Your tests came back normal. You don't feel normal.
Why “there is nothing wrong with you” is the most tiring sentence in British healthcare. And the 7 steps people are taking instead.
Step 1. The sentence you keep hearing
You know the pattern. You feel fine at breakfast. By four o'clock your stomach is swollen and you are undoing a button. You plan your evening around whether you can face dinner out. You feel flat in the morning and flat again in the afternoon. You tell yourself it is probably stress.
So you do the sensible thing. You go to the GP. You have blood tests. Maybe a stool sample. Maybe a scan. Maybe a long wait to see a specialist.
Then you get the sentence. “Everything has come back normal.”
It is meant as good news. But it feels like being told you imagined it.
You are not alone. We read 33,000 recent Reddit posts from people talking about their health. One thing set British posts apart from the rest of the world. It was not a symptom. It was being sent away with no answer.
People wrote “fobbed off”. “Eight years, no answers”. “Told it was stress”. “No one bothered to look deeper”. British posts used those words 4.5 times more often than anyone else.
Step 2. Why the tests find nothing
Here is the part nobody explains in a ten-minute appointment.
A normal blood test does one job. It checks that nothing is about to seriously harm you. It looks for things like anaemia, infection, thyroid problems and liver trouble. That is useful. It is also a very short list.
- What a standard test checks: anaemia, infection, thyroid, liver, kidneys, blood sugar.
- What it does not check: how well you digest food, the bacteria in your gut, why you bloat, how your gut lining is doing.
- What that means: you can pass every test and still have a gut that is not working well.
So “normal” means “not an emergency”. It does not mean “fine”. That is why you can be told you are healthy and still feel awful every afternoon.
It was never that you made it up. The system is built to rule out danger, then manage what is left. Ruling out is not the same as fixing. Managing is not the same as being well.
Step 3. What I did instead
I am Kristian. I started reGrounded. And I stopped trusting the NHS for anything that was not an emergency, for one simple reason. Every time I went, they ran tests, and the tests found nothing. I walked out with the same gut I walked in with.
So I paid for a test the NHS does not run. A private microbiome panel. It looks at the bacteria in your gut and how well you digest your food. Here is what it found:
- My gut was dominated by one family of bacteria.
- My stool pH was 8.0. A healthy gut sits on the acidic side.
- My urea level was high. The report called this protein putrefaction. In plain English, the protein I ate was rotting in my gut instead of being used.
That last one mattered most. I was eating a lot of protein. Whey shakes, and red meat twice a day. My gut could not handle it.
So the plan I wrote from those results was not a pill. It was a list of things to stop. Whey was on it. Red meat twice a day was on it. And under “what to have instead” was one line I have kept: a gut-friendlier option is bone broth or collagen.
Step 4. Why bone broth, explained simply
Bone broth is what you get when you simmer beef bones in water for a long time. The bones slowly release protein, collagen and minerals into the water. People have made it for thousands of years. It is one of the oldest foods there is.
Here is why it suits a gut that struggles:
- It is protein in liquid form. One serving gives you 14.3g of protein. The long simmer has already broken it down, so it is easier to digest than a 30g whey shake or a steak.
- It is collagen in its natural form. Collagen is the protein your gut lining is made from. Collagen powders take it out of bone broth and sell it on its own. Broth gives you the whole food.
- It has nothing else in it. Ours has two ingredients: grass-fed beef bone broth, and hyaluronic acid, which we add. No sweeteners, flavourings, fillers or thickeners. Those are the things that upset a sensitive gut.
- It is warm and simple. Hot water, one serving, stir. It is a food, not a supplement.
I want to be straight with you. This is not a cure. It is a food. But it is the food I swapped in for the shakes that were hurting me, and it is the reason I started this company. The seven steps below are what I, and a few thousand other people in Britain, do now.
7 steps people are taking instead of waiting
In short: you cannot make the system look deeper. But you can stop waiting for it. Here are the seven steps, in order. Start with step one today.
Step 1. Start looking yourself.
The people who get somewhere with a gut nobody will look at all do the same thing. They stop waiting and start looking. It is simpler than it sounds:
- Keep a food and symptom diary for two weeks. Write down what you ate and how your stomach felt three hours later.
- If you can, pay for a gut test the NHS does not run. A microbiome panel costs less than a month of supplements.
- Look for the good days, not just the bad ones. The day you did not bloat tells you more than the day you did.
Step 2. Read the label like you wish someone had read your bloods.
Turn any powder over and read the ingredients. Then turn ours over.
Ours says two things: grass-fed beef bone broth, and hyaluronic acid. That is the whole list.
