Danine Fruge, MD, ABFP | Source | Medical Director at Pritikin Longevity Center

• American Board of Family Practice, Board Certified
• MD, Louisiana State University School of Medicine
• American Academy of Family Physicians
• Florida Hospital Resident Research Award
• State Project Chair, Louisiana State Medical Society
• President, Women In Medicine

To her patients at Pritikin, Dr. Fruge brings the enthusiasm and expertise of a doctor who practices what she preaches. Throughout her life she has enjoyed a diet abundant in natural, nutrient-dense foods like fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. “When I was growing up,” she marvels, “my parents were so health-conscious that I never even stepped into a McDonald’s till my teen years.”

She is an avid exerciser and athlete, and as an undergraduate received a full NCAA Division I tennis scholarship. She also runs marathons. As a physician, she completed rotations at many sports medicine clinics, including the Longitudinal Sports Medicine Clinic in Orlando, Florida, and Clinical/Surgical Pediatric Orthopedics in Orlando. Now, she also runs after her three active sons, ages 16, 10, and 3.

In 2003, Dr. Fruge completed medical residency work at the Pritikin Longevity Center and was so impressed with Pritikin’s educational program and quality of physician care that she applied for employment. “I love working at Pritikin because I truly believe that preventive medicine is the medicine of the future, and I intend to make it my life’s work. The Pritikin Longevity Center represents this work at its very best.”