Mercury

The 1989 swordfish experiment was the evidentiary foundation for all of Aajonus's positions on dietary mercury. He divided a group of 12 to 13 elderly dogs and cats into two halves, fed one group raw swordfish and the other group cooked swordfish from the same animal, then collected and analyzed feces and urine over several days. The swordfish had been caught in the Pacific Ocean and registered approximately 9 on his mercury measurement scale, where 13 was considered dangerously contaminating and 3 to 5 was still toxic but not immediately dangerous.

In the raw group, 92 to 98 percent of the mercury passed out of the body in feces and urine. Under an electronic microscope, the feces showed massive amounts of cholesterol molecules attached to and encapsulating the mercury molecules. The fat molecules were relatively undigested, meaning hydrochloric acid in the stomach had not dissolved them or freed the mercury from their grip. The body's intelligence, as Aajonus framed it, recognized the toxic substance and preserved the fat envelope around it rather than breaking the fat down for nutrition. In the cooked group, only 8 to 12 percent passed out, meaning 88 to 92 percent remained in the animals' bodies. When he examined the feces of the cooked group under the microscope, very few cholesterol molecules had attached to mercury molecules. Cooking had fractionated the fats, destroyed their structural integrity and biological intelligence, and freed the mercury to be absorbed.

He noted a variation in another account: the group that ate raw swordfish had 92 to 98 percent pass in feces and urine, while the cooked group showed that 98 percent of the mercury appeared in the urine alone, suggesting a different absorption and excretion pathway when mercury is freed by cooking. In one telling he described the cooked group's result as "280 percent," suggesting the cooked animals were drawing mercury out of already-stored reserves in addition to retaining newly consumed mercury, though the precise mechanism was not elaborated.

His theory, which he acknowledged as distinct from the empirical fact of the results, was that small fish accumulate mercury in their fat as a protective mechanism, isolating and controlling contamination. Larger fish eat those smaller fish and produce still more complex fats to further isolate the mercury. By the time a large ocean fish reaches the plate, the mercury is so embedded in complex fats that the body either cannot digest it or chooses not to, and so absorbs very little or none. Laboratory testing, he noted, dissolves food substances with solvents before analysis, which releases mercury that would never actually be released inside a living digestive system eating raw food.

He applied this understanding personally. He ate swordfish, oysters, and scallops regularly, with swordfish as his stated favorite despite its conventional status as the highest-mercury fish. He had mercury tested from hair samples taken from different parts of his body and consistently reported readings below 4.28, well below the threshold of concern.

Aajonus described mercury as the worst neurotoxin on the planet, worse than radioactive material. Radioactive material, he said, prevents cellular regeneration and stops DNA activity. Mercury goes further by actively dissolving and disintegrating cells, not merely stopping their function. He referenced a video from the University of Alberta, which he directed people to search under "mercury neurons" on YouTube, showing neurons from snail brains, which he described as identical in structure to all brains on the planet, growing normally in a petri dish and then dissolving within seconds after mercury was introduced at a distance from the neurons. The mercury did not need to make direct contact. The vapor alone, traveling through the medium of the dish, caused the neurons to disintegrate.

He described the structural detail: a neurite grows with a central cell body, growth cones at the end of each neurite, structural proteins including tubulin molecules, and actin fibrils with sensory tentacles at their ends. Mercury dropped into a petri dish at the far wall from the neurons caused them to dissolve before any direct contact. This, he said, is what mercury injected into the body does to brain neurons.

In his own laboratory work, he found that 3,000 molecules of mercury in 2 cubic centimeters of fluid were sufficient to sterilize the fluid completely, killing every living thing present. Yet vaccines, he stated, contained 76 quadrillion molecules of mercury until recently, and the so-called mercury-free vaccines still contained 56 quadrillion molecules. He used this disparity to make the argument that vaccine mercury was intentionally destructive rather than a necessary preservative or antiseptic, since his own testing showed 3,000 molecules accomplished the stated functional purpose and 400 molecules of formaldehyde did the same for preservation.

