Diarrhea, in Aajonus's framework, is not a disease. It is not a pathology. It is not something to be feared, suppressed, or stopped with medicine. It is a deliberate, purposeful, intelligent biological mechanism, one of the body's most powerful and effective means of rapidly expelling highly caustic, concentrated toxins from the system.

Diarrhea is defined specifically as the frequent elimination of watery fecal matter. The wateriness is not incidental, it is intentional. The body floods the intestines with fluid specifically to dilute extremely caustic industrial poisons so that they do not burn, damage, or destroy the mucous membrane walls, the intestinal flora, the digestive juices, and the intestinal walls themselves as they pass through. Without that fluid dilution, those toxins would cause severe structural damage to the intestinal tract during their transit.

Diarrhea occurs when poisons that have been stored in the body, in tissues, organs, the stomach lining, and throughout the system, are dumped into the intestines, having bypassed the stomach. When the stomach is the receiving organ, nausea results. When the intestines are the receiving organ and the load is too toxic to be processed gradually, diarrhea results. The body has to wash those poisons out quickly to prevent them from causing damage to the mucous membrane walls. This is why the body uses fluid, to rush the toxins through and out before they can cause injury.

Diarrhea is the second-best method the body has for rapidly eliminating large quantities of toxins. Vomiting is the first-best method, because in vomiting you do not lose as many nutrients, and vomiting empties primarily poison-laced mucus and digestive juices from the stomach. In diarrhea, you lose more nutrients and more of the bacteria in the intestinal environment, which is a downside, but diarrhea remains a critically important and highly efficient detoxification route.

Diarrhea should be welcomed. It should be celebrated. It should never be stopped with medicine.

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The root cause of diarrhea is always the accumulation of industrial chemicals, heavy metals, pharmaceutical residues, vaccine contaminants, food additives, and other man-made toxins stored in the body's tissues over the course of a lifetime. These toxins are not introduced only by what you ate today or yesterday. They are the cumulative load of a lifetime of exposure: pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers, hormones, genetically modified organisms, chemical flavorings, aspartame, food colorings, squalene, formaldehyde, mercury, aluminum, and the 26 to 63 different toxins (formerly as many as 67 to 68) found in vaccine formulations, many of which are stored in the stomach lining.

Approximately 90% of all toxins are supposed to exit the body through the skin, via the lymphatic system. The lymphatic system is supposed to neutralize, dissolve, and deposit those toxins under the skin for expulsion. However, in the vast majority of people living in modern industrialized society, Aajonus estimates 99%, the lymphatic system is so congested and the skin so impaired that this primary route of elimination is effectively blocked. When the skin and lymphatic system cannot do their job, the body redirects toxins to the stomach and bowels, producing vomiting and diarrhea as the alternative exit routes.

The stomach lining is the most resilient tissue in the human body. When highly concentrated poisons are injected or infused into the body, particularly through vaccines, which may contain mercury, aluminum, formaldehyde, and squalene, the body stores a large proportion of them in the stomach lining. This is a protective mechanism. However, the consequence is that every time food passes through the stomach, a small portion of those stored poisons is dumped into the food. The food then carries those poisons into the intestinal tract, where they contaminate the intestinal environment, the nervous system, and the whole body. When the stored load becomes large enough, or when the body initiates a detoxification cycle, those poisons are dumped in volume into the intestines, and diarrhea results.

One major trigger for diarrhea, especially in people newly beginning the Primal Diet, particularly those introducing raw meat for the first time, is the liver finally receiving enough protein to initiate a deep cleanse. When sufficient raw animal protein becomes available, the liver begins processing and expelling the toxins it has been storing, dumping them into the bowels. These toxins are highly caustic and highly acidic, capable of burning and damaging intestinal walls. To prevent that damage, the body floods the bowels with fluid, producing diarrhea. Lab tests on people experiencing this transition confirmed that the liver was heavily detoxifying during these episodes.

Approximately 12% of all people who begin a raw diet that includes raw meat experience what is conventionally labeled "bacterial food poisoning." Aajonus flatly rejects that label. This is not food poisoning. It is an intense detoxification episode in which the liver is finally able to dump its stored toxin load into the bowels. The highly toxic, highly acidic nature of those liver-stored toxins explains all the symptoms, diarrhea, nausea, cramping, that medicine attributes to pathogens. In city environments with more pollution, the figure may reach up to 12% of participants experiencing this. In cleaner, more rural environments, only 2 to 3% of people starting the diet experience it.

