Heart

The heart carries a large pocket of fat sitting directly on top of it. Aajonus described this as visible on any animal heart, that white pocket of fat always present at the top. This fat does not sit inside the heart muscle itself. The heart muscle is lean and cannot incorporate fat into its tissue the way other organs can. Instead, it maintains this external depot from which it draws rapidly when needed.

Aajonus gave specific percentages for the size of this fat pocket. He said it equals approximately 10 percent of the heart's total mass, which he described as a substantial amount. Some hearts carry even more, up to 20 or 23 percent. He used this as a central point in his broader argument that the body prizes fat as protection for its most vital structures. The brain is 60 percent fat, the adrenal and endocrine glands are approximately 60 percent fat, but the heart, which cannot use internal fat, compensates by maintaining this large external reserve from which molecules can be drawn very rapidly.

The thymus gland, sitting directly over the sternum, plays a protective role in relation to the heart. Aajonus described the thymus as filtering nutrients that reach the heart and producing hormones that keep the heart and lungs pumping continuously, 24 hours a day. He also said the thymus slightly affects the liver. When the thymus becomes toxic, it can poison the heart directly through proximity, and he gave a specific case in which congestive heart failure was misdiagnosed when the actual problem was a toxic thymus poisoning the heart muscle.

Aajonus consistently described heart attacks as charley horses, meaning muscular cramps caused by chemical irritation rather than by blockage or structural failure. The mechanism he described is identical to the one that produces a leg cramp from lactic acid buildup: a chemical substance enters the muscle tissue, irritates it, and causes it to seize. In the heart, this cramping is what produces the pain, the dysfunction, and the potential lethality.

He traced his own 300 heart attacks directly to the polio vaccine he received as a child. The mercury, formaldehyde, liquid aluminum, ether, and detergents from the vaccine traveled to his heart and pancreas, settled there, and caused the muscles to cramp chronically. The medical examinations at the time found no congestive heart failure and no structural abnormality, so doctors concluded the problem was psychological. Aajonus was autistic and could not clearly communicate his symptoms, which made the dismissal easier. His point was that medicine looks for structural problems and blockages, not for chemical contamination of muscle tissue, and so a major category of heart attack causation goes entirely unrecognized by the profession.

He extended this principle broadly: many people having heart attacks without diagnosable structural causes have poisons buried in their heart muscle tissue. Medication, when it is taken in the presence of lactic acid buildup in the muscle, can itself bury into muscle tissue and produce this same cramping effect. He suggested this meant the medical profession was likely responsible for 70 to 80 percent of all heart attacks, because their medications were the chemicals settling into and around muscle tissue.

Because Aajonus experienced approximately 300 heart attacks and survived all of them, he developed a specific protocol for surviving cardiac events based on the same principle that applies to muscular cramps generally. When you tense against a charley horse, it gets worse. When you grab and tighten the leg, the cramp locks in and intensifies. The same is true of the heart. When people panic during a heart attack, they tense their entire body, stop breathing, and lock the heart muscle into its cramp. If the heart remains cramped for six minutes, brain death follows.

His protocol was to do the opposite: go completely limp, release all tension, and breathe very slowly and shallowly, not deeply, because deep breathing puts pressure on the heart and worsens the cramping. He specified a breathing count: inhale slowly to a count of four, hold for the same count of four, exhale for the same count. The breath should be approximately half the normal intake of air. He said to cry if needed, to vocalize, but not to tense the arms, legs, or torso. He described going into a self-hypnotic state during his own attacks, a dissociation from the pain that he compared to entering a sleeping state, which allowed the heart muscle to relax and return to function even if he lost consciousness in the process.

He was explicit that losing consciousness is not death. The heart can resume on its own once the cramp releases through relaxation. He passed out 50 times and revived every time because he was in a relaxed state when he lost consciousness, not a tensed one. He said most people who die of heart attacks lock the muscle into cramping because they panic and tense against the pain.

Aajonus was direct and consistent on this point: animal fats do not cause heart disease, arteriosclerosis, hardening of the arteries, plaquing, or congestive heart failure. Vegetable oils do, particularly pressed vegetable oils and especially hydrogenated ones.

His reasoning was physiological and comparative. Herbivores, whose bodies are designed to metabolize plant-based fats, have a body temperature of 101 to 105 degrees Fahrenheit and a far more complex digestive tract capable of handling the molecular complexity of vegetable oils. The human body temperature is 98.6 degrees and lower, reaching higher temperatures only briefly during fever, which is not frequent or prolonged enough to keep vegetable oil liquid in the tissues. So when vegetable oil enters the human body and becomes incorporated into cellular structure, it crystallizes, dehydrates, and hardens. At the microscopic level, it forms finite crystals within tissue. This is what hardens the arteries.

