Bladder

The bladder's only job is to collect urine as it is produced by kidney filtration and hold it until voluntary urination is possible. Aajonus explained this repeatedly across workshops, emphasizing that the kidneys do not produce urine in large sudden surges but filter blood continuously, releasing fluid in a slow, constant trickle. Without a storage organ, the body would be "dripping all the time," as he put it, which would be both socially unworkable and physiologically taxing. The bladder solves this by accumulating the output of continuous kidney filtration into discrete, manageable urination events.

The capacity of the bladder varies by individual and by the health and development of the organ. In a strong, healthy bladder, about two cups is the typical threshold before urgency becomes pressing. Some people are comfortable up to a pint. People with weakened or underdeveloped bladders may experience urgent need at a half cup or even less. Children born to parents on the Primal Diet, Aajonus noted, hold their bladders well from birth, which he used as an example of what a properly nourished bladder is capable of even in infancy.

The bladder also has a secondary capacity that Aajonus mentioned in the context of desert-adapted peoples, particularly the Australian aborigines still living in traditional conditions. He described how those people, who do not drink water because they understand that plain water draws fluid out of the body and shortens their lives, have learned to hold the bladder's contents and reabsorb the fluid. He said they can travel two to three hundred miles a day in heat reaching 130 degrees Fahrenheit on as little as four ounces of vegetable juice, urinating as little as a tablespoon to five tablespoons a day, because the bladder retains fluid that is then recirculated back into the body rather than discarded. This capacity for reabsorption through the bladder wall represents, in his framework, a function of the organ that is suppressed in people who drink large amounts of water and urinate frequently.

Aajonus's framework on bladder infections is consistent with his broader position on all infections: they are not attacks from outside invaders that need to be suppressed, but cleansing activities initiated by the body to address accumulated toxicity in the tissue. When toxins get into the cellular walls of the bladder, the body sends microbial janitors, his term for bacteria, to break down and remove the damaged or toxic material. The bacteria performing that work constitute what conventional medicine calls an infection.

He was direct about what he considered the correct response. Antibiotics are not going to help because they destroy the organisms doing the cleanup work. "Why do you want to wipe out the janitors?" he asked in one workshop. Stopping the infection with antibiotics is, in his view, only temporary relief, because the underlying toxicity in the tissue remains and the janitors that would have cleared it have been eliminated. The long-term consequence, he argued, is that the person ends up with chronic disease in the kidneys or bladder, because the detoxification was interrupted and the damaged tissue was never properly cleared.

He also addressed a specific case involving a woman who experienced a strong, uncomfortable urge to urinate that felt exactly like a bladder infection she had not experienced in twenty years. She had undergone an emergency D&C the previous year following a miscarriage, and her friend suspected that iodine used to clean the uterus during the procedure might now be detoxifying. Aajonus confirmed that this was plausible, saying that iodine is frequently used in medical procedures and can cause harm to surrounding tissues, including the bladder area. He placed the event within his standard framework: the body periodically returns to cleanse old problem areas, and any part of the body where there has been a problem will cleanse and heal periodically, with old symptoms returning. He stated it takes forty years on a perfect diet to cleanse the body completely. He also noted that the gas she experienced in her vagina, hips, legs, and bladder area was an indication that she was discharging chemicals, and that gas does not transport bacteria, meaning the discomfort was the result of detoxification rather than bacterial transmission.

When a man received an antibiotic prescription (Cipro) following a procedure to remove a bladder stone, Aajonus commented that Cipro causes hemolytic-uremic syndrome, which he described as dissolving kidney disease, and characterized the physician's recommendation as wanting to damage the kidney in order to suppress a detoxification process happening in the bladder tissue.

