Fascia

The primary mechanism Aajonus identified for scar tissue formation inside connective tissue was the disruption of blood and lymph circulation to injured areas. He was explicit that ice was the leading cause of this disruption in athletic and trauma contexts. When swelling occurs after injury, he explained, the body produces that swelling deliberately to flood the area with nutrients, remove damaged tissue, and allow new cells to be born. Applying ice blocks that circulation, the damaged cells are never properly cleared, and the result is scar tissue filling the space where healthy connective tissue should have regenerated. He stated this directly: "You pack ice on there. You block the circulation. What happens? You get scar tissue in the area."

He traced the long-term consequence of repeated icing through the careers of professional athletes. The pattern he described was that an athlete sustains an injury, the coaching staff applies ice and cortisone, the athlete returns to the field in the short term, and five years later cannot run. Surgeons then operate to remove the scar tissue that resulted from the icing, the surgery causes further scarring, the athlete undergoes multiple additional operations, and the career ends. He called this a nine-out-of-ten pattern for athletes who could not continue playing past their late thirties.

A second mechanism he identified was the crystallization of cooked vegetable oils inside connective tissue cells. He explained that raw fat molecules are small and remain fluid at body temperature. When fat is cooked, the molecule swells to ten to fifteen times its normal size. If that expanded molecule is incorporated into the structure of a cell in a tendon or bone, the cell dies and ruptures after its lifespan of roughly seven years, and the dead material forms scar tissue within the bone, bone marrow, and tendon. He said this process produces arthritis, rheumatism, and osteoporosis over time.

A third mechanism was toxic mineral deposition. He described minerals storing in bones and connective tissue and producing dark or discolored spots visible in iridology. When these minerals could not be perspired out through the skin they remained lodged in the connective layers and damaged the local tissue.

Aajonus described scar tissue as completely inert biologically. The cells are dead and cannot participate in any tissue function. They do not produce prostaglandins. They do not produce intracellular hormones. They have no capacity to reproduce. He compared them to bricks cemented into a wall. The wall does not flex, does not conduct, does not heal itself.

He used his own surgical scar from stomach cancer treatment as an ongoing case study. Before dietary intervention the scar ran from the skin surface through the full depth of muscle to the stomach itself, was an inch and a half wide in some places and three quarters of an inch high, and the entire mass felt like rock. Over years on the Primal Diet it gradually reduced. At the time of the workshop being transcribed it had narrowed considerably, the lumps inside that had been palpable were gone except for one small area, and the internal scar tissue through the muscle was still present but diminishing. He stated that scar tissue is "obviously one of the last things to go," and that full progression from ill health to optimal health, including the resolution of deep scar tissue, could take forty years. He framed this against the timeline of physical development: it takes roughly twenty-one years to develop the body, and a proportional period is required to reverse accumulated damage.

He was explicit that scar tissue does not have to be permanent on the Primal Diet, but that it is among the most resistant structures to change. "Scar tissue doesn't have to remain. Nothing remains if you're on a good diet. You can clean anything out."

He gave particular attention to tendons because he had experienced repeated tendon injuries himself and had observed many clients with chronic tendon damage. He explained that tendons, like bones, have a long cell-replacement cycle: bone tissue takes seven years to replace all its cells, and tendon and ligament tissue operates on a similar timeline. When scar tissue fills a tendon, new cells cannot be built in the space occupied by the dead tissue, so the tendon cannot regenerate until some of the scarring is dissolved.

He recommended pineapple with either whipped cream or coconut cream as a protocol specifically for dissolving tendon scar tissue. The pineapple cycle he described was approximately four ounces of pineapple (roughly a half-inch thick circular slice) taken with cream or coconut cream, repeated on a three-day cycle every seven days. His reasoning was that pineapple enzymes break down the scar tissue and allow the tendon to begin rebuilding cells. He stated: "Unless some of that scarring is removed, you're not going to be able to build cells in there."

He also observed that compression bandaging of injured tendons and ligaments, as typically prescribed by physicians after ankle or knee injuries, causes scarring by cutting off circulation. He described a specific case of a woman who crushed ligaments and tendons from her ankle to her heel cap. A physician prescribed foam pressure devices. Aajonus stated that those devices would prevent circulation to the leg, cause scarring in the injured tissue, reduce mobility permanently, and deteriorate the condition. He observed that the conventional consequence of this approach was that the patient would then require physical therapy to address the scarring caused by the pressure bandages, creating a cycle of escalating intervention.

One of the more detailed case studies Aajonus presented about connective tissue behavior concerned his own motorcycle accident in which he split the tibia from the knee to mid-shin, broke off the top of the tibia, drove bone splinters into the femur joint, and tore both tendons holding the knee in place. He refused surgical intervention, which would have required cutting from ankle to hip, severing connective tissue, cutting away muscle to access the joint, and placing eight to twelve pins.

In the days following the accident, his thigh muscles diminished dramatically over five days, shrinking from normal size to approximately the size of his calf. Simultaneously, the entire leg from ankle to mid-thigh hardened like bone, forming what he called a natural cast. He described this as his body redistributing the protein and mineral content of the thigh and gluteal muscles to build a structural cast under the skin that protected the damaged knee and leg. The cast was firm enough that tapping it produced the sound of a real cast. He stated: "My own body built this protein mineral cast from here to here. You could hit it and sound just like a real cast, but it's all under the skin."

