Blood

The red blood cells have one job: to deliver oxygen to every other cell in the body. With that oxygen, the body oxidizes fats and acetates to produce energy. The body can manufacture fats from protein, carbohydrates, or other fats, producing compounds Aajonus called acetates and acetones, but the conversion requires oxygen, and oxygen delivery is entirely dependent on healthy, mature red blood cells. When red blood cell count is adequate but the cells themselves are weak or immature, the person still experiences anemia because non-functional red blood cells cannot carry oxygen regardless of their number. Aajonus referred to this as "secondary anemia."

The white blood cells perform carbon dioxide removal. As the body burns fats for energy, carbon dioxide accumulates as a waste product. White blood cells absorb this carbon dioxide and carry it out of the body through the lungs or through perspiration at the skin surface. In addition to that primary role, white blood cells also eat dead red blood cells, a process Aajonus described as essential to keeping the blood from becoming toxic. Every minute, red blood cells die. The white blood cells, which he called phagocytes (from the Greek "thago," meaning to eat), consume these dead cells, and when the phagocytes discard their own waste, that waste is entirely reutilizable as nutrients or is simply expelled. He used the term "thagocytes" for white blood cells specifically because their function is to eat. When functioning properly, this system means the blood never accumulates the kind of dead-cell debris that would otherwise contaminate the entire circulatory system.

Aajonus was explicit that the blood is not supposed to be "delivering proteins and fats and carbohydrates to the rest of the body," calling that "not its normal chore." He acknowledged that in the toxic modern body the blood does exactly this, acting as a feeding vehicle, a detoxifying station, and a general transport system for substances that should be handled by the lymph. The consequence is that the blood's capacity for oxygen delivery is compromised, and the body's energy level drops accordingly.

Red blood cells are disk-shaped, and Aajonus described them as having their own internal structures, using the term "organelles" to describe the organs and glands within a cell. He emphasized that a blood cell is a microcosm of a larger organism, containing glands, organs, and the full complement of structures necessary to perform its function. He showed slides of blood at his workshops, pointing to how soft, radiant, and alive healthy red blood cells appear, and contrasting this with the appearance of damaged or immature cells.

Red and white blood cells are produced exclusively in the bone marrow. Aajonus was precise on this point and corrected what he called a common medical misconception: some doctors say blood reproduces in the spleen. It does not. The spleen stores blood but manufactures nothing. In the fetus, blood cell production begins in the kidneys and then migrates to the bone marrow, and by approximately 46 months of age, the bone marrow is the permanent and sole site of red and white blood cell division for the rest of life.

In the bone marrow, blood cells divide, the daughter cells mature, and once mature, they enter the bloodstream. The process of maturing a new supply of red and white blood cells takes approximately 40 to 65 days under normal conditions, or up to 60 to 90 days in an ill person. To make a full quart of blood can take approximately 60 days. This long production timeline is the biological reason the spleen's reserve function is so important.

If red or white blood cells are released from the bone marrow before they are mature, they enter the bloodstream and fail to perform their function. They cannot carry oxygen. They simply consume whatever nutrients are present in the blood without contributing anything, weakening the person despite a normal or even elevated red blood cell count. This is the mechanism Aajonus called secondary anemia: all the red blood cells in the world produce anemia if those red blood cells are not mature.

Aajonus described the white blood cells as phagocytes, cells whose job is to eat. In a healthy body, they eat two things: dead red blood cells and carbon dioxide that enters the bloodstream as a byproduct of fat metabolism. When a red blood cell dies, phagocytes consume it, and their waste products are either fully reutilizable nutrients or are expelled through the kidneys into the urine or through the bowel. This creates a closed ecological system within the blood that prevents accumulation of dead-cell debris.

When the body is toxic, white blood cells take on additional roles, including absorbing environmental toxins that enter the bloodstream, dealing with materials inhaled or otherwise introduced into the system, and generally acting as a defense mechanism. Aajonus noted that white blood cell count measurably drops after eating cooked food, a phenomenon he identified as leukocytosis. After a cooked meal, a significant portion of white blood cells are redirected to deal with the digestive byproducts of cooked food, leaving fewer available for their normal functions.

He also described what happens when white blood cells die after becoming very large from their absorptive activity. When a large white blood cell dies, it goes to the lymphatic system to be broken down, or it may be eliminated through urine or feces without requiring breakdown, because there are multiple direct exit points from the blood into the bowel and urinary tract.

