Negative Ions

Ions are negatively charged particles, and protons are positively charged particles. The two react in combination with each other. In a healthy body and a clean environment, they are in balance. When pollution enters the body or the air, it destroys ions, the negative charges, and leaves an excess of positively charged protons moving through tissue unbalanced. Aajonus compared this state to a split or broken atom: the proton bounces everywhere and causes mass destruction wherever it passes.

The key function of ions in the body is to carry nutrients. A potassium ion might carry a sugar molecule, a glycogen, a pyruvate, vitamin A, vitamin D, or any number of other nutrients. A sodium ion most often carries water, H2O, but it can carry other substances as well. The mineral itself is the carrier; the nutrients ride with it. When a cell opens to eat, the ions inside it magnetically attract the closest ion from the bloodstream that is carrying what the cell wants. The cell draws that ion and its full complement of nutrients inward and digests the whole package at once.

This is why isolated nutrients, meaning anything that has been separated from its natural ionic matrix by cooking, processing, or supplementation, are so inadequate. The cell is designed to eat a cluster, not individual molecules. Raw food preserves the ionic bonds that hold these clusters together. Cooking above 118 degrees begins to fracture those bonds, and above 122 degrees all enzymes are cauterized. Once cooking happens, the cluster falls apart, nutrients scatter through the blood as isolated molecules, and cells begin receiving incomplete meals at every feeding.

Aajonus returned to the mechanics of cellular eating repeatedly across his workshops, always anchoring it in ion chemistry. Each cell has one or two ions inside it at any given time. These interior ions are what the cell uses to attract food from the surrounding blood serum. When the cell is ready to eat, it opens and the internal ions create a magnetic draw. The ions traveling in the bloodstream, carrying their clusters of 93 to 117 nutrients, are pulled toward that opening and drawn inside. The cell then closes and digests its entire smorgasbord.

The size and composition of this smorgasbord matters. Aajonus described it as sometimes being as small as a marble relative to a cell's size, and sometimes as large as his fist. The cell may not need to eat again for five hours after a full smorgasbord. The feeding is episodic and complete, not constant and partial. A well-nourished cell on a raw diet gets everything it needs in one draw, then rests. A poorly nourished cell on a cooked or salt-contaminated diet may receive only 15 to 50 nutrients per feeding instead of the full 93 to 117, and may be actively destroyed in the process.

The relationship between the number of nutrients per smorgasbord and overall health is direct. When sodium ions clump due to salt intake, they fracture these natural clusters through a kind of explosive fractionation, and the cell may eat 23 to 50 nutrients at most instead of its full complement. Red blood cells subject to this chronic fractionation are malnourished every time they feed. If the cell is also subject to heavy metal contamination, water overconsumption, or extreme ionic imbalance, it may not eat at all.

Aajonus identified salt as one of the most destructive substances available to humans, second only to cooking. His objection was not cultural or arbitrary; it was rooted entirely in how isolated sodium behaves ionically in the body.

In raw food, sodium exists as one small ion within a large cluster of diverse nutrients. It is the smallest of all mineral molecules in water solution. It carries water and other substances to cells and fits naturally within the magnetic flow of nutrients. When salt is eaten, whether it is table salt, sea salt, Celtic salt, Himalayan salt, Dead Sea salt, or any other condiment form, the body receives isolated sodium, a rock mineral with no biological matrix. The body has no way to keep this sodium integrated with other ions. It separates it. Once separated, the sodium molecules begin clumping together. Two, three, four, five sodium molecules cluster, and as the clusters grow, their magnetic charge becomes proportionally greater.

The destructive consequence of this clumping is direct and mechanical. When a cell opens to eat and there is a large clump of sodium ions in the surrounding fluid, the external magnetic field is greater than the internal magnetic field created by the one or two ions inside the cell. Instead of attracting the smorgasbord inward, the cell's opening produces the reverse effect: the external magnetic force rips the ions out of the cell. Once those interior ions are pulled out, the cell can never eat again. It shrivels like a grape becoming a raisin, and dies.

Aajonus cited a biology teacher from his early 1960s schooling who demonstrated that one grain of salt can kill two million red blood cells through this clumping mechanism. In other places across the transcripts, he put the figure at one million red blood cells killed by one grain or one little grain of salt. This figure appeared consistently, though the exact number varied slightly across different talks, ranging from one to two million red blood cells destroyed per grain. The mechanism remained consistent regardless of the exact figure: clumping causes a reversal of magnetic polarity at the cell membrane, and the cell's gut is ripped out.

