Asphyxiation, in Aajonus's framework, is the cessation or severe impairment of breathing and oxygenation at the cellular level, which in turn arrests cardiac and pulmonary function simultaneously, triggering a cascade of emergency hormonal responses designed by the body to restart itself. It is not simply "not breathing", it is the full systemic shutdown of the twin engines of life: the heart and the lungs.

Aajonus frames asphyxiation as the body's most extreme survival threshold, the line past which death occurs within a measurable and precise window. He is very specific on timing: if the heart does not beat for six minutes, the brain is dead, period. If the lungs collapse and remain locked for six minutes, they begin fusing together and cannot be revived. Four to six minutes is the outer boundary of survivability from complete asphyxiation.

He describes the subjective experience of moving toward asphyxiation, and past it into near-death, from direct personal experience. Having died on the operating table twice (revived both times), having died for three hours and seventeen minutes on recreational drugs (kept alive because his body landed on a heater), and having experienced the full-body paralysis of anesthesia, Aajonus treats asphyxiation not as a medical abstraction but as a physiological event he knows from the inside.

In his words: "If they stop, your body stops. Either one of them stops. Your body stops functioning and you die. Heart doesn't beat for six minutes. You aren't dead. Your brain is dead. Period. Your lungs, they collapse for six minutes. That's it. They're frozen. They're locked. They start fusing together."

Asphyxiation also has a gentler, non-fatal form: the "wind knocked out" event, where a sharp blow to the diaphragm causes temporary cessation of both lung function and heartbeat, producing a brief loss of consciousness that is self-resolving through emergency thyroxin release.

He also addresses a biochemical form of asphyxiation: when ammonia reaches dangerously high levels in the blood, red blood cells lose their capacity to absorb and carry oxygen. This is physiologically identical in consequence to asphyxiation from an external source, the brain is deprived of oxygen via an internal mechanism, and can result in brain death if not carefully managed.

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Aajonus describes this most extensively through his brother's repeated striking of his diaphragm. A sharp blow to the stomach, specifically into the diaphragm, causes the lungs to stop functioning and the heart to stop simultaneously. The person passes out because breathing has ceased. This is a mechanical interruption of the diaphragmatic pumping mechanism.

The root cause in this instance is physical trauma to the diaphragm. However, rather than viewing this as mere injury, Aajonus examines it as a trigger event for the body's emergency hormonal cascade: thyroxin from the thyroid gland surges to emergency levels. This surge is what restarts the heart and lungs after 30 seconds, 45 seconds, or up to 2 minutes of complete cessation.

He proved this biochemically by going to a football game and taking blood samples from players immediately after they were hit hard enough to get the wind knocked out of them. He found thyroxin levels "sky high" in those individuals, far above normal. This was not random; it was a reproducible, measurable emergency response.

Aajonus died on the operating table twice. He attributes both events directly to the introduction of anesthetic chemicals and/or antibiotics into the body via IV, as well as the chemical trauma of surgical intervention itself. In his words: "I died from anaphylaxis shock from the anesthetic or antibiotics, whatever they were putting in the IV, or whatever they were doing surgically to me, like when they took my appendix out. And I had, you know, 106 fever and all of that, died on the operating table."

The root cause here is anaphylaxis, a severe allergic reaction to injected foreign chemical substances. When a large quantity of disease (or toxic chemical) is injected into the body, the immune system perceives it as an existential threat. The body concludes it is going to die, and goes into anaphylactic shock, which can and does kill. Aajonus applies this same logic to vaccines: injecting the combination of formaldehyde, liquid mercury, aluminum, ether, and detergent overwhelms the body's chemical discernment and triggers anaphylaxis as a survival response, which then becomes lethal.

Aajonus died for three hours and seventeen minutes (in one account), or four hours and seventeen minutes (in another account), after ingesting recreational drugs that lowered his blood pressure so severely that he died. He was revived because his body had fallen across a heater, keeping his blood warm enough that it did not freeze or fully congeal, and the warmth maintained enough cellular activity that revival remained possible. Had he been in cold conditions, he acknowledges, the blood would have cooled and stopped entirely, making revival impossible.

