Aajonus rejected the entire conventional medical framework for understanding what the thyroid does and therefore what a "thyroid problem" means. His definition starts from a completely different premise about the thyroid's biological purpose.

The thyroid is an emergency gland, not a daily-function gland.

In his own words: "The thyroid does not normally have any relationship to normal energy or well being." The thyroid's actual biological job, according to Aajonus, is to protect the lungs and the heart. Specifically, the thyroid produces thyroxines, T3, T4, and the other varieties, to bind with toxins that come down into the throat area, and, more critically, to restart the heart and lungs in emergency situations.

He stated this directly and repeatedly: "Normally, the thyroid protects the heart and lungs. If you are in an accident, wherein your heart and lungs stop, thyroxines are produced to jump-start the heart and lungs."

He gave the football player example as empirical evidence: "Take a look at your football players. Getting hit by six, seven guys at a time. Whammo, wind knocked out of them, heart stops beating. Up and off the ground in a few minutes or a minute less. Why? Because the thyroid glands working. Done some tests on those guys. After they've been hit, you take their blood level, the thyroxin is off the roof. Very high. Only time it's that high is when they get the wind knocked out of them or heart stops beating."

He extended this to cardiac patients: "What happens with a cardiac patient when the heart stops beating? High thyroxin levels for the next 20, 30 minutes. Even if they don't survive, the body's trying to get that heart beating again."

The primate model: "Animals who are healthy, that's the only time, primates who are healthy, that's the only time the thyroid kicks in, is when there's a blow to the chest and it takes the wind away and respiration stops. Sometimes heart functions will stop. Heartbeats will stop. The thyroxin immediately gets into the blood and stimulates the breathing again and the heart palpitations. Otherwise, they may not start again. So they're a kickstart."

Aajonus placed enormous significance on the anatomical reality of six thyroid-related glands as proof of what the thyroid is actually protecting:

"The thyroid has six thyroids. Right, left, and two parathyroids on each one. What is so important in the human body that you need five backups for one gland? Lungs and the heart. Sitting right there."

He described the parathyroids specifically: "These two little bitty ones on each side can produce as much as the whole thyroid can in the same amount of time. And they are the backup. They're like the adrenals. They can kick in a lot in a short period. But we very, most of the time they're supposed to be rarely used."

He described this as a cascade of backups: "We have two thyroid glands, four parathyroids. You've got a backup for the backup for the backup for the backup for the backup for the backup for the backup. What is so important that your body would build six glands to keep something functioning? Two things. Heart. Lungs."

He then used this anatomy to demolish the pharmaceutical claim that thyroid governs weight and hair: "What is the quickest way to get people to take medication? Put them where their vanity fears are. Hair loss, weight gain. It's a thyroid problem. Take our thyroid medication. So, nothing to do with that."

And: "Thyroid has nothing to do with hair growth. It has nothing to do with energy level. It has nothing to do with how the adrenal glands work. And they picked all these out. Oh, the T6 and the T3 and the T2. They will do this different crap. And it's bullshit. Absolute bullshit."

Aajonus did acknowledge the appearance of thyroid governing other glandular functions but reframed it entirely:

"The thyroid seems to help the lungs and the heartbeat and other glands. It keeps them in proportion to working. If those other glands aren't working and aren't producing them, building thyroxin is not going to make those glands work better because it doesn't happen that way. The body can take any kind of a hormone and convert it into a detoxifier and a virus to dissolve toxicity."

He also said: "Now, what they're not taking a look at is is the body taking that thyroxin, those varieties of thyroxin, and sending them to those other glands to be restructured into the hormones for those planes. And that is my understanding of it in my laboratory work of how it's working. The medical profession loves to throw an idea out there and say, that's the way it is, believe it, without ever proving it. So the idea that the thyroid is directing those other glands to work is false to me."

