
Arteriosclerosis, in Aajonus's framework, is the hardening, crystallization, and dehydration of arterial tissue caused by the accumulation of substances that solidify within the body at normal human body temperature. It is not a disease of excess animal fat, not a disease of cholesterol, and not a disease of eating too much meat. It is, in his view, an entirely preventable and largely reversible condition whose true cause has been deliberately misrepresented by the pharmaceutical and food industry establishment since the late 1950s.
Aajonus's Definition
Arteriosclerosis, in Aajonus's framework, is the hardening, crystallization, and dehydration of arterial tissue caused by the accumulation of substances that solidify within the body at normal human body temperature. It is not a disease of excess animal fat, not a disease of cholesterol, and not a disease of eating too much meat. It is, in his view, an entirely preventable and largely reversible condition whose true cause has been deliberately misrepresented by the pharmaceutical and food industry establishment since the late 1950s.
According to Aajonus, arteriosclerosis is the result of substances depositing in arterial walls and progressively hardening them, narrowing the channel through which blood flows, increasing blood flow velocity, and ultimately risking the breakage of large chunks of buildup that can travel as clots to the heart or brain. The hardening is not from saturated animal fats, which he argues remain fluid in the body. Rather, it is from crystallized vegetable oils and/or cooked fats that have waxed and solidified at the lower body temperature of the human system.
He also places arteriosclerosis in the context of toxic accumulation more broadly, specifically heavy metals, toxic insulin, toxic adrenaline, and the residues of undigested and unassimilated vegetable oils that the body cannot process or eliminate properly, depositing them instead into arterial walls, lymphatic tissue, and connective tissue.
He describes the process at a microscopic level: vegetable oils, when introduced into the human body, which operates at 98.6°F and lower, crystallize, dehydrate, and harden into formations he compares to amber (the fossilized tree resin that begins as liquid fat and solidifies into rock over time). He states: "What happens to vegetable oils when they mix in nature? They turn into a rock, like amber. Amber was a resin of a tree, fat of a tree, turns into rock." This he uses as the perfect analogy for what happens inside human arterial walls when vegetable oils are consumed.
He additionally distinguishes between different types of plaque. He writes in his newsletter: "If the buildup is made of hardened fats that could brake away from the arterial wall in large enough chunks, that could cause a clot." But he is careful to clarify that not all high blood velocity or high PSV readings necessarily indicate imminent danger, rather, they are the body compensating for obstruction by increasing pressure to push blood through.
Arteriosclerosis, in his complete framework, is the terminal result of a long chain of metabolic insults: poor dietary fats, unprocessable oils, accumulating toxins, inadequate lubrication of the arterial walls, and the progressive dehydration and hardening that results.
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Root Cause
Aajonus is absolutely unambiguous and repeatedly emphatic across multiple seminars, workshops, books, and newsletters: the primary cause of arteriosclerosis is vegetable oils, especially hydrogenated vegetable oils, consumed in a human body that lacks the physiological tools to process them.
He explains the mechanism in detail:
Body Temperature Differential: Herbivores, animals that naturally consume plant matter and vegetable fats as part of their diet, have body temperatures ranging from 101°F to 108°F depending on the species. At these temperatures, vegetable oils remain fluid and liquid within their systems, constantly exchanging fat and water molecules, staying in motion, remaining metabolically active and processable. In the human body, which operates at 98.6°F and lower, vegetable oils cannot be kept fluid. They wax, crystallize, and dehydrate. He states this repeatedly: "In our systems at 98.6 and lower, vegetable oils harden and crystallize and dehydrate. So that's what causes hardening of the arteries."
He adds: "Even if it's raw, if it's built as a part of the cell, it crystallizes. Dehydrates and becomes crystal. Hardens the arteries. Finite crystals. Take a high-powered microscope...", implying that microscopic examination would reveal crystalline vegetable oil deposits in arterial tissue.
Lack of Enzymatic Processing: Beyond body temperature, humans also lack the enzyme mutations necessary to properly digest, assimilate, and utilize vegetable oils. He states: "We do not have the enzymes to break it down properly and we have a low body temperature 98.6 and lower." Herbivores, by contrast, have a digestive tract that is two to multiple times more complex than the human digestive tract, purpose-built for processing plant matter and vegetable fats.
Hydrogenated Vegetable Oils = Plastic: He draws the molecular parallel between hydrogenated vegetable oils and plastic explicitly and repeatedly: "Our major problems with heart disease and arteriosclerosis are because of margarine, vegetable oils, especially hydrogenated vegetable oils. Why? Because they are the same molecular structure as plastic. In fact, that's how you make plastic. So do you think you can digest plastic? Not well. Not without developing cancer. Not without developing heart disease."
