Raw Cow Milk
Raw Dairy & EggsRaw Cow Milk

Raw cow milk is one of the most foundational, frequently consumed, and deeply therapeutic foods in the Primal Diet. Aajonus described it as composing fully 60% of his own daily diet, stating plainly: "Raw dairy is 60% of my diet." He identified it as one of the greatest health-supplying foods he had ever encountered across decades of personal experimentation and clinical observation with thousands of clients. He stated: "Nothing in all of my dietary exploration with myself and 98% of the people with whom I have worked has prospered more toward better health than with truly organic raw dairy with its many health-supplying nutrients."

DetoxifyingAlkalizingProbiotic
CategoryRaw Dairy & Eggs
Primary ActionContinuous lipid barrier; neurotoxin interception; sleep support
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Best Pairing{Best Pairing}
Overview

Overview

Raw cow milk is one of the most foundational, frequently consumed, and deeply therapeutic foods in the Primal Diet. Aajonus described it as composing fully 60% of his own daily diet, stating plainly: "Raw dairy is 60% of my diet." He identified it as one of the greatest health-supplying foods he had ever encountered across decades of personal experimentation and clinical observation with thousands of clients. He stated: "Nothing in all of my dietary exploration with myself and 98% of the people with whom I have worked has prospered more toward better health than with truly organic raw dairy with its many health-supplying nutrients."

Raw cow milk occupies a central role in the Primal Diet not merely as a food but as a primary vehicle for mineral delivery, nervous system support, cellular regeneration, and toxin neutralization. Aajonus described raw dairy as providing "high mineral concentration and soothing, nerve-protecting fats" that "counteract just about every toxin on earth." He emphasized that this counteractive property is precisely why government agencies have fought to suppress it.

Aajonus pointed to his own survival and healing as proof of raw milk's power: "If raw dairy were harmful, it would not have helped heal me from the myriad of diseases I suffered. I would not be alive and well today." He also pointed to historical tribal cultures, specifically the Masai, Samburu, and Fulani peoples, as empirical proof of raw milk's safety and life-sustaining properties: "The Masai, Samburu and Fulani thrived for thousands of years eating predominantly raw milk products. If raw dairy were dangerous and harmful, they would have been extinct thousands of years ago."

Beyond his own case, Aajonus cited a 96-year-old man who "remains active in work and sex while living mainly on raw dairy," calling him a living testimonial to the diet's power, while acknowledging that he represents the upper end of possibility because "the rule is that mostly, people consume cooked and processed foods."

He further stated that empirical evidence in "hundreds of thousands of testimonials proves that organic raw dairy supplies our bodies with vital nutrients not available in industrially-processed dairy." He noted that "thousands of so-called 'at risk' people have reversed their conditions that placed them in the 'at risk' categories by consuming raw dairy, including me."

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Properties and Effects

Properties and Effects

Mineral Delivery and Toxin Neutralization

Aajonus identified raw milk's high mineral concentration as one of its most critical properties. The minerals in raw dairy serve to bind with and neutralize toxins in the stomach and intestinal walls. He described this mechanism directly: "The body uses its minerals in dairy to bind and harness toxins in stomach and intestinal walls." He recommended that when symptoms such as bloating and discomfort arise from eating raw dairy, consumption be reduced but not completely avoided, because "those nutrients are needed, especially no-salt raw cheese with its concentrated minerals and raw butter with its healing fats."

He specifically identified raw milk as a critical source of alkalinizing minerals needed to bind with and neutralize metallic free-radicals and chemicals, and noted: "Often, simply raw milk is needed. When symptoms are chronic, both raw milk and raw cheese may be needed."

He documented children achieving restful sleep within one day of eating raw dairy and eliminating processed foods, crediting the alkalinizing minerals in raw dairy with neutralizing the metallic free-radicals causing hyperactivity and sleep disruption.

Nerve-Protecting Fats

Aajonus consistently identified the fats in raw milk as soothing, nerve-protecting, and calming. He described these properties as so distinctive that even raw coconut milk, while providing some similar qualities, "serves somewhat as a raw dairy substitute but not completely." He noted the unique and irreplaceable nature of raw milk's fat profile, stating: "I have lived on raw milk and raw butter with half the meat I normally eat when in tropical and industry-free environments." Without raw milk, he had to "eat a lot more raw meat" to compensate.

He prescribed raw milk "before bedtime to help calm and relax the nervous system" as part of specific healing protocols.

Cellular Regeneration, Temperature Dependency

Aajonus made a specific and emphatic distinction about raw milk's regenerative power depending on whether or not it has been refrigerated. He stated:

"If you don't refrigerate the milk, all the bacteria and all the light force in it stays very viable. And it will help regenerate cells almost as much as meat does, just like it does for an infant or a calf. But once it's been refrigerated, it reduces the ability, astronautically, for a human to grow."

