Lead

Aajonus was explicit that all foods naturally contain metals including lead, arsenic, and cadmium. These are not contaminants in raw whole foods but integral components of the mineral matrix that the body uses. In a raw, enzymatically intact food, lead exists in ionic bonds with other nutrients, vitamins, proteins, and fats, which means the cell can interact with it as part of a biological smorgasbord. When a cell opens to absorb nutrients, it attracts a network of ionically balanced elements, and in that context, metallic minerals including lead function as conductors and light reflectors that support neurological operations.

The problem arises entirely from processing. When food is cooked, the ionic bonds are fractured. The heat severs the connections between the metallic mineral and the surrounding molecular network, and what was a useful trace mineral becomes a free radical. That free radical has the same electrical and light-conducting properties that make metallic minerals useful to the nervous system, so the brain and nervous system absorb most of it. This is why Aajonus described the brain as receiving the majority of the toxic free-radical metallic burden from all dietary and environmental sources.

Aajonus identified multiple overlapping sources of toxic lead in the environment and in daily life, and he treated the cumulative nature of exposure as central to understanding why it causes disease.

Industrial smelting was one of his primary examples. Anywhere metal is melted, including steel factories, tin factories, and smelting operations of any kind, lead vapors are released into the air along with thallium, mercury, and other compounds. He pointed out that filters might capture lead particulates, but other metals like thallium, which he considered more toxic than lead, were not filtered because the equipment to do so was prohibitively expensive for industry to install.

Car exhaust was another significant source. Aajonus described his own bladder, which had been surgically examined and found to contain dense deposits described as looking like coral, with calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, and potassium surrounding metallic centers. When analyzed, the fluid removed during the procedure was black and tested high in lead, mercury, and aluminum. He attributed the lead content to decades of inhaling car exhaust, which was a common ambient exposure from childhood onward.

Historical lead exposure from cooking and eating vessels was given particular attention in his discussions of the Black Plague. He argued that people living in medieval European cities, unlike farmers living outside those cities, were cooking in lead pots and drinking from lead cups and metal vessels. This was a mark of status and wealth, with metal pottery considered more elite than clay pottery. The people in cities who were most exposed to lead cookware and also to the metallic vapors from silversmiths, jewelry makers, and blacksmiths on every block, especially in foggy coastal cities like those in England, France, Ireland, Germany, and Denmark where metal vapors would hover close to the ground rather than dispersing, accumulated enough pulmonary damage and heavy metal toxicity that the resulting disease was labeled the Black Plague. Farmers, who had less contact with smelted metals and their vapors, did not suffer the same fate.

Tin cans were cited as a source of lead and other metals leaching into food. Aajonus was unambiguous that any food stored in metal vessels, including canned food and canned beverages, introduces toxic metallic minerals into the body through gradual leaching. Hair mineral analyses, he noted, consistently showed unnaturally high levels of lead, iron, cadmium, and other toxic metals in people who cooked and stored food in metal vessels.

Vaccines were a repeated source in his discussions. He described his own lab results following what he believed was a covert injection, and his mercury, thallium, and lead were all very high, mirroring what he said is the standard contents of vaccines and the fillers used in them.

Dental amalgam fillings contributed to the combined toxic burden. He described the synergistic effect of mercury, cadmium, and lead together as being many times more toxic than any single metal alone, using a multiplication factor that made even moderate levels of combined exposure far more dangerous than standard assessments acknowledged. He described this synergistic effect as somewhere between one hundred and one thousand times the toxicity of a single metal.

Lead from black powder pigments in household objects was also a concern. In a written consultation, he addressed the case of a child whose bedroom was contaminated with black powder from a broken decorative globe that tested high in lead. He treated this as a genuine emergency requiring a dietary intervention protocol.

Because the brain and nervous system run on metallic minerals and have the electromagnetic properties that attract free-radical metals, Aajonus said that approximately eighty percent of the heavy metals taken into the body from pollution, cooked food, vaccines, and other industrial sources end up deposited in the brain and nervous system. The nervous system uses metals to conduct electricity and reflect light, so free-radical metals including lead are drawn there with particular force.