Beyond the direct cellular killing, the explosive fractionation that isolated sodium causes also destroys the nutrient clusters traveling in the blood. Aajonus described sodium in isolation as more explosive and more volatile than nitroglycerin, and more sensitive than thermite. He recounted that his father worked for thirty-five years on a General Electric project, funded at two billion dollars, to turn pure crystalline sodium into a weapon. The project was never completed because one solid crystal of pure sodium can level all of New York City, and a change of one and a half degrees in temperature causes it to detonate. The body does what the weapons scientists could not fully control: it isolates the sodium from salt every time salt is consumed, and the resulting explosions in the blood fracture nutrient clusters so that a cell that should receive 93 to 117 nutrients at each feeding receives only 15 to 50.

When potassium is added to salt, as in iodized table salt, the problem compounds further. Potassium in this form acts as a fractionating agent, separating molecular bonds much as a soap would. Adding iodine, an antibacterial poison, creates what Aajonus described as minute but tremendous explosions in the digestive tract, destroying nutrients systematically.

Aajonus conducted personal laboratory experiments with ion machines during 1973 and 1974. He placed the machines in a laboratory room and ran diesel exhaust and gasoline exhaust into the space to simulate polluted conditions, studying what the mechanically generated ions would do to the contamination.

The machines worked by sending mechanically produced ions out to knock into positively charged protons and strip the charge from them, effectively neutralizing the destructive free radical. This was the good thing the machines accomplished. However, the initial moment of contact, when the ions first split the proton charge, caused a reactive burst: the proton bombarded whatever was in the immediate environment. After one week of running the experiment, Aajonus removed pictures from the walls and furniture from the room, and found that every surface the furniture and pictures had been resting against was black from the driven toxic proteins. Everything was blackened except exactly where the furniture and picture frames had been, which remained clean. The pollution had been driven into the walls, into the surfaces, into everything in the room.

He concluded that if an ion machine is used in a home, it should run in the living room and other rooms while the bedroom door is closed, and should never run in the room where a person is sleeping. During the day, when the person is not in the bedroom, it could be placed there. The toxic proteins being bombarded off protons do not stay suspended in the air; they penetrate tissue, walls, and any porous material nearby. Manufacturers subsequently changed the machines to produce less visible residue, but Aajonus maintained that the toxins are still being driven into surfaces, just without the visible blackening that made it obvious.

He also warned specifically against ionized water, meaning water that has been ionized by a machine. His reasoning was that water is a solvent and has no tissue, mucus, or fibrous matrix to bind the freed toxic proteins the way walls and furniture might. In the body, ionized water would drive those substances directly through intestinal walls and into tissue everywhere, with no barrier to limit penetration. The advice was consistent: ions from food, not from machines.

Aajonus described fluoride as the smallest negative particle on earth. Its charge is intensely negative, which is what makes it so destructive. Because fluoride particles are so small and carry such an intense negative charge, they interfere with the hydrogen bonds that hold enzyme coils in their proper shape. Even at concentrations of one to three parts per million, fluoride destroys enzyme molecules. Those enzymes are often 3,000 or more times smaller than fluoride itself. The destructive mechanism is ionic interference at a level that bypasses size as a factor. Aajonus reported that fluoride destroys at least 83 enzymes through this mechanism.

The body responds to fluoride's ionic disruption by mobilizing calcium and other alkalinizing minerals to absorb and neutralize the ongoing damage. This is a heavy metabolic cost with no benefit to the organism.

Free radicals, in Aajonus's framework, are atoms or molecules carrying a single unpaired electron in their outer shell. When metals are properly bound in raw food within a full ionic matrix of co-occurring minerals, vitamins, and other nutrients, none of them are free radicals. Mercury, iron, lead, and any other metal in trace amounts within a living food context can be utilized for benefit. The same metals become free radical ions when they are industrially chemicalized, concentrated, cauterized by heat, or separated from their biological matrix.

Mercury ions are particularly destructive. Aajonus showed or described a University of Calgary study in which neurons grown in culture were exposed to a two percent solution of thimerosal mercury and immediately began disintegrating. Mercury ions infiltrate the cell and bind to the guanosine triphosphate binding sites on the beta subunit of tubulin molecules. Since bound GTP provides the energy that allows tubulin molecules to attach to one another and form microtubules, mercury ions at those binding sites prevent the tubulin proteins from linking. The neurite microtubules degenerate and the neuron collapses. Other heavy metals at the same concentration, including aluminum, lead, cadmium, and manganese, did not produce the same effect.

