Hemoglobin

Because Aajonus does not build his teaching around hemoglobin as a molecule, the practical content that would apply to hemoglobin function is entirely contained within his extensive framework on red blood cells and anemia. Red blood cells carry oxygen to every cell in the body so that the oxidization process can occur and fats can be transformed into energy. That is, in his words, their sole job. When red blood cells are too few, too immature, or too weakened by toxic contamination of the bone marrow where they breed and mature, the result is anemia regardless of what any laboratory test shows about hemoglobin levels or iron counts.

He describes several distinct mechanisms by which a person can become anemic. A person can lose blood volume through injury or menstruation. A person can have a bone marrow so contaminated with heavy metals, particularly aluminum and tin, that the red and white blood cells produced there are weakened or immature. Immature red blood cells entering the bloodstream do not carry oxygen and simply consume whatever nutrients are present in the blood without performing their function, producing what he calls "secondary anemia," meaning a person can have an apparently adequate red blood cell count and still be functionally anemic because the cells are not doing their work. A person can also become transiently anemic during sleep because after five hours without eating, the protein level in the blood drops to the point where red blood cells begin consuming one another to obtain protein. He states that someone sleeping eight hours loses approximately two to four tablespoons of red blood cells to this cannibalistic process, and someone sleeping ten hours loses closer to four to six tablespoons.

The case Aajonus describes in the source material involves an infant girl approximately one year old who was not growing on schedule, found to have low iron in the blood, and prescribed iron supplements. His objection to this intervention has two parts. First, the diagnosis was made on the basis of a blood test showing low iron, which he treats as a laboratory artifact rather than a meaningful clinical finding requiring pharmaceutical correction. Second, the remedy prescribed, inorganic iron from rock, is the form of iron that plants consume from the soil. His position is that humans do not eat rock and cannot properly utilize iron in that inorganic form the way they can utilize iron already present within raw animal tissue. The appropriate correction for a child with low red blood cell function or low iron would be raw meat appropriate to the child's type, not a mineral supplement derived from the earth.

His recommendation for correcting anemia is direct and consistent across the source passages: eat raw meat, chosen according to the person's blood type and physical constitution, daily or at minimum three times weekly. For the specific problem of nighttime anemia caused by the cannibalistic consumption of red blood cells during sleep, his recommendation is to not go more than five hours without eating. He suggests keeping food at the bedside, specifically an egg, half a cup of milk, or half of a milkshake, so that if a person wakes during the night they can eat immediately and return to sleep. For a highly active person, he recommends setting an alarm at three hours rather than five, eating, and then sleeping the remaining hours.

He is explicit that caffeine, nicotine, theobromine, and stimulants of any kind are not remedies for this form of anemia. Coffee, tea, soda with caffeine, and cigarettes are what people reach for when they wake in a state of low-grade anemia, and he describes the entire infrastructure of coffee houses and tobacco culture as built on a population chronically anemic from poor diet and extended overnight fasting. The stimulant produces a false sense of energy without correcting the underlying deficit of functional red blood cells.

Aajonus connects the appropriate choice of raw meat to what he describes as three blood types, distinguished by the relative acidity or alkalinity of the blood chemistry. A highly acidic blood will synthesize red blood cells more readily without assistance, and such an individual tends to need white meats. A blood chemistry that is more alkaline or neutral needs red meat to support adequate red blood cell production and oxygen transport. He observes this in tongue and nail bed color, noting that more white in the nail beds or on the tongue indicates red blood cells are not transporting oxygen as well as they should, and that on such a day the reading suggests the person needs to be eating red and white meat or primarily red meat depending on how pronounced the white splotching is. He is careful to note that a tongue or nail bed reading reflects only that day's condition, not a permanent state.

The most developed structural argument Aajonus makes that bears on hemoglobin function without using the word is his discussion of bone marrow contamination. Bone marrow is sixty to eighty percent fat, similar to the brain, and because the body stores poisons preferentially in fat tissue, bone marrow becomes a major repository for heavy metals and other toxic compounds when a person does not have sufficient subcutaneous fat stores to absorb them. In thin people especially, the bone marrow and brain receive the highest concentrations of toxic accumulation. When bone marrow is contaminated with aluminum, tin, and other metals, the red and white blood cells that breed and mature there are affected in their development. The cells may be weakened, may fail to mature properly, or may be expelled from the bone marrow before they are ready.

He estimates that aluminum and tin contamination in the bone marrow can reduce the effective performance of the blood by approximately thirty percent, with an average reduction of about twenty percent in the people he observes. When this is combined with the additional burden of the bloodstream being forced to transport nutrients throughout the body because the lymphatic system is congested and no longer doing that work, the person's available energy can drop to forty percent or less of what it would be if the blood were doing only its intended work of oxygen delivery and carbon dioxide removal. All of this represents functional impairment of the same process that, in conventional terms, would be measured partly through hemoglobin levels, but Aajonus does not use hemoglobin as his reference point. He uses observable function, symptom experience, and the quality of the red blood cells visible under darkfield microscopy.