An underactive thyroid, in Aajonus's framework, does not mean a gland that is inherently broken or deficient. It means one of several things:

1. The thyroxine is being fully used up, not absent, just consumed. He made this point through the spending metaphor: "If I give you a million dollars to spend a day and you spend every bit out of it, are you poor? Are you poor? No, you're not poor, you spend it. So let's say you produce thyroxine and you produce insulin, but you use it all. Does that mean you're deficient? Not at all, not at all."

2. The thyroid is exhausted from overwork, due to toxin overload: "We believe that the thyroid was meant to protect the lungs, the throat area, any contamination that comes down. To produce thyroxine, T3 and T4, all of them to bind with toxins. We are so overloaded with toxins, the thyroid is overworked. When you're overloaded with toxins, what happens? Your hair starts falling out. You have a lot of other problems. But it isn't directly the thyroid that's the problem. You've exhausted the thyroid."

3. Toxic sugar stored in the thyroid, causing hypothyroidism: "If there's a toxic sugar store in the thyroid, it can cause hypothyroidism."

4. The body is diverting its resources, using hormone-producing capacity elsewhere because of an inundation of toxins.

An overactive thyroid means the body is in a chronic or severe emergency state, the thyroid is being called upon constantly because the body is constantly in the kind of crisis it was only designed to address in acute moments:

"We are so overloaded with toxins that the thyroid is overworked."

And: "Hyperthyroid is a condition where the thyroid overproduces hormones. The same causes and suggestions as hyperactivity usually works."

In reading sessions, Aajonus observed hyperthyroid presentations and described what he saw: "So, you have hyperthyroidism. I'm not a doctor. I can't diagnose, but this is what it looks like in hyperthyroidism.", in a case where the parathyroid on the right side was very overactive while the pancreas was debilitated.

Aajonus made the bold claim that most people diagnosed with thyroid problems do not actually have them:

"85% of the people who have been diagnosed with thyroid problems are taking thyroid medication. Nothing wrong with the thyroid. Nothing wrong with the thyroid. It just was dormant or the body was using all the thyroxine and there's nothing left. That doesn't mean they're poor."

And: "A lot of the people who are told that they have thyroid problems do not have thyroid problems."

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Aajonus was explicit that the single most common root cause of all thyroid dysfunction, both underactive and overactive, is toxin overload. The thyroid is not malfunctioning because it is inherently diseased; it is exhausted because it has been called upon continuously in a body flooded with industrial chemicals, pesticides, herbicides, processed food byproducts, pharmaceutical drugs, heavy metals, and cooked food toxins.

"The thyroid is overworked. When you're overloaded with toxins, what happens? Your hair starts falling out. You have a lot of other problems. But it isn't directly the thyroid that's the problem. You've exhausted the thyroid. You no longer take care of the poisons."

The dietary cause runs through the framework of cooked food destroying the enzyme and nutrient matrix that the body needs to function cleanly:

"Those are radically dangerous to the nervous system and to the hormone development or the hormone synthesis of all glandular activity. Even prostaglandins, hormones are considered extra tissue, extracellular. If you have, when your liver produces a hormone, or your testes or your ovaries, that is a hormone."

He also described how toxic sugar from processed food, when stored in the thyroid, can directly cause hypothyroidism: "If there's a toxic sugar store in the thyroid, it can cause hypothyroidism. It can damage your liver. It can damage your pancreas and lead to diabetes."

Aajonus described how overactive glands, initially sustained by toxic stimulation, eventually collapse into underactivity:

"They progressively deteriorate but do not realize it because they have great energy produced by hormones from overactive glands. That means they have an over-abundance of hormones. Much of the hormonal overproduction is from toxic junk food full of preservatives, pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, chemical fertilizers, hormones, antibiotics and other drugs fed to crops and animals we eat. Those hormones are often used by their bodies to replace the destroyed nutrients in cooked and processed food, to stimulate energy levels, and to mask illness symptoms without eliminating disease. Many of those people's glands become too toxic, may harden later in life and/or become fatigued."

