Nose

Aajonus was explicit and consistent across multiple teaching contexts that the brain detoxifies through several facial and head routes: the nose, the throat, the gums, the teeth, the tongue, and sometimes the ears. Of these, the nose is among the most heavily used. The heaviest poisons coming out through mucus membranes are usually heavy metals originating from the brain and nervous system. This happens because every time food is cooked, the minerals in it are cauterized and converted into metallic mineral forms. The nervous system uses metallic minerals to transmit information through light, so the brain and nervous system accumulate the majority of heavy metals from a lifetime of cooked food consumption. When the body finally begins detoxifying these deposits, it routes them out through the mucus membranes, including those of the nose and sinuses.

This discharge process can be intense. Aajonus described his own experience of a major nasal detox in which he was discharging approximately two ounces of crusty, crystallized, yellow to amber fluid per day from his nose alone, separate from approximately a cup of toxins per day coming from all the other sores on his body. The nasal discharge in his case became severe enough that a tumor grew at the end of his nose, roughly half the size of his little finger from the tip to the first joint. He treated this tumor by applying fecal matter to it twice a day for four days, after which the tumor was gone.

He also discussed how dental amalgams contribute heavily to this nasal detoxification burden. In the case of Barbara, a woman who came to him with advanced nose cancer, he told her directly that she had so much contamination from dental amalgams that those needed to be removed. He explained that all that toxicity was stored up and coming out through her nose because the brain was detoxifying through that route. Flu shots were also mentioned as contributing to the toxic load the brain was discharging nasally in her case.

When detoxifying acids or heavy metals burn as they exit through the nasal mucus membranes, they can cause burning of the sinuses and eyes, since the same exiting substances that pass through the nose can also come out through the tear ducts. Aajonus noted he had a burned hole in his ear at one point from this same process, and described his sinuses as "dumping and dumping and dumping" as his body worked through accumulated toxicity.

The most extensively documented case in Aajonus's teachings on the nose is Barbara, a woman in her sixties or late sixties who came to him with nose cancer that had already destroyed a significant portion of her nose. The timeline and exact age vary somewhat across different workshop accounts, with Aajonus placing her age at entry variously at 60s, 67, or 78, and her survival time at variously 10 or 12 years after seeing him. Across all accounts the core story is consistent.

Barbara had been a nightclub singer for many years and had been heavily exposed to theatrical smoke. Early in her career, the smoke was created with dry ice, which Aajonus regarded as harmless. Later, the industry switched to vaporized plastic oil, which Aajonus described as vaporized and particleized hydrogenated oil that is essentially plastic, regardless of whether it is marketed as safe vegetable oil. He stated he would not go to any theater using those plastic oils and would walk out if they started using them during a performance. Years of inhaling this vaporized plastic oil was, in Aajonus's view, the primary cause of Barbara's nasal cancer, compounded by the toxicity from dental amalgams and vaccines that her brain was dumping into the area.

When Barbara came to Aajonus, the doctors had told her that without immediate surgery she would be dead in six weeks, and possibly in as few as a few weeks. The proposed surgery was to remove the entire facial bone structure including the jaw, peel back the skin from the center of the face, and replace all the bone with a plastic prosthesis skull and frontal skull. The surgery carried approximately a 25% success rate and a 75% failure rate. The cost was $125,000. Aajonus told her not to have the surgery, predicting that even if she survived the procedure, the intervention itself would likely kill her given the magnitude of the operation on an already compromised body.

His assessment of what the diet could and could not accomplish was honest and specific. He told her: "Barbara, you're only going to lose your nose. We can get it stopped by that time. The most you will lose is your nose." He was not promising reversal; he was promising containment. He acknowledged directly that he could not prevent her from losing her nose. The cancer was already dissolving tissue and the circulation and lymphatic system in the area were not functioning well enough to stop the process entirely.

The treatment protocol for Barbara involved applying vinegar, lime juice, and pineapple juice periodically to the affected tissue. In one account he described alternating vinegar and pineapple juice on the deteriorating tissue to break down dead cells and reduce inflammation. He noted that on an open wound like Barbara's nose, it was difficult to apply topical treatments without causing massive burn and irritation, so much of what he could do had to be accomplished through food and diet alone.

