A paleolithic lifestyle (also known as paleo or primal lifestyle) refers to living as humans presumably did in the paleolithic era (Old Stone Age)
The rationale for such an approach is that humans have evolved for millions of years in a paleolithic environment.
Therefore, their body and mind can be expected to be adequately adapted to the concomitant hunter-gatherer lifestyle.
Agriculture, on the other hand, only appeared about 10 000 years ago at the beginning of the neolithic era, and industrial society only about 200 years ago.
Proponents of a paleolithic lifestyle assert that insufficient time has passed for humans to adapt to the changes brought by farming and industrialization, leading to a misfit between modern lifestyle and the human genome.
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