In the context of bruising, Aajonus explained that when capillaries and veins break, red blood cells escape into surrounding tissue where they do not belong. Outside the bloodstream, these cells cannot survive, and they die. The purple color of a bruise represents both live and recently dead red blood cells in tissue. As bacteria break down the dead cells in the proper ecological sequence, the bruise progresses from purple to blue to black to yellow, each color representing a different stage of bacterial decomposition of the escaped blood. Inside the bloodstream, white blood cells (phagocytes) would handle dead red blood cells so that no such decomposition in tissue would ever be necessary. The process in bruised tissue is essentially what happens when the blood's own cleaning system cannot reach the escaped cells.

The bone marrow is the sole environment in which red and white blood cells divide and mature. Aajonus described bone marrow as approximately 60 percent fat, comparable in fat concentration to the brain and nervous system. Because the body preferentially stores fat-soluble toxins in fatty tissues, bone marrow accumulates heavy metals and other poisons at among the highest concentrations in the body.

When bone marrow is contaminated with metals such as aluminum, tin, lead, cadmium, or mercury, the production and maturation of red and white blood cells is directly impaired. Aajonus said the average impact he observed was approximately a 20 percent reduction in blood health, with some cases reaching 30 percent. Aluminum and tin in the bone marrow can affect blood quality by that margin. When this reduced blood capacity is combined with the blood's extra burden of acting as a feeding vehicle for the whole body, the cumulative energy loss is severe.

In extreme cases of bone marrow toxicity, the marrow expels immature red and white blood cells into the bloodstream before they are ready. The spleen then draws these immature cells out of the bloodstream because they cannot do productive work. They cannot carry oxygen and serve no functional purpose. This cycle produces a situation where the bone marrow is generating cells, those cells are entering and being pulled from circulation without contributing anything, and the person becomes progressively weaker.

In cases of very high metal contamination, particularly with lead and cadmium, leukemia can develop. Aajonus described bone marrow cancer and leukemia as conditions driven by toxic overload in the marrow. Bone cancer in the harder bone tissue can also be caused by conditions originating in the marrow. The thin people he saw, who had little body fat elsewhere, had their toxic burden concentrated almost entirely in bone marrow and brain, making their blood production especially vulnerable.

The spleen does not manufacture blood and does not breed blood cells. It is a storage organ, functioning analogously to the gallbladder, which stores bile. The spleen's sole function is to hold a reserve of red blood cells, and in unhealthy individuals with overproduction of white blood cells, it may also store excess white blood cells, though Aajonus described this as unnatural and a sign of pathology.

The spleen holds between a pint and a quart and a half of blood depending on the individual. Most people hold a pint to a pint and a half, approximately three cups. Larger individuals may hold closer to a quart. In cases where the spleen becomes a filter for contaminated red blood cells, it can hold more, but this too is a pathological state.

The spleen serves three distinct functions in Aajonus's framework.

The first and most important is emergency blood replacement. If a person suffers a wound and loses blood, they become anemic the moment that blood is gone. Without sufficient red blood cells, they cannot deliver enough oxygen to muscles to run, climb, or defend themselves. In evolutionary terms, Aajonus used the analogy repeatedly of a person falling from a tree, having their jugular vein cut by a branch, and losing anywhere from a cup to a quart and a half of blood. Without intervention, that person would be "dinner for some tiger or whatever." As soon as the bleeding stops and a clot seals the wound, the spleen begins releasing its stored red blood cells back into the bloodstream. In a healthy person, this process completes in approximately one to six hours. In an ill modern person, it may take six to ten hours. The result is that the person is no longer anemic and can function normally while the bone marrow works over the following 60 to 90 days to rebuild both the circulating blood and the spleen's reserve.

Aajonus gave several specific examples of blood loss amounts and their consequences. Losing two cups of blood would produce anemia lasting 60 to 90 days without splenic intervention. Losing a quart and a half would produce anemia for approximately 60 days during bone marrow reconstitution. A woman losing two to three cups of blood in childbirth does not need a transfusion because the spleen provides that reserve immediately upon cessation of bleeding. A woman losing blood during menstruation similarly does not need to become weak because the spleen replaces the volume.

