Inhalants

The most detailed and frequently repeated subject in Aajonus's discussion of inhalants was synthetic fabric lint. He taught that any fiber, regardless of composition, produces lint continuously, and that lint from synthetic materials deposits plastic directly into the lungs with every breath. He asked his audiences to test this by placing a synthetic carpet or sofa in a room without vacuuming for a month, then allowing a shaft of light to strike it: the lint filling the air would be immediately visible.

He described the chemical composition of plastic as primarily hydrogenated vegetable oils bound with polymers. Polymers are adhesives, and Aajonus compared inhaling them to sniffing glue, noting the neurological effects glue sniffers experience. The dioxins present in plastic exist because manufacturers discovered that plastic molds readily; after failing to prevent mold growth through extreme heating, they introduced dioxins specifically to poison the material so that no living organism could survive on it. Every breath of synthetic lint therefore delivers dioxins into the lungs.

He stated that when the body digests a single plastic fiber in the lungs, the breakdown releases all the chemical constituents of that plastic, including kerosene derivatives, ether, and polymer resins, directly into lung tissue. He said that from one fiber, a person could lose five pores of the lungs. He described this destruction as similar to eating epoxy, and warned that the amount of lung damage, esophageal cancer, and related disease occurring from this source would become apparent over the following decade.

He pointed specifically to Vietnam as a real-world demonstration: approximately 90 percent of women there wore synthetic polyester clothing every day, described as resembling pajamas, while men wore far less synthetic fabric. He reported that the rate of lung cancer among Vietnamese women was higher than anywhere else in the world, while the men showed far less incidence, and attributed this directly to the difference in synthetic fabric exposure.

He also identified that plastic begins to flake and powder within approximately two years of use, meaning car interiors, furniture, and any plastic-containing products in the home are continuously releasing inhalable particles. He recommended leather over plastic for car seats, noting that leather treated with tannic acid does not powder and flake the way plastic does, and that oiling and waxing leather maintains its integrity.

He was categorical in advising the removal of all synthetic rugs, carpets, bed sheets, bedspreads, upholstery, and clothing from the home environment, and stated that everything in his own household was natural. He recommended cotton, silk, linen, flax, and wool as safe alternatives, noting that these materials, when burned, turn to ash rather than forming a plastic ball as synthetic and even rayon materials do. He noted that rayon, though marketed as natural because it derives from pine trees, is chemically processed to the point where burning it produces a hard plastic ball, and that the crystallized resins of pine, when hydrogenated, become plastic. Wool, cotton, and silk break down in the body and in the lungs without releasing toxic constituents.

He extended this concern to antibacterial fabrics and blankets manufactured for infants, noting that these contain sodium fluoride, a rat and rodent poison, as well as other toxic compounds, and asked what effect breathing that material would have on a baby's developing lungs. He named asthma, emphysema, frequent colds and flus, and lifelong medication dependence as the predictable outcome.

Aajonus explained the mechanics of what happens when plastic lint reaches the lungs in considerable detail. The body cannot simply expel plastic the way it can handle natural fibers by moving them through mucus into the throat and out through coughing or through the intestinal tract. Plastic does not transfer through mucus that way. Instead, the lung tissue must literally digest it.

The digestion of plastic in the lungs requires the body to produce kerosene derivatives and other chemical solvents to break the material into a fluid state. This process releases ether and other chemical derivatives from the plastic's composition. He described this as releasing the equivalent of an epoxy soup inside the lungs. When the body breaks down a piece of plastic fiber, everything that went into making that plastic, all the chemicals used to hydrogenate the vegetable oil, bind it with polymers, prevent it from molding with dioxins, and stabilize it with antifungals, is released into the respiratory tissue simultaneously.

He stated that this process is why people who wear synthetic clothing or live around synthetic materials need two or three colds and flus per year. The cold and flu are the body's mechanism for expelling that accumulated poison. He warned that people who pride themselves on never getting a cold or flu are simply storing the toxins rather than eliminating them, and that this accumulation becomes apparent through serious disease in their fifties.

Aajonus specifically identified theatrical smoke machines as a source of particularly dangerous inhalant exposure. He stated that theaters and entertainment venues that use smoke effects no longer use dry ice for this purpose but instead vaporize plastic oil. The result is particleized, vaporized plastic oil suspended in the air that everyone in the venue breathes continuously during the performance.