The root cause here is extreme blood pressure collapse induced by chemical toxins (recreational drugs), which is a form of circulatory asphyxiation, the blood is no longer circulating with sufficient force to deliver oxygen to tissues, particularly the brain.

This is a distinct and highly specific mechanism Aajonus describes from his own self-treatment with stingray flesh after being injected three times with the swine flu vaccine while unconscious in a hospital.

Ammonia, when present in blood at very high concentrations, prevents red blood cells from absorbing oxygen. The red blood cells cannot perform their oxygen-transport function. The result is that tissues and organs, most critically the brain, are deprived of oxygen even though breathing is occurring normally. This is biochemical asphyxiation: the body is breathing air, but oxygen cannot be delivered.

Aajonus explains this mechanism in detail: "Ammonia can stop your red blood cells from absorbing oxygen. So you have to know what you're doing. You have to regulate it." And: "Too much ammonia can kill you. Because if you have too much and it gets into the blood, your red blood cells can't absorb and take oxygen and carry it to the rest of the body. So you'll die. Brain death. No oxygen to the brain. That's the first place you die. And you can't recover from six minutes of brain death."

He used this mechanism deliberately and carefully to bind heavy metals (specifically thallium from the swine flu vaccine) so they could not be absorbed into tissues. But he had to regulate the ammonia dose very precisely, because too much would itself cause death via cellular oxygen deprivation, a self-induced asphyxiation.

He describes his state at the time: "I was passing out every few minutes. Every 20 minutes, I was passing out, and if I walked, if I didn't move like a turtle, if I got up fast, I would black out and hit that floor immediately or ground, wherever I was." He was operating in a borderline asphyxiation state, intentionally, as a treatment, which required extreme precision.

Aajonus describes advanced emphysema as a slow-motion form of asphyxiation. The lungs fill with fluid, become so damaged that they cannot adequately exchange oxygen, and the person becomes unable to breathe without mechanical assistance. In the emphysema cases he describes, including the 70/72-year-old woman who had been bedridden for two years and on machines, the person is in a state of chronic, progressive asphyxiation where the lungs can no longer function independently.

The root cause of emphysema-induced asphyxiation is: prolonged inhalation of airborne toxins (tobacco smoke including secondary smoke, smog, synthetic fiber lint from bedding/clothing/carpets/rugs, coal dust) that the lungs cannot detoxify and discharge. The lungs become loaded with garbage. The tissue is destroyed. Oxygen exchange becomes impossible without mechanical support.

He also describes a case involving a man whose esophagus had become so narrowed and choked off that he "can't breathe", a structural asphyxiation from esophageal constriction. The conventional medical response had been to surgically remove the entire esophagus, section off part of the stomach, and place the stomach up into the shoulder area.

In a Q&A response, Aajonus recounts being put under anesthesia "not once but twice" and experiencing "full body paralysis", unable to move a muscle or breathe, unable to speak, unable to communicate his state. He describes this as "the most terrifying and relieving experience I have ever had." He then felt the tube being shoved down his throat as they began breathing for him.

He also awoke during a broken-nose reconstruction surgery when the surgeon was chiseling the overgrowth of bone between his eyes. The pain shot into his brain and he fell unconscious again after about one minute of "excruciating pain." This demonstrates that the chemical and mechanical asphyxiation of surgery can fail, consciousness can be maintained or return, and that the body's responses during these states are not always predictable.

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Asphyxiation sits across multiple principles in Aajonus's causal framework:

Root Cause / Terrain Theory: The biochemical forms of asphyxiation (ammonia toxicity, emphysema, vaccine-induced anaphylaxis) are rooted in toxic accumulation, the terrain being so poisoned that normal cellular oxygen utilization is disrupted or blocked entirely. The body's inability to oxygenate tissues is a downstream consequence of toxic burden on red blood cells and lung tissue.

