Hookworms

Aajonus drew a clear line between parasites that are native to a host species and those that can survive in a host but were not co-evolved with it. His primary example of the human-indigenous intestinal parasite was the whipworm, which he also called trichinosis, the trichurissuis organism found in the intestines of pigs and shared with humans through long evolutionary relationship. He described the tribes across the world that still carry the whipworm as the healthiest digestive populations, pointing to Dr. Joel Weinstock's gastroenterological research at the University of Iowa as scientific confirmation of what he had observed through his own clinical work and personal experimentation.

The hookworm, in Aajonus's framing, does not carry the same status. It can inhabit the human intestine and perform some functions there, but it lacks the precise fit that the whipworm has with human digestive physiology. He did not elaborate at length on what specific things the hookworm does accomplish when it is present, nor did he offer protocols for inducing or acquiring hookworms in the way he described inducing tapeworms through fermented milk and maca root, or acquiring whipworms through Weinstock's method of drinking eggs in an alkaline solution. The hookworm is mentioned once, in passing, as a point of contrast rather than as a subject of protocol or recommendation.

To understand the limited but meaningful statement Aajonus made about hookworms, it helps to understand the broader framework in which he placed all intestinal parasites. He viewed parasites universally as beneficial when they are operating in alignment with the body's needs. Parasites, in his framework, are either digestive partners that predigest food faster than bacteria can, working three to fifty times faster depending on the type, or janitorial organisms that consume degenerative tissue, eating up to one hundred times their weight in twenty-four hours while producing only one to two percent waste. He contrasted this with the conventional medical view, which he described as fear-based and unsupported by actual experimental evidence.

He argued that all animal tissue contains parasite memory and eggs, and that the proper internal environment simply allows the appropriate parasite to develop when the body needs it. His sterile room experiment, in which sheep flesh was butchered in a completely sealed and sterilized environment with only EPA-filtered air, produced visible parasites within three days, which he took as evidence that parasites arise from within tissue rather than solely from external contamination. Within this framework, the hookworm's limited fit with human physiology is not a reason to fear it but simply a reason to understand that it is not the optimal digestive partner the way the whipworm is.

Aajonus consistently emphasized that parasites do not cause disease in the conventional sense. They respond to conditions in the body, particularly the accumulation of degenerative tissue, advanced glycation end products, and excessive carbohydrate residues. A hookworm present in a human body would, in his framework, be responding to some condition in that environment, doing whatever limited work it is capable of doing there. The problem, to the extent there is one with a less-than-perfectly-matched parasite like the hookworm, is simply that the results are less congruous and less efficient than what the native whipworm would accomplish. The solution he implied was not antiparasitic treatment but rather the acquisition of the more appropriate organism, the whipworm, through sources like the pharmaceutical-grade trichinosis available from Germany or through the intestinal tissue of farm pigs.

He noted that antiparasitic interventions, whether pharmaceutical dewormers or homeopathic dewormers such as walnut oil and garlic oil, all cause harm relative to simply allowing the body to work through its parasitic cycle on a raw diet. In his animal study involving thirty-two cats and dogs with various parasites, the group that received no dewormers and ate only raw meat took the longest to complete their parasitic cycle, up to six months, but recovered most completely, behaving like puppies and kittens afterward with no deaths. The groups given pharmaceutical dewormers cleared parasites in ten to twelve days but did not recover vibrant health. This finding applied to all parasites in the study regardless of type, and would encompass hookworms if they had been among the organisms present.

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