Hormone Replacement Therapy

Aajonus described hormones as substances composed of roughly 60 percent fat, 30 to 35 percent protein, and approximately 5 to 10 percent carbohydrate or pyruvate. This compositional ratio is consistent across hormones regardless of gland of origin. Because hormones are predominantly fat, the body also uses them to bind with and neutralize toxins, which is one reason people living on poor diets show elevated hormone levels in blood tests. The body is not thriving when it shows high hormone levels; it is managing a toxic emergency by deploying one of its most resource-intensive emergency substances.

In a healthy animal on its natural raw diet, hormone content in the blood and throughout the system is minimal, only trace amounts at most. Aajonus tested this directly in animals. He found that only when animals were being chased or threatened did he observe high adrenaline. Only when two animals became sexually excited did he observe elevated testosterone and estrogen, and that was for procreation, which he called an emergency of extinction. Growth hormone appeared only in young animals that he deliberately stopped feeding. Under normal conditions, on a natural diet, the pituitary produces no detectable growth hormone because the food itself, being raw and nutrient-complete, handles cell division and growth without any hormonal intervention.

The pharmaceutical industry's decision to treat low hormone levels as a disease state requiring supplementation was, in Aajonus's analysis, a circular trap. The population eating cooked food, industrial chemicals, and processed products is perpetually in a state of internal emergency. Their bodies are constantly depleting hormones trying to manage toxicity and compensate for nutritional deficiency. When a blood test shows low thyroid hormone or low estrogen, it reflects either depletion from chronic overuse or the body's appropriate restraint in a context where it is not facing the specific emergency those glands are designed to address. In neither case is synthetic hormone replacement the correct response. The correct response is to remove the dietary cause of the emergency.

The thyroid complex, consisting of the right thyroid, the left thyroid, and two parathyroids attached to each, gives six glands dedicated to a single function. Aajonus argued that this redundancy exists because the thyroid system protects the heart and lungs. When a person is knocked out of a tree, struck hard enough to stop the heart and collapse the lungs, the thyroid fires with extraordinary force. The parathyroids are a backup to the thyroid, and there are four of them precisely because the stakes, breathing and heartbeat, are too high to leave to a single gland.

The pharmaceutical and medical industries, Aajonus said, chose to tell people that the thyroid governs weight and hair growth because those are the two things most people are most afraid of losing control of. Vanity, he said, is tremendous, and the industry exploits it deliberately. No woman, he noted, wants to lose her hair, and no man wants to go bald. The claim that thyroid deficiency causes hair loss and weight gain is, in his assessment, fabricated specifically to drive people into taking thyroxine. He pointed out that many people who have had their thyroids surgically removed do not experience hair loss, and that many people with abundant thyroxine levels lose hair anyway, because thyroxine has nothing to do with hair growth.

The escalating taxonomy of thyroid hormones, from T1 and T2 decades ago to T3, T4, T6, T7, and more as time went on, was presented by Aajonus as evidence of pharmaceutical market expansion rather than scientific discovery. Each new designation represents another product that can be sold, often in combination with others, with patients told they need multiple types simultaneously. There is no multi-thyroxine, so each T variant must be purchased separately, compounding the commercial benefit.

Taking thyroxine as an energy supplement was treated by Aajonus as a form of false energy production. The person is not generating energy from food; they are running their body on an emergency hormone that was designed for acute crisis, not sustained daily function. The thyroid has nothing to do with energy level in a normally functioning, well-fed body, and using it that way produces artificial stimulation that depletes the body over time.

Aajonus described estrogen therapy as "taboo" from his perspective. He acknowledged that among the available options, some are less harmful than others. Estriol, a form of estrogen, was mentioned as one of the more benign alternatives because it comes from more natural sources. He noted the existence of an Estriol cream that can be applied vaginally, which brings a limited, controlled amount of estrogen to that tissue, and said it had a qualified place in addressing dry vaginal walls and related menopausal symptoms.

Progesterone cream, including the natural progesterone cream derived from wild Mexican yam, was discussed in the context of a specific client who had used it with some benefit. Aajonus acknowledged that progesterone cream does absorb through the skin, and that the mechanism involves the progesterone acting as a precursor to the body's own estrogen production rather than replacing estrogen directly. He did not endorse it enthusiastically, calling it "not a good thing" while acknowledging it has effects.

