Fungi

The reason fungi are described as a third choice rather than a first choice has nothing to do with their being harmful. The issue is entirely one of comfort and waste load. When a parasite eats 100 pounds of cellular waste and returns only 1 to 5 pounds of residue for the lymphatic system to handle, the body's burden is minimal. When bacteria eat 50 pounds worth of waste and return 1 to 5 percent, the burden is still small. When fungi do the same cleaning work, the body may receive 5 to 20 percent waste product back, and that waste is drying, caustic at the skin surface, and difficult to neutralize. The itching that accompanies a yeast infection, athlete's foot, crotch rot, rectal itching, or nail fungus is the direct result of that caustic waste passing through the skin or mucous membranes.

Aajonus stated that fungi appear when the tissue is so toxic that bacteria and parasites would be killed by consuming it. The toxicity level of certain damaged tissue, particularly tissue contaminated by heavy metals, medication residues, or chemical injections, rises beyond what bacteria and parasites can safely eat. Fungi tolerate a higher toxicity threshold and will eat what the other organisms cannot. This makes them indispensable rather than a lesser option. They are the choice the body makes when no other choice is viable, and the greater waste load is the trade-off for the work being done at all.

Bacteria have a defined cellular shape. Parasites are distinct organisms with their own bodies and life cycles. Fungi are neither. A fungus operates through its mycelium, which is a liquid-like serum rather than a collection of individually shaped cells. Aajonus described the mycelium as something that goes into tissue the way liquid goes into earth, spreading and dissolving rather than entering as a distinct organism. He compared it to the blob, a fluid mass that penetrates and consumes dead matter from within, but clarified that it is a milky substance rather than anything dramatic or dangerous.

The mushroom that surfaces from a mycelium is the spore-producing structure, the sexual reproductive element of the organism. Aajonus noted that mushrooms are the only organism on the planet that shares the cellular structure of an animal while growing like a plant. The mycelium itself is completely underground or within tissue, and the mushroom is its blossom, its means of distributing spores to find new dead material to feed on. This is why spores landing in a lung do not cause disease by themselves; what matters is what dead or damaged tissue already exists there for the mycelium to feed on.

Fungi have specific environments they prefer, and those environments are generally cooler or moister than the areas bacteria prefer. The vagina, when it becomes cool and moist rather than warm, becomes a site where the body will allow yeast, which is a fungus, to do its cleaning work. The rectum can develop the same cool, moist conditions. Bone marrow is a site where fungi are prevalent, which is one reason penicillin has a tendency to deposit and operate there. The brain runs cooler than most tissues and fungus tends to grow there. Under the nails, in the joints, and in the feet are also sites where fungus operates as the primary cleansing agent rather than bacteria or parasites.

Athlete's foot specifically develops at sites where medication residues accumulate, particularly penicillin and other antibiotics, which tend to deposit in the feet. Heavy metals from injections also deposit in the feet. The fungus of athlete's foot is breaking down the dead tissue in the feet created by those toxic deposits. Aajonus stated unequivocally that nobody in Amish, Mennonite, or Quaker communities, who do not use antibiotics, ever gets athlete's foot. The fungus only appears where the medication has created the damage that requires cleaning.

Gangrene is a fungus operating under extreme conditions. It develops when tissue is so extensively damaged, for example after a severe injury with continuous bleeding and no capacity for the body to repair it, that the body deploys a fungus to break down what cannot be recovered. Aajonus described the scenario of falling off a cliff and landing repeatedly on one leg, with constant bleeding and no ability to dress the wound, as the context in which gangrene would emerge. Gangrene only eats dead and dying cells; it does not attack healthy tissue.

Beyond their janitorial role, fungi also function as digestive agents. Aajonus said that many carbohydrates in the human body are digested not only through the ptyalin enzyme but through molds throughout the digestive tract, particularly in people who eat high amounts of carbohydrates. He stated that if molds are given access to indigestible hardened cheese and allowed to feed on it, they convert it into something the body can absorb, which is the entire principle behind cave-aged cheeses. Sixty years ago, all cheeses were made with mold. The mold breaks down what would otherwise be indigestible dehydrated milk protein.

