Myelin Sheath

Aajonus gave varying figures for the fat content of the myelin sheath across different talks and passages, and all of them indicate that fat constitutes the overwhelming majority of myelin's structure. He cited 60 percent fat as a consistent figure in multiple workshop transcripts, where he used the phrase "the nerve has a myelin sheath which consists of 60% fat" and described the brain similarly as consisting of 60 percent fat. In other passages he stated the myelin sheath is "sometimes 80% fat," and in the early training transcripts he described the myelin as "ninety percent fat basically." In the context of discussing extremely thin individuals, he noted that the myelin is "like 65 to 80" percent fat, explaining that when a person has no bodily fat reserves, there is nothing to buffer the information reaching the brain and nervous system, making everything extreme.

Because fat in the body is the primary binding agent for toxins, Aajonus pointed out that wherever fat concentration is highest, the greatest accumulation of poisons will be found. The brain and nervous system, with their 60 to 90 percent fat content in the myelin and neuronal structures, therefore become the primary repository for heavy metals, free radical minerals, pharmaceutical residues, and other fat-soluble toxins. He described this as the reason why two thirds of a person's brain may be functionally compromised by toxicity, why people become irrational, and why neurological conditions are so pervasive in populations eating cooked food and receiving injected pharmaceuticals.

The myelin sheath serves two primary functions in Aajonus's framework. The first is as an electrical insulator, preventing the leakage of the light and electrical signals that the neurological system uses to communicate and conduct impulses. The second is as a buffer against excessive electromagnetic input. He explained that as the myelin gets thinner, "that much more electro-magnetic energy comes in through the blood, outside, anywhere, and overloads because the myelin is a buffer." The implication is that myelin thinning is not merely a structural problem but a functional catastrophe for sensory regulation. The person with compromised myelin is flooded with input that a healthy nervous system would filter, producing states of extreme irritability, anxiety, hypersensitivity, and inability to process experience calmly.

He connected this dynamic directly to the behavior of extremely thin people, using the example of a well-known entertainer who, because she had no fat reserves at all, had a myelin sheath that was barely functional as a buffer. In that state, every stimulus is extreme, every fear is amplified, and panic becomes ungovernable because there is no fatty insulation between the nervous system and the world.

One of Aajonus's most detailed explanations of myelin damage concerns excess adrenaline. He described the mechanism as follows: when the adrenal glands produce adrenaline in response to stress or toxic diet, that adrenaline seeks fat in the blood to bind with and utilize. If blood fat levels are adequate, the adrenaline performs its function and moves through without causing harm. But when blood fat is low, the adrenaline cannot find the fat it needs in the blood, so it moves to the muscles seeking fat there. If the muscles also lack available fat, the adrenaline turns to the nervous system and begins eating at the myelin, leaching fat from the nerve coatings to satisfy its requirement.

He stated this clearly: "if it can't find the fat in your blood, it's going to eat on the myelin." The myelin is roughly ninety percent fat in his description from that context, making it a rich target when the adrenaline is desperate for fuel. The result is lesions in the myelin, progressive thinning of the nerve coating, and ultimately a nervous system that is exposed, overloaded, and degenerating. The lesions and scarring that result are the mechanism behind conditions like Bell's palsy and multiple sclerosis.

He also specified that excess adrenaline can arise for two distinct reasons. The first is simply low blood fat, which makes any normal amount of adrenaline functionally excessive because the fat it needs is not available. The second is genuine overproduction of adrenaline even in individuals with normal blood fat levels, where the body simply generates more adrenaline than the available fat can accommodate. Both situations produce the same downstream damage to the myelin.

He recommended eating the Nut Formula every other day, or very small amounts of cooked starch with plenty of raw fats including avocado, unsalted raw butter, or raw cream to neutralize excess adrenaline and prevent this kind of nerve damage. The goal is to ensure that adequate fat is present in the blood at all times so that adrenaline has what it needs without turning to the myelin for fuel.

Because the myelin sheath is so densely fatty, Aajonus described it as one of the body's primary dumping grounds for heavy metal toxins, particularly those arising from cooked food consumption, which fractures the ionic bonds of metallic minerals and turns them into free radical heavy metals. He specified that mercury, aluminum, lead, and cadmium are among the metals that accumulate there, and he drew a direct line between this accumulation and the full spectrum of neurological and psychiatric dysfunction visible in modern populations.