Over approximately five to seven years on the Primal Diet, Barbara lost approximately half of her nose, slightly more than half in some accounts, and then the deterioration stopped. New tissue had begun regrowing at a rate of about one eighth of an inch over the last few months of the period Aajonus described, with the nose starting to grow back on one side while still deteriorating in the cartilage in another area. He stated he was "very happy with that" outcome, noting he had expected her to lose the whole nose and possibly the underlying bone.

Barbara's nose never fully healed. Aajonus was clear that the body was continuing to throw off dead cells but at a very slow rate near the end. She lived with the damaged nose by wearing a bandage over it in public and leaving it open at home. She was not hired as a singer anymore during this period. She died of natural causes, not of cancer, at approximately age 76, having not started the diet until age 67. Her daughters had expected her to die the week she first came to Aajonus. She instead spent ten or more years in functional life.

A separate woman, described as being in her 60s and presenting more recently, had lost one third of her nose before coming to Aajonus and had already undergone radiation therapy followed by a macrobiotic diet, both of which had failed. She was told her cancer was spreading so fast it would consume all of her facial bone. After one year and three months on the Primal Diet, only half of her nose had deteriorated, and new tissue had begun regrowing by one eighth of an inch. She read about a man who had stopped basal cell nose cancer with flax oil within a few months. Aajonus explained that flax oil is a solvent and would react solvent-wise; because she had previous radiation therapy, it might dissolve tissue too quickly. He told her she could try it and see. She did, and within 48 hours the effect was apparent, though the account is cut off before the full outcome is stated.

Aajonus used the case of Malcolm Gold, a guitar player, to illustrate the same mechanism of theatrical smoke damage occurring in a different facial location. Where Barbara's cancer manifested in the nose from her exposure, Malcolm developed his cancer around the eye. Aajonus had warned Malcolm when he came to Los Angeles to do a gig at Universal City, where the smoke was so heavy that Aajonus himself had to sit far in the back and wore a mask for the entire performance. He told Malcolm the smoke was going to catch up with him and that he needed to stop. Malcolm finished a tour for another three months and then stopped. Approximately ten months after quitting the gig, the cancer appeared.

Malcolm did not go to a doctor at all and trusted Aajonus's protocol, which in his case involved applying lime juice and vinegar to the affected area. The photographs Aajonus showed demonstrated the cancer shrinking over time. The approach was essentially the same topical acid application used for Barbara's nose, combined with dietary change.

Aajonus documented his own significant nasal detoxification event extensively. When he was fifteen and a half, a hard ball thrown at approximately 60 miles per hour by an adult shattered his nose into seven pieces. This required two major surgeries over seven years to correct. During one of these surgeries, performed when he was twenty-one, the surgeon reconstructed the nose using aerospace and dental epoxy to glue the bone fragments together, a technique used when bone fragments cannot be pinned. The skin covering the nose was cut and pulled, clamped to the forehead, and the surgeon then had to allow each spot-glued piece of bone to dry before gluing the next fragment.

Approximately ten years before the time of one of his major teaching periods, this epoxy began detoxifying out of his nose and face. As a byproduct of that detoxification, cancer formed, which he regarded as the body's mechanism for dissolving and removing the foreign toxic material. The cancer consumed one third of his nose, one fifth of his left brow, and a quarter-sized area of his forehead. It burned a hole in locations on his forehead, damaged his eye, and during the night the acids from the cancer process went down and burned his cornea. The nose had also been reconstructed three more times after the initial surgery.

When the laboratory tested a chunk of his skin that fell off near his burned eyeball, the report listed components of aerospace and dental epoxy as well as basal cell melanoma. The lab technician, when told that the cancer was centered on the nose, asked if Aajonus had fractured his nose, indicating that the technician recognized the connection between epoxy use in nasal bone reconstruction and subsequent cancer formation. The entire nose-epoxy detoxification process lasted approximately six weeks, though the scars continued healing afterward. Four uses of raw sirloin applied to the face as an overnight topical treatment removed approximately fifty percent of the scarring on his nose and forehead.

