The Nuance

Why Spending Time Around Other Living Things Positively Affects Your Health

Time spent around other living things may be essential to the health of your microbiome, and by extension the health of your brain and body

Markham Heid
Elemental
Published in
5 min readDec 23, 2020

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Illustration: Kieran Blakey

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Markham Heid
Elemental

I’m a frequent contributor at TIME, the New York Times, and other media orgs. I write mostly about health and science. I like long walks and the Grateful Dead.