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 fun Parkinson’s habit scored real results

This fun Parkinson’s habit scored real results

What if managing Parkinson’s didn’t feel like therapy? A new study published in Clinical Parkinsonism & Related Disorders shows how something simple and fun delivers amazing results. Researchers followed 30 people with mild to moderate Parkinson’s disease and...
Healing hypothyroidism bottom up

Healing hypothyroidism bottom up

The researchers in the new study started with two questions: 1) Could gut health affect thyroid function? 2) Could improving your gut health then improve your hypothyroidism? They presented their results in a new study at the ENDO 2025 meeting of The Endocrine...
This neighborhood worsens Parkinson’s 126%

This neighborhood worsens Parkinson’s 126%

Golf courses evoke images of manicured lawns and a quiet, leisurely lifestyle. But new research published in JAMA Network Open suggests that living near one could sharply increase your risk of developing Parkinson’s disease. The closer you live, the worse it gets. How...
This “healthy” drink worsens Diabetes 38%

This “healthy” drink worsens Diabetes 38%

For years, we’ve been told artificial sweeteners are the healthier choice to satisfy a sweet tooth. But new research in Diabetes & Metabolism delivers an alarming twist: drinking just one artificially sweetened beverage daily could raise your type 2 diabetes risk...
Neuropathy risk worsens 4x with this deficiency

Neuropathy risk worsens 4x with this deficiency

Getting enough of this vitamin is the most important thing you can do to protect yourself against neuropathy, according to a new study in Nutrition and Health. Because vitamin D calms inflammation, produces substances that keep nerve cells healthy, and repairs the...