Fungus, in Aajonus's framework, is not a disease, infection, or pathogen. It is a janitorial organism, a biological cleaning agent that the body recruits deliberately to break down and dissolve damaged, dead, and decaying cells and toxic tissue that have accumulated in the body. Fungus is the third tier in the body's hierarchy of janitors, behind parasites (first choice) and bacteria (second choice), and ahead of viruses (the body's last resort).

Fungus operates through a structure called a mycelium, which Aajonus describes as a milky, fluid-like, serum-like substance, not a discrete organism with a defined shape the way bacteria or parasites are. The mycelium goes down into tissue the way it goes into the earth, and it dissolves and eats dead roots, dead cells, dead connective tissue, and toxin-damaged cellular matter. It is a liquid, fluid organism. It is not a parasite and it is not a bacterium, it dissolves from the inside outward, like a blob, through a liquid medium. When the mycelium has eaten its fill and completes its cycle underground, it throws out a mushroom, which is the spore and the reproductive organ of the mycelium, what Aajonus calls the "sex" of the mycelium. Spores release into the ground when wet and find other dead roots to feed upon.

Mushrooms are described as the only creature on earth that is structurally half animal and half plant: the cellular structure is that of an animal, yet they grow like a plant. But the root organism, the mycelium, is a fluid, milky, underground serum. Aajonus says mushrooms are the fruit, the flower, the reproductive cycle of the mycelium.

Fungus in the body works exactly as it works in nature. Just as mycelium eats dead roots and rotting tree stumps underground, fungus inside the body eats dead, damaged, and toxin-laden tissue. Aajonus is emphatic that it only eats dead tissue, it will not attack living, healthy cells. Just like crows and vultures don't attack living animals, they go for degenerative tissue, for what is already dead, fungus goes for what is already damaged. That is its host. That is what it loves.

Yeast is a fungus. Mold is a fungus. Gangrene is a fungus. Athlete's foot is a fungus. Vaginal yeast infections are fungus. The fungus under the nails is fungus. All of these, in Aajonus's framework, are the same category of janitorial organism doing the same essential job: consuming intercellular toxicity and dead cellular matter so that the body does not have to manage that entire toxic burden on its own.

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Fungus arises when the body has accumulated enough damaged, dead, or toxin-laden tissue in specific areas that neither bacteria nor parasites can clean it efficiently, or at all. The root cause of why fungus is needed is therefore the accumulation of tissue too damaged or too chemically toxic for the first-tier janitors to handle.

Aajonus identifies several specific causes of this toxic accumulation:

Antibiotics and penicillin are the single most frequently cited root cause of fungal activity in the human body. Aajonus states flatly that 99% of athlete's foot comes from vaccines and antibiotics, mainly penicillin. He says that virtually all women's yeast infections are caused by antibiotics and penicillin, and that these medications begin depositing in the body from a very young age. He explicitly states that before penicillin and antibiotics came into widespread use, athlete's foot did not exist, he says you cannot find it anywhere in medical records from before that era, not even in ancient Greece or Rome. There is no fungus in the Amish, Mennonite, or Quaker communities, who do not take medication. Only people who take antibiotics and penicillin get athlete's foot. This is Aajonus's unambiguous claim.

Penicillin is a mold, a fungus, that is natural to the bird community, not to the human body. Birds that eat primarily grains have penicillin molds naturally, but in the human body, it does not react well. When penicillin is sterilized and grown on pasteurized dairy and injected or ingested, it destroys the RNA that tells the fungus to go into its natural hibernation cycle. All natural funguses have cycles, perhaps three months of activity, then three months of dormancy, or six months active, six months dormant. Sterilization destroys the RNA that governs this cycle, so the penicillin fungus in the human body becomes always active, it never goes into hibernation. It works on the body continuously. This is what causes the black discoloration under the nails, the cracking, and all the extensive fungal symptoms that antibiotic-treated people experience.

Heavy metals are another root cause. Many medication injections, including vaccines, deposit heavy metals, particularly in the feet. Mercury from vaccines is stored in the feet. The body then uses oxidized iron and oxidized iodine to seal these deposits, and may additionally recruit a specific type of fungus, one that, unlike the sugar-feeding yeasts, lives in a metallic environment, to break down this heavy metal-laden dead tissue. Aajonus distinguishes clearly between: - Yeast-type fungus: lives on sugar-damaged tissue; the same as brewer's yeast, which lives on carbohydrate-rich mash, or yeast in milk that lives on milk sugars - Athlete's foot type fungus: lives primarily in a metallic environment, breaking down heavy metal deposits from medications that have settled in the feet; these funguses are more like algae, which digest metals (the same way moss eats the metal in rock)

Aajonus says these two are commonly confused because yeast is a fungus and athlete's foot is a fungus, but they are different yeasts living on different substrates.