Cooked Green Foods: He also identifies cooked green foods as a co-contributor: "Lack of enzyme-mutations for digesting, assimilating and utilizing cooked green foods and mostly vegetable oils are responsible for most hardening of the arteries that causes heart muscle spasms. Avoiding cooked green foods and vegetable oils stops the accumulations."
Margarine and the Post-WWII Marketing Shift: Aajonus places the origin of the arteriosclerosis epidemic precisely in history. He states that prior to the 1950s, the primary cooking and dietary fats were lard and butter. Heart disease was rare. When margarine and vegetable oils were aggressively marketed beginning in the late 1950s and early 1960s, largely as a wartime industrial byproduct needing a commercial market, heart disease began its ascent to become the leading cause of death. He states: "Before that, I mean, all we lived with was lard and animal fats, butter. Lard and butter. That was it. Then all of a sudden this vegetable oil craze came from World War II. And now heart disease is the highest rate of disease. The biggest killer."
He adds: "All that blaming of hardening of the arteries, hardening of the arteries was a rarity until pressed oils came out, vegetable oils, margarines and stuff like that. Then everybody started getting hardening of the arteries."
Beyond vegetable oils, Aajonus identifies several additional contributing factors to arterial hardening and plaque formation:
Heavy Metals: He discusses how heavy metals such as mercury, aluminum, and others can accumulate in arterial tissue. He states: "You get varicose veins and spider veins because your capillaries and veins are thickening with toxins. Usually metals." While this specifically references varicose veins and capillaries, he extends the logic to arterial congestion throughout.
He also describes how brass bracelets can cause metal accumulation: "I sure wish you'd get rid of those brass bracelets. You're taking in a lot of rust and mold... Also causing a little hardening of some nerves." This demonstrates his principle that metal toxicity is a cause of tissue hardening throughout the body.
Vaccine Toxicity: In his own personal case, Aajonus traces the origin of his arterial plaque and cardiac damage directly to vaccines, specifically polio vaccines administered at age 15 and a half that contained mercury, formaldehyde, aluminum, and detergents. He developed angina pectoris within 10 days of his third polio vaccine injection. He also developed plaque in his right carotid artery that was detectable by age 15.5, with PSV readings of 223 cm/sec and EDV of 76 cm/sec. He states: "Tests as early as 15.5 years of age proved that I had plaque in my right internal carotid artery of PSV 223 cm/sec and EDV 76 cm/sec... The angina began within 10 days after my third polio-vaccine injection."
Sugars Breaking Down Arterial Tissue: He also identifies the role of sugars (and improper insulin utilization) as a primary trigger that sets the stage for arterial damage. The sequence he describes: sugars break down tissues; fats rush in to heal the damaged area; if the fats available are solid fats (cooked fats or crystallized vegetable oils), they cause occlusions. The first cause, he is careful to note, is the sugar damage, not the fats. He states: "The sugars break down the tissues. The fats go in and try to heal it. And the fats, if they are solid fats, will cause occlusions. But that's not the cause. The first cause was the..." [the passage cuts off but the implication is clearly: the sugar destruction of tissue].
Toxic Insulin and Toxic Adrenaline: He also identifies "toxic insulin or toxic adrenaline" as causes of vein and capillary thickening, which is part of the same pathological process.
Oxidized Fats from Cooking: Beyond vegetable oils specifically, he notes that "when you have oxidized fats from cooking, and you have all the lipid peroxides floating in the blood, it takes a lot more oxygen to deal with that toxicity." This confirms that cooked animal fats, while not his primary villain, can contribute to arterial stress in those who already have heart disease or arteriosclerosis, "I've only seen it in about 2% of the population. And they were people that already had arteriosclerosis, or already had heart disease."
This is a pillar position for Aajonus, repeated with great force in every source:
- "Animal fats do not cause hardening of the heart, arteriosclerosis. That's absolute nonsense."
- "Animal fats does not cause congestive heart failure, does not cause arteriosclerosis. Vegetable oils do."
- "Cooked fats, animal fats cause hardening of the arteries and cause heart disease. Not true."
- "Animal fats stay fluid in the body even if they're cooked."
- "Everything they told you is upside down and backwards."
His primary evidence for this is ethnographic, the observation of tribal peoples who eat exclusively or near-exclusively cooked animal matter:
New Guinea Tribes: He cites multiple times the tribes of New Guinea, including cannibalistic tribes, who eat nothing but cooked meats and all of the animal fats including lard and pig fat, all cooked. Their disease profile: gout, arthritis, rheumatism, some osteoporosis, thrombosis, but zero arteriosclerosis, zero heart disease, zero hardening of the arteries, zero congestive heart failure. He states this as definitive proof: "Even with their cooked meats and all they eat is animal fats, no vegetable oils. They have no heart disease and no arteriosclerosis. Yet the industry has been blaming animal fats on hardening of the arteries and hardening of the heart. It is a lie. It is an absolute lie."
