BellyFlush FAQ: 21 Common Questions Answered

• What is BellyFlush?

  A two-capsule nightly dietary supplement, 60 capsules to a bottle, sold under the Simple Promise brand for detox and cleanse, gut and colon support and reduces occasional bloating. The written pack names eleven ingredients. The first three — cascara sagrada bark, cape aloe leaf and senna leaf extract — are stimulant laxatives.

• Is it a laxative?

  The bottle does not use the word. Its first three named ingredients are the three classic stimulant laxatives, and the most specific claim on the front — reduces occasional bloating — is the one a stimulant laxative would reliably produce. This site cannot tell you how strong the effect is, because no amount is declared for any of the eleven.

• What did FDA decide about these ingredients?

  In a final rule of 9 May 2002, FDA reclassified aloe and cascara sagrada for over-the-counter laxative use to category II (nonmonograph), meaning they should be deemed not generally recognized as safe and effective for OTC use. The reason given was the lack of data and information and the failure of interested persons to submit any new data from carcinogenicity studies. The rule took effect on 5 November 2002. That is a ruling about over-the-counter drug use of those ingredients. It is not a ruling about this product, and this site does not present it as one.

• How long can I take it?

  Nothing on this product says. Every over-the-counter senna laxative sold in the United States carries the warning do not use laxative products for longer than 1 week, unless directed by a doctor. No duration limit of any kind is printed on the artwork supplied to this site, and the six-bottle pack is a 180-night supply.

• Where is the Supplement Facts panel?

  It was not supplied to this site. The pack contains front-of-bottle photographs, eleven ingredient thumbnails and three bonus-ebook covers, and no photograph of the back — which is where a Supplement Facts panel is printed. 21 CFR 101.36 requires that the label of a dietary supplement that is offered for sale shall bear nutrition labeling in accordance with this regulation.

• How much of each ingredient is in a capsule?

  Unknown to this site and, without a panel, unknown to you. No milligram figure appears anywhere in this pack. On a stimulant laxative that is not a marketing gap — it is the number that separates a nudge from a purge.

• What is the sennoside content?

  Not declared. A US over-the-counter senna label states it on the front of the Drug Facts box — Sennosides 8.6 mg per tablet, purpose Laxative. This product declares nothing, which means there is no way to compare one of these capsules with a tablet from a pharmacy shelf.

• What is the guarantee?

  365 days from purchase, which is the longest term any pack in this series has supplied — on return of the empty bottles. To claim it, call +1 (800) 390-6035 with the order ID. Return postage is paid by the buyer, with tracking, and the refund is described as being processed after the empty bottles arrive. Returns go to 345 Park Avenue, Suite 4100, New York, NY 10154, USA.

• Why does the refund need empty bottles?

  This site does not know the seller's reasoning and will not invent one. What it can say is the arithmetic: six bottles is 180 nights, the window is 365 days, and the product's own drug class is labelled for one week. A refund conditional on empty bottles is a refund conditional on having taken the product.

• What does it cost?

  $59 for one bottle, $49 a bottle for three ($147) and $33 a bottle for six ($198). All three multiply out correctly. Each is shown beside a struck-through $99 a bottle, which this site cannot verify was ever the selling price. No shipping figure was supplied.

• Who am I buying from?

  This site is the U.S. stocking partner for BellyFlush. It holds no stock and takes no payment. The retailer named on the sales lander is ClickBank, of Boise, Idaho, and the order desk is +1 (800) 390-6035. No order email was supplied. The bottle itself names no distributor and no address.

• Why does this site mention a foot pad?

  Because one was in the box. The product pack supplied to this site contains an animation of a detox foot pad being held in two hands — a graphic for a different product entirely. It is not published anywhere on this site, and the build fails rather than emitting it. It is mentioned because a reader is entitled to know what was in the material this site was given.

• What are the three bonus books?

  Three ebooks were supplied with the pack: a 28-day gut guide of recipes, an anti-inflammatory cookbook, and a guide to fermented food. This site publishes their covers and their titles and makes no claim about their contents, which it has not read.

• Is it safe?

  Safety depends on dose and no dose is declared, so this site cannot tell you. What it can tell you is what the sources say about the named ingredients: FDA's 2002 Category II ruling on aloe and cascara; NCCIH's record that oral aloe latex can cause abdominal pain, cramps, and diarrhea, that oral aloe leaf extract has been related to cases of acute hepatitis, and that overuse may increase the risk of adverse effects from cardiac glycosides, such as digoxin; and NCCIH on licorice's glycyrrhizin, which can cause serious adverse effects particularly in people with hypertension or heart or kidney conditions.

• I take a medicine. Should I check first?

  Yes, and take the bottle with you. The specific ones NIH names in connection with these ingredients are digoxin and other cardiac glycosides, and anything you take for blood pressure, the heart or the kidneys. Laxatives in general affect how much of an oral medicine is absorbed, which is a question for a pharmacist rather than for a website.

• What should make me stop?

  The standard over-the-counter laxative instruction is to stop use and ask a doctor for rectal bleeding or failure to have a bowel movement after use of a laxative, because these may indicate a serious condition. That sentence is not printed on this product. It is printed here instead.

• Will it help me lose weight?

  Nothing supplied with this product claims that, and this site makes no such claim. The pack's own summary of what reviewers disliked is that they wanted more on the scale. Any immediate change in weight after a laxative is water and bowel contents.

• Does it detox anything?

  Detox and cleanse are marketing words rather than physiological ones, and no mechanism for either is described anywhere in the pack. The liver and the kidneys do the work those words gesture at. This site publishes the claim as what it is — printed on the bottle — and does not endorse it.

• Are the reviews on this site real?

  They were supplied with the product pack. This site has not matched one of them to an order, so none is published as a verified customer review and no Review or AggregateRating markup is emitted on any page. FTC's guidance is that consumer testimonials are never sufficient to substantiate claims about the effects of a health product.

• What is the lot number for?

  The pack gives a lot of BF-26/PK-3319 from the 2026 Park cycle, and a CoA reference of BF-3319-26-MY. Those are draft labels for a production run and a reference to a document. Neither is a test result, and no certificate of analysis was supplied to this site.

• I think something on this page is wrong.

  Write to [email protected] with the page and the line. Corrections are made on the page and dated. If the bottle in your hand disagrees with this site, the bottle wins and this site wants to know — particularly if you can photograph the back of it.

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