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 “Healthy” Diet Causes Hypothyroidism

This “Healthy” Diet Causes Hypothyroidism

There’s no shortage of hyped diets. But do they help with hypothyroidism? A new study in the journal Food & Function put a specific type of diet to the test, with shocking results. But actually… if you just tweak it a little, it’s quite good. Plant-based diets...
This Diabetes Drug Causes Neuropathy

This Diabetes Drug Causes Neuropathy

Hopes were high when, in the late 20th century, when they finally approved medication for Type 2 Diabetes. What could possibly go wrong? A spike in neuropathy cases… that’s what went wrong. And now, a new study published in Scientific Reports proves that this most...
This Common Drink Treats Diabetes

This Common Drink Treats Diabetes

A new study published in the journal Nutrients found that drinking coffee can significantly lower your blood sugar and improve type 2 diabetes. But there’s a catch… You have to drink it in a specific way or you lose all the benefits. The study used data from the Korea...
These Mushrooms Improve Parkinson’s Disease

These Mushrooms Improve Parkinson’s Disease

Parkinson’s Disease comes with a long list of symptoms. Some are bad, some are worse. A new revolutionary study published in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology may change that. Because it reveals how a specific type of mushroom can significantly improve one of the...
Common Vitamin Stops MS

Common Vitamin Stops MS

There’s no medical method to cure MS or even stop it from progressing. But a common supermarket vitamin could do the trick, according to a study published in JAMA. So drastic improvements, actually, that it cut some of the symptoms in half. The very first signs of MS...