Nail Polish

Aajonus explained that the body uses dietary fats for many purposes simultaneously, including lubricating cells, cell walls, tissues, joints, and every function that requires smooth operation at the cellular level. When toxic substances enter the blood, the body redirects available fats to bind with those toxins and manage them, pulling fat away from its lubricating functions. In heavily polluted environments, or when specific chemical exposures are severe, this diversion of fat can be total enough that nothing is left for normal lubrication, leaving the person in a state of systemic fat deficiency even if they are eating fat regularly.

Nail polish toxicity operates by exactly this mechanism. The chemicals penetrate the nail tissue, enter the blood, and force the body to assign its circulating fats to deal with those toxins rather than to lubricate the body normally. The result is that lubrication throughout the entire body is compromised for up to two weeks from a single use. Aajonus characterized this not as a minor inconvenience but as one of the most dangerous toxic exposures available in everyday consumer products.

Beyond the direct dermal and nail absorption route, Aajonus addressed the danger of inhaling nail polish fumes in shared or enclosed environments. He stated that nail polish and nail polish remover together constitute the most toxic substances available in an industrial consumer context, and he referenced the legal status of opening nail polish on commercial aircraft as evidence of this recognized danger. An airline flight attendant, he said, would immediately intervene if a passenger opened a bottle of nail polish in the cabin.

He extended this concern to any enclosed environment, particularly hair salons that also perform nail services. He described a scenario where both aerosol hairspray and nail polish permeate the air simultaneously, noting that hairspray alone is toxic enough to disrupt intestinal E. coli bacteria for three months. Inhaling nail polish in that context compounds the damage across multiple body systems. He described these combinations as capable of damaging many things in the body simultaneously.

When asked directly what women should put on their nails instead of nail polish, Aajonus's answer was specific and brief: olive oil, other natural oils, or butter. These substances nourish the nail and the surrounding skin without introducing chemical toxins. They support the nail's natural function of discharging minerals and toxins through the follicular structures at the nail base, rather than sealing the nail with a chemical film that penetrates and poisons the blood.

In his formal written protocol for removing nail polish toxins already in the body, he specified a three-part approach: increase fat intake by 25 percent, eat 15 sprigs of fresh parsley daily, and apply coconut oil or olive oil to the nails instead of nail polish going forward. The increased fat percentage is consistent with his general approach to chemical toxin exposures, where the body requires additional fat to bind and neutralize poisons that have already entered the blood. Fresh parsley appears in his protocols specifically as a food that helps bind with and remove certain toxic substances.

Aajonus grouped nail polish remover together with nail polish as part of the same category of extreme toxicity. He did not separate them into distinct hazard levels but treated them as a pair, referring to "the hair nail polish and the polish remover" together as the most toxic available substance in an industrial consumer situation. This means his concern was not limited to the polish itself but extended to the solvent used to take it off, which he implicitly treated as equally dangerous by association.

From his written material, the specific detoxification protocol for nail polish on nails is as follows. Because he labeled the exposure as "very toxic" in his written protocol, the intervention is more aggressive than for many other household substances.

The protocol has three components. First, increase dietary fat intake by 25 percent above the individual's current baseline. This additional fat provides the body with material to bind the chemicals circulating in the blood and to restore the lubricating functions that the polish toxins have disrupted. Second, consume 15 sprigs of fresh parsley daily. Parsley in his framework assists in binding and removing specific toxic compounds from the body. Third, apply coconut oil or olive oil directly to the nails on an ongoing basis, replacing the nail polish entirely rather than continuing to expose the nails to polish while trying to detoxify.

To understand why Aajonus regarded nail polish as particularly problematic, it is necessary to understand how he described the nail's function in his broader framework. He taught that the body uses the nails, like the hair, as a route for discharging heavy metals, toxic minerals, and other poisons. The lymphatic system builds heavy metals that are too dangerous to process internally into the hair and nails as a method of elimination. This is why nails develop ridges, dryness, discoloration, thickness abnormalities, and gaps during periods of detoxification; the body is routing toxins outward through the nail structure.

Covering the nail with chemical polish interferes with this discharge route. It also introduces additional toxins through the same pathway. Rather than functioning as a one-way exit for the body's chemical burden, the nail under polish becomes a two-way channel, with the body's own toxins unable to exit normally while the polish's toxins enter. He observed that nails discharge lots of poisons during detoxification and that ridges and gaps appear when chemicals are coming out through the follicular structures where the nails grow.