BellyMD/Who we are/Philadelphia

It started at our kitchen table.

BellyMD makes physician-formulated supplements for the gut-brain pattern: bloating, brain fog, queasy mornings, reflux, fatigue. It did not start in a lab. It started with two people in our own family who spent years feeling unwell, with normal test results and no answers.

42%

of adults worldwide meet criteria for a disorder of gut-brain interaction. Rome Foundation, 2026.

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formulas, each matched to a different pattern and built on one shared foundation.

12 weeks

of money-back guarantee, covering the first order up to three bottles. Keep what is left.

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Where it began

The pattern we couldn’t un-see.

For years, my mom lived with nausea, vomiting, IBS, and a low mood no one could explain. Test after test came back normal. She was told it was stress, or anxiety, or nothing. The list of things it wasn’t kept growing. The thing it was never got a name.

When she finally got the right support for the gut-brain pattern, she got her life back. She takes MGB+ Calm every single day now. Watching that happen is the reason BellyMD exists.

A family thing, first.

Rick saw the same pattern in me, in an earlier phase, that he’d seen in my mom. I started on MGB+, and today I feel better than I have in my entire adult life.

That’s the truth behind BellyMD: 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.

Kady Pescatore, JD · Co-founder and COO
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I’m an ER doctor. I kept seeing the same pattern.

Rick Pescatore with his daughters at the site of Doctors’ Commons, London
London/Doctors’ Commons

I’m Rick Pescatore. I’m an ER doctor 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. A gut that runs your whole day. Labs come back normal. Scans come back normal. Medications never quite fit.

I started seeing it everywhere. Friends. Family. Patients who came back month after month with no answers. The pattern was real. It had a name in the medical literature. But nobody had built anything for it. So I did.

MGB+ is three formulas. Each one targets 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’d give my own family. Because I did.

Rick Pescatore, DO · Emergency and public health physician · Founder
Don’t take our word for itMerck Manual author pageEditor-in-Chief, Emergency Medicine NewsResearch on Google ScholarLarry King interview
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Look us up

Rick is a board-certified emergency physician and a former state public health director, and you can verify both in a thirty-second search. The advisory board is three practising physicians and a behavior analyst, none of them paid for endorsement.

And yes, one of them is family. The behavior analyst on the board is the mom from the story above. We would rather earn trust the slow way: by being a real family, and by putting our names on the label.

“We built this so you don’t have to wait years to be heard.”

Kady Pescatore, Co-founder

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Who reviewed the framework

Practising clinicians who reviewed the BellyMD framework and the evidence behind the formulas. None is paid for endorsement; none holds equity.

Joshua D. Niforatos, M.D., M.T.S.

Cleveland Clinic

Emergency physician and meta-researcher. His JAMA Internal Medicine work on evidence quality shapes how clinicians evaluate the research behind supplements.

Sergey M. Motov, M.D.

Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn

Emergency physician whose 2015 Annals of Emergency Medicine trial changed how emergency departments treat pain at the bedside.

Patrick Reeves, M.D.

Brooke Army Medical Center

Army pediatric gastroenterologist. Built the Clinical Action Plans toolkit that brings structured gastrointestinal care to military families.

Suzanne Enright, M.Ed.

Behavior analysis

Behavior analyst and clinician. Decades of designing individualised care plans for children and adults living with chronic illness, and leading the multidisciplinary teams that deliver them.

Kady’s mother
How the evidence is graded, and whose interests are disclosed
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The company

Based
PhiladelphiaPennsylvania
Incorporated
BellyMD, Inc.Delaware C-Corporation
Manufactured
New YorkFDA-registered, cGMP-certified facility
Tested
Every batchOutside laboratory. Certificate of analysis on request.
Team
SmallPhysicians, scientists and operators
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Questions about the company

Who founded BellyMD?

Rick Pescatore, DO. He is a board-certified emergency physician and a former state public health director. He co-founded BellyMD with his wife, Kady Pescatore, JD. The idea came from years of watching the same patients come back to the emergency department with the same symptoms and no real answers, and from the same pattern in our own family.

What does BellyMD make?

Supplements for the gut-brain pattern: bloating, brain fog, queasy mornings, reflux, fatigue, and the cluster of symptoms that travel together. Three formulas, Clear, Cool and Calm, each built around a different part of the gut-brain axis, on the same clinical framework hospitals use.

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 that conversation 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.

Are the products tested?

Yes. Every batch is tested by an outside laboratory for ingredient potency, heavy metals and contaminants, and we can send a certificate of analysis on request. Our manufacturers are FDA-registered, cGMP-certified, and based in the United States.

Where is BellyMD based?

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. BellyMD, Inc. is a Delaware C-Corporation. A small team of physicians, scientists and operators.

Find your starting point

Clear

For bloating and brain fog.

$79, or $55 a month

Cool

For the reactive gut that burns and bubbles.

$79, or $55 a month

Calm

For frequent queasiness and fatigue.

$79, or $55 a month

Not sure which? The two-minute questionnaire reads your pattern and picks for you.