Bedwetting
Bedwetting

Aajonus did not provide a direct definition of bedwetting as a condition. However, within his framework, any involuntary nocturnal discharge, including loss of bladder control during sleep, would be understood not as a disease or dysfunction in and of itself, but as a **symptomatic expression of the nervous system's detoxification activity during sleep**, which is when the body and brain conduct the majority of their cleansing work.

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Aajonus's Definition

Aajonus's Definition

Aajonus did not provide a direct definition of bedwetting as a condition. However, within his framework, any involuntary nocturnal discharge, including loss of bladder control during sleep, would be understood not as a disease or dysfunction in and of itself, but as a symptomatic expression of the nervous system's detoxification activity during sleep, which is when the body and brain conduct the majority of their cleansing work.

From the Primal Diet Newsletter (18th Edition), Aajonus stated directly:

"Often, many of food additives cause disturbances during sleep. Most often, heavy free-radical, cauterized metallic minerals are part of food additives, pesticides, herbicides and chemical fertilizers found in foods. Because our brains and nervous systems utilize much metallic minerals from food and pollution to conduct electricity and reflect light, they store in the brain and nervous system causing disorders along with a myriad of neck and head diseases including tonsillitis and dental decay. Most often, our brains and nervous systems detoxify during the night when we sleep. As children's bodies detoxify those chemicals and free-radicals, too frequently they cause bad dreams, night twitches and spasms."

Aajonus Vonderplanitz

Within his framework, the nocturnal nervous system detoxification cycle, which he explicitly states affects children particularly, produces a range of involuntary physical expressions during sleep, of which spasms, twitches, bad dreams, and loss of nervous system control over bodily functions would all fall under the same causal mechanism: the detoxification of heavy metallic minerals and chemical food additives from the brain and nervous system during the sleep state.

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Root Cause

Root Cause

Based on the directly relevant source material, Aajonus identified the following root causes for nighttime neurological disturbances in children (the framework under which bedwetting would be classified):

Primary Cause: Accumulation of Cauterized Metallic Minerals and Chemical Food Additives in the Brain and Nervous System

From the Primal Diet Newsletter (18th Edition):

"Most often, heavy free-radical, cauterized metallic minerals are part of food additives, pesticides, herbicides and chemical fertilizers found in foods. Because our brains and nervous systems utilize much metallic minerals from food and pollution to conduct electricity and reflect light, they store in the brain and nervous system causing disorders along with a myriad of neck and head diseases including tonsillitis and dental decay."

Aajonus Vonderplanitz

These metallic minerals, in their cauterized (damaged, free-radical) form, are not usable by the nervous system in the way that naturally occurring metallic minerals are. Instead they accumulate and create dysfunction. The brain and nervous system attempt to discharge them during the sleep cycle, which is the primary detoxification window.

Secondary Cause: Nighttime Detoxification Activity of the Brain and Nervous System

"Most often, our brains and nervous systems detoxify during the night when we sleep. As children's bodies detoxify those chemicals and free-radicals, too frequently they cause bad dreams, night twitches and spasms."

Aajonus Vonderplanitz

The brain and nervous system are most active in detoxification during sleep. When the load of toxic metallic minerals and chemical compounds is high, particularly in children whose systems are less buffered and whose bodies are still developing, this detoxification process creates neurological disturbances: spasms, twitches, bad dreams. Within Aajonus's framework, loss of bladder control during sleep (bedwetting) would be categorized as a spasm or loss of nervous system coordination of smooth muscle function, triggered by the same detoxification cascade.

Tertiary Cause: Synthetic Fabrics and Environmental Toxins Breathed During Sleep

Aajonus was insistent that what children breathe during sleep contributes significantly to their toxic load. He specifically identified antibacterial blankets and synthetic fiber bedding as sources of toxic lint that children inhale directly:

"Antibacterial blankets for your children. What are antibacterial blankets made of? Plastic fibers. Do you want your baby breathing plastic fibers as they lint? What's it going to do to the baby?"

Aajonus Vonderplanitz

And from the Primal Diet Newsletter:

"The chemicals added to fabric, and the fabrics themselves, are toxic and dangerous. Lint from those synthetic antibacterial fibers (that are usually forms of plastic) will enter children's mouths, nasal passages and lungs. The toxic lint will dissolve then contaminate our children with chemicals that cause serious diseases. As those fabrics age, they produce more lint."