Cooked foods and sugar-damaged tissue also feed specific funguses. Eating cooked grains, cereals, breads, pastas, and pizzas continuously damages tissue with toxic sugar byproducts, and yeasts feed on that damaged tissue. Cooked meat creates toxic substances that can cause certain kinds of fungus, usually athlete's foot. Coffee, chocolate, cooked soups, cooked teas, and cooked meat create volatile toxic conditions in most people, overstimulate adrenals, and cause cell decay, which then requires fungal cleanup.

High adrenaline levels are also identified as a cause of athlete's foot specifically, as elevated adrenaline causes cellular decay that the fungus then attempts to clean.

The body selectively deploying fungus in cool areas is another mechanism. Fungus prefers cooler, moister environments. Aajonus says the body will deliberately cool specific areas to allow fungus to do its work there rather than bacteria or parasites. This is why fungus is particularly active in: - The vagina (cool and moist) - The rectum (can become very cool) - The bones and bone marrow - The brain (which is cooler than core body temperature) - Under the nails - The joints - The feet

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Fungus sits primarily within the Microbes / Detoxification / Terrain Theory principles of Aajonus's framework.

Terrain Theory: Fungus is evidence that the body's internal terrain has accumulated sufficient toxic load that a specialized cleaning organism is required. The nature and location of the fungus reveals where and what type of toxicity has built up.

Detoxification: Every fungal outbreak, every athlete's foot episode, every yeast infection, every nail fungus is a detoxification event. The body is actively cleaning itself. The symptoms, itching, peeling, dryness, rashes, are the detoxification byproducts leaving the body, not the disease itself.

Microbes: Fungus is one of the four tiers of biological cleaning agents in Aajonus's microbe hierarchy: parasites, bacteria, fungus, and virus (the latter not being alive at all). Fungus is the third tier, recruited when conditions are too toxic for the first two.

Cooked Food: The accumulated toxicity that necessitates fungal cleanup is often the direct result of cooked food consumption, medications, and injected substances, all of which damage tissue and deposit substances the body cannot clear with bacteria and parasites alone.

Sovereignty: The entire framework rests on the principle that the body and nature work together intelligently. Fear of fungus, attempts to destroy it with antifungal medications, or treating it as an enemy are understood by Aajonus as attacks on the body's own cleaning mechanism, prolonging illness and creating dependency on pharmaceutical intervention.

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Every symptom of fungal activity is reframed by Aajonus not as disease but as the natural consequence of the fungus's waste products exiting the body through available channels, primarily the skin.

Itching: This is the most universal symptom. Aajonus explains it in detail: fungus, unlike bacteria and parasites, does not break down its waste products to a very small fraction. Bacteria reduce their consumed matter to 1–5% waste. Parasites also reduce to 1–5% waste (sometimes he says 2–5%). But fungus, depending on the passage, leaves anywhere from 5–10%, 7–12%, 10–20%, or up to 15–20% waste product, significantly more. This larger quantity of incompletely neutralized waste product is caustic, drying, and toxic to the skin as it passes through. The itching is the body's signal that this waste is moving through the skin. It is not a sign of infection spiraling out of control, it is a sign of active cleaning.

Peeling skin (athlete's foot, vaginal dryness, crotch rot): The waste products from fungus are so caustic that they kill the surface skin cells as they exit. This is why the skin peels. The toxins are so great and the byproduct so drying that the skin dies and peels away at the exit site. Aajonus says this is "still a good thing", the skin is being sacrificed to remove the internal toxic burden.

Ridge nails, black nails, brown or green nails, cracking nails: These are the fungus from antibiotics, particularly penicillin, coming out through the nail bed. The antibiotic-derived fungus, which was sterilized and therefore never goes dormant, is working continuously to break down the antibiotic residue in the body, and its exit through the nails produces these characteristic discolorations and deformations.

Blistering and bleeding in extreme fungal cases: When fungus is particularly aggressive in breaking down very toxic tissue, blistering and bleeding at the skin surface can occur.

