Jodi Knapp

Author at Blue Heron Health News

Hi, I'm Jodi Knapp — a health researcher, former clinician, and author. I'm also one of the five co-founders of Blue Heron Health News.

Back in 2008, Christian Goodman, Shelly Manning, Scott Davis, Julissa Clay and I came together around the same quiet frustration. We had each built private practices we loved — and each of us had hit the same wall. We could only help a handful of people at a time. Blue Heron was our answer: a way to finally reach the people who needed us, no matter where in the world they lived.

My own path into this work started at home. I watched my mother struggle with Type 2 diabetes for years, and later watched my best friend Jane slowly come back to life after years of misdiagnosed hypothyroidism. Over and over, I saw people I loved being handed a prescription for a problem that actually lived deeper — in the gut, in the nervous system, in the slow fire of chronic inflammation. That's what pushed me to formally study nutrition and build a career around it.

For years I ran my own clinic, sitting across from patients and watching how their bodies responded to careful changes in food, supplements, sleep, and stress. Eventually I closed the clinic so I could put everything I had learned — and everything I kept learning from conferences, journals, and colleagues around the world — into programs anyone could follow from their own living room.

Today I'm the author of five of those programs: The 3-Step Diabetes Strategy, The Hypothyroidism Solution, Neuropathy No More, The Parkinson's Protocol, and The Multiple Sclerosis Solution.

Each one is built on the same belief. Conventional medicine is good at managing symptoms, and I have never asked a reader to abandon their doctor. My work simply starts one layer deeper — with the inflammation, the toxins, the missing nutrients, and the small daily imbalances that add up over a lifetime.

Best health,
Jodi Knapp


Articles by Jodi Knapp
This Fat Heals Diabetes And NAFLD

This Fat Heals Diabetes And NAFLD

There is one thing we know for sure: If you suffer from type 2 diabetes or non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), you absolutely must cut down on fat in your diet! Or not, actually, according to a new study published in the journal Nutrients. This study reveals a...
This Exercise Combats Neuropathy

This Exercise Combats Neuropathy

Neuropathy has a range of symptoms that range from just irritating to extremely painful. Nothing the medical system offers to treat these symptoms seems to help. A new study in JAMA Network Open is therefore very much welcomed as it demonstrates how specific types of...
This Food Heals Parkinson’s Disease

This Food Heals Parkinson’s Disease

We usually think of Parkinson’s disease as a condition of the brain. After all, it’s the lack of dopamine that causes it, right? Wrong, says a new study in Nature Communications. It’s caused by the food that you eat, and it can be healed by the food that you eat....
Hypothyroidism Affects Your Brain

Hypothyroidism Affects Your Brain

Hypothyroidism is well known to cause fatigue and tiredness and to slow down metabolism, which causes obesity. A new study published in the Cureus Journal of Medical Science reveals how hypothyroidism also affects your cognitive abilities. This may be its most...
Common Drugs Cause Diabetes and Obesity (within 12 weeks)

Common Drugs Cause Diabetes and Obesity (within 12 weeks)

Despite their serious side effects, the use of these drugs is still rising steeply. A new study from both Washington University and Florida Atlantic University reveals that these drugs not only lead to obesity within 12 weeks of use, but also cause type-2 diabetes and...