According to Aajonus, anger is fundamentally emotional feedback, a signal from the body and psyche that something in a person's life needs to change. It is not a disease in itself, but rather a communication mechanism. In his own words: "Anger is emotional feedback that something in a person's life needs to change." The appropriate response is to realize what is making you angry and resolve it rationally. If a situation is inappropriate and irresolvable, leaving it may be the best choice. Letting go of concepts, desires, things, and people that are not good for you and that you cannot change with love and compassion opens doors for better opportunities.

However, anger is not purely psychological. Aajonus places enormous weight on the biochemical and physiological underpinnings of anger. He explicitly states that an overly acidic system causes irritability that can evolve into anger and violence. This is a critical distinction, what appears to be an emotional or character problem is frequently a chemistry problem, a terrain problem, a nutrition problem. He is emphatic that to expect somebody to have good behavior when they are putting bad chemistry into their body is like expecting a drunk to be sober. All the talking in the world is not going to change it until the underlying chemistry is addressed.

Rage, the intensified, violent form of anger, Aajonus experienced himself personally and at extreme levels. He describes being so enraged during a period of illness that he would spend weeks envisioning taking doctors, lining them up in hospitals, and torturing them, shooting them at the legs first and then the knees. He describes this rage as so violent and vicious that it was all he could do. He eventually calmed down by getting away from civilization and beginning to eat raw foods again, eventually bicycling to farms around the area to obtain raw milk, eggs, butter, dairy, and meats in exchange for labor.

He also reframes what he calls the anger-violence cycle: anger expressed as violence usually perpetuates violence and fear. Therefore, one should be certain that violent words or actions are truly constructive and the only option available.

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Aajonus identifies multiple, layered root causes for anger and rage, operating at biochemical, nutritional, neurological, and hormonal levels simultaneously.

Van Winkle's research, as Aajonus explains it, showed that when the body produces hormones during trauma, neurological hormones, stress hormones, those hormones have byproducts, just like any other process in the body has byproducts. These byproducts store in the body like any other toxin. They do not dissolve easily. They accumulate. When the body eventually detoxifies them, the person re-experiences the same emotional state that was present when those byproducts were originally created.

Aajonus gives a highly specific example: "Let's say your father slapped you and beat you, or a girlfriend, when she was a child. And all of a sudden, her body is cleaning that out 30 years later, 25 years later, and she's married with this husband, and this is the male element right now that she's angry at. And it's high in her blood, and she starts letting out all this anger at her mate when it should have been with the father." He says Van Winkle found this in her colleagues and friends at the university, she would check their blood and find those hormone byproducts high in the system, corresponding precisely to emotional outbreaks that had no direct cause in the person's present life.

He describes the specific case of a woman who had a traumatic event with her father, where the father betrayed her by doing something for her sister that was promised to her. This created an anxiety that lasted almost two years in that child. Approximately 25 to 30 years later, while detoxifying, those trauma hormone byproducts came out. The woman started taking out all of her rage on her husband, who had done nothing to provoke it, simply because he was a male and her father was a male. "It took her eight weeks to detoxify all of that before she could look at her husband without jumping on his butt." She took a nap at one point during this detox period and woke up a few hours later remembering the original event with her father in full clarity.

The implication for Aajonus's framework is profound: unexplained anger or rage, with no apparent cause in present life circumstances, is often the body detoxifying stored psychotropic trauma hormone byproducts. The anger is real, the emotion is real, but it belongs to the past, it is chemistry leaving the body.

He also notes that in toxic bodies, as opposed to healthy bodies like those of American Indians historically, red meat can push people into over-acidity and anger. He draws the distinction: "The American Indians used to eat all red meat and had vital energy, high hormonal secretions. Red meat didn't make them angry, didn't make them over-acidic. But in our toxic bodies, we have to consider that."

He uses himself as a direct example: when he was a vegan and raw food fruitarian, he "daily thought about how I could kill Bush and Reagan, how I was going to stop them from bothering Nicaragua and El Salvador and get them out of there. I was plotting every day with an intensity you would not believe." Then when he started eating raw meat on a daily basis and cut out all the fruits, he became an entirely different person and approached things without anxiety and anger.