After approximately five and a half weeks, when he began walking on the foot, the natural cast began dissolving. The nutrients that had formed the cast were reabsorbed and used to rebuild the thigh and gluteal muscles. The muscles did not return to their original size but recovered to roughly three quarters of their former volume. He presented this as evidence that the body can move cells and structural material between locations as needed, temporarily sacrificing one tissue to protect another, and then redistributing the resources back once the acute phase is resolved.

Aajonus was strongly opposed to skin grafting on the grounds that it converts multiple areas of the body into scar tissue rather than allowing natural regeneration. He described the conventional burn treatment protocol as taking skin from the buttocks, thighs, and other areas to graft onto burned or abraded surfaces, and he stated that the result was stretched skin everywhere and heavy scar tissue at every donor and recipient site, leaving the patient "a walking scar tissue." He contrasted this with what he observed in his own motorcycle accident recovery, in which skin and muscle that had been completely removed from the leg regrew without grafting in twelve days using lime juice, honey, coconut cream, and thin slices of raw meat applied directly to the wound.

He described a parallel case of a person who had skin grafted onto a finger at age three after a lawn mower accident. The grafted tissue healed as hard as rock, hard enough to push through plexiglass. After approximately twenty-seven years, within a week of beginning to eat raw meat, the hardened grafted tissue blistered and fell off entirely. Normal skin grew back with full sensation and proper fingerprints. He interpreted this as the body finally having sufficient resources to reject the foreign grafted tissue and replace it with its own correctly formed skin.

Aajonus stated consistently that heat should always be applied to injuries and problem areas, and that ice should never be used except for a minute or two at most to temporarily reduce pain. His reasoning was structural: injured connective tissue needs increased blood flow carrying nutrients to clean out damaged cells and feed the production of new ones. Heat promotes relaxation of bones, cartilage, tendons, arteries, veins, muscles, and nerves, and promotes that increased circulation. Ice restricts circulation, prevents the removal of damaged tissue, and produces scar tissue as the dead cells are never properly cleared.

He applied this principle to his own recovery from the tibia fracture and tendon injuries, using hot baths for hours daily to manage pain and promote healing. He described pain resolving within twenty minutes of immersion in a hot bath. He also applied it to the case of his leg injury with gypsum contamination, where he explained that allowing infection to proceed rather than suppressing it was necessary to prevent heavy scarring and loss of sensation. Suppressing the infection with sugar water or antiseptics, he argued, would result in heavy scarring and permanently reduced function and feeling in the leg.

Aajonus identified coconut cream as the most effective and safest substance for removing scar tissue, stating it was "better for removing scar tissue quicker than anything else, more safely." He contrasted it with olive oil, which he described as more abrasive. He explained that coconut cream contains both fat-soluble and water-soluble vitamins, is approximately eighty percent fat, fifteen percent protein, and five percent carbohydrate, and provides a broad nutritional profile that allows it to dissolve scar tissue while simultaneously providing building materials for new cells.

He distinguished coconut cream's role from that of butter and cream, noting that while coconut cream can clean and stabilize tissue it can only stabilize it to about twenty percent of what butter and cream achieve. Butter and cream are superior for actual tissue rebuilding and stabilization, whereas coconut cream is primarily a cleansing and dissolving agent for scar material.

He used coconut cream both internally and externally. Applied directly to open wounds it served as a lubricant that prevented drying and promoted regrowth of skin and muscle. Combined with pineapple it was used internally to break down tendon scar tissue. His general framing was that for any area of chronic scar tissue the combination of dietary raw fats with periodic pineapple cycles offered the most reliable long-term pathway to dissolution.

Aajonus described a specific pattern in which industrial toxins, particularly those introduced by injection, plastic compounds, and heavy metals, would lodge between muscles and bones and in the deeper connective layers when the lymphatic system could not move them outward fast enough. He described plastic molecules as passing from the lymphatic system into the subcutaneous layer, then into the muscles, then into the space between muscles and bones, where they could become fixed.

He used his own body as an ongoing example, describing severe pain radiating through all muscles and tendons of an arm for three months following activation of toxins deposited from three injections he had received decades earlier. The pain traveled through tendons and muscles all the way to the bone before eventually resolving. He also described gypsum coming out through the skin of his leg from a road injury, and the body's management of asphalt particles embedded in the connective tissue of his arm and leg after the motorcycle accident: over the course of a year to a year and a half, small warts formed at the skin surface, each containing a particle of asphalt that the body had moved from deep connective tissue outward to the skin for expulsion.

He described bentonite clay as absolutely contraindicated for wound treatment because of its volcanic ash origin and high molten heavy metal content, stating that every experiment he conducted with it on wounds resulted in absolute scarring. French green clay and another untreated clay he had worked with did not produce this outcome and were acceptable.

Aajonus gave approximate timelines for cell replacement in different tissue types that bear directly on how long healing of connective structures takes. Bone tissue replaces all its cells over approximately seven years. Glandular tissue replaces over approximately two years. Muscle tissue replaces over approximately four to six years. Skin replaces over approximately five to six years. He did not give a specific number for pure connective tissue or fascia as a distinct category, but by inference from tendon and ligament context the timeline is comparable to bone: seven to seven and a half years for the full cell complement to turn over.

The practical implication he drew was that any protocol for dissolving scar tissue and rebuilding connective structures required patience measured in years rather than months, and that the full trajectory from disease to optimal health could span four decades for someone with deep and longstanding connective damage.

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