He further specified the temperature threshold: "Once the milk is below 76 degrees it starts losing its growth factors." He stated his strong preference for milk fresh out of the cow, warm, kept above 76 degrees for as long as possible. He described the ideal conditions as: "Get it warm out of the cow and just leave it out. Just put it in a dark area so it doesn't get bitter. And it was in the keeper [kefir] in a day and a half."

He specified that refrigerated raw milk "still will help growth but it doesn't increase cellular division" the way fresh, unrefrigerated milk does.

Bacterial Environment and Pre-Digestion

Raw milk contains bacteria that pre-digest the milk's proteins and sugars, converting them into nutrients that require minimal digestive work. Aajonus stated: "Bacteria is what eats everything, and their byproducts are our food. Simple as that. So predigested milk is much better for a sick person or a person who isn't digesting so well or doesn't have a good bacterial environment in their intestines."

He explained that the bacteria in soured raw milk have "already shit and urinated and perspired and it's already nutrients to absorb. It doesn't take anything in the stomach or intestinal tract to absorb." He noted that "soured milk is better than fresh milk because it's pre-digested."

However, he noted an important caveat: "A bacteria from a cow is not the same bacteria as you should have and as you normally would have if you were healthy." For this reason he recommended personalizing the fermentation by adding one's own saliva: "If you want bacteria that's more relative to your intestinal tract and your body, you spit into the milk. Or my mother would say, you expectorate into the milk... Put a teaspoon, tablespoon of saliva into the milk and let that be your starter."

He added that adding a little honey to the saliva-inoculated milk would improve quality.

Effect on the Nervous System

Aajonus identified specific proteins in raw milk, described as "so finite and small", that aid the nervous system in reducing pain. He noted that these proteins are relevant to why raw cheese must be added to his pain formula, suggesting that the small-protein fraction of raw dairy products reaches and nourishes the nervous system.

Effect on Growth Hormones

Aajonus stated that raw dairy, like raw meat, can help maintain growth hormone levels: "Also raw dairy. Now a lot of the protein in raw dairy is not utilizable to increase cellular division because it's been refrigerated." This is a direct statement that refrigeration degrades the specific growth-factor proteins in raw milk.

Role as Infant Food, Superiority Over Human Breast Milk in Most Cases

Aajonus made a strong and repeatedly stated argument that raw cow milk is superior to human breast milk for most infants because of the mother's diet history. He said: "A cow has been on a raw diet its whole life. Ninety-nine percent of the time, the child's going to do better with the cow's milk than they will do with the mother's milk."

He clarified: "If a mother's been on a raw food diet, eating lots of raw dairy and raw meat all of her life, her milk is going to be the best thing for the baby. But unless she's been on that kind of a diet, that's not the best food for the baby."

He documented that 99% of babies who were "normally whiny or cranky or get little rashes" had those symptoms resolve once they were given raw cow milk.

He also referenced historical high-bacterial hospital milk: "All of the hospitals that used very high bacterial milk that were researched and documented by universities and doctors had 3 million parts of bacteria including fecal matter and the babies that had that milk got healthier faster because they had all that bacteria that helped those babies thrive and those babies were stronger and healthier than any other babies."

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Form and State

Form and State

Raw vs. Pasteurized, The Core Distinction

Aajonus described pasteurized milk as fundamentally different from raw milk, not merely a lesser version, but an actively damaging substance. He explained that calves fed only pasteurized milk "die usually within the 6 weeks after birth." He noted that "even a cow that's a calf that's fed pasteurized dairy is usually a very weak calf, and if it survives 5 weeks, it's pretty lucky."

He contrasted this directly with raw milk: "It will help regenerate cells almost as much as meat does, just like it does for an infant or a calf."

Aajonus described pasteurized commercial milk as not truly milk at all. He described the industrial process: all animal fat and animal protein are removed, soy protein dissolved in hexane gasoline is added, and the resulting liquid is "a blue soup. Literally blue. It looks like chlorinated water. Heavily chlorinated water." To turn it white, processors add dolomite, mined rock, "shoveled into this blue substance to turn it white again to make it look like milk." Then hydrogenated vegetable oils are added to make it creamy, and laboratory-produced flavoring compounds (produced in South Africa, he specified) are added to make it taste like milk.

He was emphatic: "So you're not really getting milk at all."

Fresh Warm Milk, The Ideal State

Aajonus described the ideal form of raw cow milk as fresh from the cow, still at body temperature (approximately 101°F), never refrigerated. He documented his own experience obtaining this in Thailand: "I got to have fresh, warm milk, milk that morning, raw, still at 101 degrees." He described the dairy as maintaining the milk in a special vat with circulating air and a warmer that kept it at cow body temperature.

He stated that under such conditions, fresh milk kept in a dark area would begin to kefir naturally within about one and a half days.

