Libido

Aajonus repeatedly argued that constant or compulsive sexual drive is not a sign of health but a sign of toxicity. In all species except domesticated animals fed processed food, males become sexually active only when the female enters heat. The smell and hormones she releases then alter the male's chemistry, stimulating testosterone production and sexual activity for perhaps three to five days per month at most. Outside of that window, in healthy animals, there is no ongoing sexual urgency. Domesticated dogs and cats, by contrast, hump furniture and light posts because their hormonal systems have been thrown out of balance by canned and processed food. Feed them correctly, he said, and within a year or two that compulsive behavior stops.

He applied the same logic to humans. Tribal people he had encountered across more than a hundred different tribes were not oversexed. They enjoyed sex when they had it but were not driven or overwhelmed by it. Processed foods, chemicals, and toxic exposures cause the testes to become overactive because the body uses ejaculation as a vehicle for discharging fat-bound toxins through the protein and fats in sperm. The excess drive some people experience is therefore a symptom of toxicity, not of health.

He described his own childhood as an extreme example of abnormal sexual drive arising from illness. Because he was so sick and weak that physical exercise was impossible, masturbation became the only physical outlet his body had for the hormones it was producing. He did this five times a day at minimum. Once he recovered his health and the toxic drivers were removed, that compulsive pattern ceased entirely. His adult sexual function was healthy but not driven, and he framed this as the correct outcome of proper nourishment.

The most direct case he addressed was a person who had followed a fasting protocol called the Mayr Cure at a clinic: an air-dried bread roll with a small amount of milk or yogurt twice daily, nothing after lunch for three weeks, followed by five more weeks of the same food with some processed fats including cheese, sour cream, butter, and yogurt. The person lost thirty pounds and also lost their libido entirely. One year after completing the protocol the libido had not returned.

Aajonus called this "the worst mono-style fast/diet of which I have heard." His specific diagnosis was that it clogs the intestines and plaques the heart and glands. The consequence for libido follows directly from his hormone production model: the body requires sufficient fat and protein to manufacture the hormones that drive sexual appetite. When fat and protein are chronically insufficient, the body does not allocate resources to what he called "extracurricular activity." In women this suppression is especially pronounced if fat and protein reserves fall below the threshold needed for hormonal function.

His prescription for recovery was not to resume immediately with lean foods but to gain some excess weight first, because the body needs a surplus of fat and protein before it will redirect resources toward hormone production for sexual purposes. He did not give a specific timeline for recovery but indicated it could take considerable time.

Potassium combined with sodium, specifically potassium sodium compounds used as water softeners and water treatment chemicals, is what he identified as saltpeter. He stated flatly that saltpeter damages libido. His warning was specific: if your household water softening system uses a potassium-sodium compound to process the water, you are consuming saltpeter through your water and it will suppress sexual function. He told listeners never to use that type of water softener in a home system.

Plastics in contact with food, and particularly the bisphenol phosphates and phthalates that outgas from plastic containers, cause hormonal disruption severe enough that in animal studies male frogs became female and females became male, and rabbits became sterile. He described hydrogenated oils as liquid plastic and stated they damage sex drive. He connected the widespread use of plastics in food packaging and the ubiquity of hydrogenated vegetable oils to the contemporary collapse of male sexual function, noting that sixty years earlier the cultural problem had been suppressing excess male sexual energy, while now it had reversed entirely and men were reaching for Viagra.

He described blood pressure medications and psychotherapeutic drugs as causes of physiological impotency. The physiological pathway he described for true impotence was deterioration in the nervous system, medication interference, genital-related structural problems, and damage caused by prostate removal.

He was emphatic and angry on this subject. The prostate provides the muscular action necessary for ejaculation and contributes to the blood flow mechanics of erection. The penis has no bone and is entirely dependent on blood rushing into and staying in the muscular tissue. When the prostate is removed, blood channels that run down to the penis are severed, reducing blood flow into the penis by at least fifty percent. The result is that erection becomes mechanically impossible or severely compromised. He described cases of men who had their prostates removed and still showed PSA counts of 80 to 100, demonstrating that PSA has nothing to do with the prostate, that the surgery was therefore both unnecessary and permanently destructive, and that the men's mates were often deeply unhappy with the loss of sexual function.

