Balding, according to Aajonus Vonderplanitz, is the rapid or gradual loss of hair growth that results from the body using the hair follicle system as a channel for discharging accumulated toxic metallic poisons. It is not a disease in the conventional sense. It is not a hormonal deficiency. It is not a thyroid malfunction. It is not a genetic inevitability, though genetics is a concept Aajonus repeatedly challenged as having little bearing on reality, used primarily to prevent people from taking responsibility for what they put in their bodies.

Hair itself, in Aajonus's framework, serves multiple biological purposes: it protects the head from excessive sun radiation, it insulates temperature-sensitive areas (the brain, the genitals, the sperm), and critically, it functions as one of the body's primary channels for excreting toxic metallic minerals. The hair shaft is dead tissue outside the follicle, which means it can safely contain concentrated heavy metals, mercury, lead, aluminum, cadmium, and others, without those metals causing immediate cellular damage. The body exploits this property strategically to route dangerous metals out of living tissue by building them into the hair structure.

Hair loss occurs when that process of routing metals through the follicle damages or destroys the follicle itself. When concentrations of toxic metals are high enough, or when particular metals like AZT-associated compounds and chemotherapy alkaloids pass through, they can permanently or temporarily scar and disable the follicle. When the follicle is damaged, hair cannot regrow from that site. This is the mechanism of balding.

Balding is defined as "the rapid or gradual loss of hair growth, usually occurring from metal-poisoning from canned foods, aluminum cooking utensils, deodorants, shampoos, soaps, and medication." Poor oxygen utilization is cited as sometimes causative as well.

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The central, primary cause of hair loss in Aajonus's framework is the passage of toxic metallic minerals through the scalp and hair follicles, with the metals damaging or destroying the follicular tissue as they are excreted. He describes this process in multiple seminars in consistent detail:

"You have a lot of poison metals in the skull and it goes out the head, you're going to lose hair. That's what causes hair loss. All of those metals leaving through the skull and they damage the follicle."

The specific metals he repeatedly names as causative in hair loss include:

• Mercury, causes graying, damage to follicles, and hair loss; particularly associated with vaccines, amalgam dental fillings, fish (especially frozen fish), and industrial exposure
• Lead, causes hair damage and discoloration
• Aluminum, the most frequently cited cause of graying; destroys the parabenzoic acid (also called PABA, or paraminobenzoic acid) within the follicle, which is the B-vitamin responsible for regulating pigmentation; aluminum also contributes directly to hair loss
• Cadmium, listed among the heavy metals built into hair
• Thallium, mentioned in the context of hair loss mechanisms
• AZT and chemotherapy alkaloids, Aajonus's own balding resulted from AZT chemotherapy he received in 1968, which was a Freon-derived drug given to cancer patients and outlawed the following year; these chemicals caused permanent follicle damage that never fully recovered

He states explicitly: "It's not true that thyroid causes hair loss. It's mercury. Then it's thallium. Then it's lead."

Aajonus identifies specific environmental and dietary sources:

• Canned foods, metal leaches from the cans
• Aluminum cooking utensils, aluminum transfers to food during cooking
• Deodorants, especially aluminum-based antiperspirants
• Shampoos and soaps, absorbed through the scalp and skin into the body and brain
• Medications, particularly chemotherapy drugs, AZT, penicillin injections, vaccines, and forced injections
• Kombucha, Aajonus observed that vegetarians consuming kombucha from 1988–1993 lost their hair; he attributed this to the kombucha's fungal activity dissolving dead nerve endings and capillary tissue before the body had sufficient protein and fat reserves to handle that level of detoxification

Aajonus acknowledges that poor oxygen utilization is sometimes causative of balding, as a secondary mechanism distinct from but related to the primary metal-poisoning pathway.

The mechanism that causes both graying and hair loss often operates simultaneously. The parabenzoic acid (PABA, also written as paraminobenzoic acid or pyramid benzoic acid in his transcripts) glands sit within the follicle. When heavy metals, especially aluminum, pass through the follicle during detoxification:

1. The body uses up PABA to neutralize and manage those metals 2. PABA depletion destroys the pigmentation regulation mechanism 3. Hair turns gray as a result 4. If metal concentrations are high enough, they additionally scar the follicle itself 5. The follicle then can no longer produce hair → balding

Aajonus tested this directly: "Whenever I take a gray area as opposed to a colored area, and had it tested, the mercury was off the charts." And: "Whenever I start going gray, I have my hair checked, high in aluminum. The highest thing will be aluminum. Sometimes mercury also."

