ADHD Medications

Aajonus described a scientist who showed him a report indicating that 78 percent of people diagnosed as addicted to crack cocaine had been put on Ritalin as children. He cited this in the context of his own son, who was placed on Ritalin at age six for a diagnosis of ADD and hyperactivity. His son subsequently developed a crack cocaine addiction that persisted into his forties, with the pattern being that he would follow the raw diet, eat raw meat and raw eggs, stabilize, and then every two and a half years go off the diet for approximately six months and return to crack cocaine and incarceration.

A psychologist and psychiatrist in San Diego, a woman holding both degrees, gave Aajonus a report showing that 82 to 86 percent of people diagnosed as crack cocaine addicted had been on Ritalin as children. Aajonus connected this directly to the conditioning effect of the drug, stating that Ritalin taught children to control their behavior through chemical intervention, and that once that pattern was established neurologically and psychologically, if they could not access the drug through the medical system they would obtain equivalent substances through illegal channels. He said flatly, "The pharmaceutical industry condemned him that way, the medical profession," and expressed that he did not know enough at the time to refuse the prescription on his son's behalf.

In Aajonus's framework, children with many activity rings in their eyes were not malfunctioning. Their bodies simply required physical output that the modern school and social environment did not provide. He described examining a ten-year-old girl in Chicago whose parents brought her in specifically because she was being considered for a drug regimen. He looked at her eyes through iridology and found she had a very high number of activity rings. She had been sitting in his presence for over an hour and was visibly unable to remain still. He told the parents directly that they could not put her in a regular school. She needed a sports school where the faculty would understand her physiological reality. He was also direct that no dietary intervention could change this fundamental fact, saying "That's her body's creation. She will produce that much for the rest of her life."

He also distinguished between two types of hyperactivity. One type arose from the constitutional overproduction of activity hormones, as described above. A second, more common type was driven by sugars and chemicals in the diet, which the body had to burn off in the same way it burned off the activity hormones. He noted that most hyperactive children fell into this second category, not because they had many activity rings, but because of dietary factors.

He described another case involving a teacher from New Zealand who was hired by a Catholic school to work with difficult children. She placed them on a protocol of exercise, requiring them to move for ten minutes out of every hour. The results were dramatic. Without the physical outlet, the same children would meet the criteria for an ADD or ADHD diagnosis. With the exercise, they functioned normally.

Aajonus described what he saw as a deliberate institutional dismantling of physical activity in schools, citing Arnold Schwarzenegger's elimination of physical education funding as a specific example. He argued that removing Phys Ed from schools had the direct effect of boosting the psychiatric medication network, because children who would otherwise discharge their energy in structured physical activity instead became labeled as disordered and pharmaceutically managed. His view was that this was not accidental, but reflected the interests of entities who owned both pharmaceutical companies and food production systems, none of which benefited from healthy, self-sufficient people.

He also described the broader psychiatric framework as having no valid science behind it, characterizing the claim that hyperactivity is a chemical disorder as a pharmaceutical industry invention designed to create lifelong drug dependence. He said, "It's not a chemical disorder that the pharmaceutical industry wants you to believe, so you've got them hooked on for life."

Aajonus made a strong and specific claim about the dangers of withdrawing from psychotropic medications, including those given to children for hyperactivity and related diagnoses. He stated that the animal studies conducted during the development of these drugs showed that mice and rats, including bald mice which he described as so gentle they would not bite even when tortured, would kill each other upon withdrawal, ripping each other's throats out. He said this information was not disclosed publicly by the drug companies.

He connected this withdrawal violence directly to real-world events, stating that every perpetrator in the high school shootings he referenced had stopped taking their medication and was in a state of withdrawal at the time. He received this information from MDs who sent him research documenting the specific medications each perpetrator had been on and the timing of their withdrawal. He went to the research and confirmed it. He stated, "Every one of them had stopped taking their medication, was on withdrawal."