Unrefrigerated vs. Refrigerated

Aajonus strongly preferred unrefrigerated raw milk. He described refrigeration as causing a dramatic reduction in the milk's capacity to support cellular regeneration and growth. He described this reduction with the word "astronautically", meaning the decrease is enormous. He stated that once milk clabbers or becomes pulpy, it is appropriate to refrigerate at that point.

He described cold milk from refrigeration as problematic for digestion: "When milk is drunk cold from refrigeration, milk proteins and sugars may pass into the blood undigested and cause allergic reactions." He personally experienced "stomach cramps and sometimes cramps in my hands and feet" from drinking cold milk.

Room Temperature / Warmed Milk

He recommended that milk be allowed to warm to room temperature for at least 5 hours before drinking. He stated that for a baby who was developing rashes from raw organic cow milk, the problem was resolved simply by allowing the milk to warm to room temperature for at least 5 hours out of the refrigerator: "She has no reaction to the raw milk as long as I warm it up. For at least five hours it's out of the refrigerator for five hours or longer."

He stated: "I think everybody should do that. Because I don't see anybody here that's healthy enough to eat it cold raw."

He further explained the mechanism: when cold milk enters the stomach, "the stomach will contract. Won't secrete hydrochloric acid. When it passes into the duodenum, you're going to have unadjusted protein and lactate that gets into the water."

Allowing Milk to Sit 24 Hours

Aajonus personally allowed his milk to stand "for at least 24 hours prior to drinking to allow the natural bacteria in milk to predigest it for me." He described doing this in "a dark warm cupboard."

Raw Milk Stored Airtight vs. Open

He specified that milk stored airtight (in a sealed jar, yes, tight) will sour more slowly. "Oxygen will cause it to sour quicker. If you want it sour quicker, then you can leave it out."

Raw Milk "Never Goes Bad"

Aajonus stated explicitly: "Raw milk never goes bad, it just turns into cheese. Raw c[ream never goes bad either]..." He treated the souring and clabbering of raw milk not as spoilage but as a beneficial transformation into pre-digested food.

Fat Content, Cream Percentage

Aajonus described optimal raw milk as containing approximately 10% cream, which he described as "the way it came from cows when I was a child." He noted that commercial dairies usually skim the milk, reducing cream content to 2–4%. He specified:

  • Milk with 2–4% cream is labeled "skimmed milk"
  • Milk with 4–7% cream is labeled "whole milk", "which of course it is not"

He gave a specific formula for restoring raw milk to proper fat content: add ½ cup of raw cream to 6 cups of raw milk to bring the cream content to 15%. He stated: "Raw cream facilitates proper digestion and utilization of the minerals and protein in raw milk."

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Sourcing and Preparation

Sourcing and Preparation

Source Animal Requirements

Aajonus was specific about what kind of cows he would drink milk from: "I will consume raw milk from cows fed raw feed and that do not receive hormones or antibiotics. I prefer organically fed, but it is not always available."

He described cow milk as ideal when it comes from animals fed a completely raw diet their entire lives. He contrasted this favorably with human breast milk from mothers eating cooked and processed foods.

The Iodine Problem, Teat Cleaning

Aajonus identified a specific contamination risk from iodine used to clean cow teats between milkings. He stated: "We need to educate raw milk producers that they poison teats by cleaning them with iodine." He explained that industrially produced iodine is used precisely because it is poisonous and kills bacteria. He connected regular iodine exposure on teats to the development of Staphylococcus aureus and mastitis in cows. He stated: "That class of bacteria [Staphylococcus aureus] is not found in naturally husbanded cows. It is found only in cows whose udders are treated with chemicals such as with liquid iodine, antibiotics and other industrial chemicals."

He described the mechanism: "The course of nature is that if bio-waste, byproducts and dead cells cannot be dissolved and eliminated naturally through lymph, the body will generate microbial janitors to accomplish the tasks. When an udder is treated twice daily with an anti[septic]...", the natural bacterial cleaning process is disrupted, leading to pathogenic overgrowth.

Labeling Irregularities

Aajonus acknowledged that some health food stores label their raw milk "for animal consumption only" as a legal cover. He stated plainly that he knew these products "are just perfect" despite the label. He viewed such labeling as a legally required fiction, not a reflection of the milk's safety or quality.

Mixing Raw and Pasteurized Milk

Aajonus was asked directly whether adding a small amount of raw milk to pasteurized milk would allow the live enzymes to continue acting and keep the pasteurized milk viable. His response was unambiguous: "Good thought, but the nutrients in pasteurized milk are already altered into toxins. There is n[o way to reverse this]." He did not recommend this practice.