Aajonus Vonderplanitz

Children spend the majority of their sleeping hours in close proximity to bedding, mattresses, and blankets. If those materials are synthetic, polyester, rayon, any petrochemical-derived fiber, the child is breathing toxic lint continuously throughout the night. This adds directly to the toxic mineral and chemical load that the nervous system must then attempt to detoxify, creating or worsening the very spasms, twitches, and bad dreams (and by extension, loss of neurological control during sleep) that Aajonus attributed to this mechanism.

Quaternary Cause: Protein Deficit During the Night

Aajonus repeatedly and explicitly stated that failing to eat during the night, going more than five hours without food, causes the protein level in the blood to drop to a dangerous threshold. He described the consequence:

"If you don't the protein in your blood drops to nothing. Red blood cells become cannibalistic and eat each other. It's like chicken..."

Aajonus Vonderplanitz

And more fully from another transcript passage:

"...the protein is missing so the red blood cells become cannibalistic and start eating each other and that causes high massive toxicity. A lot of people wake up after 8 to 10 hours and they go for coffee or some kind of caffeine or soda pop to jack them up because their bodies got into ketosis from eating itself."

Aajonus Vonderplanitz

In the context of children, this protein deficit during sleep would exacerbate the toxic and neurological environment, potentially contributing to loss of bladder control by further destabilizing the nervous system's regulatory capacity.

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Symptoms Reframed

Symptoms Reframed

Aajonus did not specifically reframe bedwetting as a symptom. However, based on his direct statements about the category of symptoms to which it belongs, the following reframing applies within his framework:

Conventional View: Bedwetting is a developmental delay, a sign of immature bladder control, a psychological issue, or a neurological deficit requiring medical intervention.

Aajonus's Reframe: Within his framework, the nighttime spasms, twitches, and loss of neurological control that occur in children during sleep are signs that the body is actively detoxifying heavy metallic minerals and chemical compounds from the brain and nervous system. The symptoms are not a dysfunction, they are evidence that the body is doing its cleansing work, which it does most intensively during sleep. The problem is not the detoxification process itself; the problem is the accumulation of the toxins that necessitate that level of detoxification activity.

He stated clearly:

"As children's bodies detoxify those chemicals and free-radicals, too frequently they cause bad dreams, night twitches and spasms."

Aajonus Vonderplanitz

The word "too frequently" is important, he is not saying all nighttime detoxification is problematic. He is saying that when the toxic load is so high that detoxification is continuously intense during sleep, it disrupts the child's sleep and produces involuntary physical events. The remedy, in his framework, is to reduce the toxic load, through diet, through environmental changes, and through supporting the body's detoxification capacity, not to suppress the symptoms.

Additionally, from his teaching on sleep and milk:

"Eating all this fat, can you imagine skin drying? All of this fat. Yeah, it was happening on at least 50% of my patients."

Aajonus Vonderplanitz

The body during sleep is doing enormous work, detoxifying, rebuilding, healing. Children's bodies, particularly when fed processed foods containing chemical additives, are under significant neurological stress during this process.

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Food Protocol

Food Protocol

Aajonus did not specify a food protocol for bedwetting directly. However, his general protocol for supporting nighttime neurological function, reducing the toxic load on the brain and nervous system, and ensuring stable blood chemistry through the night is detailed extensively in the source material and constitutes the relevant protocol within his framework.

Warm Raw Milk Before Bed

From multiple workshop transcripts, Aajonus was explicit:

"Before you go to bed make sure you want to relax and have some milk before you go to sleep. Warm milk and some honey a little extra cream with it."

Aajonus Vonderplanitz

And again:

"So, before you go to bed, make sure you want to relax and have some milk before you go to sleep. Warm milk and some honey, a little extra cream with it."

Aajonus Vonderplanitz

The effect of warm milk on the nervous system was described by Aajonus in terms of its relaxant properties:

"If you're a person who's hyperactive and irritable all the time warm milk will relax you all the time. It's a good thing."

Aajonus Vonderplanitz

For a child prone to nighttime neurological disturbances, which in his framework is the mechanism producing bedwetting, warm raw milk with honey and cream before sleep would be the foundational intervention. This is not speculative; Aajonus stated it explicitly for hyperactivity and irritability, which share the same root cause (nervous system toxicity and instability) as the nighttime spasms and twitches he attributed to the same mechanism.