He said he would not attend any theater or venue using these machines, and that if they were activated during an event he was attending, he would leave immediately. He rejected the industry's defense that the oil used is vegetable oil, stating that he did not care what kind of hydrogenated oil it was because once hydrogenated it is plastic, and plastic is poison.

He connected this to a specific case: a woman who developed cancer after years as a nightclub singer, during which she breathed theatrical smoke in enclosed venues for extended periods as part of her professional work.

Aajonus identified aerosol hairspray and nail polish and nail polish remover as among the most toxic inhalable substances available in civilian settings. He stated that a single exposure to aerosol hairspray in a hair salon could disrupt gut bacteria, including E. coli, for three months. He described this not as a theoretical concern but as something he had directly observed in terms of the disruption to the body's bacterial environment.

He stated that nail polish and nail polish remover are considered the most toxic substances available in an industrial setting outside of designated chemical facilities. He noted that it is illegal to open a bottle of nail polish on an airplane or in any closed environment, and that if a flight attendant detected nail polish being opened by a passenger, the passenger would face serious consequences. He used this legal prohibition as evidence of the material's recognized toxicity.

He also warned about salons that combine hair services and nail services in the same space, making the combined aerosol environment particularly dangerous for anyone spending time there.

Aajonus identified formaldehyde as one of the most prevalent chemicals in modern manufacturing and as a continuous indoor inhalant. He listed its sources as urea-formaldehyde foam insulation, particle board and pressed wood used in office furniture, common household cleaning agents, consumer paper products including grocery bags, waxed papers, toilet paper, facial tissues, paper towels, stiffeners, wrinkle resisters, water repellents, fire retardants, adhesive binders in floor coverings, carpet backings, and permanent-press clothing, as well as heating and cooking fuels including natural gas and kerosene, and cigarette smoke.

He described formaldehyde's effects when inhaled as headaches and irritation to the mucous membranes of the eyes, nose, and throat. He noted that it is highly reactive and combines with protein, causing allergic contact dermatitis and asthma. He referenced EPA research indicating that formaldehyde was suspected of causing a rare throat cancer in long-term occupants of mobile homes.

He also described formaldehyde as capable of dumping into the stomach, contributing to green vomit episodes. He named it in the context of new carpets, drapes, and paint outgassing into indoor air, and specifically mentioned smelling formaldehyde in a customs office with new carpeting.

He identified benzene as an inhalant encountered primarily in air travel, noting that jet fuel exhaust backs up into the ventilation system of aircraft when a plane backs out from the gate, filling the cabin with benzene smell that persists throughout the flight. He stated that oil drippage in the engines can increase both benzene and carbon monoxide levels in the cabin. He connected this to documented cases of flight attendants and pilots being permanently grounded due to nervous system damage from this exposure. He said he wore an organic cotton mask on flights for this reason, specifically to avoid formaldehyde from new carpeting in airports and customs areas, as well as diesel and jet fuel vapors.

He described the symptoms of benzene inhalation from the newsletters: acute inhalation of high levels causes dizziness, weakness, euphoria, headache, nausea, blurred vision, respiratory diseases, tremors, irregular heartbeat, liver and kidney damage, paralysis, and unconsciousness. Chronic exposure to low levels causes headaches, loss of appetite, drowsiness, nervousness, psychological disturbances, and diseases of the blood system including anemia and bone marrow diseases. Repeated skin contact causes dryness, inflammation, blistering, and dermatitis. Animal tests showed that benzene inhalation led to cataract formation and diseases of the blood and lymphatic systems.

Aajonus identified the phenomenon of chemical outgassing from new building materials, furniture, carpets, drapes, and household products as a significant and ongoing inhalant source. He gave the practical example of opaque-backed curtains that produced strong toxic smell during their first year of use. His recommendation was to place any new item that outgasses outside for 30 days, exposing it to sun and cold, to allow the outgassing to complete and the material to solidify so it no longer releases vapors indoors.

