Bedtime
gut
ritual.

The bedtime gut ritual that ends bloated mornings

5 steps5 min1 ritual

Why this works

Your gut does its real repair while you sleep. This drink gives it the one thing most gut routines skip — and three kitchen ingredients that quietly make it work harder.

The base

Half a cup of unsweetened almond milk, gently warmed. Warmth tells the nervous system to slow down — half the work is just letting the gut relax.

Wooden honey dipper drizzling raw honey into the mug

Slippery elm

One teaspoon of slippery elm bark powder. It coats your gut lining like a buffer. That 'tight, irritated' feeling under your ribs — gone by morning. The part most gut routines skip.

The slippery elm I use→

Wooden teaspoon dusting Ceylon cinnamon onto the drink

Stir & sip

Stir into a smooth warm drink. Sip slowly, 30 minutes before bed. Your gut does the rest while you sleep.

Raw honey

A teaspoon of raw honey. Naturally feeds the good bacteria your gut needs, and gentle on blood sugar overnight. Has to be raw — supermarket honey doesn't have what we need.

Wooden teaspoon dropping slippery elm bark powder into the mug

Cinnamon

A pinch of Ceylon cinnamon. Stabilizes blood sugar overnight. That's why you stop waking up at 3am hungry.

Wooden spoon mid-stir in the finished warm drink

Three weeks of this and you'll forget what morning bloat felt like.

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