Cellular Memory

Aajonus was specific about the mechanism of memory storage in relation to neurons. Memory is stored within the cells themselves, meaning the physical neuron tissue is the substrate of the memory. This is why mercury, which dissolves neurons directly, produces total and permanent memory destruction rather than mere disruption. He drew on live video footage from the University of Calgary's Faculty of Medicine, which he described as time-lapse photography showing neurons growing in a tissue culture. When a 2% solution of thimerosal, the liquid mercury compound used in vaccines, was introduced into the culture, the neurons visibly disintegrated and disappeared. He also referenced Alberta University's available video documentation of neurons dissolving in mercury solution, which he said he had downloaded personally and described as showing approximately 76 quadrillion molecules of mercury in that 2% solution.

He described this cellular dissolution as directly explaining why any injection containing mercury results in the permanent disappearance of the nerve and brain cells exposed to it. "If there were memory stored with those cells, they're gone forever." The loss is proportional to the quantity of cells destroyed and the regions of the brain they occupied. In his own case, the vaccines he received as a child destroyed parts of his communication center but not his memory center for general recall. He described this as fortunate, noting that the mercury-induced autism affected his ability to process and produce language but did not destroy his memory for mathematics and spatial reasoning, which he said operated through a different region of his brain.

Aajonus drew a careful distinction between the effects of mercury and aluminum on neurological function, because they produce different and distinguishable types of cognitive loss.

Mercury dissolves neurons outright. When neurons dissolve, the memories stored in them are gone permanently. There is no retrieving a thought or a memory that was encoded in tissue that no longer exists. This is the mechanism behind complete and irreversible memory loss, the kind where a person cannot remember something at all and has lost it forever.

Aluminum operates differently. Aluminum destroys the zeta potential of fluids. The zeta potential is the property of a fluid that keeps nutrients suspended rather than allowing them to drop out of suspension under gravity. He illustrated this with a concrete and repeatable image: if you put liquid aluminum into a fish tank, the fish hit the bottom and can no longer swim, because aluminum removes the fluid's ability to keep things buoyant and suspended. In the brain and nervous system, the same thing happens. A synapse fires, but because aluminum is present in the neurological fluid, the information does not rocket through the axons and ganglia to the rest of the brain. Instead it drops, slides along the bottom of the nerve tube, fails to bounce off the walls properly, and does not complete its transmission. The result is not permanent memory destruction but rather the inability to retrieve or transmit a thought that is still present in the tissue. The thought exists somewhere in the system but cannot be accessed or completed.

This is why a person experiencing aluminum toxicity will lose a train of thought, forget a word, reach for a name and not be able to retrieve it, and then sometimes find that it surfaces later. The neuron containing the memory has not been dissolved, but the transmission pathway has been disrupted by the loss of zeta potential. He used his own childhood neurological history to illustrate the aluminum effect: because aluminum had gotten into his memory center from early vaccines, he was unable to hold short-term memory for more than very brief periods. The short-term memory he had was gone very quickly because the synapse fires could not sustain their transmission in fluid whose zeta potential had been compromised.

He also described how aluminum in the brain produces what is recognized as Alzheimer's disease. The synapses fire but the nutrients and transmissions do not make it anywhere. They skid along the axon and ganglia passages without completing their journey. The clinical presentation of Alzheimer's, from his perspective, is specifically what happens when aluminum accumulates to the point where the zeta potential collapse is widespread and persistent throughout the brain's fluid environment.

Aajonus used his own history extensively to illustrate how cellular memory destruction and neurological impairment manifest and how they can be partially compensated for over time through dietary change and the formation of new cellular pathways.

He received multiple vaccines as a child at a time when such early vaccination was uncommon. Those vaccines contained the five main toxic ingredients he identified: liquid mercury, aluminum, formaldehyde, ether, and detergents, with some vaccines containing as many as 63 separate toxins and the minimum being 42. The mercury and aluminum from these vaccines went to his brain and damaged his communicative center specifically. By the time he was eight years old he had no capacity for language processing. Words did not compute. He described language as appearing to him as hieroglyphs, visual designs with no accessible meaning.

The aluminum that settled into his memory center created a condition in which he could hold only a very short-term memory, which then disappeared very quickly. Because of this he could not engage in normal analytical learning. He compensated by listening to sounds and repeating them, learning language as pure pattern and mimicry without comprehension. He learned to parrot the phrases that were common in his household and took those phrases into school.

His mathematical ability, by contrast, was intact and exceptional. He could look at a problem and write the answer directly, without going through any stages of analysis or computation. He attributed this to the fact that his mathematical-spatial processing occupied a region of the brain that the vaccine toxins had not reached or had not sufficiently damaged. The communication center had been destroyed; the pattern-recognition and mathematical centers had not. He was repeatedly accused of cheating in math because his results appeared without visible working.

The transformation came incrementally with dietary change, beginning with carrot juice. After beginning to drink carrot juice he was able, within what felt to him like a period of about ten days, to suddenly construct sentences, understand language, conjugate verbs, and produce connected speech. He described it as happening overnight from his subjective experience. He attributed the carrot juice effect to carotene's potential ability to neutralize or bind with the aluminum, removing it from the neurological fluid and thereby restoring some zeta potential. Once some zeta potential was restored, synapse transmissions that had been failing began to complete themselves.