He noted that surgical removal of the child through the abdomen severs connections between the mother's spinal cord and brain and disrupts blood and lymph circulation to vital abdominal areas including the uterus, while scarring nerves, veins, lymph, muscles, and skin. He stated this drastically reduces sensation for sexual pleasure and control over motor responses and hormone production, usually affecting a woman for the remainder of her life.

His objection to Viagra, Cialis, and similar drugs was not merely philosophical. He described the mechanism of action: these drugs cause blood to rush into the penis and remain there without releasing. If the body does not reduce the blood accumulation, the tissue begins to deteriorate. Red blood cells that remain trapped begin to decay, turning black and blue, and the decay destroys the surrounding muscle and vein tissue. He cited that 23 to 32 percent of laboratory animals given these drugs experienced complete penile deterioration, ending with what he described as only a clitoris remaining. He noted that this information was on the original product leaflet but was later removed.

He named the specific disease as penile deterioration where the organ completely dissolves, identified it as something that only appears in laboratory animal experiments with these chemicals, and pointed out that he had never heard of the condition before reading it on that leaflet. His consistent position was that anyone with an erection lasting more than four hours must go to a hospital because internal ruptures of capillaries and nerve endings are occurring throughout the tissue.

He cited Elnora Van Winkle's research on the biology of emotions to explain how suppressed hormonal byproducts from past emotional traumas can interfere with sexual and emotional relating. When the body cleans old stored psychotropic hormone byproducts from traumas, those hormone concentrations rise in the blood and recreate the emotional state associated with the original event, often misdirected at current partners. A woman whose body was clearing hormone byproducts from childhood experiences with her father might find herself directing that anger at her husband for eight weeks until the detoxification completed. This is not a direct suppression of libido but it creates relational and emotional conditions that interfere with sexual connection.

He also noted that psychological impotency, specifically the situation where sex in a relationship is no longer exciting, can be addressed through fantasy, and that "Owanza says: relax." He was not dismissive of the psychological dimension but consistently prioritized the physiological.

He described a period in his own life when he was eating large amounts of fruit and found himself wired, manic, and needing to have sex six to seven times a day or he was not happy. He did not present this as positive. He framed it as the compulsive, driven sexual urgency that results from dietary manipulation of hormones rather than natural appetite. When he reduced fruit and shifted his diet to the protocols he developed, that driven quality disappeared and was replaced by a libido that was available and chosen rather than compelled.

Saltpeter in water is the most direct suppressant he named. Hydrogenated oils, plastics in contact with food, processed and canned foods, cooked starches, and pharmaceutical drugs including blood pressure medications and psychotherapeutic drugs all contribute to hormonal disruption and reduced sexual function. Cooking watermelon rind specifically destroys its active ingredient, citrulline, though pickling reduces but does not entirely eliminate its effect.

This was his most detailed and frequently repeated aphrodisiac recommendation. The active substance is citrulline, which he described as a natural Viagra. It is found in the white rind of watermelon, in a small amount in cucumber, but not in the seed area and not in the green outer skin. It is only in the white flesh between the green rind and the pink flesh near the seeds.

He was specific about which part of the watermelon to eat. He did not eat the heart (the seed area) because of the high sugar content and because the bacteria concentrated there are suited for breaking down tissue rather than nourishing the body. He ate from just inside the seeds all the way out to the white, and almost to the green, stopping perhaps a tenth of a millimeter from where the green begins.

For erectile dysfunction specifically, he described eating about two cups of the rind per day for three to four days, and said this protocol works on approximately ninety percent of his clients with erectile dysfunction. After those initial days of loading, only a small amount is needed to maintain the effect.

He described his own experience: eating a cup of the rind at night produced an erection lasting approximately eight hours through the night. He described eating all the rind from a large piece of watermelon the night before a workshop and being in that state from when he went to sleep until he woke up.