Aajonus attributed the formation of stones, whether in the bladder, kidneys, liver, or gallbladder, entirely to what he called the toxic conditions of modern life, specifically accumulated industrial and pharmaceutical toxins that the body cannot fully eliminate through normal channels. He pointed to the historical record of tribes living entirely on raw dairy and raw meats, noting that those populations had no history of stones of any kind developing in their bodies. This, he said, proves that the concentration of minerals in raw dairy or raw meats cannot be responsible for stone formation, despite claims to the contrary circulating in some communities.

Stones form, in his understanding, when the body attempts to contain and isolate materials, particularly heavy metals and industrial chemicals, that cannot be safely processed and eliminated. The body encases these toxic materials in mineral layers, much like a pearl forms around an irritant, using calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, and potassium to build up protective layers around a toxic core. The result is a hard concretion that can accumulate over many years or decades without causing significant pain if the body has adapted to its presence by building thickened surrounding tissue.

He also identified a dietary contributor in the form of vegetable oils and soy products. He described a case of another individual whose urologist had found bladder stones that the doctor had never seen before. That person had been living largely on soy chips. The mineral concentration and the toxicity involved in processed soy had been causing crystals to form and accumulate over the years. Vegetable oils in beans and other plant foods, he noted, "hardly crystallize," yet when consumed in concentrated or processed forms and combined with body toxicity, they can contribute to the crystalline accumulations that form stones. That person had his stones removed about six months before Aajonus had his own procedure, and the removal was described as taking only 45 minutes, suggesting a much smaller and less dense accumulation than what Aajonus carried.

Aajonus described his personal bladder stone history as the most dramatic clinical example of stone formation he ever encountered and as what he believed was the largest bladder stone ever worked on in documented medical history. He noted that neither Ripley's nor the Guinness Book of World Records would include it, though four urologists and approximately twenty nurses at the clinic where it was discovered stated that none of them had ever seen a stone that large.

His difficulties with urination began from the earliest age he could remember, which he placed at roughly six to seven months old. In diapers, urination would take ten to fifteen minutes and came only as a trickle. When he was approximately three years old, his mother began taking him to use public restrooms. It would take him a minimum of three minutes to begin his urinary stream, and a full five minutes to finish. His mother, who had three other sons, became frustrated with this and would slap him on the back telling him to hurry up, not understanding that he was simply physically unable to urinate more quickly. He described this slow, narrow stream as his normal experience of urination for his entire life up until the stone was removed at age 59.

In his newsletter account, he wrote that these were all signs of kidney and/or bladder stones but without the pain that normally accompanies them. When he was under heavy social pressure, such as in school bathrooms, he would hold his urine for hours rather than deal with the difficulty and the slow process. Under those high-pressure conditions, his urinary stream still came slowly and narrowly.

He connected this history to the vaccines he received as an infant and adolescent, particularly tetanus injections. Mercury and aluminum from those vaccines collected in his bladder and began forming the stone starting from roughly age two or three. The bladder wall, rather than generating pain, built up callused tissue to adapt to the presence of the stone, which he said explains why he experienced no significant pain for the nearly six decades the stone was forming.

By 2006, when Aajonus was 59 years old, the situation became acute. He could no longer urinate at all without lifting his leg like a dog, tilting his pelvis in that way to shift the stone aside and allow a small passage for urine. He began experiencing intense pain in the penis, not in the bladder itself, and specifically in the head and shaft of the penis, which he said did not feel like glass passing through the way smaller kidney stones feel when passing through the urethra. Within a day of the penis pain beginning, he was completely unable to urinate without the leg-lifting maneuver.

He went to a urologist who used ultrasound only, refusing x-rays as was his standard practice. The ultrasound revealed a stone that the urologist, who called in his colleagues and all available nurses, described as something none of them had ever seen. The bladder wall itself was four inches thick, when it should have been much thinner, reflecting the decades of adaptation to the stone's presence. The stone was described as larger than his thumb, and the ultrasound image he shared at workshops showed it clearly as an enormous mass within the bladder.

