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
New Hope for Parkinson’s

New Hope for Parkinson’s

Parkinson’s disease affects movement, but it also takes a heavy toll on emotions and mental well-being. And meds don’t help with that. New research, published in the journal Arts & Health, shows that participating in theater can significantly improve emotional...
This common vitamin soothes Neuropathy pain

This common vitamin soothes Neuropathy pain

Living with diabetes can be hard enough, but for many, diabetic neuropathy makes it even worse. If you need relief, a new study published in The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery suggests that adding 2000 IU of vitamin D per day can reduce...
Diabetes surprising link to food colors

Diabetes surprising link to food colors

If you want to improve your type 2 diabetes and live longer, scientists have found a surprisingly simple dietary trick: eat a wider variety of colorful plant foods every day. Their study appears in the latest edition of the journal Nature Food. Flavonoids are plant...
The Parkinson’s trigger hiding in your pantry

The Parkinson’s trigger hiding in your pantry

The concern that our daily food choices are quietly paving the way to Parkinson’s disease was just raised by a major new study published in the journal Neurology. Researchers found that people who consistently eat high amounts of ultra-processed foods are much more...