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
How to Get Every Vitamin and Mineral You Need from Food

How to Get Every Vitamin and Mineral You Need from Food

When looking over the health article from the myriad magazines and TV shows, it can be daunting to glean what you CAN eat after the endless lists of what you SHOULDN’T eat. What’s more, with the ever-increasing food costs it can be frustrating to find the biggest bang...
Type 1 Diabetes  Cured

Type 1 Diabetes Cured

Research from Spanish scientists released in the journal Diabetes has shown, for the first time ever in an animal of its size, that Type 1 diabetes can be cured. This study gives great hope that soon type 1 diabetes can be cured in humans and may help fight the battle...
Easy Way to Lower Cholesterol and Improve Diabetes

Easy Way to Lower Cholesterol and Improve Diabetes

As people make strides to improve their cholesterol numbers and overcome diabetes, they are faced with a dilemma regarding exercise. Should you really hit it hard, or take the slow and easy route? Compounding the issue is that people who are already struggling with...
Good News for Type 2 Diabetes

Good News for Type 2 Diabetes

The numbers for Type 2 diabetes in the US have been very grim in recent decades, with a startling number of people being newly diagnosed every year. It is continuing to occur at an exponential rise, even among people who are younger and younger. However, the prognosis...