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
Diabetes and Vertigo Connection

Diabetes and Vertigo Connection

As if diabetes wasn’t bad enough on its own, it’s quite common for it to give you vertigo too. Brazilian researchers have just published a review of scientific literature on that subject in the journal Revista CEFAC, looking at the reasons why it happens. So, here’s...
The Candy That Undoes Type 2 Diabetes

The Candy That Undoes Type 2 Diabetes

In March 2016, the British Journal of Nutrition featured an article by a multinational research team that still seems super-surprising. They found that consuming a particular candy reduces insulin levels along with the liver enzymes that people with insulin resistance...
This Commonplace Food Fights Diabetes

This Commonplace Food Fights Diabetes

Scientists have known for some time that whole grains seem to prevent type 2 diabetes, but they don’t understand exactly why yet. But a new study led by Finnish researchers published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition adds more to this debate by...
This Common Tea Heals Type-2 Diabetes

This Common Tea Heals Type-2 Diabetes

According to a recent study, published in the Naunyn-Schmedeberg’s Archives of Pharmacology, a specific type of tea not only helps people to lose weight, but it can also drastically assist in improving type 2 diabetes. In fact, the effects of drinking this tea were...
Common Drink Causes Type-2 Diabetes

Common Drink Causes Type-2 Diabetes

A new 16-year study involving 350,000 people and published in the Diabetologia Journal shows that there is a devastating effect of one of the most popular drinks on the market. Just one drink per day can spike type-2 diabetes by a whopping 22%. This same drink has...