Scoliosis, in Aajonus's framework, is a curvature of the spine that sometimes causes pinched nerves and pain. It is not merely a structural deformity to be corrected surgically or mechanically, it is a condition rooted in deep nutritional deficiency, particularly deficiencies in the raw minerals, raw proteins, and raw fats required to build, maintain, and regenerate living bone tissue, cartilage, connective tissue, and the discs between the vertebrae.

Aajonus associated scoliosis directly with the deterioration and loss of bone mass in the spine, specifically identifying that when the body lacks sufficient minerals and proteins, it begins to dissolve its own bone structure to meet metabolic demands elsewhere. He stated plainly: "Most people who are vegetarians get spinal problems because they don't have enough minerals and proteins to hold the minerals into bone structure. So they start dissolving bone." In this view, scoliosis is not a primary disease but a consequence of structural collapse caused by ongoing nutritional deprivation, particularly the deprivation caused by cooked food diets and especially vegetarian or vegan diets that lack bioavailable animal proteins and animal fats.

He also noted that pinched nerves in the spine, specifically in the neck, starting from birth trauma (being pulled out at birth or during the first two years of life) could be responsible for a pronounced curve in the lower back, hip problems, and foot over-pronation, meaning that for some individuals, scoliosis originates from a mechanical insult that then cascades into compensatory structural deformity throughout the entire musculoskeletal system.

Additionally, Aajonus recognized a connection between spinal compression in youth and chiropractic-preventable causes: "In youth, it can cause spinal compression, resulting in scoliosis." This refers to the consequences of pinched nerves that go unaddressed and lead to cumulative structural deformation over time.

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Aajonus identified multiple root causes of scoliosis operating simultaneously or sequentially. These are not isolated mechanical failures, they are expressions of a deep biological breakdown caused primarily by nutritional inadequacy, specifically from cooked food diets, and secondarily by specific toxic insults.

Primary Root Cause: Mineral and Protein Deficiency Leading to Bone Dissolution

The foundational cause of scoliosis, in Aajonus's framework, is the body consuming its own bone structure in the spine when it lacks sufficient raw minerals and raw proteins from dietary sources. When the body cannot obtain what it needs from food, it scavenges from bone. The spine is one of the primary sites where this dissolution manifests, leading to curvature as the structural support of the vertebral column erodes.

He stated this directly and repeatedly: "Most people who are vegetarians get spinal problems because they don't have enough minerals and proteins to hold the minerals into bone structure. So they start dissolving bone." He observed this across a population of 3,200 vegetarians he personally knew, of whom he considered only 8 to be healthy at the physical level. Of those, nearly all eventually developed spinal problems. Even those who appeared robust for decades, one man doing raw food fruitarian vegetarianism for 52 years, described as exceptionally muscular and hyperactive, eventually had his spine "go" painfully, requiring him to turn to raw meat and raw dairy to reverse the deterioration. A woman in his circle who was a raw food vegetarian began experiencing spinal deterioration at 37. Another male hygienist who had eaten raw fruits and vegetables for 52 years had his spine start deteriorating at approximately 76 years old, ultimately requiring him to eat raw meat to reverse it.

He presented the case of a 36-year-old athletic woman who developed scoliosis suddenly after years of undetected decline: "I had one athletic woman, 36 years old, 30% of her spine was gone. And she was an athlete, she thought she was very strong, then she started having scoliosis and started to collapse over." Her spine had been dissolving slowly, and then in the span of a year, likely triggered or accelerated by the fact that her sister had been on the Primal Diet for a year before that, her body began consuming her calcium and bones rapidly to meet its mineral and protein needs. The collapse happened all at once. After one year on the Primal Diet, her spine completely replaced itself.

He also observed: "Usually I would say 90% of my vegetarian patients who were long-term vegetarians, they all had back spinal problems because they had osteoporosis in their spine. Osteoporosis in other places too, but almost always occurred in their spine."

Secondary Root Cause: Radiation Damage and Cauterization of the Spine

Aajonus spoke at extraordinary length and depth about a specific form of spinal damage he personally experienced, the cauterization of the spine caused by radiation therapy. While this was not the primary cause of scoliosis per se, it is deeply relevant because it produced a condition functionally equivalent to the worst-case expression of spinal rigidity and structural destruction: the spine going from a living, malleable, biologically permeable tissue to something resembling fired clay or stone, hard, brittle, incapable of normal movement, cutting and lacerating nerves with any attempt at motion.

