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

Protein Shakes and Diabetic Kidney

Today we will examine another request from the comment section of the blog, which was simply the phrase “protein shakes and diabetic kidney.” The person requesting didn’t specify what he or she wanted to know within this subject, so as I poked into it, I had to assume...

Can Smoking Cause Type 2 Diabetes?

Several studies have linked smoking with type 2 diabetes. A recent study, led by John Forman at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and published in Diabetes Care, is the first one that links second hand smoking with the disease. More info on healing type 2...

Type 2 Diabetes Causes Hearing Loss

According to a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, hearing loss is twice as common for adults with type 2 diabetes compared to those people same age. Hearing tests are rarely taken in association with diabetes tests. So if you suffer diabetes, make...

A Simple, Sweet Treat for Your Diabetic Valentine

The seasonal aisles have been stuffed to the brim since New Year’s Day with the trappings of sugar-shock wrapped in pink, red, and white ribbons. The candy overload since Halloween takes no breaks, it seems. But what can you do for your Valentine that says not only “I...

First Signs of Diabetes

Well, if you made it out of holiday season without eating too many cookies, gumdrops, or chocolate you did very well. I congratulate you. However, the trickery of blood sugar dangers isn’t over. There are 2 more holidays that involve a lot of candies. Chocolates and...