He notes a minor caveat: "They have gout, they have arthritis, they have rheumatism, and they have some arteriosclerosis, but no hardening of any tissue." This appears contradictory to other statements where he says they have NO arteriosclerosis, suggesting possible variation between passages or that the "some arteriosclerosis" reference may be a different level or form than the full arterial hardening he discusses.
Borneo Tribes: He also references tribes in Borneo who eat mainly meats and have no heart disease and no hardening of the arteries.
Northern Thailand Primitive Tribes: Referenced as additional evidence, "whether they're in Borneo, in New Guinea, all of the areas where they still have very primitive tribes, even in northern Thailand, these people eat mainly meats. They don't have any heart disease, no hardening of the arteries, no arteriosclerosis at all."
Australia (Aboriginal Tribes): Referenced in the context of primitive aboriginal tribes as additional evidence.
He also extends this observation to chimpanzees and gorillas: "There was more hardening of the arteries in vegetative animals. That's why they have a shorter life. Your chimpanzees and your gorillas. They have more hardening of the tissues because they eat more vegetable matter."
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Why This Happens
Arteriosclerosis in Aajonus's framework spans multiple principles of his philosophy:
Cooked Food: The primary principle. Vegetable oils, even raw, crystallize in the body. Cooked vegetable oils are worse. This is fundamentally a cooked food and processed food disease.
Terrain Theory: The body temperature differential between humans and herbivores is a core terrain theory argument. The human internal terrain is simply not equipped to process vegetable oils without them crystallizing.
Root Cause: The deliberate mislabeling of animal fats as the cause when the real cause is vegetable oils is a Sovereignty/deception issue. But the actual root cause of tissue hardening is the inability to process and eliminate vegetable oils and toxic accumulations.
Detoxification: The process of removing existing plaque, whether through raw apple cider vinegar, pineapple, or clay, falls in Detoxification. His own experience with clearing his carotid artery is a detoxification case study.
Sovereignty: His repeated statements about pharmaceutical and food industry fraud, the deliberate invention of the "animal fats cause heart disease" narrative to sell margarine and vegetable oils, place this firmly in Sovereignty. He states: "Where did the myth come from? Selling product. They wanted to sell margarine. They wanted to sell safflower oil." And: "Why are they lying? There are..." [passage cuts off].
How to Live: The practical guidance on massage avoidance with arteriosclerosis, on the use of heat for circulation, and on monitoring with ultrasound rather than invasive procedures.
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Symptoms Reframed
This is perhaps the most important symptom reframing in the arteriosclerosis context. Conventional medicine treats high blood pressure as a cause of strokes and heart attacks requiring medication. Aajonus treats it as a necessary, intelligent compensatory mechanism:
"High blood pressure should be tolerated. High blood pressure is very necessary for most people who have either arterial congestion, or are overweight, or subject to certain toxins, including house molds."
"High blood pressure makes blood move through our bodies properly when something interferes with or limits circulation. When you have high blood pressure and you slow blood pressure with medication or homeopathy, you're likely to cause clots because the blood is not moving fast enough through congested arteries."
He is explicit that high blood pressure in the context of arterial congestion is protective, not dangerous: "If you've got congestive arteries, you're fat and you've got pressure on your veins, you better have high blood pressure. It's normal. So the doctors telling you high blood pressure bad is an absolute lie. It's fraud."
He cites a study: "A test came out. A few years ago... Out of 48,000 people. People who had high cholesterol. Almost had no heart attacks. The people who averaged 121 on a systolic rate had all the heart attacks. So the high blood pressure kept heart attacks away. And the low blood pressure had all the heart attacks."
He describes a separate test: "People who had 160 to 170 systolic rate, diastolic rate, had no heart attacks. And those were 110 to 120 where the low blood pressure medication had all the heart attacks."
Regarding his own high PSV readings: "I am for higher velocity flow because it is a symptom that something causing it to be necessary. I agree with eliminating the cause but not simply reducing velocity with medication that can cause strokes."
Regarding medication-induced lowered blood pressure in the context of cardiac weakness and arteriosclerosis: "What happens? They've lowered the blood pressure. The veins aren't expanding as much as they need to be. If she's weak and starts exercising and those veins aren't wide enough, it could collapse or cause a spasm in the heart. And it's a Charlie horse heart, what happens if you have a Charlie horse heart? That's it. You're dead. Cardiac arrest."
He goes further to say that medication used to reduce blood pressure can cause strokes: "A person is much more likely to have a stroke while taking medication or eating chocolate. The 3 people I know who had strokes while partially following my Primal Diet were heavy consumers of regular br..." [passage cuts off].
