IV Fluids

Aajonus refused saline categorically. When he was prepared for his kidney stone procedure, a nurse arrived with an IV bag containing saline, and he refused it immediately after reading the bag's label. He explained in his newsletter account that he told the nurse he would not accept saline and that she returned eventually with a different bag containing only glucose water. His reasoning about saline connects to his broader framework on sodium ions. He described concentrated sodium ions in the blood as capable of causing explosive chemical reactions, isolating nutrients, and disrupting the blood's smorgasbord of 96 to 117 nutrients that cells rely on. Sodium ion in the blood stream, in his framework, does not behave like sodium in raw food because raw food sodium is bound ionically to other molecules in ways that prevent it from clumping or causing disruption. Injected sodium chloride arrives as isolated ions and behaves in a fundamentally disruptive way.

He also noted that the hospital's standard dehydration diagnosis frequently preceded an IV containing sodium chloride and some form of sugar, and that the patient appeared to improve only because the poison introduced by the IV distracted the body from whatever the original problem was. He said: "They just distracted your problem with another poison." The underlying condition was not resolved; the body shifted its resources to dealing with the new toxic load, and this gave the appearance of recovery.

Glucose water was the lesser evil in Aajonus's hierarchy of IV fluids. He accepted it under specific conditions when surgery was unavoidable and no other option could be negotiated. For his kidney stone surgery, he wrote that he reasoned his body could handle only two toxins at once, glucose and anesthetic, and that accepting glucose water was the minimal compromise necessary to get the procedure done. He explicitly told the urologist and anesthesiologist that he would not accept anything in the IV except glucose water and anesthesia, not even saline.

He was clear that glucose water was not healthy. He said so directly in his newsletter: "Glucose water is not healthy but I reasoned that my body could handle only two toxins, glucose and anesthetic." The acceptance was a calculated concession under constraint, not an endorsement. He had prepared his body beforehand by eating eggs and cheese to handle the metabolic insult of anesthesia and glucose, and he carried cheese with him immediately upon waking to address the nausea.

Aajonus described in considerable detail the legal and procedural strategy he used to control what went into his IV during surgery. He wrote a formal agreement before going under anesthesia specifying that if anything other than glucose water appeared in the IV, the hospital, the doctor, and the anesthesiologist would face a lawsuit for millions of dollars. He demanded that every bottle from the IV drip be saved so he could have them independently analyzed afterward.

He said the doctor initially fought him on this, and Aajonus responded by pointing out that if the doctor had nothing to hide, there was no reason to be afraid. The threat of having the bottles analyzed and the explicit written agreement worked: he was not injected with anything additional through the IV line during the procedure itself, though he believed the anesthesiologist injected him separately in the arm with what he suspected was antibiotic after he was already groggy. He refused to pay the anesthesiologist's $800 bill and kept the injection mark on his arm for 24 hours as evidence that it was real.

In a separate workshop account, he summarized the negotiation this way: he required the doctors to stay within the sugar water, he had them save the bottles for analysis, and the threat of legal consequences was sufficient to achieve compliance. He framed it as a situation where any healthy person could take the same approach: know what is in the bag, read the label before allowing insertion, and put the consequences for deviation into writing.

The most detailed first-person account of IV interaction in Aajonus's published work appears in his descriptions of his son Jeff's hospitalization during a coma. Jeff had a standard IV dripping what Aajonus described as sugar water and chemicals. Aajonus regarded the IV as both the vehicle for harmful drugs and as an obstacle to Jeff's recovery, specifically because it was maintaining conditions he believed interfered with healing.

A nurse arrived and injected a syringe into the catheter on Jeff's IV. The drug she was administering was described by Aajonus as likely a blood pressure medication intended to keep Jeff's blood pressure low, which Aajonus identified as dangerous because he believed low blood pressure in Jeff's condition would interfere with healing and could potentially be fatal. He noted that Jeff's physiology might mirror his own, and that he himself could die from low blood pressure.

After the nurse left, Aajonus removed the syringe she had left inserted and emptied its contents into the sink. He then refilled the syringe with a solution of Evian water and a drop of honey and replaced it so that when the nurse returned and depressed the plunger, what entered Jeff's veins was water and honey rather than the drug. He also turned down the drip speed of the IV to slow the delivery of the glucose and chemical solution, explaining to himself that the honey he was giving Jeff eliminated Jeff's need for sugar water and that he wished he could remove the IV entirely. He was working to minimize what the IV delivered while providing alternative nourishment through food formulas he planned to blend in the anteroom.

This account reflects his view that IV sugar water was not only unnecessary but actively competing with the body's recovery process, and that even a small amount of honey served the body's energy needs more appropriately than glucose delivered intravenously.

Aajonus connected IV fluid administration specifically to the danger of viral meningitis. He explained that in viral meningitis, the body already has massive fluid waste produced by the viral solvent process, creating extreme swelling in the meningeal tissue. Adding IV fluids on top of this existing fluid buildup increases the swelling further. He stated that this additional fluid pressure could cause rupture of the spinal cord or blood vessels in the brain, leading to stroke, paralysis, aneurysm, or coma.

He contrasted this with bacterial meningitis, where patients more commonly survive despite antibiotic administration, because bacterial meningitis does not produce the same volume of toxic fluid waste that viral meningitis does. His argument was that the IV itself, even if it contained nothing more than glucose water, contributed to the dangerous swelling by adding fluid to a system already overwhelmed with fluid it needed to eliminate. The appropriate response in his framework was the opposite: hot baths to perspire the toxic fluid waste out of the body, not IV fluids to introduce more fluid into the bloodstream.

Aajonus returned repeatedly across his workshops to the principle that substances injected directly into blood plasma are categorically more dangerous than the same substances consumed through the digestive tract, because they have not been deconstructed, filtered, and restructured by the digestive system. He applied this principle to IV fluids, injectable vitamins, injectable antibiotics, vaccines, and other injected compounds.

He described the digestive tract as existing specifically to deconstruct and restructure substances appropriate for the human body and for the individual. He argued that bypassing this system by injection always carries consequences, regardless of whether the injected substance appears benign. Ocean water, he noted, is toxic when consumed in even small amounts, and ocean water minerals like those in saline IV bags carry that toxicity into the blood stream directly without any metabolic conversion.

He extended this reasoning to describe why even nutritional IV drips or mineral IV solutions concerned him. The body cannot perform its individualized restructuring on a substance that arrives already dissolved in plasma. What appears to be delivering nutrients is, in his framework, actually delivering foreign molecules that the cells must then contend with rather than utilize.

Rather than IV fluids for hydration, Aajonus consistently directed people to the sport formula, raw milk, vegetable juices, and high-water-content raw foods. He was explicit that these sources provided water ionically bound to nutrients in ways that allowed cells to absorb and utilize the H2O, whereas plain water, glucose water, or saline delivered fluid that could not be absorbed into cells without the accompanying nutrient bonds and therefore dehydrated the system by pulling resources toward kidney elimination rather than cellular hydration.

He noted that milk is 86 to 90 percent water, fruits are 90 to 92 percent water, and meat is 55 percent water, meaning that someone consuming raw food was already consuming substantial water in a form the body could use. His sport formula, designed specifically for athletes and people undergoing hot baths, provided approximately one quart of concentrated fluid from pureed tomato, cucumber, watermelon, or whey combined with coconut cream, dairy cream, honey, vinegar, lemon juice, lime juice, and a small amount of naturally carbonated mineral water or plain water, all sipped slowly throughout the day. He described this as the appropriate replacement for IV hydration in situations of severe physical stress or illness.

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