Healing

Aajonus observed across 33 years of watching injured and diseased people that even individuals who changed nothing about their lives continued to heal. The body does not stop trying. He noted that the only things capable of interrupting this constant biological effort were genuinely toxic agents: cocaine, speed, other drugs, or food containing concentrated processed carbohydrates, especially table sugar. Short of those, the body will work toward recovery regardless of circumstances.

He estimated that if someone changed nothing, or continued eating cooked food, the average reversal and healing of disease reached approximately 45%. If they followed his Primal Diet, the rate of reversal climbed to approximately 90%, and the speed of recovery was considerably faster. The natural recovery rate of the general population, even without any dietary intervention at all, sits at roughly 60% for most diseases in the current toxic period. He cited this figure specifically when discussing the difficulty of evaluating claims made by psychic healers or other practitioners: unless a healer's patient recovery rate is consistently above 60%, the recoveries likely would have happened anyway, driven by the body's own mechanisms rather than by the practitioner's work.

Hippocrates expressed this understanding most precisely, in Aajonus's telling: the best physicians are those who give the appropriate dietary food regime and then entertain the patient while the body heals itself. Aajonus returned to this formulation repeatedly, citing it as the foundational clinical truth that the entire pharmaceutical paradigm has deliberately suppressed.

Healing and detoxification are not the same process, and Aajonus was specific about their order. Detoxification is the body's use of bacteria, viruses, molds, yeasts, and parasites to decompose dead and weakened cells, dissolve obstructions, and break down foreign substances that have accumulated in tissues. Healing is the reproduction of live cells to replace the areas that detoxification has cleared. Detoxification must come first. Healing follows.

He described swelling as part of this process: it is a sign of increased circulation being directed to an area to dilute and remove toxins and deliver nutrients to damaged tissue. Blocking swelling with ice stops that circulation, cuts off the nutrient supply, and results in scar tissue forming in place of properly regenerated live tissue. The example he returned to most often was that of athletes: a coach directs a player to ice an injury and inject cortisone, the player returns to the field, and five or ten years later that same player cannot walk and has undergone multiple operations to remove accumulated scar tissue. The ice and cortisone produced the degeneration that followed.

Fever belongs to the same framework. A fever signals that the body is ending the detoxification phase and moving into healing. Once body temperature reaches 100 degrees, parasites cannot grow, bacteria cannot multiply, and the body can no longer manufacture new virus. Mold and fungus can still grow until about 104 degrees. At 100 to 106 degrees, cell reproduction accelerates. A fever is not a danger to the brain. It is a healing mechanism that Aajonus described as the transition signal: the body is saying it has broken down the toxic material sufficiently through the detoxification phase and is now ready to regenerate.

Bacteria specifically inspires healing. This was one of Aajonus's most consistent claims across his experiments. He observed two polio patients: one was hospitalized and given massive antibiotics, with bacterial levels throughout the body kept very low. That patient weakened and deteriorated every day. The other was cared for at home on a raw diet of mostly raw meats and raw dairy, with no antibiotics. Her bacterial levels were high throughout her body, and she improved every day. The more evidence of bacteria and poliomyelitis debris, the greater her improvement. Her poliomyelitis ran its course of cleansing the spinal cord in six weeks, with another four weeks to heal to the point where she could move well. He documented parallel findings with stomach ulcers: patients whose ulcers were treated with Maalox or antibiotics saw their ulcers grow larger. Patients who drank urine healed twice as fast as those on medication. Patients who drank urine and also ate a raw diet healed two times faster still. When he asked the medicated patients to stop their medication, within one week their stomach secretions showed higher bacterial levels and their ulcers diminished in size and inflammation. He conducted wound experiments with alcohol versus urine treatment on the same individuals: wounds treated with urine healed approximately three times faster than those treated with alcohol. Untreated wounds healed slightly faster than those treated with alcohol. Conclusion, stated flatly: alcohol destroys bacteria and retards healing; drugs kill bacteria and retard healing; a high bacterial level inspires healing.

Diet is the primary determinant of how fast and how completely a person heals. This was the central clinical finding of Aajonus's career, arrived at through experimentation and through the failure of every other approach he investigated.

