According to Aajonus, ulcers are open sores on the mucous membranes or skin. He states explicitly "ULCERS are open sores on the mucous membranes or skin." This definition encompasses several distinct types, each arising from a different but related set of conditions within his terrain-based framework:

• Stomach (gastric) ulcers, open sores on the mucous membrane lining of the stomach
• Intestinal ulcers, open sores in the intestinal mucous membranes
• Duodenal ulcers, ulcers in the first stage of the stomach/duodenum
• Skin ulcers, open sores on the surface of the skin, which he links to conditions such as psoriasis

Aajonus distinguishes these from mere irritation or inflammation: a true ulcer involves the actual erosion of protective mucous membrane tissue, leaving the underlying wall of the stomach, intestine, or skin exposed to acids, toxins, and other damaging substances.

His personal experience with a stomach ulcer, which he describes in enormous detail across dozens of seminars, serves as the central clinical reference point from which he derived much of his understanding. He describes the ulcer as a physical hole in the stomach wall, the result of his own stomach's hydrochloric acid digesting the stomach lining itself after its protective mucous coating had been stripped away by the combination of alcohol, nicotine, caffeine, amphetamines, and sugar.

He explicitly describes his ulcer as large, in one account he says "a huge ulcer," in another he describes having "a hole in my stomach as big as my fist," and in multiple accounts he describes the ulcer as visible as "a very dark spot" on X-ray. The severity was confirmed by the fact that he was projectile vomiting blood, in one account, "almost three cups in about a minute of vomiting."

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Aajonus identifies multiple interlocking root causes for ulcers, all operating within the terrain theory framework, meaning the body's own internal environment, not an external "germ," is the fundamental origin of the condition.

The primary and most essential cause of stomach and intestinal ulcers, in Aajonus's framework, is the destruction or depletion of the mucous membrane that normally lines and protects the stomach wall. He states: "You know, it just robs your body of mucus. So there's no protection in there. And my own acids ate into my stomach wall, digesting it."

He describes this as a straightforward mechanical consequence: the stomach produces hydrochloric acid to break down food. The mucous membrane is the protective barrier that keeps the stomach's own acid from digesting the stomach wall itself. When that barrier is stripped away or inadequately maintained, primarily through the consumption of substances that dehydrate and damage mucous membranes, the stomach's hydrochloric acid begins to erode the stomach wall itself, creating the ulcer.

Aajonus identifies with precision the substances that caused his ulcers by stripping the protective mucous coating:

• Alcohol, consumed at enormous quantities (up to a fifth of gin or bourbon per night, plus daytime consumption). He identifies alcohol as one of the primary agents that robs the body of mucus and creates conditions favorable to ulceration.
• Nicotine / Cigarette smoking, he smoked two packs of unfiltered Lucky Strike cigarettes per day. He states the nicotine contributed directly to drying out the mucous membranes.
• Caffeine, eleven cups of coffee per day. He also notes that caffeine specifically "interferes with mineral assimilation," which is relevant to healing.
• Amphetamines / Benzedrine / "Greenies", Aajonus was taking benzedrine and what he refers to as "greenies" (amphetamines used by truck drivers) to stay awake. He describes consuming "bins of green" obtained from truck drivers at the trucking company where he worked.
• Aspirin, in the Primal Diet Newsletter, he states: "The alcohol and aspirin cause my stomach ulcer."
• Refined sugar and processed carbohydrates, he was eating powdered donuts, RC colas, boxes of sugar-laden cereal (Rice Krispies with four heaping tablespoons of sugar added), all of which contributed to the toxic burden on the body.

He summarizes the causal sequence clearly: "All that alcohol, the disease, and the smoking. You know, it just robs your body of mucus. So there's no protection in there. And my own acids ate into my stomach wall, digesting it. And also, could have been some kind of toxin that's stored in that part of the stomach lining, but also made it difficult and easy to eat into the wall."

Beyond the mechanical depletion of mucus, Aajonus also mentions a secondary cause: the possibility that toxic compounds stored within the stomach lining itself create additional vulnerability. He states: "could have been some kind of toxin that's stored in that part of the stomach lining, but also made it difficult and easy to eat into the wall." This connects his ulcer etiology to his broader terrain theory: accumulated toxins from cooked food, alcohol, drugs, and industrial chemicals weaken the tissues from within, making them easier to erode.

