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 Ancient Approach Eases Neuropathy

This Ancient Approach Eases Neuropathy

Western medicine has no cure for neuropathy. Yet most western doctors will frown on the idea of using an old Eastern medical approach to treat it. That is, except for a team of German and Chinese scientists that decided to put this ancient approach to a test, with...
These Metals Causes Parkinson’s Disease

These Metals Causes Parkinson’s Disease

In the past month, two studies have appeared in scientific journals demonstrating that exposure to two types of common metals causes Parkinson’s disease. The first study was published in ACS Chemical Neuroscience, and the second appeared in Chemosphere. In the...
Controversial Plant Treats Hypothyroidism

Controversial Plant Treats Hypothyroidism

Many studies have discovered that people who are vitamin D-deficient are more likely than the general population to develop hypothyroidism. The most obvious way to remedy this problem is to get more vitamin D, right? Actually, no! There is a body of research that...
Common Spice Treats Neuropathy

Common Spice Treats Neuropathy

Neuropathy is a painful condition that’s becoming more and more common—and the traditional medical system has no solution. But, based on indications from natural researchers, scientists from Virginia Commonwealth University decided to test a common spice as treatment...
This Sport Halts Parkinson’s Disease

This Sport Halts Parkinson’s Disease

Plenty of research exists on the benefits of exercise for Parkinson’s disease patients. But the best exercise, according to a new study presented at the 2022 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Neurology, may surprise you. This is because it’s a sport that...