Mineral Supplements

The core argument Aajonus made about mineral supplements rests on the difference between inorganic and biologically bound minerals. A cell opens to receive nutrients by ionic attraction. It carries one to two ions inside and draws from the surrounding fluid a smorgasbord of nutrients, all of which are bound together in complex relationships, including minerals carrying vitamins, fats, proteins, enzymes, and water in a unified matrix. When a mineral is isolated from that matrix and presented to the body in concentrated form, the cell cannot integrate it into that smorgasbord. Instead of arriving as one sodium molecule in relationship with a full network of co-nutrients, it arrives as a clump of one thing, isolated and lacking the balancing factors that allow utilization.

Aajonus described the result using the language of imbalance. Concentrated calcium without its proper companions forces imbalances in other minerals. Those mineral imbalances then damage digestive juices, which prevents proper digestion of everything else the person eats. Taking concentrated mineral supplements therefore puts a person on what he called a roller coaster. Some minerals come into relative balance while others are driven out of range, and the body is never stable.

He also pointed out that the mechanism of absorption itself is disrupted. When you take dolomite, for instance, the body detects the sudden influx of calcium and, rather than simply absorbing it, can swing the other direction. Instead of correcting a deficiency, you can end up with bone spurs, over-thickening of bones, hardening of the arteries, and calcification in soft tissues. Dolomite specifically was named as something that promotes arthritis, rheumatism, and cancer when used as a calcium supplement.

Iron supplements were described as particularly dangerous. Iron that has been heat processed and sterilized is oxidized metal that will rust inside the body. Aajonus said he observed people through iridology who had rust spots, rusting iron, iodine deposits, and patina-coated copper stored throughout their tissues from years of taking mineral supplements. He described this as contamination of surrounding tissue and potentially carcinogenic. The notion of an iron supplement correcting blood iron deficiency was called a myth.

Aajonus addressed specifically the class of mineral products sold as colloidal minerals, colloidal silver, and liquid minerals, because proponents argued that the liquid or colloidal form bypassed the problems of rock mineral absorption. His response was that liquefying a mineral does not biologically activate it. Colloidal silver and colloidal minerals are minerals dissolved into a liquid to a particle size small enough that they do not settle out, but they are still not bioactively coupled with vitamins, proteins, fats, or enzymes. They are free radicals, free radical minerals, in his phrasing, meaning unbound ionic mineral particles that the body cannot integrate into a cellular smorgasbord.

He cited the specific example of colloidal silver as something capable of causing chronic fatigue lasting up to seven years. He told his audiences and clients directly that if anyone mentioned colloidal silver or colloidal minerals or chelation therapy to them, they should treat it as a warning. He said these minerals are toxic to humans and poisonous, even as they are perfectly appropriate food for plants.

One person in a seminar raised the example of a liquid magnesium product called Floradix, which they described as plant-derived in liquid form. Aajonus's response was that once any mineral has been dehydrated and isolated, the form of the vehicle no longer matters. What could be obtained from a half cup of raw milk or the proper cheese-and-honey combination, he said, would exceed what the entire bottle of such a supplement could deliver.

Beyond the inorganic nature of the mineral itself, Aajonus noted a second layer of problem with supplemental minerals in pill or capsule form. These are typically bound in starch or other binders that compound the digestibility problem. The result in most cases is that the mineral does not even make it out of the capsule into the bloodstream in any meaningful way. It passes through the digestive tract and acts, at best, like clay, pulling toxins out of the system as it moves through, but in an uncontrolled and unpredictable way compared to using raw cheese or clay intentionally for that purpose.

He cited laboratory research he paid for at a facility in San Fernando Valley, which found that only two to twelve percent of supplements are utilized by the body. The remaining eighty-eight to ninety-eight percent must be processed and eliminated by the body, placing a burden on detoxification systems rather than providing nourishment.

Aajonus explained the manufacturing process of supplements in detail because he believed people assumed there was a meaningful difference between synthetic supplements and so-called natural or food-based supplements. His argument was that the extraction process itself destroys bioactivity regardless of the source material.

To get any nutrient out of a food and into a concentrated extractable form, a laboratory must first liquefy the food. The only two solvents used industrially for this purpose, he said, are hexane, which is a gasoline derivative, and kerosene. The food is soaked in these solvents for up to seventy-two hours until the target compound is separated. The manufacturer then rinses the extract for approximately two minutes, which Aajonus compared to trying to remove lemon juice from marinated meat by draining it. The solvent penetrates every molecule during a seventy-two-hour soak and cannot be removed by a two-minute rinse. Every supplement manufactured through this extraction process, regardless of whether it started as food, contains kerosene residue.