Lead that has been deposited in the brain does not remain static. The body eventually attempts to move it out through various detoxification channels. One major route Aajonus described was detoxification through the teeth and gums. The neurological fluid system, which he described as being as complex as the bloodstream, carries toxic metals including lead and mercury as the body pushes them out. This fluid can deteriorate the surrounding mineral matrix of potassium, calcium, phosphorus, and magnesium in tooth tissue, burning into the enamel and dentine. This is then colonized by bacteria that consume the damaged cells, and conventional dentistry incorrectly attributes the decay to the bacteria rather than to the heavy metal detox that caused the underlying damage.

He described his own experience with teeth so loose he could move them with his fingers, attributed to heavy metal accumulation and detoxification, and said that when he began eating raw meat regularly in 1982, the lead disappeared from his system, his teeth stabilized, and he retained all his own teeth despite having been told they would all need to be extracted.

Lead and other heavy metals can also be detoxified through vomiting. In his account of a patient who was a jewelry maker working without mask or gloves directly over a Bunsen burner, the body separated different metals into distinct vomiting episodes. The patient vomited lead for approximately two weeks as a discrete phase, separate from a week of vomiting thallium and separate discharges of mercury. Each metal was discharged in turn. This case illustrated for Aajonus that the body can and does compartmentalize and eliminate specific metals sequentially when the toxic load is high enough to trigger extended purging.

The neurological system, as Aajonus described it, is built to use metallic minerals for all of its fundamental operations. The brain is sixty percent fat at minimum, and within that fatty medium, metallic minerals conduct electricity and reflect light to keep the entire body in communication. Lead, cadmium, mercury, aluminum, and other metals all participate in this system when they are in raw, ionically bound form in trace amounts.

When these same metals arrive as free radicals, either from cooked food, industrial pollution, vaccines, smelting vapors, or any other cauterized source, they still go to the brain and nervous system because that tissue is electromagnetically attractive to metallic minerals. But they do not function as intended. Instead, they cause misfiring of synapses, block current transmissions in the axons and ganglia, and create what Aajonus described as erratic signaling where signals fire when they should not and fail to complete when they should. This is the biochemical basis, in his framework, for cognitive dysfunction, behavioral problems in children, and the broader spectrum of neurological disease that he associated with industrial heavy metal exposure.

He was particularly pointed about children being exposed to lead from the environment, and about the combined toxicity of mercury and lead being many times more damaging than either metal alone. He described conventional dental practice, which placed mercury amalgam fillings in children and packed mercury around gold crowns and under bridges, as driving a synergistic lead and mercury toxicity that caused lifelong tooth damage and system-wide neurological harm. The combined mercury, cadmium, and lead burden was, in his view, the real driver behind the epidemic of behavioral and developmental problems in children.

Aajonus returned more than once to the Black Plague as a historical demonstration of his framework. His argument was that the disease attributed to a pathogenic cause was in fact the result of industrial metal poisoning concentrated in European cities. People who lived in cities during that period were cooking in lead pots, drinking from lead and metal cups, and breathing the vapors of silversmiths, jewelry makers, and blacksmiths on every street. In foggy coastal cities, the metal vapors did not disperse upward because there were no tall chimneys to carry them away; they came out a few feet from the ground and hovered in the damp air, where people breathed them continuously for generations.

The accumulated lung damage and systemic metal poisoning eventually reached a threshold at which pulmonary disease became inevitable, and this was what was recorded as the Black Plague. Farmers and rural people did not live near the dense concentration of metal-working trades and did not breathe the accumulated vapors, so they did not develop the same disease. The disease was not contagious in the conventional sense; it was a shared toxic exposure mapped onto a geographic and occupational pattern.

Aajonus described the teeth and gums as a significant route through which the brain and nervous system discharge accumulated toxic metals including lead and mercury. The process involves the neurological fluid that bathes the brain and nerves moving toxic metals outward through the dentine and enamel. The potassium, calcium, phosphorus, and magnesium matrix that normally protects the tooth structure can be degraded by the acidic and caustic properties of the exiting metals, leaving the dentine vulnerable. Bacteria then consume the damaged cellular material, which is their biological role as scavengers of dead tissue, but the decay process itself was initiated by the metal detoxification, not by the bacteria.

