Memory

Aajonus described the neurological fluid as the medium through which the brain transmits electrical and light signals that constitute thought, language, memory, and motor coordination. He said the fluid does not ordinarily deliver nutrients to brain cells; that is the job of the lymph glands. The neurological fluid's specific function is information transmission, the firing of synapses through axons and ganglia.

When metallic minerals are present in undamaged form, naturally bonded to vitamins and other co-factors as they appear in raw food, this transmission proceeds cleanly. When isolated or fractionated minerals are introduced, particularly through injection or through cooked and processed foods where mineral bonds have been broken by heat, the fluid's ability to carry signals is disrupted.

He used the analogy of electricity and music to explain how thought processes and motor responses arise from this system. The metallic minerals are the conductors. The fluid is the medium. When the system is clean, a synapse fires and the signal rockets through the ganglia and across the full network. When the fluid is contaminated, the signal collapses before reaching its destination.

Aajonus identified aluminum as the specific toxin responsible for the common experience of losing a thought midway, being unable to recall a word, or finding that cognitive effort produces no result. He explained this through the concept of zeta potential, which he described as the fluid's ability to keep nutrients suspended rather than allowing them to fall out of suspension and settle.

He demonstrated this principle with a vivid analogy he returned to several times: if you put liquid aluminum into a fish tank, the fish immediately hit the bottom and can no longer swim. The aluminum destroys the fluid's capacity to keep things in suspension. The same process occurs in the brain when aluminum is present in the neurological fluid. A synapse fires, but the signal does not travel through the axon and ganglia. Instead, it slides flat along the bottom of the nerve tube and goes nowhere. The thinker experiences this as a thought that simply disappears, or a word that cannot be retrieved, or a train of reasoning that collapses.

He linked this mechanism directly to Alzheimer's disease. The vaccines that contain liquid aluminum, he said, cause the same zeta potential collapse in the brain that manifests as Alzheimer's. The fish tank analogy was his consistent teaching tool for this.

He was specific about the type of cognitive failure that indicates aluminum involvement versus mercury involvement: if you lose a thought temporarily, if something slips away and you cannot retrieve it in the moment, that is typically aluminum disrupting transmission. If memories are gone permanently and cannot be retrieved at all, that is typically mercury, because mercury dissolves neurons entirely.

Mercury, in Aajonus's framework, causes a more catastrophic form of cognitive damage than aluminum because it does not merely block transmission but actually destroys the neurons themselves. He cited time-lapse photography from the University of Alberta that showed neurons growing in a dish, to which a two percent solution of thimerosal (liquid mercury, as used in vaccines) was then added. The neurons dissolved and disappeared visibly under the camera. That, he said, is where brain cells go when mercury is introduced into the system.

The consequence is permanent. If a neuron is dissolved, any memory stored in or connected to that neuron is gone forever. There is no recovery of that specific stored information because the physical substrate has been destroyed. He distinguished this from the aluminum scenario, where the neuron may still be intact but the transmission medium is too disrupted to carry the signal successfully.

In his own case, the mercury from the tetanus shots went specifically to his communication center, not his memory center. He considered himself fortunate in that regard, because his general memory remained intact even as his language faculty was destroyed. His short-term memory for sounds, however, was so severely affected that he could not retain a sound for even one second after hearing it, which made learning language through normal repetition impossible.

He described having had a photographic memory that functioned for visual patterns, shapes, and diagrams, but no capacity to associate those patterns with linguistic meaning. He could copy what he saw onto paper with high fidelity in the short term, but without any comprehension of what the marks represented.

The three tetanus shots received before eighteen months of age are what Aajonus described as the direct cause of his autism. He was specific that the first two shots did not cause autism but did damage his system, and that the third shot, at approximately eighteen months, pushed the damage into the communication center of the brain and caused a complete inability to process language.

Before the shots, he said, he was an early talker, speaking his first word at five and a half months. After the third shot, the capacity to relate sounds or symbols to meaning simply ceased to function. He described it as that part of the brain going blind. Just as a blind person cannot be made to see by effort or instruction if the relevant faculty is physically damaged, he could not be made to comprehend language by any teaching method, because the organ of comprehension was not functioning.

He lived this way for approximately twenty-one years. During that time he described his experience as follows: sounds had no connection to meaning in his mind; written marks were pure designs, like hieroglyphs; he had no concept that letters composed words, that words composed phrases, that phrases composed sentences, or that sentences expressed ideas. These things were not difficult for him; they were entirely absent from his cognitive world. He could not define any word, could not construct a sentence with understood content, and could not remember sounds beyond one second of hearing them.

His short-term memory for sounds was essentially non-existent. Someone could say a word to him and it would be gone before he could process it. He compensated by getting people to repeat things many times, and by age eight he had accumulated enough repeated sound bites from his home environment to mimic phrases when a sound from outside seemed to pattern-match. But these were pure repetitions without semantic content, which meant he frequently produced what he called malaprop, saying phrases in contexts where they made no sense.