The second function of the spleen is temperature regulation through blood viscosity. When the body becomes very cold, the blood needs to thicken in order to retain and generate heat. The spleen accomplishes this by dumping red blood cells into the bloodstream, increasing blood density and warmth. Simultaneously, the kidneys reduce the amount of water they filter out of the blood, allowing more water to remain in circulation and contributing to thickening. When the body becomes too hot, the spleen reverses this process by drawing red blood cells out of the bloodstream and thinning the blood. The kidneys correspondingly reduce their filtration of water and allow more fluid to remain in blood, further thinning it and promoting cooling. These two processes, splenic release and reabsorption combined with kidney fluid management, constitute the body's primary thermoregulatory mechanism operating through blood viscosity.

The third function relates to the storage and management of immature blood cells. When the bone marrow is toxic and expels immature red blood cells prematurely, the spleen draws them out of the bloodstream. This prevents them from simply taking up nutrients without contributing to oxygen transport.

When the spleen itself is contaminated with heavy metals, those metals leach into the red blood cells stored inside it. When those contaminated cells are then released back into the bloodstream, they are weakened and cannot transport oxygen effectively, creating a secondary anemia even when the red blood cell count appears normal on a standard blood test.

Aajonus described blood thickness as a primary mechanism by which the body regulates temperature, and the spleen and kidneys as the two organs most directly responsible for adjusting that thickness. Thick blood retains more heat. Thin blood releases heat more readily. The spleen adds red blood cells to thicken and withdraws them to thin. The kidneys retain water to thin and remove water to thicken. These systems work in coordination.

In very cold conditions, both systems move toward thickening simultaneously: the spleen releases stored red blood cells into the bloodstream, and the kidneys filter out more water. This is why people urinate frequently in the cold, a direct consequence of the kidneys removing water to thicken and warm the blood. In very hot conditions, the reverse occurs: the spleen draws red blood cells out and the kidneys retain more water, producing less frequent urination.

Aajonus included a specific warning about salt and its effect on red blood cells. He described the mechanism in terms of ionic disruption: the magnetism of salt ions is strong enough to pull ions out of red blood cells, causing the cells to contract the way a grape shrivels to a raisin or a plum to a prune. Once a red blood cell has been disrupted in this way, it can no longer eat, and it dies. Two tiny grains of salt, in his description, generate enough ionic disruption to destroy two million red blood cells. Two million red blood cells barely fit on the end of a pin, so this is an extraordinarily small number of cells, but the cumulative effect of consuming salt at every meal over time he considered seriously damaging. He calculated that regular salt consumption could result in the equivalent of three tablespoons of destroyed blood per day, and at that rate, bone marrow production cannot keep pace, leading to a gradual deterioration of blood health.

His position was that no salt is beneficial except in cases of adrenal exhaustion, and even then it is a qualified exception rather than a routine practice.

On the question of donating blood, Aajonus acknowledged that he had donated blood on a few occasions, but only to specific people he knew personally who needed it and who shared his blood type. He noted that donating a pint of blood requires 90 to 120 days for the body to replace it, which is a substantial burden. His position was that donating blood as a general act of charity is inadvisable unless the person is genuinely healthy and strong enough to absorb that cost, and even then, he would not donate to a blood bank but only directly to someone close to him with a specific demonstrated need.

He also commented on laboratory blood draws, describing the practice of taking three sets of three cubic centimeters of blood as wasteful and unnecessary. From his time working in a laboratory setting, he observed that approximately half a cubic centimeter is sufficient to run twelve tests. The excess blood is simply discarded. He viewed the practice of drawing large volumes as serving institutional purposes of reducing error risk rather than any clinical necessity, and he found it medically unjustifiable.

Aajonus described observing and tasting blood as a food during his time with African tribes. He described the Maasai practice of bleeding a bull by inserting a sharpened bamboo stick into the jugular vein of the animal and collecting blood over approximately five days. The collected blood was mixed half-and-half with raw milk in a stomach or bladder pouch, shaken together, and consumed. Aajonus described the result as tasting like ice cream. He noted that blood consumed alone is thick, heavy, and slightly metallic in flavor, and not particularly appetizing. Mixed with raw milk, the flavor changes entirely. He described blood as forming a significant part of the Maasai diet for approximately three months of the year, during calving season, when the cows' milk is largely required by the calves and less available to the people.

