Gut health may protect you from severe COVID-19 • Earth.com
01-12-2021 By Earth.com staff writer Poor gut health may increase the severity of COVID-19, which is often accompanied by gastrointestinal symptoms like diarrhea. According to the American Society for Microbiology, a growing collection of evidence shows that having an altered gut microbiome allows the virus to gain entry into the GI tract. Dr. Heenam Stanley Kim, an expert at the Korea University Laboratory for Human-Microbial Interactions, reports that gut dysfunction may exacerbate the severity of infection by enabling the virus to access the surface of the ...
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