For skin ulcers specifically, Aajonus gives a distinct but related causal explanation. He states: "Skin ulcers occur in people who have an allergy to cooked and processed red fruits and vegetables, and cannot assimilate minerals." The causal chain here involves:

1. An inability to assimilate minerals due to enzyme-mutation deficiencies 2. Specifically triggered by cooked and processed red fruits and vegetables 3. Industrial chemicals secreting through the skin, damaging cells as they reach the surface and evaporate or shed as dead skin, which, if not adequately buffered by animal fats, can erode the skin into open sores (ulcers) 4. Caffeine further interfering with the mineral assimilation required for healing

He notes: "The best way to harness the toxins and mitigate skin disorders, preventing them from causing ulcers, such as psoriasis, is to consume lots of animal fat, especially no-salt raw butter and raw cream."

For intestinal ulcers, the causal framework connects to his broader explanation of inflammatory bowel conditions. He states that when toxins accumulate in the intestinal tract, due to inadequate mucus production, poor-quality digestion, and the breakdown products of cooked food, the intestinal walls can deteriorate, thin, and ulcerate. This is the same mechanism he describes for IBS, Crohn's, colitis, and peritonitis: "If it's in the intestinal tract, it could be IBS, inflammatory bowel disease. It could be Crohn's. It could be colitis, peritonitis, ulcers. Any one of those if it happens in the intestine."

Aajonus directly addresses the conventional medical claim that bacteria (specifically Campylobacter, which he struggles to name in some seminars, and which modern medicine has associated with H. pylori-linked ulcers) cause ulcers. He emphatically rejects this claim and inverts the conventional interpretation entirely.

He states: "Campylobacter. They say it causes ulcers. You've got all varieties of campylobacter and salmonella. All varieties. Listeria, you have all of those. They try to tell you they're bad. But they go in there and they eat the food and digest it for you. Their excrement is our food, is our digested food."

Furthermore, from his experiment documented, he provides direct observational evidence: "In another experiment, I observed several groups of people who had stomach ulcers. One group took either Maalox or antibiotics. Another group drank his or her own urine. A third group drank urine and ate a raw diet. The ulcers in those who ate raw foods and drank urine healed two times faster than those who only drank urine. The ulcers in those treated with medication grew larger."

And even more pointedly: "I asked those who were taking medication to discontinue medication. After one week I observed that their stomach secretions had higher bacterial levels. Concurrently, I observed that the ulcers had diminished in size and/or were less inflamed. Conclusion: Drugs kill bacteria and retard healing. Bacteria inspires healing."

His conclusion is that the bacteria conventionally blamed for causing ulcers are in fact the body's primary healing agents. Destroying them with antibiotics or suppressing the stomach's environment with antacids prevents healing, causes the ulcers to grow larger, and ultimately leads to tumor formation.

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Ulcers, in Aajonus's framework, sit at the intersection of multiple principles:

Primarily: Root Cause / Terrain Theory The ulcer itself is the direct result of a destroyed terrain, specifically the mucous membrane barrier, caused by chemical assault (alcohol, nicotine, caffeine, amphetamines, aspirin, refined sugar). The body's own acid, without its protective mucous lining, erodes the stomach wall. This is terrain theory in its most mechanical and literal expression: the internal environment has been compromised, and the body is now being damaged by its own processes.

Cooked Food / Processed Food The definition of ulcers links them to enzyme-mutation deficiencies specifically related to cooked and processed red fruits and vegetables. This places ulcers firmly in Cooked Food of his philosophy: the inability to properly assimilate minerals from cooked and processed foods creates the biological vulnerability that manifests as ulceration.

Microbes (Inverted) Aajonus's argument about bacteria, specifically that Campylobacter, Salmonella, E. coli, and Listeria are healing agents rather than causative agents of ulcers, places this condition in Microbes as a counter-argument to germ theory.

