more calories you burn – and the quicker you reach the leaner body you want. The Pritikin Program is all about building your lean muscle mass, and shedding fat.
This blood test is used to evaluate Vitamin B12 levels and can determine if there is a vitamin B12 deficiency.
How your thyroid is functioning can impact how many calories you’re burning each day. Full Thyroid Testing will assist you and your physician in determining the possible need for medication that will increase metabolism and enhance your weight-loss efforts.
Hemoglobin A1c shows what a person’s average blood glucose level was for the two to three months before the test. It can help determine how well a person’s diabetes is being controlled over time. It is also valuable in assessing the risk of diabetic eye, kidney, and nerve disease.
This one-hour, one on one sessions will help you achieve the best returns from each workout. The focus is on cardiovascular fitness; helping your heart become the strongest and healthiest it can be.
The pre-menopausal, menopausal, and post-menopausal years can bring on major changes in our bodies, such as body fat appearing (out of nowhere, it seems) in the abdominal area. A private consultation with one of Pritikin’s registered dietitians can be of great benefit in arresting and even reversing some of these age-related changes.
Lifestyle coaching at Pritikin has proven effective in helping people evaluate emotional and environmental triggers that can lead to unhealthy eating. Your consult will help you take charge of your feelings and your food.
This study evaluates the capacity of the body to metabolize foods (burn calories) and assists in identifying possible alterations in lifestyle that can promote weight loss.
Vitamin D deficiency is strongly linked to bone loss and possibly other health concerns, including diabetes. With testing of blood levels of vitamin D, we will identify any deficiencies and, if needed, prescribe appropriate supplementation to help correct them.
Get even more from your Women's Health Package by adding an optional Sleep Study.
Diabetic Care Comprehensive Package
Best For Guests Looking to Upgrade Their Standard Diabetic Package to Gain Even More Health Benefits and Better Control Their Diabetes
Pritikin guests see dramatic improvements in their health and energy. “This is especially true for guests with type 2 diabetes,” notes Dr. Danine Fruge, MD, ABFP, Medical Director at Pritikin. “Many guests eliminate or reduce their need for medication.” Upgrade your Standard Diabetic Care Package with an array of personal consultations, monitoring, and testing. All are designed to give you the best experience and results possible. The one-on-one consultations and cooking class will help you adapt the Pritikin Program to your individual lifestyle. And they will prepare you to maintain – and even improve upon – the health benefits you gained during your Pritikin diabetes retreat long after you’ve left us and returned home.
This Package Includes
ABI is a simple, reliable means for diagnosing peripheral artery disease, common among people with diabetes. Blood pressure measurements are taken at your arms and ankles using a noninvasive ultrasound device called a Doppler.
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This additional consult will help provide optimal monitoring of your blood glucose levels and progress toward your goals.
Daily exercise is valuable for reducing insulin resistance and “burning up” sugars before they have a chance to build up in the blood. Your consult with an exercise physiologist will help ensure that you’re making the best use of your workouts for long-term diabetes control.
Creating a customized dietary plan with a Pritikin registered dietitian is very beneficial. Not only can it help control blood glucose, it also enhances weight loss, improves lipids such as cholesterol, and reduces risk of major cardiovascular events. Your consultation will also target those areas of “real world” eating, from restaurant dining to grocery shopping, that are most challenging for you. Pritikin’s dietitians have solutions for virtually every nutritional hurdle.
This is fun! Your personal cooking class with one of our chefs will help you blend the foods and flavors you love with cooking techniques that will do wonders for your blood glucose and overall health.
A C-peptide test is a dependable indicator of how much insulin your pancreas is producing. If you have low blood sugar, C-peptide testing can pinpoint the cause, such as excessive use of medicine to treat diabetes.
Ultrasound visualizing of blood flow to the brain. We will identify if plaque is present and determine any early arteriosclerosis. 2D velocity is useful even if complex flow conditions exist, such as blockages.
Hemoglobin A1c shows what a person’s average blood glucose level was for the two to three months before the test. It can help determine how well a person’s diabetes is being controlled over time. It is also valuable in assessing the risk of diabetic eye, kidney, and nerve disease.
This simple but critical urine test is one of the best tools to assess whether a person with diabetes is at particularly high risk for heart attack, stroke, and kidney failure. Repeat testing following major lifestyle changes and/or medication changes can help determine the improved health of blood vessels.
This study evaluates the body’s ability to metabolize foods (burn calories). It also helps identify possible alterations in lifestyle that can assist in reducing weight.
