<div><strong>Hi, I’m Heather, founder of Heather’s Tummy Care and HelpForIBS.com, and the author of the best selling books Eating for IBS and the First Year IBS. </strong>
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<div><strong>For over 20 years, I’ve dedicated my life to helping people with Irritable Bowel Syndrome find relief, hope, and comfort.</strong>
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<div>But today, I need your help to survive. Without it, my life’s work, my company, and the products so many IBS sufferers depend on will not make it.
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<div>Every Tummy Fiber pouch, every Tummy Tamer peppermint oil capsule, every cup of Tummy Tea I’ve made has been with compassion and the promise to help people feel better — because I know exactly how devastating IBS can be.
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<div>Long before IBS was widely understood, I was teaching people how to eat without fear. Teaching the difference between safe foods and trigger foods, soluble and insoluble fibers, explaining how to control both diarrhea and constipation… introducing enteric peppermint oil capsules to help prevent IBS attacks in the first place… pioneering high volatile oil fennel and peppermint tummy teas for immediate symptom relief when you cannot wait.
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<div><strong>Everything I’ve built has been for one purpose:</strong>
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<div><strong>So people with IBS don’t feel helpless or hopeless and so you know that <em>you are not alone.</em></strong>
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<div><em>Why I’m Asking for Help</em>
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<div>These past five years have been devastating.
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<div>First COVID destroyed our supply chain, and it hasn’t completely recovered. We received an entire container of moldy tin cans we had to reject, a complete loss of a whole year’s worth of inventory.
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<div>Then we lost our Tummy Tamer manufacturer and had to build an entirely new production line ourselves. The brand new machines we were sold were defective.
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<div>My husband Will worked 100-hour weeks for over a year rebuilding everything— and because of the delays we lost our CVS account in the process.
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<div>Then Amazon misplaced an enormous shipment in their warehouse for over four months, cancelled our customer orders, let all of our inventory run out of stock, and deleted our best-selling listing.
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<div>This was such a huge blow we had to leave Amazon altogether just to survive.
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<div>But we did – we survived these catastrophic financial losses.
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<div>Then last year the war in Sudan disrupted the global acacia Senegal supply — and that’s the key ingredient in our Tummy Fiber. This cost our company more serious financial losses, and we are still struggling with that shortage.
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<div>Now, on top of all this, tariffs have made some of our packaging supplies nearly impossible to obtain and literally tripled many of the costs. Tariffs on our acacia alone are now costing us nearly ten thousand dollars a month.
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<div>And the landlord just raised our rent by 50%.
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<div>Will has now been hospitalized repeatedly — with asthma attacks, severe GERD that led to pneumonia, blood clots, and several pulmonary embolisms. He’s been too sick to run our machinery lines, putting our production and shipping behind schedule.
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<div>We have invested every penny into this company for 20 years, at the expense of all personal savings. If we fail now, we lose everything, and possibly our home.
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<div>And the IBS community loses a company built entirely around genuine understanding and real care.
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<div>We have fought with everything we have.
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<div>But at this point we cannot survive this storm alone.
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<div><em>How Your Support Will Help</em>
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<div>Your support will go directly towards keeping production lines running and orders shipping out. It will help us secure raw materials and inventory, cover payroll, and make rent.
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<div>Every dollar helps. Your generosity will be the difference between closing our doors and staying alive to keep supporting you.
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<div><strong>So if my work has helped you…</strong>
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<div><strong>If my products have improved your life…</strong>
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<div><strong>Then please donate today. </strong>
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<div>This gives us the chance to keep going, so we can be here for you tomorrow.
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<div>From the bottom of my heart, thank you. I’ll post regular updates here so you can see exactly how your support is making a difference.
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<div>With love and hope.
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<div>XOXO
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<div>Heather
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