Surgery recovery, in Aajonus's framework, is not a discrete medical event followed by a standardized healing period. It is a profoundly complex, often prolonged, and frequently iatrogenic process in which the body must simultaneously repair the original injury or disease and compensate for the additional damage inflicted by the surgical procedure itself. Surgery, in his view, is an invasive insult to the body that in most cases creates far more damage than the original condition it was meant to address, damage that conventional medicine neither acknowledges nor knows how to reverse.

Aajonus consistently described surgery as a last resort, appropriate only in very specific mechanical circumstances, such as dismemberment requiring reattachment, bone fragments requiring mechanical repositioning that the body cannot accomplish unaided, or tumors that have grown so large and so rapidly that a person lacks sufficient nutritional reserve to dissolve them through natural means. Outside these narrow circumstances, he maintained that surgery routinely creates 2 to 5 times more damage than the original injury, as evidenced by the outcomes he personally witnessed and documented.

He framed true recovery from surgery as the body needing to deal with two separate layers of injury: the first layer is whatever damage was present before the surgeon intervened, the broken bone, the ulcer, the tumor, the torn tendon. The second, and often more destructive, layer is the damage caused by the surgery itself, severed nerves, cut muscles, removed glands, stretched and scarred organs, keloid incisions, radiation complications, anesthesia toxicity, antiseptic poisoning, pin insertions, and pharmaceutical interventions that compound over time. True recovery, in his framework, requires nutritional resources dense enough to address both layers at once, and this is why he insisted that diet, specifically the Primal Diet, was the only mechanism by which genuine healing could occur.

He stated clearly: "The only time I will go to a doctor is if I think they can mechanically help me. Because they know nothing else except to put you back together if you're dismembered."

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The root cause of poor surgery recovery, according to Aajonus, operates on multiple simultaneous levels:

The Surgery Itself as Primary Cause of Pathology

Aajonus repeatedly documented that surgery does not heal, it replaces one injury with a larger one, and then demands lifelong pharmaceutical dependency to manage the consequences. He described the pharmaceutical industry writing all medical curricula and procedure manuals for doctors, ensuring that the more surgeries a person undergoes, the more medications they require for the rest of their lives. He stated: "If you have other surgeries, a gallbladder, you're forever taking other medications. The more surgeries you have, the more reliant upon medication they say you should be."

His own experience with a vagotomy pyloroplasty, performed to address a stomach tumor, illustrates this cascade. The surgery severed all the vagus nerves to his stomach, permanently eliminating his ability to secrete hydrochloric acid. This meant he could no longer digest food normally. The surgeon stretched the duodenum to three times its normal size, creating massive scar tissue throughout the duodenum. Without hydrochloric acid, even cooked meat caused severe systemic reactions, huge pustulations from the knees to the scalp. The incision itself became tumorous within six weeks, keloiding to 1.5 inches wide and three-quarters of an inch high. They then administered ten weeks of intense radiation therapy to stop the keloid growth, which cauterized his spine so badly that his range of motion was nearly zero, he compared his movement to fired clay pottery, and described taking four minutes simply to sit down in a chair. The radiation also deteriorated all the bone around his teeth, causing them to dangle in his gums, triggering blood loss so severe he was getting two transfusions per week.

This cascade, ulcer → tumor → vagotomy → keloid incision → radiation → spinal cauterization → bone degeneration → blood loss → further systemic collapse, is his primary case study for how surgery initiates a chain of iatrogenic harms that compound far beyond the original condition.

Antiseptics Used During Surgery

Aajonus identified a specific intraoperative cause of poor recovery that he instructed his clients to specifically address when surgery was unavoidable: the use of methylate, curacroma (mercurochrome), and iodine as antibacterial agents during surgery. He stated these are mercury-based liquid antiseptics that poison the body and damage all tissue within approximately two inches of the application area. In cases where the surgery is on or near a tumor or cancer site, these antiseptics create additional dead cells in the area, which then become fuel for additional tumor growth. He stated: "You're creating more dead cells to have more cancer to create more tumors."