Geography and Access

Aajonus noted that fresh raw dairy is commercially available only in a few states in the USA. In some states, it is sold only at the farm. He mentioned specific sources:

  • Organic Pastures (California), referenced as a source for raw organic cow milk
  • Claravale, a dairy in northern California; described as illegal to ship into Los Angeles County because the LA Medical Milk Commission prohibited importing milk from non-contiguous counties (San Bernardino, San Diego were the contiguous counties specified)
  • Stoovies (or "Steube's Raw Dairy"), referenced as a Los Angeles raw dairy source that was eventually bankrupt through regulatory manipulation

He directed people to www.RawMilk.org for legal processes to change state legislation permitting raw dairy sales, and provided his mailing address for those who could not find raw dairy: Optimal Ways of Living, P.O. Box 176, Santa Monica, CA 90404-0176.

He also mentioned a cow-share cooperative system in Colorado as one legal mechanism for obtaining raw dairy where commercial sale is restricted. He referenced "the Right to Choose Healthy Foods" as a private co-op legal framework under which raw dairy products including yogurt, butter, kefir, cheese, and cream could still be made and offered legally even after cease-and-desist orders were issued to cow-share programs.

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Required Pairing

Required Pairing

Raw Cream and Raw Butter with Raw Milk

Aajonus explicitly stated that raw cream "facilitates proper digestion and utilization of the minerals and protein in raw milk." He specified that milk should contain approximately 15% cream, and provided the precise formula for achieving this when buying commercial raw milk: add ½ cup raw cream to 6 cups raw milk.

He also described raw butter as a critical pairing with milk, particularly for infants. For colic resolution in infants, the formula was: "2 tablespoons unsalted raw butter and ½–1 teaspoon unheated honey into every cup of warm raw milk." He specified this formula for cases of "continuous diarrhea for 36 hours with raw cow or goat milk."

Unheated Honey

Aajonus recommended blending unheated honey with raw milk to correct enzyme deficiency causing digestive problems. He gave a specific formula: "up to 1 tablespoon of unheated honey per 8 ounces of raw milk." He also provided a convenience batch formula: "Pre-blending ½ gallon (64 ounces) raw milk with ¼–½ cups unheated honey and ½ cup raw cream."

He specified for infants: "Two ounces of unheated honey and 4 tablespoons of unsalted raw butter blended with a half gallon of raw milk will make the milk digestible."

What Raw Milk Can and Cannot Be Combined With

Aajonus specified that raw milk "requires an acidic digestive environment for proper digestion. It may be consumed at any time except within an hour before or an hour after vegetable juices." He further stated: "For speedier healing, I suggest that we do not drink so much milk that we cancel our appetite for meat and other foods."

He noted: "If we experience discomfort after drinking raw milk with other foods, it would be better to drink raw milk alone."

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Contraindications

Contraindications

  • i

    Aajonus identified cold raw milk straight from the refrigerator as a significant problem for most people's digestion. He stated unequivocally: "I don't see anybody here that's healthy enough to eat it cold raw." Even for those who show no immediate reaction, he warned that "it doesn't mean that the raw [milk is being properly utilized]... it shows up in people who don't react. So you're using a lot of your good fats that you're eating just to bind with those toxic substances", referring to undigested proteins and lactate entering the bloodstream.

  • ii

    Aajonus acknowledged that "a very small percentage of people will have intolerance to raw warm milk or raw milk that has unheated honey added to it." He stated: "Those rare individuals should not drink milk at all. However, some of those rare individuals may be able to drink raw cream, and eat no-salt-added raw cheeses and unsalted raw butter without difficulty because those milk products contain very little lactate."

  • iii

    He specified that raw milk should not be consumed within one hour before or one hour after vegetable juices. The vegetable juice section of his food combining guidance specifically excluded raw milk from the short list of foods that can be consumed within the one-hour window (that short list was limited to unsalted raw butter, raw cream, unheated coconut cream, and unheated honey).

  • iv

    Aajonus warned against drinking so much milk that one's appetite for meat is cancelled out. He stated: "For speedier healing, I suggest that we do not drink so much milk that we cancel our appetite for meat and other foods." This was particularly relevant because without adequate raw meat, cellular division and growth hormone maintenance would be compromised.

  • v

    Aajonus consistently maintained that reactions to raw milk labeled as "lactose intolerance" or "milk allergy" were not true allergies to raw milk. He stated: "I haven't found anybody that's lactose intolerant to raw milk." He explained: "I found that a few people, out of all the people who are allergic to the pasteurized dairy, I found that there's a few people who will detoxify all their casein and lactate from past dairy use. And they may have an allergy reaction for about three to four months and then i[t resolves]."

  • vi

    He elaborated: "It's not really the lactate or the casein in the raw milk that's the issue. They start cleaning out the toxic lactate and casein from dairy products, cooked dairy products... when you're having an allergy or sensitivity to milk, to raw milk, it's not because it's drying out the old cooked milk, it's because the raw casein is binding with the toxic old cauterized casein in my lab tests, so they still have the symptoms of the allergy to the dairy but if they consume half a cup of milk every day for 3 months, then there's no allergy to raw milk or any raw food."