He described a dose relationship in which 5 molecules of mercury will cause complete disease and destruction to one cell, while a single molecule can cause disease without necessarily killing the cell. These are nanoparticles, so small that a single nanoparticle on a cell would be comparable in scale to a football on a football field, in the description given to him by Nissan Gaston looking through a 50,000-magnification scope.

It took, by his account, anywhere from 50 to 200 molecules of fat to safely remove one molecule of mercury from the body through normal fat processes. With cheese, due to the concentrated mineral-fat complex, the ratio dropped dramatically to approximately 10 molecules of cheese per molecule of mercury. Without cheese, the body might require 200 to 5,000 fat cells to bind with a single mercury molecule and prevent it from doing damage during transit. White blood cells engaged with mercury face a severe resource cost: it could take 2,000 white blood cells to harness and control 2 to 3 molecules of mercury, with the cells that ingest the mercury beginning to disintegrate themselves, requiring surrounding white cells to then consume them.

Aajonus rejected the concept that mercury has a meaningful half-life in the sense of becoming harmless. The stated half-life of 45 days refers to mercury transforming from one chemical form to another, specifically from ethyl mercury to inorganic mercury or vice versa, taking approximately 90 days to complete one such cycle. But he argued that this cycling never produces a form that is safe or dormant. The body vacillates between the worst two forms of mercury, ethyl mercury and an inorganic mercury form, neither of which is the least harmful version. The mercury never disappears, never truly dies, and as long as it is present in viable form it continues to damage tissue. He called the half-life framing "absurd" because it implies eventual harmlessness, when in fact the molecule only changes form while remaining toxic throughout.

Aajonus identified the following as the primary sources of mercury exposure, roughly in order of severity as he framed it:

Vaccines were his primary concern. He stated that each vaccine containing mercury contained 76 quadrillion molecules of mercury until a few years before his seminars, and that the new "mercury-free" vaccines still contained 56 quadrillion molecules, a reduction of about 30 percent that the FDA allowed manufacturers to call mercury-free. He identified thimerosal as the liquid mercury preservative used in vaccines, and noted that manufacturers had given it 11 to 13 different names, including "antiseptic" and "adjunct," specifically to avoid labeling it as mercury. He listed other vaccine ingredients including ethylene glycol (antifreeze), phenol, benzethonium chloride, formaldehyde, and aluminum, noting that not a single ingredient in any vaccine is a nutrient. Tests conducted by Dawn Winkler, President of California Vaccine Awareness, confirmed that vaccines claimed to be mercury-free still contained mercury.

Dental amalgam fillings were the second major source. The World Health Organization acknowledged in 1991 that the predominant source of human exposure to mercury is dental fillings. Mercury vapor comes off fillings continuously at baseline and increases dramatically with any stimulation: brushing teeth, having teeth cleaned by a hygienist, drinking hot coffee or warm water which raises temperature to 110 degrees, chewing food, chewing gum, or having a dentist drill on the teeth. He described a video showing mercury vapor coming off a 25-year-old amalgam filling dipped in water at body temperature and rubbed for a few seconds with a pencil eraser, producing vapor clouds visible against a phosphorescent screen. If mercury vapor is visible at all, it is more than 1,000 times higher than the EPA limit for breathable air. Any stimulation causes the filling to continue leaking mercury for at least an hour and a half afterward. In sheep experiments, mercury from dental fillings accumulated in the jaw, stomach, liver, and kidneys within 30 days, and the sheep's kidney function dropped 60 percent. The same pattern was found in monkeys, whose kidneys, liver, intestines, and hearts all showed mercury accumulation, with antibiotic-resistant dystrophic bacteria appearing in the intestines within two weeks of receiving mercury-leaking fillings. Mercury from fillings also transfers immediately to the placenta, to every portion of the fetus's body, and increases further in the lamb after birth through the mother's milk.

He also noted that coal burning produces the majority of airborne mercury pollution, accounting for approximately 62 to 63 percent of world energy production, and that industrial and military manufacturing generates mercury as a byproduct of making tanks and ammunition. This industrial mercury ends up in rivers and is used in pesticides, fungicides, and garbage dumps where land animals like raccoons forage, making land and fresh-water animals far more at risk than ocean fish.