He found that when he was able to convince surgeons not to use these mercury-based antiseptics, his patients recovered dramatically better: "I found that people having surgery, when they do that [avoid mercury antiseptics], they're recovering much better now and they're actually recovering."

Anesthesia Toxicity

Aajonus described Novocaine specifically as a substance that, even in localized use, caused significant and prolonged detoxification problems. After accepting Novocaine injections for his jaw surgery (to wire broken bones back into place after being mugged in Bangkok), he suffered multiple abscesses in the injection sites, hardening of the gum tissue, recession of the gums, burning that created a hole from the palate up into the sinuses (comparable to a cleft palate), and prolonged systemic detoxification. He stated: "I would have rather just suffered the pain in three hours period rather than suffering off and on for a year from the Novocaine."

His formal emergency medical card, which he recommended everyone carry at all times, explicitly addressed anesthesia: "Absolutely NO Injected or IV anesthesia. Gaseous anesthesia may be used for emergency surgery in cases listed below."

Absence of Proper Nutritional Support

The underlying cause of slow or failed surgery recovery in all cases, in Aajonus's framework, is the absence of the right nutritional environment, specifically raw animal foods, raw fats, and raw dairy, that supply the building materials the body requires to dissolve damaged tissue, regenerate new tissue, repair nerves, regrow bone, and reattach tendons and ligaments. He stated that conventional dietary recommendations following surgery (cooked foods, processed hospital foods, no raw foods) deprive the body of exactly the nutrients it needs most, guaranteeing slow, incomplete, and permanently compromised recovery.

Insufficient Body Fat as a Reserve

Aajonus specifically mentioned that adequate body fat is essential for recovery from major trauma and surgery. He noted that at the time of his motorcycle accident in Thailand, he had approximately 19% body fat, which he described as slightly below his preferred 22-25% maintenance level. He documented that from the accident he lost approximately 15 pounds. He described 19% body fat as sufficient to make him buoyant in water, reducing his effective body weight to approximately one-quarter of normal, which allowed him to exercise the leg in the sea without excessive pain or stress on the healing bone. He then noted that within two months of returning to the USA and resuming larger meat consumption and up to 1.5 quarts of raw milk daily, his body fat returned to 22%.

He implied directly that someone with insufficient body fat reserve, as was the case with the elderly man he eventually sent to surgery for a lymph gland tumor, may not have enough systemic reserve to accomplish natural healing even on the diet, making surgical removal a more viable option in those specific cases.

Pharmaceutical Interference During Recovery

Aajonus documented that every surgery in the conventional system is accompanied by pharmaceutical protocols, antibiotics, antiseptics, tetanus injections, IV medications, that he viewed as further toxic insults to an already compromised body. His emergency medical card specified: "Alcohol (non-wood) may be used sparingly, applied to wounds only and not used internally. Pain relievers and narcotics may be utilized only upon my conscious request. Absolutely NO Injected or IV anesthesia." And separately: "If dismemberment occurred, surgical procedures to reattach member may be performed excluding tetanus, antibiotics and antiseptics except as noted above."

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Surgery recovery spans multiple principles in Aajonus's framework:

Sovereignty, This is perhaps the most dominant theme across all of his surgery-related teachings. He consistently refused surgery even when doctors declared it essential for survival or function. He refused to allow a cast on his broken tibia. He refused skin grafting. He refused to allow nurses to clean his open wounds with conventional antiseptics. He told the osteosurgeon who said he could not "release" him without surgical intervention: "I didn't give you my ownership of my body to release me anyway. So I don't need a release from you. That's all rhetoric to get people to do what you want them to do." He recommended carrying a laminated medical card at all times specifying exactly what procedures may and may not be performed on his body under any circumstances, conscious or unconscious. Sovereignty is the foundational principle through which all surgery decisions are made.

