Nervous System

Aajonus consistently introduced the nervous system as one of three fluid networks of equal anatomical complexity. The blood, the neurological system, and the lymph each form an intricate web network running through every microscopic region of the body. The blood carries oxygen in and carbon dioxide out, though under conditions of systemic toxicity it takes on additional jobs it was not designed to perform, such as delivering nutrients, which is the lymphatic system's proper role. The lymphatic system feeds every cell in the body except red and white blood cells and removes all byproducts and waste. The neurological system transfers information only. It uses up nutrients rather than delivering them.

Unlike the lymphatic system, which has hundreds of nodes and glands distributed throughout the body for collecting and dissolving dead cells and debris, the blood and neurological system have no such nodes. The lymphatic system is therefore approximately twice the functional size of either the blood or the neurological system when measured by the complexity of its infrastructure. Aajonus regarded the lymphatic system as the most important for generating health in the present day precisely because it is the immune system in any practical sense. The neurological system, however, is the coordinator. Without its constant signaling the body cannot function as a unified organism.

The nervous system's dependence on metallic minerals was a point Aajonus returned to in every major lecture context. Metals reflect light and conduct electricity, and those two properties are the entire physical basis of how nerve signaling works. The specific metals he named as present and functional in the nervous system include mercury, aluminum, lead, cadmium, zinc, iodine, iron, arsenic, and gold, along with all other metallic trace minerals found in food and in the ground. In the proper ionic form, meaning bound within a full matrix of other nutrients as they exist in raw whole food, every one of these metals is beneficial and necessary in trace amounts.

When these metals are in their correct ionic bonded form inside a living food, they perform their signaling functions without causing harm. Mercury in that state is not a toxin. Aluminum in that state is not destructive. The problem begins when the ionic bonds are broken by cooking, by food processing, by environmental pollution, by pharmaceutical injection, or by any other process that liberates the metal from its nutritional matrix. Once separated from those bonds, the metal becomes a free radical. It is no longer a conductor operating within a signal circuit. It becomes a damaging substance looking for somewhere to concentrate.

Because the brain and nervous system attract metallic minerals by their very function, free radical metals from any source migrate there preferentially. Aajonus estimated that approximately eighty percent of the heavy metal free radicals produced in the body end up stored in the brain and nervous system. The brain's extraordinarily high fat content, which he cited as sixty to eighty percent fat depending on region, with the myelin sheath sometimes reaching eighty percent fat, makes it the body's primary storage site for toxins of all kinds, since fat binds with poisons to prevent them from causing immediate damage to more critical structures.

Every time food is cooked, the heat fractures the ionic bonds holding metallic minerals in stable relationship with the vitamins, fats, and proteins surrounding them. Aajonus used the analogy of clay to describe this: when clay is pliable and moist it is workable and useful, but when fired it becomes rigid, brittle, and entirely different in its behavior. The minerals in food undergo an analogous transformation. They go from bioavailable, properly bonded, functioning trace elements into isolated, chemically reactive free radicals that damage tissue wherever they accumulate.

The result of a lifetime of cooked food consumption is a progressive concentration of toxic metallic residue in the brain and nervous system. This is not an incidental side effect but the primary mechanism by which cooked diets degrade neurological function over time. Aajonus pointed to the fact that human brains have been growing larger over generations not as evidence of increasing intelligence but as evidence of increasing toxic storage. He noted that Albert Einstein used only about twelve percent of his brain and suggested that the remaining mass serves as what he called a "garbage dump" for metallic toxins that would otherwise circulate and damage the rest of the body.

Aajonus drew a direct line between this metal accumulation and the full range of neurological and mental conditions, from mild cognitive fog and difficulty remembering to severe psychiatric disturbance, autism, and behavioral disorders in children. He argued that children are especially vulnerable because they are still operating almost entirely on animal instinct and immediate chemical reactions, making the effects of toxic metal accumulation on their neurological chemistry immediately visible in behavior.