He reframes high cholesterol completely. In the context of arteriosclerosis: - Cholesterol is not a cause of arteriosclerosis. - He had cholesterol of 370–390 when very sick and it came down to 205 as he healed. - He cites an Olympic basketball player in his 80s with cholesterol of 227–230 who "can outdo young kids on this diet" and "is out there playing ball." - He also references a hollow Olympic basketball player who "keeps cholesterol level at 675" who can "outdo young kids on this diet." - He says to never be concerned about cholesterol ranges in the context of arteriosclerosis.
He provides specific technical detail on how to interpret arterial plaque ultrasound results:
"PSV is Peak Systolic blood flow velocity. The higher it is indicates the faster the blood has to be forced through arteries and veins because of obstruction. Obstructions can be excessive weight causing pressure on the arteries or buildup on arteries. If it is buildup on arteries, the higher the number the greater the buildup. According to pharma/medicine, the higher the number, the greater the propensity for heart attack. I do not agree with that."
"EDV is End-diastolic velocity. It has similar meaning as PSV but is usually measured to see if there is propensity for cerebral stroke."
He uses his own readings as a longitudinal case study (see Section 8 for full detail).
He reframes angina not as a sign of blocked arteries requiring surgical intervention, but as muscle spasms caused by toxic accumulation in cardiac muscle. He had 300+ episodes of angina from age 15.5 to 22, none of which resulted in death, and none of which were caused by arterial blockage in the heart itself (cardiologists confirmed no blockage). The cause was vaccine-deposited mercury, formaldehyde, aluminum, and detergents stored in the muscles in and around the heart: "The mercury and the formaldehyde from the tetanus shot went to my brain at 18 months old. That particular shot of polio vaccine went to my heart and stored in the muscles in and around my heart."
He compares angina to a charley horse: "Angina pectoris is something that old people get from congestive heart failure or blocked arteries. I had none of that... but I would have incredible chest cramps at the heart." Exactly as lactic acid builds up and causes a muscle knot in a leg, toxic accumulations cause cardiac muscle spasms.
He connects these to the same underlying pathology that produces arteriosclerosis, toxic accumulation (especially heavy metals) in capillaries and veins causing thickening. He states these are "swollen capillaries" and that "you get varicose veins and spider veins because your capillaries and veins are thickening with toxins. Usually metals. Could be toxic insulin or toxic adrenaline that causes those veins to thicken. Or too much water can cause them to thicken."
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Food Protocol
This is Aajonus's most documented and personally verified remedy for removing arterial plaque. He used it to clear his own right carotid artery of plaque that had been present since he was at least 15.5 years old.
Protocol details from his own case: - He took raw apple cider vinegar approximately 30 times over approximately one year (11 months between tests, from before 8/4/2011 test to the 8/4/2011 test which showed complete clearance). - Dose: 1 tablespoon at a time (he specifies "one tablespoon only at a time, 30 times over the next year"). - He also describes it as "30 tablespoons that year" confirming 1 tablespoon per use, 30 uses. - He states: "I started eating more vinegar on a regular basis and the clay, sometimes together.", indicating clay was also used in conjunction with vinegar. - He clarifies: "Of course, raw" apple cider vinegar. He specifically states "Raw and pasteurized apple cider vinegar" in one passage but then corrects to confirm raw.
Result: "I went back the next year and that carotid artery was all clean. It had been dirty since I was at least 15 and a half all the way till I was 62 years old and in one year... only had 30 tablespoons of vinegar that year and had dissolved it."
The 2011 test result (after ~30 tablespoons raw ACV over ~11 months): "Carotid Artery: Left: Normal; Right: Normal; No Atrial Fibrillation; No Aneurysm, and Peripheral Arterial condition Normal. The abnormal plaque buildup was gone!"
Dosing variation by body size: - He says: "If you're a large person, two tablespoons of vinegar a..." [passage cuts off, implying a larger dose for a larger body]. - For arterial congestion as part of a sport drink: "You have a whole tablespoon... in the morning when it's one and a half teaspoons, that'll help start breaking down the plaque. Arteries are thick, not just with congestion, but with plaque."
Why vinegar works: "It will help chelate with heavy metals that make up the artery and capillaries." So the mechanism is chelation of heavy metals that have accumulated in arterial walls.
He also notes the use of raw unpasteurized apple cider vinegar as a dressing: "A preferred dressing would be raw unpasteurized apple cider vinegar, or a mixture of fresh lemon juice and raw unpasteurized apple cider vinegar." This is used specifically to remove the resins and residues that cause hardening. "Some people would benefit from using a raw wine/vinegar dressing, that is, an organic raw wine (pesticide-free, chemic..." [passage cuts off].