Almost all injected medicines, not just vaccines, contained mercury as a preservative or antiseptic. He named penicillin specifically, and mentioned eye drops, methylate, and mercurochrome as liquid mercury products. He described a lab technician who died three months after a drop of pure liquid mercury ate through her glove.

Aajonus was emphatic that people should not rush to remove amalgam fillings, especially if they were not yet stable on the diet. He explained that when mercury vaporizes from a filling, it methylates and crystallizes in the body, dispersing throughout the system like any toxic metal, which the body can manage if it is distributed. By contrast, injected thimerosal conglomerates in one place in the body, making it more acutely damaging. The distributed crystallized mercury from fillings is something the body can work around if the person is otherwise stable and nourished.

His protocol advice was to stabilize on the diet for at least one to two years before having fillings removed. He gave the example of a woman with breast, kidney, adrenal, and hip cancer who had been chronically fatigued for eight years, able to work only six hours per week. She had a mouthful of mercury fillings and wanted them removed immediately, but he told her to wait four years until she was strong enough to handle the detoxification. She eventually had them removed and did not suffer the flood of poisoning that would have occurred had she removed them while debilitated.

During removal, he described specific breathing precautions because the drilling creates mercury dust and vapor. He advised making an agreement with the dentist to drill for 10 seconds and then stop to allow breathing, or to wear a mask over the nose with oxygen fed in, or to use a rubber dam to prevent mercury from going down the throat, and to hold the breath while drilling was occurring. He did not like synthesized oxygen but said it was preferable to inhaling mercury. A good dentist would know how to place the dam properly.

After removal, the mercury that was stored in the body as crystallized deposits still needed to be eliminated. He cautioned that the lymphatic system had to dissolve these deposits and move them through connective tissue to be perspired out of the body, a process that could create skin damage and sores as the mercury exited. He described his own experience: after a mercury detox reaction in a bursa in his arm, his entire arm turned gray and black, and he had to perform workshops with his arm in a sling.

Aajonus described his own mercury poisoning as the cause of his autism and severe communication impairment. He reported that he was one of the earliest talkers in his family, having said his first word at five and a half months old. After receiving a third tetanus shot, the mercury from that injection went into his communication center and made him autistic. He did not speak intelligibly again for years. This personal experience formed part of his conviction about the neurological destruction caused by injected mercury.

Aajonus's primary tool for removing mercury from the body was raw cheese, which he described as the most concentrated form of mineral-fat complex available for human consumption. The ratio of cheese molecules to mercury molecules needed to safely capture and escort mercury out of the body was approximately 10 to 1, compared to 50 to 200 fat molecules required through normal dietary fat, or 200 to 5,000 fat cells needed when the mercury is already loose in the system causing damage.

He explained that cheese absorbs poison as it moves through the digestive tract, encapsulates mercury molecules, passes them through without releasing them, and carries them out in the feces. Some people's stomach and intestinal linings were so heavily coated with mercury or aluminum that they needed cheese throughout the day. He described one patient whose intestinal tract was "almost black as his pupil" from mercury, aluminum, and sulfur-based medications from childhood, and predicted that man would need to eat cheese every day of his life.

Clay was the other substance he mentioned for mercury binding, with a ratio of 10 to 50 clay molecules per mercury molecule, though he noted that the amount of clay required was difficult to eat in practice. Cheese was far more practical.

For active mercury detoxification, particularly in cases of thimerosal poisoning or acute mercury illness, he recommended eating an egg approximately every hour to an hour and a half, followed the first time by a tablespoon of cow's cream, and the next time by a half tablespoon of a honey and butter mixture at a ratio of approximately 11 parts butter to 1 part honey (his personal ratio was 14 to 1). He also recommended two meat meals per day of approximately a cup and a half each, with roughly 75 percent red meat and 25 percent white meat. A lubrication formula once daily was also part of the protocol.