He also noted that sick building syndrome is a recognized phenomenon and referenced NASA research identifying common indoor plants effective at removing formaldehyde, benzene, and carbon monoxide from indoor air. He listed the ten most effective plants identified in that research and recommended them as a practical mitigation tool.

He identified phthalates as a continuous outgassing presence in modern homes and described them as being in the air, in food, and on clothing at all times, with gas releasing from synthetic materials constantly.

Aajonus addressed pharmaceutical inhalers explicitly in the context of sulfur-based medications. He described asthma and allergy inhalers as sulfur-based formulations designed to dry out the respiratory system. He explained that when sulfur accumulates in the body and begins to exit through the skin, it creates burning and generates heat in the surrounding air.

He described spontaneous combustion as a real but rare consequence of extreme sulfur accumulation, naming three women featured in a 1971 episode of 60 Minutes who combusted spontaneously. He stated that each of these women had been on sulfur antibiotics for kidney and bladder infections for most of their lives, creating a level of sulfur saturation that became flammable. One woman was in her trailer simply pouring cereal with no cooking involved when she ignited.

Aajonus addressed smoke inhalation from fires directly in correspondence. When he escaped fire damage during the Malibu fires but was exposed to smoke, he confirmed that butter and lubrication formulas would help address internal smoke inhalation, along with a bit of coconut or olive oil.

He described his own experience of detoxifying cigarette smoke residue from smoking between ages 8 and 24. During a sweating episode he initially believed was releasing chemotherapy residues, he instead smelled and tasted smoke toxins. He described the tar from decades of smoking beginning to break down and releasing through the skin rather than through the lungs, which he considered fortunate because if the lungs had been required to process that volume of tar, they would have filled with fluid and caused serious complications. He described his bronchials as approximately 90 percent scar tissue from cigarette smoking, specifically from the practice of filling his lungs completely until the end of the cigarette glowed red-hot.

He also described a case where a person's bronchial cold during the primal diet was actually allowing scar tissue to begin dissolving and healing for the first time.

The source passages include an account from a man who had worked as a chemical engineer in a plastic manufacturing plant for several years, breathing toluene and other industrial chemicals for eight hours per day without a mask or fan. During hot bath and bed-sweating sessions on the primal diet more than 35 years after that exposure, he began smelling toluene coming out of his breath during the detox, continuing through the sweating session, then stopping. This was described as the stored chemical finally exiting the body through the breath during induced sweating.

This example illustrated Aajonus's consistent teaching that inhaled industrial chemicals do not leave the body quickly but are stored in tissues for decades, remaining biologically active and requiring specific conditions to mobilize and eliminate.

Aajonus addressed the possibility of chemical weapon exposure in public settings. He described the symptoms of nerve agent exposure as anxiety, excessive saliva or dry mouth, nausea, stomach cramps, and twitching of exposed skin where liquid made contact. He advised that if a person begins experiencing these symptoms in public, they should first assess whether something unusual happened nearby, whether others are getting sick, and whether there is an unusual odor of new-mown hay, green corn, something fruity, or camphor where it does not belong.

His immediate protocol was to remain calm specifically because panicking increases breathing rate and therefore increases the quantity of the agent inhaled. He instructed leaving the area calmly and moving upwind or outdoors, where fresh air is "the best right now antidote." He specified that if a liquid substance resembling molasses or Karo syrup was on the skin, it should be blotted or scraped off using anything disposable, not rubbed in. He noted that these agents operate on body weight, and that a crop-duster concentration would not be lethal unless a person stood breathing it deeply for several minutes while also licking the residue from the ground.

He identified blood agents including cyanide and arsine as a separate category that affects the blood's ability to deliver oxygen to tissues, and described the recognition scenario as a pop sound, someone splashing or spraying something in the vicinity, and nearby people becoming woozy or falling.

He described his own exposure to a military-grade chemical anesthetic, likely not available to the public, that rendered him unconscious in approximately one second with no odor. He noted that ether, which he had experienced as a child during medical procedures, required 12 to 17 seconds to produce unconsciousness, making this substance categorically different. He woke the following morning vomiting, with injection marks on his arms.

