Bone

Bone mineral loss happens, in Aajonus's framework, as a direct consequence of the body's need to neutralize and transport toxins. When the body carries heavy metals or other toxic substances in the bloodstream and has exhausted the available fat reserves that would normally bind to those toxins, it draws calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, potassium, and manganese from bone tissue to serve as binding and transport agents. This is the mechanism of osteoporosis: the body is not failing to absorb enough calcium from supplements but is actively consuming its own mineral reserves to manage a toxic load it cannot otherwise handle.

Eating too much fruit, or eating very sweet fruit, can accelerate this process because fruit sugars consume the fat present in the blood, leaving toxins unbound and forcing the body to draw minerals from bone. This is one reason Aajonus considered excessive fruit consumption dangerous for people with compromised bone density.

Cancer also produces bone loss through this same mechanism. As the body uses acids to dissolve tumors and dead cells, it requires calcium and phosphates to neutralize those acids, and it takes them from bone. In his words, "everybody who has cancer has osteoporosis," because the body is continuously eating the bone to supply neutralizing minerals to the areas where cellular dissolution is occurring.

Aajonus was unambiguous that mineral supplements in the form of dolomite, calcium oxide, magnesium gluconate, bone meal, or any isolated extracted mineral compound do not rebuild bone and actively damage the body. His analogy was direct: plants eat rock because rain, which is a distilled solvent full of bacteria, dissolves rock and makes minerals available in a form plants can absorb. Humans are not designed to eat rock. Taking a mineral supplement is eating rock, and the body cannot properly utilize it.

What happens instead is that the body pulls calcium from the blood in response to the foreign mineral load, potentially producing the reverse of the intended effect. He described how taking dolomite or bone meal can result in bone spurs and over-thickening of the bones rather than rebuilding them. Similarly, pharmaceutical medications prescribed to prevent osteoporosis, in his observation across twenty-eight years of working with these cases, showed no more than a one percent increase in bone density in clinical tests and were not genuinely effective. He named Sally Field as an example of someone publicly associated with such medications whose bones were not getting better.

Calcium oxides and dolomite in particular he identified as producing brittle bones, the kind that shatter on impact rather than bend, making a fall devastating rather than survivable.

Cooking bone, including making stock by boiling bones, destroys everything in the bone and the bone marrow. He stated this plainly when asked about beef stock: "You're destroying the bone marrow and everything that's in the bone."

The central clinical protocol Aajonus developed for bone loss, particularly osteoporosis, is eating raw unsalted cheese with a small quantity of raw honey, consumed after a meat meal. The reasoning is specific. Raw unsalted cheese is an extraordinarily concentrated source of minerals in biological food form, equivalent in mineral density to condensing a quart and a half of milk into a small block. Cheese alone, without honey, acts as a magnet and sponge in the digestive tract, pulling toxins out before they enter the bloodstream, which is useful for detoxification but means the minerals in the cheese are being used to bind poisons rather than being deposited into bone tissue.

When honey is added to the cheese, the bioactive enzymes in raw honey restore digestive activity to the cheese. This allows the minerals and fats in the cheese to be digested together and utilized intracellularly, including for bone remineralization. Without honey, the cheese performs its sponge function; with honey, it becomes a mineral supplement. Aajonus also specified that cheese must be eaten after a meat meal specifically because the high-protein environment of a recent meat meal provides the context in which the minerals and fats from cheese are directed toward structural rebuilding rather than detoxification.

The quantities he specified varied across different sources and were presented with some variation, all of which are preserved here.

In one formulation: one and a half tablespoons of cheese with one half to one whole teaspoon of honey. This combination used twice daily, he stated, reversed osteoporosis, with one cited case going from 20 percent bone loss to 12 percent bone loss in six months.

In another formulation for the most severe cases: two tablespoons of cheese three times daily with one and a half to two teaspoons of honey per serving.

In a third formulation: two tablespoons of cheese twice daily with one teaspoon of honey each time, cited as reversing 32 to 40 percent osteoporosis in two years.

In a fourth formulation, described as a sequenced approach: first eat a small cube of cheese (about half a teaspoon, or a sugar-cube-sized piece) approximately 25 minutes after finishing a meat meal, to begin absorbing circulating toxins. Then, ten minutes after that small piece, eat one and a half to three tablespoons of cheese with one and a half to two and a half teaspoons of honey. This, he said, remineralizes bones and the body rapidly and can be done two to three times daily.

For the most severe cases, he had patients eat cheese and honey after two meat meals per day and also in the middle of the night.

He gave a specific example of a man who replaced damaged jaw bone in approximately one month by eating two tablespoons of cheese twice a day with two and a half teaspoons of honey, taken thirty to thirty-five minutes after a meat meal, plus small sugar-cube-sized pieces of cheese eaten without honey before everything else he ate throughout the day to absorb the poisons that were consuming his minerals.

He noted that this protocol should replace cheese-without-honey for the portion of the day dedicated to mineralization, and that cheese-without-honey is still valuable throughout the day as a toxin binder to prevent those circulating toxins from depleting minerals already in the bone and food.