"The heterocyclic amines, which are protein toxins that are formed from cooking. Those are radically dangerous to the nervous system and to the hormone development or the hormone synthesis of all glandular activity."

In multiple individual readings, Aajonus identified heavy metal poisoning and industrial chemical exposure as directly debilitating thyroid function. In one case involving a mechanic: "Normally he doesn't have overactive testes. So it usually means that somebody wouldn't be overactive sexually. But when these kind of poisons get in and irritate the glands and get into the glands, like the testes, it makes them overactive because the body wants to ejaculate and to discharge it with the fats and proteins that are in the sperm." The same principle applied to thyroid glands being irritated and driven overactive by industrial toxins.

"I have found that the resultant stress overtaxes the nervous and glandular systems. Neural and glandular irritation and exhaustion result in actual physiological imbalances, such as: hypoglycemia, diabetes, thinning of neural membranes, and thyroid malfunction."

In multiple readings, Aajonus connected inactive thyroid glands with long-term vegetarian diets causing protein deficiency and glandular tissue breakdown. In one case of a 25-year vegetarian: "There's no stable protein anywhere in your body. You're very fragile, very frail... Both thyroids are inactive."

In another case where excessive fruit was being consumed: "It's eating away 50% of this particular gland. Up here, it's dissolved almost completely, your thyroid. Thyroid is not active. Your parathyroid on the right side is good. Your parathyroid on your left is half gone too."

Aajonus explicitly rejected the conventional claim that iodine deficiency causes thyroid problems:

"They purport the particular chemical (element found only in rock when not bioactive) iodine will protect you from thyroid cancer. They claim, with skewed scientific data, that the thyroid is responsible for all sorts of functions. There are no case-study facts that are not skewed on the subject of thyroid functions that could draw such absolute conclusions."

He went further: "Iodine is always poisonous when isolated. Isolated, it is used as a bacteria killer (antiseptic) in medicine and dairy farming (teats are 'cleansed' with iodine wash to kill bacteria). Isolated iodine has many industrial uses, and all are toxic. Animals that do not ingest foods high in iodine do not have higher rates of thyroid problems or thyroid cancers. Animals whose diets are low in iodine do not have higher rates of thyroid problems or thyroid cancers."

"Hyperthyroid usually follows a cold or flu because the thyroid may be exhausted following that type of detox."

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Thyroid dysfunction sits at the intersection of multiple causal principles in Aajonus's framework:

Primary: Cooked Food, The destruction of enzymes and nutrients in cooked food removes the building blocks needed for clean glandular function. Heterocyclic amines from cooked proteins directly damage hormone synthesis. Toxic sugars from processed food deposit in the thyroid causing hypothyroidism.

Primary: Root Cause / Terrain Theory, The thyroid is not attacking itself (Hashimoto's), it is not inherently diseased, and it is not failing from some internal defect. The terrain is toxic, the gland is responding to that toxic terrain. The root cause is always industrial toxicity and dietary toxicity, not the gland.

Primary: Detoxification, In both Hashimoto's disease and hyperthyroid following flu, Aajonus framed the condition as a detoxification process. The body is cleaning the thyroid, not attacking it. Dead cells accumulate as nodules. The lymphatic system becomes overwhelmed.

Secondary: Microbes, Fungus enters a thyroid "damaged with chemicals, industrial chemicals" to eat the damaged tissue. This is then misinterpreted by medicine as "the body attacking itself."

Secondary: Sovereignty, The pharmaceutical industry's entire thyroid medication industry is framed by Aajonus as a deliberate exploitation of human vanity (fear of hair loss and weight gain) and ignorance, manufacturing patients for synthetic hormone drugs that further deteriorate natural thyroid function.

Secondary: How to Eat / How to Live, The actual resolution of thyroid problems lies entirely in diet: raw meat, raw fats, vanilla extract, dates, butter, cheese, raw glandular tissue. Not synthetic or even natural sterilized hormone supplements.

