Start here if your stomach wakes up before you do, mornings feel queasy, or stress shows up in your gut first.
Gut-brain symptoms often involve signaling, motility, sensitivity, and cellular energy. MGB+ starts with lipid-soluble B1 and magnesium glycinate, then adds formula-specific actives based on the symptom pattern.
This page is focused on queasy mornings, nervous stomach, and sensitive-stomach days.
See every ingredient and dose →Individual experiences. Results vary. Reviews are useful for pattern recognition, not guaranteed outcomes.
Boston RN, neuro floor. Twelve hour shifts had ruined my sleep. Calm rebuilt it. My sister, my mom, and I all take it now. Three generations of women sleeping again. Mothers Day gift sorted for the foreseeable future. Tried this after seeing a podcast interview where Rick talked about the sleep architecture piece. The mechanism made sense. The...
okay TikTok was right this time. Calm fixed my sleep. 4 weeks in.
Wore a night guard for 10 years. Calm has actually decreased the clenching. Dentist noticed at my last visit. The Apple Watch sleep score went from 60s to 80s on a consistent basis. Concrete data is satisfying. My sister, my mom, and I all take it now. Three generations of women sleeping again. Mothers Day gift sorted for...
The sleep piece is much better. The daytime anxiety hasnt really moved. So partial win.
The autonomic stuff was wrecking my sleep. Heart racing at 3am for no reason. Calm has steadied this. Not 100 percent, but the worst nights are gone. Tried this after seeing a podcast interview where Rick talked about the sleep architecture piece. The mechanism made sense. The product delivers. For the chronically sleep-disrupted reader. My case: shift work...
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Beta-caryophyllene for the gut-brain signal. Turmeric paired with piperine for the inflammation. Two mechanisms most consumer formulas don't pair.
Real customer messages, in their own words. Pattern signals from people running Calm against the morning-queasy and cyclical-nausea pattern.
Klaviyo customer survey, n=204, May 2026. Self-reported repurchase intent at 8 weeks.
Your gut and your brain talk all day. When that conversation overreacts, the morning takes the hit. Nausea. Queasiness. The stomach that won't tolerate breakfast. The episodes that come in waves. Calm supports that conversation in six places at once.
Beta-caryophyllene acts on a calming receptor that lives in your gut and immune cells, not your brain. It settles the gut's overreaction signal with no head effects and nothing habit-forming.
Benfotiamine is a fat-soluble form of vitamin B1 that reaches your nerves where regular B1 can't. The foundation cofactor for the cyclical patterns.
Turmeric paired with piperine (black pepper extract) for about 20 times the absorption. The piece most turmeric products skip.
Ginger 4:1 extract. One of the best-studied plant compounds for digestive comfort, with clinical evidence in motion sickness, pregnancy, and chemotherapy-related nausea.
Magnesium glycinate at 150 mg. Slightly higher than Clear or Cool. Bound to glycine for absorption, without the loose stool that cheaper magnesium forms cause.
The dose actually reaches where it's needed. Six ingredients. Six mechanisms. Built for the morning gut, every day.
Calm targets the morning side of the gut-brain conversation. The side that runs nausea, queasiness, and the cyclical episodes. Beta-caryophyllene hits the calming receptor in your gut. Benfotiamine reaches the nerves regular B1 can't. Magnesium glycinate calms the brain side. One capsule for the morning that doesn't start with your stomach.
Six ingredients. No proprietary blends. Every dose disclosed. Every mechanism named.
A plant compound from pepper, cloves, and hops. Hits the calming receptor in your gut. No head effects. No dependence cycle.
The form your nerves actually use. Magnesium bound to glycine. Calms overall nerve signaling. None of the laxative effect of cheaper magnesium forms. Calm uses a slightly higher dose than Clear or Cool.
One of the best-studied plant compounds for digestive comfort, with clinical evidence in motion sickness, pregnancy, and chemotherapy-related nausea. The 4:1 extract concentrates active compounds about four times stronger than regular ginger.
A fat-soluble form of vitamin B1, different from allithiamine. Strongest evidence for supporting nerve health and reducing oxidative protein damage. Foundation for the brain-gut axis.
High-grade turmeric. The 95% curcuminoid concentration is far stronger than kitchen turmeric (typically 5 to 10 percent). Targets inflammation in the gut lining.
Black pepper extract. Pairs with curcumin to multiply its absorption by roughly twenty times. The bioavailability piece most turmeric products skip.
Vegetable capsule · No artificial colors, sweeteners, or fillers · Third-party tested every batch
The stack most patients build to manage morning queasiness and cyclical patterns. Four products, three pharmacy runs, no coherent strategy. Or one bottle of Calm.
About $51 a month not spent. One bottle, six ingredients, four mechanisms.
DGBI rarely lives in one zone. The formulas are built to stack — and they share a single subscription cadence. Save 15% with any Duo, 20% with the Trio.
For days the symptoms travel beyond the morning. Brain fog, fatigue, headache. 15% off both bottles.
For burning and reflux that overlaps with the morning pattern. 15% off both bottles.
All three formulas. Save 30% vs three individual subscriptions.
Practicing physicians and researchers whose work shapes how gut-brain conditions get diagnosed, dosed, and treated.
Emergency physician and meta-researcher. His JAMA Internal Medicine work on low-quality systematic reviews shapes how clinicians evaluate the evidence behind supplement and gut-brain treatments.
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Emergency physician whose 2015 Annals trial established sub-dissociative ketamine in ED analgesia and reshaped how acute and chronic pain are managed at the bedside.
Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn
Army pediatric gastroenterologist. Built the Clinical Action Plans toolkit that brings structured, evidence-based GI care to pediatric populations across the Department of Defense.
Brooke Army Medical Center
Calm exists for the patients I see whose evenings won't settle and whose stomachs flip on cycle. They get told it's anxiety, given a sleep aid, and sent home wired and tired. The pattern is real. Calm is what I wished I could prescribe.
The latest gastroenterology guidelines finally named it. Cyclical nausea and gut overreactivity as one pattern. The prevalence jumped more than ten-fold in the new edition. The patients are out there. Most don't yet know the term.
Calm is the daily side of that pattern. Not a treatment, just steady daily support for the morning gut.
Some people feel a shift in the first week. Fewer morning episodes. Less queasiness on waking. For most, the pattern stabilizes around week two to four. The bigger changes (fewer cyclical episodes, more predictable mornings) usually show up by week eight to twelve.
Yes. One click in your account. No retention call, no email gauntlet. Skip a month, swap formulas, or pause indefinitely. All from the same screen.
Twelve weeks. That's the window your gut-brain system needs to actually shift. If the pattern hasn't moved by then, email us within 90 days of your first order and we refund it in full. No bottle return required. We'd rather swap you to a different formula at no charge than refund. Most people who weren't a match for one formula are a match for another. Email us and we'll work it out.
No. Calm is not a treatment for CHS. The only proven curative intervention for CHS is cessation, and that conversation belongs between you and the physician managing your care. Calm is for the daily side of gut-brain overreactivity. The morning queasiness, the cyclical pattern that exists in many people whether they use cannabis or not.
No. It acts on a calming receptor that lives in your gut and immune cells, not your brain, so there are no head effects and nothing habit-forming. It's found naturally in black pepper, cloves, and hops.
US cGMP facility. Third-party tested. Every ingredient and dose is disclosed on the bottle and the open-formula section above. We use the active form of each compound (benfotiamine over thiamine HCl, magnesium glycinate over oxide, 95% curcuminoid extract over kitchen turmeric).