  • vii

    He also explained the A1/A2 cow theory, which he dismissed as "theoretical garbage" not proved in his experience, stating: "I have never seen that proved because I've seen everybody on A1 milk still do wonderfully."

  • viii

    For people who have a problem with raw dairy, he recommended: "eat maybe two to four ounces a day for three months because the natural raw casein and the lactate in the raw milk will help you remove all toxic lactate from the pasteurized milk that's stored in your body."

  • ix

    Aajonus explicitly addressed episodes of bloating and discomfort from raw dairy. He stated: "Some people have eaten raw dairy without such symptoms for up to 10 years. Such symptoms are not a response to the dairy. It is not a newly formed allergy to dairy." He identified these symptoms as a "stomach and/or intestinal detoxification" process. His recommendation: "reduce but not completely avoid" consumption when such symptoms occur.

  • x

    He acknowledged that diarrhea upon first consuming raw milk occurs in "about three, five percent" of people, depending on location. In large cities with more pollution, the rate rises to "up to twelve percent." In cleaner farm areas, the rate is lower. He described this as a flushing response and suggested starting with smaller amounts if it occurs.

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Therapeutic Protocols

Therapeutic Protocols

ProtocolAajonus's Personal Introduction to Raw Milk, Healing from Multiple Diseases

Aajonus described his initial healing through raw milk in detail. He had undergone radiation therapy, was unable to bite with his own teeth because doing so caused bleeding, and was receiving one to two blood transfusions per week. He was blending his food and drinking it. He was then introduced to raw milk by an 18-year-old African-American man. He stated: "After a year of drinking mainly milk with, let's say, you know, 1–3 carriages to 2–3 milk, my bone grew back around my teeth. They wanted to pull all my teeth. Three weeks before they were going to put me in the grave... after a year of drinking mainly milk... my bone grew back."

ProtocolRaw Milk Diet for Disease Reversal, Historical Medical Use

Aajonus cited numerous medical authorities who used raw milk therapeutically:

  • Dr. J.E. Crewe, Mayo Foundation (1923): Used raw milk diet treatment for 15 years with "uniformly excellent" healing results. Witnessed rapid improvement in patients with advanced pulmonary tuberculosis.
  • Mayo Clinic: Used "complete raw milk diet to reverse diabetes and other diseases."
  • Hippocrates: Used raw milk to cure tuberculosis and for diabetes, emphysema.
  • Johns Hopkins University and University of Maryland: Found that raw milk contained 2½ times more [nutrients than pasteurized milk].
  • John Fowler, M.D., Worcester, Massachusetts: Reported that raw-milk therapy relieved muscle cramps in pregnancy.
  • Dr. Van Wagtendork, Oregon State College: Proved that pasteurized dairy creates calcification and stiffness; found that guinea pigs with calcification of the tissues could be relieved with raw cream but not pasteurized cream.

He explicitly stated: "All the universities, even Mayo Clinic, used raw milk, complete raw milk diet to reverse diabetes and other diseases. Hippocrates used [it] for diabetes, emphysema, tuberculosis."

He cited a specific case study from a hearing: "There's this little boy named Walker Carrow, frail, skinny little boy, had all kinds of allergies. Put him on the diet, mainly raw milk and some raw meat, and a little bit of fruit, lots of raw fat and raw butter and honey", with the implication that the child recovered visibly and presented this recovery before a Board of Supervisors.

ProtocolBedtime Protocol for Nervous System

Aajonus included "a cup of raw milk before bedtime to help calm and relax the nervous system" as part of his standard 90-day healing cycle, specifically referenced on Day Six of a repeating cycle.

ProtocolChildren with Hyperactivity and Sleep Problems

For children with hyperactivity, sleep difficulties, and related nervous system symptoms from exposure to metallic free-radicals and industrial chemicals, Aajonus stated: "Thereby, 95% percent of the time, I have seen children sleep restfully and peacefully after as little as one day eating raw dairy and eliminating any and all processed foods." He specified that both raw milk and raw cheese may be needed when symptoms are chronic.

ProtocolInfant Formula Protocols

For infants who cannot digest raw milk alone: - Blend 2 tablespoons unsalted raw butter and ½–1 teaspoon unheated honey into every cup of warm raw milk - This formula was used for colic and continuous diarrhea lasting 36 hours

Variation with ginger: - ¼ teaspoon of raw ginger root juice (pressed with a garlic press) added to every cup of raw milk, used when colic persisted even after butter and honey

For infants who could not digest even the butter/honey formula: - Feeding 1 raw fertile egg blended with 2 ounces of [other ingredients, text was cut off in source] was the next step

For complete digestive failure with all milk options (documented case study): A young Korean couple came to Aajonus and his colleague Owanza with an infant who could not digest pasteurized milk, raw milk, or the raw milk/honey blend. [The resolution protocol is referenced but the full case outcome text was cut off in the source.]