He pointed to margarine specifically, hydrogenated vegetable oils, and pressed vegetable oils as having the same molecular structure as plastic once processed. He said if you pour these oils into dirt, the soil turns to rock within six to ten months. If you place animal fat in dirt, it molds and the soil becomes healthier and richer. He contrasted this with the pre-1940s diet in which everyone used butter or lard, and heart attacks were rare, occurring mainly in very dry, depleted individuals working in toxic industrial environments. Heart attacks became the leading cause of death when vegetable oils replaced animal fats as the dominant dietary fat.

He cited the Eskimos and other tribes who eat primarily raw animal meats and large quantities of raw animal fat, saying they have no hardening of the arteries, no plaquing, and no heart congestion. Even tribes eating mainly cooked meats have no heart disease or plaquing. The epidemiological pattern pointed entirely at vegetable oils, not at animal fats or cholesterol.

On cholesterol specifically, he dismissed the clinical threshold as absolute nonsense and fraud. He described a patient, an Olympic basketball player, keeping a cholesterol level of approximately 227 to 230, well above the conventional threshold of concern at the time, who was outperforming people 12 to 15 years younger on a raw animal food diet and playing competitive basketball in his 80s.

Aajonus inverted the conventional position on blood pressure. He argued that if a person has congested arteries, congested veins, or a congested heart, high blood pressure is the body's necessary and correct response to keep the vessels open and blood moving. Without elevated pressure in a congested system, circulation would fail. He cited what he described as a study out of England following 45,000 people over approximately eight years, finding that people with low blood pressure had all the heart attacks while those with systolic pressure of 160 to 170 had no heart attacks. His conclusion was that high blood pressure in someone with a congested cardiovascular system is protective and normal, not dangerous, and that telling such people to lower their blood pressure is actively harmful.

Aajonus described undergoing a full cardiac examination at a hospital cardiac ward at approximately 55 to 56 years of age, after having a diet that included eight to ten ounces of raw cream daily in spring and summer, and a stick of butter daily minimum in fall and winter. The cardiology team, which was gathered specifically because of his unusual dietary history, used ultrasound to examine the carotid arteries on both sides and the heart from every angle. They expected to find extensive plaquing.

The head cardiologist, described as a world-famous sports cardiac specialist named John, said Aajonus had a completely clean heart with not a bit of plaque anywhere visible. The examination lasted 45 minutes instead of the usual 20 because the specialists kept searching for something wrong, checking the heart from every angle, spending ten minutes on each carotid artery rather than the usual three. They described the heart as beautiful and amazing for someone of his age. He still had a small amount of plaquing from his childhood cardiac damage, but nothing that was excessive or dangerous, and he noted he had 19 more years to continue reducing it.

During the same visit to what appears to be a cardiac exercise research facility, he was tested on a treadmill with electrodes on his heart, head, wrists, and ankles via Bluetooth. After five minutes of running, his heart rate normalized within three minutes. He was then put on a leg press and worked up to 280 pounds, his heart normalizing in three minutes after that as well. The attending physician, named Luigi, compared his cardiac recovery to that of a champion weightlifter who trained constantly, and said Aajonus matched or exceeded that performance without having exercised since 1979.

Heart palpitations, in Aajonus's framework, are a sign that the heart is doing its job of protecting itself from toxins, specifically heavy metals mobilized by vegetable juice enzymes. When vegetable juice is consumed, especially first thing in the morning on an empty stomach, its enzymes begin pulling heavy metals from tissues into the bloodstream. The heart does not want those metals to settle in cardiac tissue, glands, or the brain, so it accelerates blood flow to push the contaminated blood through the intestinal tract more quickly, where the metals can dump into the intestines for elimination, especially if cheese is present to bind them.

He described the intestines as 30 feet long, providing substantial surface area for dumping toxins, while the heart and glands are comparatively small and short, making them vulnerable to toxin deposition if circulation is too slow. Rapid heartbeat is therefore the heart protecting itself.

The protocol for heart palpitations from vegetable juice was specific: whisk a raw egg into the juice and continue doing so for five to six days. Then try the juice without the egg for one attempt. If palpitations return, add the egg again. When the juice can be consumed without palpitations, the egg is no longer needed. He also said that heart palpitations generally indicate a significant deficiency of protein and fats. If cream is available, one to two tablespoons can be added to the juice as well.

He warned that if someone gets heart palpitations on their very first vegetable juice, this is a more significant signal of toxic load and protein-fat deficiency, and the egg and sometimes cream should be added immediately and used consistently for the described trial period.

For anyone alarmed by palpitations generally, including irregular heartbeat, he noted that approximately 1 in 20 people experience significant palpitations at some point, often during detoxification cycles. He described a patient with an irregular heartbeat lasting about six months who was being told by everyone around her that she would die and needed to see a doctor immediately. His position was that an irregular heartbeat occurring during a detoxification process is transitory and not inherently dangerous.