Eating cooked food introduces heterocyclic amines and other toxic byproducts of heat-damaged protein into the system. These can accumulate in organs such as the ovaries and fallopian tubes. When the concentration becomes sufficient, the body rejects the accumulated material instantly, dumping it into the blood, into the stomach, and into the intestines. When dumped into the stomach, nausea and vomiting result. When dumped into the intestines, diarrhea results.

Removal of the gallbladder is a specific structural cause of diarrhea around fatty foods. The gallbladder holds a reserve of bile sufficient to handle approximately 25 pounds of fat. The liver manufactures bile, but cannot produce enough in a 24-hour period to handle large quantities of fat without the gallbladder's reserve. When the gallbladder is removed, eating large quantities of fatty foods, including raw ice cream or other raw fats, will cause diarrhea because the body cannot produce enough bile to digest the fat. Such a person must eat small amounts of fat throughout the day, spread out, rather than consuming large quantities at once.

Bacteria do not cause diarrhea. This is stated emphatically and repeatedly. Bacteria are janitorial organisms. When the body dumps damaged human cells and toxic debris into the intestines during a detoxification episode, janitorial bacteria, including those conventionally labeled "pathogenic," such as E. coli and salmonella, awaken from hibernation, rapidly reproduce, and feed on the damaged cellular material to help the lymphatic system cleanse the body. Because these bacteria are found present at the time of diarrhea and vomit, medicine blames them as the cause. Aajonus compares this to blaming janitors for the waste they are employed to clean up. About 99% of vomit, diarrhea, and intestinal bleeding result from chemicals, not bacteria.

Many episodes of widespread simultaneous diarrhea and vomiting that medicine calls "contagious" food poisoning are in fact seasonal detoxification cycles. Bacteria that cease hibernation in climatically-inspired cycles create these waves of detoxification simultaneously in many people, similar to how bears appear in seasonal patterns. The simultaneous appearance is not contagion; it is synchronized biological response to seasonal triggers.

In one documented case, Aajonus had a patient's vomit chemically analyzed. In a mere 4 ounces of vomit, there was 3,000 times the toxic level of a specific substance. When diarrhea from the same patient was analyzed, it contained a fraction of that, not even a hundredth of the concentration found in vomit, confirming that the stomach is where the body concentrates and stores the most caustic, deadly poisons.

A specific type of diarrhea, yellowish, incredibly foul-smelling, very chemical in nature, resembling butternut squash soup in consistency, is caused by penicillin, aspartame, and chemical flavorings that attach to cauterized metals. The puree consistency in such cases may result from the body using fruit pulp, such as cucumber, to help move those toxins through the bowels safely.

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Diarrhea sits squarely at the intersection of multiple foundational principles in Aajonus's framework:

Detoxification is the primary principle. Diarrhea is a detoxification event, not a disease. It fits entirely within the paradigm that the body is always attempting to cleanse itself of accumulated industrial poisons, and that the method of cleansing should be supported, not suppressed.

Terrain Theory is the underlying foundation. The body's intelligence, its choice to flood the intestines with fluid and rush toxins out, is a terrain response, not a pathogen-caused crisis. The terrain (the body's internal environment) has become so toxic that it must use extraordinary measures to expel the poison load.

Microbes is the principle that most directly contradicts conventional understanding. Diarrhea is not caused by pathogenic bacteria. Bacteria are present during diarrhea because they are doing their janitorial work. The germ theory explanation for diarrhea is categorically rejected.

Cooked Food underlies the root cause. The lifetime accumulation of heterocyclic amines, cauterized proteins, and the industrial chemicals that become more volatile when interacting with processed and cooked foods is what fills the body with the toxins that eventually must be expelled through diarrhea.

Raw Food / How to Eat provides the solution. The Primal Diet creates the conditions under which the body can detoxify efficiently, with cheese as the primary tool to absorb toxins and reduce or eliminate the need for diarrhea as an exit route.

Sovereignty is the philosophical context. Do not fear diarrhea. Do not run to medicine to stop it. Celebrate it. It represents the body doing exactly what it should be doing.