Specific Pre-Bedtime Protocol from We Want to Live

Aajonus described a specific pre-bedtime food protocol, documented in We Want to Live:

"A mixture of 1 cup warm raw milk and 1-3 tablespoons unheated honey immediately before bedtime relaxed them for the night. For those who did not have fresh raw dairy, a smoothie made with 2-3 raw eggs, ½ to 1 whole unripe raw unripe banana and as much unheated honey as desired usually took them through the night. If bananas were not appealing, another fresh unripe raw fruit mixed with 3-4 tablespoons unheated honey worked."

Aajonus Vonderplanitz

He was also specific about what NOT to include in this pre-bedtime formula:

"(Do not make a smoothie with berries or apple. Berries mixed with raw egg often causes drugs and toxic minerals to detoxify from glands, and apple excites adrenals. Either combination may interfere with sleep.)"

Aajonus Vonderplanitz

This is a critical detail. Berries with raw eggs trigger detoxification from glands, which would intensify the very nighttime detoxification activity that Aajonus identified as producing sleep disturbances in children. Apple excites the adrenals, further destabilizing the nervous system during sleep.

For Wired, Hyperactive, or Neurologically Disturbed Children

"For people who felt wired, eating raw fish a few hours before bedtime, and then drinking one of the suggestions in the paragraph above near bedtime got them through the night."

Aajonus Vonderplanitz

Raw fish a few hours before bed, followed by warm raw milk with honey (or the egg/banana smoothie with honey), is the protocol for children or individuals who are neurologically hyperactive, which Aajonus explicitly linked to nervous system toxicity from the same metallic mineral accumulation.

Nighttime Feeding, Preventing the Protein Drop

Aajonus was emphatic that eating during the night is essential. For children with nighttime disturbances, this is especially relevant:

"In the middle of the night you have to eat. If you don't the protein in your blood drops to nothing. Red blood cells become cannibalistic and eat each other."

Aajonus Vonderplanitz

The solution he described:

"You set your alarm during the night. You wake up. Have the other half of the milkshake that you had half of before you went to sleep, or a little bit of moisturizing formula."

Aajonus Vonderplanitz

And:

"Make an extra little bit of milkshake before you go to bed or go to bed with some milk or eggs and put it by the bedside so when you wake up after 5 hours you can down that and go right back to sleep."

Aajonus Vonderplanitz

For a child, this would mean having warm raw milk or a small milkshake available at the bedside to consume if they wake during the night, maintaining blood protein stability and preventing the cannibalistic red blood cell cascade that creates massive toxicity and further neurological stress.

The Lubrication/Moisturizing Formula During the Night

Aajonus described distributing the lubrication formula across meals and the nighttime:

"I suggest to break it up into fourths. You have a fourth of it with each meat meal, a fourth before you go to sleep, and a fourth in the middle of the night. You have it with half of a milkshake or half a cup of milk."

Aajonus Vonderplanitz

The formula itself:

"The lubrication formula, depending upon the person, is usually one to two eggs, three to four ounces of butter, one to two tablespoons of lemon juice and one to three teaspoons of honey. If all those are room temperature, when you blend them together, it will be a very creamy, ta[sty formula]..."

Aajonus Vonderplanitz

This formula supports the body's ability to lubricate and protect tissues, including the nervous system, through the night. It tastes like lemon meringue.

Cheese and Honey for Nighttime Mineral Absorption

For specific mineral-related conditions, Aajonus prescribed cheese and honey in the middle of the night:

"If you have osteoporosis, you need two to three tablespoons of cheese, with two teaspoons of honey, and maybe two ounces of milk... you set your alarm to, and go back to sleep."

Aajonus Vonderplanitz

He described a specific case: a woman with 32% osteoporosis (32% of her bones thinned) whom he had take:

"Two tablespoons of cheese with one and a half teaspoons of honey after each meat meal and in the middle of the night... have the cheese and the honey and then two ounces of milk after that."

Aajonus Vonderplanitz

While this was for osteoporosis, the principle, using cheese to bind and draw out toxic minerals, with honey to facilitate the process and feed the bacteria, applies to the broader protocol of managing metallic mineral accumulation in the brain and nervous system.

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What to Avoid

What to Avoid

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    Synthetic Bedding and Antibacterial Blankets

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    Aajonus was explicit and forceful on this point:

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    > "Antibacterial blankets for your children. What are antibacterial blankets made of? Plastic fibers. Do you want your baby breathing plastic fibers as they lint? What's it going to do to the baby?"

