Estrogen

Aajonus's central claim about estrogen is that it is not a daily maintenance hormone but an emergency compound that the body produces under specific, high-need conditions. In healthy animals he tested, estrogen only appeared at elevated levels during sexual excitement or when the female was in heat and preparing for procreation. At all other times, blood tests on those animals showed only trace amounts of estrogen if any. He used this observation to argue that the entire medical paradigm of measuring circulating estrogen and treating low levels as a disease is built on a false premise derived from studying already-toxic, hormonally dysregulated populations.

He described estrogen and testosterone together as the hormones "mainly used for reproduction of cells, for building ovum and sperm," and was direct that they are not designed to give daily energy, maintain bone density, or sustain mood. The idea that estrogen protects bones, for example, he dismissed as a fallacy, stating that bone solidity comes from fat combined with minerals, not from estrogen or any other gonadal hormone. The correct nutritional supports for bones, in his framework, are cheese and butter together, or cheese and honey together to aid mineral digestion.

Estrogen, like every other hormone in Aajonus's model, is described as a primarily fat-based substance. He gave the compositional range consistently across his talks as 60 to 80 percent fat, 15 to 35 percent protein, and only about 5 percent carbohydrate, with the carbohydrate fraction always fixed at 5 percent regardless of how much sugar a person consumes. He explained that whether the body makes the fat component of a hormone from a dietary fat, a protein, or a carbohydrate, the resulting substance is still a ketone or acetone-derived fat. This compositional fact is central to understanding why the body produces hormones in response to toxicity: because the body stores and binds toxins in fat, and hormones, being predominantly fat-based, serve as a vehicle for binding and transporting those poisons out of the body.

This means estrogen, when it appears elevated in a person eating a toxic modern diet, is not being produced because the gonads are functioning optimally. It is being produced because the body is attempting to use estrogen's fat fraction to chelate and eliminate industrial chemicals, heavy metals, food preservatives, pesticides, and other poisons that have accumulated in tissues. The body can use any hormone, female or male, for this detoxification purpose. As Aajonus put it, "female, male, doesn't matter" when it comes to the body selecting a hormonal compound to bind with poisons.

The ovaries are the primary site of estrogen production. Aajonus described the gonads as the only endocrine glands that carry a dual emergency purpose, one being the biological emergency of potential extinction through failure to reproduce, and the other being the production of physical and sexual drive. He noted that both ovaries and testes produce both estrogen and testosterone, just in differing ratios. He specifically pointed out that testes, despite being associated with testosterone, contain substantial estrogen as well. When recommending buffalo testes as a glandular food, he noted that "even though it's testosterone based, there's still a lot of estrogen in testes. Men don't just produce testosterone."

The gonads have a single backup each, with two ovaries and two testes, which Aajonus interpreted as the body's structural acknowledgment that procreation is important enough to warrant redundancy. He contrasted this with the thyroid, which has five backups, reflecting its more critical function in protecting the heart and lungs.

In healthy animals operating outside heat cycles or mating contexts, Aajonus observed that testosterone and estrogen only rise measurably when "two got together and got sexually excited," and he described this as serving the procreation emergency. Outside of that window, hormone levels in genuinely healthy animals return to trace amounts. The continuous elevated estrogen and testosterone found in modern humans, in his model, reflects the permanent emergency state created by chronic toxic exposure and nutritional deficiency.

Aajonus made one functional claim about estrogen that goes beyond reproduction: higher estrogen levels in the blood correlate with softer skin and softer hair texture. He stated this without attributing it to a beneficial or harmful cause, simply describing it as the directional effect of the hormone on how cells are formed and what kind of tissue results. He contrasted this with testosterone, saying "the more testosterone you have, the more so-called male-type tissue is formed, the higher the estrogen level, the softer the skin, and the softer the hair."

He also noted that intracellular hormone-like substances called prostaglandins are distinct from the extracellular hormones produced by the gonads and liver. Advanced glycation end products and other toxic sugars from processed and cooked food interfere with cells' ability to form their own prostaglandins, causing cellular breakdown independent of circulating estrogen levels. Heterocyclic amines from cooking were described as "radically dangerous to the nervous system and to the hormone development or the hormone synthesis of all glandular activity," including the gonadal production of estrogen.

One of Aajonus's most detailed discussions of estrogen involves the disruption caused by plastics and their chemical components. He explained that phthalates, bisphenol phosphates, and other plastic-derived molecules behave like fats in the body. Because hormones are predominantly fat, these plastic molecules are incorporated into hormone synthesis. When the body attempts to make a hormone using a plastic molecule in the fat position, the resulting compound does not function correctly. His specific description was that plastic molecules "make the opposite of what they're supposed to make. So if you're supposed to make testosterone, you make estrogen. When you're supposed to make estrogen, you make testosterone."

This hormonal inversion, he argued, is responsible for the blurring of sex characteristics in modern civilized populations eating foods stored and processed in plastic. He referenced experiments on frogs where males became females and females became males when exposed to plastic compounds, and similar experiments on rabbits that resulted in sterility. He connected this directly to the rise of Viagra and declining male sexual function, contrasting it with a period sixty years earlier when the concern was suppressing excess male sexual energy rather than trying to restore it.

He traced the origin of this problem to the mid-twentieth century, when food manufacturers discovered that canned foods were being contaminated by metal leeching. The solution was to coat cans with plastic, which eliminated metal contamination but introduced phthalates and BPAs. He noted that his father, as an inventor in the industry, was aware of this transition and that the food industry and its executives understood the consequences.

