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
Your Thinking Can Worsen Diabetes 60%

Your Thinking Can Worsen Diabetes 60%

When talking about type 2 diabetes, diet and exercises are usually the two main things recommended. But there may actually be another factor that is even more important. Scientists have found that those thinking in a specific way are 60% more likely to develop type 2...
Type 2 Diabetes Caused By How You Were Born

Type 2 Diabetes Caused By How You Were Born

Type 2 diabetes is usually considered to be caused by specific diet and lifestyle choices. But a new study published their study in Diabetologia (the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes), reveals it may all be connected to how you were born....
How Diabetes Makes Heart Attacks 1 ½ Times More Deadly

How Diabetes Makes Heart Attacks 1 ½ Times More Deadly

Because of advances in medical care, a heart attack is now more survivable than ever before. But if you experience a heart attack while also fighting type 2 diabetes, your chance of surviving the attack is much smaller, up to years later. So why does this happen and...
The Meat Substitute that Reverses Type 2 Diabetes

The Meat Substitute that Reverses Type 2 Diabetes

Heavy meat-eaters and people looking to transition to a vegetarian or vegan diet who want to cut down on their meat consumption have long looked for a healthy meat substitute that is not just soy or vegetable extract. Researchers have now discovered one such soy-free...
How Unhappy Marriage Cures Type 2 Diabetes

How Unhappy Marriage Cures Type 2 Diabetes

At the beginning of 2016, the Journal of Gerontology published a surprising study that seems to contradict everything scientists thought they knew about the relationship between marriage quality and type 2 diabetes. Up to then, most scientists thought that a happy...