"Eating raw green foods (salads) with a fat-free dressing as the last meal of the day helps remove the resins and residues that cause this type of hardening of the arteries."
The preferred dressings are: raw unpasteurized apple cider vinegar, or a mixture of fresh lemon juice and raw unpasteurized apple cider vinegar, or raw wine/vinegar dressing.
Timing: last meal of the day.
Pineapple is identified as another food that helps remove arterial plaque: "Another food that helps remove plaque is citrus, especially pineapple."
Caution: "However, as I stated in my book WWTL, over-eating pineapple can cause extreme emotionality."
Protocol for daily use to remove arterial buildup: - Only 1 ounce per day - Combined with a raw fat: "3–4 tablespoons coconut cream and 1 tablespoon raw cream or 1 teaspoon no-salt raw butter" - The fat pairing is essential to prevent the emotionality side effect and presumably to buffer the enzymatic activity.
He also references: "stone-pressed olive oil, raw pineapple, raw fresh onions and unheated honey very gradually restores the heart.", in the context of heart restoration that includes arteriosclerosis as a related condition.
He mentions clay in conjunction with vinegar as a tool for removing plaque: "I started eating more vinegar on a regular basis and the clay, sometimes together." No specific clay dosing is given in these passages, but it is used simultaneously with the vinegar protocol.
Used as a fat pairing with both pineapple (to buffer emotionality) and vinegar (to buffer acidity and support fat availability). He specifically begins taking "vinegar and coconut cream to break down plaque" in the period before a cardiologist screening.
Referenced as beneficial for heart restoration in the passage: "Cheese and honey are very good for that.", in the context of restoring the heart (the "that" refers to heart restoration in context with angina pectoris and arteriosclerosis cross-references).
The foundational principle: keeping the body lubricated with raw animal fats prevents arteriosclerosis by keeping arterial tissues supple and fluid. He states: "What causes poor circulation in different parts of the body? ... It can be hardening of the tissue because there's not enough fats in the area and some poison has gotten in there... most people eat cooked fats. So what helps is it just dries out in the area and then it hardens like sclerosis."
He repeatedly advocates butter, cream, raw milk fats, and other animal fats as the proper lubricating and healing fats: "I eat butter galore and everything you shouldn't eat." This is presented in the context of having been cleared of nearly all cardiac plaque at age 56.
For circulation to congested areas: "You can put hot water bottles at your leg and wrap them with a towel so you tent the heat into your leg. Don't do it tightly. Do it loosely. Heat will allow more circulation into the area. More circulation means more nutrients.", In the context of varicose/spider veins but applicable to arterial congestion by the same logic.
He also recommends "a hot water bottle at the neck along your spine while you're lying on your side" for arterial and nerve congestion running from neck to kidney.
"Years ago I read that apple cider vinegar rubbed in or something would help that too. It will because it will help chelate with heavy metals that make up the artery and capillaries.", In the context of spider veins, but the mechanism (chelation of heavy metals in vascular tissue) is the same as internal use for arteriosclerosis.
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What to Avoid
- i
Every form of vegetable oil is identified as a cause of arteriosclerosis: - Hydrogenated vegetable oils (worst, same molecular structure as plastic) - Margarine (same problem as hydrogenated vegetable oil) - Safflower oil (specifically named) - Olive oil when cooked (he mentions "people cooking safflower oil, olive oil, stuff like that") - Vegetable juice (particularly cooked vegetable fats) - Any processed vegetable oil
- ii
He states: "In the human body, most of the oils that they use causes hardening of the arteries and heart and everything in the system."
- iii
"Lack of enzyme-mutations for digesting, assimilating and utilizing cooked green foods and mostly vegetable oils are responsible for most hardening of the arteries that causes heart muscle spasms. Avoiding cooked green foods and vegetable oils stops the accumulations."
- iv
Aajonus is emphatic that medications that lower blood pressure in the context of arterial congestion are dangerous and can cause strokes:
- v
"When you have high blood pressure and you slow blood pressure with medication or homeopathy, you're likely to cause clots because the blood is not moving fast enough through congested arteries."
- vi
"A person is much more likely to have a stroke while taking medication..."
- vii
"They've lowered the blood pressure. The veins aren't expanding as much as they need to be. If she's weak and starts exercising and those veins aren't wide enough, it could collapse or cause a spasm in the heart."
- viii
He cautions against cholesterol-lowering medications in the context of heart and arterial health, as cholesterol (up to at least 675 as evidenced by the basketball player) does not cause arteriosclerosis and high levels may in fact reflect the body's healing efforts.
- ix
This is a specific practical warning: "If you have arteriosclerosis, you go in there with a deep massage and you start breaking those veins and arteries, you're gonna have blood in the connective tissue. You're gonna have bruising all internally, whether you see it or not, it's going to be there."