Detoxification: The ammonia mechanism Aajonus used to treat vaccine poisoning is a detoxification strategy, using a controlled near-asphyxiating dose of ammonia to bind heavy metals (thallium) and prevent them from being absorbed into tissues. This is framed as the body's own detoxification system, harnessed intentionally.

Cooked Food / Sovereignty: The emphysema cases are explicitly linked to the failure of conventional medicine to allow alternatives, the 10-year law requiring medical treatment to fail for a decade before an MD can suggest alternatives, and the patient being on machines until death rather than being allowed to try raw food protocols.

How to Live: The mechanical asphyxiation (wind knocked out, diaphragm blow) and the thyroxin emergency response fall into the "how the body works and how to understand it" category, understanding that the thyroid is the emergency restart gland for the heart-lung system.

Microbes / Anaphylaxis / Vaccines: The anaphylactic asphyxiation (operating table deaths, vaccine-induced near-death) belongs to the section on how injected toxins, including vaccines containing formaldehyde, mercury, aluminum, ether, and detergent, cause the body to conclude it is dying and enter the anaphylactic shock state that can kill.

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Aajonus does not frame brief loss of consciousness from wind being knocked out as a medical emergency. He frames it as the body's designed emergency response playing out. The person passes out because the lungs stopped and the heart stopped. This is not malfunction, this is the body shutting down non-essential conscious processing to concentrate all remaining resources on restarting the two critical systems. Consciousness returns when the thyroxin surge works and the heart and lungs restart.

He describes the experience: "Gets the wind knocked out of him, passes out because his lungs stopped, his heart stops. All of a sudden, why does he come conscious? 30 seconds, 45 seconds, 2 minutes later. Why all of a sudden does his heart start beating again? Because the thyroxin level started again. Again, for emergency purposes."

Aajonus consistently reframes the euphoric feeling of near-death asphyxiation as the sensation of the consciousness leaving the body, not as a symptom of disease, but as the natural phenomenology of dying. He experienced this multiple times and could recognize it: "The only times I had felt good in my life were in near-death experiences."

When he ate three and a half pounds of jackrabbit and felt euphoric and pain-free for the first time, he interpreted this correctly (in his own framework) as dying, because the only time he had ever felt that way was when he was in a near-death state, leaving the body. He states: "Once you leave the body, there's no pain. It's hovered over the body. Went off into the tunnel, you know, the white light."

This reframing is critical: the absence of pain and the presence of euphoria in a severely ill person is not a sign of recovery in Aajonus's framework, it can be a sign of imminent death, because it signals the dissociation of consciousness from the pain of the body.

Aajonus describes his own recurring blackouts during the stingray/ammonia treatment: "I was passing out every few minutes... if I got up fast, I would black out and hit that floor immediately." He also describes: "I'd be out completely, turning black. Everything was going black on my way down."

He reframes this not as a disease symptom requiring intervention, but as a sign that ammonia levels in the blood were reaching the threshold of blocking oxygen transport to the brain. The symptom of "going black" or "turning black" is, in his framework, the brain's first indication that it is not receiving sufficient oxygen, the immediate precursor to brain death if not corrected. It is the body's warning signal that the regulatory threshold of the treatment has been crossed.

In the case of the comatose patient (described in the Q&A section about Jeff, and related emphysema cases), Aajonus interprets shallow and weak breathing not as terminal decline but as a body marshaling its resources. He physically assessed one comatose patient and found: "The heart was strong as were his lungs, even though his breathing was shallow and weak, and he moaned painfully with every breath." He determined the man was not actually dying, contrary to the doctors' assessment, because the heart and lungs were fundamentally strong. The shallow breathing was a consequence of cold (a fan was blowing on him) and medical chemicals that had lowered blood pressure and body temperature.

Aajonus describes the terror of these conditions: "You can't breathe. Man and I, you know, surgery." He frames the desperate seeking of medical intervention in these states as understandable but potentially unnecessary, at least in the emphysema case, where getting the person off machines and home, providing honey and butter under the tongue, and feeding eggs was sufficient for recovery in multiple cases he witnessed.