He described this using the analogy of clay fired in a kiln at varying temperatures, cone 1 to cone 10, going from malleable living tissue to increasingly hard, brittle, impermeable rock. The radiation he received over 10 weeks of intense treatment (described as the beam running back and forth for 2 full minutes at a time, on/off cycles over 15-minute sessions, "each time was about 2,000 x-rays") cauterized his entire spine from top to tailbone. This was not the intermittent millisecond exposures of modern X-ray technology, it was sustained, massive radiation that biologically burned and solidified his spinal tissue.

He stated: "They cauterized my spine at that pinpoint spot. So, you know, because this way was catching the whole area here, but the pinpoint was always the same place on my spine. So, they cauterized this much of my spine. It's like taking malleable clay and firing it into cone nine. What you have then is a hard piece of pottery or sculpture. It is no longer a malleable living tissue."

The result was that any movement caused excruciating pain as the hardened vertebrae would "pinch and cut and lacerate the nerves." He could barely move. Sitting down took three to ten minutes and was often impossible without spasm. He had to live on the floor for approximately two and a half years, unable to sit in chairs, unable to sleep in beds, unable to sleep for more than 10 minutes at a time without waking in excruciating pain.

Tertiary Root Cause: Birth Trauma and Mechanical Spinal Compression

Aajonus acknowledged that curvature of the neck and spine can originate from birth trauma, being pulled out at birth or during the first two years of life, causing misalignment that, if uncorrected, leads to cumulative structural problems including curvature of the lower back, hip problems, foot over-pronation, gland and muscle dysfunction, and fatigue. A chiropractor who examined one of his correspondents identified that a pronounced neck curvature with no space between the cervical vertebrae was responsible for a pronounced lower back curve and long-term hip problems, and that the neck injury likely dated from birth.

Quaternary Root Cause: Nerve Compression in Youth Causing Spinal Compression

Aajonus noted that pinched nerves in youth, addressable through chiropractic, can cause spinal compression that results in scoliosis. He pointed out that chiropractic manipulation places bones in their joints properly so that nerves are not pinched and circulation flows more easily, and that accompanying a healthy diet, chiropractic adjustments can assist the body to better health. In youth, failure to address nerve compression leads to developmental scoliosis.

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Scoliosis sits at the intersection of multiple principles in Aajonus's framework:

Root Cause / Terrain Theory: The underlying cause is nutritional depletion, insufficient raw minerals and raw proteins from animal sources to maintain bone integrity. The body turns on itself, consuming spinal bone mass, which is a terrain-level failure. This is the primary principle.

Cooked Food: The immediate cause in most cases is the cooked food diet, particularly the vegetarian or vegan cooked food diet, which denies the body bioavailable minerals, proteins, and fats in forms the body can use without enzyme damage. Cooked food is unable to supply the building blocks necessary for spinal regeneration.

Raw Food: The solution is the raw food diet, specifically raw meat, raw fish, raw fowl, raw dairy including raw milk, raw cream, raw butter, raw cheese with honey, and the Nut Formula, which provides the body with what it needs to rebuild the spine.

Detoxification: Spinal meningitis, which Aajonus described as a "massive detox" he personally underwent, was part of his own spinal healing process. He stated: "I got rid of 70% of that off my spine by going into spinal meningitis." This positions spinal detoxification events as part of the terrain's natural healing cascade.

How to Live: The ongoing management of scoliosis and spinal pain involves specific lifestyle practices, hot baths, hot water bottles, yoga postures (plow and spinal twist), chiropractic (prepared for properly with heat), stretching sequences, all of which fall under How to Live.

Sovereignty: Aajonus's own narrative of refusing surgery, refusing ongoing medical intervention, and healing his cauterized spine through raw food and yoga over 27 years is the supreme case study in Sovereignty. His statement, "if the doctor or the medical proficient or the pharmaceutical industry tells you anything to do, do exactly the opposite. 99% of the time you'll be right," encapsulates this.

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The Curvature Itself

In conventional medicine, the curvature of the spine in scoliosis is treated as a structural deformity requiring bracing, physical therapy, or surgical intervention (including Harrington rod implantation, which Aajonus described as being present in one workshop attendee). Aajonus reframes this not as a primary disease but as a consequence of the spine having lost sufficient bone mass, mineral density, and structural support from nutritional depletion. The body cannot maintain the upright architecture of the spine when it lacks the raw materials to build and sustain it. The curvature is a symptom of systemic nutritional deprivation, not a condition to be mechanically corrected in isolation.

