Magnetic Therapy

Aajonus stated that he experimented with magnets from 1989 to 1992. During that period he investigated whether sleeping on a magnetic mattress could benefit the body, and his findings were specific enough to be worth examining in detail.

He purchased a Nikon magnetic mattress product, paying a thousand dollars for it. His initial assessment was that the product as delivered was not working. He investigated by going through Nikon's own specifications and laboratory test documentation and found that the company's internal research had been conducted using magnets arranged in spirals. The actual mattress he received, however, had round magnets arranged in lines along the bed rather than in spirals. This discrepancy between the laboratory configuration and the commercial product was, in his assessment, the reason the mattress was not only failing to produce benefit but was actively disturbing his sleep.

His response was to remove all the magnets from the mattress and reinstall them himself in spiral arrangements, following the configuration that Nikon's own laboratory data indicated was effective. After making that modification he reported good effects.

However, after five months of use in the spiral configuration, the effects reversed and he began feeling horrible on the mattress. This reversal led him to his core theoretical conclusion about magnetic mattress use: the polarity configuration matters enormously, and using only one pole, specifically the north pole or what he referred to as the negative pole, is harmful because it bombards the body with a single type of field without balance.

Aajonus explained the harm from north-pole-only or negative-pole-only magnetic products through an analogy to weather and atmospheric ions. He said that too many protons makes people crazy and hyperactive, and he used the example of countries with extreme amounts of rain having very high suicide rates. He then extended this to the experience of Southern California, where he noted that residents prefer the dry climate and that after periods of rain people become notably calmer and more mellow, because rain brings negative ions that balance the intense proton charge in the atmosphere.

He applied this same logic to magnets: one pole in isolation is like too much rain in one direction. It creates imbalance rather than the alternating positive-negative structure that supports biological function. The mattress configuration he found effective was one with alternating poles, positive-negative-positive-negative, which he said the Nikon product was designed to provide in principle, with every other magnet being opposite in polarity. That alternating configuration was, in his experience, what produced good results before the five-month reversal.

The implication he drew was that using magnets therapeutically in small doses and for limited durations is possible, but continuous, long-term use even of a properly configured alternating-pole product crosses into harm.

In a written response, Aajonus addressed the practice of applying permanent magnets directly to a weak, sore, or problem area of the skin. He said he worked with this technology in 1970 to 1971 and again in 1992 to 1994. His assessment was that it was not very effective, but that it did help alleviate discomfort at times. He added a specific caution: when applied for more than two hours daily, it usually caused more harm than benefit.

This position parallels what he said about ultrasound, which he allowed might be good in small doses, and it reflects his broader view that mechanical or machine-generated approximations of biological processes carry an inherent ceiling of usefulness.

Aajonus was asked directly about the Papimi machine, described to him as a device that pumps magnetic ion pulses into every cell of the body in microseconds, with the stated goal of raising cell voltage to the healthy range of 70 millivolts so that cell gates open to receive nutrition and expel waste. He was aware of at least one case: a Utah university professor contacted him to report that her mother had received this magnetic therapy extensively for months in Germany to treat systemic arthritis and indications of connective tissue disintegration. The woman experienced decreased symptoms for as long as she continued receiving the treatments. However, the magnetic therapy did not reverse the condition, and she was still seeking help at the time Aajonus reported on it.

Aajonus used this case to articulate the fundamental limitation he placed on all machine-generated electromagnetic therapy. He stated that the nonbioactively-produced electromagnetic energy from machines only mimics the energy that has been bioactively produced by biological life. It can produce symptomatic relief because it is working within a similar domain, but it cannot replicate what living systems generate, and therefore it cannot fully restore ionic balance or reverse chronic structural disease.

Aajonus pointed toward two natural alternatives that he regarded as superior to machine-based magnetic therapy for restoring cellular magnetic and ionic conditions.

The first was direct contact with the earth: lying on the earth itself, on grass in a yard, or on sand on a beach. He said this balances the currents in the body holistically in a way that machine-generated fields cannot achieve because the earth's fields are bioactively produced.