- x
The correct form of massage for those with vascular congestion and arteriosclerosis is the "tickle massage", very light stimulation. He describes demonstrating it: "See how that stimulates everything? That's what you need, just that stimulation. And let me tell you, tickling just sends vibrations all through the body, and that's what your body needs, electrical stimulation to stimulate that lymphatic system, not crunching and grinding and breaking of the lymphatic system."
- xi
While not a direct cause of arteriosclerosis in his framework, sugars and carbohydrates destroy the arterial and vascular tissue that then becomes subject to plaque formation. He states: "The sugars break down the tissues. The fats go in and try to heal it. And the fats, if they are solid fats, will cause occlusions." Carbohydrates also "progress it quickest" in the context of vascular deterioration.
- xii
"Alcohol and carbs, recent and stored, are the greatest assaulters of capillaries."
- xiii
He makes an interesting comparison: "Avocado is a drying oil. Like you put avocado on you, I mean it hardens. Like vegetable oils, you put them with earth and you have a rock. That's what's causing all the hardening of the arteries. It's not animal fats. It's vegetable oils.", This implies avocado oil falls into the category of potentially problematic vegetable-type oils for those prone to arteriosclerosis.
- xiv
He has a specific caution about the monitoring tool itself: "Ultrasound is only harmful if done more than twice in a 6-months period, or to a fetus if done more than once every five weeks for more than 4 minutes at a time." He therefore recommends ultrasound as the appropriate monitoring tool (over invasive procedures) but specifies safe frequency limits.
- xv
He cautions a person with possible arterial/neurological issues against CT scans: "The scan could cause irreversible brain scarring." He recommends ultrasound instead for detecting arterial plaque.
- xvi
While he does not explicitly detail why these should be avoided beyond his general anti-surgical stance, the implication of his protocol, that diet, vinegar, and pineapple can dissolve plaque, is that surgery is unnecessary and risky. In the context of a mother who had stents placed and still experienced chest pain, he is asked for alternatives.
- xvii
He mentions chocolate as a contributing factor to stroke risk in those with arterial congestion: "The 3 people I know who had strokes while partially following my Primal Diet were heavy consumers of regular br..." [passage cuts off, but context clearly implies "regular bread" or regular chocolate].
- xviii
He identifies heavy metals in the arteries as a cause of hardening. Sources of metal accumulation to avoid include: brass jewelry/bracelets ("I sure wish you'd get rid of those brass bracelets. You're taking in a lot of rust and mold... Also causing a little hardening of some nerves"), EMF-emitting electronic devices used too closely, and vaccines containing mercury and aluminum.
- xix
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Recovery Timeline
His own case is the most extensively documented:
Age 15.5: First detection of plaque, PSV 223 cm/sec and EDV 76 cm/sec in the right internal carotid artery. This was in the context of angina pectoris (300+ episodes from age 15.5 to 22) caused by vaccine toxicity.
Plaque present continuously from age ~15.5 to age 62, approximately 47 years of carrying arterial plaque, though it was gradually diminishing on the Primal Diet even without targeted intervention.
The pre-2007 period: Ultrasound tests over approximately 12 years revealed the right carotid showed plaque with PSV at least 181 cm/sec and EDV 59 cm/sec. He states: "I did not feel the need to bother with correcting it."
2/24/2007 test: His lowest reading: PSV 168 cm/sec and EDV 49 cm/sec, "showing that as I continued to eat my Primal Diet, it helped my body gradually remove plaque", confirming that the diet alone, over years, was gradually reducing plaque.
Approximately 20% plaque at age 20 (described separately): "When I was about 20 years old, I had about 20% plaque on my arteries." By the time he was in his mid-50s, cardiologists at a screening found his heart "completely clean" with "not a bit of plaque on it anywhere" and "nothing that was excessive", though some small residual plaque remained in the carotid.
The vinegar intervention (starting ~2010–2011): "For the last year, I started eating more vinegar on a regular basis and the clay, sometimes together." He took raw apple cider vinegar approximately 30 times over ~11 months, at 1 tablespoon per use.
8/4/2011 test: Complete clearance. "Carotid Artery: Left: Normal; Right: Normal; No Atrial Fibrillation; No Aneurysm, and Peripheral Arterial condition Normal. The abnormal plaque buildup was gone!" He was approximately 63 years old at this point.
Interesting additional finding: "Interestingly, my neck, thyroid and two lymphati..." [passage cuts off], suggesting simultaneous improvement in adjacent tissues.
Duration summary: Gradual reduction over 40+ years on the Primal Diet, with complete dissolution of the remaining carotid plaque achieved in approximately 11 months using ~30 tablespoons of raw apple cider vinegar.