Batch formula for digestive support with raw milk: - ½ gallon (64 ounces) raw milk - ¼–½ cups unheated honey - ½ cup raw cream - Blended together and kept for convenience

For infants when milk is chilled: - Add blended liver (e.g., buffalo liver) to chilled raw cow milk to compensate for the growth factors lost through refrigeration: "If it's chilled, put some liver in it, blend some buffalo liver or something in it to get some other concentrated meat protein into it for that infant."

ProtocolExclusive Raw Milk Diet for Babies

Aajonus stated that "in many primitive cultures that do not experience disease, an exclusive raw-milk diet for babies up to 2 years of age has proved perfectly healthful." He also noted that "a few tribes breast feed for up to 4 years and have incredibly healthy children." He observed that "children over 9 months of age can easily enjoy" raw milk-based infant formula recipes.

ProtocolAllergy Desensitization Protocol, Pasteurized Dairy Residue Clearance

For those showing apparent allergy symptoms from raw milk (actually caused by toxic pasteurized casein being mobilized): - Option 1: 2 ounces per day for 3 months maximum, "at the most", to clear toxic material gradually - Option 2: Half a cup per day with "a little bit of discomfort", clears the toxic material in 6 weeks - He stated: "It all depends on how fast you want to go. Maybe you can handle that little bit of discomfort as you're dumping your old toxic stuff."

ProtocolRaw Milk as Substitute When Raw Meat Is Limited

Aajonus described using raw milk and raw butter as partial substitutes for raw meat when in clean, tropical, industry-free environments: "I have lived on raw milk and raw butter with half the meat I normally eat when in tropical and industry-free environments." He specified that without raw milk and butter, "I must eat much more raw meat."

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Topical Applications

Topical Applications

Aajonus did not document specific topical uses of raw cow milk alone in these source passages. Raw butter and raw cream, derivatives of cow milk, are referenced in topical beauty formulas listed in his recipe indexes, but specific topical protocols for raw milk itself were not detailed in these source passages.

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Dosage and Safety

Dosage and Safety

Aajonus's Own Consumption

Aajonus stated that raw dairy constitutes 60% of his diet. In one passage, he described drinking a gallon of milk a day, stating: "you've seen me suck it... I love it. I wouldn't live without, I mean, it's my favorite thing."

General Population Guidance

He did not set a hard upper limit for healthy people consuming raw milk. His primary limitation statement was contextual: do not consume so much that appetite for raw meat is suppressed. He stated: "For speedier healing, I suggest that we do not drink so much milk that we cancel our appetite for meat and other foods."

For those with apparent digestive sensitivity or apparent allergy (from old pasteurized dairy residue), he suggested: - Starting with 2–4 ounces per day for three months - Or half a cup per day for six weeks if wanting faster resolution - Or 2 ounces per day for up to three months if wanting a slower, gentler process

For stomach or intestinal discomfort, gas, or flatulence: add up to 1 tablespoon of unheated honey per 8 ounces of raw milk.

Diarrhea Response

For the 3–12% of people (depending on location and pollution levels) who experience diarrhea upon starting raw milk: begin with smaller amounts and gradually increase.

Temperature for Consumption
  • Ideal: fresh from cow at approximately 101°F, never refrigerated
  • Acceptable: room temperature, having sat out for at least 5 hours
  • Acceptable with preparation: allowed to stand in a dark warm cupboard for at least 24 hours
  • Not recommended without preparation: cold from refrigerator
Safety Record

Aajonus repeatedly cited: "Raw milk has never been attributed to any epidemic. None." And: "There is no scientific link between raw milk and any disease." He contrasted this with pasteurized dairy epidemics affecting 197,000 people in California and 40-some thousand people in Arizona.

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Culinary Applications

Culinary Applications

Allowing Milk to Ferment Naturally, Kefir / Clabbering

Aajonus described the natural process of raw milk fermenting into kefir or clabbered milk. He recommended that once milk reaches a pulpy, clabbered state, it is then appropriate to refrigerate. He described unrefrigerated fresh raw cow milk reaching this state in approximately one and a half days in warm conditions.

Soured / Fermented Milk as a Superior Product

He described soured raw milk as superior to fresh because it is pre-digested: "The bacteria in it is already shit and urinated and perspired and it's already nutrients to absorb. It doesn't take anything in the stomach or intestinal tract to absorb."