Optimal Fitness Package
Best For Guests Who Want an Extra Focus on Fitness
Are you already athletic but want to push yourself even further? Learn more about where you are physically with two state-of-the-art, non-invasive tests. Plus, let our Exercise Physiologists help take your fitness regime to the next level. There’s fun in this package, too - a tension-relieving, specialized massage.
This Package Includes
A scan that measures your percentage of lean muscle and body fat, and helps your Pritikin team set goals that enhance heart health as well as a leaner, fitter body.
This massage improves circulation, unlocks your joints and relaxes your muscles, while restoring your physical and mental wellbeing.
This one on one session will help you achieve the best returns from each workout. The focus is on cardiovascular fitness; helping your heart become the strongest and healthiest it can be.
Jumpstart your journey to better health and lifelong weight control. Get a personalized eating plan that you can live with and enjoy. A session with one of our Pritikin nutritionists may be the most important time you’ve ever spent on your health.
This study evaluates the capacity of the body to metabolize foods (burn calories) and assists in identifying possible alterations in lifestyle that can promote weight loss.
Fitness Prescription Package
Best For Guests Who Want a Specialized Personal Training Program Tailored for Home Fitness
Work with a Pritikin personal trainer to build a customized exercise plan suitable to your specific workout style and goals. Learning the program at Pritikin will set you up to continue on the right track once you return home.
This Package Includes
This fitness evaluation assesses your current aerobic, muscular strength, muscular endurance, and flexibility capacities. This full assessment provides the basis of your personalized Pritikin Exercise Prescription Program.
Fast track your way to good health. Use your wellness credit and benefit from one-on-one consultations, personal training sessions, state of the art testing and more!
A 60 minute training session and consultation to review your Exercise Prescription Program with a Pritikin Exercise Physiologist.
Heading Home Package
Guests looking to implement the Pritikin Program at home.
Implementing your new Pritikin lifestyle at home is the key to long term success and we’re here to help you. Once you return home you’ll be ready to establish your new exercise plan, clean out your kitchen cupboards and tune in to the power of positive thinking. We’ll work with you during this critical process and ensure that you’re set up to maintain the healthy life you’ve achieved during your stay.
This Package Includes
A remote consultation by your choice of phone or Skype, utilizing a virtual training app for Exercise Rx Program review, adjustments, and coaching to help Pritikin guests continue living a healthy and active lifestyle from the comfort of their own home.
A remote private one-on-one session with our Behavioral Therapist to create your own customized lifestyle-change plan and how to implement it.
Jumpstart your journey to better health and lifelong weight control. Get a personalized eating plan that you can live with and enjoy. A remote session with one of our Pritikin nutritionists may be the most important time you’ve ever spent on your health.
A classic cookbook of favorite Pritikin recipes.
Ideal for supermarket survival.
Executive Health + Wellness Package
Best For Guests Looking to Take Their Annual Checkup to the Next Level
This package is available as a 2-night retreat or may be added on to your core Pritikin Program.
Our Executive Health Physical not only identifies issues, it provides solutions that get results. Our comprehensive program of physician consultations, testing and more will evaluate where you’re currently standing health-wise, where you should be, and how to get there. You’ll leave Pritikinvarmed with the tools you need to get- and stay- in tip top shape.
This Package Includes
Under physician supervision, you will receive a cardiac and fitness evaluation performed with both resting and exercise EKGs which will give your physician and exercise team important information for creating your personal exercise prescription.
These tests will provide Pritikin’s team of experts with an excellent overview of where you are health-wise and ensure that they are able to provide you with the best advice and recommendations possible.
This consult will help you prioritize your key dietary goals for optimal heart health. It will also pinpoint any personal areas of challenge, from restaurants to cooking, and provide smart, simple solutions.
This consult will help you achieve the best returns from each workout. The focus is cardiovascular fitness, helping your heart become the strongest and healthiest it can be.
Lifestyle coaching at Pritikin has proven effective in helping people evaluate emotional and environmental triggers that can lead to unhealthy eating. Your consult will help you take charge of your feelings and your food.
A scan that measures your percentage of lean muscle and body fat, and helps your Pritikin team set goals to enhance heart health as well as a leaner, fitter body.
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This exam images the major arteries supplying blood to the brain and identifies at a highly sensitive location any development of plaque formation.
This test measures the wall of the carotid arteries, correlating with the effects of hypertension or the earliest identification of the atherosclerotic process. It may be used as a predictor of the development of this disorder in the remainder of the body’s arterial circulation, including the coronary arteries of the heart.
The ability to channel a sense of calm will help you reduce stress, which can wreak havoc on your health. Choose from a 60 minute one-one-one session of yoga, meditation, or breathing exercises.
A 30 minute remote follow up session with your Pritikin physician after you have returned home.