Aluminum functions differently. It destroys the zeta potential, which is the ability for nutrients to remain suspended in fluid. Aajonus described zeta potential as the condition that keeps nutrients traveling freely through blood serum and neurological fluid. Cauterized aluminum, from aluminum cookware, aluminum cans, aluminum foil, soda cans, and oxidized aluminum from window screens, neutralizes the electric field of the surrounding fluid without having any magnetic adherence itself. It will not stick to a magnet. The result is that nutrients drop out of suspension, the way fish in an aquarium hit the bottom after a bomb is dropped in. In the brain, this manifests as Alzheimer's disease. The synaptic charges fail to complete their transmission, skidding along axons without firing properly.

Free radical iron is another example. When iron is separated from its raw food matrix and given as a supplement, it is never ionically or electrolytically active. It is ineffective as nutrition and harmful, because unbound iron that is absorbed into tissue but not utilized cellularly literally rusts in the body, causing severe degeneration. The only form of iron the body can use is bioactive iron in raw meat.

To neutralize one molecule of mercury in the body requires 12 molecules of calcium, 10 molecules of magnesium, approximately 40 molecules of phosphorus, and between 5 and 12 molecules of potassium. The body uses these alkalinizing minerals to form a plaque around heavy metals, particularly around tooth dentine, as a protective buffer. If sufficient minerals are not available to build that plaque, the heavy metal begins burning into the dentine immediately. If the plaque is built, the heavy metal will neutralize its alkalinity and burn through it within hours or days. Bacteria are then dispatched to clean up the damaged dentine. The bacteria are the janitors, not the cause of decay. The heavy metals cause the decay.

Free radicals from toxic metals and other sources carry an acidic charge. The body uses alkalinizing minerals, primarily calcium, phosphorus, potassium, and magnesium, to neutralize these free radical acidic charges and de-ionize them, removing the destructive charge from the body's tissue. This is the correct use of alkalinizing minerals: to neutralize acid free radicals, not to shift the overall pH of the body toward alkalinity as a general practice.

Aajonus was consistent and emphatic that the correct systemic pH for humans and all carnivores is 5.5, not alkaline. His urine, blood, saliva, and fecal matter measured 5.5 for more than 20 years. No carnivore produces alkaline urine or alkaline saliva. Dogs, cats, and gorillas all maintain an acidic system. The alkaline diet theory, which Aajonus traced to Bragg and early pioneers of the alternative health movement, was a theory that became fixed as doctrine without ever being tested against animal physiology.

Overconsumption of alkalinizing vegetables, particularly whole vegetables eaten rather than juiced, causes a cascade of problems. Alkaline fluids secreted during the digestion of vegetable fiber interfere with the acidic bacteria responsible for 80 to 90 percent of digestion. They neutralize hydrochloric acid in the stomach and small intestine, prevent proper breakdown of meat, eggs, and dairy, and in the colon neutralize the E. coli bacteria responsible for synthesizing B vitamins and amino acids. Alkalinity in the wrong compartment is destructive even though neutralizing free radical acid ions in tissue is protective.

When nerves are irritated because the blood supplying them is over-acidic, negativity, hostility, and irritability are common. Aajonus agreed with the general principle that overacidic blood produces negative mental and emotional states, and that alkalinizing the blood reduces this. He rejected alkaline mineral supplements as the solution because they cause systemic imbalances. Green vegetable juices were his preferred tool for alkalinizing the blood because they alkalinize without the same risk of imbalance, provided they are consumed in appropriate amounts and forms.

The ionic disruption caused by sodium clumping extends beyond just killing red blood cells. Aajonus described the process in layers. First, when isolated sodium enters the blood, the body separates it from whatever it was bonded to in the salt. That isolated sodium immediately begins to cluster with other isolated sodium molecules. Second, these clusters begin to explode, fractionating the natural smorgasbord clusters of 93 to 117 nutrients into fragments of 2, 3, or 4 parts. Third, the cell that should be absorbing a full 93 to 117 nutrient smorgasbord receives only a fraction, maybe 15 to 50 nutrients. Fourth, when the sodium clusters pass by an opening cell and the external magnetic charge is greater than the internal ionic charge, the cell's interior ions are ripped out, and the cell can never eat again.

Too much sodium in the system also causes a clumping of sodium ions that disrupts the process by which cells absorb water. When a sodium ion carrying H2O passes a cell, the cell opens to receive the water. If the sodium is clumped, the magnetism of the clump is too great; it rips the interior ions out rather than delivering the water. The result is that cells become dehydrated even when the blood serum has fluid in it. The body retains water in the serum, which creates bloating, but none of that water is delivered cellularly. This is the mechanism of salt-caused dehydration.