He explained that cooking food breaks the ionic bonds between minerals and nutrients, creating free radical metallic toxins, and that the body stores these predominantly in the brain and nervous system because those are the fattest tissues. The myelin sheath, being composed largely of fat, soaks up these toxins as a protective measure to keep them from causing acute damage elsewhere, but the long-term consequence is that the myelin itself becomes infiltrated, and the neurological system becomes progressively less functional.

Mercury from vaccines was a particular focus in this context. Aajonus described thimerosal, the mercury compound used in vaccines, as containing approximately 76 quadrillion molecules of mercury per dose in a 2 percent solution, and he cited video evidence from the University of Alberta showing neurons grown in a petri dish beginning to disintegrate immediately upon exposure to a 2 percent thimerosal solution, even when the mercury was placed at a distance from the neurons rather than in direct contact. He noted that the mercury in fish is a fraction of a hundredth of a percent of what is received in a single vaccine, and that children in some regions were receiving over 100 vaccines by age sixteen, creating an enormous cumulative load of neurotoxic molecules, most of which ended up stored in the fat of the brain and myelin.

Aluminum was described as causing a different but equally severe form of damage, destroying what Aajonus called the zeta potential of fluids, which is the electrical charge that keeps particles suspended in solution. When aluminum destroys zeta potential in the neurological fluid, the synapse fires but the signal does not travel anywhere, producing the functional pattern he associated with Alzheimer's disease.

Multiple sclerosis was the disease Aajonus discussed most often in direct relation to myelin. He described it as a condition in which the protective coating of the nerves in the brain and spinal cord deteriorates, leaving scars and lesions and causing the affected nerves to harden. He attributed it primarily to metal and chemical toxicity combined with a lack of enzymes in the diet, specifically identifying mercury, lead, and cadmium as the primary metals involved in destroying the nerve cells and creating the conditions for myelin breakdown.

He was explicit that restoring the myelin in the nerve sheaths is achievable through dietary intervention, and he identified fish as the primary agent for this restoration. His direct statement was: "to restore the myelin to the nerves in the nerve sheaths themselves, the myelin itself, the fish is the only thing that can do that." He specified that any fish will help, including scallops and other shellfish, and that people should eat lots of fish along with lots of naturally carbonated water.

He also specified that cream is excellent for soothing and nurturing the nerves more broadly, but that cream alone does not rebuild the myelin. Cream calms and relaxes the nervous system and is the best thing for the brain and nervous system in that soothing capacity, but the specific work of myelin restoration requires fish fat.

He noted that drinking 2 cups of naturally sparkling mineral water daily for 5 to 10 days restores electrolyte balance and oxygen levels and reduces adrenaline production that often deteriorates myelin. Physical activity was also described as important for dissolving scar-blocked circulation to the nerves. Eating half to one cup of cucumber with 4 to 6 tablespoons of raw coconut cream and 1 tablespoon of unheated honey was given as a preparation that helps dissolve hardened nerve cells.

For MS specifically, mint leaves, including spearmint and peppermint consumed raw, were recommended to be eaten with the fish. Aajonus described the enzymes in mint as soothing to the tissue, promoting digestion of the fats, and facilitating the hormonal processes that the body uses to restore nerve tissue. He specified that no heated mint tea should be used, as heat destroys the enzymes that make the herb useful in this context.

Aajonus was emphatic that the substance responsible for restoring myelin is fish fat, not fish oil. He drew a sharp distinction between whole fish and extracted fish oil supplements, arguing that when fish oil is processed and isolated, all the water-soluble fats, proteins, and cofactors present in the whole food are removed, leaving only a fraction of what the body actually needs. He compared this to coconut cream, where the whole substance contains water-soluble fats, proteins, oil-soluble vitamins, and everything else in combination, and the isolated oil lacks most of what makes the whole food effective.

He stated directly: "fish oils never did what fish did," based on his own experimentation with foods. He also noted that the fish oil industry has commercial incentives to emphasize the chemical differences between omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids, promoting a reductionist chemistry framework that sounds sophisticated but does not reflect what actually happens when foods are consumed whole versus in isolated extract form. He added that FDA regulations further compromise the purity of fish oil supplements, noting that "fish oil is never pure" by the time it reaches consumers.

His instruction was to eat whole raw fish, not to take fish oil capsules or supplements.

