Corticosteroids

The adrenal glands sit on top of the kidneys, positioned, as Aajonus explained, to serve the lower body directly, particularly leg movement and muscular force during fight or flight. They are small, roughly the size of the second joint of a little finger. A thousandth of a microgram of naturally produced adrenaline is enough to allow a mother to lift a three-thousand-pound car off her child. That concentration speaks to how potent the substance is and how rarely it is meant to be in circulation.

Aajonus described adrenaline as feeding the muscles in a very targeted and powerful way, pumping them up with physiological force. This is precisely the molecular structure that pharmaceutical manufacturers imitated when developing synthetic steroids. As he stated directly: "they make those steroids chemically produced on a molecular structure similar to adrenaline, that's where they get that." The synthetic version is constructed to mimic the action of adrenaline in stimulating and feeding muscular tissue, but because it is a chemical construction rather than a biological one, it carries consequences that the natural molecule does not.

Aajonus's explanation for why synthetic steroids cause harm rests on the difference between a biologically assembled molecule and a chemically synthesized one. Natural adrenaline is structured through enzymatic and biochemical processes that produce a specific molecular configuration compatible with the body's receptor sites, metabolic pathways, and waste-clearance systems. A chemically produced analog, even if it resembles the natural molecule closely enough to trigger some of the same responses, carries what he described as approximately 3,200 types of chemical byproducts or impurities that a naturally assembled molecule would not contain. Those chemical residues interact with tissue in ways that the body is not equipped to handle cleanly, producing damage throughout the system.

He extended this point to the broader pharmaceutical production of adrenaline itself, noting that what is sold as injectable adrenaline for cardiac emergencies is the chemical version, not true biological adrenaline. The injections used during heart attacks contain perhaps fifty molecules of adrenaline in three cubic centimeters of solution, and the cost is four hundred to five hundred dollars per injection, something he called "absolutely insane" given that the underlying compound could be made available for ten cents.

A key concern Aajonus raised was the way synthetic steroids pump energy into a person by flooding the system with adrenal-type compounds, which he called drug activity. People using steroids, whether for athletic performance or medical treatment, are essentially forcing an emergency hormonal state continuously. Because the adrenal glands are designed to fire only in genuine emergencies, constant stimulation of adrenal-type activity, whether through the body's own pathological overproduction or through externally administered compounds, exhausts the glands over time.

He described adrenal exhaustion as a condition where the glands have been overworked to the point of breakdown. This was connected to caffeine as well as to steroid use, since caffeine stimulates the adrenals until they break down in the same pattern. In the context of chronic fatigue, he said adrenal exhaustion is the typical underlying mechanism, and that people who are type A personalities, or those who consumed large amounts of caffeine, drive their adrenals to depletion. The same logic applies to anyone using compounds that force adrenal-type output repeatedly.

When adrenaline is chronically present in the system without adequate dietary fat to buffer it, the situation becomes acutely damaging. As Aajonus described it, adrenaline working in conjunction with sugars in a body lacking sufficient fat creates a reaction "like sulfuric acid, like battery acid," burning through tissues everywhere. Cells throughout the body lose the ability to produce their own prostaglandins and intracellular hormones. The extra-cellular hormonal secretion may continue, but the internal cellular hormone production shuts down, leaving tissues increasingly unable to self-regulate.

Aajonus grouped testosterone, estrogen, and other steroid hormones together with adrenaline when making the point about their drug-like character. He said explicitly: "Testosterone, estrogen, all of that. All of those steroids will pump energy into a person. But that's a drug." His position was that these are not substances the body should have circulating at high levels under normal healthy conditions. They are all emergency compounds, and taking them externally as pharmaceutical products forces a physiological emergency state that was never meant to be sustained.

In the individual body assessments recorded in the workshop transcripts, Aajonus repeatedly identified what he called hardened tissue in various glands, including the adrenals. He connected the hardening of adrenal and other glandular tissue to the accumulation of vegetable oils and steroid compounds that have solidified within the system. His language in one assessment was specific: "you need to do the baths to get rid of the fats, the vegetable oils that harden with all these steroid compounds because it's solidified in your system." He indicated that this combination of hardened oils and steroid residues in the glands could, if uncorrected, progress toward conditions like multiple sclerosis.

This represents his view that steroid compounds, whether produced endogenously in excess or introduced pharmaceutically, contribute to a pattern of glandular and tissue hardening when they accumulate without adequate solvent-type fats to keep them fluid and mobile.

For people in a state of adrenal fatigue, which he sometimes called adrenal exhaustion, Aajonus recommended salt as a short-term support, at a dose of three to four grains per week only, because salt can give the adrenals a brief boost. He called this a "punch way to do it" and was clear it is not a resolution but a temporary measure. The larger solution was removing the industrial toxicity that is, in his view, the actual root cause in ninety-nine percent of cases where people believe they have an adrenal problem.

He was consistent that the body's adrenals should not be pumping anything unless the situation is genuinely fight or flight, and that people who "live on pumping their adrenals" and "run on adrenaline" are in a chronic pharmaceutical-equivalent state even without taking any drug, simply because their diet, toxicity load, and lifestyle are forcing the glands into continuous emergency mode.