Saliva-Inoculated Fermented Milk

For creating a fermented raw milk with bacteria more compatible with the human intestinal tract: - Add 1 teaspoon to 1 tablespoon of saliva into raw milk - Allow to ferment - Optional: add a little honey to improve quality - Aajonus quoted his recipe book on this practice

Raw Milk Blended with Liver for Infants

When raw milk has been chilled and growth factors are diminished: - Blend buffalo liver (or other raw liver) into the raw milk - This compensates for loss of concentrated growth factors from refrigeration

Milkshake Recipe

Aajonus listed a "Milkshake" as a standard recipe, though the specific recipe details were not included in these source passages. He also referenced an "Infant Milkshake" in the recipe index.

Honey-Blended Raw Milk

Standard digestive support preparation: - ½ gallon raw milk - ¼–½ cup unheated honey - ½ cup raw cream - Blended together for convenience

Infant Formula, Butter and Honey in Raw Milk
  • 2 tablespoons unsalted raw butter + ½–1 teaspoon unheated honey per cup of warm raw milk
  • Blended together
  • Used for colic, diarrhea, digestive difficulty in infants
Infant Formula, Large Batch
  • ½ gallon raw milk
  • 2 ounces unheated honey
  • 4 tablespoons unsalted raw butter
  • Blended together, described as making raw milk digestible for infants who cannot otherwise tolerate it
Raw Milk with Ginger for Infant Colic
  • ¼ teaspoon raw ginger root juice (pressed through a garlic press) per cup of raw milk
  • Used when butter/honey formula does not resolve colic
Coffee Substitute, Smoothies, and Other Beverages

Aajonus listed raw milk as a base ingredient in his smoothie and beverage recipes, including Banana Smoothie, Orange Smoothie, Raspberry Smoothie, and a Coffee Substitute in his recipe book. The source text lists these in the recipe index.

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Primary Derivative

Primary Derivative

Raw Cream

Aajonus identified raw cream as a critical component of raw milk and as a separately valuable food. He specified that dairies skim milk to 2–4% cream content, which he viewed as deficient. He recommended restoring cream content to 15% by adding ½ cup of raw cream to 6 cups of raw milk. He stated that raw cream "facilitates proper digestion and utilization of the minerals and protein in raw milk." He cited Oregon State College research by Dr. Van Wagtendork showing that guinea pigs with calcification could be relieved with raw cream but not pasteurized cream.

No-Salt Raw Cheese

Aajonus described no-salt raw cheese as "concentrated minerals" that are particularly important for neutralizing metallic free-radicals and industrial chemicals. He noted that raw cheese, like raw milk, is part of his pain formula for its nervous system-supporting small proteins. He also noted that raw cottage cheese available at the time of his writing was "not really raw", heated to approximately 120°F, and that many of his clients, especially women, "developed thyroid sluggishness and swelling throughout the thyroid area (neck) from eating that cottage cheese."

Unsalted Raw Butter

Aajonus consistently identified unsalted raw butter as an essential companion to raw milk, particularly for infants. He described raw butter as containing "healing fats" critical for detoxification support. He classified unsalted raw butter as nutritionally neutral (able to be consumed with either acidic or alkaline foods), making it uniquely versatile in the diet.

Kefir / Clabbered Milk

Aajonus described clabbered raw milk as naturally arising from unrefrigerated raw milk. He treated this as a superior food to fresh raw milk for those with digestive difficulties because the bacteria have already done the digestive work. He mentioned kefir specifically as a product that was threatened by regulatory cease-and-desist orders in Colorado.

Yogurt, Butter, Kefir, Cheese, Cream from Raw Milk

All listed in the Colorado cow-share passage as products being made and offered through his co-op under the Right to Choose Healthy Foods legal framework.

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Historical Context

Historical Context

Government Suppression of Raw Milk

Aajonus described the suppression of raw milk as a deliberate, industry-driven campaign. He stated: "The HHS, FDA and CDC have campaigned against empirically and scientifically proved-to-be-healthful raw milk for decades." He characterized their "scientifically unsupported claims that raw dairy is harmful and dangerous" as "as prejudicial and unfounded as any support of apartheid was."

He argued that the government knows raw milk's "high mineral concentration and soothing, nerve-protecting fats counteract just about every toxin on earth", and suggested this is precisely why it is suppressed.

The FDA's front page described raw milk as "dangerous, always, always dangerous, and is like playing Russian roulette with your health", which Aajonus stated was entirely unsupported: "They have nothing to back it."