Sovereignty His personal story of ulcer treatment, the Maalox, the vagotomy pyloroplasty, the radiation, the cascading iatrogenic diseases, is the central biographical narrative he uses throughout his entire body of work to illustrate the dangers of medical dependency and the importance of health sovereignty. The ulcer story is the origin point of his own journey into raw food healing.

Detoxification The progression from ulcer to tumor, and eventually to his entire cancer cascade, represents what happens when the body's natural detoxification capacity is overwhelmed and then medically suppressed rather than supported.

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Aajonus experienced projectile vomiting of blood as the primary symptom that revealed his ulcer. He does not treat this as the disease itself but as the signal, the body's way of communicating that the stomach lining has been breached and the acid is now eroding the stomach wall directly. He describes it across multiple accounts with remarkable specificity:

• "I started vomiting blood, projectile vomiting blood."
• "I almost vomited three cups in about a minute of vomiting."
• "I'm not talking about little blood. I'm talking about cups of blood."
• "Blood trailed with the vomit."

He references stomach pain and "burning stomach" in the context of lacking protective fats. He explains the mechanism: "If you don't have good fat in your tissues, protecting your skin, what happens? The sun will burn you. It'll cause you to dry out, you'll flake... Any acid in the fluids of your body. You've got the fats there to keep it from eating into your cellular wall." This applies directly to the stomach: without protective fat and mucus, the stomach's own acids cause burning pain.

He also describes in one passage how cooked carbohydrates specifically worsen this burning: "If you put heavy foods in there that don't digest easily, that are high in sugars, they have to form poor acetates or high in advanced glycation end products. It'll cause more irritation to that ulcer."

Once Aajonus began taking Maalox, he developed bloating as an additional symptom: "I stopped digesting, basically, and then it got worse very quickly." He became "bloated and bloated and bloated." In his framework, this is not a symptom of the ulcer itself but a symptom of the treatment, the Maalox was absorbing all his hydrochloric acid and all intestinal juices as it passed through the intestines, causing complete digestive failure.

He documents dramatic weight loss and increasing weakness during the Maalox treatment period: "I was getting skinnier and skinnier, even though I ate lots of powdered doughnuts and RC colas." Again, in his framework, this is not the ulcer's doing but the Maalox's: by destroying his ability to digest anything, the Maalox made it impossible for his body to absorb nutrients, creating progressive malnutrition even while eating.

Conventional medicine frames elevated bacteria in ulcer patients as pathological. Aajonus reframes this as the healing response. From his observational experiment: increased bacterial levels in the stomach correlated directly with reduced ulcer size and less inflammation. The bacteria are doing the healing work. Suppressing them, with antibiotics or antacids, makes the ulcers grow larger.

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Aajonus provides a detailed, multi-phase dietary protocol for ulcers, supplemented by comments in seminars.

He prescribes a specific protocol for the first seven days:

"Drinking plenty of smoothies for one week, and eating raw butter, unripe papaya and other unripe fruit (but no tomato or citrus) bind toxins and revitalize the tissues."

Key elements of Phase 1: - Smoothies, consumed "plenty" throughout the day; these are Primal Diet smoothies (raw eggs, raw milk, raw cream, raw honey, typically) - Raw butter, consumed as a primary healing fat; protective of the stomach and intestinal lining; binds toxins - Unripe papaya, specifically unripe (not ripe), as unripe papaya contains papain and other enzymes that help bind toxins and revitalize tissue without feeding fermentation in an irritated gut - Other unripe fruit, unripe bananas, unripe melons, unripe pineapple are acceptable - No tomato, explicitly excluded from the unripe fruit category even though tomato is technically a fruit - No citrus, explicitly excluded; citrus is too acidic for an ulcerated mucous membrane

The rationale for unripe versus ripe fruit: ripe fruits are higher in sugars and can ferment in a damaged digestive tract, creating additional irritation. Unripe fruits contain more enzyme compounds that bind and neutralize toxins.

After the first week of smoothies and unripe fruit, he introduces a more complete protocol. He states: "After one week, the following regime detoxifies toxins that are stored in stomach and intestinal tissues."

In one seminar, Aajonus speaks directly to someone with an ulcer and prescribes cream as a primary soothing agent: "As long as you don't eat those and you're eating lots of cream, it will soothe that area. So you won't have all the heartburn and that, in fact, will have less pain."