His preferred approach to menopausal hormonal imbalance was nutritional. He stated that all hormones will be manufactured by the glands if they receive the proper nutrients, and the two most important nutrients for hormone production are fat and protein, because fat is the major compositional element of every hormone and protein is the major building block. A person who has been fat-starved and protein-starved, particularly someone with a history of vegetarianism, may have cells that have forgotten how to produce the hormone even when nutrients are provided, because the glandular tissue itself has atrophied.

For women who had gone through menopause and were experiencing vaginal dryness, thinning vaginal walls, depression, and loss of period, Aajonus described a protocol using freeze-dried glandular extracts. Specifically, he recommended ovary tissue, either fresh raw ovary if available (for instance, from Amish suppliers who can provide any gland to order) or freeze-dried glandular extract in pill form. He specified taking it with liver, fish, or some kind of meat. The dose he described was four or five tablets once a day for three to five days, repeated every three to four weeks, for approximately three to four months, after which the body returns to producing its own hormones. He reported that this approach stimulated estrogen production even in women who were years past menopause, bringing back their periods. He stated he had women in their late fifties still having periods every three to six months after having gone three or four years without one.

He was explicit that fresh raw gland is superior to freeze-dried supplements. The fresh gland actually nourishes the corresponding tissue in the person eating it. Freeze-dried dissected glands can teach the body how to produce hormones and stimulate glandular activity, but they do not truly supplement in the sense of replacing the hormonal substance. If someone wanted genuine supplementation, they needed fresh gland tissue. He even noted that a rotten, stinky gland works faster than a fresh one in some contexts.

Aajonus rejected the premise that testosterone deficiency is a legitimate clinical diagnosis for most people. Testosterone and estrogen are both produced by the gonads, and the gonads exist, in his framework, primarily for reproduction. There are two gonads in each sex because the body maintains a backup for procreation, not because the gonads are meant to continuously flood the bloodstream with sex hormones for daily function.

He stated that a high testosterone level is not necessary for sexual appetite. Normal, healthy sexual appetite does not require elevated hormones. Exceedingly high sexual drive, in his view, often reflects excess testosterone or estrogen, or even adrenaline being converted into sexual drive, which is not a sign of vitality but of glandular over-stimulation from poor diet or toxic load.

Products like yohimbe and other sexual enhancement substances, which he mentioned people were buying for impotence, were addressed indirectly by pointing to diet as the actual cause of impotence. He made the same argument he applied to all hormone-related complaints: the pharmaceutical and supplement industry presents the symptom as a deficiency requiring a product, but the real cause is the diet and the accumulated toxicity from cooked food and industrial chemicals.

He did note that libido requires adequate fat and protein, and that in women especially, if the body does not have enough fat and protein, it will not allocate hormones for sexual activity. He called sex an "extracurricular activity" that the body will deprioritize when nutritional resources are scarce. Regaining libido after a period of extreme dietary restriction may require gaining some excess weight first, to build the fat reserves from which hormones can be manufactured.

For men who needed glandular support, he recommended testes tissue, either fresh from a butcher (bulls' testicles, described as a granular product) or freeze-dried in capsule form, noting Carlton Labs in Illinois as a former source he had used when they still produced single-gland preparations. He also noted that if someone has adrenal exhaustion, they typically have thyroid exhaustion and exhaustion of every other gland as well, in which case a multi-glandular supplement covering all glands at once is appropriate rather than targeting a single gland.

Aajonus connected the hormone replacement market explicitly to financial incentives shared by the pharmaceutical industry, food production industry, and government. He stated that the same people who hold the greatest shares in food production also own the pharmaceutical companies, and that neither group profits when people are well. The food industry creates the conditions of debilitation by promoting cooked, processed, chemical-laden food. The pharmaceutical industry then sells the medication required to manage the hormonal and other consequences of that debilitation. The medical profession validates the need for the medication by establishing hormone level norms that conveniently correspond to what the sick population shows.

He cited the fertility clinic example to illustrate this. Three couples who had spent years, ranging from six to eleven years, and tens of thousands of dollars at fertility clinics trying to conceive, all became pregnant within one to three months of beginning the raw diet heavy in raw dairy. One couple conceived in one month, another in three months, and the third similarly. Aajonus's conclusion was that it is always the food that determines bodily function, not drugs and not hormone replacement therapy. The fertility industry, like the hormone replacement industry, is in his view a system designed to keep people confused, spending money, and dependent rather than pointing them to the actual cause of their dysfunction.

