Although we know that COVID 19 primarily affects the respiratory system, it also affects the gut in many people. Additionally, as the gut is the body’s biggest immunological organ, its importance in the body’s ability to fight the virus and its aftermath cannot be understated.
Signs that the health of your gut might be compromised are constipation, diarrhoea or tummy aches, perhaps with a history of IBS.
Improving your gut health and therefore your immunity, is mainly through nutrition. Here the symbol of the nation’s response to COVID, the rainbow, should be borne in mind. Eat a rainbow – eat a wide range of brightly coloured fruit and veg as diversity of nutrients is hugely important. Probiotics and Kefir are wonderful for the biome too, but cannot be tolerated by everyone’s systems, so if in doubt, eat a rainbow.