Kerosene

When a laboratory sets out to produce a natural vitamin or mineral supplement from a food source, it must convert that food into a soluble state so that the specific nutrient can be isolated and extracted. Aajonus explained that the food substance is soaked in kerosene for extended periods, which he described across different lectures as ranging from 10 hours to as long as 72 hours, depending on the substance being extracted. He described this process as dissolving the food into a soup. Once the material has been dissolved, the laboratory extracts the specific nutrient it is targeting and then rinses the resulting substance, typically for somewhere between 45 seconds and two minutes, before drying it and converting it into pill, powder, or liquid form.

Aajonus argued consistently and emphatically that rinsing for two minutes does not remove the kerosene. He returned repeatedly to the analogy of soaking a peach or other piece of fruit in kerosene: if you soak a peach in kerosene for even 30 minutes and then rinse it, the kerosene has already penetrated deep into the tissue of the fruit and cannot be washed away from the surface. The same principle applies to every food substance dissolved in kerosene for supplement production. The kerosene etches its way into the molecular structure of the material. It does not remain on the surface where a rinse could address it. It permeates every molecule.

He further specified that there are approximately twelve varieties of kerosene derivatives, each suited to extracting different nutrients from different substances. The choice of which kerosene derivative to use depends on what element the laboratory is trying to isolate. This variety does not change the fundamental problem; it simply means the contamination is not uniform across all supplements but is tailored to each one according to what solvent was required for that particular extraction.

One of Aajonus's most important points about kerosene in supplementation is that the FDA and USDA officially classify kerosene as natural. This classification is what allows supplement manufacturers to truthfully claim, in a legal sense, that their products are made with all-natural processes and all-natural solvents. The laboratory is not lying when it tells a supplement company it will use only natural chemistry. Kerosene is, by the regulatory definition, natural. It is derived from naturally occurring petroleum rather than being synthesized from wholly artificial precursors.

Aajonus rejected this classification as meaningful guidance for consumers. He noted that crude oil is also natural, that wood alcohol is natural, that strychnine and cyanide are natural, that ammonia is natural. The fact that a substance occurs in nature does not make it safe to consume or appropriate to use in food production. His argument was that the regulatory definition of natural, as applied by the FDA and USDA, is a framework designed to serve industry rather than to protect health. It permits the use of highly toxic solvents in supplement manufacturing and allows the resulting products to be sold with language that most consumers understand to mean something entirely different.

He also noted that strychnine and cyanide are used in the breakdown of certain food substances in supplement production, alongside kerosene derivatives. All of these are natural, in the regulatory sense, and all of them appear in the manufacturing process without appearing on the label.

Aajonus was careful to distinguish between different levels of the supplement industry when assigning responsibility for this situation. His position was that most supplement company founders and owners are not chemists and have no direct knowledge of what their laboratory contractors are actually doing. A person who wants to create a natural vitamin supplement goes to a pharmaceutical house or chemistry laboratory and specifies that they want something all-natural, made entirely from food, using no unnatural processes. The laboratory, which wants the business and understands that the client is not a chemist, agrees to this specification without disclosing that it intends to use kerosene, because kerosene is technically natural and the client has not specifically prohibited it.

The laboratory then goes to obtain its raw food ingredients. Rather than growing or sourcing fresh food at the cost required to do so properly, it purchases waste products from large food manufacturers such as Kellogg's, General Mills, Purina, and General Foods. These waste materials have already been subjected to extensive chemical processing, heat treatment, and industrial handling before the laboratory ever receives them. The laboratory then applies kerosene derivatives to these already-compromised materials to extract the target nutrients. One company he discussed claimed to grow its own food for supplement production, but he established that even in that case, only approximately 5% of the supplement's raw material came from the company's own farms, while 95% still came from large industrial food processors.

Aajonus recounted a specific case in which two top sales representatives from a major well-known natural supplement company attended one of his lectures where he made these claims. They reported back to their corporate office, and the company's lawyers contacted him demanding a retraction and requiring him to publish paid apologies in the New York Times and Chicago Times. He responded by telling them he would retract the statement if they would send him a letter from their laboratory stating that kerosene or kerosene derivatives were not used in the extraction of their products from organic food. He never received that letter, and the lawsuit was dropped. He cited this outcome repeatedly as confirmation that his claims were accurate.

He also discussed a parallel situation involving a company where he spoke with both the head chemist and the CEO. The CEO's response was that the FDA allows them to use the natural classification. Aajonus's response to that was to ask where the company's moral responsibility to its customers was, given that customers believed they were consuming something genuinely different from what kerosene-extracted substances actually are.