Pain

The periodic pain accompanying scoliosis is reframed as nerve compression, pinched nerves caused by the collapse or misalignment of vertebrae pressing on nerve roots. It is not a disease in itself but a signal of structural compromise requiring nutritional rebuilding and mechanical decompression through stretching and heat. Aajonus stated: "you can eliminate the pain that periodically accompanies scoliosis" through dietary intervention.

Herniated Discs

In one workshop exchange, Aajonus connected the appearance of diseased or compromised discs directly to scoliosis: "The discs in the spine are herniated discs. That's what it is", suggesting that the disc problems observable in scoliosis patients are the visible expression of the same underlying nutritional deficiency that caused the curvature.

Vegetarian-Associated Spinal Collapse

Aajonus reframes what conventional medicine would diagnose as idiopathic or genetic scoliosis in long-term vegetarians as a predictable, diet-caused nutritional collapse. The spine literally begins to dissolve. In the case of the 36-year-old athlete, 30% of her spine had already dissolved before she even became symptomatic enough to be diagnosed with scoliosis. The collapse appeared sudden, but it was years in the making through gradual mineral and protein depletion.

Sciatic Nerve Pain

Aajonus described the sciatic nerve pain radiating from the spine down through the thighs, knees, and feet as a direct consequence of vertebral compression on the nerves, the same structural collapse that causes the curvature. He experienced this personally and described it as pain "generating out to the rest of my body, my knees, my thighs, my spine, the sciatic all the way down to my feet."

Spinal Rigidity and Inflexibility

The rigidity of the spine, whether caused by radiation damage as in Aajonus's case, or by mineral and protein deficiency leading to abnormal calcification or dessication of spinal tissues, is reframed as biological hardening from toxicity or nutritional absence rather than a normal aging process. Aajonus described inflexible tendons specifically as caused by toxins: "Many toxins can cause the poor development of tendons, especially heavy metals (such as mercury from vaccines) and chemicals, including household cleaning compounds. They may poison the RNA and DNA, causing deformity."

Harrington Rod Consequences

Aajonus observed a workshop attendee who had undergone Harrington rod surgery for scoliosis. He noted that the left side appeared less affected but the right side "definitely has affected you... You've got some ulcers in there that still aren't healing, plus you have some metal there. Probably it's from iodine or something they rubbed on the area to keep it antibacterial." He identified the presence of metal in the spine as a source of ongoing damage and healing impediment.

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Aajonus gave detailed, specific dietary recommendations for scoliosis across multiple sources. These are assembled in full below.

Raw Meat, Central to Spinal Healing

The foundational dietary intervention for scoliosis is raw meat in all forms. Aajonus stated explicitly "Eating raw meat, including raw fish and/or raw fowl, helps to relax the tension and discomfort, and rebuild the spine."

He emphasized this repeatedly across workshops. When asked about a woman with scoliosis of the spine and lower spine who would not eat meat but would eat fish, he confirmed that fish counts as "meat" in his usage, so her eating fish satisfied this requirement: "When I say meat, I'm talking about any food." The clear implication is that raw animal protein is essential, raw fish being acceptable for those who will not eat red meat or fowl.

For patients with specific structural damage or deficiency patterns associated with spinal problems, he recommended very high proportions of red meat, up to 70–80% of dietary intake, for the purposes of rebuilding. In one consultation, he stated: "I would say 70% red meat. Now maybe four years you could cut it down to about 50% of each." In another, he advised: "I'm going to suggest that you eat about 80, 85 percent red meat and butter or cheese even in between."

For his own radiation-damaged spine, he stated explicitly: "Eating lots of butter and/or cream with meat is very important for cleansing and healing the spine."

Raw Milk, One of the Most Important Foods

When asked whether milk would help a woman with scoliosis, Aajonus stated: "Absolutely. It's one of the most important things for scoliosis. Eating with a little cheese and honey." Raw milk provides both minerals and fats in a highly bioavailable form. It was the foundation of his own recovery from radiation-caused spinal damage, he described sleeping in a bathtub with salt and milk to make his body buoyant enough to reduce pressure on his spine: "I would have to sleep in a bathtub with salt in it and milk just to make my body buoyant enough so I didn't have all that pressure on my spine."

