C-Section
Surgical removal of the infant through the abdominal wall severs spinal, vascular, lymphatic, and nerve connections that do not fully restore. The resulting structural deficits reduce sexual sensation, impair hormone production, and drive compensatory fat accumulation in the intestinal region for life.
Caesarean section, in Aajonus Vonderplanitz's framework, is a surgical procedure with consequences that extend far beyond the immediate removal of the infant through the abdominal wall. He viewed it not as a neutral alternative to vaginal birth but as a profoundly damaging intervention that altered the physiology of the mother in lasting and often permanent ways. His concern was not primarily with the healing of the incision itself but with what the surgery severed, disrupted, and permanently reorganized in the body's connective, nervous, lymphatic, and circulatory architecture.
Aajonus was unambiguous about the frequency with which caesarean sections were performed unnecessarily. He stated that in 94% of caesarean sections, doctors chose the surgical route because they did not want to wait the many hours a natural delivery required. He held that in only 6% of cases was either the mother or the child actually in danger and genuinely benefiting from the surgery. This framing was central to how he approached the topic: the vast majority of caesarean sections were a matter of medical convenience, not medical necessity, and the costs fell entirely on the mother and child.
He also identified a specific mechanism by which unnecessary caesarean sections were created from within the birth process itself. When a spinal injection or a muscle relaxant was administered to the mother at an earlier stage of labor, proper uterine contractions were often prevented. Birthing was slowed or stopped entirely as a result, and this artificially stalled labor then became the clinical justification for proceeding to caesarean surgery. In this reading, the caesarean was not an independent decision but a downstream consequence of earlier pharmaceutical interference with the birth process.
What Caesarean Section Disrupts
The physical consequences Aajonus described for the mother were specific and anatomical. He stated that caesarean section severs the connections between the mother's spinal cord and her brain, and simultaneously severs blood and lymph circulation to vital abdominal areas, including the uterus. Beyond the spinal and vascular disruption, the surgery scars nerves, veins, lymph channels, muscles, and skin. He described these as not merely injuries that healed over time but as structural interruptions that produced lasting functional deficits.
As a direct result of these severances, he said, sensation for sexual pleasure is drastically reduced. Control over motor responses is also reduced. Hormone production is similarly impaired. He framed all three of these consequences as things that usually ill-effect a woman for the remainder of her life, not temporarily, and not with full recovery on a conventional timeline. The effect on a woman's constitution and figure was described as adverse in too many cases, with the tone and shape of the body altered by the disruption to nerve, lymph, and muscular integrity in the abdominal region.
Lymphatic Consequences and Fat Accumulation
In the workshop transcripts, Aajonus expanded on the lymphatic disruption caused by caesarean section in a way that connected it to the observable pattern of weight gain and fat distribution in women who had undergone the procedure. He described the major lymph gland network as running through the neck, face, and extending downward into the abdominal and groin area. A caesarean cut, he said, cuts off this entire network from proper nutrient flow across a large region of the body, from the chest down through the intestinal area.
When this lymphatic flow is blocked, he explained, the body requires a much greater mass of fat to protect the intestinal area, because the normal protective and circulatory function of the lymph glands in that region is compromised. He connected this directly to why women who have had caesarean sections tend to accumulate fat in the abdominal region in a way that does not respond in the same way as fat elsewhere on the body. The fat is not simply excess; it is, in his framework, the body's compensatory response to a structural deficit in lymphatic circulation created by the surgery.
He noted that this kind of fat accumulation related to caesarean section was distinguishable from the general pattern of fat gain he described in younger generations due to poor food quality. The caesarean-related accumulation was specifically localized to the intestinal area and driven by the body's need to compensate for what the lymph glands could no longer adequately supply.
Weight Loss After Caesarean Section
In one workshop exchange, Aajonus was discussing a weight loss cycling protocol involving alternating periods of applying something topically and then removing it, describing a roughly five-month cycle of two and a half months on and two and a half months off. When asked directly whether the person had had a caesarean, he indicated that having had one would change the duration or approach. The implication in his phrasing was that the protocol would need to run for a longer period, approximately three and a half years, to accomplish what it would accomplish more readily in someone without the lymphatic and circulatory disruption of a caesarean. He said that without a caesarean, the cycling would not need to go on as long, whereas with one, it would.
For those needing to remove fat, he specified a formula of one or two eggs blended with five ounces of vegetable juice, with the juice being 80% celery and 20% parsley. For a small person, one egg; for a larger person or a male, up to two eggs. The following day would consist only of meat and water, in any quantity desired. A hot water bottle placed on the abdomen was also recommended. This protocol was his stated method for taking fat off "with a sound mind and a sound body."
Natural Birth Versus Caesarean Section
Aajonus consistently described natural vaginal birth on the Primal Diet as something dramatically easier than what most people in modern society experienced. He reported that many women who had been on the Primal Diet for at least two years experienced only two major contractions during labor: the first pushing the baby's head through, and the second pushing the rest of the baby free into the arms of the father or midwife. He described this as relatively easy birthing.
He cited specific named women who had this experience: Sherry Giacchetto, who had two contractions total, with the head already crowned by the time she registered that labor had begun, and then one more contraction that delivered the baby. Nicole's sister Ray was also mentioned in this context, having described feeling the contractions as strong but delivering the baby in two contractions with no severe pain. He referenced a film by John Goodall documenting a gorilla giving birth with two contractions and no vocalization, licking the baby clean and biting the umbilical cord, as a model of how uncomplicated birth could be for any animal properly nourished.
He described the prone birthing position, used for the convenience of doctors and medical personnel, as working against gravity and increasing the difficulty of contractions and the stress on the mother. Kneeling or squatting, he said, works with gravity and produces milder contractions and less stress. Birthing in a warm bath containing two cups of milk, three tablespoons of coconut cream, and three tablespoons of raw unpasteurized apple cider vinegar was recommended to prevent muscle cramps, keep muscles as relaxed as possible, and ease bruising. Remaining in the bath for at least 45 minutes after delivery was described as soothing and relaxing for the mother and easing the baby's entrance into the dry world.
The context of caesarean section as a problem was thus inseparable from his broader position that, on the Primal Diet, the conditions that conventional medicine used to justify caesarean sections, namely prolonged or stalled labor, severe contractions, and failure to progress, largely did not arise.
Reference to Haemorrhage
In the "We Want to Live" source, at the close of his discussion of caesarean section, Aajonus directed readers to the section on haemorrhage for information on preventing excessive bleeding. This was the only cross-reference he provided directly adjacent to the caesarean discussion in that text, indicating that preventing excessive blood loss was a related concern he had addressed separately.
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