He could not read. He described the printed page as spinning and producing vertigo, and the letters as designs without meaning. He got through school by sitting next to the smartest, most sensitive girl in each class and copying her work. Because he was a good visual artist with strong short-term photographic memory for patterns, the copies were sometimes accurate enough to earn passing marks. He got through high school with C's and D's and did not learn to read until he was twenty-three years old.

The exception to his language disability was mathematical patterns and diagrams. In junior high or high school, a teacher introduced sentence diagramming, the practice of breaking a sentence into its grammatical components arranged on a branching line structure. Because this was a visual pattern system rather than a language system, it registered in the part of his brain that handled patterns and mathematical relationships. He got one hundred percent on every diagramming exercise while failing everything else, which further confused his teachers into thinking he was deliberately non-compliant rather than genuinely incapable.

The recovery from autism began when Aajonus was approximately twenty-two to twenty-three years old, during the period after his cancer treatment had left him with radiation damage, chemotherapy toxicity, and a complete loss of taste. A young man introduced him to raw carrot juice and raw milk.

He described the experience of these two substances as the first food that had flavor after the medical treatments. Everything processed, including his preferred donuts and cola, had tasted like cardboard or postage stamp glue. The carrot juice tasted alive; the raw milk was rich and creamy. This was what initially motivated him to drink them in quantity.

After approximately nine to twelve days of drinking these consistently, he described waking up one morning with language comprehension suddenly present. He used the phrase "the autism switched off" or described it as a light switch being flipped. It was not gradual. He suddenly understood that letters made words, that words made phrases, that phrases made sentences, and that sentences expressed concepts. The diagramming patterns he had memorized in school became instantly interpretable as a linguistic system. Prepositions, verbs, conjunctions, articles, adverbs: all of these grammatical categories that he had encountered only as abstract labels attached to diagrams suddenly connected to a comprehensible framework.

He immediately called his uncle and held a forty-minute conversation. His uncle did not recognize him and assumed it was someone impersonating him, because the cognitive and communicative capacity that came through was entirely unlike anything his uncle had ever experienced from him.

He then borrowed $110 and bought books on nutrition, which in 1969 was described as a considerable number of books given their low cost. He began reading for the first time in his life. His vocabulary was very limited, and he spent most of his reading time in dictionaries following chains of definitions, but he could read and comprehend.

He then made the test that confirmed the mechanism. Believing the change might be permanent, he stopped drinking the carrot juice and returned to his previous diet of donuts, cigarettes, and processed food. In approximately nine to ten days, the autism returned. He described it as being like going blind again after having briefly seen: he knew what the light had been, he knew it had been there, but he could not find it anymore. He went back to the carrot juice, and approximately ten to fourteen days later the autism lifted again. He repeated this cycle more than once, observing the same timeline each time.

He also repeated the reversal when, later, he encountered mind-over-matter philosophy and was persuaded that consciousness and intention were sufficient for health. He stopped the diet and within about ten days was autistic again. That, he said, was even more devastating because by that point he had experienced communication freedom for the first time and understood what he had lost.

Aajonus offered a tentative mechanistic explanation for why carrot juice reversed the aluminum-induced cognitive damage in his communication center. He proposed that the carotene and vitamin content of raw carrot juice may have the capacity to neutralize and bind aluminum, or to work as a medium through which the zeta potential in the neurological fluid could be restored. He was careful not to present this as fully established, framing it with language like "may be a way to neutralize and bind because of."

He did not present a detailed biochemical account of how raw milk specifically contributed to the recovery, but his general framework holds that raw dairy provides the fats and nutrients the brain requires to reconstruct and maintain the myelin sheaths and other fatty structures of the nervous system, and that the brain, being mostly fat, is especially dependent on high-quality raw fats for repair.

He noted that as long as he continued drinking the carrot juice, his communication center remained functional. When he stopped, it failed. The food was not curing something once and leaving it cured; it was maintaining a condition that had been chemically suppressed by aluminum damage and that required ongoing nutritional support to remain functional.

In a different context, Aajonus addressed the cognitive pattern of scattered or dispersed thinking, the inability to follow a train of thought, the tendency to juggle too many mental threads simultaneously and lose track of all of them. He linked this pattern specifically to excess sugar in the blood, particularly fruit sugars, and to carrot juice consumed without fat.

He explained that if carrot juice is consumed without diluting it with fat (cheese, cream, or other fats) or other juices, the starch sugar hits the brain all at once, causing it to fire in too many places simultaneously. The result is cognitive dispersion: too many signals activating at once, too many things going on, no ability to stay on a single thread. He described this as the brain trying to use the sugar and finding it "too radical."

He noted that this scattered thinking pattern appeared frequently in vegetarians, and attributed it partly to the high fruit and carrot juice consumption common in vegetarian diets, combined with the absence of the fats that would slow and buffer the sugar release.

