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
Is Your Hypothyroidism Misdiagnosed? (90% Chance)

Is Your Hypothyroidism Misdiagnosed? (90% Chance)

Levothyroxine, a drug used to treat hypothyroidism, is prescribed for 23 million Americans every year. In Clinical Chemistry, a Yale scientist warns that up to 90% of it might be completely unnecessary and based on a common cause of misdiagnosis. When more than 10% of...
The Greatest Diabetes Risk Factors Discovered

The Greatest Diabetes Risk Factors Discovered

Type 2 diabetes is considered a lifestyle disease, meaning that it’s caused primarily by our modern Western lifestyle. What exactly about our modern lifestyle causes type 2 diabetes, and how can we avoid it? That’s the burning question a new study in Nature Medicine...
Parkinson’s Caused By This Organ Removal

Parkinson’s Caused By This Organ Removal

Sometimes researchers find the weirdest and most unlikely connections that seemingly have nothing to do with each other. One such connection, which was published in the journal Gastroenterology, was recently made with Parkinson’s and what would seem like a body part...
This Diet Halts Parkinson’s Disease

This Diet Halts Parkinson’s Disease

Parkinson’s is generally considered a hereditary disorder that you either get or you don’t get depending on your genes. And if you get it, there is little you can do about it. But a new study published in the journal Movement Disorders reveals simple diet changes that...
Hypothyroidism’s Most Terrifying Symptom

Hypothyroidism’s Most Terrifying Symptom

If you search for the symptoms of hypothyroidism online, you are likely to find fatigue, weight gain, muscle aches and weakness, depression, sensitivity to cold, constipation, and so forth. But a study in the journal Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment reveals a...