Root Cause / Terrain Theory, Surgery does not address the underlying terrain imbalance that created the disease or injury in the first place. It removes, pins, cuts, stretches, or cauterizes tissue without restoring the cellular and biochemical environment that the body requires to sustain health. He stated plainly: "All medical equipment is designed to alter your body and temporarily improve function without improving health."

Cooked Food, Much of his post-surgical suffering (pustulations, failed digestion, systemic toxicity) was directly linked to being forced to eat cooked food after surgery, particularly after the vagotomy eliminated his ability to produce hydrochloric acid. Every time he ate cooked meat post-surgery, he developed massive pustulations across his entire torso from the knees to the scalp. This was his direct experience of how cooked food interacts with a surgically compromised digestive system.

Raw Food, Raw food is the solution. His recovery from the broken tibia, the jaw injury, the clavicle fracture, the rib fractures, the abrasions, all of it was accomplished through raw animal foods, raw fats, raw dairy, and specific food protocols that allowed the body to dissolve bone fragments, regenerate nerve tissue, regrow bone, reattach tendons, and heal skin without grafting.

Detoxification, Post-surgical detoxification of anesthesia (particularly Novocaine), mercury-based antiseptics, radiation, and pharmaceutical interventions constitutes a major secondary healing burden. Aajonus described his own multi-year detoxification from radiation therapy, and explicitly stated that the Novocaine from his jaw surgery caused ongoing abscesses, tissue hardening, and gum recession for approximately a year.

Microbes, He invoked the role of bacteria as essential for digesting food and healing tissue. After the vagotomy destroyed his hydrochloric acid production, bacteria became the primary mechanism by which he could process food at all. He stated: "So, I had to wait for the bacteria to accumulate to digest the food without hydrochloric acid. And everything had to be liquefied."

Cancer, Multiple surgery recovery case studies in his teaching involve post-surgical tumor formation (keloid incisions becoming tumorous, tumors regrowing after removal, cancer metastasis following lymph node removal). His teachings on surgery and cancer overlap extensively.

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Post-Surgical Keloid and Tumor Formation at Incision Site

Aajonus described his own post-vagotomy incision becoming tumorous within six weeks of surgery, keloiding to up to 1.75 to 2 inches in width and half to three-quarters of an inch in height. He defined keloid as "a tumor, but without the malignancy because it doesn't reflect cancer hormones and cancer tissue, cancer cells." He framed this not as a complication requiring further medical intervention (which would be radiation therapy, the treatment he received) but as the body's attempt to wall off the damage from the surgical insult. The body is essentially building a protective barrier around the site of extreme cellular damage.

Pustulations Following Post-Surgical Cooked Meat Consumption

After the vagotomy eliminated his hydrochloric acid production, eating cooked meat produced enormous pustulations covering his body from the knees to the scalp. He described these as being comparable to massive boils, referencing the film "Liar Liar" and a character with a large pustulation on his nose. He reframed these not as infection or disease but as the body's attempt to expel the toxic byproducts of incompletely digested cooked protein through the skin, the body using the skin as an eliminative organ when the digestive system had been surgically compromised.

Swollen Knee and Apparent Dislocation

After his motorcycle accident in Thailand, his knee became extremely large and shaped in a way that he believed indicated dislocation. He reframed this conventional "symptom", swelling indicating damage, as the body forming a natural protective response. He described what appeared to be a cast forming from his thigh muscles: "The natural cast that my body seemed to form from my thigh muscles gradually..." rather than external swelling indicating infection or inflammatory malfunction.

Bone Fragments in Joint

Surgeons warned that bone fragments from the shattered top of the tibia, now lodged in the femur joint, would stab the nerves and prevent walking. Aajonus reframed this: the body, on the right diet, could dissolve those bone fragments rather than leaving them to cause nerve damage. He stated the surgeons didn't understand that "a person could dissolve those bone fragments and mend that little pyramid at the top of the femur and put that tibia back together without pushing it back together and pinning it." The fragments were not a permanent obstruction requiring surgical removal, they were raw material the body could break down and reabsorb.