The timeline improvements he documented across his cases are as follows. He stated it once took six years to reverse 20 to 37 percent bone loss. After refining the protocol, he said he could reverse similar levels of bone loss in one year, with patients averaging one to two percent regrowth of bone per year. One specific case he cited frequently: a woman with 32 percent bone loss reversed her condition in twenty months using the cheese and honey protocol. In another account, he said he had reversed 32 to 40 percent osteoporosis in women in two years using two tablespoons of cheese twice daily with one teaspoon of honey. He also described reversing 23 percent bone loss to approximately 15 percent in eighteen months using cheese and honey after each meat meal and in the middle of the night.

He was careful to note that cheese and honey after a meat meal was specifically what worked in his experience. Without the meat meal context, the combination did not produce the same bone-building result.

Bone marrow, the soft fatty interior of long bones, was one of the foods Aajonus ate most consistently and recommended most strongly for healing and regeneration. Its primary value in his framework is that it is one of only two places in the body where non-adult stem cells exist, the other being sperm and the ovum, which are impossible to farm. Bone marrow contains what he called embryonic-like stem cells, meaning cells that the body can direct to become any cell type needed, as opposed to adult stem cells which can only reproduce their own specific cell type. Eating raw bone marrow therefore introduces these undifferentiated stem cells into the body, where they enter the bloodstream from the digestive tract and are directed by the body toward whatever tissue regeneration is most needed.

He described bone marrow as tasting and feeling like butter, sometimes like thick yogurt when cold, melting when warm. He ate it with his meat meal every day when he was in Los Angeles, consuming approximately one and a half sticks of butter worth of bone marrow per day, sourced from North Star Bison in Rice, Wisconsin. He described eating a full package of seven bones per day, noting that some bones near the knuckle are all cartilage with no marrow, and that the richest marrow is found in the mid-sections of the femur and tibia, not near the joints.

He recommended buying sections of femur or tibia from producers who slaughter animals, having the farmer cut them into sections, then allowing the bones to reach room temperature, at which point the marrow can be popped out easily and stored in a jar in the refrigerator. He warned that bone causes rapid bacterial proliferation and oxidation of the marrow when left at room temperature too long, so the marrow should be extracted soon after bringing it home, then refrigerated. He noted the marrow can be used both eaten with a meat meal and applied externally as a massage medium, and described a bone marrow massage as producing seven days without body odor, no itchy skin, and no dry skin.

The knuckle ends of bones, he clarified, are hard bone and cartilage with no marrow and should not be expected to yield anything. The productive marrow is in the central shaft of the bone.

He ate bone marrow daily because of his history of multiple myeloma, cancer of the blood and bone, understanding that his bone marrow had been severely damaged by radiation and that the regenerative stem cells in consumed bone marrow supported rebuilding his own marrow's capacity to produce red and white blood cells.

Aajonus's relationship to bone problems was extensive and personal, spanning multiple traumatic injuries and the systemic bone and blood disease of multiple myeloma.

He was diagnosed with multiple myeloma as a result of radiation damage to the major bones involved in blood cell production, specifically the ribs, spine, shoulders, hip bones, and femur joints. This left him unable to move much from the ribs down, crawling on the floor on his elbows, in constant pain. He described his bone pain from multiple myeloma as making any movement agonizing, describing the bone tumor pain as so severe that even cold air was painful. He stated that relief from bone pain on the raw diet took approximately thirteen years, partly because toxic clearance from bone marrow is slow, as the marrow does not have the same abundance of blood flow and lymphatic drainage that other tissues do. Toxins must move out through the joints and exit slowly.

He also lost the bone around his teeth due to multiple myeloma, causing his teeth to dangle in his gums and bleed when he bit down. He required two to three blood transfusions per week. After beginning raw carrot juice and raw milk, the bone around his teeth grew back over two years.

He suffered a severe tibia fracture in Thailand when a motorbike fell on his leg. The tibia, described as being as big as his fist, split in two lengthwise, opened in the back approximately a quarter inch, and the top portion broke off in a pyramid shape and lodged up into the femur joint. Cartilage fragments were scattered throughout the knee. Surgeons told him he would never walk again without surgery involving eight to twelve pins and extensive cutting of muscle. He refused surgery, reasoning that the surgery itself would result in a leg one to two inches shorter, a calf muscle reduced to two-thirds its size, and permanent disability from the tissue damage of the operation, and that natural healing would take at most a year while surgical repair would require two years of recovery. He crutched to the ocean four hours a day, two in the morning and two in the evening, exercising his leg for over a mile in the water to accelerate healing and reduce stiffness. His tendons, which had been ripped and bubbled up at both attachment points, visibly regrew within one week. He monitored the bone fragment dissolution, knowing that undissolved bone fragments lodged in joints would stab nerves and prevent walking. He credited his diet with enabling those fragments to dissolve naturally, which most people's bodies cannot do.