Per serving you get 14.3g of protein, 58 calories, 0g sugar, 18 amino acids, and collagen in the form the bone gives it. There is nothing on the label you would need to look up. Try saying that about anything else in your cupboard.
Step 3. Stop buying the same food in pieces.
Look at what is on the supplement shelf:
- Collagen powder is one protein taken out of bone broth and sold on its own.
- Greens powder is 30 different things in one tub.
- A probiotic is a guess about which bacteria you are short of.
The supplement industry took a bowl of broth apart, put each piece in a capsule, and charged you for every one. Bone broth is the food those pieces came from. Buy the food.
Step 4. Check how it was made.
This is the one thing you cannot fake, so check it every time. Here is how ours is made:
- Bones come from grass-fed cattle raised on open pasture in the Pampas, Argentina.
- They are simmered for a full 24 hours. That is how long it takes to get the protein and collagen out of the bone. A factory will not wait that long. We do.
- The broth is dried at low heat. The powder is the broth with the water taken out. Nothing is added except hyaluronic acid.
It is halal certified. That means the whole supply chain is checked, from farm to pouch.
Step 5. Take things out before you add anything.
Open your cupboard and count the tubs. The collagen. The greens. The protein powder that bloats you. The probiotic you are not sure ever worked.
Most people with a gut that will not settle are not short of things to take. They are taking too many. Each one has its own sweeteners and fillers. Each one is another thing your gut has to deal with.
One mug of broth gives you the protein and the collagen those tubs were copying, and nothing else. You are not adding a supplement. You are removing four.
Step 6. Give it one month, same time every day.
Here is exactly what to do:
- Week 1: swap your four o'clock coffee for a mug of broth. Hot water, one serving, stir. It tastes like a light, savoury broth.
- Week 2: keep going. By now it is a habit and you are not thinking about it.
- Weeks 3 and 4: pay attention to your afternoons. Notice what you have stopped reaching for. Notice how your stomach feels at four o'clock.
I will not tell you what your gut will do. I can tell you that the people who write to us mostly noticed something around the one-month mark, and mostly wished they had started sooner. One pouch is 20 servings, so a month is about a pouch and a half.
Step 7. Try the hard way once. Then decide.
You can make bone broth at home, and you should try it once. Here is how:
- Get marrow and knuckle bones from a butcher who knows the farm.
- Roast them for 30 minutes.
- Cover with cold water, add a splash of vinegar, and bring to a gentle simmer.
- Keep it simmering for 24 hours. Skim the top now and then.
- Strain it and chill it. If it sets to a firm jelly in the fridge, you did it right.
Then ask yourself if you want to do that every week. Two hundred and fifty-five people so far decided they would rather have the 24 hours done for them. They rate it 4.8 out of 5.
Try it for 30 days.
If it is not for you, tell us within 30 days and we refund the pouch. No form, no questions, no justifying yourself. You have done enough of that.
Try it risk-freeTry it for 30 days.
If it is not for you, tell us within 30 days and we refund the pouch. No form, no questions, no justifying yourself. You have done enough of that.
Try it risk-freeQuestions people ask before they try it
Straight answers. No referral needed.
No. It is a food. Beef bones simmered for 24 hours and dried into a powder. The only thing added is hyaluronic acid, and we say so on the label.
I will not promise what it will do for you. I can tell you what mine did, which is above. It is 14.3g of protein per serving in a form that is easy to digest, and it is the food that collagen supplements are made from. Give it one month before you decide.
One serving a day. Stir it into a mug of hot water, or into food. A pouch has 20 servings. Most people who noticed a change gave it a full month, which is about a pouch and a half.
Light, savoury beef broth. There is no yeast extract or flavouring in it. It disappears into soups, stews, rice and sauces. On its own with a pinch of salt it is a hot drink.
Because it is not trying to be whey. You get 14.3g of protein in a form most people find easier on the stomach than a 30g shake. The smaller amount is the point.
From grass-fed cattle raised on pasture in the Pampas, Argentina. It is halal certified, which means the whole supply chain is checked.
You should, once. Step 7 above shows you how. Then decide if you want to do it every week.
Email us within 30 days and we refund the pouch. No questions asked.
I will not promise what it will do for you. I can tell you what mine did, which is above. It is 14.3g of protein per serving in a form that is easy to digest, and it is the food that collagen supplements are made from. Give it one month before you decide.
Light, savoury beef broth. There is no yeast extract or flavouring in it. It disappears into soups, stews, rice and sauces. On its own with a pinch of salt it is a hot drink.
From grass-fed cattle raised on pasture in the Pampas, Argentina. It is halal certified, which means the whole supply chain is checked.
Email us within 30 days and we refund the pouch. No questions asked.
One pouch. Twenty mornings. Nothing to look up.
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