Torn Tendons as Golf-Ball Lumps

Both tendons on either side of his knee had torn completely from the bone at opposite ends, producing lumps "the size of golf balls." Surgeons said these required surgical reattachment or he would never lift his leg at the knee. Aajonus reframed this: the body could reattach these tendons naturally given adequate nutritional support, specifically the bone-healing and tendon-restructuring formula he developed.

Post-Radiation Spinal Cauterization

After ten weeks of intense radiation therapy (given to stop the keloid incision growth), his spine was described as having been "cauterized", burned so thoroughly by radiation that it solidified, as he compared it to clay fired in a kiln. His range of motion was so severely limited that sitting in a chair took four minutes. He described his movement as: "that's what they did to my spine. So this was my movement." He reframed this not as permanent disability but as a condition that could eventually be addressed through dietary regeneration over years, though the damage was severe enough that his spinal flexibility was still compromised many years later.

Open Wounds Without Infection

At the hospital after the Thailand motorcycle accident, his wounds, open to asphalt abrasion across multiple limbs, were not bleeding heavily and were not showing signs of conventional infection. He had applied butter and honey, and the wounds were seeping only slightly. The nurses and doctors were astonished by the lack of bleeding from the open wounds. Aajonus reframed this as evidence that his nutritional state, particularly his body fat and protein reserves from the Primal Diet, had already begun mobilizing healing resources at the site.

Nerve Damage Declared Permanent

After the jaw injury, three dental specialists declared that the nerve running along the bottom of the jaw connecting all the lower teeth had been severed in two places and would not regenerate, that the bone had been broken so badly that it would rot and the teeth would have to be extracted. After the motorcycle accident, surgeons declared he would never walk without surgery. After the vagotomy, doctors declared he would never digest anything without lifelong medication. Aajonus reframed all declarations of permanent nerve damage as simply reflecting the limits of conventional medical understanding rather than the limits of what the body could actually accomplish given the right nutritional environment.

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Aajonus documented several specific dietary protocols for surgery recovery, both from his own experience and from recommendations he made to others:

Bone-Healing Formula for Fractures and Tendon Reattachment

After the Thailand motorcycle accident, broken tibia split completely from knee to ankle, open in the back approximately a quarter inch, bone pyramid shattered off the top of the tibia with fragments in the femur joint, both knee tendons completely torn from the bone, Aajonus developed and followed this specific formula:

• 1 cup pineapple
• 3/4 cup coconut cream
• 1/2 cup honey
• 1 cup raw milk

This mixture was consumed in portions every 3-4 hours throughout the day.

Before each drinking of this mixture, he ate approximately 2 tablespoons of raw no-salt-added cheese. This cheese-first protocol is consistent with his general teaching that cheese helps bind and absorb toxins before introducing high-mineral or high-sugar liquids, and also provides casein protein for structural repair.

Additionally: He drank 1 quart of raw milk daily alongside this formula.

He stated this specific combination "helped cleanse and restructure my bones and naturally mend my tendons."

He altered his standard daily fruit consumption for this protocol, noting that instead of enjoying several small portions of different unripe fruits for his once-daily fruit meal (his standard practice), he replaced this entirely with the bone-healing formula.

High Raw Meat and Raw Milk Protocol After Returning from Thailand

After six and a half weeks in the hotel room and returning to the USA, Aajonus resumed what he described as a "larger meat consumption" and drank up to 1.5 quarts of raw milk daily. Within two months of this protocol, his body fat returned from approximately 19% back to 22%.

Butter and Honey for Wound Care

For open wounds, both his own and for others he described, Aajonus recommended applying butter and honey directly to open wounds. He had applied this to his wounds at the hotel room in Thailand before going to the hospital, and arrived at the hospital with wounds that were barely seeping despite being extensive open abrasions down to bone in some areas. He stated the nurses couldn't believe there was so little bleeding from such severe open wounds.