He was also severely beaten by two attackers, one hitting him with a board splitting his eye, and the other hitting him with a crowbar or hammer. The blow to his jaw broke teeth and the bone from one side to the other, knocking that bone section completely under his tongue. The nerve hose running through the jawbone where the teeth connect was split in two in two places. Dentists and dental nurses told him they would have to remove the bone and that he would lose the teeth, warning of potential brain infection. He insisted they work the bone back into place, wire his jaw, and wire the teeth in position. The bone and teeth eventually healed, with the bone growing back over the following period. He described dentists previously telling him he could not regenerate the nerve running through that jaw bone or rebuild the bone from the severity of the damage, and he stated the raw diet proved them wrong.

Aajonus discussed how cooked food and toxic accumulation cause bone to grow excessively large and abnormally structured. When substances that should be digested and evacuated are not processed correctly, they are deposited throughout the body including into bone, causing bones to become enlarged and thickened. He used John Travolta as a specific example: as a young man, Travolta had slim, narrow bones and exceptional physical agility, but over time with gorging on cooked and unhealthy foods, his bones became very large and he lost the flexibility, the ability to do the splits, and the physical capabilities of his youth.

The same principle applied in reverse when proper nutrition is provided. Aajonus described his own shoulder bones developing for the first time when he was nearly thirty years old after gaining access to raw meat and raw dairy, because his body had been so malnourished that skeletal development had been stunted. One of his seminar attendees, a 33-year-old man, described growing an inch in height after gaining 50 pounds on the diet, experiencing what felt like the growing pains of adolescence in his lower legs, and attributing this to his bones finally having the nutrients to finish developing.

Aajonus also described observing his hip bones change in both size and density over thirty years, going from larger to smaller in circumference while simultaneously becoming denser and harder. He described this as the body using a very long time to restructure bone tissue when proper nutrition is finally consistently provided.

In Aajonus's structural description of the body, cartilage buffers the impact of joint movement, described as hard and rubberish, and is healthy when it is neither brittle nor swollen with toxicity. Cartilage is mineral-concentrated, as are bones, which is relevant for arthritis because the cartilage and bone deterioration in that condition is mineral-related. He recommended oysters, shellfish, and deep-sea fish specifically because of their mineral content for supporting cartilage and bone in arthritic conditions.

Tendons connect muscles to bones, while ligaments hold bone to bone, such as the ligaments of the knee and ankles. He described these as made from fats, and said that when the body has adequate fats and nutrients it can produce the material needed to hold tendons and ligaments elastic and firmly in place. When nutrition is inadequate, tendons rip apart rather than stretch and return.

In his own knee injury, he watched his two ripped tendons, both of which had buckled and bubbled up at their torn ends, grow back together in approximately one week. The pain at the sites of the tears did not stop as quickly, but he visually observed the structural reunion occurring.

Aajonus repeatedly referenced the Eskimos and Inuit as an example of humans with sufficient dental and structural health to eat hard bones directly. He described them sitting around at night chewing and eating bones, something he said he could never do without destroying his own teeth. Bird bones, small bones, heel bones, and vertebrae were consumed directly by these populations. He encountered a woman in the Philippines who ate fish vertebrae as her primary food throughout the day, consuming them as snacks from a bottle, and described her as appearing to be in her mid-thirties while actually being 50 to 51, moving eighteen hours a day without stopping, performing all the food preparation for multiple people and all the gardening.

The Eskimos, he noted, ate raw meat exclusively for nine months of the year, with no disease, no arteriosclerosis, and no cancer in traditional practice. The tribes that cooked their meat, by contrast, showed some degree of bone deterioration over time, leading eventually to deterioration of joints and arthritic conditions that worsened with age.

He wished he had teeth strong enough to eat bones directly, stating that if he tried to chew a bone his teeth would break. He did eat soft bones when opportunity presented, describing crushing softer bones with a rock or knife and eating them. When living outdoors and subsisting on small animals, he ate whole bones of small animals he could manage.

Aajonus specifically addressed the safety of raw chicken bones for animals and for humans. Raw chicken bones are safe because the salivary acids and hydrochloric acid of carnivores and humans can dissolve a raw bone that gets lodged within three to four minutes. A cooked chicken bone, by contrast, becomes glass-like, the same transformation that happens when you fire clay, and hydrochloric acid cannot dissolve it. If a cooked bone gets lodged, it stays, and there is no mechanism to remove it. Raw chicken bones, he emphasized, are not dangerous.

On the topic of dental implants, Aajonus stated that whatever is implanted in the jaw bone damages the bone and can release toxins continuously. He said that even stainless steel, when drilled into bone, is not safe from dissolving and releasing metals into the tissue. For filling or strengthening a tooth, he recommended bone or ivory stuffed into the cavity rather than steel rods. If the teeth on either side of a gap are already capped, he recommended a cap with a false tooth rather than an implant, and otherwise recommended leaving the gap open rather than implanting foreign metal.

Beyond eating bone marrow for internal regeneration, Aajonus used it externally. He described using it as a massage medium, both alone and mixed half and half with butter. He added a tablespoon of pineapple juice to the mixture when using it on skin, because pineapple contains bromelain, which helps break down and clear dead skin cells from the surface. The bone marrow massage he received produced seven consecutive days without body odor except in the armpits, no itchy skin, and no dry skin, where his usual maximum without bathing was four to five days before experiencing skin problems.