Herbalife Nutrition Advisory Board

Marion Flechtner-Mors, Ph.D.

Marion Flechtner-Mors, Ph.D., based in Germany, is a member of Herbalife’s Nutrition Advisory Board, made up of leading experts around the world in the fields of nutrition and health who educate and train Herbalife independent distributors on the principles of nutrition, physical activity and healthy lifestyle.

Flechtner-Mors is currently head of the nutrition research and the  obesity research group at the University of Ulm, Germany.  She specializes in healthy nutrition and the relationship between obesity and associated metabolic disorders.  She has undertaken substantial experimental research focusing on this subject, specifically the alleviation of obesity through energy-restricted diets, low-calorie diets, meal replacements and medication.  In addition, part of her research work includes epidemiology and co-morbidities of obesity in children and adolescents.  Her work is dedicated to developing and evaluating long-term weight-loss programs and preventative strategies for nutrition-related disorders.

Flechtner-Mors is a graduate of the University of Ulm, where she earned a Ph.D. in human biology and a state doctorate in medicine.  Prior, she studied mathematics and chemistry at the University of Ulm.  She also studied nutrition and earned a diploma degree at the University of Hohenheim.

Flechtner-Mors began her career as a laboratory technician at the Fa. Reinz, Neu Ulm and then in the biochemistry department at Ulm.  She went on to become a researcher in the department of medicine before gaining valuable experience at the School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).  Since 1999, Flechtner-Mors has also worked as a senior researcher in nutrition at the University of Hohenheim Institute of Biological Chemistry and Nutrition.  Over the last 18 years, her research has been widely published around the world.