
I’m Lucas Kraft, the co-founder of the digestive health company, Wonderbelly. Wonderbelly is focused on developing clean and effective digestive health medicine while also working to destigmatize conversations around digestive issues and related topics.
The idea for Wonderbelly is rooted in my past experience of struggling with an eating disorder, bulimia nervosa, from the age of fifteen. While I was fortunate to recover in my mid-twenties, I'd already done lifelong damage to my digestive system leaving me to rely on products like over-the-counter antacids on a regular basis. These OTC products were extremely effective but contained many ingredients that are now being removed from food and beauty products, yet I was consuming them daily. This sparked the idea to create Wonderbelly, a clean, sustainable digestive health medicine company that uses the same active ingredient as the effective products I had relied on while taking out and replacing many of the inactive ingredients that aren't necessary. Along with my brother Noah, whose past experience included operating disruptive companies, we put together an amazing team of gastroenterologists and pharmaceutical scientists to create our first product, Wonderbelly Antacid.
Wonderbelly has also started a program called “Spill Your Guts” where we promote people to talk honestly about their digestive system and issues in hopes of opening up real conversations around digestive health disorders, concerns, and causes. Wonderbelly will host medical professionals on social media, open forums for people to share their experiences and journeys to recovery, in-person events to answer real-life questions, post stories from around the country, and help take the shock out of everyday burps, farts, burns and shame that come from everyday life. Join the conversation on @itswonderbelly or find Wonderbelly near you.