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The Engineered Primate

Natures Blueprint for Optimal Health

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The Engineered Primate

By: Vaughn Hughes
Narrated by: Geraldo Côrtes
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What if the greatest mystery of Nutrition…has gone unnoticed?

For generations we have accepted tidy explanations:

Eat this, avoid that, follow the rules.

But beneath the surface, something just doesn’t add up.

The human body thrives without our conscious control:

Meals disappear, nutrients are sorted, and energy appears out of nowhere—with no chef, no control tower, no captain.

Which really begs the question: how does it all work?

The Engineered Primate is a journey into the logistics of life. It is an exploration of the hidden mechanisms that shape us from the inside out. Each chapter peels back a layer:

  • Why does digestion even exist?
  • What was the environmental pressure in deep time that made a digestive system necessary?
  • How does order arise in a body with no conscious overseer?
  • …and why have we rarely asked these questions when creating our nutritional models?

This is not another diet manual.

It is a trail of clues inviting you to reconsider what you thought you knew about the very act of eating.

©2025 Vaughn Hughes (P)2025 Vaughn Hughes Biological Sciences Evolution Evolution & Genetics Science Nutrition
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I really enjoyed this book. it was so well written and made me think about how to change my eating habits for better health. I recommend this to all as it is a great guide to a better way of living and eating.

Insightful and thought provoking

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This book is life changing, inspiring, insightful, informative, eye opening and a must read for everyone! Vaughn unveils a curtain that reveals the reality of nutritional evolution and how modern perceptions of healthy eating lifestyles have wavered far from what our bodies truly need to thrive and function the way we are designed to do so. Vaughn has opened my eyes to know and understand how what is considered the modern diet negatively impacts us directly and globally. This book provides factual insight into how we as humans are being misled and misinformed about what our bodies actually need to optimally function & how to achieve it. The Engineered Primate tells an intreguing, informative & life changing story that is inspiring and easy for all to understand. I have struggled with physical health, mental health and weight issues for decades, unaware of just how much my diet was impacting my everyday life. Vaughn has provided me with informed knowledge & a blueprint to the necessary dietry lifestyle my body needs to properly function to its potential. Since I have been feeding my body the way it's designed to be fed I have lost over 40kgs without even exercising. I've remarkably improved my energy levels, ability to sleep, depression, mental health, relationships with people, aswell as my outlook on life. I feel better in every way all thanks to Vaughn and this book. This is not some simple diet book...it's an eye opening informative story of our nutritional evolution, how the body reacts & responds to what we eat, aswell as the ways we are supposed to & need to nourish it for optimal health.

Life changing! A must read!

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