He explains the mechanism: cream is protective fat. It coats the stomach lining, reduces contact between stomach acid and the ulcerated tissue, and prevents further erosion. This is the raw food equivalent of what Maalox was supposed to do, but instead of absorbing the acid and destroying digestion, cream works by physically coating and protecting the tissue while still allowing digestion to proceed.

He also states the inverse: "If you put heavy foods in there that don't digest easily, that are high in sugars, they have to form poor acetates or high in advanced glycation end products. It'll cause more irritation to that ulcer." So cream (easily digestible raw fat) is explicitly preferable to cooked carbohydrates and sugary foods for ulcer management.

For healing skin ulcers specifically, Aajonus states: "Eating no-salt-added raw cheese helps to heal."

Raw cheese is one of his primary mineral-delivery and toxin-binding foods. The no-salt qualification is important, salt-added cheese, in his framework, involves pasteurized processed forms and would be counterproductive.

For skin ulcers: "Drinking good mineral water and unheated honey, and being active, flush the skin with minerals to bind with toxins and neutralize them."

• Mineral water, 2–4 cups daily; provides the mineral supply needed when caffeine has been interfering with mineral assimilation
• Unheated honey, must be unheated (raw, unpasteurized); helps bind toxins in the skin and delivers minerals and enzymes
• Activity / movement, explicitly prescribed alongside the foods; physical movement helps circulate minerals to the skin surface

"The best way to harness the toxins and mitigate skin disorders, preventing them from causing ulcers, such as psoriasis, is to consume lots of animal fat, especially no-salt raw butter and raw cream."

The reasoning: as industrial chemicals and toxins move through the body toward the skin surface (their primary elimination route, since approximately twice as many toxins are stored in the skin as elsewhere), they damage skin cells as they pass through. Animal fats, especially raw butter and raw cream, bind with these toxins before or as they reach the skin surface, neutralizing their damaging effect and preventing them from eroding skin tissue into open ulcers.

Aajonus documents his observation of a group experiment in which drinking one's own urine was used as part of ulcer treatment. He found that those who drank urine healed their ulcers twice as fast as those who used no treatment at all. The group that combined raw food diet with urine drinking healed fastest of all. He states this not as a primary protocol recommendation but as an observational result from his experiments.

He references the "Lubrication/Moisturizing Formula" from his recipe book as protective for skin exposed to toxins passing through it, which is relevant to skin ulcer prevention and healing.

For skin, he recommends: "Applying bone marrow or no-salt raw butter to the skin will help protect the skin directly." This is a topical application to protect and heal skin ulcers and prevent industrial toxins from eroding the skin surface.

As a supportive detoxification measure for skin conditions including skin ulcers, he prescribes: "Hot baths help remove toxins through the skin as long as 3/4 cup milk, 3-4 T. raw apple cider vinegar and 4 T. coconut cream are in the bath water."

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Aajonus's observational data from We Want to Live provides the clearest healing timeline he documented:

• Group taking Maalox or antibiotics: ulcers grew larger throughout treatment; when medication was discontinued, after one week bacterial levels rose and ulcers "had diminished in size and/or were less inflamed"
• Group drinking urine only: ulcers healed faster than medicated group
• Group drinking urine and eating raw diet: ulcers healed twice as fast as the urine-only group

This is the only specific comparative healing timeline he provides from direct observation.

The first week is devoted to smoothies, raw butter, unripe papaya, and other unripe fruits (no tomato or citrus). After one week, the full detoxification regime begins to address the toxins stored in the stomach and intestinal tissues. He does not specify a total duration in the passages available.

Aajonus does not give a precise timeline for his own ulcer healing through raw food, because his healing from the ulcer specifically was overtaken by the cascading iatrogenic diseases (tumor, surgery, radiation, bone cancer, chemotherapy, lymphoma) that resulted from the conventional treatment. His overall recovery from all of his accumulated conditions took years on raw food, he began seriously healing after discovering raw milk, raw meat, and eventually the full Primal Diet.

He describes the turning point: "Until I discovered raw milk", which he states he had been consuming since around age 22 (when he also learned to read). His death sentence was age 21. He outlived it.

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