Aajonus distinguished between the effects of different metals when they become free radicals in the nervous system.

Aluminum, when it enters the neurological fluid in its free radical form, destroys what he called the zeta potential, the fluid's ability to keep nutrients suspended in proper suspension. He compared this to dropping liquid aluminum into an aquarium, which causes fish to immediately sink to the bottom and lose the ability to swim. In the brain, the same effect manifests as a synapse that fires but cannot project its signal through the axons and dendrites properly. The signal fires and then sits stagnant in the vascular channels between neurons rather than propagating through the ganglia. This is experienced as a thought that vanishes mid-formation, a momentary disappearance of a concept just before it could be completed.

Mercury causes a categorically more destructive effect. Where aluminum disrupts signal propagation, mercury fragments neuron cells themselves. Aajonus cited research from the University of Calgary and Alberta University showing time-lapse video of neurons growing in a petri dish. When researchers added a two percent solution of thimerosal, the mercury compound used in vaccines, the neurons visibly disintegrated within seconds, dissolving and disappearing without even requiring direct contact in some demonstrations. The mere proximity of mercury vapor was sufficient to begin destroying neuronal structure. Complete and permanent memory loss, meaning information that is gone with no possibility of retrieval, was described by Aajonus as typically a mercury problem rather than an aluminum problem, because mercury destroys the neuron itself rather than merely blocking signal transmission.

He emphasized that mercury is the most lethal neurotoxin known to the human nervous system, and that the mercury delivered via vaccines, where he cited 76,000 trillion molecules of mercury per dose in 96 percent of vaccines manufactured, is incomparably more concentrated than anything that might be encountered in food. The mercury found in fish, which the medical establishment warned against, was described as not even a hundredth of a fraction of a percent of what is delivered in a single vaccine injection. He cited data indicating that within the first twenty-four hours after injection, only seven percent of mercury is expelled through the urinary tract and twenty-four percent through other routes, leaving the majority lodged in tissue.

Aajonus connected his own autism diagnosis directly to mercury from vaccines. He described being one of the earliest talkers in his family, speaking his first word at five and a half months, and then going entirely silent and becoming autistic following a third tetanus shot in childhood. He described the mercury as having gone into his "communication center" and producing the autistic state.

He also recounted an incident where he was eating buffalo brain as part of his healing diet and discovered the animal had been vaccinated. He had been assured the buffalo had been clean for three years, but he explained that mercury poisoning stays in the nervous system for an entire lifetime unless a specific nutritional protocol is used to remove it, and a buffalo has no access to such a protocol. He described going through a neurological detox as a result, though he reported no lasting residual damage showed in his irises because he was following a sound diet in every other respect.

Two specific anatomical features of the nervous system received substantial attention in Aajonus's framework: the myelin sheath and the meningi.

The myelin sheath is the fatty coating that wraps the nerve fibers throughout the body and provides a similar coating inside the brain itself. Aajonus cited the fat content of the myelin at sixty percent in some descriptions and up to eighty percent in others. This high fat content serves the same dual function as fat throughout the body: it insulates the nerve signal and it stores toxins to prevent them from causing immediate structural damage. When adrenaline levels are chronically elevated and there is insufficient fat circulating in the blood, Aajonus described adrenaline literally consuming the myelin, eating into its fatty structure to use that fat as fuel. As the myelin thins, the nerve becomes progressively less insulated, allowing far more electromagnetic energy to flood in from the blood and surrounding environment. The result is hypersensitivity, irritability, anxiety, and an inability to manage sensory input.

He described this directly: as the myelin thins, it stimulates the nerves mechanically, and simultaneously the reduced insulation allows electromagnetic energy from outside to overload the system in ways a healthy thick myelin sheath would buffer. The practical outcome is a nervous system that cannot regulate its own reactivity.