Iridescent green discharge: Aajonus mentions that if a discharge is iridescent green, it is fungal rather than bacterial.

Vaginal discharge: In one case study, Aajonus analyzed discharge collected from a woman over a little over a week, about half a cup, and sent it to a lab for three separate tests. The result was penicillin fungus. This confirmed for him that the body was actively eliminating the penicillin mold that had been introduced through antibiotic treatment, and that this elimination was happening through the vaginal canal.

Gangrene: Aajonus identifies gangrene as a fungus. He saw this in diabetic family members who had limbs amputated. He also observed it in aged, buried meat among Alaskan indigenous people. Gangrene is the body's, or the earth's, fungal mechanism for breaking down severely damaged, necrotic tissue. It is appropriate when the injury is so extensive (e.g., someone who fell off a cliff repeatedly landing on a leg, causing so much bleeding and damage that the body cannot keep up with repair) that the body cannot regenerate the tissue and instead recruits fungus to break down the dead and dying cells.

Dryness at the exit sites: Because fungal waste products are caustic and drying, wherever the fungal byproducts exit the body, skin, mucous membranes, vaginal canal, rectum, nail beds, the tissue becomes dry. This dryness is explained by the higher percentage of waste products compared to what bacteria and parasites would leave behind.

Rashes: When fungus is active and its waste exits through the skin more broadly, rashes can appear. Aajonus distinguishes: bacterial activity causes yellow mucus and coughing; viral activity causes rashes, hives, acne; but fungal activity causes itching, peeling, and dryness.

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For active fungal outbreaks on the skin (itching, athlete's foot, peeling skin, crotch area, etc.):

Apply butter or Primal Facial Body Care Cream directly to the areas where fungus is leaving the body. This does two things: 1. The fat penetrates the skin and strengthens the skin cells so that when the toxic waste products from the fungus pass through, they don't damage the skin as severely. 2. It soothes the itching and discomfort.

Specifically, Aajonus says a mixture of half bone marrow and half butter applied to the affected area penetrates the skin and strengthens skin cells against the caustic waste products. He also says butter alone or the Primal Facial Body Care Cream applied to the feet, any of those, will work to mitigate the itching.

For temporarily arresting fungal activity (if it is not possible to let it run its course):

Coat the affected area with unheated honey and leave it for 24 hours. Aajonus says honey will smother the fungus, it kills the fungal activity in that area. The arrest lasts anywhere from 2 weeks to 6–10 weeks, after which the fungus will come back slowly and resume its work of eliminating the toxicity. He is explicit that this is a temporary measure, the fungus will return because the toxicity requiring cleanup is still present.

For athlete's foot specifically, coating the feet with unheated honey and covering them with clean white cotton socks for four consecutive nights to smother and stop the fungus for a while.

Eating alkalizing foods minimizes the discomfort during fungal activity. This is a consistent recommendation, foods that alkalize the system facilitate the cleansing and healing process and reduce the need for the fungus to work as aggressively.

Aajonus gives a specific formula and is quite detailed about it. He says you cannot kill fungus through pasteurization, that only subdues it temporarily. No matter if they cook it to 500 degrees, the molds come back. To kill it naturally, you must poison it, but carefully, so you don't destroy all the beneficial organisms in the body at the same time.

Formula Version 1 (given at one seminar): - 4 to 6 tablespoons of lime juice (quantity depends on body size) - Equal amount of coconut cream - Equal amount of unheated honey - 1 to 2 tablespoons of lemon juice - 1 tablespoon of dairy cream - 2 to 4 ounces (depending on body size) of sparkling [mineral water], the passage is cut off but the context suggests sparkling mineral water

Blend all ingredients together. Take this formula only two days a week, never closer than three days apart.

Formula Version 2 (given at another point in seminars): - Equal amounts of each of the following: lime juice, coconut cream, honey - Quantity: anywhere from 3.5 tablespoons to 6 tablespoons each, depending on body size

The lime juice is the critical component, Aajonus says lime juice (and by extension lemon juice) is the "only way you can safely temper" problematic molds. He says you have to give it a dose where the body can use it systematically, efficiently, and properly, so that it targets the molds that don't belong in the human body, especially penicillin molds, without destroying all the beneficial fungal organisms. He says that lime juice mixed with equal portions of honey taken in small amounts every day will help poison the unwanted molds in a controlled way.

