Melissa Snow, RDN, LD
Melissa is a registered dietitian nutritionist practicing in the Seacoast area since 2001. She works with children, adolescents and adults who have a wide range of nutrition related interests and concerns. Her knowledge and experience using specific foods, diets, supplements, and herbs combined with her compassionate and supportive approach, enable her clients to make significant food, nutrition and lifestyle changes that lead to improved energy, resolution of symptoms, and healthier living.
Since 2019 Melissa has been studying and using nutrition and systems biology to uncover root causation of symptoms and diseases. Every system in the body is affected by nutrition. Using anatomy and physiology allows for a systematic approach to understand how systems communicate so barriers can be identified and addresses to optimize health and prevent disease.
Together, systems biology and the science of nutritional epigenetics enable us to look at how nutrients, exercise and sleep, among other factors, can influence gene expression and disease risk. This allows for specific individualized treatment. Melissa is in training and mentorship with 3X4 Genetics to offer advanced genetic testing and nutrigenomic education and counseling. Client results provide a blueprint for making sound dietary and lifestyle choices that influence specific enzymes and metabolic pathways, allowing for healthier and longer living.
As a digestive specialist, Melissa continually pursues education and special training in inflammatory bowel diseases, IBS, SIBO and the gut microbiome. She participates in monthly clinical calls with Mark Pimentel, MD Gastroenterologist, professor, and director of the MAST Program at Cedars-Sinai. She offers Trio Smart Breath and IBS-Smart Blood Testing as part of her services.
Melissa is passionate about fitness and works with aspiring and elite athletes to optimize performance. If you are new to exercise or have not been giving your body the fitness attention it needs, she will be your partner in your lifelong fitness journey. Exercise and performance build self-confidence and create better nutrition habits which in turn, enhance fitness and allow you to feel better in your own skin. Being a cardio and fitness junkie herself, Melissa loves open water swimming, cycling, running, hiking, Nordic skiing, and swimming with Great Bay Masters. She balances these activities with weight training, barre and yoga classes and her favorite social activities are downhill skiing, surfing, and sailing.
Professional Memberships:
- Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
- Dietitians in Integrative & Functional Medicine
- Sports and Human Performance Nutrition
- Dietitians in Medical Nutrition Therapy
Concerns and diseases that benefit from nutrition:
- Anemia
- Athletic performance
- Autism spectrum disorder
- Appetite dysregulation
- Celiac disease
- Childhood eating
- Constipation
- Crohn’s disease
- Chronic fatigue syndrome
- Diabetes
- Diarrhea
- Diverticulosis and diverticulitis
- EoE- eosinophilic esophagitis
- Fibromyalgia
- Food allergies and sensitivities
- Gall bladder disease
- Gastroparesis
- High cholesterol
- High blood pressure
- Hyperglycemia/hypoglycemia
- Insulin resistance
- Irritable bowel syndrome
- Migraines/headaches
- Metabolic syndrome
- Obesity
- Osteopenia and Osteoporosis
- Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
- PCOS
- Prenatal, pregnancy, and post-natal
- Reflux
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Ulcerative colitis
To get the most out of your nutrition appointments, please complete the online nutrition form that you will have access to after scheduling your appointment. Bring a 4-day food journal along with a notepad.
Insurance Accepted
Aetna
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield
Federal Blue Cross Blue Shield
Cigna
Harvard Pilgrim
Tufts
United HealthcarePrivate pay rates are available if you do not have insurance or if your primary insurance is Medicare.
Office Hours
Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday: 8:30am-5:00pm
Thursday and Friday: closed
How to Schedule an Appointment
To schedule an appointment, please go to:
In-person, online or telephone appointments are all available
Complete my assessment forms, symptoms questionnaire, consent to treat and insurance information on your Practice Better portal prior to our scheduled appointment
How to Contact Melissa?
Telephone: 603-610-2233
Fax: 603-610-2220
Email: melissa@eatwellnh.com
Website: www.melissasnownutrition.com
Testimonials
“Thanks so much for your down to earth professional approach in helping me with my new gluten free life journey. I look forward to learning more.”
“Thank you so much for your time in educating me about my health. I am noticing subtle changes every day. You are terrific at what you do as well as being such a remarkable person.”
“I want to thank you for your help in my preparation for the Boston Marathon. Thanks to you, among others, I ran well, finishing in 70th place.”