The Los Angeles Raw Milk Suppression, Steube's Dairy

Aajonus detailed the systematic destruction of raw milk access in Los Angeles County:

  • Raw dairy had been available for decades but regulators had been "trying to shut it down for 38 years"
  • In 1984, certified milk was still available (brands Dina and Mrs. Peaches are mentioned)
  • By 1992, regulations had become so stringent as to "practically wipe it out"
  • The Medical Milk Commission, originally established by state law to certify and promote raw milk (not ban it), was gradually taken over by anti-raw-milk nominees from the American Medical Association and American Veterinarians Association
  • Dr. John Leatham, a USC professor nominated to the Commission, "made a public statement that when he was on the Milk Commission, we would see the end of raw milk"
  • The commissioners made restrictions so extreme that Steube's Raw Dairy, which had previously passed inspections, was failing 50% of the time by their final months in business
  • This resulted in bankruptcy of the dairy
  • The result: "We had no milk in Los Angeles County"
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Report

When the city attempted to close the last Los Angeles dairy (around 2000), Aajonus assembled a report for the Board of Supervisors using Dr. William Campbell Douglass II's research (with Douglass's permission, and using Douglass as the "authored voice" because he is an M.D.). The report demonstrated:

  • Raw milk has never been proved to cause any epidemic, death, or sickness
  • Pasteurized dairy has caused epidemics
  • Universities including Mayo Clinic, Yale, and Johns Hopkins had published data supporting raw milk
  • The report was later updated for the federal level for congressional lobbying
The 197,000-Person Pasteurized Milk Epidemic

Aajonus cited this case multiple times as the defining contrast between raw and pasteurized milk: "One involving 197,000 people" in California from a pasteurized dairy product, and "another involving 40-some thousand people in Arizona." He contrasted this starkly with raw milk: "Raw milk has never been attributed to any epidemic. None."

He also cited "19,000, 34,000 people" in other incidents attributed to pasteurized dairy, and noted: "One incident involved 196,000 people. You think if it involved that many people, raw, I mean, unpasteurized milk would have been outlawed. But it hasn't."

Interstate Transportation Ban

Aajonus described Ronald Reagan and George Bush having signed legislation banning interstate transportation of raw milk. He stated: "We're going after the FDA, which basically got Ronald Reagan and Bush to sign no interstate transportation of raw milk. So we need to rescind that, revoke that law."

USDA Memo Recommending Pasteurization of Calves' Feed

Aajonus cited a USDA memo he said went out "six months ago" (relative to the date of the workshop) recommending that farmers pasteurize all milk given to their calves. He interpreted this as a deliberate strategy by large industrial agriculture to weaken small farms: "They want you to destroy your own farms. They want you to make your cows very weak so they can get diseased so they can come in and slaughter your whole farm. Big business takes over more."

Staphylococcus Aureus and the Iodine-Cow Connection

Aajonus described what he called a national epidemic receiving "little or no publicity" involving Staphylococcus aureus infections in school students, one student in October 2011 at Abington High School in Massachusetts diagnosed with a disease "for which there is no cure," and four David Crockett High School football players in Tennessee diagnosed with the same disease the same day. He connected these infections to the antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains developed through routine antibiotic use in dairy cows. He stated: "The average American drinks milk and eats cheese containing new strains of bacteria that are immune to the 52 different antibiotics which are also present in milk."

He cited that the average American's diet consists of 40% dairy products "that is always infected with bacteria in its raw state", but clarified that this statement about "raw state" referred to commercially farmed cows treated with antibiotics and iodine, not naturally husbanded cows whose milk he viewed as free of this problem.

The Formaldehyde and Arsenic History

Aajonus mentioned that historically some dairy producers "used to put formaldehyde in milk," and that "Benjamin Franklin rallied against that and stopped it, but then when he died they started doing it again." He also noted that "some would put arsenic in milk to make it last longer. Give it a shelf life."

Royal Families and Raw Milk

Aajonus stated that royal families consume raw milk while the public is denied it: "They have raw milk. The princes and the princesses, they only drink raw milk. They don't drink pasteurized milk. See, I know what the good food is, but they're not going to let everybody [have it]."

Political Advocacy and Lobbying

Aajonus described actively lobbying in Washington, D.C. to get raw milk accepted, visiting congressional offices, showing representatives and senators his report. He noted the typical response from these offices: "Raw milk is dangerous. Don't you have to pasteurize it? Because that's all they've ever heard."

He stated his intention to issue all his reports on the Internet "so anybody can use it in any state to go after raw milk, to go after their politicians." He referenced the Tennessee raw milk report, available at the URL: https://tennesseansforrawmilk.com/wp-content/uploads/Supplemental-Report-for-raw-milk-final.pdf and also as a free download at wewant2live.com.

He recommended four books on raw milk for political advocacy purposes while noting their limitations: 1. The Raw Truth About Milk by William Campbell Douglass II, MD 2. The Raw Milk Revolution: Behind America's Emerging Battle over Food Rights by David E. Gumpert 3. The Untold Story of Milk by Ron Schmid

He noted that the latter three "will assist anyone with arguing for raw milk from a politically-correct perspective" but cautioned that they "do not stray from the status quo, politically-correct bacteria-as-pathogens theory" and are "based on beliefs, entirely of thought and concepts, without proper direct experience with investigative, empirical and laboratory experience challenging the bacteria theory, and without my industrial-chemical theory of disease."

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