He was unequivocal on the practical implication: "Never give your children psychotropic medication. Never let a doctor do it. You're asking for severe trouble." He described this as "almost unreversible in some situations," and said he believed these medications got into the RNA and DNA of the synapse and permanently changed it, because violent behavior was very difficult to stop once these drugs had been administered, sometimes persisting for years afterward.

Rather than psychotropic medication, Aajonus offered the nut formula as a dietary tool for managing excess activity hormones and the anxiety and irrationality they could produce. He described the formula as a blended preparation made from nuts ground to a flour-like consistency, combined with a raw egg, raw fat, and a small amount of honey. This combination neutralized the phytic acid in the nuts, which allowed the body to utilize the starch in the nuts to bind with neurological hormones that were circulating at excessive levels.

He recommended the nut formula once a week for most people to prevent the buildup of excessive adrenaline and activity hormones, and said that if a person was already in a hyperactive or anxious state, one formula per day for two to three days would generally resolve it. For chronically hyperkinetic individuals, he described a frequency of every three to four days as potentially appropriate.

For the most constitutionally active types who still had excess hormone activity despite the nut formula, he said some cooked starch combined with large amounts of raw butter could further lower the excess. He acknowledged the trade-off: cooked starch produces acrylamides and advanced glycation products, which make the brain and nervous system sticky in his framework, reducing rationality and methodical thinking. He said this was still preferable to psychiatric medication, stating explicitly, "Rather than medicating them and doping them up, I would rather give them the cooked rice cakes with butter."

He also noted in his written material that eating three to four ounces of the nut formula or cooked starch with raw fat thirty minutes before homework time or a test allowed the mind to work without being distracted by excess adrenaline, and that hobbies, creative pursuits, and sports were also helpful for high-adrenaline types. He emphasized that all hyperactive children had the potential for genius, but that unless they could utilize proteins or harness adrenaline through appropriate activity, that genius could turn into antisocial behavior.

Aajonus identified a specific dietary mechanism underlying one form of hyperactivity in children, separate from the constitutional activity-ring type. He described children who lacked the enzyme mutation necessary to digest, assimilate, and utilize cooked proteins, particularly cooked and processed meats and eggs. These children also lacked the utilizable proteins necessary to buffer irritants including mustard, alcohol, caffeine, preservatives, additives, and pesticides. He referenced tests from both Canada and the United States showing that preservatives and malnutrition caused hyperactivity in children.

Children of this type were described as usually thin until at least teenage years. The nut formula at least twice weekly was the primary recommendation for subduing excess adrenaline in this group. If the nut formula failed, cooked starch with plenty of raw fat was the fallback. He also specified that these thin, cooked-protein-allergic hyperactive children had particular sensitivity to dietary irritants and that removal of those irritants from the diet was essential.

When asked directly about amphetamines, Aajonus placed ADHD medications within the same chemical family as street amphetamines, saying the difference was one of concentration and dilution rather than fundamental chemistry. He described the pharmaceutical industry's approach as using the same substances in smaller, more diluted amounts than what might be found in street preparations, but belonging to the same category of chemistry. He did not draw a meaningful distinction between the mechanism of action of ADHD medications and other stimulant drugs in this framework.

Aajonus spoke repeatedly about the long arc of harm from medicating constitutionally active children. His son's trajectory was the most personal example: diagnosed at six, placed on Ritalin, and cycling through crack cocaine addiction and incarceration for decades afterward. He framed this not as a personal failing of his son but as a predictable consequence of the pharmaceutical model applied to a child who was biologically normal and needed physical activity rather than chemical suppression.

He also described the mechanism by which the drug system perpetuated itself once established: children who are taught to regulate behavior and emotional state through drugs, whether prescribed or street, build a neurological and psychological expectation of chemical management that is very difficult to exit. He saw the Ritalin-to-crack-cocaine pipeline as a feature of this system, not a bug, given the financial interests of the entities who ran both the pharmaceutical industry and, in his view, the illegal drug trade.