Science Based Nutrition™ has been helping doctors provide state of the art healthcare to patients for over 25 years. With hundreds of doctors across the U.S. using our program, patients can easily gain access to a Doctor that uses our patented system to deliver the highest quality nutritional healthcare using objective documentation.

Dr. Van D. Merkle is President of Science Based Nutrition™ and the creator of the patented Science Based Nutrition™ program.  Dr. Merkle has been in chiropractic practice for over 40 years and is Board Certified in Clinical Nutrition and is a Diplomat of the Chiropractic Board of Internists and Diplomat of the Chiropractic Board of Clinical Nutrition.

On August 7, 2007 the United States of America granted Science Based Nutrition™ a patent for a ‘System and Method For Medical Diagnosis’, the computerized analysis system that is used in every Science Based Nutrition™ report.