Before the final carotid clearance, he had a cardiac screening at approximately age 56 where cardiologists, specialists for NFL and professional sports teams, spent 45 minutes instead of the normal 20 minutes trying to find plaque. They used every angle. Result: "Almost 56 years old to see somebody with a completely clean heart and not a bit of plaque on it anywhere." He had been on the Primal Diet for approximately 35 years at that point.
He states: "I still had a little plaquing, and I've got 19 more years to get rid of it", said presumably in his late 50s, suggesting full arterial clearance might take approximately 19 more years of diet-based healing, though the vinegar protocol accelerated this dramatically.
Another separate occasion: a cardiologist with a video sonogram spent half an hour instead of the normal 15 minutes: "He couldn't believe it was that clean... He spent a half an hour, because he couldn't believe it. The cardiologist, he kept putting the sound every direction around the heart he could. He couldn't believe it was that clean."
Additional test: They also had him check the carotid arteries "on both sides and check the heart with sound" with a room full of specialists watching: "This guy's going, this is beautiful. This is amazing. You know, 50, almost 56 years old to see somebody with a completely clean heart and not a bit of plaque on it anywhere." They tested for 45 minutes ("instead of the normal 20 minutes") and "10 minutes on each [side] just to check."
"Mine, when I was about 20 years old, I had about 20% plaque on my arteries... in another 10 years it probably won't be there", said at an unspecified later point, suggesting he estimated 10+ years to resolve that level of plaque through diet alone.
"They found some congestion in my carotid artery on the right side and it was about, I don't know, a 30% congestion in there. They said that I was too young to go in and clean it out and it might break up and move but it wasn't hard enough to cause a heart attack."
For the gradual accumulation of vegetable oil damage: recovery requires fully stopping the ingestion of vegetable oils and cooked green foods. Without those substances continuing to enter the system, further accumulation stops. Existing crystallized deposits then require active dissolution through enzymatic and chelating agents (vinegar, pineapple, clay).
For varicose and spider veins associated with the same toxic accumulation process: "Usually those symptoms pass with time; sometimes it takes 16 years."
He also notes that past illnesses revisit during healing: "Everything is going to revisit you. If you've had an illness as a child, that illness will revisit you in your lifetime because if you weren't on a good diet you never cleaned that area properly and you didn't rebuild it properly." He confirms this happened to him with his angina: "I only had, let's say, a slight bout with angina about two years ago and it was so mild it didn't pass out or anything. So basically what it was was my muscle tissues were cleaning from those years of still having been toxic."
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Questions Aajonus Answered
- Direct Questions and Aajonus's Responses
#### Q&A: Heart Attack, Mother with Multiple Blocked Arteries
Question (from attendee/correspondent): "My mother of 82 just had a heart attack. She has read most of your book and eats most of your diet, but does still eat cooked food too. She has been on your diet for about a year now. She has 1 100% blocked artery, 1 artery that is blocked 90% that they put a stent in, and 1 artery that is 60% blocked that they put 2 stents in. She still experiences sharp pain in her chest area on occasion with shortness of breath and heaviness in her chest. The doctor is insisting on Plavix to prevent blood clotting and also aspirin. He is insisting on 2 blood pressure [medications]..."
Aajonus's response: [The full response is not captured in the passages, but the context of the question is preserved. His general position on blood pressure medication and arterial stenting in such cases would align with his consistent framework: avoid the medications, support the body with raw fats, vinegar, pineapple, and allow the Primal Diet to gradually address the remaining blockages.]
#### Q&A: Father Had a Heart Attack
Question: "My father had a heart attack yesterday and I wondered what this comes from and what would help? I heard today that it is a minor one, so to speak, and that he is coming out of intensive care tomorrow into his own room, and that he can speak and is not paralyzed. Of course, the doctors are doing tests and, in particular, a test up the arteries to get a view of the heart and any possible clogging. And they will then decide if he needs a bypass or whatever. Any comments? He had prostate cancer two years ago and the prostate removed (via the stomach), as well as spinal osteoporosis and a collapse prior to that on a mountain..."
#### Q&A: High Blood Pressure and Arterial Congestion
Question (Clarice): "I'm having some high blood pressure. It's almost like my blood gets thicker."
Aajonus's response: "High blood pressure should be tolerated. High blood pressure is very necessary for most people who have either arterial congestion, or are overweight, or subject to certain toxins, including house molds. Since you are not overweight, you probably have congested arteries or something is toxic in your home or office. High blood pressure makes blood move through our bodies properly when something interferes with or limits circulation. When you have high blood pressure and you slow blood pressure with medication or homeopathy, you're likely to cause clots because the blood is not moving fast enough through congested arteries."
#### Q&A: Arteriosclerosis, Carotid Artery, Vinegar Protocol (Workshop)
Question (workshop attendee): Attendee has "really poor circulation everywhere" and arterial congestion, arteries "thick, not just with congestion, but with plaque."