The effect applies to women as well as men. In women it causes erection of the clitoris. He described this as working well for both sexes and specifically recommended it for anyone having trouble with sexuality or with erectile function.

He criticized Texas A&M University's research program aimed at breeding genetically modified watermelons with elevated citrulline levels. The problem, he explained, is that to extract concentrated citrulline you must use a solvent like kerosene or hexane. Once you concentrate and isolate the compound away from the other nutrients it naturally works with, it stops functioning the way it does in the whole rind. The whole rind works because citrulline is present alongside all the other compounds that allow it to work properly. He stated flatly that if you just eat the rind, it works wonderfully.

He mentioned cucumber as containing a small amount of citrulline, less than watermelon rind. More specifically, he described a formula of two cups of hard-peeled cucumbers blended with two to three ounces of fresh raw coconut cream and three ounces of unheated honey as usually helping to develop and sustain erections. Adding one teaspoon of bee pollen to this mixture strengthens erections for many men but not all, and he recommended experimentation. He noted that raw garlic or red onion is also effective for some men in maintaining erection but has the opposite effect for others.

He noted additionally that cucumber juice combined with cabbage and cheese escalates sexual desire and causes hard erections. He described this as a combination that "gets the people most unlikely," works on both men and women, and he observed that the cabbage with cheese specifically stimulates sexuality.

For low sexual hormone production he consistently recommended eating plenty of raw shellfish, specifically oysters, clams, scallops, and sea urchin combined with other raw fats. He described this as often increasing hormone production and sexual appetite. He described a personal experience in his book where he combined oranges and avocados and found this combination acted as an aphrodisiac, and later discovered that watermelon combined with avocados stimulated him more. Adding raw fish, especially raw oysters, to that combination meant he did not have to wait a day or two for the effect. He qualified this by noting that the body acclimates to almost anything, so an aphrodisiac works for only so long before its effect diminishes.

He described a specific aphrodisiac formula: two ounces of cold-pressed peanut oil pressed below 96 degrees Fahrenheit, one raw fertile egg, one tablespoon of raw carob powder, and one-eighth to one-quarter teaspoon of vanilla extract. He distinguished between cooked or commercial peanut oil, which he would not use, and raw cold-pressed peanut oil below 96 degrees Fahrenheit, specifying that raw peanuts ground up and used in a nut formula also work as an aphrodisiac where coconut cream would not serve the same purpose.

He recommended eating heart combined with other meat for anyone experiencing low energy and sexual problems including inability to achieve erection. The heart does not need to be the majority of the meal; he suggested approximately one-third heart combined with other meat. He also noted that eating enough raw meat combined with one cup of unheated honey daily usually sustains erection for an hour or more.

He described making a gland shake from the combined glands of a deer, including brain, adrenal glands, ovaries, lungs, thymus, thyroid, pancreas, and every other available gland, blended at a ratio of approximately half glands to half raw milk with a tiny bit of honey. He made roughly three cups and drank it while finishing butchering. He was not tired, picked up his girlfriend on time, and they had sex until five in the morning. He presented this as direct evidence of the sexual potency of raw glandular material.

This combination he described as acting as an aphrodisiac, particularly for raw fooders and vegetarians. He recounted using it deliberately to create a sexual awakening among the residents of an Indian ashram where sexual pleasure was forbidden. He had cases of both purchased and the entire community ate the combination multiple times a day on the fly. The effect was sufficient to overturn the social order of the ashram within days.

For people who need more energy and are experiencing sexual problems including inability to achieve erection, he recommended a milkshake of three eggs, two ounces of cream, four ounces of milk, a tablespoon of honey, and a few grates of fresh ginger root, which he described as calming, relaxing, and supportive of sexual function.

