Your Microbiome Could Play a Role in Your Covid-19 Response

Gut health could be an important piece in the Covid-19 puzzle

Markham Heid
Elemental
Published in
7 min readFeb 3, 2021

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Illustration: Saiman Chow for Elemental

It’s a mystery that has puzzled the world’s virologists.

The United States and Western Europe — home to many of the planet’s best doctors and hospitals and the most robust public health infrastructures — have been among the regions hit…

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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.