Mushrooms themselves, as the fruiting body of the mycelium, support digestion and help clean the body. Aajonus recommended eating mushrooms in specific therapeutic protocols, particularly for people needing to break down connective tissue damage. His suggested protocol in one context was two mushrooms a day with at least one meat meal, five to six days a week, for a solid two months, followed by two days per week for the following five months. He noted there is only one poisonous mushroom, and the way to avoid it is to pull the mushroom all the way to the base and verify there is no cup at the root stalk.

Penicillin is a fungus, and Aajonus argued at length that it does not belong in the human body because it belongs naturally to the bird community. Birds that eat grains have penicillin molds that help them recover from illness, but penicillin is not indigenous to humans. When processed, sterilized, and injected into a human body, the penicillin fungus loses the RNA that would normally signal it to enter its dormancy cycle. All fungi naturally cycle through periods of activity and inactivity, which Aajonus described as roughly three to six months active, three to six months dormant, depending on the strain. Sterilization destroys the RNA governing that cycle, so the antibiotic fungus never shuts off. It continues consuming tissue in the human body indefinitely, without rest, which is not its natural behavior.

Aajonus found penicillin fungus in a woman's vaginal discharge after laboratory analysis. She was producing roughly half a cup of discharge over a little more than a week, and the lab confirmed the presence of penicillin fungus. This led him to extensive further investigation of antibiotic mold behavior in the body. He concluded that the black material emerging from under nails, the cracking around nails, and the persistent nail deterioration seen in people who have taken antibiotics is the result of those antibiotic funguses operating continuously in the nail beds and surrounding tissue because they have no off switch.

Because fungus can survive almost anything, including fire and chemical treatment, antibiotic fungus deposited in the body through injection or oral consumption does not die even when the person is treated with antifungal medications. It changes structure under extreme conditions but continues to function. Aajonus compared this to the way early plastics kept growing mold; manufacturers spent years trying to produce plastics without fungal growth before eventually succeeding through extreme chemical manipulation.

When fungi finish consuming dead or toxic material inside the body, the waste products exit through whatever surface is nearest, and that is usually the skin or mucous membranes. The waste from fungal metabolism is caustic and drying. It draws moisture out of the skin cells as it passes through, which creates the peeling and flaking associated with athlete's foot and the intense itching associated with vaginal or rectal yeast infections. The skin itself may crack, blister, bleed, or peel depending on the volume and concentration of the fungal waste coming through.

Iridescent green mucus or discharge signals fungal origin rather than bacterial origin. Aajonus stated he could identify fungal involvement by looking at coloration; if the green was iridescent, the source was fungal.

People who continue eating cooked grains, breads, pastas, and pizzas are feeding sugar-related funguses in their bodies. The damage that cooked starches and refined sugars cause to tissue creates exactly the kind of environment yeast and sugar-feeding molds thrive on. Cooked meat produces its own toxic residues in tissue, which can feed different types of fungus, including the kind that causes athlete's foot in populations that eat cooked meat heavily.

Different funguses eat different damaged tissue. Sugar-damaged tissue is the food of yeast-type molds. Metal-damaged tissue is the food of metallic environment funguses, which Aajonus compared to algae in their behavior, since algae and moss digest rock and the metals within it. Penicillin-damaged tissue in the feet is the food of athlete's foot fungus. These are not interchangeable; each fungus operates in its appropriate chemical environment.

Aajonus connected fungal activity to the breakdown of tumor tissue. Most tumors are composed of dead or degenerative cells, and a mold or fungus can consume that material and allow it to leave the body. Dead cells in tumors often become mummified scar tissue that is difficult to dissolve without introducing something capable of making it degenerate. Introducing molds, salmonella, or other bacteria that can penetrate mummified tissue and cause it to degenerate makes it available for elimination. Without that intervention, mummified tissue simply remains fixed in the body because the usual clearing mechanisms cannot get traction on it.

When the lymphatic system is blocked, when the liver is not producing enough bile to allow fats to do their work in the lymphatic system, and when bacteria, parasites, and fungi are either absent or too weakened by pollution to function, dead cells accumulate faster than they can be cleared. Cancer develops from the failure of that clearing system, not from a microbe attacking healthy cells.

Mold on cheese is a fungus performing the same function in food that fungi perform in the body: breaking down what would otherwise be indigestible. Any fungus appearing naturally on food is acceptable to eat, with one qualification regarding spores. The white fuzz on the outside of aged cheese is loaded with spores, and consuming large quantities of spores introduces a large quantity of mycelium-generating material into the body, which can cause a fungal detoxification event that may be too heavy and too rapid to manage comfortably. Aajonus's recommendation was to scrape off only the outer white layer, the fuzzy spore-bearing surface, and eat the white interior fungal material along with the cheese itself. The interior fungus is beneficial and predigests the cheese.

