
Specialises in autonomic nervous system function and its effect on digestive health: the exact biology Vagus One is built around.
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Co-Founder Alex · Why we started it ↓
The probiotic. The fibre. No bread. The tablets after dinner. It eases, then it’s back. It isn’t always what’s in your gut.
Vagus One is daily nutrition for the nerve that sets your digestion’s pace. Two capsules a day. Nothing to cut out.
The nerve
“No cough, no throat clearing.”★★★★★Mel J. · TrustpilotEach does a real job. But every one works on what’s in your gut, not on the signal that tells your gut what to do with it.
Each does a real job. But every one works on the acid, not on the valve that keeps it down.
That leaves one part of digestion none of them reaches.
None of them works on the valve.
It didn’t start as anything much.
A bit of burning after a big dinner. A cough you put down to a cold that never quite cleared.
So you did the sensible things.
The chalky stuff in every coat pocket. Then the daily tablet.
No coffee. No wine. Nothing to eat after seven.
A second pillow. Then a third.
And somewhere along the way, a few months became a few years.
Now you clear your throat through every conversation. You know which side to sleep on. You read the menu twice before you say yes to dinner out.
Here’s the part that wears you down.
You’ve kept every rule. And it still finds you, most nights, the moment your head goes down.
So you start to believe this is just how it is now.
But what if it keeps coming back because everything you’ve tried was aimed at the wrong thing?
In 2024, my gut fell apart.
For months I couldn’t sleep. I’d wake up again and again through the night, with reflux or a pain in my stomach. It was unbearable.
So I tried everything on the market. Every kind of probiotic. Elimination diets. Digestive enzymes. Gluten-free, dairy-free.
Some of it helped for a few days. Then I was back to square one.
Everyone pointed me to medication. I wasn’t ready to accept that was the end of it. I knew there had to be another way.
So I started digging. I worked with gut health practitioners and nutritionists, and took test after test, trying to work out what was actually wrong.
Then I came across the vagus nerve, and how much of the gut it runs. My first thought was: how have I never heard of this?
That’s where it started. I learned how to support the nerve, and slowly but surely, my gut settled.
I stopped fearing food. I put weight back on. I got my confidence back.

And I kept thinking: if this helped me, why is nobody talking about it?

Here’s what I found.
Everything you’ve tried works on the acid. None of it works on the valve that keeps it down.
Here’s what happens after dinner.
The nerveThe valve
The vagus nerve is the main line between your brain and your gut, and the valve takes part of its cue from it.1 A very full stomach pushes on the valve too, which is why a big dinner and lying down soon after hit hardest. It’s also why the tablets can turn the acid down and the burn still comes back: the valve is a different job.
The main line from your brain to your gut is called the vagus nerve.1 It carries the “rest and digest” signal: when to start, how fast, when to ease off.

The lid at the top of your stomach should stay shut. When it doesn’t, acid comes back up. That’s the burn after dinner, the cough that won’t clear, the night spent sitting up.
Your stomach should empty in good time. When it doesn’t, food sits there and you swell.
Your gut should move things along at a steady pace. Too slow, and the days go by. Too fast, and you’re looking for the nearest loo.
One nerve has a hand in all three.1
And you’ve felt it turn down. It’s worse in a hard week, whatever you eat.2 When your body is braced, digestion waits.
Vagus One is daily nutrition for that nerve. Two capsules a day, with a meal.

Tablets and the chalky stuff
Less acid
The burn calms down
The valve still opens when it shouldn’t
Calms the burn for now. But the valve is left to itself.

Support the vagus nerve
It tells the valve when to close
The valve closes when it should
Acid stays down where it belongs
Aims at why the acid comes up in the first place.
Most people have only ever been offered the first job. Nobody mentioned the second.
Three things wear it down.
The first is the way we live now. Your body runs in two settings: braced, ready for whatever’s coming, and rest and digest, the setting the vagus nerve runs. The valve belongs to the second.
Think about an ordinary week. Meals eaten standing up. The phone in bed. Worrying about the people you look after. Waking at three and lying there. Every one of those keeps you braced.
The second is the years. The vagus nerve tends to get quieter as we get older.
The third is the way we eat now. More than half of what we eat in the UK is ultra-processed. And to tell the valve to close, the nerve uses a messenger: a chemical called acetylcholine, which has to be made every day from what you eat.
On average, adults get less of the nutrient it’s made from than is recommended.
You were never told any of this. You were told to turn the acid down. This is the missing piece if you’ve tried everything else.
And a nerve that makes its message from what you eat can be fed.
Not sure yet? Here’s what happened when people started feeding the nerve.
Once my own gut had settled, I set out to build a formula for everyone else, with nutritionists alongside me. That’s how Yona was born.
To be honest, I was still sceptical. What worked for me might not work for anyone else.
We launched small, with a beta test. Then the first review came in.
“Within the first week I felt a massive difference and have continued using these daily… I have also tried so many “gut health” products over the years and I can honestly say this one has hit the mark for me.”
One of our first reviews
I was shocked, and so happy. But I thought it might be a lucky one. Then more came in.
“At first very sceptical about anything actually helping my gut issues, I am pleased to find that I am finding my gut is calmer and my usual symptoms have eased!!! To be honest, I’m amazed!”
An early review
It wasn’t all good news. A few early customers found it didn’t agree with them. So we went back to the research, improved the formula and launched again. Now we suggest that anyone sensitive starts slowly, with one capsule a day for the first few days, and gives it the full three months.
We’re not perfect, and Yona isn’t for everyone. But for the people it helps, it can make a massive difference.
Two years on, we’re still refining it. We’re only getting started.