Aajonus devotes extensive time in multiple seminars to completely demolishing the thyroid-hair loss connection. His arguments are based on direct experimental observation:

"I've seen plenty of people with plenty of thyroxine in their body go bald."

"When you lose your hair, do you see very low levels of thyroxin? People who are bald have lots of thyroxin."

He describes his proof through the football experiment: He arranged access to a football team for a full year. When players were knocked unconscious, heart stopped, breathing stopped, thyroxine levels in the blood were found to be phenomenally, sky-high elevated when measured. This was the body deploying thyroxine to restart cardiac and pulmonary function. The conclusion: thyroxine's biological function is emergency cardiac and pulmonary resuscitation, not hair growth or weight regulation.

"Thyroid has nothing to do with hair growth. It has nothing to do with energy level. It has nothing to do with how the adrenal glands work."

The thyroid gland has two lobes plus four parathyroid glands (two per side), creating six thyroid-class glands total. Aajonus asks: what is so important to the body that it requires five backup systems? Answer: protecting the heart and lungs from cessation. This backup architecture proves the thyroid's true function. Hair, he argues, would never warrant this level of anatomical redundancy.

The pharmaceutical industry exploits universal human vanity, fear of balding and fear of weight gain, as psychological leverage to sell thyroxine supplementation. "Nobody wants to be fat. Nobody wants to be bald." Since most people are overweight and many experience hair loss, the market is enormous and the fear-based hook works.

In a Q&A from March 2013, a questioner raised Raymond Peat's theory that hair loss is caused by estrogen and prolactin production from polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs), with mercury, thallium, and lead as additional causative agents. Aajonus's response confirmed:

"Would detoxing PUFAs disrupt hormones leading to hair loss? Yes."

He confirmed that bodies store PUFAs and are partially built from them, particularly in individuals who consumed margarine and vegetable oils extensively. His estimate for removing PUFAs:

• With daily 90-minute hot baths and frequent daily cheese consumption: as little as 27 years
• Without those interventions: potentially 60 years on a perfect diet

Aajonus directly rejected genetic determinism as an explanation for balding: "Because then you'll blame your baldness or whatever problem you have, not on what's going in your body and what's in your body. So you'll blame your parents' genes. You can't do anything with genes, right? They don't want you tampering with your diet. And that's where it all comes from, your diet and toxicity."

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Balding and hair loss sit primarily in the Detoxification and Root Cause / Terrain Theory of Aajonus's framework.

Hair loss is not a primary disease, it is a symptom of the body's detoxification process. The body is actively and correctly trying to eliminate accumulated metallic poisons by routing them out through the hair follicles. The problem is collateral damage: if the concentration of toxins is high enough, or if the toxins are particularly corrosive (chemotherapy alkaloids, AZT, Freon-derived compounds, high mercury), the follicles are damaged in the process of being used as excretory channels.

This places it also within the Cooked Food, because cooked and processed food, canned goods, hydrogenated oils, vegetable oils, heated meats, is the primary vector by which these toxic metals and PUFAs enter and accumulate in the body. And within the How to Live / Sovereignty, because the pharmaceutical industry's exploitation of hair-loss fear to sell thyroid medications is a direct example of the medical-industrial complex's manipulation of public health for profit.

The condition also touches on the Raw Food because raw fat, raw animal protein, and specific raw berries are the primary tools Aajonus recommends both internally and topically to address the problem.

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In Aajonus's framework, the fact that hair falls out is not itself the disease process. The body is correctly doing what it must do, routing dangerous heavy metals out through the one tissue type that can safely contain high concentrations of metal without causing immediate cellular destruction (the dead hair shaft). Hair loss is the body sacrificing a non-essential structure (the follicle) to protect essential structures deeper in the body.

"The body's still trying to throw it all off."

The problem is not the detoxification attempt. The problem is the quantity and toxicity of the metals being excreted, which at high concentrations cause collateral follicular damage.

Gray hair is not aging. It is not genetic. It is direct evidence that the body is routing aluminum and/or mercury through the hair follicles. When PABA within the follicle is consumed managing those metals, pigmentation regulation fails and the hair turns gray. This process is reversible when the excretion cycle ends, Aajonus documents his own hair returning from gray to natural color multiple times as detox phases completed.

"After the detox, my hair color comes back. So the body can heal itself as long as you're treating the problem, giving the nutrients to heal itself."

"Sometimes I'll have a patch for the last six months to a year on the back of either side. After that detoxes, my hair color comes back."

