At the time of writing this, COVID-19 has swept the globe, infecting over 3.25 million people worldwide and killing over 231,000. While we’ve done plenty to mitigate our risk of infection—from practicing social distancing to perfecting personal hygiene to focusing on immune health—one factor may be overlooked by many: Bolstering the health of our gut microbiome to avoid an inflammatory storm.

Consider this: Some people infected with COVID-19 show no signs and some have only minor flu-like symptoms. Others who contract the novel coronavirus—people with conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, kidney disease or those at an advanced age—can have an acute systemic inflammatory response that may result in death. And others still, including people between the ages of 20 and 60 who become infected but have no known underlying medical conditions, “develop serious illness requiring intensive care treatment,” the Lippincott Nursing Center reports. What dictates the severity of responses?…

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