He also described drinking raw milk alongside carrot juice as part of the initial recovery period: "as I was drinking this carrot juice and milk, I started getting better and better."

Cheese with Honey, Four Times Daily

For scoliosis specifically, Aajonus recommended: "eating cheese and honey together four times a day." This is a specific protocol. The cheese is raw dairy cheese (not processed or pasteurized). The honey is raw honey. Together, the combination provides concentrated minerals from the cheese paired with the enzymatic action and sugar from the honey, which helps the minerals to be absorbed and utilized in rebuilding bone structure.

He stated this as the foundational protocol: "She should be eating a moisturizing lubrication formula and eating cheese and honey together four times a day." The cheese and honey combination is to be eaten four times per day throughout the healing period.

The Moisturizing Lubrication Formula

Aajonus also recommended the "moisturizing lubrication formula" alongside the cheese and honey protocol for scoliosis. While the full recipe for this formula is (page 194 references the Nut Formula), it is designed to provide deep lubrication of the tissues, including connective tissues around the spine, tendons, ligaments, and discs.

Nut Formula or Cooked Starches, Structural Support

"On a balanced raw diet with Nut Formula or a little cooked starches, the spine straightens itself over a period of several years." The Nut Formula is the preferred option, providing raw fat and minerals. A small amount of cooked starch is offered as an alternative for those who need it, though the raw version is superior. This is referenced as part of the "balanced raw diet" context.

Butter and/or Cream with Meat, Critical for Spine Cleansing and Healing

Aajonus was explicit: "Eating lots of butter and/or cream with meat is very important for cleansing and healing the spine." This is not optional, it is described as "very important." The fat component provided by butter and cream is essential both for lubricating the tissues around the spine and for carrying toxins away from the spinal area during detoxification and regeneration.

He found that without adequate fat, the body uses bile in place of dietary fat, leading to widespread bile toxicity. Regarding one patient with insufficient fat: "No good fat on the left side of the spine. Nothing protecting you there. So that left side of the spine is very vulnerable."

Raw Eggs

Aajonus described eating raw eggs as part of his initial recovery from spinal damage: "I started eating raw eggs, raw cottage cheese and things like that that I could gum." Raw eggs provide highly bioavailable protein and fat that directly support tissue rebuilding.

Carrot Juice and Raw Dairy

During the period of active spinal recovery, Aajonus described the combination of carrot juice and raw milk as central to his healing: "as I was drinking this carrot juice and milk, I started getting better and better." At age 27, he had "gained enough health that I only had to do yoga about two hours a day to keep my spine from being in constant pain." This was after years of drinking raw milk and carrot juice, eating raw eggs, and eating "the carriages in the raw milk" (meaning the cream and fat fractions).

Vegetable Juice for Spinal Support

In a consultation involving left-side spinal vulnerability, Aajonus recommended: "40% celery, 30% summer squash, especially zucchini, 20% parsley, and 10% cilantro" as a juice formula to support the area. He also prescribed celery at 30-35% in other formulations but noted "celery makes you tired" due to its sodium-reducing effects, and adjusted accordingly: "30 to 35 percent celery, about 30 percent cucumber puree, 10 percent cilantro and 10 percent beef" with an egg added, for three to six months.

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Aajonus gave extensive, detailed information about recovery timelines for spinal conditions related to scoliosis, both from his own experience and from patient case studies.

General Recovery on a Balanced Raw Diet

"On a balanced raw diet with Nut Formula or a little cooked starches, the spine straightens itself over a period of several years. Although completely straightening of the spine can't always be expected, you can eliminate the pain that periodically accompanies scoliosis."

This is the baseline expectation: several years for significant straightening, with pain elimination achievable before complete structural correction. Complete straightening cannot always be guaranteed but significant improvement, including pain elimination, is expected.

Why It Takes Years: Bone Cell Replacement Rate

Aajonus explained the biological basis for the slow timeline: "bone cells live seven to seven and a half years. So it takes a long time to replace every bone cell. And if you've got that kind of damage and block circulation, of course, it takes a long time to relieve it." The spine cannot rebuild faster than the body's natural rate of bone cell replacement. Even with optimal raw food nutrition, the complete replacement of damaged bone requires the full bone cell lifecycle of seven to seven and a half years.

