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Beyond the mechanical physics of spin reversal, Aajonus described microwave radiation as something that alters the molecular structure of animal cells specifically. He grouped microwave packs alongside heating pads in this regard, stating explicitly in his newsletter guidance that microwave packs "deliver radiation with their heat and alter the molecular structure of animal cells." This was his reason for ruling them out entirely as therapeutic heat sources, even when a person was in pain and seeking relief.

The parallel he drew to heating pads is instructive. He described heating pads as producing very high electromagnetic fields that alter the molecular structure of animal cells, and he treated the microwave pack as sharing the same essential disqualifying property, radiation delivery alongside heat, making both unsuitable for application to the body. His approved alternative for heat therapy was exclusively the rubber hot-water bottle, which delivers warmth through ordinary thermal conduction without any electromagnetic or radiation component.

In his newsletter discussions of electromagnetic fields, Aajonus listed microwave ovens explicitly among the devices that "can negatively alter our cells with very high EMFs" when used for longer than three minutes at a time. The list included hair dryers, electric blankets, heating pads, therapy pads, electrical shavers, fluorescent lights, computer towers, Jacuzzis, hot tubs, and others, but microwave ovens appeared in the same category as all of these, subject to the same general principle that high EMF exposure of sufficient duration damages cellular structure.

His broader framework on EMFs held that three milligauss is the threshold at which human cellular molecular structure begins to be altered, a figure he cited from epidemiological and engineering sources. He did not specify a milligauss figure for microwave ovens in the passages available, but his categorical placement of microwave ovens in the high-EMF list implies they exceed that threshold substantially.

Aajonus distinguished between the effect of microwave radiation on a loose, unbound liquid versus a live, integrated biological system. In a cup of water or other loose fluid, the reversed spin changes properties including flavor, but the material is not destroyed or made to explode because it is not under biological containment and pressure. The molecules are free to reorient or move in response to the imposed spin change.

A live animal, by contrast, is a system where fluids and tissues are contained, pressurized, biochemically active, and structurally integrated. When the microwave reverses the spin on the material inside such a system, the contained and active nature of the biology means the effect cannot simply dissipate. The result, as Aajonus stated, is that the animal will explode. He applied this same logic, in less dramatic form, to food that has passed through a microwave: even a single pass through a scanner at the grocery checkout affected his milk enough to make it "sting a little" on his tongue, while passing it through twice created a problem significant enough that he noticed a distinct difference.

Aajonus described a related experience with food being run through security or checkout scanners, which he treated as a lesser but real version of the same concern. He noted that he allowed enough distance between items on the conveyor belt at the store, approximately two and a half feet, so that nothing was underneath the scanner at the same time as metal lids, which he identified as the main thing the scanner was actually reacting to. He observed that a single pass was tolerable and that his milk stung slightly on his tongue even after one pass, but that passing food through twice created a problem. He interpreted the effect as turning off the beneficial electromagnetic properties of raw food, describing it as feeling "like somebody turned off the light" when eating food that had been subject to these fields, because electromagnetic minerals could no longer conduct their normal signal cleanly, causing the beneficial electrical activity to "bounce and not go very far."

Aajonus was unambiguous about microwave packs in a therapeutic context. He listed them as something that should not be used precisely because they deliver radiation with their heat and alter the molecular structure of animal cells. This ruling applied even when someone was in pain and needed heat application, a situation where he otherwise strongly endorsed warmth as a healing tool. The radiation component disqualified the microwave pack regardless of its thermal effectiveness, just as the electromagnetic field component disqualified electric heating pads.

His reasoning about heating pads extended the same concern: cells altered by electromagnetic fields "don't reproduce well after that, and they stay weak." He treated this cellular weakening from EMF exposure as a lasting consequence, not a temporary one, which gave added weight to his insistence on using only rubber hot-water bottles for heat therapy.