The second was natural clay. He stated that natural clays carry magnetic ions that correct cellular low-magnetic conditions. This connects to his broader discussion of clay as a substance carrying living microbes and complex biological magnetism that firing or processing destroys. He described how raw clay under a microscope contains microbes that can transform into many different complex organisms, a macrocosm-microcosm within one substance, and that once fired into pottery or glass, all of those magnetic ionic properties are destroyed.

In at least one workshop Aajonus addressed the theory that magnetic therapy can be used to pull toxic metals out of the body's glands and tissues. He described it as already existing as a magnetic theory, acknowledging that the rationale has a certain internal logic. His objection was not to the theoretical mechanism but to the practical outcome: when you pull metals out of glands without having the right nutrients in place to bind and remove them, the metals do not leave the body. Instead, they get relocated, pulled out of glands and stored into bones, lymph, and skin. He said some of the displaced metals may exit through the urinary tract, but based on his iridology observations, it does not excrete a fraction of what gets relocated into the system.

His preferred method for dissolving and removing toxic metals was dietary. He recommended dark berries with raw cream, or berries with coconut cream, as the best dissolver of metals. He explained that berry juice applied to metal containers turns black and lifts the metal off, and that the same process occurs in the body. He specified that sufficient coconut cream is necessary as the saturated fat binds with the freed metals and prevents them from being reabsorbed or restoring in the tissue. He regarded this as applicable to any kind of metal poisoning.

A substantial portion of Aajonus's discussion of magnetism in the body involves what happens when sodium molecules become isolated and clump together in the bloodstream. This is relevant to magnetic therapy discussions because it illustrates how the body's natural cellular magnetism can be turned against the cell rather than in its favor.

Under normal conditions, a cell has one to two ions inside it, and these create an ionic attraction that pulls in the smorgasbord cluster of 92 to 117 nutrients bound together in one complex. The cell eats by this magnetic pull, taking in a whole balanced grouping of fats, proteins, carbohydrates, and minerals in proportions appropriate to cellular needs.

When isolated sodium enters the blood, it causes clumping of sodium molecules without the full complement of other nutrients attached. These clumps are too large to enter the cell opening. But the magnetic field generated by the large, clumped sodium mass outside the cell is greater than the magnetic field generated by the one or two ions inside the cell. The result is that the clumped sodium reverses the ionic pull, drawing the ions out of the cell rather than drawing the smorgasbord in. Once the ions are pulled out, the cell can never attract food again. It shrivels like a grape to a raisin and dies. Aajonus stated that two tiny grains of salt generate enough sodium clumping to kill two million red blood cells through this mechanism.

This cellular magnetism framework explains why Aajonus regarded the body's own ionic and magnetic properties as so critical, and why he was skeptical that machine-generated magnetic fields could compensate for or override what happens when diet disrupts the natural cellular magnetic balance from within.

Aajonus's concern about magnetic therapy from machines sits within his broader framework on electromagnetic fields generally. He cited the scientific finding that any EMF above 3 milligauss alters the molecular structure of animal cells, a threshold he took seriously in every context including magnetic devices. He said he personally would not expose himself to anything over half a gauss if he could avoid it.

He referenced headset magnets and the magnets used by companies like Nikon in phone accessories, stating that he had gauged these and found readings of about half a gauss, which he considered acceptable. For therapeutic magnetic devices with higher output, the 3-milligauss threshold served as the point of established structural cellular disruption, and MRI machines, which discharge 75,000 gauss from the main magnet with antennas shooting 12,000 to 75,000 gauss into the body, represented the extreme end of what he described as catastrophic magnetic field exposure, capable of causing free-radical metallic minerals already in the body to pass through cellular walls like tiny bullets and cause internal cellular bleeding.

Aajonus's position on magnets and magnetic mattresses can be stated as follows: magnetic therapy from machines can produce temporary symptomatic relief, particularly for localized pain and discomfort, but it does not reverse underlying conditions, it carries harm if used for more than about two hours daily when applied directly to the skin, and it causes harm when used continuously over months even in a well-configured mattress. The configuration of poles matters critically, with alternating positive-negative poles being far preferable to single-pole north-only applications, which he described as dangerous and comparable to atmospheric ion imbalance. Machine-generated electromagnetic fields only mimic bioactive magnetic energy and cannot replace the holistic ionic correction achievable through direct earth contact, natural clay, or proper raw diet.

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