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Medicine presents diarrhea as a symptom of disease, evidence of infection, pathogen invasion, or malfunction. Aajonus completely inverts this interpretation.

Loose, watery stools: This is not malfunction. This is the body intentionally adding fluid to the intestinal contents to dilute highly caustic toxins so they do not damage the mucous membrane walls, the flora, the digestive juices, and the intestinal walls during transit. The wateriness is a protective mechanism, not a sign of disorder.

Frequency of elimination (3–5 or even 10 times per day): This is not pathological. This is the body prioritizing rapid expulsion of a toxic load over normal digestive cycles. The frequency reflects the volume of toxins being cleared, not the severity of disease.

Weight loss during diarrhea: This occurs because nutrients, bacteria, and fluids are being expelled along with the toxins. The solution is not to stop the diarrhea but to keep eating the Primal Diet to stay ahead of the nutrient loss. A person who eats enough on the diet will not become malnourished even during extended diarrhea.

Loss of intestinal bacteria: This is the primary downside of diarrhea versus vomiting. Diarrhea flushes and destroys a significant portion of the intestinal flora. This is why Aajonus says he prefers vomiting to diarrhea as a detoxification route, not because diarrhea is harmful, but because vomiting preserves the intestinal bacteria better. The loss of bacteria through diarrhea can be restored with raw kefir and other fermented raw dairy.

Foul smell: Foul-smelling diarrhea indicates the presence of particularly toxic material, heavy metals, pharmaceutical residues, or chemical flavorings, being expelled. Extremely foul, chemical-smelling yellow diarrhea specifically indicates penicillin, aspartame, and chemical flavorings attached to cauterized metals.

Bloody diarrhea: If intestinal walls are damaged during the detoxification process, bleeding may result. Raw green cabbage juice, 8 ounces, usually stops intestinal bleeding within hours.

Abdominal pain and cramping associated with diarrhea: Gas, pain, and cramping during diarrhea episodes indicate that the toxins being expelled are mixing with digestive bacteria and creating gaseous reactions. This is also associated with insufficient mucus in the intestinal lining to protect the walls from the toxins.

Nausea accompanying diarrhea: Nausea indicates that very caustic poisons are simultaneously dumping into the stomach. The stomach responds by producing hydrochloric acid to neutralize those poisons. Once sufficient hydrochloric acid is produced and neutralization occurs, the nausea typically subsides. The two routes, stomach (nausea/vomiting) and intestines (diarrhea), can operate simultaneously or alternately.

Apparent dehydration / weight loss of 6 pounds in 8 days: On the Primal Diet, true dehydration does not occur as long as the person continues eating the diet. The body receives sufficient fluid from raw foods. However, if someone feels intestinal dehydration, 1 to 2 Sport Formulas daily are recommended.

The diarrhea-nausea cycle: When a person dumps extreme amounts of toxins into the stomach (severe nausea) without being able to vomit them up, the toxins eventually empty from the stomach into the bowels, causing diarrhea and subsequent weight loss. The more cheese eaten, the more the body can dump toxins into the stomach and have them absorbed by the cheese rather than passed through as diarrhea.

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Unsalted raw cheese is the central, irreplaceable intervention for diarrhea. Raw cheese, even if made from skim milk and therefore containing no significant fat, acts as a sponge and a magnet. It attracts poisons out of the blood, the neurological system, and the lymphatic system as those networks pass through the digestive tract, beginning in the mouth and continuing all the way through. It locks onto those toxins and holds them without releasing them back into the system, as long as no fruit or honey is consumed with the cheese (fruit or honey causes the cheese to be digested and the toxins released back into the body).

The mechanism: When you eat cheese throughout the day without honey and without fruit, the cheese passes through the digestive system undigested, acting as a moving sponge that collects and binds toxins from the stomach lining, the intestinal walls, the blood, the lymph, and the neurological system as they pass through. This can produce 2 to 3 times faster detoxification than allowing symptoms of vomiting and diarrhea to occur, because the cheese absorbs and removes the toxins before the body has to flush them out with fluid.

