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

Important Supplement for Type 2 Diabetics

Getting enough magnesium can reduce blood sugar and even help prevent type 2 diabetes, the results from the journal “Clinical Nutrition” has found. The study investigated magnesium levels and blood sugar control in a group of people with type 2 diabetes. They found...

This Oil Shields Body From Diabetes

Upping your intake of omega-3-rich fish oil boosts insulin sensitivity and reduces a key underlying cause of type 2 diabetes, according to results published in the newest edition of the European Journal of Lipid Science and Technology. In this study, a group of 167...

Vitamin D and Type 2 Diabetes – More Proof

The “Sunshine Vitamin,” vitamin D, may help prevent and reverse type 2 diabetes, a new paper published out of Tufts University found. In the study, researchers followed vitamin D levels in a group of 2,000 people with pre-diabetes –a condition where blood sugar is...

Diabetes and Emulin

Have you seen Medicine Man with Sean Connery? It was a predictable but engaging tale about how a scientist found a cure for cancer in the jungles of the Amazon Rain Forest, and how the cure was being destroyed by deforestation. There are examples everywhere as to how...

This Can Reverse Type 2 Diabetes

Type 2 diabetes is often considered an incurable disease that one has to manage throughout their life. However, a new research study out of Newcastle University found that cutting back on calories is enough to help insulin producing cells in the pancreas reproduce. In...