Aajonus addressed chest pain and pain around the heart area in multiple correspondence responses. His consistent position was that when toxins have accumulated in the heart muscle and surrounding tissues, the body must increase circulation to that area to cleanse and heal it. The swelling, increased circulation, and active cleansing process causes discomfort, pain, and fatigue. He described this as always having been transitory in his experience.

He specifically addressed the fear that chest pain means cholesterol-induced heart disease, calling this claim unscientific and noting that people who say it are simply repeating what they have heard rather than reasoning from evidence. His point was that tribes eating primarily animal meat and fat, whether cooked or raw, do not develop heart disease.

He also addressed pain radiating from the chest through to the back as something he had observed in people with metal concentrations in the heart area, noting that such concentrations can produce sharp, intense pain that may also radiate to the back, and advising that people understand this as detoxification rather than cardiac emergency.

For congestive heart failure specifically, Aajonus said to seek medical help initially to stay alive, but to follow a strict raw diet including a small amount of cooked starch eaten with plenty of raw fat to gradually cleanse and heal the heart. The protocols he described for congestive heart failure included two Nut Formulas weekly to restore heart nerves, two smoothies daily with one made with unripe pineapple to cleanse and tone the heart, the honey and butter mixture to soothe it, and unheated honey eaten with meat to strengthen and gradually restore the heart.

He also described a case he called a misdiagnosis of congestive heart failure. A patient who had been diagnosed with congestive heart failure and whose heart muscles did not close completely was, in Aajonus's assessment, actually suffering from a toxic thymus gland that was poisoning the heart through direct proximity. His recommendation in that case was to eat large quantities of eggs, from 10 to 15 to 20 to as many as 30 eggs per day, while keeping the upper body elevated. He said there was no actual congestive heart failure present, only the thymus poisoning the heart.

Aajonus addressed heartworms in dogs as an example of his broader framework that parasites serve a cleaning function. Dogs develop heartworms when rabies vaccines inject a high amount of mercury into the system, which fills and damages the heart muscle. The worms appear to eat the dead tissue created by the mercury damage. If the worms are killed off before their job is complete, the dog retains a permanently weak heart because the dead, toxic cells remain in the muscle. Such a dog will be gentle, will not thrive, and will die young because the toxicity and cellular debris remain. He used this example to argue that parasites are not enemies but are performing a necessary biological function and should be understood as doing so.

Aajonus described an investigation he conducted into what hormone the body uses to restart the heart and lungs after they stop in a traumatic situation. He spent a season attending college football games with permission from the medical coach, bringing five hypodermics so he could draw blood from players who were knocked unconscious by severe impacts. He checked the blood from three such cases and found the only element dramatically elevated was thyroxin, the thyroid hormone. Not adrenaline, which he said is a fight-or-flight emergency hormone relevant to the kidneys but not the primary cardiac hormone. Thyroxin is what kicks the heart and lungs back into function after a traumatic stop.

He described the heart and lungs as having five backup systems each, reflecting their critical importance. The parathyroids, two on each side of the thyroid, exist as backups to the thyroid specifically because thyroxin is so important to cardiac and pulmonary function. If the thyroid is down for cleansing, the parathyroids maintain concentrated thyroxin production to keep the system functioning.

Aajonus described a case involving Don Ho, the entertainer, who used what Aajonus described as a stem cell treatment for severe cardiac damage. Blood was drawn in the United States, sent to a laboratory in Israel where cardiac stem cells were separated, those cells were cultured on the patient's own blood serum, then sent to a hospital in Bangkok where they were injected in and around the damaged heart. The result was the growth of new arterial tissue, a natural bypass, and a complete rebuild of the damaged heart structure. Don Ho lived another year and a half after the procedure and returned to performing, having been unable to work since his first heart surgery. Aajonus described this as an example of what stem cell applications can accomplish for cardiac reconstruction.

Aajonus noted that animals store poisons in their glands first, making glandular meat from non-organic animals the most problematic. For someone experiencing an irregular heartbeat, he framed it as the heart going through a process rather than a structural failure, and he continued consulting with the patient while monitoring the situation rather than sending them to emergency medicine. He was explicit that his ability to visually assess circulation, including seeing pink in the face and skin, gave him information about whether the heart was actually blocked or simply detoxifying.

On blood pressure in the context of the heart, his position was that if someone with congested arteries and heart takes blood pressure lowering medication, the doctors are actively preventing the body from doing what it needs to do to maintain circulation through a compromised system.

For a patient with heavy metals concentrated around the heart and in the liver, Aajonus gave a specific juice formula: 60 percent celery, 20 percent parsley, 10 percent summer squash including zucchini, crookneck, and sunburst, some cucumber within that portion, and 10 percent cilantro, taken with one to two tablespoons of cream. The purpose was to draw metals out of the liver and heart, with the cream serving to buffer the mobilization of toxins and protect the intestinal tract from dumping too aggressively.