Frequency and quantity: - Eat a sugar-cube-sized amount of raw unsalted cheese every 10 to 20 minutes during acute nausea - Every 15, 30, or 45 minutes, or every hour, depending on the toxicity level, during diarrhea or intestinal upset - Every 20 to 30 minutes, 1/2 teaspoon of no-salt raw cheese, to absorb and eliminate toxins through the stomach and intestines without having to dilute and flush them (diarrhea) - As much as necessary, even all day long, to absorb the toxins so the body does not have to flush them with fluids - Eat some cheese every 20 minutes if the situation is acute

The key rule: Do not eat cheese with fruit or honey during this protocol, because those items cause the cheese to be digested, releasing the absorbed toxins back into the system rather than carrying them out.

What cheese accomplishes: When enough cheese is present in the system, the toxins that would otherwise irritate the intestines and require a fluid flush are absorbed into the cheese matrix. The cheese carries the toxins through and out without the intestinal walls being damaged, without the bacteria being killed, and without the need for explosive watery elimination. This means you can still detox, sometimes more efficiently than with diarrhea, without experiencing the diarrhea itself.

Aajonus's case example: He had one client who had diarrhea 1 to 2 times daily for 2.5 years. That client cleansed himself faster than anyone else up to 3 years prior to when the frequent-cheese-consumption regime was developed. The cheese regime accomplishes the same deep detoxification without producing nearly as much diarrhea. The client with the 2.5-year daily diarrhea would not eat enough cheese because he wanted to stay thin and be a ladies' man, preferring to suffer daily diarrhea rather than carry the extra weight the cheese would have added.

Raw eggs are specifically recommended as part of the combination to absorb radical toxins causing diarrhea and replenish lost nutrients. Eating plenty of raw fats, especially no-salt-added raw cheeses or raw eggs, absorbs radical toxins causing diarrhea, soothes membranes, and replenishes lost nutrients.

Raw unripe banana, not ripe banana, is part of the diarrhea formula. It is combined with raw eggs and raw unheated honey to absorb radical toxins, soothe membranes, and replenish nutrients.

Raw unheated honey is included in the diarrhea absorption formula, combined with raw eggs and raw unripe banana. Note that honey causes cheese to be digested, so honey should not be combined with cheese if using cheese as the toxin-absorbing sponge. The honey-egg-banana formula is a separate intervention.

One to three tablespoons of raw carob powder may be added to the egg-banana-honey combination if it is prepared as a smoothie.

Drinking raw plain kefir helps restore the intestinal flora lost during diarrhea. This is a critical step because diarrhea flushes significant quantities of the intestinal bacteria that are necessary for digestion, protein synthesis, and B-vitamin production.

Eating plenty of raw fats, especially no-salt-added raw cheeses, or raw eggs with raw unripe banana and unheated honey absorbs radical toxins causing diarrhea, soothes membranes, and replenishes lost nutrients. One to three tablespoons of raw carob powder may be added to that combination if it is a smoothie.

A heaping teaspoon of powdered clay (specifically Aztec Secret clay, available from the cosmetic department of health food stores) taken in anything, a smoothie, water, milk, or even with an egg, helps during any episode of diarrhea or loose bowel movements. Clay encourages the bacteria in the intestines.

A man with Crohn's disease who had diarrhea for 11 months did not become dehydrated because he drank tomato blended with a little cream, a little lemon juice, and an egg, a sort of raw Bloody Mary preparation. Tomatoes are very high in sodium (in its natural, uncauterized form, which does not clump in the blood), providing electrolytes and fluid without the dangers of drinking plain water.

If a person feels that they have a degree of intestinal dehydration during an extended diarrhea episode, 1 to 2 Sport Formulas daily is recommended.

If intestinal bleeding occurs during or associated with diarrhea, 8 ounces of fresh, raw, green cabbage juice usually stops the bleeding within hours.

In a case of severe diarrhea with screaming abdominal pain, fever of 102, and cold sores, described as severe viral detoxification, the protocol was: - First 24 hours: Feed only an inch of banana every 30 to 60 minutes - Next 24 hours: 1 inch of banana along with small amounts of other specified foods (Note: the available materials cut off the full continuation of this case, but the principle is that banana in small, frequent quantities was the primary food used to stabilize the intestinal environment during extreme acute viral detoxification with diarrhea)

For cases of diarrhea caused by drinking fresh unpolluted rainwater (which Aajonus considered the only naturally distilled water he would recommend), the balancing protocol includes: raw plain kefir, a little banana, no-salt-added raw cheeses, and a Nut Formula.