A hundred years ago, he noted, there was no hormone replacement market because people were not eating the industrial food and living in the pollution levels that create the kind of systemic debilitation that requires hormone intervention to sustain basic function. The creation of the market followed the creation of the conditions that make it seem necessary.

One of the most specific physiological consequences Aajonus described for hormone replacement therapy involves what happens to the gland being supplemented. He drew a direct parallel to insulin and the pancreas: just as taking exogenous insulin causes the pancreas to stop producing its own insulin and eventually atrophy, taking exogenous thyroxine (T3 or T4 supplementation) causes the thyroid to stop functioning and begin atrophying. He stated that if the thyroid has atrophied completely from long-term exogenous thyroxine use, it will not recover.

This makes the use of thyroid medication, even the organic Armour thyroid preparation mentioned by a client's associate, problematic as a long-term treatment. Aajonus acknowledged that using raw thyroid gland tissue as a short-term stimulus, taken for a finite period to stimulate the thyroid and then discontinued to let the diet take over, is different from continuous supplementation. Continuous supplementation shuts the gland down permanently. Short-term stimulation, followed by removal of the supplement, can allow the gland to recover function if it has not already atrophied too far.

For menopausal hormonal production and balancing mineral levels after menopause, Aajonus described a protocol from his book involving raw yam juice. Drinking one to two cups of raw yam juice with three tablespoons of raw coconut cream with each cup, consumed once every three to eight days, was described as ensuring hormonal production that balances mineral levels after menopause. He specified that the yam juice must be consumed within one hour after juicing.

He also noted that eating a raw diet that includes some cooked starch with plenty of raw fat and some raw unripe fruit one to two times daily helps balance hormonal levels generally. Eating plenty of raw fat, including no-salt-added raw cheese and raw cream when available, along with meat and especially fish, gradually restores health to glands and nerves.

He additionally noted the role of sex itself in managing the hormonal changes of menopause. He wrote that having sex is beneficial for some women during menopause because it flushes hormones and expedites the hormonal changes, distinguishing this from hormonal cessation. For women without a partner during this period, self-stimulation is helpful for some people. He also noted that even after completing menopause, a woman may occasionally experience menstruation, which he described as a healthy cleansing function of those tissues.

One nuance Aajonus introduced is that elevated hormone levels in blood tests are not always an indication that the body is trying to compensate for hormone deficiency. Often, they indicate that the body is using hormones to bind with toxins and neutralize them. Because hormones are 60 to 80 percent fat, and because fat is the body's primary binding agent for toxins, the body produces hormones as a detoxification strategy. He cited adrenaline rushing to bind with poisons, and noted that this mechanism operates across all hormone types, regardless of sex or gland of origin. The ratio of protein to fat in hormones corresponds precisely to what is needed for effective toxin binding.

This means that someone with elevated adrenaline who has chronic fatigue is not well because of the high adrenaline. They are using all of that adrenal output to manage toxicity in the body, and none of it is available for energy. The hormone is being consumed by the detoxification task and cannot do what it would do in a healthy, uncontaminated system. Taking additional exogenous hormones in this situation does nothing to resolve the toxicity and simply adds to the burden.

Aajonus addressed the specific claim used to market hormones to women, which is the claim that estrogen and testosterone prevent osteoporosis and maintain bone density. He rejected this as a fallacy. Bone density and bone solidity are not maintained by estrogen or testosterone or by any male or female hormone. What gives bones their solidity is fat combined with minerals. The hormone-for-bones argument is, in his view, another piece of pharmaceutical marketing built on false physiology, used to extend the market for hormone replacement therapy into the aging population by exploiting fear of fracture and skeletal deterioration.

He contrasted this with what he found actually effective for reversing osteoporosis: raw cheese eaten with raw honey, two tablespoons of cheese twice daily with a teaspoon of honey each time. He stated he had reversed 32 to 40 percent osteoporosis in women within two years using this protocol, while the medications promoted for osteoporosis prevention showed no more than a 1 percent increase in bone density in tests, which he called effectively not useful.

---