Aajonus described a personal incident in which rat poison was placed in the cushion of his desk chair. He noticed he was becoming sick each time he sat down and eventually detected a heaviness in the smell. He recovered the chair onto his porch while wearing an Israeli gas mask, a ski mask, and full body covering before opening the chair, which contained approximately one and a half cups of rat poison powder. The chair was wafting the poison upward each time he sat on it.

He recommended clay (Terramin or Terrasilk) and cheese, eaten separately and not together, as tools for eliminating insecticide and pesticide residues from the body. He also described a building that had been tented for pest control as remaining hazardous until all surfaces including the ceiling and cupboards were cleaned, with clay and cheese again named as the dietary support for clearing insecticide exposure.

He addressed the situation of someone exposed to gas fumes in a tented building for approximately 20 minutes, recommending the same clay and cheese protocol.

In direct correspondence, Aajonus provided a recipe intended to replace a pharmaceutical inhaler. The formula required juicing separate ingredients to obtain the following quantities: 2 tablespoons of mint juice, 1 tablespoon of ginger juice, and 1 tablespoon of camphor juice. The earlier reference in correspondence mentioned 4 cups of mint, 1 to 1.5 wedges of ginger, and 1 cup of comfrey or camphor as the raw quantities before juicing. He confirmed in the same exchange that cabbage juice could be used while still transitioning off a pharmaceutical inhaler.

Aajonus wore an organic cotton mask regularly in environments with high inhalant exposure. He specified the cotton mask from a source he identified as "I Want to Breathe" or a similarly named supplier. He wore it on airplanes to avoid formaldehyde from new carpeting in airports and customs areas, benzene and jet fuel vapors during taxiing, and diesel exhaust. He noted that without the mask he developed a neck ache on flights.

He also kept Israeli gas masks in his car and at home, specifically for mercury thermometer breakage emergencies. His protocol for a broken mercury thermometer was to immediately put on the gas mask, remove clothing in the bathtub, rinse the body in near-body-temperature water as quickly as possible, leave the contaminated clothes in the tub, and then obtain fresh clothing. He described being pulled over at a border crossing with the masks in his vehicle, requiring him to explain to customs agents why he carried them.

For construction environments, he recommended wearing a mask whenever cutting, mixing, or otherwise disturbing materials such as cement, asphalt, or wood, and specifically advised stopping work entirely when there was zero wind, so that the disturbed dust cloud would not be inhaled. He described a construction worker with gangrenous tissue extending from the diaphragm through the digestive tract up to the neck as a likely consequence of chronic inhalation of cement dust and other construction materials, warning that this presentation historically corresponds to a fast-moving lung cancer.

Aajonus described the body's methods for eliminating accumulated inhaled toxins as primarily occurring through the skin, the mucus membranes, and induced sweating. He described the hot bath followed immediately by bed-wrapping as a powerful method for mobilizing stored chemicals, as demonstrated by the toluene detox case in which a chemical stored for 35 years became detectable in the breath during the session.

For smoke inhalation from fires, he recommended butter, lubrication formulas, and small amounts of coconut or olive oil. For pesticide and insecticide inhalation, he recommended clay and cheese eaten separately. For general protection against daily inhalant accumulation from synthetic environments, he recommended removing all synthetic materials from the home, replacing them with natural fiber alternatives, and eating raw fat abundantly to protect and lubricate respiratory tissue and provide the body with the materials it needs to encapsulate and neutralize toxins.

He described mucus as critically important for protecting the respiratory membranes and noted that insufficient mucus production leaves the mucous membranes vulnerable to particle penetration, resulting in allergic reactions. He connected poor mucus production to poor diet, specifically to processed and cooked food, and stated that improving the diet increases mucus formation and therefore increases the protective barrier between inhaled particles and the respiratory membranes.

He described the body's solvent production during detoxification as generating byproducts nearly identical to turpentine, which is itself highly toxic. He observed that giving someone turpentine medicinally, which was historical practice, is equivalent to giving strychnine, in that it poisons the system so severely that the detoxification process in that area stops because the body must redirect its resources to manage the introduced poison.

He confirmed that the general principle applies to inhaled toxins: the body needs raw fat, raw meat, and appropriate foods to manufacture the solvents it uses to dissolve stored toxic materials, and that this process, when it occurs in the lungs, can produce significant respiratory symptoms as the stored material is mobilized.