He also describes fruitarians in his personal experience as exhibiting extreme manic, volatile, and sometimes violent behavior while believing themselves to be peaceful and calm. He mentions a man he knew who was a "just a nasty man" on a heavy fruit diet, "his brain wasn't working properly. If you told him, you know, calm down, he'd say, 'What do you mean I'm calm? What are you talking about? I'm the most calm person you've ever known.'" He threw things and could not see his own behavior.

He mentions Hitler as a fruitarian vegetarian, and also Cain in the biblical account, as fruitarian vegetarians. He says the hardest people who come after him are fruitarians like David Wolfe, "they talk about being peaceful people and it certainly does not come out of them. It's insane. They get vicious."

He notes from his own personal experience as a fruitarian: "I was also angry easily. And I thought it was good, though, because I had been so sick all my life. I had all this manic energy. And I thought that was good energy. Coming from a family of crazy people and violent people, that was considered a good thing."

He also connects low blood sugar and dietary problems to another person's rage, specifically noting that too much stimulus to the anger center of the brain or an inability to buffer neurological impulses to the anger center can have dietary causes, particularly blood-sugar and dietary problems combined with too low a bacteria level.

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Anger and rage span multiple principles in Aajonus's framework, but the primary ones are:

Root Cause / Terrain Theory: The acidic terrain, the chemistry of the body, the stored trauma hormone byproducts, these are all terrain-level phenomena. The anger is not a moral or psychological failure but a chemistry failure reflecting the internal environment.

Cooked Food: The link between cooked meat (heterocyclic amines, lipid peroxides) and nerve irritation is a Cooked Food issue.

Raw Food: Eating raw meat eliminating the anger-generating compounds from cooked meat; raw fat helping buffer neurological impulses and bind toxic hormone byproducts, these are Raw Food applications.

Detoxification: The re-experiencing of old rage and trauma during detox of stored psychotropic hormone byproducts is explicitly a Detoxification phenomenon. The eight-week case study of the woman detoxifying rage toward her husband when it belonged to her father is a detoxification example.

How to Eat: The Nut Formula, cooked starch with raw fat and raw fresh fruit, the specific red meat/white meat ratios, exercise prescriptions, these belong in the How to Eat and How to Live.

How to Live: The advice to channel rage energy into singing, dancing, and joyful physical activity rather than primal therapy belongs here.

Sovereignty: His autobiographical account of transcending extreme violence, rage, and difficult circumstances through dietary change belongs in Sovereignty, taking personal responsibility for one's own chemistry and healing.

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The Nut Formula is composed of nuts blended with raw fat and eggs and honey. He specifically says the honey is included to neutralize the phytic acid in the nuts. He acknowledges that even so, you don't digest much of the protein or fat from the nuts, but "at least that starch you get without being toxic, and it doesn't cause an imbalance."

He is explicit about the mechanism: "You have excessive hormones and toxic adrenaline that can make you irritable. You also have other hormones that were created during trauma." The starch in the Nut Formula binds with the psychotropic trauma and stress hormone byproducts. This is what he says he discovered on his own, before Van Winkle's research confirmed the chemistry behind it.

He says: "That's why I wrote the book the first time, eight years ago. I had cooked starch in there that you eat with lots of raw fat, equal amount of raw fat. If you have a baked potato or half a baked potato, you have a whole stick of butter in it. And that will go in and bind with the toxicity. The fat will bind with that."

He later says he uses the Nut Formula more often than cooked grains for this purpose, and that if the Nut Formula doesn't work, then you go to some cooked grains.

The acute calming effect, 20 to 40 minutes, is specifically tied to the excess adrenaline mechanism.

He also states that for people who are very thin, pale, and eating white meat but who actually need red meat, very lethargic, weak red blood cells, their irritability and high-strung behavior is addressed by first alkalizing the system with fish before transitioning to red meat.

He contrasts this with what happens if you persist in anger: "You just get buried in that anger and that anxiety and you're going to stay there."

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