We don’t feed our goldfish dog food, don’t feed our labrador fish flakes, and wouldn’t put our hamster in a cage without a running wheel. So why feed ourselves in ways our digestive system can’t handle, move in ways that are not natural to us—or don’t move at all—and in doing so deny ourselves the fun life has to offer?

 

In The Caveman Code, Nikko Norte challenges the madness of our current lifestyle and invites us to rediscover—and reembrace—a lifestyle that kept us healthy for hundreds of thousands of years.

“Ah! Running around town bare-chested and eating chunks of meat—is that what you mean?”

Not at all. Our ancestors—healthy, fit, muscular, and lean—ate primarily what they gathered and hunted to a limited extent, while understanding that abandoning the hunt altogether would negatively affect their health.

 

Taking the demands of life in the third millennium into account—and regardless of age, gender, or how far we've strayed from good health—Nikko guides us back to a time-tested yet forgotten lifestyle that is nevertheless hardwired into our DNA. A lifestyle that feels natural and sustains itself after just a few months—not least because it taps into our body's genetic coding and reactivates the chemical processes long suppressed by our current lifestyle. Good fitness, sufficient muscle mass, and weight loss are no longer the goals; they’re the natural side effects of living according to the caveman code.​