Aajonus explained that kerosene is a solvent, not a heavy metal, and that its mechanism of damage is entirely different from metals. Kerosene dissolves and eats tissue. He told people directly that if they put kerosene or gasoline on their hand, it will dry it out, dissolve it, and kill cells, effectively burning them. The same process, he argued, occurs inside the body when kerosene residue from supplements enters tissue.

He said that kerosene gets into tissue and remains there even in a dried state. When bodily fluids reactivate it inside the body, it resumes its solvent activity and causes damage. The body's response to this internal kerosene poisoning is to produce adrenaline, because adrenaline contains a high proportion of fat and fat binds readily with kerosene and other poisons, helping to neutralize or sequester them. The adrenaline surge is what supplement users experience as an energy boost or feeling of wellness after taking their supplements. Aajonus was emphatic that this is not a sign of nutritional benefit. It is a sign of the body detecting a toxic substance and mobilizing a hormonal emergency response.

He stated that the experience of getting high from supplements is adrenaline-mediated poisoning, and that it is not a healthy state even though it feels like one. He compared the damage done by kerosene in supplements unfavorably to cocaine: "You do less damage by snorting cocaine than you would by eating kerosene." He made this comparison not to endorse cocaine use but to convey the severity of kerosene's tissue-damaging effects relative to substances that carry heavy social stigma.

For people who have taken supplements throughout their lifetime, he said to expect significant accumulated skin damage, because the kerosene that gets into tissue eventually needs to exit, and it exits through the skin, causing damage as it does so. He advised anyone who had been a heavy lifelong supplement user to expect a lot of skin-level toxicity to work through during the process of healing.

He also connected kerosene accumulation to tumor formation. In one extensively documented case, a patient came to him with a facial tumor. He had it analyzed at a cost of nearly $9,000, testing for every element he could think of, including mercury from dental amalgams. When the results came back, kerosene was the primary finding. The patient, it turned out, had been taking approximately 120 vitamin supplement pills per day, which Aajonus said the patient had not initially disclosed to him. He described this as a clear case of cancer caused by industrial toxicity from supplement-derived kerosene accumulation. He noted that the patient had been taking what were considered the best natural supplements available.

In another case he cited, a patient had a tumor that grew back after initial treatment because that patient had been taking approximately 70 supplements per day for 60 years. The supplement-derived kerosene contamination was, in his view, the root cause of the tumor's persistence and regrowth.

Beyond its effect on the human body, Aajonus argued that kerosene damages or destroys the nutritional integrity of the very substance it is used to extract. He had access to molecular imagery of vitamins in their natural food-derived state and compared them to their supplement forms. Natural vitamin C, for example, appears under molecular imaging as small, soft, multi-colored spongy balls, which he described as looking like something children could play with. Once that vitamin C has been dissolved in kerosene and processed into supplement form, it crystallizes into a hard, glassy, rock-like structure. He called this ascorbic acid and described it as essentially glass and stone that lacerates blood cells and every other tissue it contacts as it moves through the body, because it is no longer a soft biological structure but a sharp crystalline one.

He showed similar before-and-after comparisons for vitamin B1. In its natural state, through proper fermentation, vitamin B1 and other B vitamins have a soft, cushioned structure. After kerosene extraction and supplement production, what remains shares no meaningful structural properties with natural vitamin B1. He noted that to extract vitamin B1 without damaging it would require separating the molecules individually using an ultrasonic air gun, one by one, which is completely impractical for commercial production. The kerosene process destroys the structural integrity of the nutrient even while isolating it.

He applied this reasoning to vitamin E as well, noting that a pen tip could hold approximately 600,000 units of vitamin E in its natural molecular form. A capsule containing 100 units of vitamin E, by this reasoning, is almost entirely composed of something other than vitamin E. He identified that other substance in the case of most commercially available vitamin E as Kodak photographic developing waste material. He claimed that 95 out of every 100 units of vitamin E on the market came from Kodak and Fuji film developing fluid waste, which had been diverted into the supplement supply chain because it has approximately 70% structural similarity to vitamin E at the molecular level. The remaining 5 units would come from soy or corn, extracted with kerosene. He described the developing fluid material as not being vitamin E regardless of its structural resemblance, and noted that the FDA accepts this substitution.

He also addressed digestive enzyme supplements specifically. Bromelain and papain, derived from pineapple and papaya respectively, are dissolved in kerosene for two to four days as part of their extraction process. The resulting enzyme product contains kerosene residue, which poisons the body and contracts the adrenal glands rather than supporting digestion. He said the same applies to probiotic supplements such as acidophilus, which are chemically produced rather than genuinely cultured, though he noted that kerosene specifically is not used for acidophilus, while still holding that it is chemically processed and not genuinely beneficial in supplement form.

