Hormones

Hormones are fat-based substances that can alter body chemistry within minutes or even seconds. Their speed and potency are what make them suitable for emergency response. They are produced by the endocrine glands, which are defined as glands capable of dumping their secretions directly into the bloodstream rather than through channels like bile, which travels from liver to gallbladder to intestine before reaching the blood as a digested end product. This direct delivery to the blood is what allows hormones to produce immediate, dramatic physiological changes.

The composition figures Aajonus gave were consistent across his workshops: 60 to 80 percent fat, 15 to 35 percent protein, with carbohydrate fixed at approximately 5 percent regardless of how much carbohydrate or sugar the person consumes. He was explicit that whether the fat component of a hormone is derived from dietary carbohydrate, dietary protein, or dietary fat, it is still converted to an acetone or acetate form and is still fat at the point it enters the hormone molecule. The fixed carbohydrate proportion of 5 percent cannot be increased by eating more sugar; the body maintains the ratio.

Because of this composition, hormones share the body's general strategy of using fat to sequester and neutralize toxins. When the body is confronted with poisons and does not have sufficient free dietary fat available for binding, it will draw on its hormone supply for that purpose. Adrenaline in particular rushes toward poisons because of its high fat content, binding with them and also triggering exercise responses that push toxins out through perspiration and raise body temperature to assist elimination. The ratio of fat to protein in hormones is described as being in the exact proportion required for detoxification. This is not specific to any one hormone: female hormones, male hormones, pituitary hormones, all carry this detoxification-compatible ratio.

Aajonus covered each endocrine gland in detail and consistently framed every one of them as an emergency organ rather than a routine maintenance system.

The pituitary gland, located in the brain, dominates all other glands and governs growth. Growth hormone from the pituitary is not supposed to be present in the blood of a normally fed, healthy adult. In young animals, Aajonus found that pituitary hormones do not appear in even trace amounts when the animals are fed raw meat, raw bone, and raw milk. When those same animals are fed processed kibble or canned food, pituitary hormones appear. In young animals he deliberately deprived of food, pituitary secretions appeared in the blood after approximately two hours in cats and three hours in dogs, allowing continued growth even during starvation by directing cells to consume themselves in order to maintain size, if not full health. The offspring produced by animals on garbage food show elevated pituitary hormone; offspring from raw-fed animals do not. After age 21 in humans, pituitary growth hormone should not be present in blood at all, because by that point each individual healthy cell produces its own growth hormones for its own division and replication. The only circumstance under which pituitary growth hormones are needed after maturity is when the cells are too toxic to produce their own.

He gave the specific scenario of a volcano, fire, or earthquake wiping out food sources to illustrate when pituitary emergency function is legitimate: tribes cut off from their normal protein supply would have pituitary secretions allow continued growth over multiple generations, though at the cost of enzyme and vitamin deficiency that would be corrected when food was restored.

The pineal gland was acknowledged but explicitly set aside as unknown. Mystics and yogis call it the seat of consciousness and the bridge between the spiritual world and the physical. Aajonus noted that it produces hormones related to psychological and metaphysical experience and that it may be connected to dream states and intuition, but he repeatedly stated he had not been able to test these claims and declined to speculate further. He did note that it seems connected to imagination and that the fluids it produces may be involved in building hormones for imaginative or psychological activity.

The thyroid gland received extended treatment because it is the most aggressively medicalized of the endocrine glands in Aajonus's view. The thyroid exists in six-gland formation: right thyroid, left thyroid, and two parathyroids on each thyroid for a total of six. Aajonus considered this backup architecture the body's clearest signal of what the thyroid actually protects, because the number of backups corresponds to how catastrophically important the function is. Five backups for one gland means the heart and the lungs. The thyroid kicks in when a blow to the body knocks out the heart or lungs; if the thyroid alone is insufficient, the parathyroids provide additional backup. This is the thyroxine function: restarting or maintaining heart and lung activity after traumatic interruption. He described a clinical case where thyroxine was required to kick a heart and lungs back into activity, which he took as confirmation of the emergency-only nature of thyroid function. The pharmaceutical industry's claims that thyroid hormone governs hair growth, body weight, energy levels, and adrenal function are, in Aajonus's framework, fabrications used to sell medication, particularly to women who are told they will gain weight or lose hair without thyroid supplements. He stated explicitly that thyroxine has nothing to do with hair loss, energy level, or adrenal function.

The thymus gland functions as a backup for the lungs and heart in a different capacity: it helps produce hormones to maintain lung and heart function continuously, including during sleep, and it can help convert adrenaline into hormones that regulate lung and heart functionality.

