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

Black Tea Fights Diabetes

While many nutritionists espouse the benefits of green tea, its antioxidant-rich cousin — black tea — often takes a back seat. However, a new study conducted by researchers at the University of Maryland Medical Center found that regular consumers of black...

Compound In Olive Oil Fights Diabetes

Those with diabetes should cook with extra virgin olive oil as much as possible, reports a paper conducted by a team of scientists at Australia’s Deakin University. In this paper, researchers reviewed the current literature that investigated the health benefits of...

Insomnia Brings on Type 2 Diabetes

Insulin resistance, a chronic condition where one’s body isn’t able to process blood sugar, has long been tied to sleep apnea. However, new research coming out of Japan’s Teikyo University discovered that sleepless nights may also boost insulin resistance. In this...

Smog Worsens Insulin Resistance

Living in cities with high levels of air pollution can increase insulin resistance and make people more prone to type 2 diabetes, the results of a Danish research study suggests. A particular pollutant, known as nitric oxide, is specifically tied to increases in blood...

One Drink Per Day Keeps Diabetes Away

Those wanting to keep type 2 diabetes at bay should eat healthy, exercise everyday and down alcohol in moderation, according to research published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition this week. In this study of 80,000 women, those that habitually drank two...