Brooke Marsal

MS, RD

Brooke is a lifelong multi-sport competitive athlete and ex-collegiate soccer player. Her athletic endeavors and the resultant dietary demands sparked an interest in nutrition that took her beyond the playing fields.

Brooke received her Master of Science in Nutrition from Teachers College, Columbia University and completed her dietetic internship at UCSF Medical Center in San Francisco where she gained experience treating a wide variety of medical conditions in both adults and pediatric patients. Since beginning her career as a dietitian, Brooke’s work has been focused primarily on adolescents and adults struggling with eating disorders/disordered eating, body image issues, challenging chronic dieting, and sports nutrition. She has experience working with these populations at all levels of care which include inpatient (hospital based and residential programs), intensive outpatient (IOP), and outpatient (private practice) settings.

In working with clients Brooke encourages them to engage in kindness, gentleness, curiosity, and self-compassion as they learn to develop a new relationship to food and their bodies. Brooke helps her clients challenge diet culture and other damaging beliefs using current science (evidence based) all the while treating the whole person to find peace and empowerment through food.

In addition to her position at Brown & Medina Nutrition, Brooke works at Stanford Children’s Hospital on their inpatient eating disorder unit where she works with adolescents, young adults, and families of patients with medical complications from eating disorders and undernutrition. (Disclaimer: any opinions and recommendations made by Brooke are her opinions alone and recommendations are based on international standards of care. Opinions and recommendations are not those of Stanford Health Care).

Brooke specializes in:

  • Treatment and Prevention of Disordered Eating and Eating Disorders in Adolescents and Adults

  • ARFID (Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder)

  • Sports Nutrition

  • Hormonal Irregularities/Infertility