The adrenal glands are small, roughly the size of two joints of the little finger, and sit on top of the kidneys. Their position above the kidneys relates directly to their function: they support physical movement and muscular activity, particularly fight-or-flight responses involving the legs and arms. The adrenal glands can also substitute for other hormonal needs; the body can convert thyroxine into adrenal hormones when it is too fatigued and damaged to produce the needed hormone through normal pathways. A pinprick of adrenaline, described as a thousandth of a microgram, provides enough force for a mother to lift a 3,000-pound car off her child, illustrating the extreme potency of even trace amounts. Aajonus used the example of a Norwegian or Viking tradition of consuming molds containing LSD-like compounds before battle to excite brain activity and adrenal glands simultaneously. Adrenal fatigue, in his framework, occurs when the body has been running on adrenaline as a substitute for proper nutritional energy, and the glands finally exhaust themselves and can no longer even maintain that compensatory output. When that happens, the person cannot function at all.

The gonads, consisting of the ovaries in women and the testes in men, are for procreation and pleasure. They are not for daily energy maintenance, they are not for bone density, and they are not for routine cellular reproduction. Aajonus stated directly that the claim that testosterone or estrogen protects bone density is a fallacy; what gives bones their solidity is fat combined with minerals. Gonads have one backup each, meaning two ovaries and two testes, which Aajonus described as the body's acknowledgment that procreation, as a hedge against extinction, justifies a redundancy system. Testosterone governs the formation of harder, more male-type tissue; estrogen governs softer skin and softer hair. But these are reproductive functions, not everyday physiological requirements. In healthy wild animals, testosterone and estrogen appear only when the female goes into heat, with the male detecting this through scent. Ninety percent of sexual stimulation originates in the nose, where certain airborne scents directly excite the gonads through a connection between the nose and the gonads. The domesticated animal pattern of indiscriminate sexual behavior at all times is, in his framework, a direct result of processed food disrupting the hormonal system. Humans, he noted, are the only animal that becomes sexually aroused outside of the female fertility window, and this too is a product of toxic imbalance and the constant emergency state produced by improper eating.

The central argument Aajonus made about modern hormonal levels is that they are not low, as the pharmaceutical industry claims, but chronically elevated because the body is perpetually in emergency mode. Every form of modern pollution, including food pollution from 60,000 chemicals used in food processing out of a total 80,000 industrial chemicals, air pollution, water pollution, radio waves, and radiation fields, constitutes a continuous toxic assault that the body interprets as crisis. The endocrine glands respond to this constant signal by producing hormones continuously at levels that should only appear in acute emergencies.

He described the process with supplements as a clear illustration: when someone takes a chemical supplement, the body is poisoned, adrenaline rises to bind with the toxicity because hormones are 60 to 80 percent fat and fat is the primary toxin-binding substrate, and the person experiences this adrenaline surge as an energy boost or high. This is not genuine energy; it is a toxic response. The same mechanism explains why athletes who eat poorly can still perform: their bodies are producing hormones at high levels to compensate, using hormones essentially as drugs to fuel performance. Aajonus stated flatly that this is exactly what hormones are when used for energy purposes, drugs, not normal physiological fuel.

The body can use any hormone for detoxification purposes regardless of its normal designation. Female hormones can be used to bind with toxins in a male body; male hormones can be used similarly in a female body. Pituitary hormones carry the same detoxification-compatible fat-to-protein ratio as adrenal or gonadal hormones. The specific hormone the body chooses to produce for this detoxification purpose depends on the individual, the gland most capable at that moment, and the body's current state. A person may predominantly use thyroid hormone for detoxification in one six-month period and adrenal hormone in the next.

People who have good adrenal glands but experience chronic fatigue present what Aajonus considered an instructive case: their adrenal glands are functional and producing adrenaline, but all of that adrenaline is being consumed in binding with toxins, leaving none available for energy production. He described this as a "good preventive" situation because the hormones are at least keeping more serious disease at bay, but the person cannot access them for normal function.

Aajonus drew on the work of Dr. Elnora Van Winkle, who worked at a laboratory at Columbia University cataloging every chemical in the human brain and nervous system, to explain one specific aspect of hormonal production and storage. Every emotional experience, including falling in love, experiencing joy, suffering anxiety, or enduring trauma, produces hormones. Those hormones have metabolic byproducts. The byproducts of positive emotional hormones like those produced during joy or love do not normally accumulate in the body. The byproducts of negative emotional hormones, those produced during trauma, anxiety, or fear, do store in the body in various tissues.

When the body later detoxifies these stored emotional hormone byproducts, the person reexperiences the original emotional state biochemically. Van Winkle's finding, which Aajonus relayed, was that when these stored byproducts are high in the blood during a detoxification cycle, the person may direct the emotions triggered by the detox at whoever is present, even if that person had no role in the original trauma. His example was a woman who had been beaten by her father in childhood, stored those trauma hormones and their byproducts in her body, and 25 to 30 years later, during detoxification, experienced the same anger directed at her husband rather than at the father who caused it.