He described one company he said was the only manufacturer of what it called natural supplements, which used a bacterial fermentation method: vats of bacteria were exposed to a target substance, the bacteria reacted with it and predigested it, providing enzymatic activity. However, even this approach was compromised at the dehydration step, where the enzymes were rendered inactive again, and at earlier steps where alterations to the nutrient occurred. He said this approach was closer than others but still not equivalent to obtaining nutrients from raw food.

He also noted that certain well-known supplement companies, including Standard Process, used hexane or kerosene derivatives and that the nutrient damage was the same regardless of the company's reputation.

Aajonus responded to numerous specific supplement products throughout his teaching.

Vitamin E was described as coming ninety-nine percent of the time from Fuji and Kodak, meaning it is a chemical byproduct of the photographic film development industry. The compound tocopheral is chemically similar in molecular structure to natural d-alpha tocopheral and is labeled vitamin E, but Aajonus said it is so toxic that companies that bury it in the earth are legally required to have it contained and designated as hazardous waste.

Vitamin C supplements were observed to cause irritability, psychological problems, and compulsive hunger for ice cream, chocolate, and other rich foods in people who took them in high doses. The explanation was that supplemental vitamin C in its isolated crystalline form is spiky like glass, irritates blood and nerve cells, depletes fat from the blood, and makes the blood highly acidic. The increased energy people sometimes reported from supplements, including vitamin C, was characterized as a toxic effect in which the toxicity forces certain hormones, particularly adrenal hormones, to rush into the system, creating a response similar to caffeine or nicotine that ultimately damages the body.

Vitamin D supplements were noted as dangerous and petrochemically derived, with the process involving hydrogenating mineral oil rather than using any food-source oil.

CoQ10 was described as very toxic for people with arrhythmia problems and was recommended to be eliminated entirely.

Hawthorn leaf and berry supplements were also recommended to be eliminated.

Colloidal silver was described as capable of causing up to seven years of chronic fatigue.

Nascent iodine supplements were addressed in direct correspondence. Aajonus wrote that any concentrated mineral supplement is a form of rock good for nutrifying plants and not people, and that there may be an instance for emergency one-time use of an isolated mineral, but that continued use creates toxic storages of unutilizable mineral deposits that can cause many diseases.

Pearl powder was described as rock in response to a claim that it had regenerated collagen and bone density. Aajonus wrote that mineral clumps would form throughout the body and that there are no magic bullets.

MMS (Master Mineral Solution, also called Miracle Mineral Supplement) was addressed in the context of its proponent's claim that isolated minerals are digestible. Aajonus pointed out that isolated minerals are in rock form (oxide) and that the assumption that humans can digest and utilize rock is false. He also noted that the chlorine component, not being a natural part of plant or animal tissues and not being delivered with other nutrients, is not natural and causes blood and body imbalances.

Chlorella was addressed separately from general mineral supplements. Aajonus said he had tested it and that it could work in small amounts but that it was a minutiae amount because most of it would be digested, and that he found algae and spirulina very difficult on the liver and on people's systems generally. His recommendation for mineral nutrition from sea sources was to eat the fish that eat seaweeds and algae, specifically oysters, scallops, clams, and other raw shellfish.

Aajonus conducted two years of supplement research while working as a nutritionist at a health food store. Of the 1,200 supplements carried by the store, he observed that only nine had any significant benefits. Those nine were all prepared at temperatures below eighty-two degrees Fahrenheit and were not chemically treated or extracted. The remaining 1,191 created toxicity throughout people's bodies, especially their glandular systems.

Over the course of that research, six of the nine beneficial supplements were reformulated and destroyed: wheat germ oil, two brands of cod liver oil, shark oil, and two brands of primary yeast powders. The pharmaceutical houses and the American Medical Association had created a unified marketing message that synthetic, natural, and organic supplements were all equivalent, which Aajonus described as a myth designed to protect market share for conventional pharmaceutical products by collapsing the category of natural supplements into the same status as synthetic ones.

He observed that people who regularly consumed iron supplements had iron deposits somewhere in their systems, with the worst appearing as rust spots in iridology. Mega-dose vitamin C takers almost universally showed the pattern of irritability, psychological problems, and food cravings for rich or sweet foods.

