Blood Thinners

Aajonus consistently told people with arrhythmia and atrial fibrillation not to take Coumadin. His framework was that an irregular heartbeat is simply a variation in cardiac rhythm, not a disease state requiring pharmaceutical intervention. He used informal language to normalize it: "You just got a different beat of a heart. Yours is reggae." He said that most people with this condition do not need to do anything about it, and that the primary harm comes from the fear and anxiety generated by medical monitoring, specifically the habit of counting heartbeats and interpreting every skipped beat as a sign of impending stroke.

He described the case of his father in substantial detail across multiple seminar transcripts. His father was diagnosed with the arrhythmia and the doctors warned him he was at risk of stroke if he did not take Coumadin. Aajonus repeatedly advised him not to take it. His father took the drug anyway. Over the following two to three years he became very sick and developed all kinds of problems. Eventually his doctor, frustrated with the father's non-compliance and anxiety about his heartbeat, told him to "just stop counting." Aajonus said this was the best advice the doctor ever gave, because stopping the counting meant stopping the fear, and once his father stopped monitoring obsessively and stopped the Coumadin, his health stabilized. He reached 88 years of age.

In a separate seminar passage, a participant raised the concern that atrial fibrillation creates a risk of blood slowing through the atrium and coagulating. Aajonus addressed this directly by saying that such coagulation events are "so rare," and that "if you're on this diet at all, it's not going to matter."

Aajonus addressed the specific situation of patients who had stents placed in blocked arteries and were then prescribed Plavix and aspirin to prevent clotting around the stent. He received questions about an 82-year-old woman who had just had a heart attack, had one artery 100% blocked, a second 90% blocked with a stent placed, and a third 60% blocked with two stents placed. Her doctor was insisting on Plavix, aspirin, and two blood pressure medications. The family wanted to know what she could do naturally to keep blood flowing through the stents and prevent clotting.

His response challenged the medical framing rather than simply substituting one protocol for another. He pointed out that if arteries are blocked and the only way blood can circulate is through elevated pressure, then high blood pressure is appropriate and not something to suppress. He described the doctors' logic as making "no sense." He then provided a specific natural protocol for blood thinning using raw apple cider vinegar and unheated honey in naturally sparkling mineral water.

Aajonus's recommended alternative to pharmaceutical blood thinners, both in the context of blocked arteries and stent care, was a formula of raw apple cider vinegar, unheated honey, and naturally sparkling mineral water. He gave precise quantities and a detailed tapering schedule.

The formula: 1 tablespoon of raw apple cider vinegar mixed with 3 tablespoons of unheated honey, poured into 2 and a half ounces of naturally sparkling mineral water. This is consumed three times daily, at specific windows: between 6 and 8 AM, between 1 and 3 PM, and between 9 and 11 PM.

The schedule: this full three-times-daily dose is maintained for three months, consumed five days per week (not seven). After three months, the frequency is reduced to twice daily for another three months. After that second three-month period, the vinegar is reduced to once daily and maintained at that level indefinitely for the rest of the person's life.

Aajonus gave a variation of this formula in a follow-up query from a 60-year-old woman who had been on the raw diet for five years and was experiencing heaviness in her chest, shortness of breath when climbing stairs, and pain in the left arm. She had previously received advice for her mother's blocked arteries and asked whether the same vinegar remedy would also work for her own symptoms. The formula he described in that context was slightly different in ratios: 3 tablespoons honey, 1 tablespoon raw apple cider vinegar, and 2 and a quarter ounces of mineral water, three times daily for two months, then twice daily for two months, then once daily permanently. He also noted that plenty of eggs should accompany this protocol.

He acknowledged a general caution about vinegar: that it can cause mineral imbalances if used in large amounts, and that small quantities used patiently are more appropriate than large aggressive doses. He explicitly criticized chelation therapy as a method for removing arterial plaque, stating that it imbalances the bones, bone marrow, and entire cellular system, causes the skin to become very thin, and stores heavy metals in connective tissue, lymph, bones, and joints. He called it "the most toxic alternative therapy I have seen."