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Aajonus reframed these as signs not of thyroid gland failure but of:

• Low energy: The body is using its hormones as emergency fuel because the diet does not provide enough clean bioavailable nutrition. "Hormones are 60, 80% fat, about 15% protein. So when the body is always in a state of emergency, it's pulling fats and proteins from your own tissues to make these hormones rather than getting them from food."
• Hair loss: Not caused by the thyroid at all. "Thyroid has nothing to do with hair growth." Hair falls out because the body is toxic and deficient in proper raw fats and proteins.
• Fearful nature: Noted as a presenting personality characteristic, not a consequence of hormone levels per se.

From the Q&A regarding a person who had developed hyperthyroidism following a severe flu: "rapid heart beat 90+ beats per minute at rest, feeling hyper/agitated and yet extremely fatigued, trembling, severe insomnia, heat/sweating."

Aajonus's interpretation of these symptoms: "Some of those symptoms are indications of intense healing." The thyroid is not malfunctioning; it is working extremely hard in emergency mode because the body is in the aftermath of a major detoxification event (the flu), and the thyroid is exhausted and attempting to reconstitute.

The comparison he made: "As with infants, lots of sleep and frequent naps helps the healing process."

This is one of Aajonus's most specific symptom reframings. The conventional narrative is that the immune system attacks and destroys thyroid tissue, creating antibodies against the thyroid. Aajonus reframed this entirely:

"Attacking! Detoxing the thyroid gland."

When pressed further on the mechanism, "For some reason. But it's actually building up antibodies against the thyroid, shutting down the thyroid", Aajonus responded: "Yes. Well, it shuts it down while it takes it apart and cleans it out. They used to do that with my clients who had liver damage and all of a sudden they would find all of these liver cells in the blood and freak out and then freak my clients out. It had nothing to do with the fact that it was getting rid of the dead cells. Of course it's going to do that!"

From the newsletter, Aajonus wrote to the patient with Hashimoto's directly:

"Realistically, the body is not attacking itself. It is merely trying to improve its localized and overall health by removing poisons and the contaminated cells. We should embrace infections (cleansings) and nurture our bodies' cleansing-processes rather than fear them, and not panic when they occur."

He added: "In the last 30 years, I have suggested diets for several people (12?) diagnosed with so-called autoimmune thyroid disease (Hoshimoto). None have died from it and all have improved considerably. Most are completely asymptomatic."

When asked about thyroid nodules: "That's again dead cells that are collecting. Warts, moles are all dead cells. They're tumors. Tumors of dead cells."

When asked about an enlarged thyroid/goiter with a nodule of 1.35 cm: "When the body's lymphatic system was not dissolving dead cells and eliminating the waste. When lymph do not work properly, the body stores the dead cells somewhere."

The idea that the thyroid attacking itself (leading to enlargement) was also addressed: "The idea that the thyroid is attacking itself is sheer Hollywood nonsense."

He described the actual biological process: fungus enters damaged thyroid tissue to eat it. Medicine misreads this microbial cleanup operation as "autoimmune attack": "ome fungus to go in and eat that thyroid that's been damaged with chemicals, industrial chemicals. So they say, oh, the cell, the body's stupid. It's attacking itself. It's all crap. Nonsense."

A patient raised the question of TSH levels: their TSH had climbed to 10 (conventional medicine says it should be less than 4.0). Aajonus's framework for interpreting blood tests:

"You're just looking at the blood. You're not testing how much is in my blood every 15 minutes or every hour. You're testing one time. One time in a year, maybe. What can you tell from one time in a year? If I give you a million dollars to spend a day and you spend every bit out of it, are you poor?"

He stated that TSH and other thyroid hormone measurements are not evidence of thyroid disease but of the body fully utilizing what it produces, which is normal and healthy if the body is using resources efficiently.

Aajonus referenced working with people diagnosed with thyroid cancer (including papillary carcinoma confirmed by fine needle aspiration). His reframe: "None have died from it and all have improved considerably." The cancer is a manifestation of the same toxicity process, dead, hardened, damaged cells that the lymphatic system has failed to clear. The appropriate response is not surgery but supporting lymphatic flow and providing nutrients for the body to cleanse and heal.

