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
When Hypothyroidism Causes Heart Failure

When Hypothyroidism Causes Heart Failure

Hypothyroidism has many subtle symptoms such as lack of energy and increased body weight. But something as serious as sudden heart failure and potential death, that´s not often discussed. A new study in the latest Journal of the American Heart Association, however,...
Treat Diabetes and Heart Disease: One Food Type

Treat Diabetes and Heart Disease: One Food Type

A new study in BMC Medicine reveals that replacing one specific food type with another specific food type can drastically reduce your risk of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. You may even completely reverse these diseases by taking this one step. The...
Neuropathy Caused By This Vitamin Deficiency

Neuropathy Caused By This Vitamin Deficiency

Neuropathy is often blamed on diabetes, chemotherapy drugs, and a few other factors. Which doesn’t quite make sense because most people exposed to those factors don’t end up developing neuropathy. Which means there must be another factor involved. A new study in the...
Parkinson’s Disease Caused By This Plastic

Parkinson’s Disease Caused By This Plastic

More and more research is emerging revealing that Parkinson’s disease is a lifestyle disease and completely preventable. What’s more, taking the right actions, you can also prevent it from progressing, even reverse it naturally. One of those studies was recently...
This High-Carb Food Drops Diabetics’ Blood Sugar

This High-Carb Food Drops Diabetics’ Blood Sugar

For decades, type-2 diabetics have been told to avoid high-carbohydrate foods. After all, it’s been proven to spike blood sugar levels. Scientists even made an index called the glycemic index to rank foods you should eat and avoid. A new study in the journal Clinical...