Our Story

Lifestyle Center of America was the result of Dr. Otey Johnson.

Born in Battle Creek, Michigan in 1914, he was privy to witness the effect that Battle Creek Sanitarium, a prestigious health center during the time, had on chronic disease using holistic care. Inspired, Otey completed a residency in internal medicine at the University of Oklahoma in 1944.

But personal health problems in the early 1980s forced him to look at medicine from a patient’s perspective, and what he saw didn’t excite him. In search of better answers, he toured health centers in California that used lifestyle change, the same approach as Battle Creek Sanitarium to reverse the effects of heart disease and diabetes.

His dream then became to open a similar facility in Oklahoma.

Dr. Otey Johnson died August 21, 1984 of inoperable cancer. His fortune founded Ardmore Institute of Health, a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation with a health education charter, which opened Lifestyle Center of America on April 28, 1996 in Sulphur, OK.

Although Dr. Johnson was a Seventh-Day Adventist, LCA’s lifestyle medicine is offered in a nondenominational Christian context servicing clients of all religions, faiths, races, and creeds.

In the last 12 years, Lifestyle Center of America has helped more than 3,000 clients. And starting in the fall of 2007, it expanded its mission by adding another Stopping Diabetes Program at the Sedona Rouge Hotel & Spa in Sedona, AZ.

Dr. Otey Johnson had a vision:

“To restore mankind to wholeness: physical, mental and spiritual�

Dr. Johnson would be proud of what we’ve done.

Let us help you restore your health and stop diabetes in its tracks.