To keep the line to your gut working, the nerve needs three things: fuel, building blocks and a calm state. Vagus One is all three, in one formula. Nine nutrients, each with a job. Two capsules a day, with a meal.
The muscle that keeps acid down takes part of its cue from your nerves. That cue travels on a messenger your nerves build from what you eat, and sending it takes energy. Vagus One is daily nutrition for that signal. Two capsules with a meal.

“Less bloating, less indigestion, but most importantly less food reactions and being able to just eat a variety of foods in peace… The longer I take it, the better I feel. I’ve been taking it for several months now.”
“It’s been a few months now since I started Yona, and I’ve noticed a remarkable improvement. No need for PPIs… It’s a revelation for me, who has been a constant sufferer for many, many years.”
More than four in five customers in our survey had acid or silent reflux when they started. Here’s what some of them say now.
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I was suffering from acid reflux very often, sometimes I was choking in the middle of the night… I can eat anything I want without thinking about acid reflux.
I have suffered with LPR (silent reflux) for 2 to 3 years… I’ve been taking them for around four months and I am now able to sleep lying down… most of the time.
Having lived with LPR for 10 years, I’d lost all hope… No cough, no throat clearing and so, so happy.
I’ve tried all sorts of remedies over the years but for the first time in years I feel that this might actually help… night time reflux is much reduced.
Great product that reduced my acid reflux massively. It took a few months, but I’d had it for years.
I’ve now been on the supplement for silent reflux for a number of months. My symptoms have definitely improved. I’m now symptom free for the majority of the time… Don’t expect a fast cure but I do think it helps.
The only product I’ve found that’s helped my acid reflux. Also wonderful customer service.
Within the first week I felt a massive difference and have continued using these daily. I have less bloating… Feeling a lot calmer too.
I have been taking these capsules for a few months to try and stop my excessive burping and after the second/third bottle I realised I’d virtually stopped burping completely.
I was skeptical that this product could support me, but on reflection my general regulation — nerves, stomach, sleep — have all improved and I’ve felt supported.
I have been taking it for nearly a month and I can feel the difference… less bloating, and don’t seem to get any acid indigestion.
I didn’t think this would work. I was very suspicious. However after 6 weeks I am much more settled and don’t have the gut issues.
…to be able to have a meal and not panic about feeling uncomfortable afterwards.
Individual experiences vary.
Acid-suppressing tablets are good medicine. They turn the acid down fast, and at first that’s often exactly what’s needed.
But they were meant to manage reflux, not to be the whole plan. NICE guidance says long-term use should be reviewed every year. In clinic, I kept meeting people who’d been on them for years without that conversation ever happening.
Long-term use isn’t free, either. The MHRA has warned about low magnesium and a higher risk of fractures with prolonged use. Most of the people I saw had never been told.
Don’t stop anything you’ve been prescribed. Do ask your GP for a review. And while you’re at it, feed the part of digestion no tablet reaches.
Sana MisraFormer NHS doctorMedicine is built to find disease, and it’s brilliant at it. But when nothing is seriously wrong, you get a fix for each symptom. Something for the gut. Something for sleep. Each treated as if the other didn’t exist.
Then I saw what they had in common. Digestion that changed with stress. Sleep that fell apart when people couldn’t unwind. Different symptoms, one trigger.
That isn’t a gut problem or a sleep problem. It’s a nervous system problem.
And the nerve that links them is the vagus nerve. More and more people are running short of the nutrients it needs.
That’s what led us to build Yona.
Sana MisraFormer NHS doctor
Specialises in autonomic nervous system function and its effect on digestive health: the exact biology Vagus One is built around.