The conclusion he drew was that the increase in energy people reported from supplements was a toxic adrenal response. The toxicity caused hormone surges similar to caffeine or nicotine. When the toxin accumulates beyond a threshold, the body develops what he described as an allergy to it, such that even a few molecules of the same substance trigger an ill reaction, and the person cannot identify which supplement or which ingredient caused the problem.

Aajonus was clear that the supplement industry is driven by profit rather than health, and that the transition of conventional medicine and pharmacies from dismissing supplements to selling them was purely commercial. He noted that forty years before his talks, medical professionals said vitamins and supplements had nothing to do with health and would not help. Once the industry became lucrative, the same medical establishment began selling them. He described this as a racket.

He also pointed out that chemical companies manufacture the raw ingredients for supplement producers, and that neither the chemical companies nor the supplement manufacturers have meaningful accountability for the effects of those chemicals on human health. The supplement manufacturers do not know the origin of the chemicals they purchase, and the chemical companies are selling products they claim are good for health without credible evidence.

Aajonus also addressed the category of mineral water and naturally sparkling mineral water as potential mineral sources. His position was that the minerals dissolved in water are non-absorbable in humans. Water dissolves rock, and those dissolved rock minerals are suitable for plant uptake, but humans cannot absorb them for nutrient value. The minerals in water may attract and chelate with toxic free-radical minerals and other over-acidic minerals in the body, acting similarly to how cheese acts as a magnet and sponge, but they cannot be absorbed for nutritional purposes.

He was asked whether naturally sparkling mineral waters such as Gerolsteiner had changed his position and he maintained the same view: trace minerals in water represent a trace amount of non-absorbable mineral, and the addition of more trace non-absorbable mineral does nothing meaningful. He recommended raw milk, cheese with honey, and vegetable juices as the actual sources of bioavailable minerals.

Aajonus made a partial exception for clay, specifically for Terramin clay (also spelled tiramin in some transcripts), but with important qualifications that distinguish it from mineral supplements. He was asked about clay given that his book had mentioned it, and he clarified that he had since found the cheese and honey combination to work better, but that clay could be used as an addition. However, he categorized clay differently from mineral supplements in one respect: its function is as a drawing agent, not as a nutrient source.

He gave specific preparation instructions for clay: it must be soaked for four to five days before use, allowing the microbes in it to change form and become beneficial to the system. Without this soaking, the clay can dry out and harden in the intestines, preventing proper mucus function and building up in the intestinal tract.

He specified that volcanic ash clays are not safe for this purpose, because volcanic temperatures of 1,800 to 3,200 degrees burn up and vaporize all the alkalinizing minerals, leaving only molten-type residue without the beneficial mineral profile.

He noted that in the newsletter correspondence, external use of clay and Terramin clay specifically were mentioned as exceptions to the general rule against mineral supplements for external application.

The underlying reason why minerals matter so much in Aajonus's framework is tied to how the body handles toxicity. The body must bind acidic and caustic mineral compounds that accumulate from cooked food, processed food, and environmental toxins using alkalinizing minerals, primarily calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, and potassium. He stated that to neutralize one acidic or caustic compound, the body may need twelve alkalinizing minerals, meaning the ratio of consumption to neutralization is very large when a person is significantly toxic.

Cooking cauterizes these alkalinizing minerals, meaning they remain physically present in food but are no longer capable of performing their alkalinizing function. The health authorities can detect them in a laboratory analysis and declare them present, but they cannot be utilized. When a person has eaten cooked and processed food for years, they have a large backlog of acidic compounds requiring neutralization, a depleted supply of alkalinizing minerals in the bones and tissues, and an inability to source those minerals from conventional foods.

The body responds to this situation by robbing the bones. Calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, and potassium are leached from bone to neutralize circulating toxins, which causes osteoporosis. Aajonus consistently framed osteoporosis not as a disease of aging but as a consequence of a bad diet combined with an insufficient supply of bioavailable alkalinizing minerals.

The morning blood acidity he observed in clients (pH values of 5.1 and 4.9 in some people, compared to the ideal of approximately 5.5) was addressed through vegetable juice rather than mineral supplements, because vegetable juice delivers the alkalinizing minerals already converted through the plant's digestive process into bioavailable form.