He contrasted this with his own cognitive function while following the full Primal Diet, which he demonstrated publicly by conducting workshops covering multiple interconnected subjects, following chains of reasoning across different topics, and always returning to the correct point. He attributed this directly to his diet: "Because my mind is running on the right fuel."

He specified that to keep the brain functioning and focused throughout the day, one should avoid high-carbohydrate foods that produce advanced glycation end products. His workshop day protocol included eating according to a sequence that kept the brain supplied with appropriate fat-based fuel rather than sugar spikes.

Aajonus described raw eggs, particularly sucked raw from the shell, as a rapid acute remedy for cognitive failure. The mechanism he described was low blood glycogen reaching the brain; when the brain runs short of glycogen, thinking becomes disordered and focus collapses.

He described sucking a raw egg and experiencing restoration of brain function within ten seconds in his own case. He acknowledged that for others it might take one to three minutes. The egg provides immediate fuel that the brain can use without the delay of digestion.

He gave a specific protocol for students facing examination anxiety and cognitive failure under pressure: before entering the exam room, go to the toilet with two raw eggs; suck the egg white first, then the yolk; wait three to four minutes; then suck the second egg in the same way. He reported that students following this protocol went from getting C's and D's to getting straight A's.

He also described aluminum involvement in acute cognitive failure. If losing a thought or being unable to retrieve a word does not resolve quickly after sucking a raw egg, that indicates aluminum in the brain rather than low blood sugar, because the egg addresses the glycogen issue but not the zeta potential disruption from aluminum. He distinguished the two causes by how the person responds to the egg.

He said he normally drank eggs throughout the day to maintain brain function, and that when he forgot to do so, the cognitive effects were noticeable.

Aajonus referenced a study in which women who had received chemotherapy for breast cancer underwent brain scans during short-term memory exercises. The scans showed that the chemotherapy patients' frontal cortexes and cerebellums had to work significantly harder than those of control patients to recall the same information. Women who received both chemotherapy and hormonal therapy showed additional changes to their basal ganglia, where brain function bridges thought and action.

He noted that the study only examined women within ten years of chemotherapy treatment and therefore could not reveal the full duration of cognitive impairment, which he said from his own experience lingered for many decades. His own chemotherapy had taken place years before his neurological recovery from autism, and the two forms of damage (vaccine-induced autism and chemotherapy-induced damage) were present simultaneously in his early adult life.

Aajonus addressed the conventional claim that humans use only about ten percent of their brains. He stated that this figure originated from the examination of Einstein's brain after death. Chemists looking for metabolic byproducts of active tissue found those byproducts in only about twelve percent of Einstein's brain; from that, the deduction was made that ordinary people of less cognitive activity used approximately ten percent.

He made a conceptual distinction between circulation to brain tissue and active utilization of brain tissue. The presence of blood flow to an area of the brain does not mean that area is being actively used; just as muscles can have circulation without being contracted.

His own position was that he saw no signs that humans used much of their brains, and he used this not to diminish human capacity but to suggest that the toxic and dietary conditions of modern life have suppressed most of what the brain is capable of.

In one section Aajonus described the act of speaking, moving the lips, producing specific sounds, as not something the conscious mind orchestrates but something bacteria handle as an automatic process. He described how producing a specific word requires precise muscular and acoustic coordination, opening the mouth to a specific width and depth for each phoneme, hitting a particular pitch, and that a person does not consciously manage all of this. He said bacteria orchestrate this process in a chain reaction, and that the speed at which bacteria "think" is so fast relative to human conscious thought that what would be a complex multi-step process at the level of conscious cognition happens in a fraction of a microsecond at the bacterial level.

He observed that this automatic process did not work for him during autism. When he had autism, speech did not emerge naturally. His entire account of learning to mimic phrases over years was an account of consciously and effortfully compensating for the loss of a process that should be automatic.

Aajonus described a framework in which the human person operates through three faculties: instinct (the body communicating with itself), intuition (the psyche or soul communicating), and reason (the mind). He held that every good decision should involve all three in the order of intuition first, instinct second, and reason third.

He described his own intuition as having developed gradually after his cognitive recovery. As a child he had been able to read minds, and he identified that as an early form of intuitive faculty. During his early healing and research years he over-relied on analytical reasoning, spending a week or more trying to reason out a client's situation without arriving at a resolution. He later shifted to allowing intuition to function first, and described insights coming to him not during deliberate concentration but during unrelated activities, while reading, talking, or writing, when the information about a different question would simply arrive.

He described his thought process as capable of following long chains of reasoning, branching off on tangents, and returning precisely to the original point. He attributed this specifically to being well-nourished on the Primal Diet, noting that following multiple networks of patterns through the brain simultaneously and staying aware of all of them at once requires a mind that is running on correct fuel.

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