The Athletic Woman: One Year for Complete Spine Replacement

The most dramatic case study Aajonus presented was the 36-year-old athlete who had lost 30% of her spine through dissolution: "She went on the diet, a year, spine completely replaced." He received emails from her in England, five years on the diet at the time of reporting, describing her life as "incredible" and her athletic capacity as exceeding what it had been even before the deterioration began. This represents the fastest documented recovery, one year for complete spinal replacement, and it involved a relatively young, athletic individual with a sister already on the diet (who may have provided direct guidance and food preparation support).

The 74-Year-Old Raw Food Vegetarian

The raw food fruitarian vegetarian man whose spine deteriorated at 74 years old was able to reverse the deterioration by beginning to eat raw meat and raw dairy. The specific timeline for his recovery was not given beyond noting that he "made him well", presumably also taking several years given his age and the extent of the damage.

Aajonus's Own Recovery: 12–27 Years

Aajonus's personal recovery timeline from radiation-cauterized spinal damage provides the most detailed case study of extended spinal healing:

• At the time of the radiation therapy (age approximately 18-19), he was rendered to the floor with his movement reduced to almost nothing, sitting took 3-10 minutes and was often impossible.
• He crawled on his elbows and dragged the lower part of his body for approximately a year to a year and a half.
• He was able to sleep only 10 minutes at a time, waking in excruciating pain.
• He lived in a bathtub with salt and milk to relieve spinal pressure.
• By age 27 (approximately 7-8 years after the radiation), he had reduced his daily pain to 2 hours rather than 24 hours, requiring yoga postures (plow and spinal twist) every hour to hour and a half.
• He was able to bicycle and travel on a bicycle for three years across North America, managing the back through yoga breaks every 45 minutes to an hour.
• He described having to do yoga every hour and a half to two hours: "I'd go into the plow and spinal twist, and I had to do it at least every hour and a half to two hours to subdue the pain."
• After 13 years of eating raw meat (starting at age 27), he reflected: "after 13 years, I looked back and said, what is all this malarkey about raw meat causing parasites and food poisoning? I've been eating it for 13 years and never had one incidence."
• He experienced a full episode of spinal meningitis as a massive detox that removed 70% of the remaining damage from his spine.
• At approximately 12 years of back pain from chemo and radiation, he stated he was "satisfied with my spinal health."
• He went from needing chiropractic adjustments twice a day to needing only one adjustment per year for the last 4 years before the time of the Q&A.
• At approximately 27 years after the initial injury, he described suffering back pain "only about 10 days yearly and that is after doing something strenuous with my arms for a day or three."
• He described his movement at the time of giving workshops (38 years after the injury) as vastly improved: "look how I can move my spine now. And, you know, thirty-eight years ago, it was, you know, excruciating pain."
• He stated he could touch his toes, bend, and perform various movements, though he noted his hamstrings remained shortened: "I can touch my toes. I can bend. I can do things. I mean, I can't go very far back. That's always been that way. My hamstrings are very short probably from all the disastrous chemicals."

He provided a detailed milestone timeline in one workshop: - "By the time I was 27 years old, my back was only in pain about 10 hours a day instead of 24 every minute." - Then: "I was only in pain about two hours at a time. If I go into a yoga posture, I could get out of that pain within 15 minutes." - At 27: "I could go an hour and a half, and then go into yoga postures, the plow, spinal twist... I had to do it at least every hour and a half to two hours to subdue the pain." - "At 27, I had gained enough health that I only had to do yoga about two hours a day to keep my spine from being in constant pain." - He underwent spinal meningitis as a massive detox, describing it as removing 70% of the remaining damage. - "I spent about a year in that bathtub and getting better." - Five months to recover from one major spinal regeneration episode, during which time he could touch his shins. - Ten years later, after another episode: "I could touch the floor. I could actually put my palms to the floor if I worked at it without bending my knees." - Still experiencing continued gradual improvement into his 50s and 60s.

The Bone Replacement Cycle

Aajonus acknowledged that because bone cells live 7 to 7.5 years, it takes at least one full bone cell lifecycle, and often more, to achieve complete spinal rebuilding. For radiation damage of the severity he experienced, the timeline extended to 27 years for near-complete functional recovery. For nutritionally-caused scoliosis without toxic insult to the same degree, recovery within "several years" was expected, with complete straightening not always achievable but significant improvement and pain elimination achievable.

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