Aajonus's response: "I suggest that you have that sport drink, and I suggest that you write it down. You have a whole tablespoon, and you don't have to put it in all of the juice. You can just separate two. If you like the taste of vinegar, like some people do, in the morning when it's one and a half teaspoons, that'll help start breaking down the plaque. Arteries are thick, not just with congestion, but with plaque. Well, the vinegar sh..." [passage cuts off].
#### Q&A: Thread Veins / Surface Veins (Multiple Correspondents)
Question: "I have noticed a big increase in thread veins since I last spoke to you about this; and I also have veins coming to the surface. I refer to my thighs, legs and feet. Surely, being on the diet, these should not appear. They have gotten so much worse since on the diet."
Aajonus: "The diet has no toxins to cause those symptoms. It is the result of a lifetime of eating toxic foods. Usually, those symptoms pass with time; sometimes it takes 16 years."
Follow-up: "Thank you. So it is just a coincidence or aging that has made all this appear recently?"
Aajonus: "Aging and deterioration coincide when toxins have accumulated in the body, deteriorating it."
Follow-up: "Veins have also appeared in the last month on the surface all over my legs and thighs. Reminds me: is it mainly the result of carbos?"
Aajonus: "Carbs progress it quickest."
Follow-up: "Or the liver. So it comes from a lifetime of toxic foods, not from the percentage of cooked food I am eating with the raw diet?"
Aajonus: "Cooked foods now may add to it and use up the nutrients in the raw foods being used to combat the poisons in the cooked food."
Follow-up: "i.e. does the raw diet make one more susceptible to these symptoms?"
Aajonus: "Less. The raw diet simply allows the body to detoxify and heal properly, in stages."
Follow-up: "Also, I have now a lot of broken blood capillaries on the face that are on the surface or just below."
Aajonus: "Alcohol and carbs, recent and stored, are the greatest assaulters of capillaries."
#### Q&A: Metals Around the Heart, Arteries Going to the Heart
Question (workshop, in-person consultation): Patient has "lots of metals around the heart, in the heart and the vessels going to the heart." Question whether they've had chelation therapy. They report getting rapid heart beating occasionally and taking nutrition pills.
Aajonus: "If you start having heart palpitations, sit down and relax and enjoy it. You've got to get rid of those metals. They're in the arteries going right into the heart and it's very extreme. Lots of lymphatic congestion so you have a lot of hardening tissue. You have symptoms of going into MS which is hardening of the nerves and that will cause loss of muscular tissue reaction."
#### Q&A: Varicose Veins in Hands and Arms
Attendee: "What about varicose veins in the hands and arms? Mine seems to be better now, but they sometimes pop up."
Aajonus: "Well, that just shows increased circulation."
Attendee: "When they pop up?"
Aajonus: "Yes."
#### Q&A: Deep Massage and Arteriosclerosis
[Workshop context, Aajonus addressing massage therapists or those seeking massage]:
Aajonus: "The right massage for somebody who has a lymphatic problem is a tickle massage, very light. See how that stimulates everything? That's what you need, just that stimulation. And let me tell you, tickling just sends vibrations all through the body, and that's what your body needs, electrical stimulation to stimulate that lymphatic system, not crunching and grinding and breaking of the lymphatic system. Same thing happens if you have arteriosclerosis. You go in there with a deep massage and you start breaking those veins and arteries, you're gonna have blood in the connective tissue. You're gonna have bruising all internally, whether you see it or not, it's going to be there."
#### Q&A: Can High Cholesterol Cause Arteriosclerosis?
[Workshop context]:
Aajonus: "They can get you. The doctors say, see I'm the authority on health, which they aren't, and you need to take this medication because you've got this range of cholesterol. Well what does that range of cholesterol mean? It means that you could develop heart disease, arteriosclerosis. You could get diabetes. You could have all kinds of problems. Yeah, show me where. Show me where it says that. It doesn't."
He then cites the 48,000-person study showing high cholesterol correlated with almost no heart attacks, and low blood pressure/average cholesterol correlated with all the heart attacks.
#### Q&A: 2% of People on High Fat Gain Who Have Arteriosclerosis
[Workshop]:
Aajonus is asked about gaining weight on raw fats when the person already has arteriosclerosis.
Aajonus: "When you have oxidized fats from cooking, and you have all the lipid peroxides floating in the blood, it takes a lot more oxygen to deal with that toxicity. If you're eating raw fats to put on the weight, it usually doesn't cause that problem. I've only seen it in about 2% of the population. And they were people that already had arteriosclerosis, or already had heart disease."
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How this condition connects to the rest of the platform
The Root Cause, Terrain Theory, and Raw Food.