When the urologist began discussing removal, he described inserting three tubes via the urethra: a laser to blast the stone, a camera to guide the work, and a water tube for flushing debris. To accommodate three separate tubes, a single large outer tube would be inserted into the penis and the urethra, stretched to roughly an inch in diameter. Aajonus had imagined the combined tube would be roughly a quarter inch in diameter, and when he saw the actual instrument in the operating room, that was when he understood why he had agreed to the procedure. He noted this was the only time since approximately age 21 that he had allowed himself to be put under anesthesia.

The procedure, initially estimated to take 45 minutes, took considerably longer because of the density of the stone's core. Different accounts in the source material give times of one hour and 20 minutes, one hour and 45 minutes, and two hours, all referring to the same procedure. The outer layers of the stone were composed of calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, and potassium, built up in a coral-like structure. Once the urologist broke through those mineral layers and reached the center, the core was described as solid mercury, black and dense as steel, the size of a large marble. The mercury core would not break up under normal laser intensity, and the urologist had to increase laser power while being extremely careful not to burn or tear the bladder wall. The water used to flush the debris, approximately two and a half gallons total, ran out black. When that fluid was analyzed, it was found to be high in lead, mercury, and aluminum, substances Aajonus identified as being present in vaccines and, in the case of lead, also accumulated through decades of inhalation from car exhaust.

The lab report on stone fragments and a bladder-wall scrape taken during the procedure found no cancerous activity, and the black particles were described as "mercury dense." After the procedure, when Aajonus was brought to recovery, he refused the follow-up intravenous medications and asked for his clothes and personal bag. He drank his milkshake while waiting to be released. When he needed to urinate, a nurse helped him to the toilet, and he began urinating within ten seconds, produced approximately two cups in fifteen to twenty seconds, and described it as the first normal urination he could remember since infancy. He characterized the sensation as remarkable and attributed it to the first unobstructed urination of his post-infancy life.

In written accounts, he explained his analysis of why the body built one enormous stone rather than many small ones, which is the more typical pattern. His body, he concluded, had tried since infancy to rid itself of neuro-toxic mercury and aluminum from vaccines by concentrating those materials in the bladder. Because the stone had been developing since infancy, the body simply adapted by building calloused bladder tissue and preventing pain rather than triggering the emergency responses that would normally accompany a stone of that size. The urologist's staff had told him that someone with a stone that large should have been experiencing severe pain for at least three years before the crisis point; Aajonus had experienced no significant pain until approximately three days before the acute urinary blockage.

He also noted that his urinary tract itself had never developed normally, remaining unusually narrow throughout his life, which compounded the difficulty caused by the stone. In his view, the history was entirely consistent with early and repeated vaccine exposure depositing heavy metals in a vulnerable infant body, those metals concentrating in the bladder, and the body building a stone around them as a containment mechanism across nearly six decades.

In the source material, two specific formulas appear for attempting to dissolve bladder stones at home before or instead of surgical intervention.

The first protocol involves holding the urine as long as absolutely possible. The reasoning Aajonus provided is that holding the urine forces the bladder to expand as much as possible, which allows the dissolving ingredients in the formula to make maximum contact with the stone surface and allows dissolved stone fragments to flow outward with the urine when voiding finally occurs. He instructs using a jar to catch the urine and check for stone fragments after each voiding. As a preparatory massage step, he describes pressing the fingertips deeply into the lower abdomen at the tail bone, then slowly moving the fingers toward the navel about five inches, repeating this ten to fifteen times. Then rolling onto the stomach and rolling the abdominal muscles up and down until the urge to urinate becomes intense.

The second protocol, labeled Bladder Stone Removal Remedy Number Two, specifies the following items: one hot water bottle, one 32-ounce glass jar, and one quart of Sports Formula. The Stone Removal Formula ingredients listed in the source are as follows: 4 ounces of olive oil, 7 ounces of apple cider vinegar, 2 ounces of lemon juice, and 7 ounces of an unspecified remaining ingredient (the source text is cut off at that point and does not complete the full formula).