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    From the Primal Diet Newsletter:

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    > "The chemicals added to fabric, and the fabrics themselves, are toxic and dangerous. Lint from those synthetic antibacterial fibers (that are usually forms of plastic) will enter children's mouths, nasal passages and lungs. The toxic lint will dissolve then contaminate our children with chemicals that cause serious diseases. As those fabrics age, they produce more lint."

  • vi

    And the specific chemical triclosan, found in many children's products including clothing and blankets, was identified as disrupting endocrines, damaging reproductive organs, and interfering with thyroid and reproductive hormones.

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    He recommended:

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    > "Wear and use only natural materials, cotton, wool, silk and hemp. The same natural fabrics should be used for bedding, furniture and rugs."

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    Plywood and Press Board in Children's Rooms

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    > "The Mothers for Organic Living and Welfare of Children, whatever that organization is, they have outlawed plywood as outgassing for 15 years. So, if your child's room is made with plywood, rip it out. Rebuild it. Get rid of the plywood. That's what they say, because it will damage your children as they grow and live in that room, because it will outgas up to 15 years. Press board is worse."

  • xi

    Children sleeping in rooms built with or furnished with plywood and press board are continuously inhaling outgassed chemicals, adding to the toxic load that the brain and nervous system must detoxify during sleep.

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    Food Additives, Pesticides, Herbicides, Chemical Fertilizers

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    From the newsletter:

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    > "Heavy free-radical, cauterized metallic minerals are part of food additives, pesticides, herbicides and chemical fertilizers found in foods."

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    These are the direct source of the accumulation that drives nighttime neurological detoxification and its associated symptoms. Eliminating all processed, conventionally grown, and additive-containing foods is fundamental to addressing the root cause.

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    Berries Mixed with Raw Eggs Before Bed

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    > "Do not make a smoothie with berries or apple. Berries mixed with raw egg often causes drugs and toxic minerals to detoxify from glands, and apple excites adrenals. Either combination may interfere with sleep."

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    This is especially important for children already experiencing nighttime disturbances, introducing a food combination that triggers additional glandular detoxification or adrenal excitation would intensify the very disturbances that produce the problem.

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    Going More Than Five Hours Without Eating

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    > "In the middle of the night you have to eat. If you don't the protein in your blood drops to nothing. Red blood cells become cannibalistic and eat each other... that causes high massive toxicity."

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    Allowing a child to go through an entire night without eating, when the body is under heavy detoxification stress, creates a secondary toxic cascade from the breakdown of red blood cells that further burdens the nervous system.

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    Electrical Heating Devices

  • xxiii

    When using hot water bottles for nighttime heat therapy, Aajonus specified:

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    > "I did not use electrical heat because electrical heating devices emit enormous harmful electromagnetic fields."

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    This applies to electric blankets, heating pads, and other electric warming devices in or near the child's sleeping area.

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Recovery Timeline

Recovery Timeline

Aajonus did not provide a specific recovery timeline for bedwetting. However, his framework for the resolution of toxic accumulation in the brain and nervous system, which is the underlying mechanism, gives some indication.

His general principle, expressed repeatedly, is that the body heals at the rate that the toxic load can be safely cleared and that sufficient raw nutrients are available to rebuild damaged tissues. He stated in the context of another neurological condition that required intensive detoxification support (hot baths, diet change):

"She came in in April. I saw her on April 2nd. She walked in.", describing a patient who had been in a wheelchair, who came to walk again after consistent nightly hot baths for a year, following his recommendations.

Aajonus Vonderplanitz

He also described the general principle:

"90% of healing happens during very restful states. Most people only achieve those states during sleep. Therefore, most healing occurs during sleep."

Aajonus Vonderplanitz

The implication within his framework is that the healing of the nervous system, including the resolution of nighttime spasms, twitches, and related symptoms, happens during sleep itself, provided the child is sleeping in a clean environment (natural fiber bedding, no synthetic outgassing), eating a raw food diet free of food additives, maintaining protein intake through the night, and consuming warm raw milk with honey before sleep to relax the nervous system.

The timeline would be individual and dependent on the depth of toxic accumulation, the consistency of dietary and environmental changes, and the child's overall constitution.

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Questions Aajonus Answered

Questions Aajonus Answered

  • No direct Q&A exchange between a seminar attendee and Aajonus on the subject of bedwetting appears in the provided source passages.

    The closest directly relevant Q&A content is the broader discussion of nighttime neurological disturbances in children, which appears in newsletter form rather than seminar Q&A format, as documented in Section 2 above.

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Cross-References

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Relevant principles

Terrain Theory, and Raw Food.