When scientists reported that gray hair is caused by hydrogen peroxide buildup in the follicle, Aajonus responded: "They did not tell the cause of too much hydrogen peroxide buildup. It is a result of toxic metallic minerals being discarded by being built into the hair, damaging the follicles and destroying PABA." The hydrogen peroxide is a consequence, not a cause.

Temporary hair loss occurs when follicles are stressed but not destroyed by the detox process, hair eventually returns as the body clears the relevant toxic metals. Permanent hair loss occurs when the follicle itself is scarred beyond repair, as in severe chemotherapy exposure. Aajonus's own bald spot from 1968 AZT treatment remained largely unrecovered for decades. However, he notes gradual improvement even in permanent cases over many years.

Nail ridging occurs simultaneously with gray hair and hair loss as part of the same detox process. Both nails and hair are the body's primary mineral excretion channels. When toxic mineral deposits in the body (Aajonus identified specific deposits in his gonads and brain through iridology) begin to discharge, both gray hair and nail ridges appear together, then resolve together when the detox phase completes.

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Raw Berries with Raw Coconut Cream, Raw Butter, and Raw Cream: "Eating raw berries with raw coconut cream, a little unsalted raw butter and a little raw cream helps bind with the metals so that they do not cause as much damage to follicles."

This is the foundational internal remedy, the fats bind with the toxic metals before they reach the follicle, reducing the concentration of free metal passing through follicular tissue and thus reducing follicular damage.

The Specific Raspberry Formula for Graying (and Hair Loss)

From Q&A (July 2012 and March 2013):

"3/4, 1 cup raspberries with 3–4 tablespoons coconut cream, 1–2 tablespoons dairy cream, 3 tablespoons lime juice, 2 teaspoons lemon juice, and 1 teaspoon raw apple cider vinegar."

Protocol: Consume every day for 3 weeks, then at least 3 days weekly for as long as hair is gray or hair loss is occurring.

Timing: As the fruit meal in the afternoon. Not with meat. Not on empty stomach competing with other functions.

Aajonus explains the mechanism: "Raspberries and eggs or raspberries and cream together will help pull those out." He specifies that raspberries and blackberries, being heavy in minerals, are specifically capable of pulling out mineral deposits and drug deposits from tissue. Citrus does not do this: "Citrus pulls out fat storages, dead cells and stuff like that, but not minerals. Got to have a berry that's heavy in minerals."

Raw Fat as the Primary Metal Binder

Aajonus states: "It takes 50–200 molecules of fat to harness one molecule of mercury. That ratio is almost impossible to achieve with all of the vaccines and other mercury sources in our society."

This underscores why raw fat, raw butter, raw coconut cream, raw dairy cream, raw meat fats, must be consumed abundantly and consistently to keep pace with the body's metal excretion through follicles. Insufficient fat means metals pass through follicles unbound, causing more damage.

Raw Butter and Raw Bone Marrow (Topical and Internal)

This is one of Aajonus's most developed protocols for hair regrowth:

"I started putting in bone marrow, and all of a sudden, other people were, I had five other people experimenting with it, and it's helping everybody get their hair thicker, and some even growing."

Formula: approximately half butter to one-third bone marrow, melted together. Apply topically to scalp two to three times per week. Do not wash hair after application, leave it in.

Aajonus explains the biological rationale: bone marrow contains stem cells with no DNA restriction on cell type, they can differentiate into nerve cells, follicle cells, or any required cell type. Adult stem cells from bone marrow are the key regenerative ingredient. The butter provides the fat substrate to thicken and support existing follicles while the marrow provides the stem cell matrix for regeneration.

He also notes: "Just using butter helps too, it helps thicken the hair."

Raw Parsley Juice with Celery Juice

Drinking parsley juice combined with celery juice helps oxygen absorption, addressing the secondary causative factor (poor oxygen utilization) in hair loss.

Naturally Carbonated Waters

Drinking naturally carbonated waters helps oxygen absorption, again addressing the oxygen utilization pathway.

Two Meat Meals Daily with Lubrication Formula

In one direct consultation with a person experiencing heavy bile in the system and hair loss, Aajonus recommended: two meat meals a day, a lubrication formula for each meat meal, and 2 ounces of cream sipped 4–5 times per day, with at least 4 cherry tomatoes each time with the cream, to help capture toxins throughout the system and relax the nerves.

Cheese (for PUFA Removal)

Aajonus confirmed that cheese eaten frequently and daily, combined with daily 90-minute hot baths, helps remove accumulated PUFAs from the body, which contribute to hormonal disruption and hair loss. The timeline he gives: as little as 27 years with consistent daily cheese and daily hot baths.