Aajonus acknowledged in his own case that the stone was so large that naturally dissolving it would have taken months, and his next lecture tour was beginning in two weeks, which was why he chose the surgical procedure. He framed the surgical route as appropriate for a stone of that size and density, characterizing it as one of the very few instances in his life where a medical procedure was warranted.

One source passage addresses a case of bladder prolapse (cystocele), in which a woman's bladder was pushing into her anterior vaginal wall and dragging downward, causing significant functional limitations. She had been on the waiting list for surgery for two years and had been managing the prolapse through visceral manipulation. Aajonus's response to her situation was that she had good sensibilities about her own body and that if he were in her position, he would also have the surgery. He characterized prolapses as indicating that the body has stored a large quantity of dead cells in that location, cells that lack the life energy to support themselves structurally. He noted that dissolving all of those dead cells through dietary means alone could take too much time, comparing the situation to a benign tumor. His specific instruction to her was to refuse any intravenous substances other than glucose during the procedure.

In this case, the surgery ultimately did not perform the full intended repair, as the surgeons found on the operating table that the ligament attachments appeared adequate and did not suture the organ to the ligaments or sacrum as originally planned. Aajonus had offered this guidance in the context of her considering surgery, not after the fact.

Aajonus described the kidneys and bladder as participants in the body's fluid-management response to temperature changes. When the body gets cold, the kidneys begin dumping more fluid into the bladder more rapidly, and the person needs to urinate frequently. This is the body's mechanism for thickening the blood, because water freezes at low temperatures while blood does not, so the body reduces its water content to concentrate the blood when cold. The bladder in this context is simply doing its collection job more actively as the kidneys process more fluid.

Conversely, when the body becomes hot, urination nearly stops. The kidneys slow their output to retain fluid in the blood and thin it so it can circulate more efficiently and cool the body. He noted that wild animals urinate very little in hot conditions for this reason, and that the aborigines who live in extreme desert heat urinate as little as a tablespoon to five tablespoons per day because their bladders and kidneys are cooperating to conserve every drop of fluid available.

Aajonus consistently reframed urine as a valuable biological fluid rather than a waste product, and this framing is relevant to understanding how he thought about the bladder. Because the bladder holds urine, and because urine is simply blood serum without most of the red blood cells, plus a small amount of ammonia from the kidney's separation process, the contents of the bladder are, in his framework, rich in proteins, fats, enzymes, and every nutrient found in the bloodstream. He stated plainly that "everything that's in the urine is in the blood," making urine a concentrated nutritional fluid.

This framework informed his view of urine therapy. For vegetarians and low-protein eaters, he said, drinking urine allows recycling of proteins that the body did not fully utilize on the first pass. He noted that astronauts drink filtered urine in space, that coal miners historically did the same, and that large populations in India and Asia, being largely vegetarian, practice urine therapy as a protein-recycling strategy. He made a distinction based on diet: for someone on a raw meat and dairy diet, urine becomes too acidic to drink comfortably, and he would not recommend it for such people. For vegetarians, he considered it beneficial and nutritionally important.

He also described using diluted urine as a garden fertilizer, mixing one part urine with nine parts water and spreading it over his garden, which caused his spearmint to grow significantly taller and his lavender to expand from a single small plant to a very large bush. He attributed this to the urea content and the full array of biological compounds in urine.

On the antiseptic properties of urine, he recounted a story from a workshop in Georgia in 1981 or 1982, where a retired Miami police officer stood up and confirmed that officers had been trained as early as 1928 to urinate into a cup and pour the urine onto wounds to stop bleeding and prevent infection. The officer said that after the medical profession declared the practice unclean and banned it, he personally watched hundreds of people bleed to death from wounds that urine would have stopped. Aajonus used this account to support his position that urine is antiseptic and healing, not toxic or unclean.