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 Mineral Beats Parkinson’s Disease

This Mineral Beats Parkinson’s Disease

One of the main underlying causes of Parkinson’s disease is the formation of Lewy bodies in our brains. These Lewy bodies form because of a buildup of a protein called alpha-synuclein. A study in the International Journal of Biological Macromolecules has proven that a...
The Best Exercise to Combat Parkinson’s Disease?

The Best Exercise to Combat Parkinson’s Disease?

Physical exercise has long been proven to be an effective treatment for Parkinson’s disease. However, due to its motor symptoms, many Parkinson’s patients may have difficulty exercising. However, a new study presented at the 2022 International Congress of the...
This Food Waste Combats Cholesterol and Type 2 Diabetes

This Food Waste Combats Cholesterol and Type 2 Diabetes

This may surprise you, but there is an everyday element of food waste that millions of households around the world routinely dispose of that could save your life. According to a new study from the University of Illinois, this food waste can cure type 2 diabetes and...
This Increases Neuropathy by 59%

This Increases Neuropathy by 59%

Diabetes is often considered to be the number-one risk factor for neuropathy, which affects around 50% of all diabetics. However, not all diabetics get neuropathy, meaning that there must be another major risk factor. Finally, a new study published in the journal...
To Heal Parkinson’s, Go Chinese

To Heal Parkinson’s, Go Chinese

Most studies on Parkinson’s disease focus exclusively on motor symptoms. But anxiety is another common and potentially destructive non-motor symptom of the disease. This fact prompted the researchers behind a new study in JAMA Network Open to put an old Chinese...