Aajonus also described the problem of large salt clumps interacting with an otherwise intact smorgasbord cluster of nutrients. Even if the smorgasbord cluster has not yet been fractionated, when a large salt clump approaches a cell opening, the clump is too large to enter. But its magnetic charge is so intense that it acts like an earthquake or volcano, splitting the smorgasbord cluster into pieces before it can enter the cell. The cell then either receives the fragmented portions, which add up to less than full nutrition, or the reverse magnetic charge rips its interior ions out entirely.

The practical conclusion was that the appropriate source of sodium is tomatoes, which are very high in sodium in a form that does not clump unless cooked. Aajonus recommended tomatoes as the food to eat when high sodium is needed. He was equally clear that no form of condiment salt avoids the clumping problem: sea salt, Celtic salt, Himalayan salt, and all other varieties cause the same ionic disruption once consumed.

Because the body has been so thoroughly exposed to non-organic ions from industrial chemicals, electromagnetic fields, vaccines, processed foods, and environmental pollution, Aajonus acknowledged that the original and perfect ionic balances may never be completely restored. Non-organic ions have become incorporated into the body's own tissues.

Two primary restorative therapies were identified for decreasing ionic restoration time while on the Primal Diet. The first is daily lying on healthy ground for a minimum of 40 minutes per day for four to eight weeks. A cotton, silk, or wool blanket or towel may be used. Lying on sand, as at a beach or desert, also helps rebalance ions. The second is daily long baths in healthy water for a minimum of 40 minutes per day for six to eight weeks. When bathing in municipal water, Aajonus specified adding one and a quarter to one and three quarter cups of raw milk, three tablespoons of raw apple cider vinegar, and two tablespoons of sun-dried sea salt to neutralize the industrial toxins present in municipal water.

The principle behind lying on ground is electromagnetic rebalancing through contact with the earth's natural ionic field. The principle behind bathing in healthy water is transdermal absorption of bioactive ionic substances. Neither therapy replaces the dietary foundation; both work alongside it to accelerate restoration.

Aajonus used the concept of zeta potential to explain one of the mechanisms by which aluminum causes neurological and systemic destruction. Zeta potential is the property that keeps nutrients suspended in fluid. Blood serum, neurological fluid, and other body fluids carry nutrients only because those nutrients maintain a charge relationship with the surrounding fluid that keeps them from sinking. When cauterized aluminum is introduced, it neutralizes the electric field without providing any magnetic alternative. Nutrients drop out of suspension.

This is why people with high aluminum accumulation experience cognitive dysfunction, including Alzheimer's disease. The nutrients that should be traveling to neurons in suspension through the cerebrospinal and neurological fluids instead sink and cannot reach the cells that need them. The synaptic firing mechanism fails not because the neurons themselves are necessarily damaged at first, but because the nutrient delivery system has collapsed.

There is a connection in Aajonus's framework between ionic and acid-base charge and the quality of mental and emotional experience. When the blood is overacidic and the nerves are supplied by blood carrying an excess of free radical acidic ions, the nervous tissue becomes irritated. From that irritation, negativity, hostility, and irritability are common. Aajonus agreed with this principle from his own experience, though he declined to endorse specific percentage claims about negative versus positive thoughts that had circulated in alternative health circles. His position was that overacidic blood from toxic food and lifestyle, not blood pH per se, was the driver of negative mental states.

Aajonus also applied the positive and negative ion framework to magnetic products. He described his experience purchasing a one thousand dollar Nikon magnetic mattress. The mattress as sold had round magnets arranged in lines across the bed, which he found disturbed his sleep and produced no benefit. After examining the product's laboratory specifications, which showed the proper arrangement was in spirals alternating positive and negative poles, he rearranged the magnets into spirals. This produced good effects initially. After five months, the effect reversed and began making him feel horrible.

He attributed the initial problem with the mattress to the fact that most magnetic products available commercially use only one pole, typically the north pole or negative pole. Bombarding the body with only one polarity is like having too much rain: too many protons without the balancing negative charge makes people hyperactive and unstable, the same way prolonged rainy weather in certain climates corresponds with elevated suicide rates and general dysregulation. Rain brings negative ions that counteract proton excess, producing the calm that follows a few days of rain in a place like southern California after a dry period. Using only the negative pole of a magnetic device would do the opposite: overwhelm the system with that charge alone. The appropriate use is balanced alternation of positive and negative poles arranged in the spiral geometry that the manufacturer's own research had validated.

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