Twenty-five years in clinical nutrition, working with people who haven’t responded to conventional approaches.
I didn’t set out to make another reflux supplement. I set out to feed the nerve that settled my own gut.
Most of what you’ve tried turns the acid down. Vagus One supports the nerve that tells your valve when to close.
Only the best-quality ingredients we could find, and every one is tested before it goes into a capsule.

What the nerve needs to tell your valve when to close, every single day.
So your body can drop into rest and digest, the setting your valve belongs to.
For the mornings after the bad nights.
How it’s made
And it exists because I couldn’t find anything that fed the nerve properly, so I built it with nutritionists.

Per 2 capsules. Vegan capsule. No fillers, binders or artificial additives.
40+ peer-reviewed studies behind the formula, 19 of them in people.
Studies of the ingredients, not of Vagus One.
| What it does | Vagus One | Tablets & antacids | Probiotics |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aimed at the nerve behind the valve | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ |
| Helps you switch off after dinner | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ |
| Less tiredness, more energy | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ |
| No fillers, bulking agents or sugar | ✓ | ✕ | Some |
Compared with typical tablets, antacids and probiotic supplements. “Some” means a few do, most don’t.
Videos from Yona customers, including Vagus+, the formula Vagus One grew out of. Individual experiences vary.
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“I have noticed reduced bloating, reduced acid reflux… it’s completely taken them away.”
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“I’m on my 4th bottle and I feel so much better… have more energy and I don’t feel sluggish after meals.”
Mayra D. · Yona customer
“I am now able to sleep lying down without the terrible side-effects of LPR most of the time.”
Alison · Vagus One customer
“After 3 months my bloating has improved and my acid reflux settled down… Well done Yona team!”
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Samantha G. · Yona customer
“After three weeks the pain became less and less and 6 weeks on I very rarely have any pain at all.”
Frances · Vagus One customer“I was suffering from acid reflux very often, sometimes I was choking in the middle of the night… I can eat anything I want without thinking about acid reflux.”
Saintia M. · April 2026“Prior to using this I had frequent heartburn and trouble sleeping and using anti acids frequently. Since using Yona… have hardly used any anti acids so extremely pleased with results.”
Don W. · June 2026“I have been taking these capsules for a few months to try and stop my excessive burping and after the second/third bottle I realised I’d virtually stopped burping completely. I’ve had this problem for YEARS…”
LBM · June 2026“…it covered many of the issues affecting my health namely anxiety, acid reflux, insomnia and IBS type symptoms (that is a lot for one/two small tablets a day).”
Caryl D. · August 2026“I started taking the Yona vagus nerve tablet 2 months ago. And I can honestly say it’s changed my life… I take the tablet every morning with my breakfast.”
Rachel W. · June 2026“The company is outstanding in its customer care and service and the products actually work!”
Jay A. · April 2026“Great product… Definitely helped calm the vagus nerve and stomach issues.”
George · April 2026“It’s been a few months now since I started Yona, and I’ve noticed a remarkable improvement. No need for PPIs… It’s a revelation for me, who has been a constant sufferer for many, many years.”
customers who were taking acid medication when they started told us they have since reduced it or stopped it.
From our 2026 customer survey, self-reported. That’s what they told us, not advice from us: keep taking anything you’ve been prescribed, and make any change with your GP.Vagus One is built on what physiology has known for more than a hundred years about the nerve that runs your digestion.
Otto Loewi shows that the vagus nerve signals chemically. The messenger is acetylcholine, and the work wins a Nobel Prize.3
Acetylcholine is shown to be made from choline and an acetyl group. Later work ties that acetyl group to vitamins B1 and B5.4
Citicoline, saffron and L-theanine go through randomised, placebo-controlled human trials.
In a double-blind trial of 60 women aged 40 to 60, 250 mg a day meant fewer attention errors than placebo after 28 days.5
Read the studyIn a double-blind trial of 128 adults, 28 mg a day improved mood scores against placebo. In a second trial at 30 mg, heart-rate variability held steady during a lab stress test, where it dropped on placebo.6
Study one Study twoIn a human absorption study, benfotiamine raised blood thiamine far higher than standard thiamine.7
Read the study40+ peer-reviewed studies behind the formula, 19 of them in people.
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P.S. Two years ago, I was the one awake at night, wondering if this was just how it was going to be. If you’re reading this after another broken night, I know exactly how that feels. Start slowly, give it the full 90 nights, and tell us how you get on. — Alex
Cited as published research on the underlying biology, not as studies of Vagus One. Survey figures are self-reported: 128 responses from Yona customers, 2026.
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