This is a specific topical application, the fermented coconut oil must never have been heated above 96°F. The aloe vera must be fresh gel taken directly from inside the leaf. Combined, these protect the scalp and follicular tissue from the damage caused by metals exiting through the follicles.

From Early Training: Aajonus washes his hair with a blended preparation of: one whole raw egg, approximately ten strawberries (or five to six large ones), one tablespoon of honey, and enough raw milk to fill a 10-ounce canning jar. Blend until warm (approximately three minutes). Pour some off into a four-ounce jar for the hair. He then adds a teaspoon of clay to the larger portion for another use. This replaces commercial shampoo entirely.

Wet hair, wash hair and scalp with a whipped raw whole egg, let the egg remain on the scalp, then rinse.

Mentioned in Q&A as part of the mineral-replacement protocol for hair issues, along with tomatoes, raw unsalted cheeses, celery and celery juice, Terramin clay, oysters, and raw fish.

For bald spots exposed to excessive sun: Aajonus recommends applying mud directly to exposed bald areas when spending extended time outdoors in sun. He does this himself for his chemotherapy-induced bald spot.

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Aajonus is notably candid and honest about the limitations of hair regrowth. He states directly: "People have reversed their hair, but it's not something that happens any more than 60% of the time." This is one of only two conditions (alongside Alzheimer's, where mental function often does not improve even as the body physically rejuvenates) that Aajonus identifies as not reliably reversing on the Primal Diet.

For people who have lost hair due to chemotherapy, AZT, or severe pharmaceutical poisoning: "Usually people that have that much bile in the system don't get their hair back." In one direct consultation with a high-bile patient, Aajonus told him: "You're one of those with all that bile... maybe in 12 years when you get rid of the bile, maybe that's a possibility, but I haven't seen anybody do it yet."

For Aajonus himself, his AZT-induced bald spot from 1968 showed only very gradual improvement over decades. However: "In fact, it is recovering a little bit in the last five years. I had more hair gone before. Now I've got a little bit more hair. It's taken all these years to get rid of that much of the AZT."

For individuals who have not had chemotherapy or major pharmaceutical poisoning, recovery is expected to be faster and more complete. In one seminar exchange:

Q: "I have this hair falling problem. Do you think this will slow it down?" A: "Definitely. Well, getting the proteins is what usually stops it. Unless you had chemotherapy or poisoned yourself." Q: "I haven't taken any medication at all." A: "Then you should reverse very quickly. Stabilize. Because usually people who haven't had that..."

Aajonus describes clients who were going bald and got on the diet and now have full heads of hair: "I've had clients who were going bald in the hair stranding. They got on this diet and now they look like Pascal. And I mean they will go around like that too because they are so proud of it. They go around with these bouffants."

After Aajonus's chemotherapy in 1968, his hair grew back in patches and was entirely gray for 21 months. Over the following years, color gradually returned, cycling in and out with detox phases. "It took me about eight years for it to go back to its natural color."

Individual gray patches resolve over months to a year depending on the detox cycle. Aajonus describes a patch on the side of his head that was completely gray four or five years ago, whose color returned within six months. A different patch that was fully gray two years prior to one seminar had reduced to a small portion. Patches on the back of either side periodically last six months to a year. These cycles reflect specific toxic mineral deposits in specific body locations discharging through nearby follicles.

The aloe vera gel and fermented coconut oil topical application "usually stops hair loss and sometimes promotes hair growth within several weeks."

Hair thickening and new growth in spaces where hair had not grown began for Aajonus and five other experimenters relatively quickly after beginning the bone marrow and butter topical application, though no specific timeline for new growth is given beyond "gradual."

For someone who consumed 90% margarine and vegetable oils for the first 20 years of life: with daily 90-minute hot baths and frequent daily cheese, PUFA removal might take as little as 27 years. Without those interventions, up to 60 years on a perfect diet. Hair loss associated with PUFA-driven hormonal disruption would not fully resolve until the PUFAs are cleared.

Aajonus documents his own progression after forced injections in 2009 as a case study in severe toxic exposure causing hair loss. His hair analysis before and after injections showed exponential increases in nearly all toxic elements. His hair loss accelerated tremendously in the 18 months following, particularly in the four to five months immediately prior to the seminar at which he discussed it. New growth had begun appearing in spaces where hair had not grown, as the body actively routed these new toxins out through the hair. He expressed hope that within a year or two he would reverse most of the damage.

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