The meningi is the layered sheath of skin surrounding the brain itself, which Aajonus described as approximately eleven layers thick. Unlike the neurons inside the brain, which have no nerves and therefore register no pain, the meningi is loaded with nerve endings. Brain surgery can be performed without anesthetic on the brain tissue itself because neurons do not feel pain, but the meningi is intensely sensitive. Headaches, in Aajonus's framework, are not felt in the brain itself but in the meningi as the swollen brain pushes outward against the skull and creates pressure on those nerve-rich layers of coating.

He also described viral activity in the meningi as specific to individual tissue layers. A virus will be produced to dissolve one specific kind of tissue within one specific layer of the meningi, perhaps one percent of that entire layer, and that localized dissolving produces an immune response with headaches, mucous discharge, and the inflammatory signs associated with meningitis.

One of the more counterintuitive aspects of Aajonus's framework is his description of the large intestine, specifically the sigmoid colon, as the primary source of nutrition for the brain and nervous system rather than the small intestine. He described the bacteria in the large intestine as a different population from those in the small intestine, consisting mainly of E. coli variants, and their specific work as breaking down fats and proteins that arrived incompletely processed from the small intestine into molecules fine enough to feed the brain and nervous system directly.

He put the proportion at eighty to ninety percent of the nutrients the brain and nervous system receive coming from the bowel, with only ten to twenty percent arriving from the small intestine. Because of this, a congested, poorly functioning large intestine is a direct cause of brain and nervous system nutritional deficiency. The body responds to that deficiency by slowing transit time, holding onto bowel contents as long as possible in order to extract more from them. This is the mechanism behind constipation in Aajonus's framework: the body is trying to feed a starving brain.

He also described a specific protocol using this anatomy. Because the fats in food are absorbed before the food reaches the colon, meaning the brain and nervous system are largely fat-deprived under conventional diets, he described a way to feed fat directly to the sigmoid colon by applying animal fats rectally as a suppository and then performing specific movement sequences to move them through the colon. After lying on the right side to allow the suppository to melt and travel along the transverse colon, and then rolling onto the left side while rolling the stomach in a belly dancer motion to move the material down the descending and into the sigmoid colon, the fats are absorbed directly from that region into the neurological fluid. He reported that within ten to fifteen minutes of this protocol, people describe waking feeling dramatically different, with stronger and more resilient nervous system function.

Aajonus described the interaction between dietary carbohydrates and neurological fluid as a direct source of impaired brain function. The advanced glycation end products, which he referred to as AGEs, produced when sugars react with proteins in the body, make fluids sticky. When this stickiness develops in neurological fluid, the result is a synapse that misfires. Instead of projecting cleanly to its target brain center, the signal goes sideways or gets stuck partway through the axon. The experience is spaciness, unclear thinking, and poor cognitive function.

He applied this specifically to meal timing, recommending that the first meal of the day never be fruit or high-carbohydrate juice like carrot juice, because that would immediately produce sticky neurological fluids and impair brain function for the hours following. Protein, especially raw meat, was his recommendation for the first meal to ensure clear neurological fluid and sharp mental function. He described his own experience of significant cognitive improvement when meat was included versus relying only on dairy and eggs.

Aajonus reframed polio entirely within his neurological toxicity framework. He described polio as a virus, meaning in his framework a solvent produced by the body rather than a living organism, created specifically to clean the nervous system. He described how increased industrial pollution in the early and mid twentieth century, including mercury from coal burning that entered homes through internal stove pipes as vapor and was inhaled directly into the brain and nervous system, caused the body to begin storing toxic metals in the spinal cord. By 1958, he described, the human body had learned to store this contamination in the spinal cord, and the concentration became so severe that the usual biological tools, bacteria, parasites, and fungus, could not function in that environment. Because those organisms could not survive in the contamination to perform their normal cleansing work, the body resorted to viral solvents. Polio was that viral solvent applied to the nervous system.

