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 Hypothyroidism Drug Causes Arthritis

This Hypothyroidism Drug Causes Arthritis

This is one of the most commonly prescribed medications for hypothyroidism. It’s often even taken by people without a low thyroid hormone level. Until recently it was considered harmless but a new study in Arthritis Research & Therapy reveals that this drug...
Diabetes Neuropathy Symptoms You May Have

Diabetes Neuropathy Symptoms You May Have

If you have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and you’re experiencing nerve pain, you’re far from alone. Half of all people diagnosed with type 2 diabetes also struggle with a related condition known as painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy (pDPN). But despite all...
Parkinson’s Disease Drastically Affected by These Habits

Parkinson’s Disease Drastically Affected by These Habits

Doctors have long claimed that Parkinson’s Disease progresses to the final stages regardless of lifestyle factors. But this idea has been challenged by a new study in Scientific Reports. Research has identified three common habits that drastically accelerate...
Parkinson’s Caused by This Common Gut Bacteria

Parkinson’s Caused by This Common Gut Bacteria

Until recently, conventional medicine swore on genetics as nearly the only cause of Parkinson’s disease. More recent studies link it increasingly to environmental and lifestyle factors. A study in Cellular and Infection Microbiology has concluded that specific strains...
Genetic Diabetes Healed Naturally

Genetic Diabetes Healed Naturally

One big problem with the advances in genetic research is that they give people an excuse to be sick. After all, if your type 2 diabetes is caused by your genes, there is nothing you can do about it, right? Wrong! A new study in the British Journal of Sports Medicine...