Aajonus consistently described a clear division in how supplements are manufactured, which he characterized as two tracks with no exceptions.

The first track covers supplements marketed as natural, derived from food sources. These are produced using kerosene as the solvent, because kerosene is the natural solvent that the FDA and USDA accept as appropriate for natural product classification. The food or biological material is dissolved in kerosene, the target nutrient is extracted, the material is briefly rinsed, and the result is dried and formed into pills, powders, or liquids.

The second track covers supplements that are not derived from food, including synthetic vitamins. These use gasoline, specifically hexane, as the solvent, or ethyl alcohol, or other petroleum products. These are, in his view, even more toxic than the natural track because the solvents are more aggressive, but he emphasized that the difference between kerosene and gasoline is not a meaningful distinction from a health perspective. Both are industrial petroleum-based solvents that damage tissue.

Supplements that are purely synthetic and not even derived from food materials do not go through either solvent process for extraction, since there is nothing to extract. Instead, they are designed entirely from chemical structures meant to approximate the molecular profile of the target nutrient. He described these as "chemical fabrications" that have no real relationship to the vitamins and nutrients they are named after.

He held that none of these three categories produces a genuinely nutritious or non-toxic product. He stated that there is not one supplement that is not manufactured in one of these ways, and that organic certification applied to the original food source is irrelevant once the material reaches the laboratory, because the extraction process contaminates everything regardless of how cleanly the raw material was grown.

Aajonus mentioned different soaking durations across different lectures, which reflect either variation in actual practice across different substances and manufacturers, or variation in his phrasing across different speaking occasions. The figures he gave included 10 to 30 minutes for some descriptions, 22 hours in one account, 29 minutes in another, 30 minutes in several accounts, 72 hours in several other accounts, and ranges of 10 to 22 hours and 20 hours in still others. The rinsing times he cited were equally variable: 30 seconds, 45 seconds, one minute, two minutes, and 60 to 90 seconds in the written Q&A material.

These variations likely reflect the fact that he was describing a general process that differs somewhat depending on the substance being processed, the specific kerosene derivative being used, and the particular laboratory's practices. The consistent thread across all versions is that the soaking is long enough for the kerosene to penetrate deeply into the molecular structure of the food material, and that the rinsing that follows is far too brief to remove what has been absorbed. Whether the soaking is 30 minutes or 72 hours, his argument is the same: the kerosene cannot be rinsed out.

Aajonus identified one supplement product that he endorsed as an exception to the general condemnation of supplements: Green Pastures Blue Ice cod liver oil in its unflavored form. He stated that he spent two years helping to develop this product without charging for his contribution, motivated purely by wanting a product that was genuinely good. He described it as tasting horrible, being very acidic, and burning the throat, but said it is acceptable for people on the primal diet. He distinguished it from standard fish oil supplements, which he said are processed with kerosene derivatives, meaning that soaking fish in kerosene for 30 minutes and rinsing it is essentially what happens to standard fish oil supplements. The Green Pastures product, by contrast, was processed differently as a result of his involvement, though he did not detail the exact alternative process in the passages available.

He also noted that for people eating whole fish and getting the fat naturally from within the fish meat, very little vitamin D supplementation is needed at all, and that people who eat cooked food need more supplementation generally, which he framed as a reason to stop eating cooked food rather than a reason to supplement.

Aajonus addressed specifically the relationship between organic certification and kerosene use. He pointed out that the USDA organic standards, as published on the FDA and USDA websites at the time of his lectures, permitted over 300 chemicals that those agencies defined as safe, and that kerosene was among them. Organic certification applies to how a food was grown, not to what happens to it in the manufacturing process. A supplement can truthfully bear organic certification if its source food was grown organically, even if that food was then dissolved in kerosene at a laboratory.

He gave the example of a very famous organic vitamin producer whose sales staff attended one of his lectures. When that company's attorneys demanded a retraction of his claim that they used kerosene, he offered to retract if they would provide a letter from their laboratory confirming no kerosene or kerosene derivatives were used. The letter never came. The organic claim was, in his view, accurate with respect to how the crops were grown but completely irrelevant to whether the finished supplement was clean, safe, or genuinely nutritious.

He extended this analysis to specific nutrients, including vitamin E from soy and corn. Even setting aside the Kodak developing fluid issue, the 5% of vitamin E that does come from genuine food sources in soy or corn must still be extracted with kerosene, because the fat content of soybeans is only 8% to 12% and the fat content of corn is only about 2%, and the vitamin E content within that fat is so small that the volumes of material required to produce even modest quantities of the vitamin would make it economically viable only through industrial extraction with solvents. Extracting vitamin E from corn in a clean, non-kerosene way, he estimated, would result in a cost of $1,000 for 100 units.