He drew a sharp distinction between bacterial and viral meningitis in terms of severity. Bacterial meningitis was less alarming to the medical profession because the bacteria eating waste and decomposing material actually reduce the volume of problematic content. Viral meningitis produces mass swelling because the solvent is dissolving tissue rapidly and the resulting dissolved material creates significant inflammatory response, which the medical profession found more frightening without understanding the function.

Aajonus described a mechanism by which toxins stored in the stomach are released gradually into food as it passes through, poisoning the entire intestinal tract incrementally. Because the nerve system is connected with everything, once the intestinal tract is poisoned, those toxins move into the nervous system directly and then filter out from there to the whole body. The nervous system acts as a distribution network for this toxicity, spreading it thinly throughout the system so no single area receives a fatally concentrated dose. He framed this as a protective mechanism: the body is diluting a threat it cannot immediately eliminate.

Aajonus explicitly distinguished between detoxification affecting the blood, which his standard primal diet recipes address, and detoxification affecting the nervous system, which requires a different approach. He stated directly that the usual toxicity remedies in his book handle blood toxicity and do very little for neurological toxicity. Migraines and cluster headaches are his cited examples of conditions where the toxicity is specifically in the nervous system rather than the blood, and blood-oriented remedies provide only minimal relief.

For nervous system detoxification specifically he described several dietary strategies. Eating large amounts of cheese was recommended because cheese acts as an absorbent that binds to free radical metals and carries them out of the body without being digested itself, allowing the poisons to leave without reabsorption. Eggs were also recommended. He emphasized that one must not fall asleep during the period when the nervous system is actively detoxifying, though the specific details of timing for this point are not fully elaborated in the available passages.

The fat protocol for feeding the brain and nervous system through the colon, described above, is also a direct nervous system intervention. As the myelin and neurological fluid become properly fat-supplied, the buffering and signal-transmission capacity of the nervous system improves rapidly, sometimes within the ten to fifteen minute window he described.

Regarding mercury specifically, he stated that mercury locks permanently into tissues and will remain in the nervous system for an entire lifetime unless the person knows how to remove it through specific dietary chemistry. He did not detail the complete mercury removal protocol in the available passages but made clear that standard medical approaches do not address it and that the body alone, without dietary support, cannot clear it.

Aajonus used the capacity for color discrimination as one measurable indicator of nervous system function over time. He described how approximately one hundred years ago people could distinguish approximately one million shades of color. In the present day people are lucky to distinguish five hundred colors. He contrasted this with computer displays capable of distinguishing two million or more color gradations, and framed the human decline as a direct consequence of heavy metal accumulation in the neurological fluid degrading the light-reflecting and light-conducting capacity of the system. As the metallic environment of the nervous system becomes increasingly contaminated with ionically disrupted free radical metals, its ability to process and differentiate fine light signals decreases correspondingly.

Aajonus referred repeatedly to the work of a researcher he identified as Elnora Van Winkle, whom he described as having spent forty-seven to fifty-two years at Milhauser Laboratories at New York University Medical Center cataloging every chemical, compound, and nutrient in the human nervous system and brain, naming them, describing their properties, and organizing that body of knowledge. He called her solely responsible for that cataloging work.

Van Winkle's specific finding that Aajonus cited was her discovery of psychotropic trauma and stress hormone waste products. When the body produces neurological hormones during trauma, those hormones leave behind waste products. Those waste products, when they build up and begin circulating in the blood without any current-life trauma to explain them, produce emotional states that feel like responses to present circumstances but are actually the residue of earlier trauma chemistry. Van Winkle wrote a paper called "The Biology of Emotions," which Aajonus said exists in two versions: a highly technical version with full chemical nomenclature and a layperson's version. He directed people to search for Elnora Van Winkle online to find both.

Aajonus's description of Van Winkle's position was that these floating neurological waste products from old trauma can trigger emotional turmoil that has no identifiable cause in the person's current life. He linked this directly to the body's need to periodically discharge those stored chemical residues, and connected it to the broader framework of emotional expression as a physiological cleansing process.

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