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Quantities: Two dates a day, specifically medjool dates, with equal amount of cheese and equal amount of butter, just once a day.

From a workshop reading: "Dates with butter and cheese would be very helpful for your thyroid. Two dates a day, medjool dates with equal amount of cheese and about equal amount of butter. Just once a day."

Alkalizing foods, to cleanse the thyroid of toxic minerals: "Eating plenty of alkalizing foods (like tomato) cleanses the thyroid, especially of toxic minerals, including those caused by table salts."

However, he noted a precaution: "If this diet doesn't correct the condition within eleven weeks, eating a natural raw thyroid glandular supplement may be necessary."

And the fallback: "However, if neither the diet nor the glandular supplement helps, going to a doctor for prescription thyroid hormones may be required for proper hormonal balance." (This is presented as a last resort option in the book, with no endorsement of synthetic hormones as a first or even second step.)

Primary food combination: "Eating 5 ounces of raw chicken at the same time as eating 3 ounces of fish with 1/4 teaspoon royal jelly helps the thyroid regain its composure."

These three are eaten together simultaneously, not separately.

Sleep and rest: "As with infants, lots of sleep and frequent naps helps the healing process."

Aajonus recommended vanilla extract as a daily thyroid stimulant when the thyroid was underactive:

"I would say you really need to stop taking those supplements. And you need to take the vanilla extract just about every day. A quarter of a teaspoon to a half a teaspoon every day. That will stimulate the thyroid and get it going."

He specified it must be a particular brand: "That's the only one I know of that's organic."

This is the most detailed and personally documented protocol Aajonus described. He used it himself:

Preparation: "I get a thyroid of a calf or something and I will take the thyroid and cut it up into three parts and I'll blend it with milk and it tastes like clam chowder. Put a little red onion in and blend it together so it's like clam chowder."

More detail from another account: "I took the thyroid of a calf which is about three pounds and about this large. And what I do is cut it in the thirds and it would come out about the size of my fist and I would blend it without much milk and with a little red onion. And I would blend it in a 12-ounce jar, a canning jar, a canning jelly jar. And it tasted like clam chowder."

Source: Calf thyroid or buffalo calf thyroid.

Frequency and duration: - First time: lasted six months with no recurrence - Second time: lasted over nine months - Third time: lasted one and a half years (eighteen months) - Last time before the account: lasted three years - General statement: "It only takes eating one whole thyroid once every year to year and two years."

Why it works vs. supplements: "Before I tried that, I also tried the freeze-dried thyroid supplements, the freeze-dried gland, the same thing I was eating fresh. I had it freeze-dried raw, freeze-dried. I still have to take them continuously to have an effect. But with the raw thyroid gland, I eat it and I don't have to touch it for months."

He described it as "quite delicious but very, very rich and salty, just like clam chowder."

When whole fresh thyroid is not available, Aajonus described a specific protocol using raw (not freeze-dried) thyroid glandular supplements (specifically Nutripack brand was mentioned):

Initial loading phase: "Take five tablets with a meat meal. Five days the first session of it. So it would be five tablets all at once for five days with a meat meal."

Why with meat: "Because you are eating it with the tissue that relates to meat. Because thyroid is a meat. And the body will carry it. The body will already be dealing with the protein in the meat tissue and its chemicals, everything is geared for that. So putting it in at that time is the best."

Maintenance phase: "Then let three weeks go by, then have four tablets for four days. And let three weeks go by again and just keep repeating the four for about a year."

Frequency of repetition: - First cycle: 5 tablets × 5 days with meat - Subsequent cycles: 4 tablets × 4 days with meat, every three weeks, repeated for approximately one year

Stated purpose: "To stimulate the thyroid."