He described a separate case of a man (a highway patrolman) who had road rash from the top of his arm to the elbow down to the bone in spots, with muscle exposed in areas. After being refused conventional grafting at the hospital (he refused to go), he went home, cleaned the wounds with lime juice, and applied honey and meat directly to the wounds. Aajonus saw him 14 days later, "skin was completely healed and re-grew over. Just a little bit of pinkness." He stated: "We're talking about from here to here down to the bone in spots. Muscle gone too. All healed in about 14 days."

The protocol for wounds: lime juice to clean, followed by honey and raw meat applied directly to the wound site, left open to air.

Lime Juice for Initial Wound Cleaning

Aajonus cleaned his own wounds with lime juice after the accident, before applying coconut cream and honey. He stated he did not have gauze and left the wounds open to air. He described: "I cleaned my wounds with lime juice and coated them with coconut cream and honey. I did not have any gauze to cover and protect them so I left them open to air."

Coconut Cream for Wound Coating

After cleaning with lime juice, he applied coconut cream directly to the wounds as a protective coat.

Post-Surgery Protocol for Jaw Wiring

After the Bangkok mugging that broke his jaw bone (which had been knocked under the tongue with three teeth still attached, severing the nerve in two places), and after surgery to wire the jaw and teeth back in place, Aajonus relied on the Primal Diet for full regeneration. He did not specify the exact quantities consumed during this recovery, but referenced eating raw meat generally, as well as consuming cheese during other instances of high toxin exposure (such as after the kidney stone blasting procedure when mercury from vaccines was flushed into his system).

Sleep and Eating During Accident Recovery, Butter/Honey/Meat Protocol

After a later accident (the SUV rollover in Ubon Ratchathani) in which he suffered a concussion, broken left collarbone, and two broken ribs, Aajonus documented the following immediate recovery protocol:

• He slept for 36 hours, waking every 2-4 hours to eat
• Each time he woke, he ate a butter and honey mixture with either meat or a 3-inch section of banana
• He had taken enough butter to consume 1/2 pound per day
• He had Thai friends buy his food and cut the meat into very fine slices placed by his bedside for easy access during waking periods

He noted: "After 36 hours, the pain had subsided enough for me to return to Bangkok." By 57 hours after the accident, he was able to move with little pain as long as he didn't use his left arm.

Oscar's Recovery from Ski Accident, What Aajonus Prescribed

For a ski accident victim named Oscar who had suffered severe injury and been told by doctors he would never ski again, Aajonus prescribed a diet heavy in:

• Raw eggs
• Raw meat with unsalted raw butter
• No-salt-added raw cheese
• Avocado
• Raw milk
• A little raw fruit
• Raw germinated grains

He stated: "Within nine months Oscar was back to skiing like a mad man. Within eighteen months he won two ski ribbons in Switzerland."

Sea Exercise for Leg Recovery

While in the tropics without air conditioning, Aajonus walked in the sea twice daily, at 7 AM and 5:30 PM, for approximately 1.5 hours each session. He described this as exercising his leg in an environment where 19% body fat made him buoyant and reduced his effective body weight in water to approximately one-quarter of normal, allowing the full range of leg movement with minimal weight-bearing stress on the healing tibia and knee. He stated: "I walked in the ocean to exercise this leg high so there would be very little weight on it so I could get the whole leg moving and working again while I heal." He continued this for four weeks.