In response to the question about whether grapefruit could assist blood pressure and reduce the need for blood pressure medication in a heart attack patient on Plavix and aspirin, Aajonus said that grapefruit can be used to lower blood pressure but noted an important qualification. If the patient's veins and arteries have lost their elasticity, lowering blood pressure pharmacologically or with grapefruit may not be appropriate. In that situation, high blood pressure is necessary because the blood vessels cannot expand adequately to allow circulation. He suggested eating half a grapefruit daily for ten days as a test. If that brings blood pressure down, then the body simply lacked the nutrients to lower it on its own. If grapefruit does not lower blood pressure, then the body needs the elevated pressure and it should not be interfered with.

Aajonus situated blood thinners within a larger critique of pharmaceutical measurement systems. He argued that the thresholds used to define dangerous blood viscosity, dangerous cholesterol, dangerous blood pressure, and dangerous heartbeat patterns are all set by pharmaceutical interests to maximize the number of people who qualify for medication. He stated that 60 years ago, blood pressure readings of 190 over 110 were considered borderline and not immediately dangerous; now doctors treat that level as a crisis requiring immediate intervention. He cited a Hall of Fame basketball player in his 80s maintaining a cholesterol level of 672 and outperforming teenagers, as a way of demonstrating that pharmaceutical measurements are not correlated with actual function.

He extended this to blood clotting and viscosity: "All those ratios, they're pharmaceuticals' way of getting you to take medication for the rest of your life." He argued that a person is "much more likely to have a stroke while taking medication" than while following the Primal Diet, and cited three people he knew who had strokes while partially following the diet, noting all three were heavy consumers of processed foods alongside the diet.

Aajonus was more specific about aspirin's mechanisms of harm than about Coumadin's. He stated that aspirin damages capillaries, destroys vitamin K, and causes deficiencies in vitamins D and K (and in the context of vaccine injury, vitamins D, H, and K specifically). He connected these deficiencies to internal bleeding as a direct consequence. He described a woman with cancer who had been taking aspirin, noting: "I couldn't stop that woman's cancer from growing that had all that aspirin. It was just impossible. It just grew. In the space of a year and a half, it went from this little bitty thing to cover her entire chest." She had been on the Primal Diet for four years at that point, had lost weight down to a normal level, and her headaches had resolved, but the aspirin created a biochemical environment in which the cancer could not be slowed.

He also noted in another context that people who "have that kind of indication are taking a lot of aspirin," meaning that certain blood abnormalities and circulatory patterns he observed in clients were associated with prior aspirin use.

For heart patients who wished to reduce or eliminate their medications including blood thinners, Aajonus recommended a gradual reduction approach rather than abrupt cessation. His standard instruction for most heart medications was to reduce the dose by half every ten days to two weeks. He gave the example of a woman in San Diego named Donna Robertson who had stents and was on a full protocol of heart medications. She went on the Primal Diet, and he advised her to cut her medications by half every two weeks to ten days so she was comfortable with the transition. After eight years on the diet she was taking no medications and described herself as strong and healthy at approximately 75 to 76 years of age.

For high blood pressure medications specifically, he stated they should normally be reduced over a two-week period, cutting the dose by half every five days until eliminated.

He did state a qualification: for heart patients, he often recommended a slower and more cautious reduction because "most heart patients are always in a great deal of fear," and the psychological component of weaning off these medications is significant. The fear itself can be destabilizing in ways that matter biochemically.

In the context of a friend in a coma following brain hemorrhages, with additional small clots traveling to a kidney and three areas of brain damage, Aajonus was informed that the medical team intended to administer blood thinners. He did not provide an extended protocol response in the available passage on that specific case, but the framing of his response indicates he viewed the situation as one where medical management was proceeding without sufficient understanding and where nutrition through the tube was being denied on flimsy grounds.

Aajonus directly disputed the medical claim that a slow-beating or irregular heart creates stroke risk through clot formation. He described this as a theory with no grounding in clinical reality, used specifically to justify Coumadin prescriptions. His position was that strokes are far more associated with taking medication, including blood pressure drugs and blood thinners, than with the irregular heartbeat patterns that trigger the prescription. He noted that lowering blood pressure with medication when arteries are congested is "likely to cause clots because the blood is not moving fast enough through congested arteries." This is the inverse of the conventional rationale: in his view, the drugs intended to prevent stroke can themselves precipitate clotting by reducing the velocity needed to keep blood moving through compromised vasculature.

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