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
4 Early Signs of Parkinson’s Disease Discovered

4 Early Signs of Parkinson’s Disease Discovered

Most of the time, Parkinson’s disease is diagnosed too late. This is a big problem because the sooner you address it, the easier it is to stop it from progressing and the less damage it will cause. A new study published in JAMA Neurology explains why this is so...
Parkinson’s Disease Caused By a Common Operation

Parkinson’s Disease Caused By a Common Operation

Parkinson’s disease has long been considered to be caused mostly by genetics. Why then are men so much more likely to develop Parkinson’s than women? It’s not about genes; it’s about hormones, says a new study in JAMA Network Open that studied a common operation that...
Common Drink Treats Diabetes and Its Complications

Common Drink Treats Diabetes and Its Complications

Metabolic syndrome is the precursor to diabetes. It involves obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, moderately high blood sugar, and the beginnings of some insulin resistance. If this condition is not nipped in the bud, it will progress to full-blown type 2...
Heal Parkinson’s Disease at Its Root

Heal Parkinson’s Disease at Its Root

Parkinson’s disease has long been considered a disease of the brain. However, studies have increasingly focused on the role of the colony of microorganisms that live in our intestines in neurological and brain diseases such as Parkinson’s. Three studies linking gut...
New Treatment Heals Neuropathy Nerve Cells

New Treatment Heals Neuropathy Nerve Cells

The worst problem with neuropathy is not the tingling feeling, the numbness, or even the pain you experience in your arms, hands, legs, and feet. The worst problem is that neuropathy damages and eventually kills your nerve cells, and there is no medical treatment to...