For Esophageal/Tracheal Scar Tissue (Post-Surgical Guidance)

For a subscriber named Kathy who had undergone triple osteotomy, multiple bronchoscopes with laser surgery, and was facing tracheal reconstruction surgery, Aajonus offered the following guidance:

• Try vinegar/whey gargles for 3-4 months before considering any further surgery, to see if the scar tissue could be reduced without additional intervention
• If surgery was then necessary, allow the surgeon to only scrape the uneven scar tissue, not remove a section of the esophagus/trachea
• He strongly warned against esophageal shortening, citing a patient who had required morphine multiple times daily because of the pain caused by the stomach pulling on a shortened esophagus

He stated: "A shortened esophagus has caused much pain to patients. I knew one man that had to take morphine many times daily because of the pain of the stomach pulling on the esophagus."

Pre- and Post-Surgery Dietary Regime for Keloid Prevention

Aajonus stated that a proper pre- and post-surgery dietary regime and lifestyle can prevent keloidal tissue from developing after surgery. He did not specify an exact formula in the available passages for this preventive protocol beyond the general Primal Diet framework, but stated it as a principle: "Pre- and post-surgery dietary regime and lifestyle can prevent keloidal tissue from developing after your next surgery, if surgery is necessary."

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Aajonus documented recovery timelines in extraordinary detail through his own experiences and the cases of others. These timelines are not estimates, they are documented outcomes from specific injuries.

Broken Tibia (Split Completely from Knee to Ankle, Open Approximately 1/4 Inch in Back), Shattered Pyramid of Tibia Top, Bone Fragments in Femur Joint, Both Knee Tendons Completely Torn:

• Weeks 1-6.5: Complete rest in hotel room. No cast. Had the girls move his leg "very gently" when it needed moving. During this period, he applied the bone-healing formula (pineapple/coconut cream/honey/raw milk every 3-4 hours with 2 tablespoons of cheese before each serving) plus 1 quart of raw milk daily.
• Walked in the sea twice daily (7 AM and 5:30 PM) for approximately 1.5 hours each session, four weeks into the recovery, exercising the leg in buoyant water.
• At 6 weeks: Walked on land without crutches with some pain, mainly in the knee.
• At 6.5 weeks: Returned to the USA.
• Within 2 months: Body fat returned to 22% (from approximately 19%) on large meat consumption and up to 1.5 quarts of raw milk daily.
• At 3 months: Ran (sprinted) a quarter mile on the island of Antigua in the Bahamas. He noted: "Three months after, they said I'd never walk again."
• At 10 weeks: Still had some pain. The leg did not yet stretch out fully.
• At time of reporting: (approximately six months to a year later) "The leg doesn't stretch out but it's only been ten weeks. It's pretty good." In another reference: "This knee doesn't go back all the way yet. But it's close. Another couple of years probably."
• Bone fragment dissolution: The bone fragments from the shattered tibia top dissolved naturally, removing the risk of nerve damage in the joint. He stated the surgeons didn't understand this was possible: "They were afraid. Most people don't dissolve those bone fragments, so they'll stab the nerves in the joint."
• Comparison to surgical outcome: People he had seen who had the surgical intervention (cutting from knee to ankle, cleaning the joint, inserting 8-12 metal pins) had one leg 1-2 inches shorter than the other, calf muscles two-thirds of their original size, and were "walking around like this the rest of their lives", permanently crippled, without complete healing even after 7-25 years.
• His non-surgical outcome: No leg length discrepancy, no muscle atrophy, no permanent crippling. The body's only work was to heal the actual damage rather than also recovering from the surgical damage.

Open Road Rash Wounds from Motorcycle Accident (Skin Gone from Arm, Elbow Bone Exposed, Leg Abrasions, Ankle Bone Shaved by Asphalt):

• At 14 days: All wounds on the highway patrolman (equivalent injuries) were "completely healed and re-grew over. Just a little bit of pinkness." This included areas "down to the bone in spots. Muscle gone too."
• Aajonus's own skin wounds: He described wounds healing completely without grafting using the same protocol.

