It started at our kitchen table
BellyMD makes physician-formulated supplements for the gut-brain pattern: bloating, brain fog, queasy mornings, reflux, fatigue. It began with two people in our own family who felt unwell for years, with normal test results and no answers.
The pattern we couldn’t un-see
For years, my mom lived with nausea, vomiting and a low mood no one could explain. Test after test came back normal. She was told it was stress, or nothing.
When she finally got the right support for the gut-brain pattern, she got her life back. She takes MGB+ Calm every day. Watching that happen is the reason BellyMD exists.
Rick saw the same pattern in me. I started on MGB+, and today I feel better than I have in my entire adult life. Before it was a company, it was a husband paying attention to the people he loves. The formulas we sell are the ones we take, and the ones we give the people at this table.
The ER doctor who saw the pattern
I’m Rick Pescatore. I’m an emergency and public health physician and the Editor-in-Chief of Emergency Medicine News. Before medicine, I studied aerospace engineering at the U.S. Naval Academy. Finding patterns in complicated systems is the only job I’ve ever had.
In my emergency department, I kept seeing the same story. Bloating. Brain fog. Fatigue that never lifts. Normal labs, normal scans, and medications that never quite fit. Then I saw it everywhere: friends, family, patients who came back month after month with no answers.
The pattern had a name in the medical literature, but nobody had built anything for it. So I did. MGB+ is three formulas, each for a different part of the gut-brain axis, at doses that track the research. It’s the protocol I run on myself, and the one I give my own family.
Merck Manual author pageEditor-in-Chief, Emergency Medicine NewsResearch on Google ScholarLarry King interview
“We built this so you don’t have to wait years to be heard.”
Who reviewed the framework
Four practising clinicians reviewed the BellyMD framework and the evidence behind the formulas.
Joshua D. Niforatos, MD, MTS
Cleveland Clinic
Emergency physician and meta-researcher. His JAMA Internal Medicine work on evidence quality shapes how clinicians evaluate supplement research.
Sergey M. Motov, MD
Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn
Emergency physician whose 2015 Annals of Emergency Medicine trial changed how emergency departments treat pain at the bedside.
Patrick Reeves, MD
Brooke Army Medical Center
Army pediatric gastroenterologist. Built the Clinical Action Plans toolkit that brings structured gastrointestinal care to military families.
Suzanne Enright, MEd
Behavior analysis
Behavior analyst and clinician. Decades of designing individual care plans for children and adults, and leading the teams that deliver them. She is also Kady’s mother, the mom in the story above.
The company
- Based
- PhiladelphiaBellyMD, Inc.
- Made
- New YorkFDA-registered, cGMP-certified facility
- Tested
- Every batchBy an outside laboratory, for potency, heavy metals and contaminants. Certificate of analysis on request.
- Team
- SmallPhysicians, scientists and operators
What is the gut-brain axis?
The two-way conversation between your gut and your brain. The vagus nerve, hormones, immune signals and gut bacteria all take part. When it runs smoothly, you feel clear and steady. When it gets stuck, you get the pattern: bloating, brain fog, queasy mornings, fatigue, sleep that will not hold.
Find your starting point
Clear
For bloating, constipation and brain fog.
$79, or $55 a month
Shop Clear
Cool
For heartburn and loose stools.
$79, or $55 a month
Shop Cool
Calm
For morning nausea, an anxious stomach and afternoon fatigue.
$79, or $55 a month
Shop Calm
Not sure which? The two-minute questionnaire reads your pattern and picks for you.