He found that eating raw food rather than cooked food provided the body with the enzymes, vitamins, and cofactors needed to accomplish every cellular task: digesting, transporting, and assimilating nutrients, energizing cells, lubricating membranes, regenerating and reproducing to replace dead cells, collecting and dissolving dead cellular material, and excreting the byproducts of that process. When these tasks are performed with raw food, trillions of enzymatic helpers handle the work with minimal metabolic cost to the body. When cooked food is consumed, those helpers are absent or destroyed, and the body must divert its own stored enzyme reserves to accomplish the same tasks, leaving fewer resources for healing.

Meat is the primary food for cellular regeneration. Aajonus was direct about this. Meat, whether red or white, whether beef, lamb, fowl, or seafood, provides the materials required for cellular division. He demonstrated this in animal experiments: animals divided into three groups, one receiving mainly raw meat, one receiving raw dairy, and one receiving a combination, showed that the group eating almost entirely raw meat regenerated and healed wounds five times faster than the others, and healed better in quality as well.

He advised people in a healing state to eat more meat, not less. When the body is healing, it draws heavily on protein for cellular rebuilding, and the typical response of fatigue and increased sleep during this period should be understood as the body redirecting metabolic resources. Ninety percent of healing happens during sleep or in a deeply restful alpha state. The body must be in a sedentary, low-activity state to heal properly. Eating more meat during this period reduces both the fatigue and the sleep requirement because it supplies the building materials directly, reducing the body's need to stay in a prolonged state of rest in order to gather enough resources for repair.

Raw fats are equally essential. They soothe, lubricate, and protect tissues during both the detoxification and healing phases. Coconut cream, butter, and raw dairy fats are all part of the healing protocol. Honey supports enzymatic healing activity and has been documented to accelerate wound healing significantly: natives in Central America used unheated honey on wounds and healed five times faster, and Australia has since approved honey as a prescription medication for burns, with documented reductions in scarring of 80% and healing speed increases of two to three times.

Vegetable juices, particularly carrot juice, provide the electrolytes and some carbohydrate needed during healing periods, though they function as support rather than as the primary healing substance. Raw eggs provide concentrated, easily assimilable nutrients for rebuilding.

Aajonus drew a clear distinction between true healing and repair. True healing is the reproduction of new, living cells to replace those destroyed by toxins or injury. Repair is what the body does when it cannot reproduce cells, usually because of nutritional deficiencies: it relocates live or mummified cells, which is scar tissue, from other areas of the body and fills in the damaged space with that material. Scar tissue is dead cells functioning like bricks in a wall. It weakens the entire body by robbing other areas of their cell population and by leaving the damaged area without functional living tissue.

Ice, cortisone, antibiotics, radiation, and nutritional deficiency all contribute to scar tissue formation by either blocking the circulation needed for healing, killing the bacteria needed to inspire cell reproduction, or depriving the body of the raw materials needed to manufacture new cells. Radiation specifically stops cellular reproduction. Since cellular reproduction is what healing is, radiation is directly antithetical to healing.

He described his own experience with skin grafting after a childhood injury in which part of a finger was cut off: skin was grafted from another location onto the site, and the grafted tissue healed as hard as rock, hard enough to put through plexiglass. Twenty-seven or twenty-eight years later, within approximately one year of beginning to eat raw meat regularly, that hardened grafted tissue blistered and fell off on its own. New skin, with normal sensitivity, grew back in its place, the nail formed properly, and the tissue returned to normal consistency. The body had finally been given what it needed to replace the dead grafted tissue with living tissue of its own.

He described a woman in her 50s who cut off a finger including the bone. He instructed her to apply lime juice first, then honey, then coconut cream, then raw meat as a bandage. The finger, including bone, grew back. He documented this with photographs.

Healing on the Primal Diet does not proceed in a straight line forward. It reverses through the body's history of accumulated damage, clearing each stored problem in roughly reverse chronological order. Most people retrace going backward through their health history; almost nobody bounces back to birth and forward again in linear fashion.