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The most detailed food protocol Aajonus gives for asphyxiation-related conditions is for the emphysema patient expected to die over a weekend. He gave two slightly varying accounts of the prescription:

Version 1 (from benefits_of_eggs_and_cheese source): , "Get her 16 dozen eggs, free range, do not refrigerate them, you put them by her bed, and you tell her to eat them."

Version 2 (from All Primal Workshop Transcripts): , "The only thing I can suggest, you get 10 [dozen eggs]", stated in one passage, then described as getting her eggs by her bed and telling her to eat them as much as she could.

The eggs were to be free-range and NOT refrigerated, kept at room temperature beside the bed. The patient was instructed to eat them freely, as many as she wanted, whenever she could.

The rationale: eggs provide the raw protein and fat necessary for cellular repair and lung tissue regeneration. In a state of near-total asphyxiative respiratory failure, the body must have the most easily digestible, maximally nutrient-dense raw food available. Eggs, raw, free-range, unrefrigerated, are the most accessible and least digestively demanding form of complete nutrition.

Aajonus notes that the body at near-death needs to "reserve all of its energy to utilize those nutrients", meaning the food must require minimal digestive energy to process.

Additionally, he mentions: "You get her out of the hospital... you give her honey and butter under the tongue, hope she comes out of the coma." This applies to patients who are unconscious or semi-conscious and cannot eat. Honey and butter placed under the tongue can be absorbed sublingually, providing immediate energy without requiring digestion or even consciousness.

Raw fat is paramount in the emphysema protocol. The lungs are being asked to repair destroyed sac tissue while simultaneously attempting to resume oxygen exchange. Raw fat provides the building material for that repair and the fuel for the immune system's detoxification work.

Raw meat is mentioned in the written text (We Want To Live): "If a person stops smoking, stays away from airborne toxins, including synthetic fibers, and eats a raw diet with plenty of raw fat and raw meat, he or she may have a good chance of living with emphysema."

Aajonus's self-treatment after being injected with three doses of swine flu vaccine (containing heavy metals) involved consuming stingray flesh in a precisely calibrated protocol:

The food: Dead stingray (or shark), aged until very high in ammonia. Stingray and shark, once killed, produce three times more ammonia per hour than any other meat. The specific stingray Aajonus used had been dead for two days (he kept it an additional day, making it three days old by the time he consumed it). He describes the ammonia as "out of sight" and so potent that "when I chewed it, my tongue almost bled."

Preparation: Because the flesh was so caustic and he was blacking out every 20 minutes, he could not safely chew it. He obtained a board from a lumber store and a cleaver, and chopped the stingray for approximately one hour until it was small enough to swallow without chewing.

Dose: Three to four ounces at a time, every four to five hours.

Expected result: Most of it was vomited. However, "enough of the ammonia got into my blood" to do the work of binding heavy metals.

The mechanism: Ammonia binds with heavy metals (specifically thallium in this case, but also mercury, lead, and aluminum) and keeps them from being absorbed into tissues, including red blood cells. This prevents the metals from blocking oxygen transport. The ammonia essentially locks the metals in a form the body can then discharge.

The critical balance: The ammonia dose must be precisely calibrated. Too much causes the red blood cells to lose oxygen-carrying capacity, producing the very asphyxiation it is meant to prevent. Too little does not bind enough heavy metals. Aajonus was operating in a state of continuous near-blackout, which was his indicator that he was at the upper threshold of a safe dose.

The warning for others: "When it gets to the point where you start getting lightheaded and dizzy, you've had enough. Don't have any more." This is his dosing instruction for anyone using high-ammonia fish: lightheadedness and dizziness are the body's signal that ammonia is reaching the red blood cell threshold, stop immediately.

Aajonus explains that the spleen holds one to two pints of reserve red blood cells (pint to two pints depending on size of person/animal). When blood loss occurs, from injury, surgery, or extreme detoxification, the spleen dumps this reserve into the bloodstream within approximately one hour, preventing anemia-related oxygen deficiency that would otherwise make a person unable to function.