Hydrogenated vegetable oils fell under the same category in his analysis. He described hydrogenated oils as "liquid plastic" because their molecular structure after hydrogenation is identical to plastic, and he stated they create the same hormonal disruption and carcinogenic consequences as solid plastics. This makes them capable of producing the same estrogen-to-testosterone and testosterone-to-estrogen inversions.

Aajonus identified soy as a food with strong estrogen-encouraging hormonal effects. He linked high soy consumption, particularly among vegetarian clients who ate large amounts of tofu and soy protein, to elevated breast cancer rates. He stated that this was the highest-rate cancer group among his client base, directly attributing the elevation to soy's hormone-producing effects. He described soy's estrogen-like properties as something that "has been done to create a lot more breast cancer in the women who eat soy," framing it not as an incidental nutritional problem but as a known consequence of the estrogen-promoting chemistry of soy.

Aajonus was unconditionally opposed to pharmaceutical estrogen therapy in all standard forms. He categorized all hormone and hormone replacement drugs as non-biochemical laboratory constructions that have no genuine relationship to hormones produced inside the human body. His specific analysis was that even so-called natural hormones are "made from hydrogenated vegetable oils that have the same molecular structure as plastic, and from chemically treated proteins, such as from soy," and that after processing, nothing natural remains. He described these products as chemicals of varying toxicity, not as supplements to any biological function.

He did make one qualified exception. He described Estriol, a form of estrogen derived from more natural sources, as a relatively benign option compared to standard estrogen replacement. He specifically mentioned an Estriol cream that can be applied vaginally, which he described as bringing "a certain amount of controlled, natural estrogen to that part of the body." He did not endorse it as a preferred protocol but acknowledged it as less problematic than pharmaceutical estrogen therapy, placing it in the category of things that are "sort of benign forms" of estrogen supplementation.

He also mentioned natural progesterone cream made from wild Mexican yam, which he described as a precursor substance intended to stimulate the body's own estrogen production rather than supply estrogen directly. He acknowledged that a consultation subject had used this cream and found it helpful, but his own assessment was that getting the proper raw fats and proteins into the diet is the foundational correction, because "all the hormones will be manufactured by the glands if they get the proper nutrients."

For individuals whose glands have been so deprived of raw fat and protein that the cells have "forgotten how to make the hormone," Aajonus recommended raw glandular tissue. His protocol was to obtain freeze-dried or fresh raw glandular extracts, specifically ovary tissue for women, and to eat that tissue with liver or fish or another meat. He noted that around Amish communities it was possible to order specific glands. He described chewing the tissue as preferable to swallowing it whole but said either approach was acceptable.

The reasoning behind glandular tissue as a support is that the raw tissue supplies the exact biological materials the corresponding gland needs to resume production, including the enzymatic templates and fat-and-protein ratios that cooking destroys. This is distinct from pharmaceutical hormone replacement because the raw gland tissue, in his framework, provides precursor materials that support the body's own synthesis rather than substituting an artificial hormone compound.

Aajonus reframed menopause not as estrogen deficiency requiring replacement but as a natural transition in which the body shifts from producing reproductive hormones to producing growth hormones. He described this transition as one reason women live longer than men, since the growth hormones produced after menopause represent a new hormonal phase rather than a cessation of hormonal function. He described hot flashes as a detoxification process in which the body is eliminating the old reproductive hormones, including estrogen, through sweating.

His dietary support for menopause included raw yam juice combined with raw coconut cream. The formula he specified was one to two cups of raw yam juice with three tablespoons of raw coconut cream per cup, consumed once every three to eight days. He noted that the yam juice must be consumed within one hour of juicing. He described this protocol as ensuring hormonal production that balances mineral levels after menopause. He also recommended a diet that includes some cooked starch alongside plenty of raw fat, raw cheese without added salt, raw cream when available, and meat especially fish, as a gradual means of restoring gland and nerve health through the transition.

He mentioned that sexual activity during menopause can be beneficial because it "flushes hormones and expedites the hormonal changes of menopause," clarifying that this means facilitating the hormonal transition, not hormonal cessation. He noted that self-stimulation serves the same purpose for those without a partner.

He also noted that women who have completed menopause may occasionally experience menstruation, which he described as a healthy cleansing function of those tissues rather than a pathological sign.

When estrogen appears elevated in the blood not because of reproductive activity but because of chronic toxic exposure, Aajonus described this as the body attempting to use estrogen's fat content as a detoxification vehicle. He observed that in highly toxic individuals, the gonads may secrete excess estrogen and testosterone because "the body's so toxic it needs extra fats." The glandular energy that would otherwise remain dormant is consumed by the need to produce hormonal fat compounds to handle food pollution, air pollution, water pollution, and radiation exposure.

He connected this to overactive sex glands as a symptom of toxicity rather than of vitality. His reading when examining individuals with overactive ovaries or gonads was that the protein in those glands was being broken down, indicating the glands were under metabolic stress rather than operating from a position of health. He described overactive glands as a sign of depletion approaching, particularly when the gland on one side showed more degradation than the other, which he read as indicating long-term breakdown.

Aajonus explicitly rejected the medical claim that estrogen is necessary for bone density. He stated that neither testosterone, nor estrogen, nor any gonadal hormone maintains bone solidity, describing this as "another fallacy." In his model, bone density is entirely a function of fat combined with minerals, not hormonal influence. He recommended cheese and butter together, or cheese and honey together (with honey aiding mineral digestion), as the practical nutritional support for bone health. He framed the pharmaceutical narrative around estrogen and bone loss as a fear tactic designed to sell hormone replacement products to menopausal women rather than an accurate description of bone physiology.

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