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
Parkinson’s Disease patients lack these vitamins

Parkinson’s Disease patients lack these vitamins

Researchers have suspected for some time that the abnormal alpha-synuclein fibers that accumulate in the brains of Parkinson’s patients originally come from their guts, from where they rise into their brains. A new study in npj Parkinson’s Disease now...
Best exercise for MS revealed

Best exercise for MS revealed

Symptoms like muscle weakness, fatigue, and walking difficulties can make multiple sclerosis (MS) very challenging to live with. Therefore, it’s essential that you get plenty of exercise if you suffer MS. But what’s the best exercise for this condition? Recent...
These foods treat Diabetes

These foods treat Diabetes

The fact that the food on your plate can help keep type 2 diabetes at bay isn’t exactly a new discovery. But a new study published in Nutrition & Diabetes suggests that a specific type of food will prevent this disease and even reverse it. Interestingly,...
Popular drink prevents Parkinson’s disease

Popular drink prevents Parkinson’s disease

You most likely love this drink, but opinions vary on whether it’s a health miracle or destroyer. A new study in the journal Neurology puts it firmly in the miracle class because it may prevent, even drastically improve, Parkinson’s disease. Because previous studies...
Ease Neuropathy pain the easy way

Ease Neuropathy pain the easy way

Neuropathy is a complicated condition due to many causes, making it difficult to treat. A new study presented at the American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting this year, however, found a simple solution. There is one pleasant thing everyone can do to drastically...