He was explicit that this was partial recovery, not full restoration. The cells destroyed by mercury were gone. He could not recover the cellular tissue and the memories stored in it. What he could do was develop new pathways through new healthy cells that were grown by proper nutrition and that had not been exposed to the same toxins. Over the decades since he began eating raw meat and following the primal diet, his cognitive function, concentration, and ability to follow complex long chains of reasoning improved steadily as he replaced dead and damaged cells with new healthy ones.

The irreversibility of memory loss when the physical cellular substrate is destroyed is one of the most emphatic points in Aajonus's treatment of cellular memory. He stated it flatly: if there were memory stored with those cells, they are gone forever. There is no mechanism by which the information stored in a dissolved neuron can be reconstituted, because the information was not stored elsewhere or backed up in some parallel system. It existed in the physical tissue of that specific cell.

This has direct implications for his reading of vaccine damage, chemotherapy damage, and any other intervention that destroys brain or nerve cells. The University of Calgary research he cited demonstrated not just that mercury kills neurons but that it alters the cell membrane structure of developing neurons, meaning the damage begins even before the cell is fully dissolved. It begins at the structural level of the cell membrane and progresses to full dissolution.

He applied the same logic to the chemotherapy study he cited, which used brain scans during short-term memory exercises on women who had received chemotherapy. The scans showed that the frontal cortexes and cerebellums of the chemotherapy patients worked harder than those of control subjects to recall the same information, because the cells that would normally have handled that recall efficiently had been damaged or destroyed by the chemotherapy. The patients were having to recruit additional brain regions to compensate for the losses. He noted that this study only examined women up to ten years after treatment, and that it therefore could not reveal the full extent of chemotherapy's lingering neurological consequences, which in his own experience from his cancer treatments extended across many decades.

The neurological fluid, in Aajonus's account, does not transport nutrients as its primary function. Its normal job is to transport information in the form of electricity and light. It is the medium through which the nervous system keeps the whole body in communication, maintaining it as a coherent unit. The fluid uses metallic minerals as its conductivity components, because metallic minerals conduct electricity and reflect light. Any metallic mineral that conducts electricity in the external world performs the same role in the body.

This means the neurological fluid is extremely sensitive to contamination by free radical metallic minerals, because those same conductive properties that make trace amounts of metallic minerals useful for information transmission become destructive when the minerals are not properly bonded to their organic matrix. When food is cooked and the bonds between metallic minerals and the vitamins, proteins, and other compounds they are naturally integrated with are broken, those free radical metals go preferentially to the brain and nervous system because that is where conductors migrate in the body's electrochemical environment.

The neurological fluid is not meant to carry nutrients. In toxic conditions where the lymph glands are so overloaded that they can no longer deliver nutrients properly to cells, the blood and lymph systems will sometimes dump nutrients into the neurological fluid as an emergency measure, but this is not the fluid's function and represents a compensatory response to systemic lymphatic failure.

Aajonus connected the quality of neurological transmission directly to the type of glycogen the brain is running on, and specifically to whether that glycogen was derived from carbohydrates or from protein via pyruvate.

When the body produces glycogen from high carbohydrate foods, the waste product of that process is advanced glycation end products (AGEs). These compounds cause stickiness throughout the body's fluid systems, including the blood serum, the lymphatic fluid, and the neurological fluid. When the neurological fluid becomes sticky, the synapse fires and the charge skids along the axon rather than transmitting cleanly. Ganglia and axons do not pulsate properly in sticky fluid. Synaptic transmissions go to the wrong places, misfiring in incorrect regions of the memory or analysis centers. The result is unclear thinking, the loss of trains of thought, and difficulty with mental focus and recall.

When the body makes its glycogen from protein via pyruvate, with the help of glucagon, the resulting glycogen produces only about 7% of the advanced glycation end products that carbohydrate-derived glycogen produces. This means the neurological fluid stays clean and free-flowing. Synapses fire and their charges travel properly through the ganglia and axons without sticking to the walls. Thought processes remain clear and connected.

He used this principle to explain his own cognitive function during workshops and consultations. Because he avoided high carbohydrate foods, especially in the first six hours of the day, which is when the brain and nervous system are establishing the glycogen they will run on for the entire day, his neurological fluid stayed clean enough for him to follow multiple complex networks of ideas simultaneously and return to any of them precisely. He described his ability to jump from subject to subject and always return to the right place as a direct consequence of neurological fluid clarity maintained by pyruvate-based glycogen production.

He also described a practical application he gave to students before exams. Students who were getting C's and D's and experienced anxiety before tests were instructed to go to a bathroom before the exam and suck one egg, wait three or four minutes, then suck a second egg. He said students following this protocol went from C's and D's to straight A's because the raw egg provided clean, immediately available glycogen for brain function through its protein-to-pyruvate pathway, without generating sticky AGEs that would impair synaptic transmission.