In this context, the dietary support for preventing the oxygen-depletion that accompanies severe anemia is: foods that support rapid red blood cell maturation and replenishment. Raw meat and raw blood-containing foods (such as raw red meat, raw fish) support this. An immature red blood cell, he notes, "does not transport much oxygen. If it's in the bloodstream, it is a leech, it eats what's in the bloodstream but does not provide the transport of oxygen."

The recovery window from a blood-loss-induced oxygen deficiency (not full asphyxiation, but functional near-asphyxiation): 40 to 65 days for bone marrow to produce, mature, and release new red blood cells. The spleen's emergency reserve buys approximately one hour of restored function immediately following injury.

Aajonus does not give a specific post-surgical food protocol in these passages, but his general framework implies: raw foods that are easily digestible, maximum raw fat to absorb and neutralize the injected chemicals (formaldehyde, mercury, aluminum, ether), and raw meat to support tissue repair.

For unconscious patients, he specifies: honey and butter under the tongue, sublingual delivery bypassing the need for swallowing or digestion.

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30 seconds to 2 minutes, this is the window Aajonus gives for spontaneous recovery from complete cessation of heart and lung function after the diaphragm is struck. The thyroxin surge drives recovery. No intervention needed; the body is designed to resolve this automatically.

The 70/72-year-old woman Aajonus describes had been: - Diagnosed with emphysema for 7 years - Bedridden for approximately 2 years - On oxygen machines and respiratory machines full-time - Expected to die within days of the MD calling Aajonus

With the raw egg protocol (16 dozen eggs, free-range, unrefrigerated, placed beside her bed with instructions to eat freely), the MD called back to report that the woman did not die that weekend and was showing improvement.

Aajonus states he has seen "at least five situations like this where the people got home and got well."

He frames the emphysema recovery as requiring: removal from hospital and airborne toxin environments, cessation of pharmaceutical intervention, raw diet with "plenty of raw fat and raw meat," and the understanding that while the damage to the lung sacs cannot be fully reversed in the conventional sense, the body can be supported well enough to function and live.

Immediate (within 1 hour): Spleen dumps reserve red blood cells, restoring blood volume and oxygen transport capacity. Anemia is resolved in principle, though the person remains somewhat weaker.

40 to 65 days: Bone marrow produces and matures new red blood cells to replace those expended from the spleen reserve. This is the full recovery window for red blood cell replenishment in a healthy person. In an ill person (today's conditions), recovery takes "6 to 10 hours" for the spleen to complete its dump and restore function.

3 hours and 17 minutes (one account) / 4 hours and 17 minutes (another account): This is how long Aajonus was technically dead from blood pressure collapse after recreational drug ingestion. Revived because the body was kept warm by the heater he happened to fall across. The blood did not freeze. This is presented as the mechanism of successful revival: warmth preservation.

After revival, he describes the body as "very sickly. Even after that, it was more sickly than it already was." Recovery was not immediate; the event left a lasting deterioration of his baseline health at the time.

Aajonus was injecting himself with stingray ammonia every 4-5 hours, in 3-4 ounce doses, vomiting most of it but absorbing enough. He was blacking out every 20 minutes. He was at the edge of irreversible brain death continuously throughout this treatment. The ammonia had to bind the thallium and other metals quickly enough to prevent their absorption into tissues, while not reaching concentrations high enough to itself block oxygen transport.

The exact duration of this treatment protocol is not specified in the available passages, but it was clearly an extended self-treatment over multiple days, given the description of progressive stages and the degree of physical debility described.

In the Q&A about a 14-year-old cousin in a coma from meningitis, Aajonus states: "There is no late hour until he is dead." He refuses the premise that brain damage is irreversible within the timeframe before full biological death.

In the Jeff case (coma from brain damage), Aajonus challenged the doctors' assessment at multiple stages, first that Jeff would definitely die, then that his brain damage was permanent and he would be a vegetable, then that he would have no conscious control. Jeff's progress was ongoing. Aajonus frames brain recovery from asphyxiation-related coma as possible and real, contingent on continued nutritional support, raw food, and removal of pharmaceutical chemical interference.

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