Who this is for
This page is for the adult whose body is quietly inflamed: catches every cold in the office, gut that bloats at lunch and sulks after dinner, knees and fingers stiff in the morning for no injury they can name, hs-CRP just above the line on three panels in a row. None of it is a diagnosis — if it were, it would belong to your physician. It is a pattern, and patterns can be worked on.
An immune and gut protocol fits best when several of these are true:
- You are properly ill three or more times a year, and each one costs you a week.
- Your gut is unreliable — bloating, irregularity, discomfort after meals — with no named condition.
- hs-CRP above 1 mg/L on more than one panel, with no obvious cause.
- Joints and tendons are stiff and slow rather than injured.
- You will do the unglamorous part — fibre, sleep, training load — and the labs that prove it.
It is not a page for anyone with a diagnosed autoimmune, inflammatory-bowel or immune condition, on immunosuppressants, with active or recent cancer, pregnant, breastfeeding or under 18 — your physician owns that plan. Blood in the stool, unexplained weight loss or night sweats are a physician visit this week.
What a protocol for this goal usually contains
The compound layer here is a repair layer, not an immune booster — nothing on this site "boosts immunity". Fibre, sleep and training load do the real work; the compounds are studied for tissue repair and recovery. No doses — those are written for you after your labs.
Compounds that are usually in the conversation
- Wolverine (BPC-157 + TB-500) — the usual lead: BPC-157 is studied for gut-lining and soft-tissue repair, TB-500 for tissue recovery. Eight weeks, alongside the nutrition and load plan, never instead of it.
- GLOW (BPC-157 + TB-500 + GHK-Cu) — where the picture includes skin and slow-healing niggles; GHK-Cu is studied for collagen and wound healing. Copper labs before and after, without exception.
- NAD+ or a short epithalon course — when the inflamed stretch has come with a flat battery or a run of bad sleep and travel.
Training
- Load pulled back before it is added: two strength and two easy zone-2 sessions a week, nothing to failure for four weeks. Over-training is the most common immune problem in people who train.
- Daily walking, ten minutes of mobility work, and a hard rule: fever or symptoms below the neck means rest.
Nutrition
- Fibre at 30–40 g a day from a wide range of plants — the best-evidenced lever for the gut and for hs-CRP.
- Protein at 1.6 g per kilo; fermented foods daily where tolerated; ultra-processed food and alcohol mostly out for the cycle.
- Omega-3, vitamin D to a measured level, magnesium; nothing marketed as immune support, and no blanket exclusion diets.
Sleep and recovery
- Seven and a half hours as a floor; short sleep raises the odds of catching what is going round, and repair happens mostly at night.
- The sleep protocol basics, and stress load named and scheduled — the calendar is a lever here.
Clinic and lab levers
- Baseline labs: hs-CRP, a full blood count with differential, ferritin, vitamin D, B12 and folate, HbA1c and fasting glucose, liver enzymes, thyroid, lipids, cystatin C, a coeliac screen where the gut story suggests it, and copper and ceruloplasmin where GLOW is written in.
- hs-CRP and the full blood count repeated at week 8; a symptom diary — gut, joints, illnesses — for the whole cycle, because here the diary is the outcome.
- A physician copy for your own doctor, with an explicit list of the symptoms that end the protocol and start a referral.
What you'll feel — and when
| You'll notice | What to expect | From when |
|---|---|---|
| Your gut | Less bloating, more regularity, meals that end without a reaction — driven as much by the fibre as by the pen. | Weeks 2–3 |
| Stiff joints and niggles | Less guarded movement, less background ache. The trap is doing more because it feels better. | Weeks 1–3 |
| Sleep and energy | Deeper sleep and steadier afternoons where NAD+ or a reset is written in. | Weeks 1–3 |
| Recovery from training | Faster between sessions; range of motion and load tolerance improve in step with the loading plan. | Weeks 3–6 |
| Skin | Where GLOW is written in: texture first, tone later — slow and cumulative. | Weeks 3–10 |
| Illness | Fewer, shorter — but judged over months, not weeks. The diary tells the story. | Months 2–6 |
| Labs | hs-CRP at week 8 against baseline; a fall of 1 mg/L or more on a raised baseline is a typical honest result. | Week 8 |
| After the cycle | Remodelling continues past the pen; the fibre and sleep habits keep the result. | Weeks 8–16 |
Typical ranges from research settings and the researchers we write for — not promises. If anything here sounds like a cure, read it again: it is not. Where a symptom turns out to have a name, the protocol stops and the referral starts.
How we build it for you
Here the safety gate is widest and the review slowest, because the pattern can hide a condition that needs a physician — so the intake asks more history questions than any other.
- Intake. Fifteen minutes of honest answers in the Research Protocol Builder. Labs are optional here — upload later and we revise.
- Safety gate and baseline labs. The exclusion list first (pregnancy, active cancer, under 18, the compound-specific red flags), then the baseline panel your plan needs — kidney function as cystatin C, never creatinine alone.
- Human review. A writer drafts from your intake and labs; a reviewer checks every dose, lab threshold and interaction. Typically within 24 hours.
- Three documents. A short results version for your phone, the full clinical document with the week-by-week schedule and lab plan, and a physician copy for your own doctor.
- A free coach call on WhatsApp to walk it through and read your labs against the plan.
- Check-ins at week 2, mid-cycle and the end. Mid-cycle labs decide whether the dose holds, steps or stops.
We write the budget option first — the fewest pens that can honestly move the goal — and you upgrade at a check-in once the labs have earned it.
What it costs
The personal research protocol is €399, follow-up included: intake, human review, the three documents, the coach call, the check-ins and any revision when new labs arrive. No subscription.
Pens are not included: we do not sell, supply, source or ship any compound. The protocol lists the pens it assumes (300 clicks each). An immune and gut cycle usually runs on one repair pen over eight weeks, occasionally with an energy or reset pen alongside.
Got an invite code or gift code from a coach? Enter it at the start of the intake and the protocol is on us — we are by invitation only, and the codes are how the invitation travels.
Frequently asked questions
Can a protocol boost my immune system?
No, and we would be wary of anything that claims to. A protocol removes what is measurably suppressing it — short sleep, over-training, low fibre, alcohol, low vitamin D — and adds compounds studied for tissue and gut-lining repair. What people report is fewer, shorter illnesses over months.
Is BPC-157 for the gut?
BPC-157 is studied for gut-lining and soft-tissue repair, which is why it leads most protocols for this goal. It runs alongside the fibre, sleep and load plan, and never for a diagnosed inflammatory-bowel condition — that belongs to your gastroenterologist.
What if I have an autoimmune condition?
Then this protocol is not written. Diagnosed autoimmune, inflammatory-bowel and immune conditions, and anyone on immunosuppressants, are hard stops; your physician owns that plan. We say so at intake rather than write around it.
How is "it worked" measured for this goal?
Three ways: hs-CRP and the full blood count at week 8 against baseline, the symptom diary, and the training log. Fewer illnesses takes longest to judge; the diary makes it a number.
Which symptoms stop the protocol?
Blood in the stool, unexplained weight loss, night sweats, a fever that lasts, a lump or spreading warmth at an injection site, and a metallic taste with nausea and fatigue on a copper-containing pen. Each is in the full document, with the instruction to stop and see your doctor the same week.
Ready to go from good to great?
Tell us what your gut does, how often you get ill, and what your last hs-CRP said. We write the immune and gut protocol around your history, a reviewer checks it, and a coach walks you through it on WhatsApp — €399, follow-up included.
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