When the kidneys are being damaged by the toxins exiting through the intestines (as can happen when toxins that cannot make it to the skin are rerouted through the kidneys, bladder, and intestines), sipping cream often, or milk, or having honey and butter every 20 to 30 minutes ensures fats are constantly present to protect against kidney damage. If even that cannot be tolerated, a bean-sized amount of honey and butter every 10 to 15 minutes to maintain some protective fat presence.

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For the approximately 12% of people who start a raw diet including raw meat and experience what medicine calls "bacterial food poisoning" (which Aajonus frames as intense liver detoxification), the typical duration is 5 to 6 days, but can extend to 2 weeks, depending on how many toxins the intestines are getting rid of. After the episode clears, there are no symptoms whatsoever, not because the person is completely clean, but because the specific toxic accumulation causing the episode has been cleared. In a city environment, this may happen in up to 12% of people beginning the diet. In a cleaner, more rural environment, only 2 to 3% will experience it, and repetition is unlikely.

Aajonus's most striking case at the time of the seminars involved a man who had diarrhea for 7 months continuously. This man had been very ill and had accumulated highly toxic poisons in his liver, gallbladder, spleen, and pancreas. Rather than becoming afraid and stopping the diet, he continued the Primal Diet exactly as prescribed, including the weight-gain cycle. He did not lose weight. He did not experience severe debilitation. His job remained functional. He simply visited the toilet more often. In 7 months, he accomplished what typically takes 4 to 5 years of gradual detoxification, because his body used the diarrhea route as the constant, high-volume discharge mechanism for these extremely toxic poisons. After the 7 months resolved, the toxic load from those organs was cleared at a rate that no slower method could have matched.

A man who had been constipated his entire life went on the diet and had diarrhea every day for two and a half years. He refused to eat sufficient cheese, enough to absorb the poisons being dumped, because he wanted to remain thin. He chose to accept daily diarrhea rather than eat cheese and risk gaining weight. He had the diarrhea for 2.5 years. This case demonstrates both the efficacy of diarrhea as a detoxification mechanism (he cleaned out faster than nearly anyone else, without the cheese regime) and the power of cheese to prevent or reduce diarrhea (had he eaten the cheese, the diarrhea would have been greatly reduced).

A woman also experienced diarrhea for two and a half years on the diet. She eventually stopped the diet. Two years after stopping, she was seen again, she did not have the diarrhea, but she did not look as well on cooked food. She had essentially made a choice: be healthier with daily diarrhea on the raw diet, potentially resolving it, or be less healthy without diarrhea on a cooked food diet. She is the only person Aajonus found who possibly could not resolve the condition while on the raw diet, though he acknowledges this is uncertain, as there may have been other factors.

A man with Crohn's disease had diarrhea for 11 months. In the first 6 weeks, he went 4 to 5 times per day, sometimes 10 times per day. After 6 weeks, frequency reduced to once per day, but the consistency remained liquid (diarrhea). He experienced no dehydration throughout the 11 months because he was consuming tomato blended with cream, lemon juice, and egg for his fluid needs, and continuing the Primal Diet.

A person had diarrhea for 7 of 8 consecutive days, with 3 to 5 liquid bowel movements per day, no change in diet, and no other symptoms. They lost 6 pounds. This level of diarrhea is an obvious, needed detox. Protocol: immediately begin raw unsalted cheese and begin banana-carob smoothies. Concern about dehydration: on the diet, true dehydration does not occur. If intestinal dehydration is felt, add 1 to 2 Sport Formulas daily.

People who have been constipated their whole lives and then start the Primal Diet may experience an initial transition into diarrhea as the body begins releasing accumulated toxicity. This is part of the adjustment process and is not a sign that the diet is wrong.

People on a cooked food diet experience nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea an average of 25 days out of every 100. People on the Primal Diet experience it approximately 12 days out of every 100, with vomiting and diarrhea occurring perhaps 5 to 6 days per year on average. The raw diet produces significantly less diarrhea than a cooked diet, even though, when it does occur, the diarrhea represents more efficient detoxification.

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