Critical warning about thyroid supplements: "If you take any kind of thyroxin, T3 or T4 supplement, thyroid is not going to do anything. It's going to start atrophying. It's going to shut down. Just like pancreas' when you take the insulin. You will never get that pancreas back together if it's deteriorated completely."

This means: synthetic thyroid medications and even "natural" sterilized thyroid preparations are counterproductive because they signal the thyroid to stop working and begin atrophying. The raw glandular approach works differently because it provides raw material for the gland to use rather than replacing its function.

In one workshop reading for someone with inactive thyroid and debilitated glands:

"You need lots of chicken, lots of beef, a little fish."

For another person with thyroid and general glandular needs: "You need a lot of glands or help, thyroid, lungs, parathyroid, which are attached. So when you get the thyroid, you get the parathyroids with it. Testes, you need some glands. And that will help you bounce back quicker."

From the glandular readings, the principle is that eating the raw gland that corresponds to the deficient gland in the patient is the direct way to provide what the body needs to rebuild it.

For thyroid nodules and Hashimoto's with enlarged thyroid/goiter:

Step 1: "The natural way to remove those dead hard cells is to gently rub pineapple juice to your neck once daily."

Step 2: "20 minutes later, rub no-salt raw butter into your neck."

Supporting lymphatic function: "To help your lymphatic system functions to dissolve dead cells regularly, I suggest raw apple cider vinegar daily, up to 2 T., but cheese must be eaten regularly to ensure you do not develop a mineral deficiency. The vinegar would be best consumed in my Sport Formula."

Pineapple: "I suggest that you eat 1/2 cup pineapple at least 3 days weekly but no more than 4 days weekly."

From workshop recommendations for individuals with thyroid and glandular issues:

One protocol: "90 percent celery, 10 percent parsley. For about six weeks, then lower it to 80 percent celery, 10 percent parsley, and 10 percent zucchini. Every other week, in one day's juice, one quart is one-third of a lime or one-half of a lemon rind and all in the juice."

Another juice combination mentioned for glandular support: "60% celery, 20% parsley, and then half an orange."

Another variation: "Juice 60% celery, 20% parsley, 10% carrot and 10% cucumber. And if the cucumber isn't organic peel it."

"Also eating eggs with butter. Butter and cheese. Dates with butter and cheese would be very helpful for your thyroid."

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"The thyroid usually reconstitutes and rebalances within 3 months if thyroxin supplementation is not taken."

This is one of Aajonus's most specific timeline statements. The critical qualifier is the absence of thyroxin supplementation, taking it interrupts and prevents the natural reconstitution process.

Aajonus documented his own recovery timeline from eating whole raw calf thyroid:

• First eating: Normal thyroid function for six months with no supplementation needed
• Second eating (after six months): Function lasted over nine months
• Third eating: Function lasted one and a half years (eighteen months)
• Fourth eating (last described): Function lasted three years
• General stated expectation for clients: "It only takes eating one whole thyroid once every year to year and two years."

The pattern shows a progressive lengthening of benefit, suggesting the gland is gradually rebuilding its own capacity with each cycle.

When using the Nutripack tablet protocol: - Cycle 1: 5 tablets × 5 consecutive days with meat - Three weeks rest - Cycle 2 and onwards: 4 tablets × 4 consecutive days with meat, every three weeks - Total duration: approximately one year of cycling

Specific outcome mentioned: "And hopefully you will see that the brown starts clearing up." (This referred to a specific symptom in the patient being treated, suggesting a visible marker of thyroid/glandular recovery.)

"In the last 30 years, I have suggested diets for several people (12?) diagnosed with so-called autoimmune thyroid disease (Hoshimoto). None have died from it and all have improved considerably. Most are completely asymptomatic."

No specific timeline given for Hashimoto's resolution, but the 30-year retrospective suggests it can take considerable time and that outcomes are measured in terms of symptom elimination and improvement rather than a specific fixed endpoint.

This gives an eleven-week timeframe for dietary intervention alone to be assessed as effective or insufficient before escalating to glandular supplementation.

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