This is fixable. And you can start tonight.

You've been supplementing on top of a broken gut. Probiotics, glutamine, magnesium — all useful, but not yet. Right now they feed bacteria that are already in the wrong place. Ever taken a probiotic and felt worse? That's why. There's an order to this, and you've been starting at step four.

I know because I did the same thing — for months — while my own gut was falling apart. I healed my own ulcerative colitis by figuring out the order. No immunosuppressants. No biologics. Just the right steps in the right sequence.

That is my case, not a claim about yours. I am not a doctor, this is not a treatment for inflammatory bowel disease, and nobody should stop a prescribed medication because of something they read on the internet.

The first step is removal. I put it into a 7-day guide.

It's called the 7-Day Gut Reset. No supplements to buy. No meal prep. No calorie counting. No willpower. You remove six things that are breaking the gut wall, swap in foods that repair it, and fix your meal timing. Everything is already in your kitchen. The guide tells you exactly what to eat, exactly what to swap, and exactly when — day by day, so you don't have to think about it.

Before you start, you measure five numbers. Takes two minutes. You measure them again on day seven. Your body tells you whether it worked.

Here's why this works.

Your gut wall is one cell thick. When it's damaged, bacterial poison — endotoxin — leaks into your bloodstream. Your immune system responds with low-grade inflammation that runs in the background 24/7. That inflammation drives insulin resistance, which tells your body to store fat around your midsection and refuse to burn it off. Even if you eat clean. Even if you train five days a week. (PMID 22709547 — human)

The signal to hold fat is coming from your gut. Not your diet. Not your discipline.

The reset stops the damage. You remove the six foods breaking the wall — things that look like healthy choices but aren't — swap in foods that repair it, and fix the meal timing that's shutting down your gut's cleaning cycle. Day three or four is usually when the wall starts calming down. That's the stage where the afternoon crash tends to ease and the bloat quiets down — if it hasn't, that's information, not failure.

If your numbers move, I'll show you the next step on day seven.

— Gunnar@farvingco