When nausea arose, he interpreted it as a sign of poison dumping into the stomach and the body wanting to vomit it out. He said cheese could intercept that process by absorbing the poison before it could trigger vomiting, passing it safely through the system instead.

The milk and cheese combination was also relevant when mercury had migrated to the hands and stomach. He recommended having cheese not only before milk but a little grated cheese in the milk itself, because milk could help pull mercury out of those areas while the cheese prevented it from being reabsorbed or from irritating the digestive tract.

In addition to cheese, Aajonus referenced cilantro juice as a substance that helps pull mercury out of the system. He recommended it as a component of vegetable juice, not exceeding 10 percent of the juice blend. For people experiencing significant illness, anxiety, fibromyalgia, or chronic fatigue, he adjusted the proportion upward.

He had also discovered through analyzing chelation formulas that three of the amino acids used in pharmaceutical chelation protocols are naturally present in raw apple cider vinegar. He incorporated raw apple cider vinegar into his understanding of mercury removal for this reason. Blueberries, blackberries, and boysenberries with coconut cream were also referenced as remedies that appeared in his recipe book for mercury-related detoxification.

He cautioned against rushing mercury removal. His overall position was that slow, steady detoxification supported by diet was safer than aggressive chelation or rapid amalgam removal, which could flood the system with more mercury than the body's detoxification capacity could handle at once.

Aajonus argued that trace amounts of mercury in ocean fish served a genuine biological function rather than being purely toxic. He cited flying fish and swordfish, noting that their high mercury content contributed to buoyancy and the lightness required for them to leap great distances. Similarly, whales that leap very high also tend to have elevated mercury levels, and he attributed this not to industrial pollution but to natural cycling: plankton breaks down mercury from ocean rocks, algae discharges it, and certain marine animals including whales, seals, and others consume the plankton and accumulate this naturally occurring mercury in a form he considered non-toxic in the context of their biology. He stated that pharmaceutical interests wanted people to believe this natural ocean mercury was the same as injected pharmaceutical mercury, because it served their interest to redirect blame from vaccines and fillings to fish consumption.

He drew a sharp line between ocean fish and land or fresh-water animals. Ocean fish, he said, have mineral-altering abilities that land and fresh-water animals do not. Ocean water is approximately 1 percent polluted, and most of that pollution is within half a mile from shore. Land is over 20 percent polluted. Mercury used in pesticides, fungicides, and found in garbage dumps accumulates in land and fresh-water animals including raccoons, at concentrations and in chemical forms far more dangerous than what ocean animals carry. He stated that within the previous two years he had become too ill to eat river fish even in raw form, because river pollution from industrial waste and urban runoff had become so severe that he could no longer recommend any river fish to anyone.

He pointed to Japan as a counterexample to mercury-in-fish fears, noting that despite Japan having some of the most mercury-contaminated ocean waters in the world, the Japanese population eating fish regularly did not develop the kind of mercury poisoning that should have appeared if dietary fish mercury were the primary vector. He also noted that he ate primarily high-mercury fish, including swordfish, oysters, and scallops, without developing mercury toxicity.

He observed that lawsuits were being filed by people correlating mercury body burden with fish consumption, but that people in society who did not eat fish at all also showed high mercury levels in testing. This proved to him that fish was not the source and that the real culprit was pharmaceutical and industrial exposure.

Aajonus raised the issue of combined metal toxicity, noting that the combined effect of mercury, cadmium, and lead is synergistic rather than additive. Instead of the toxicity simply adding, the combination multiplied the harm by a factor of 100 or even 1,000. He mentioned this in the context of children's exposure to lead and mercury together, describing it as a dramatically underappreciated compounding danger.

He also described aluminum as nearly as damaging as mercury to the intestinal and neurological system. Aluminum completely destroys the zero-point lining of the intestines, and it appears alongside mercury in gray hair: whenever he tested gray hair sections against pigmented sections of the same head, mercury and aluminum levels were both off the chart in the gray sections. He specifically mentioned AZT as loaded with both mercury and aluminum.