In conversations about blood chemistry, Aajonus described three blood types defined not by conventional ABO typing but by the relative acidity or alkalinity of the blood. A more acidic blood will synthesize red blood cells without assistance and does not easily form white blood cells. A person with highly acidic blood or a highly acidic system needs white meat, in his view, because the body needs white cell support. A blood chemistry that is more alkaline works in the reverse direction. He described a neutral blood type as intermediate between these two. This framework emerged from his observations and from conversations with Owanza, who initially suggested the distinction, after which Aajonus developed it further through his own experimentation and clinical observation.

Aajonus described green vegetable juices as the primary means of keeping the blood slightly alkalinized in the context of the high toxicity modern people carry. On a primarily raw meat, dairy, and egg diet, the blood can trend acidic due to the byproducts of constant detoxification. Green vegetable juices, he said, buffer this tendency and maintain a slight alkalinity. Meat and dairy handle almost all other nutritional needs, with a small amount of fruit once daily serving to assist cleansing, help produce the alcohols needed to make viruses, and support fat breakdown as a cleansing mechanism.

Aajonus made a specific clinical distinction between red meat and fish or poultry with respect to blood building. Fish and poultry primarily support and strengthen white blood cells. Red meat is what builds and strengthens red blood cells. For a person who is pallid, jaundiced, and clearly deficient in red blood cell strength or count, he recommended red meat for three to six months before anything else. He acknowledged that fish and poultry do provide some red blood cell support, but he considered it insufficient for people in a weakened state, where the body lacks the capacity to transmute one type of food's nutrients into another type of blood cell material. His view was that in a healthy person, almost any food can be transmuted into whatever the body needs, but in a severely compromised person, the body requires "like with like," meaning red meat for red blood cells.

Aajonus described hemophilia as a condition in which the blood fails to coagulate properly, leading to continuous bleeding. He stated that 95 percent of hemophiliacs could be completely cured by drinking two to three ounces of white cabbage juice on a daily basis, because white cabbage juice contains the specific chemical factors needed to support proper clotting. Some hemophiliacs who are also severely demineralized require cheese alongside the cabbage juice to provide the additional minerals necessary for the process to work. He presented this as an example of how a single specific food can have a profound biochemical effect that pharmaceutical interventions cannot replicate.

He illustrated this with a case study of a woman who had survived Auschwitz and was bleeding continuously, near death. She was placed on a raw meat and dairy diet and white cabbage juice. She recovered completely, regained her weight and vitality, and appeared well. She then joined a vegetarian community whose members told her she was "spiritually bankrupt" for eating animal foods. She stopped eating the primal foods and returned to vegetarian eating. Within two weeks she began bleeding again and died shortly thereafter. Aajonus used this case to illustrate the singular power of specific foods for specific biochemical functions, and the potentially fatal consequences of abandoning them.

Aajonus described a method for demonstrating the damaging effects of MMS (Miracle Mineral Supplement, a chlorine dioxide compound) on blood cells. He instructed observers to prick a finger that had been exposed to MMS and spread two drops of blood on a glass slide, then prick an unexposed finger and do the same for comparison. On the unexposed slide, the blood cells undergo a slow, calm decomposition as they are exposed to oxygen outside the bloodstream. On the MMS-exposed slide, the white blood cells can be seen actively consuming the MMS in an attempt to protect the red blood cells from contact with it, and the rate of cellular decomposition is dramatically accelerated. He recommended timing the decomposition and comparing the coloration of the dried blood masses after an hour. He also noted that body chemistry changes every 20 to 40 minutes, so for valid comparison, blood from both fingers must be taken at the same time.

Aajonus addressed AIDS specifically in the context of blood transmission. His position was that AIDS, as it appeared in African populations, was caused by contaminated smallpox vaccines rather than sexual transmission. He stated that AIDS could be transmitted through blood transfusion from a person who had received the smallpox vaccine, but could not be transmitted sexually, because the body bleeds outward rather than inward, meaning even anal intercourse with bleeding does not introduce the pathogen into the bloodstream of another person. He cited work he attributed to Dr. Strucker showing that ejaculation contains only two viruses, which he regarded as insufficient for transmission. He described 27 African countries as having come under World Bank control because they could not pay for the medical aid they received in connection with AIDS interventions.

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