Kombucha involves a mushroom, which is the fruiting body of a mycelium, but the problem with commercial kombucha is that it is made with cooked substances and sugar, and the mushroom is grown on pasteurized material. Despite those flaws, the mushroom itself is still doing some useful work since it is raw when placed in the liquid. Aajonus noted that claims it will not work unless the substrate is cooked are false.

The fermented buried meat that Aajonus encountered among indigenous people in the Arctic was a direct application of this principle. The meat was wrapped in hides and buried to allow ground fungus and anaerobic bacteria to pre-digest it, the same process that produces cave-aged cheese, but with meat. What Aajonus initially thought was an herbal preparation covered in colorful molds was entirely mold: black mold, white mold, gray mold, molds of every color working through the tissue. He ate a ping-pong ball-sized portion and found it beneficial. Gangrene, which he had previously understood only as a medical emergency, is the same class of organism doing the same kind of work.

Because fungal waste is drying and caustic at the skin surface, Aajonus recommended applying fats to those areas to protect the skin cells and help neutralize the waste as it passes through. The specific recommendation was a mixture of half bone marrow and half butter applied to areas where fungus is actively working. This penetrates the skin and strengthens the skin cells so that when the caustic fungal waste products pass through, the skin sustains less damage.

Butter alone or the Primal Facial Body Care Cream are also effective for mitigating itching and dryness. Applying these to the feet, the crotch area, or wherever fungal waste is exiting the body allows the process to continue without excessive discomfort.

To temporarily stop fungal activity when it is impossible to let it run its full course, unheated honey applied to the affected area and left for 24 hours will smother the fungus. Covering feet with unheated honey and clean white cotton socks for four consecutive nights will suppress athlete's foot fungus. This suppression is temporary. The fungus will return in two to six weeks, sometimes up to ten weeks, and resume the work it was doing. Aajonus framed this as an acceptable short-term intervention for situations where the discomfort is unmanageable but stated clearly that letting the fungus run its full course is always the better outcome. The full course of a fungal detoxification is typically five to six weeks.

Eating foods that alkalize the body reduces the need for fungal activity and minimizes the discomfort of the process already underway. Cooked acidic foods including coffee, chocolate, teas, soups, and cooked meat should be avoided during a fungal detoxification because they increase the acid load that is feeding and extending the fungal process.

Aajonus's general statement that there is only one truly poisonous mushroom refers to the Death Cap mushroom, Amanita phalloides, which he personally consumed accidentally. He ate fifteen times the amount that books on record showed had killed every previous person to consume even a half thumb-sized piece. He survived but described the eleven and a half years it took him to recover his former energy and strength as an indication of how severely that particular mushroom disrupts the body. His survival was supported by consuming large quantities of unheated butter, roughly one to two pounds per day, to force the liver back to function, since the Death Cap primarily kills by stopping the liver.

The Death Cap is identifiable by a cup at the base of the stalk, at or just below soil level. The one Aajonus consumed had its cup an inch to an inch and a half below the dirt surface rather than at it, which he attributed to chemical fertilizer or herbicide applied to the yard where it grew, which caused the mushroom to form abnormally. His rule after that experience was never to pick a mushroom from a yard and always to pull the mushroom all the way down to the base to confirm there is no cup before eating it.

The only fungi that Aajonus described as genuinely dangerous are man-made or genetically modified ones. Natural fungi appearing in the body are all beneficial. Man-made funguses introduced through antibiotics, processed medications, and medical interventions are the source of fungal problems because they have been sterilized, altered in their RNA, or mutated in ways that cause them to operate outside their normal cycles and outside the environments they would naturally inhabit. The natural fungi are indigenous to humans; the antibiotic fungi are not.

The distinction between penicillin belonging to birds and not to humans illustrates this point. Birds that eat grains have penicillin molds as natural and beneficial organisms. Humans do not eat grains as a primary food and do not have the internal environment where penicillin naturally fits. When sterilized penicillin is introduced into a human, it is a foreign organism operating without its regulatory RNA in a body where it has no natural role, and it damages the tissue it was never meant to touch.