Every symptom a person has ever had will recur during this process. Aajonus stated this as a certainty: because the person never ate properly while those conditions were developing and being suppressed, those areas were never cleaned and healed properly. Now that the person is eating correctly, the body will revisit each stored problem, detoxify it, and attempt to heal it properly.

If the damage in a stored area is severe, for instance from mercury, thallium, or another concentrated heavy metal, the body may need multiple passes: first repairing with scar tissue, then later returning to dissolve the scar tissue and replace it with living cells. That second pass involves dissolving and removing the dead cell material, which produces additional symptoms. Until that process is complete, the body has not truly healed but only patched.

Healing and regeneration are a lifetime process on this diet. The benchmark Aajonus used for his own progress was whether he could bend back and touch the floor. Until he reached that point, he understood he had not fully arrived at the health level he was working toward.

Ninety percent of healing happens during sleep or in a very restful, sedentary alpha state. This is not optional or circumstantial. The body requires that deeply reduced metabolic activity state in order to redirect its resources toward cellular repair. Most people only reach that state when sleeping. A nap daily is not merely a comfort practice; it is a physiological necessity for anyone trying to heal actively.

Aajonus observed that people in a healing state naturally sleep more and experience more fatigue. This is the body's signal that it is in an active phase of cellular rebuilding and needs resources. Resisting that signal, pushing through fatigue, or restricting sleep interrupts the healing process. The correct response to unusual tiredness during the Primal Diet is not to reduce food or activity in other ways but to eat more meat and to sleep more, allowing the body to use both the nutrients and the rest state to complete the work.

Eating well before sleep is part of the protocol. Going five or more hours without food before sleeping deprives the body of the raw materials it needs during the night's healing work.

For surface wounds, burns, and lacerations, Aajonus developed a specific application protocol based on his own clinical observations and personal experiments.

The sequence he used on himself after a severe motorcycle accident that removed skin and exposed bone over large areas of his legs, arm, elbow, and ankle:

First, apply lime juice to the wound. Lime juice surrounds and isolates foreign particles such as asphalt embedded in tissue. The body will not have to reject or react to those particles as aggressively because the lime has neutralized and encapsulated them. This step stings severely but is essential for wounds containing embedded foreign matter.

Second, apply honey directly onto the wound. Honey contains enzymes that directly accelerate cellular repair. Unheated honey is required; crystallized or heated honey does not carry the same enzymatic activity.

Third, apply coconut cream or butter over the honey. Either fat will produce a burning sensation in an open wound for approximately 30 minutes, which is acceptable. The fat protects the wound, provides lubricant for tissue regeneration, and reduces the risk of the outer layers drying and forming excessive scar tissue.

Fourth, place thin raw meat slices over the fat layer, directly in contact with the wound. Raw meat provides the concentrated protein and enzymatic material for cellular regeneration.

Fifth, cover the meat with a piece of plastic to keep it moist, so the meat does not dry, contract, and pull at the wound surface.

Sixth, place a damp cloth over the plastic layer.

Seventh, wrap in bandaging.

He applied this protocol after his motorcycle accident and the skin and muscle over large areas of exposed bone grew back completely within 12 days, fully sealed. He changed the dressing by cleaning the wound with lime juice the first two times only, then switching to no cleansing. He spent time in the ocean and in a pool to keep circulation moving in the injured limbs, as movement and warmth support the healing process.

For Sandra, a woman whose forearm was lacerated by flying blender blades, he advised the same protocol: lime juice to clean, honey and coconut cream applied to the wound, thin beef slice placed over that, covered in plastic to maintain moisture, bandage changed every two to three days, lime juice used to clean only the first two dressing changes. Sandra was not on the Primal Diet but healed with minimal scarring. Aajonus noted that if she had been on the full Primal Diet, she likely would have healed in several weeks rather than several months.

For scar tissue that has already formed after wounds have closed, he used bone marrow applied topically, followed every five to seven days by light rubbing of either fresh pineapple or fresh papaya juice on the scar surfaces. He documented doing this on his own chemical burn scars, which flattened from lumpy to flat and even, though discoloration remained from aluminum, barium, and mercury.