Aajonus returned repeatedly to the mechanism by which supplement users experience a positive sensation from taking supplements, because this sensation is what keeps people believing that supplements are working. His explanation was entirely pharmacological in the sense that he described a specific physiological chain of events, but the cause he identified is kerosene toxicity rather than nutritional benefit.

When kerosene residue enters the body through supplement consumption, the body detects the presence of a toxic solvent. It responds by generating adrenaline. Adrenaline contains a high percentage of fat, which binds readily with kerosene and other petroleum-based solvents, helping to sequester and neutralize them. The adrenaline surge produces the sensation of energy, alertness, improved mood, or general vitality that supplement users interpret as a sign that their supplements are providing nutritional support. Aajonus described this as the same mechanism by which a person gets a high from any toxic insult: the body generates a stimulant hormonal response to protect itself, and the person experiences that response as pleasurable or energizing.

He was unambiguous that this is not a health benefit, that it involves damaged cells, that the body is working to repair damage rather than being nourished, and that the long-term consequence of this repeated cycle is progressive accumulation of kerosene in body tissues and the tissue damage that follows. He compared it to the adrenaline surge from physical pain, noting that a belt strike from a parent produces adrenaline to help repair damaged cells, which is the same mechanism, not a healthy stimulation.

In one specific passage, Aajonus connected kerosene use not only to vitamin extraction but to a food-swelling agent called gibberellic acid. Gibberellic acid comes from rice bran and is used in commercial fruit production to dramatically increase the size of fruits. A grape, for example, can be enlarged several times over using gibberellic acid, producing a large visually appealing fruit that has lost approximately 90% of its flavor, is high in water content, relatively low in nutrients, and high in sugar despite not tasting particularly sweet. The FDA and USDA accept gibberellic acid as natural because it comes from rice. But to extract it from rice bran, kerosene is used to break down the bran and release the gibberellic acid. So even in applications unrelated to vitamin supplementation, kerosene derivatives appear in the food and supplement supply chain as a tool for fractionating and separating biologically active compounds from plant materials.

The most concrete case study Aajonus cited regarding kerosene's effects was the facial tumor he had removed and subsequently analyzed. The analysis cost approximately $9,000 and was designed to identify every element present in the tumor. He was looking for mercury from dental amalgams, and for whatever else might have caused the growth. The predominant finding was kerosene. He used this case to illustrate that kerosene does not simply pass through the body or metabolize cleanly. It accumulates in tissue. When the body cannot eliminate it through normal channels, it isolates it. He described this process of isolation as the formation of what he called a supplement tumor, a mass composed largely of the industrial solvents that the body has been unable to clear. In this particular patient, who was taking 120 supplement pills per day, the body's accumulation over time resulted in a discrete tumor that was found to be 99.9% kerosene by his account of the analysis.

He presented a second related case in which a patient who had taken approximately 70 supplements per day for 60 years developed a tumor that continued to regrow. The kerosene load from six decades of daily heavy supplementation was, in his view, the cause of both the initial tumor formation and the regrowth.

In one exchange, Aajonus was asked specifically about herbal supplements in relation to kerosene. He clarified that herbal supplements that are cooked, pressed, and ground are not rinsed with kerosene in the same way that vitamin and mineral supplements are, because the extraction process for many herbal preparations relies on heat and mechanical pressing rather than solvent dissolution. However, he said the outcome depends on who is making them, and that most herbal supplements are still processed in ways that damage them significantly, even if the specific mechanism is cooking and pressing rather than kerosene soaking. He did not give herbal supplements a general endorsement; he simply noted that the kerosene mechanism specifically is not what applies to all of them.

Throughout all of his teaching on kerosene, Aajonus's consistent conclusion was that there is no supplement that avoids this contamination and that the only genuine source of the nutrients the human body needs is raw food in its whole, unprocessed state. He made this point in direct terms: the only way to get pure food is to eat food. Supplements are categorically not food. They are chemical extractions from food materials that have been subjected to industrial solvents, heat, and processing, and the resulting substances bear little or no structural resemblance to the nutrients they are named after. He said that even the most expensive, carefully marketed, organic-sourced natural supplements are made with kerosene and deliver kerosene into the consumer's body along with whatever degraded residue of the target nutrient survived the extraction process.

He recommended that anyone who has been a lifetime supplement user expect a significant and extended detoxification process as the body works to eliminate accumulated kerosene from its tissues. He suggested that mineral supplementation from actual food sources, specifically cheese and honey consumed together in a ratio of approximately two tablespoons of cheese to one and a half teaspoons of honey, is the appropriate way to obtain concentrated minerals, because this involves no industrial extraction and no solvents. For everything else, the raw food itself is the only valid source.

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