People who are on low calcium diets, such as vegetarians, do not have sufficient calcium, magnesium, potassium, and phosphorus to bind with the metals as they exit, so the metals penetrate more deeply into the nervous tissue of the teeth and become incorporated into it. This is why vegetarian teeth turn gray or brown over time. The same problem occurs with cocaine use, because cocaine is concentrated in heavy metals and forces them into the nervous system. Tetracycline has the same effect, which is why teeth stained by tetracycline turn gray.

The natural gas carbonated mineral water Gerolsteiner, combined with a little vinegar and lemon juice, was described by Aajonus as capable of dissolving plaque from gums over about ten days of daily use. However, he warned that when heavy metals are detoxing from the brain through the teeth, this process can damage dentine further and cause additional gum and dental deterioration, which should be understood as part of the detox process rather than as a new disease.

In his written consultation addressing the emergency of a child's bedroom being contaminated with lead-containing black powder, Aajonus provided a specific dietary protocol designed to assist the body in binding and eliminating lead.

The protocol had two components, both run concurrently over a ten-to-twelve-week period.

The first component was a daily juice preparation: two ounces of cilantro juice combined with two ounces of carrot juice, with one-half teaspoon of raw apple cider vinegar and two ounces of cucumber puree. This was to be taken once daily for the first two weeks, then reduced to twice weekly for the following ten weeks.

The second component was a berry and cream preparation: three ounces of blueberries combined with one tablespoon of coconut cream, one tablespoon of raw dairy cream, and one-half teaspoon of raw apple cider vinegar. This was to be taken once daily, five days per week, for ten weeks.

Aajonus also addressed the question of whether blood tests showing elevated lead levels after certain interventions like Pecto were truly alarming. He noted that a 250 percent increase in blood lead sounds alarming statistically but that twenty-five parts per million is not a highly toxic lead level. He pointed out that distorted statistics are a standard tool of biased advertising, where small absolute numbers are inflated by percentage framing to appear far more dangerous than they are.

For people with ongoing occupational exposure to metals, including those who weld, drill, or work around soldering fumes, Aajonus described a protocol using raw cheese consumed in very small amounts at frequent intervals throughout the day. A sugar-cube-sized amount, approximately one-half teaspoon, eaten every fifteen to forty-five minutes over the course of an entire workday, keeps a continuous absorptive passage moving through the digestive tract that binds with metals and carries them out.

He described a construction worker who carried a two-cup jar of small cheese pieces in a pouch on his tool belt with a watch alarm set to go off every fifteen minutes to remind him to eat a piece. This man cleared fifty percent of his metal burden in one year. The principle was that the cheese acts like a train moving through the system, continuously collecting toxic material. He specified that welders and anyone inhaling metal fumes should be wearing masks in addition to using the cheese protocol. A small amount of butter taken alongside the cheese was recommended for those who were more physically active, with the ratio being approximately one teaspoon of butter per teaspoon of cheese.

Aajonus consistently placed lead in the context of other toxic metals rather than in isolation, because in his framework, the combined synergistic burden is what matters clinically. He ranked the metals by toxicity as follows: mercury is first, thallium is second, tin is third, and lead is fourth. He described thallium as being almost as soft as lead and almost as toxic as mercury, which allowed him to use lead as a reference point for both the physical properties and toxicity level of thallium.

He described how the combined effect of mercury, cadmium, and lead is synergistic rather than additive, meaning the combined toxicity is one hundred to one thousand times greater than the individual metals alone. This synergism makes even exposure levels that would be considered moderate individually into a severe combined burden.

In hair mineral analysis, he cited that most people tested show unnaturally high levels of lead, iron, cadmium, and other metals, reflecting both dietary sources through canned and cooked food and environmental sources through air pollution and industrial contamination. The fact that virtually every person tested carries elevated lead speaks, in his framework, to the pervasiveness of industrial contamination rather than to any individual behavior.