Optimizing Performance, Readiness, and Resilience
I translate nutrition science into practical strategies for military training, operations, and recovery.
As a Board Certified Specialist in Sports Dietetics with experience embedded in Marine Corps Special Operations and supporting personnel in Navy and Air Force environments, I understand that effective tactical nutrition depends on more than sound recommendations. It requires trust, collaboration, and an understanding of military culture and command priorities.
I design programs for garrison, field, and deployed settings by accounting for training cycles, food access, available resources, military standards, environmental stress, and operational tempo.
What I Deliver
- Fueling, hydration, and recovery protocols for training cycles, field exercises, travel, and deployment
- Body-composition and weight-management support that considers energy balance, performance, health, and military standards
- Individual nutrition guidance for performance barriers such as gastrointestinal issues, iron depletion, bone-health concerns, food allergies, injury recovery, and disordered-eating risk
- Evaluation of supplements and ergogenic aids for safety, efficacy, quality, legality, and prohibited-substance risk
- Food-environment and menu recommendations that improve access to appropriate fueling options
- Performance nutrition education for service members, leadership, coaches, staff, and food-service personnel
How I Work
- Assess training demands, dietary practices, food availability, body composition, energy balance, and performance and readiness data
- Establish priorities with command leadership and Human Performance Team staff
- Develop protocols, education, and resources consistent with military policy, operational requirements, and available logistics
- Deliver support through individual counseling, group education, food-environment recommendations, and coordination with food-service personnel
- Track utilization and outcomes, identify remaining gaps, and modify the program as training and mission demands change
Transforming Tactical Performance
Nutrition requirements change as a unit moves through the operational cycle.
- Garrison: Establish consistent fueling and hydration practices, monitor energy balance and body composition, address nutrition-related performance barriers, and coordinate support with medical, Human Performance, and food-service staff.
- Pre-deployment: Plan for mission duration, travel, climate, altitude, food and fluid availability, field rations, supplement risks, and individual medical or dietary needs.
- Field and deployment: Adapt fueling and hydration plans to operational tempo, disrupted meal and sleep schedules, limited food preparation and storage, environmental stress, and changing recovery demands.
Organizations and Initiatives Supported
- Preservation of the Force and Family (POTFF), U.S. Special Operations Command – delivered integrated performance-nutrition education, counseling, and operational support
- Human Performance Resources by CHAMP (HPRC) – contributed to educational resources in collaboration with POTFF sports dietitians
- U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine (USARIEM) – supported applied research involving energy demands and performance at high altitude
- Operation Supplement Safety (OPSS) – advanced education on supplement safety, efficacy, quality, and prohibited-substance risk
- Tactical Nutrition Summits – contributed expertise at professional events in Fayetteville and Colorado Springs