Aajonus taught that 1,600 varieties of Salmonella naturally inhabit the human nose. This is part of the same broader bacterial ecology that historically maintained the skin through approximately 2,300 to 2,600 varieties of Salmonella and Listeria eating dead cells before regular bathing destroyed those populations. In the nose, as in the skin, these bacteria serve a specific purpose: eating and removing dead cells as they accumulate. Without them, dead tissue would build up in the nasal passages. The nose, unlike the skin, cannot be washed with soap without causing burning and bleeding, so its microbiome remained more intact than the skin's even with modern hygiene practices.

He extended this principle to the ears and eyes as well, noting that what cleans the nose is bacteria, what cleans the ears is bacteria and fungus, and that these organisms function as "janitors" doing essential maintenance work. The attempt to sterilize these environments causes more harm than the bacteria themselves.

Aajonus referenced the position of Australian doctor Professor Friedrich Bischinger, who publicly stated that people who pick their noses with their fingers were healthier, happier, and better in tune with their bodies, and that eating the dried remains was a great way of strengthening the immune system. Bischinger's reasoning was that the nose is a filter collecting a great deal of bacteria, and when this mixture reaches the intestines it works like a medicine, providing a natural immune boost equivalent to what medicine attempts through vaccines.

Aajonus agreed with the breathing and hygiene rationale, stating that fingers can reach the nooks and crannies of the nostrils more effectively than handkerchiefs, keeping the nose cleaner and improving breathing and oxygen intake. However, he added a critical qualification that Bischinger's advice did not account for: most of the pollution the body discards into the nostrils contains the most contaminated free radicals from the brain. The body has already gone through an arduous process of neutralizing those toxins and encapsulating them in mucus. Eating that mucus would mean re-ingesting the very toxins the brain worked to expel. He therefore concluded it would be far better to flick the material away or wipe it into a handkerchief rather than eat it.

He also addressed the phenomenon of children picking their noses and eating the pickings, explaining that this behavior, like nail-biting, is usually caused by a mineral or protein deficiency. The child's body is seeking those nutrients. His recommended remedy was one tablespoon of raw no-salt-added cheese mixed with one to one and a half teaspoons of unheated honey, combined in the mouth, taken twice daily. This combination would address the mineral and protein deficiencies driving the behavior.

When a person wrote to Aajonus describing a nose that felt blocked much of the time, not fully obstructed but enough to notice and enough that breathing never felt quite right, he offered a direct explanation and solution. He noted that the air had been drier than usual and many people were experiencing the same thing. His answer was that foods which help produce lubricating mucus are most important in this situation. The primary recommendation was the Lubrication Formula, made with unsalted raw butter. He did not attribute the fatigue the person also mentioned to the reduced nasal oxygen as the primary cause, calling it doubtful that the partial blockage was responsible for the fatigue.

For a person who had moved to a colder northern climate and experienced a recurrence of intense sinus congestion lasting five months, Aajonus was asked for guidance on breathing through the nose more effectively. The person noted that a hot tub used almost daily for a week had lightened the sinus situation but had not resolved it, and that the previous night both nostrils were completely clogged and breathing had to be done through the mouth. The response text from Aajonus is partially preserved in the sources but the specific protocol advice he gave in that exchange beyond the Lubrication Formula context is not fully captured in the available passages.

For sinusitis more broadly, he framed it as a detoxification of the nasal mucosa related to brain toxicity and to a lack of enzyme mutations for processing cooked red fruits and vegetables and sometimes cooked yellow foods. Avoiding cooked red and cooked yellow fruits and vegetables stops the buildup of cooked resins and residues, reducing the damage caused when they detoxify through the nasal passages. He was explicit that the flow of mucus through the sinuses is necessary to free the body of toxins and should not be suppressed. He recommended eating raw red and yellow fruits and vegetables, including smoothies and juices, to soothe nasal passages, and noted that fresh raw meat including tuna and swordfish helps heal and strengthen sinuses. A fresh raw orange, carrot, or tomato smoothie was specifically mentioned as soothing and healing for the sinuses. Eating fresh local bee pollen, starting at one quarter to one half teaspoon unheated six times daily and potentially working up to one half cup daily, was offered as a way to help reverse hay fever, which is a related condition involving irritated nasal mucous membranes.