The distinction between carbohydrate glycogen and pyruvate glycogen is not limited to performance. He applied it to the broader question of why so many people lose their trains of thought routinely. The loss of a thought mid-sentence, the inability to retrieve a word or name that one knows perfectly well, the general fogginess that most people experience as normal, are all, in his framework, consequences of sticky neurological fluid produced by carbohydrate-based glycogen metabolism, combined in many people with the additional load of aluminum that destroys zeta potential on top of the stickiness.

Aajonus's account of cellular memory included a dimension that went beyond the purely biochemical. He described having a direct experiential recognition that cells are loving, feeling, and intelligent. This came to him during a period of intense illness when he was near death, and it reshaped his understanding of what the body actually is and what health actually means.

He described seeing, in his subjective experience during that period, that the cells in food are alive, loving, feeling, and intelligent, and that cooking food kills most of that vitality. He connected this to a broader recognition that his own body cells had been trying to help him enjoy life throughout his illness, working with love on his behalf, and that he had not been caring for them properly. He described wanting to love his cells as much as they loved him, and recognizing that his conditioning and education had forced him to mistrust his own body's signals.

This is not a figure of speech in his framework. He treated the intelligence of individual cells as literal, grounded in the fact that each cell has internal structures analogous to the organs and glands of a whole organism. A cell has its own nervous system, its own lymphatic system, its own bloodstream, its own glandular structures. It is a complete functioning organism at a smaller scale. Because cells have nervous systems, they have the structural basis for sensation and information processing. Because they have all the systems of a complete organism, they have the structural basis for something that functions as feeling and memory.

He also drew on the research of Cleve Backster, who in the late 1960s and early 1970s attached lie detector equipment to plants and demonstrated that plants reacted emotionally when organisms in their environment were killed or harmed, and that they displayed measurable emotional activity in response to events occurring nearby. Aajonus used this to support the broader principle that living cells have awareness and communicative capacity that conventional science does not account for.

Aajonus situated cellular memory within his broader account of cell death and the progressive loss of live cells in the body over time. The body has between 65 and 80 trillion cells. Every day there is a net loss of some quantity of cells, perhaps a couple of thousand per day on a standard modern diet. Over decades, this means that by the time a person reaches 60 or 70 years of age, a large portion of the cells in their body are dead, and the body must mummify those dead cells to maintain structural integrity and form.

A dead mummified cell does no functional work. If the percentage of live cells in the body drops to around 22 to 23%, the body can no longer sustain full function under the weight it is carrying. He estimated that in people eating the standard modern diet, the live cell percentage may be very low, meaning that a small percentage of living cells is carrying the full functional and structural load for the whole organism.

When cells die, whatever cellular memory they contained is lost. This is the same principle as mercury-dissolved neurons, scaled up to the chronic low-level attrition of ordinary aging and poor diet. Every dead cell represents not just a loss of functional capacity but a loss of whatever that cell knew, whatever patterns it had built up, whatever contribution it was making to the body's informational life.

The implication is that recovery on the primal diet is not simply a matter of restoring biochemical balance but of literally replacing dead cells with new living ones over time, and of having those new cells build up their own cellular memories and functional capacities through years of healthy operation. He said that according to the research of Pottenger, Newton, and Howell with animals, it took five generations of cellular replacement on a proper diet to reach optimal health. At approximately seven to seven and a half years per generation of cells in the human body, this works out to approximately 38 to 40 years of strict adherence to an optimal diet for the body to reach full cellular health. He was 24 years into his own 40-year process at the time of one workshop, noting he had been eating raw meat daily since December of 1982.

He described his own cellular recovery in concrete terms: at age 21 he estimated he had approximately 30% of his body cells alive, which reflected the accumulated damage from vaccines, chemotherapy, radiation, and other interventions he had undergone. At the time of his workshops, working on his 62nd year, he estimated that approximately 80 to 90% of his cells were alive, a figure he attributed entirely to decades of the primal diet.

Aajonus offered a specific and unusual reading of the cancer cell's function that connects directly to the cellular memory framework. When a cell is surrounded by fifty dead cells, it is isolated. Its normal nutrient supply through the lymphatic and blood systems is cut off. It cannot communicate with neighboring cells through normal channels because those cells are dead.

In this context, the cancer cell produces a fluid called prostaglandin, which dissolves the surrounding tumor tissue, allowing the cancer cell to absorb nutrients from the dissolved matter. But beyond the nutritional function, Aajonus described the cancer cell as being "there to maintain communication on a psychic level, on a radionic level," in a field where its dead neighbors can no longer communicate. The cancer cell functions as a kind of biological hermit or ascetic, sustaining its own life and informational activity in an environment of cellular death, maintaining some form of the body's communicative network in regions where normal cellular communication has collapsed.

This reading treats the cancer cell not as a pathological invader but as a desperate adaptive response by a cell that is trying to maintain the body's informational continuity under conditions of massive cellular death and isolation. The information that would have been carried by the fifty dead cells surrounding it is gone, but the cancer cell is attempting to hold the position, maintain the network connection, and keep the tissue's communicative function alive with what resources it can generate on its own.

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