The cornerstone of Aajonus's mineral repletion protocol is raw, unsalted cheese eaten together in the mouth with a small amount of raw honey at the same moment. Every aspect of this combination has a specific rationale.

**Why cheese is mineral-rich.** All mammary secretions are concentrated in minerals because the offspring of any mammal must grow bones rapidly. A calf, a human infant, or any young mammal requires concentrated mineral delivery to develop structural bone at the speed growth demands. This is why all mammary secretions, including milk and the cheese made from it, carry high concentrations of calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, and potassium. Cheese is a concentrated form of those minerals because it is dehydrated milk, meaning the minerals are present in a much smaller volume of material.

**Why cheese alone does not work as a mineral supplement.** When cheese is eaten without honey, or with honey that is already incorporated into another food before the cheese is eaten, it acts as a magnet and a sponge rather than as a mineral source. The dehydration of cheese removes enzymes and creates a magnetic drawing quality. As blood and lymph fluid circulate through the stomach and intestinal walls, the cheese draws metals and other mineral-related toxins out of those serums and binds them into itself. It then passes through the fecal matter undigested, carrying those toxins out of the body. This is useful for detoxification but means the minerals in the cheese are not being absorbed for nutritional purposes. The drier the cheese, the more effective it is as a drawing agent and the less digestible it is as food.

**Why honey is necessary.** Honey supplies enzymes that the dehydration process removed from the cheese. When honey and cheese are placed together in the mouth at the same moment and chewed together, the enzymes in the honey convert the cheese from a magnetic sponge into a digestible food. The minerals in the cheese are then freed for cellular absorption. The fats in the cheese are also partially digested in this state. Most of the protein portion will convert to what Aajonus called ovate, a protein sugar that assists in using fat as energy, rather than being fully absorbed as protein. But the minerals and a significant portion of the fats become available to the cells.

Aajonus stated clearly that the honey and cheese must be in the mouth together at the same time. Eating honey in a milkshake and then eating cheese separately does not work because the honey has already begun interacting with the egg, milk fat, and other components of the milkshake and will not be available in the right form to activate the cheese's digestibility. The honey must contact the cheese directly in the mouth simultaneously.

**Quantities and ratios.** The ratio of cheese to honey is described multiple ways across different seminar transcripts, and Aajonus gave slightly different numbers in different settings, but the consistent principle is that a very small amount of honey is used relative to cheese.

Ratio descriptions given in the sources include:

- One tablespoon of cheese with approximately one-third of a teaspoon of honey (approximately a six-to-one ratio by volume) - Two tablespoons of cheese with one teaspoon of honey (also approximately six-to-one) - Two tablespoons of cheese with one and a half teaspoons of honey - One tablespoon of cheese with one-half to a full teaspoon of honey (some people need less, as little as one-quarter teaspoon) - One and a half to two tablespoons of cheese with two teaspoons of honey (twice daily, in a version used for severe cases) - Two tablespoons of cheese three times daily with one and a half to two teaspoons of honey (for severe osteoporosis cases with bone loss of thirty-two percent) - One and a half to two tablespoons of cheese with one and a half teaspoons of honey (described as the standard mineral supplement dose after a meat meal)

The range he described for the ratio is three-to-one at the most honey-generous end and six-to-one at the standard end. He also said some people need a little more honey, so there is individual variation.

He described a smaller person needing one and a half tablespoons of cheese with about a half teaspoon of honey, while a larger person might use two to two and a half tablespoons of cheese with a teaspoon of honey.

**Timing in relation to meals.** The cheese-and-honey mineral supplement should be consumed approximately thirty to thirty-five minutes after finishing a meat meal. Forty minutes is described as the maximum delay. The reasoning is that at that point the body has a full load of protein and fat from the meat meal, and those fats and proteins allow the alkalinizing minerals from the cheese to be utilized very well, very quickly, and optimally. The presence of meat-derived fat in the system creates an environment where the minerals can be most efficiently deployed.

He also described a version where the cheese-and-honey dose is taken once in the morning on an empty stomach to address the over-acidic blood state that most people wake up with.

**What two tablespoons of cheese provides relative to other mineral sources.** Aajonus stated that two tablespoons of raw, hard cheese eaten with honey provides the mineral equivalent of approximately a quart and a half of milk in terms of mineral content and bioavailability. He said one small inch-by-inch square of cheese, once activated by honey, delivers what the body could absorb from one ounce of cheese, and equated that to what a whole bottle of rock mineral supplement contains, with the crucial difference that the cheese version is fully absorbed and the rock mineral version is not absorbed at all.

