Dr. Melanie Uhde
Founder | Trainer | Educator
Academic:
Bachelor’s Degree, Biology, University of Jena, Germany
Fundamentals: Animal Physiology, Animal Behavior, Ecology, Evolution, Genetics, Neuroscience, Microbiology
Master’s Degree, Biology
Focus: Animal Physiology, Microbiology
Ph.D. Natural Sciences, Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany
Studies: Behavioral and immunological changes of genetic mutations
Postdoctoral Research, Columbia University, New York, USA
Studies: gut-immune-brain interactions in gastrointestinal and neuropsychiatric disease
16 peer-reviewed publications in prestigious scientific journals such as Brain Behavior and Immunity and Psychiatry Research
Advanced Studies of Anxiety Disorders, Stanford University, Stanford, USA
Certification Canine Nutrition, University of Illiniois Urbana-Champaign (ongoing)
Hands-on Experience
10+ years of training companion dogs
Mondioring with personal dogs Anya and Ollie
3 months long observation of village dogs in Mae Sot, Thailand, and Montego Bay, Jamaica
Certified Canine Athlete Specialist
Focus: Optimal physical activity throughout the k9 lifecycle for longevity
My Big WHY
Education is broken when it starts with an opinion and works backwards to find studies that fit. That’s not science—that’s propaganda in a lab coat.
Real education takes everything into account: the hardwired principles every animal lives by—movement, nutrition, learning, sleep, and social bonds. These aren’t “nice extras.” They are the non-negotiables that shape how a brain develops, how a body thrives, and how behavior unfolds over a lifetime.
In the last ten years, neuroscience has blown the doors open on how animals—humans included—learn, adapt, and stay resilient. But the flood of online information has left us drowning in half-truths, hacks, and distractions. We’ve mistaken temporary fixes for real solutions, while the actual drivers of health and behavior sit ignored in the background.
If you share your life with a dog, you are an advocate, whether you choose to be an informed one or not. The choices you make today will echo through every year you share together. At Canine Decoded, I strip away the noise, deliver the science, and make it simple to weave these principles into everyday life so your dog can have not just more years, but better years.