For the underlying protein deficiency that causes poor mucus quality, he emphasized eggs as a critical food because mucus requires substantial protein to form proper fiber structures. When mucus fibers are too wide apart from protein deficiency, particles pass through and cause the irritation and solvent response that manifests as allergic rhinitis.

Aajonus defined rhinitis directly as a detoxification of the nasal mucosa causing increased mucous secretions and nasal congestion, related to brain toxicity and lack of enzyme mutations for eating cooked red and cooked yellow fruits and vegetables. The key intervention is to stop eating cooked red and cooked yellow fruits and vegetables, which prevents further buildup of cooked resins and residues that would otherwise damage the nasal passages during detoxification. The mucus flow itself he regarded as necessary and appropriate, not something to be stopped, because it is the mechanism by which toxins are freed from the body. Poor thyroid function usually accompanies rhinitis, though the full elaboration of that connection is not captured in the available passages.

Aajonus was personally committed to filtering the air he breathed in chemically contaminated environments. He used an organic cotton mask from a brand he referenced as "I Can Breathe" and layered a silk mask over it for airplane flights. He described his technique of exhaling heavily from his mouth through the area of the nose of the masks to moisten them and make them more effective. He was clear that these masks were useful for airplane flights but not for heavy chemical exposures.

In heavy traffic situations, particularly in Asian cities where people drive motorcycles and motorbikes through dense exhaust, he used a folded organic cotton handkerchief rolled into many layers and positioned under his nose with the mask strapped over it to create a tight seal, so that all inhaled air had to pass through multiple layers of cotton before reaching the nostrils. He trained himself to breathe in through the nose and exhale out through the mouth even while sleeping, noting that this took training and focus but could be learned.

He also kept an Israeli gas mask in his car for extreme contamination situations and described being pulled over at a border crossing while possessing it. When doing high smoke theater events that he could not entirely avoid, he described wearing a mask throughout the entire performance and sitting as far back as possible.

He was unambiguous about vaporized plastic oil used in theatrical smoke machines, which he regarded as one of the most dangerous inhaled exposures available in ordinary social settings. He would walk out of any venue where such machines were running. When dry ice was used for theatrical smoke in earlier decades he regarded that as harmless, but the modern vaporized hydrogenated oil substitutes he considered seriously toxic regardless of the industry claim that they are safe vegetable oil products.

For external nasal cancers and wounds, the topical agents Aajonus mentioned across different cases include vinegar, lime juice, and pineapple juice. These were applied periodically and alternately to break down dead cells and reduce inflammation. He described the effect in Barbara's case as calming the inflammation even while the tissue was still covered in impetigo-like scabs showing the depth of the deterioration. The challenge with applying these acidic substances to open nasal wounds is that they cause significant burn and irritation, which limited how aggressively he could apply them. In cases where the wound was on another body part, topical treatment would have been more aggressive.

For his own epoxy-derived nasal scarring, Aajonus used raw sirloin applied to the skin of his face overnight, held in place with a black silk ski mask. He noted that four applications removed approximately fifty percent of the scarring on his nose and forehead. He threw the meat out the next morning rather than eating it, as it was too dry by then, and noted that crows and vultures would eat it.

Aajonus mentioned using cotton balls with clove oil inserted into the nostrils as a way to block an overwhelming odor. He described this technique in two different contexts. In one, he was helping a documentary cameraman who was repeatedly vomiting from the smell of high meat being filmed on his back porch, with limited space available. He gave the cameraman cotton balls soaked in clove oil inserted into both nostrils, which stopped the vomiting and allowed the filming to continue. In the other context, from his time with Eskimos eating rotten fermented meat, the Eskimos used cotton balls soaked in musk oil inserted into his nose so he would not vomit from the smell, which allowed him to eat a ping-pong ball-sized amount of the high meat for the first time. He also noted that plugging the nose when consuming very old high meat prevents smelling or tasting it, making it possible to swallow capsule-sized pieces down with milk.