A major thread throughout Aajonus's hormone discussions is that the entire hormonal measurement and supplementation industry is built on a circular deception. The pharmaceutical industry does not establish its hormonal reference ranges based on healthy animals or healthy primitive humans; it establishes them based on populations already in a permanent toxic emergency state. Conventional medicine and pharmaceutical companies determined what hormone levels look like in sick people eating toxic foods and then declared those levels to be what normal looks like, creating the appearance of deficiency whenever someone's levels fall below the emergency baseline.

A hundred years ago, Aajonus noted, there was no hormonal market because people were not eating the degree of junk food and facing the pollution load that would require living on constant hormonal stimulation. The pharmaceutical community decides the measurements; there is no independent scientific body setting these reference ranges. The measurement standards are set by the industry that profits from supplementation.

The so-called natural hormone replacements are, in his framework, not natural at all. At best, they are made from hydrogenated vegetable oils that have the same molecular structure as plastic, combined with chemically treated proteins such as those derived from soy. The word "natural" in this context indicates only that some starting ingredients were derived from food; after chemical processing, nothing natural remains. All hormone and hormone replacement drugs are non-biochemical constructions of laboratory chemicals. They all produce side effects, both short-term and long-term, because they cannot function as the body's own substances do.

A specific mechanism Aajonus described involves the coating of cans with plastic after manufacturers moved away from metal cans that caused lead and metal poisoning. The solution to metal leaching was to coat the inside of cans with plastic, which introduced phthalates and BPA-type compounds into the food supply. These plastic molecules behave like fat in the body, including being incorporated into hormone synthesis. When the body uses these plastic-mimicking fats to build hormones, the resulting hormones produce the opposite of the intended effect. A body attempting to make testosterone makes estrogen instead; a body attempting to make estrogen makes testosterone instead. This is his explanation for what he called the blurring of physiological differences between men and women in civilized cultures eating food from plastic-contaminated containers, and he drew the analogy to documented feminization of male frogs exposed to similar compounds in contaminated water.

The primary support for proper hormonal production is adequate raw fat and raw protein from animal sources. Because hormones are 60 to 80 percent fat and 15 to 35 percent protein, these two categories of nutrient are what the body requires to synthesize them when needed and to maintain glandular health over time. Eating raw fat, raw meat, fish, no-salt-added raw cheese, and raw cream gradually restores health to glands and nerves. Eating raw dairy products in adequate quantity allows the pituitary to produce growth hormones indefinitely if the diet supports it, as shown by Aajonus's observation of tribal peoples like the Fulani, Samburu, and Masai who eat 60 to 95 percent raw dairy and show continuous pituitary growth hormone activity well into adult life.

The body should not need to produce hormones in quantity if it is receiving proper nutrients, because under those conditions each individual cell manufactures its own growth hormones and the endocrine glands are not called upon. 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. Raw eggs and unheated honey are described as among the most easily digested sources of the nutrients the glands need.

One factor Aajonus mentioned that most people overlook is fun. He stated that a deficiency of fun is also a cause of hormonal imbalance. A person who is not having enough fun is probably criticizing themselves and others, and this pattern contributes to the glandular dysfunction. He framed it in terms of the biochemical byproducts of emotional states, consistent with the Van Winkle framework.

People who eat improperly and rely on hormones for energy over a long period ultimately exhaust their glands. Aajonus described two timelines: some people break down within months, others sustain the compensatory hormonal overproduction for years before their glands harden, become too toxic, or become fatigued. The people who run on hormonal overproduction often experience great energy and vitality during the period of overproduction, which means they do not realize they are diseased or deteriorating until the glands fail and the compensatory mechanism collapses. By the time glandular failure is obvious, it may be difficult to reverse the damage.

This is the trajectory of adrenal fatigue as he described it: the body running on adrenaline because it lacks the dietary fats and properly functioning red blood cells needed for normal oxygen-based energy metabolism, until the adrenal glands are so exhausted that even the compensatory output ceases and the person cannot function at all.

Beyond pharmaceutical hormone products, Aajonus identified genetically engineered growth hormones administered to dairy cows to force higher milk production as a source of exogenous hormone exposure for consumers. These engineered hormones pass through the cow's milk to the person drinking it. Documented effects in laboratory animals included overdevelopment of one or both breasts in young animals. In adult humans, the hormones in this milk have been associated with overproduction of milk during nursing, spontaneous lactation in non-nursing individuals, and difficulty ceasing lactation. When consumed pasteurized, this milk with its engineered hormones was found to be carcinogenic. Additional effects included swollen and overdeveloped thyroids with thick necks, particularly in females. The administered hormones also create anxiety in the cows themselves, and this anxious quality is conveyed in some form through the milk.

The broader food supply contaminates consumers with hormones, antibiotics, preservatives, pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and chemical fertilizers administered to both crops and animals, all of which the body may attempt to use in place of destroyed natural nutrients or to stimulate energy and mask illness symptoms without resolving the underlying disease.