His foundational model for libido restoration was simple: hormones require fat and protein as raw material, and if those reserves are inadequate the body will not produce sex hormones. This is true for both men and women, but he specifically noted that in many women if the body does not have enough fat and protein, hormones will not be produced for sexual purposes. Recovery from a libido-suppressing protocol or illness therefore requires not just removing the cause but actively rebuilding fat and protein reserves, which may mean deliberately gaining some excess weight before the hormonal system will have enough material to function.

He noted that a man in his seventies on the Primal Diet had gone from having sex three times a week, which he thought was normal for his age, to being able to have sex several times a day, gaining thirty pounds, and saying he never knew he had a sexual problem. This case illustrated that the dietary support of fat, protein, and raw animal foods is capable of restoring or even exceeding prior sexual function in elderly men.

He described overactive sex glands as a distinct condition visible in palm reading through the size, fullness, and firmness of the mound at the base of the palm. A very large base of the palm mound indicates someone who has to have sex and who will become irritable and anxious if they do not release the hormonal buildup. He told such people that if they do not have a partner, they need to take care of themselves, because the hormones that build up can create a hormone state that makes a person irritable. Upon release through orgasm, those hormones form endorphins that create relaxation and a sense of wellbeing. He cited research from the 1960s by a Dr. Ellis who documented this hormonal chemistry.

He also explained that poisons entering the testes directly irritate the gland and make it overactive because the body wants to use ejaculation and the fats and proteins in sperm to discharge those toxins. A person who would not normally be oversexual can become so because of direct toxic irritation to the testicular tissue. He gave a specific example of a person reading where the left testes appeared to be breaking down or had been breaking down for a long time, and despite overall overactivity the left side would be underactive, illustrating that toxic damage creates complex patterns rather than uniform overactivity.

He distinguished between this toxicity-driven compulsion and the genuine excess hormone production that comes from being physically active and athletic. People with the hands of athletes, meaning people who need to be physically active five to eight hours a day, produce correspondingly high hormonal output including sexual hormones. This is not pathological but does mean those people need to address the buildup actively if they do not have a partner.

He made the specific claim that ninety percent of sexual stimulation comes from the nose, noting that the nose and gonads are directly connected. When a particular scent is in the air the gonads become excited and sexual stimulation follows. He referenced the French custom of women dropping handkerchiefs that had been placed against different areas of their bodies, explaining that the man who liked the smell would be turned on by it, and that sexual scientists consistently identify this olfactory-gonadal connection as the primary human sexual stimulant. Modern soap culture and the cultural imperative to smell like flowers rather than animals has largely disconnected people from this primary channel of sexual arousal.

He addressed sperm quality directly in his newsletter. He reasoned that nerve cells reproduce on the Primal Diet but not on the standard American diet, and therefore conjectured that sperm developed on the Primal Diet may be exceptionally therapeutic. He tested his own sperm in a petri dish and found it lived one to five days rather than the standard zero to three days, which he took as indirect evidence of improved quality from thirty-five years of eating raw, including thirty-one years of raw meat.

He included a caution: sperm may contain toxins, particularly caustic metals that stored in the fat-rich testes. The body normally stores toxins in fat wherever it is found, and the testes are fat-rich. He noted that if sperm smells metallic or like a hot wire it may carry a toxic load, and that this should be considered before any therapeutic application.

He consistently argued that you do not need high testosterone to have a sexual appetite, and that a normal healthy sexual appetite does not require elevated hormone levels. Sexual appetite is normal and healthy as a baseline state. What is neither normal nor healthy is an exceedingly high sexual drive sustained by excess testosterone, excess estrogen, or adrenaline being recruited as a sexual drive hormone. He described the pharmaceutical industry's definitions of normal testosterone and estrogen levels as determined by the industry itself for commercial purposes, not by biology.

He stated that the endocrine glands produce testosterone and estrogen for emergency purposes rather than as everyday continuous output. When the pharmaceutical industry tells someone they have low thyroid or low testosterone, his response was: unless you are lying in bed unable to breathe and your heart is not pumping properly, you do not have a problem. As long as basic function is maintained, the pharmaceutical measurement of insufficiency is a commercial judgment, not a biological one.

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