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The Nuance

Activating the Vagus Nerve Might Lower Your Covid-19 Risk

While physical distancing and masks are crucial, social interaction could calm the immune system and turn down inflammation

Markham Heid
Elemental
Published in
5 min readNov 25, 2020

Like other apes, humans are social animals. We evolved to live in codependent communities, and we do poorly if…

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Markham Heid
Elemental

I’m a long-time contributor at TIME and other media orgs. I write mostly about health. I grew up in Michigan, but these days I live in southwest Germany.