Thimerosal, the ethyl mercury compound used as a preservative in vaccines and many other injected medicines, was Aajonus's primary concern within the pharmaceutical category. He described it as approximately five times less toxic than pure liquid mercury, but still profoundly damaging. He described the form as liquid mercury, used as both a preservative and antiseptic, and catalogued the practice of manufacturers giving it 11 to 13 different names including "antiseptic," "adjunct," and other terms to disguise its identity on labels.

He described a personal thimerosal toxicity event in which a mercury toxin was initiated in his bursa, causing his entire arm to turn gray and black. He performed workshops and saw patients through this episode while wearing a sling. He also described a patient who was developing internal sores throughout the body from thimerosal that had conglomerated systemically following injection, in contrast to his own case where good fats and proteins over a long period allowed the mercury to exit through a single concentrated point, including the smell of mercury in the discharge.

When thimerosal or other injected mercury is introduced, unlike mercury vaporized from amalgam fillings, it does not disperse evenly throughout the body. Instead it conglomerates in a single location, making the local damage more severe and concentrated.

Aajonus stated that 76 quadrillion molecules of mercury were used per vaccine until approximately four years before his later seminars. The FDA then allowed this to be reduced to 56 quadrillion molecules, a reduction of about 30 percent, and allowed manufacturers to label these products "mercury-free." He pointed out that his own laboratory testing showed 3,000 molecules of mercury were sufficient to sterilize 2 cubic centimeters of fluid completely, that is, to accomplish the stated preservative and antiseptic function. The use of 76 quadrillion molecules rather than 3,000 meant, in his framing, that the quantity was not chosen for its stated purpose but for its destructive effect.

He calculated that a single vaccine contained 12 to 1,700 times the toxic lethal dose of mercury according to the FDA's own toxicity standards. He stated that 10 years ago, one vaccine contained 76 quadrillion molecules of mercury, and the "mercury-free" replacement contained 56 quadrillion molecules. He then described the ratio needed to remove mercury from the body: 50 to 200 molecules of fat per mercury molecule without cheese, 10 molecules of cheese per mercury molecule with cheese. Given the quantities in a single vaccine, he estimated it would take 100 years to clear mercury from three vaccines using dietary fat alone, or 30 years using the cheese method. Multiple vaccines over a lifetime of injections would make complete removal essentially impossible without concentrated ongoing effort.

He described the day of birth hepatitis B vaccine as the first mercury injection most people receive, with further vaccines throughout childhood and flu shots in adulthood continuing the accumulation.

Aajonus highlighted that the process of having amalgam fillings drilled out by a dentist is itself a major mercury exposure event. The drilling creates mercury dust and vapor at levels far exceeding any standard. He described the need for the patient to manage their own breathing during the procedure by holding breath while the drill is running and breathing only when the drill is stopped and no visible dust or vapor is in the air. He described making agreements with dentists to drill for only 10 seconds at a time before allowing the patient to breathe, using a rubber dam, wearing a nose mask with supplemental oxygen, or any combination of these. He stated that he did not like synthesized oxygen but that it was preferable to breathing mercury-laden drilling dust.

Aajonus made the explicit argument that the mercury used in vaccines and pharmaceutical products comes from the industrial waste of military manufacturing. Mercury is a byproduct of producing tanks and ammunition. Rather than disposing of this toxic waste, the military-industrial complex sells or transfers it to the pharmaceutical industry for use as a preservative, and the pharmaceutical industry then injects it into the population. He framed the focus on fish and dietary mercury as a deliberate misdirection campaign serving the financial and institutional interests of both industries.

In one case described by Aajonus, a donated brain that he had tested in a laboratory showed mercury at 80,000 times the toxic amount, combined with thallium at the same excessive level. Thallium is a soft metal, similar in softness to lead, and nearly as toxic as mercury. It is used in rodent poisons and is a known agent in poisoning cases. This brain case illustrated, in his framing, the degree to which mercury and other heavy metals accumulate in the nervous system over a lifetime of pharmaceutical and environmental exposure.