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
Strange Shingles and Diabetes Connection

Strange Shingles and Diabetes Connection

Shingles is not just a skin rash—it can become extremely painful with pain that lasts for years. As you know, it is caused by the varicella-zoster (chickenpox) virus. Type-2 diabetes is an inflammatory disease that spikes blood sugar levels. What could these two...
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. But a new study in the journal...
This Candy Cures Type 2 Diabetes

This Candy Cures Type 2 Diabetes

Too often when talking about healthy living, we have to give up on the food and things we love the most. So I love it when new studies come out proving the most delicious things to be healthy. A new study published in the Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry reveals a...
This Activity Halts Osteoporosis

This Activity Halts Osteoporosis

Is there a way to prevent osteoporosis? Yes, says a new study published in the journal JAMA Network Open. All you have to do is perform this simple activity. But it must be done sooner than later. Since bone strength in young adulthood is one of the main predictors of...
This Song Reverses Parkinson’s

This Song Reverses Parkinson’s

How can a song reverse an ‘incurable’ disease like Parkinson’s? Sounds impossible! But a new study published in the Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies shows exactly how this happens – and how you can do the same. The authors of this study recruited 13 people...