Aajonus distinguished carefully between the roles of cream and butter in relation to the nervous system and myelin. Butter, he explained, is excellent for lubricating and feeding every system in the body except the brain and nervous system. It is rapid in its effects and gets to every other system quickest. But when butter reaches the nervous system, it "cannot make those nerves and nutrients from the butter. It's already gone. It's already past that stage." Butter cannot be converted into the specific cholesterols needed to feed the myelin and nervous system.

Cream, on the other hand, is the dairy substance the body can actually use to make the cholesterols that feed the myelin and the nervous system. He described cream as the best thing for calming, relaxing, and soothing the brain and nervous system, and as the only dairy from which the body can manufacture the specific fats needed to replenish myelin. Fish is also helpful for replacing myelin fats, and these two, cream and fish, were described as complementary tools for myelin support.

Aajonus clarified an important distinction between what fish does and what fowl does for the nervous system. Fish helps replenish the inner workings of nerve tissue and the neurological fluids, and its fat aids the myelin, but the actual structural rebuilding of the nervous system, including the tissue development of the neurological system, the lymph system, and the bones (except bone marrow), depends primarily on fowl.

He stated that he had made an error in his first book by claiming that fish alone could rebuild the myelin and the nervous system. Through continued experimentation, he found that neurological progression and development did not happen by eating fish alone. White meat, specifically fowl such as chicken and turkey, as well as shellfish and oysters, was needed for the nervous system to rebuild properly. Without poultry in the mix, the nervous system did not regenerate as well. He described white meat as the best substance for rebuilding the epidermis of all tissues, while fish "mainly rebuilds the constituents, not the myelin," since the myelin is 80 to 90 percent fat and the fish fat can aid it but the structural tissue development requires fowl.

He also noted that the fish with meat combination is important for repairing ganglion axons if they are damaged, and specifically stated that a formula including meat and fish together would help restore myelin and ganglion axons in conditions like MS, Lou Gehrig's disease, and muscular dystrophy. If fish were present without meat, the protein needed to replace the myelin properly might not be fully available.

In the context of shock treatment damage, which destroys the ganglia rather than the myelin directly, Aajonus noted that eggs combined with meat and fish in a restorative formula would help rebuild what shock treatments destroy. He clarified that shock treatment damage is different from myelin damage because it affects the ganglia specifically, but that the combination formula including fish would still help with any nervous system restoration, including myelin, because the protein and fat sources work together to address multiple aspects of nerve structure simultaneously.

While cheese does not directly rebuild myelin, Aajonus described it as the primary tool for pulling heavy metal toxins out of the neurological fluid and blood, which indirectly protects the myelin from continued damage. He recommended eating small amounts of cheese every few minutes to continuously absorb and bind metals as they cycle out of the fatty tissues. The logic is that the brain and myelin are 60 percent fat or more, and the toxins stored in that fat need to be drawn out into the digestive system and removed via the feces. Cheese acts as an intestinal absorber of these released toxins, preventing them from recirculating.

He described the brain as "a garbage dump for metals" and said that most of the metals he found in iridology examinations were concentrated in the brain area. Pulling those metals out through cheese consumption and digestive absorption is part of the long-term process of allowing the myelin and neurological tissue to heal and detoxify.

Aajonus used iridology as his primary diagnostic tool for assessing the state of the nervous system, including the myelin. He described lesions in the iris as indicating nerve damage in corresponding areas of the body, with the depth and color of the lesion indicating the degree of degeneration. Second-degree lesions indicate that the cells are still partially alive, third-degree lesions appear as dark areas with no visible fiber, indicating complete cell death in that region. Brown or yellow discoloration throughout areas of the brain zone in the iris indicates toxin accumulation, often from heavy metals. He could see scar tissue in his own irises by photographing and enlarging the images, and he tracked his own neurological recovery over decades by observing changes in these iris patterns.

He noted that in conditions involving myelin damage and nervous system degeneration, the iris will often show extensive lesions throughout the brain and spinal areas, with brown toxic accumulation indicating the metallic burden responsible for the degeneration.

Aajonus gave specific guidance about timing in relation to nervous system detoxification, noting that the nervous system conducts its primary detoxification work beginning at midnight. He advised that people with nervous system disorders, including those working to restore myelin, should not go to sleep at the time when this process begins, implying that the body's natural detox activity during those hours needs support and should not be interfered with by sleep until the condition improves.