**Frequency.** For general mineral maintenance in someone eating cooked or processed food in their background, the cheese-and-honey combination is recommended twice daily, approximately thirty to thirty-five minutes after each of two meat meals. For someone with active osteoporosis or significant bone loss, the protocol is more intensive, sometimes three times daily with higher quantities.

**Cheese throughout the day without honey.** Aajonus also recommended eating small pieces of cheese without honey throughout the day for detoxification purposes, since there are always toxins circulating. The cheese-without-honey version functions as the magnetic sponge to pull circulating toxins from the blood and lymph, while the cheese-with-honey version functions as the mineral supplement. Both have their role and both are used on the same day for different purposes.

**Where to source the cheese.** Aajonus recommended raw, no-salt cheese for the mineral supplement function. Salted cheese behaves differently: salt acts as an explosive and effectively pre-digests the cheese matrix, which means any toxins absorbed into salted cheese will be re-digested and recycled back into the body rather than carried out. Pasteurized cheese also fails because pasteurization fractures the molecules, so any toxin absorbed into pasteurized cheese is re-digested as well. Raw blue cheese without salt was mentioned as something that had become commercially available in some places because certain varieties get around pasteurization laws.

Aajonus consistently referenced specific outcomes from the cheese-and-honey protocol in osteoporosis cases.

He described working with women who came to him with bone loss of twenty to thirty-two percent, which he characterized as severe, noting that this is the range at which a fall causes a hip fracture. He said he had taken people with thirty-two percent bone loss and reversed it within one year using the cheese-and-honey protocol. He noted that earlier in his practice this degree of reversal had taken six years, but that the protocol he developed shortened the recovery timeline substantially.

He described one patient who replaced bone in the bone and teeth system in about a month by eating two tablespoons of cheese twice a day with honey, in a situation where the gum had rotted and teeth were at risk.

He said he had seen people restore twenty to thirty-two percent of osteoporosis in one year by having the cheese-and-honey combination twice daily, seven days a week over a year and a half.

He described the discovery process: he woke up one morning and realized that if people ate honey with raw no-salt cheese, they would digest the minerals and the fats together, and that would be sufficient to begin rebuilding bone. He then experimented and observed the results with multiple clients.

He also described restructuring twenty to twenty-three percent of a deteriorating bone system in two years through consistent cheese-and-honey use, in cases he described as severe enough that the person's entire skeletal system was compromised.

Alongside the cheese-and-honey combination, Aajonus consistently described milk as the best calcium source and one of the most valuable substances for mineral nutrition. He said a baby would not grow strong lungs and bones without it. Milk delivers minerals in a liquid, nutrient-rich matrix in which the minerals are part of a full smorgasbord of nutrients rather than isolated compounds. A cell that opens to feed from that fluid can attract from the available smorgasbord whatever combination of ions it needs, including eighty to ninety percent of the available minerals in some cases, far beyond what an isolated mineral supplement could deliver.

He said what you get and fully utilize from about a half cup of raw milk exceeds what an entire bottle of a plant-derived liquid mineral supplement can deliver.

He also stated that milk is the best supplement for minerals generally and that any form of raw dairy takes on different functions depending on its form: cream feeds the brain and nervous system, butter feeds every part of the body and digests quickly, unsalted raw cheese pulls poisons out of the body when eaten without honey, and cheese with honey provides the concentrated mineral supplement.

Regarding Inuit populations, he noted that they eat bones (something most modern people cannot do), have extremely strong bone structure, and live without supplementation, as an example of how animal-sourced food in its raw and natural form provides all the minerals needed for structural integrity.

Aajonus also pointed to vegetable juice as a source of bioavailable alkalinizing minerals, distinct from mineral supplements. Plants digest rock and convert those inorganic minerals into biologically active, organic, food-bound form. When you juice vegetables, you extract those bioactive minerals in a form that enters the bloodstream without being blocked by fiber or interfering with digestion of other foods. Aajonus said this was the appropriate way to obtain minerals from plant sources, not by taking dried plant material in supplement form. Juicing delivers minerals that plants have already processed; supplements made from dried or extracted plant material lose their bioactivity in the dehydration and extraction process.

He specifically noted that cilantro juice can help pull minerals out during a detoxification context, though this is adjacent to the mineral supplement discussion rather than central to it.