Broken Jaw, Bone Knocked Under Tongue with Three Teeth Attached, Bilateral Nerve Severance:

• Surgery to wire jaw and teeth in place was performed (approximately $118 in Thailand, which he stated would have cost $30,000-$50,000 in the USA).
• At approximately 5 days post-surgery: Bone that had been in necrosis, pussing, with the bone completely open, showed regrowth. He stated: "About five days later. So, it's all grown back and these teeth are solid in there now."
• The nerve (which specialists declared would never regenerate) showed evidence of partial regeneration: "A little numbness, but the nerve is growing back because I can feel it."
• Comparison: Three specialists had stated the bone would rot, the nerve would not regenerate, and the teeth needed to be extracted.

Broken Left Collarbone and Two Ribs (SUV Rollover):

• At 36 hours: Pain had subsided enough to travel from Ubon Ratchathani to Bangkok.
• At 57 hours: Able to move with little pain as long as the left arm was not used and he was careful getting up.
• Recovery proceeded on the butter/honey/meat protocol with half a pound of butter per day.

Post-Vagotomy Recovery (Historical, Before Primal Diet):

This was not a recovery story but rather a documentation of what happens without proper nutritional support: - Within 6 weeks of surgery: Incision keloided (1.5 inches wide, three-quarters of an inch high) - Following 10 weeks of radiation therapy: Spine cauterized, range of motion nearly zero, four minutes required to sit down, bone around all teeth deteriorated, teeth dangling in gums - Extended period: Two blood transfusions per week; eating own blood as it came from his mouth to prevent the need for transfusions - He described years of suffering from the cascade of complications before he discovered raw food and the Primal Diet

Kidney Stone (Mercury-Centered Stone, Ultrasound Blasting, Not True Surgery):

While not traditional surgery, this represents a medical procedure recovery situation. During ultrasound lithotripsy to blast a kidney stone (which took two hours due to the stone's size, he noted one patient had ten smaller stones removed in 45 minutes), the stone's core was found to be mercury from infant vaccines. When the stone was blasted, a large amount of mercury washed back into his system. His response: he consumed cheese heavily, "I was downing the cheese like crazy because he blew, you know, it was in a fluid, so a lot of it washed back into my system all over." The iris showed "all these metal speckles that I didn't have before. Just riddled with all these metal speckles." He described still working to clean this out at the time of reporting.

Tumor Removal (Lymph Gland Cancer Patient):

The man was "only been on the diet two and a half years" and "so weak and feeble", described as having originally looked like "somebody out of Auschwitz" and having gained 45 pounds on the diet but still being significantly compromised. Aajonus sent him to surgery specifically because "your body doesn't have the strength or energy to dissolve that and get rid of it." Post-surgical outcome: "I talked with the guy five hours after he got the surgery, and he was the funniest, happiest guy." The tumor was not attached to the liver, not attached to any nerves, except the wound end was beginning to adhere to the bone, which the surgeon scraped. "This side was 30 years younger than this side. 30 years younger. Just by having it removed."

This case established Aajonus's explicit threshold for when surgery is appropriate: when the tumor is growing faster than the body can dissolve it, and when the person has been on the diet for less time than would be needed to develop sufficient reserve to accomplish natural dissolution.

Tumor Regrowth After Removal:

He documented a separate case (an elderly man who couldn't breathe or swallow due to tumor growth) where a tumor was surgically removed and regrew within a year to a year and a half. A second surgery was performed. He stated: "it only took a year to grow. For this to grow back. A year and a half for it to grow back. And you see, from having it cut. The body at his age. And he'd been only on the diet, you know, a little bit." The implication: in an elderly person with limited dietary history and limited nutritional reserves, tumor regrowth after surgical removal is to be expected because the underlying terrain has not been adequately addressed.

Facial Cancer (Woman with Nose Cancer):

This woman refused the $125,000 facial reconstruction surgery (which Aajonus predicted would likely kill her within weeks due to the severity and the body's inability to revascularize tissue over plastic prosthesis). She lived for eight more years. She never lost her entire nose, "she hasn't even lost the whole nose yet. And it's been five, six, seven years out of those years." She died peacefully in her sleep.

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