He also notes that the body itself sometimes uses oxidized iron and oxidized iodine to destroy penicillin molds, he calls this "a natural unnatural chemotherapy" that can cause problems including anemia due to the loss of iron from the body. This is why the lime juice formula is preferable to the body having to mobilize those mineral resources.

For the body to deal with fungal waste products generally: Eating abundantly of raw fats ensures the lymphatic system can dissolve the waste products and secrete them out through the skin. The lymphatic system is responsible for dissolving these fungal byproducts, and fats are the medium through which the lymphatic system operates.

Aajonus recommends eating raw mushrooms as a way to introduce beneficial fungal activity into the body for specific cleaning purposes. In one consultation, he prescribes eating two mushrooms a day with at least one of the meat meals, at least five days a week (six days is fine too), for a solid two months, as an intensive protocol, followed by two mushrooms two days a week for the following five months as a maintenance approach.

He says mushrooms help digest proteins, clean the body, and as the spore of a mycelium, introduce fungal cleaning action that helps break down toxicity in connective tissue specifically.

He notes that kombucha is supposed to derive from mushroom mycelium and can help eat dry, dead nerve endings, capillary endings, and dried veins throughout the body, but only if made raw. The commercial kombucha is made with cooked substances and sugar, which defeats the purpose. If made raw, it is a beneficial food.

Regarding mold on cheese: Aajonus says mold on cheese (such as the white fuzz on aged cheese) is fungus, and it is part of the cleansing process. However, he advises scraping just the outside fuzz because the spores are concentrated there, eating too many spores would cause too heavy a detoxification. Scrape the fuzz, then eat the white mold on the inside along with the cheese. He compares this to eating maggots on predigested meat, the maggots and the mold are both predigesting the substance, making it more bioavailable.

He praises traditional aged cheeses made with mold, the stinky German cheeses, Roquefort, the cave-aged French cheeses, saying they are full of beneficial fungus and that each cave has its own particular fungus, which is why the cheeses from different caves and regions differ so dramatically in character and flavor.

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Natural course of fungal detoxification: Aajonus says the natural course of a fungal detoxification is usually 5 to 6 weeks. It is best to let the fungus run its full course. If you smother it with honey, it stops temporarily but the fungus returns, anywhere from 2 weeks to 6–10 weeks later, because the toxicity the fungus was meant to address is still present. The fungus will come back slowly and do the job it was meant to do.

Antibiotic-derived fungal activity: This is a much longer process. The penicillin mold, because its RNA for hibernation has been destroyed, is always active. It continues working in the body indefinitely. The lime juice formula, taken only twice per week, at least three days apart, is the only natural method Aajonus offers to gradually reduce this. He does not give a specific total timeline for eliminating antibiotic-derived fungus completely.

The Death Cap mushroom recovery: Aajonus's personal account of eating a poisonous mushroom is the most dramatic case. He was in convulsive cramps for extended periods (20 minutes at a time, passing out, waking, barely moving), lost 20 pounds in four days despite consuming 6 pounds of unsalted raw butter, two dozen bananas, two dozen raw eggs, and 8 gallons of water. By the fourth day he could move his lower half slowly. He consumed approximately one to two pounds of raw butter per day as his primary recovery food, forcing his liver back to work, he explains this is how you die from a poison mushroom, the liver stops working. He was able to move more freely about three weeks after the event. He says it took him eleven and a half years to fully regain the strength and energy he had before eating the mushroom. He distinguishes this emphatically from normal naturally-occurring fungus in the body, which he says is perfectly beneficial.

Gangrene healing: Aajonus gives the example of a person who fell off a cliff and sustained repeated severe injury to one leg, constant bleeding, the body unable to keep up with repair, the person not knowing how to dress the wound. In that scenario, fungus (gangrene) is appropriate because the body genuinely cannot heal the tissue. The implication is that once the offending cause (the ongoing damage and bleeding) is addressed, the fungal cleanup can proceed and eventually resolve, though no specific timeline is given for this scenario.

Pre-digested high-mold meat (Alaskan indigenous practice): The buried, hide-wrapped meat that Aajonus observed was left in the ground long enough that it developed every color of mold, green, black, yellow, orange, white, gray, the full spectrum. The indigenous people knew it was ready when the smell could not be detected downwind at half a mile. This was a form of radical predigestion through fungal and bacterial action, taken medicinally or as a concentrated food, and the small amounts (ping-pong ball sized) had immediate, powerful effects on Aajonus, he was able to move more easily within 45 minutes, felt better, experienced a significant improvement.

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