He specifically instructed against using ice on any injury at any stage. Swelling is the body's mechanism for increasing circulation to bring nutrients to the damaged area and remove toxic debris. Blocking that circulation with ice produces the conditions for scar tissue formation rather than proper cellular regeneration.

For heat application, he recommended hot water bottles rather than electric heating pads. Electric heating pads produce an electromagnetic field of 75 to 200 milligauss. Three milligauss is sufficient to alter the molecular structure of human or animal cells into something destructive. Hot water bottles carry no electromagnetic field and deliver the thermal benefit without that additional damage.

Aajonus spent the years from 1969 to 1981 studying the relationship between emotional states and physical healing, guided by the teachings of Master Yu Tianjian and other practitioners. After that period of sustained investigation, his conclusion was that emotional disciplines and psychic or spiritual healing approaches produced rates of disease reversal only marginally, if at all, different from what happened when people changed nothing.

The primary value of emotional work was indirect: if a person can be taught to distract themselves from their disease, or to trust the body and not panic, they are less likely to seek harmful pharmaceutical interventions, agree to damaging surgeries, or consume supplements and herbal preparations that may interfere with the body's natural processes. The emotional and psychological work functions as protection against interference rather than as a direct driver of healing.

He did acknowledge that practitioners who work through compassion and what he called aural energy provide comfort that assists healing indirectly, by maintaining the patient in a calm enough state to allow the body to proceed without interruption. But the mechanism is supportive, not curative. The body is doing the healing; the practitioner is keeping the patient out of its way.

He noted that every master of spiritual practice or energy healing he personally investigated had health problems of their own that their disciplines had not resolved, and that his own autistic condition returned completely when he stopped drinking carrot juice, regardless of whatever mental discipline or willpower he brought to bear. The physiological could not be overridden by the psychological. Diet determined outcomes.

The pharmaceutical industry writes the procedure manuals that govern medical practice. Merck's manual, the primary reference, contains the word "heal" approximately 51 to 53 times, exclusively in relation to wounds from surgery or accidents. The word "cure" does not appear at all. No disease is described as curable. No disease is described as healable. In Aajonus's reading, this is not an omission but a design feature: the goal is permanent medication, not recovery.

Hippocrates reversed diabetes, emphysema, and asthma with raw milk diets alone. He accomplished this within six to ten weeks. That knowledge was suppressed when the pharmaceutical industry took control of medical education and licensing. What was understood and practiced for centuries became unavailable to patients because it could not be monetized.

The specific interventions Aajonus identified as actively preventing healing included: antibiotics, which destroy the bacterial environment that inspires cellular regeneration and devastate the digestive tract, impairing growth and cognitive development for years afterward; cortisone, which eliminates inflammation needed for circulation and tissue repair; insulin injections given long-term, which suppress the body's own regulatory mechanisms; Maalox and antacids, which are essentially mined rock and disrupt the acid environment necessary for digestion and healing; ice, which blocks the circulation essential for tissue repair; radiation, which stops cellular reproduction entirely; and surgery, which creates massive additional scar tissue and disrupts the body's own regulatory mechanisms.

Aajonus repeatedly cited raw milk as capable of reversing diabetes in six to ten weeks, the protocol Hippocrates used. He observed this with his own insulin-dependent diabetes, which he was able to reverse after discovering raw milk. He was spending over $650 a month on insulin from roughly age 15 to 22 and stopped when he transitioned to raw dairy.

He noted that refrigerating milk below 72 degrees causes certain hormones and growth factors to go dormant and inactive, and that once deactivated by chilling, those factors cannot be reactivated. Raw meat can serve functions that chilled raw milk cannot, because the relevant factors in chilled milk require meat to trigger their activity. This is a practical consideration for patients who are trying to replicate Hippocratic protocols with modern refrigerated dairy.

People who healed on the Primal Diet but did not continue eating raw food on a regular basis saw their ailments return. The healing process requires both appropriate nutrients and time. Symptoms that quickly disappeared usually returned, indicating that the cleansing and healing process required more passes to reach a durable resolution. Only by continuing on a raw-food diet did the improvements consolidate into lasting recovery.