Melissa B., M.S., R.D. earned both Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Nutritional Sciences with Magna Cum Laude honors from Texas Woman's University. Melissa is a Texas-native and moved to Arizona to allow for the opportunity to expand her nutrition career and build her expertise in the profession of nutrition. Melissa specializes in the nutritional treatment of eating disorders and disordered eating, bariatric surgery, the gut microbiota, mindful eating, diabetes mellitus, metabolic disorders and the effects of chronic dieting.

Melissa has had the opportunity to be involved with local news channels in the promotion of healthy nutrition practices for the public through blogging and video. She has been featured on ABC-15 Sonoran Living, NBC-12 Arizona Midday KPNX and Channel 3 AZ KTVK. She has created hundreds of nutrition content pieces to provide accurate, sound and science-backed information to the public amongst anecdotal-backed dieting trends and the many nutritional myths that saturate our media.