Organ Transplants
Not addressed as a discrete subject in the available sources. Adjacent material covers organ removal and its permanent functional consequences, general surgical preparation, and stem cell therapy as an alternative regenerative approach for cardiac damage.
Organ transplants are not a subject Aajonus Vonderplanitz addressed directly or at any length in the surviving seminar and workshop transcripts available here. The source passages contain no extended discussion of organ transplantation as a procedure, no protocols for people who have received transplants, no framework analysis of immunosuppression, and no case studies involving transplant recipients. The subject simply does not appear as a discrete topic in the material provided.
The passages do contain adjacent material that touches on what happens when organs are removed or their function is compromised. Aajonus spoke at length about the consequences of spleen removal, the impairment that comes from having only one kidney, the loss of the appendix, and his general position that the medical profession removes organs prematurely and without understanding their full function. These observations, however, are about organ removal rather than organ transplantation from one body to another.
Organ Removal and Its Consequences
On the spleen specifically, Aajonus stated that when doctors remove the spleen, they take away the red and white blood cell maturation and storage area, leaving the body with a permanently reduced capacity. He observed that "anybody who has a spleen removed, they drop pretty fast as far as climbing up stairs, exercise, anything like that. Terribly reduced." He noted that people with high adrenaline and testosterone are somewhat less affected than others, but the functional loss is real and persistent for everyone.
On the kidney, he wrote in a correspondence reproduced in the source material that donating a kidney is "a tremendous sacrifice, because one kidney has to filter the blood without rest. Normally, one kidney will function at a time while the other rests and re-balances itself. Ammonia production in the kidneys is impaired if only one kidney functions or only one exists. This is a tremendous loss to people who want to be physically active. Challenging sports are most often very difficult. Lifetime and life quality are sacrificed."
On the appendix, Aajonus described it as a library containing a record of every microbe and foreign substance that has ever entered the body, along with a chemical resolution for each one. Without the appendix, the body has to re-evaluate every new substance from scratch, creating a delay of 36 to 72 hours before the body can mount a proper response, compared to roughly 40 minutes in a person with an intact appendix.
Preparing For Surgical Procedures
The one specific protocol Aajonus offered in these sources concerning surgery in general, not transplantation specifically, was contained in a written correspondence on the subject of kidney surgery. He stated: "consuming at least 9 eggs a day prior to and following surgery is helpful. Eating a lot of meat helps to regenerate cells for proper healing."
Stem Cell Technology Alternative
The closest the source material comes to addressing a situation analogous to transplantation is Aajonus's discussion of cardiac stem cell therapy in the case of the entertainer Don Ho. He described a procedure in which blood was drawn in the United States, sent to a laboratory in Israel where cardiac stem cells were separated and bred on the patient's own blood serum, and then sent to a hospital in Bangkok where the cells were injected in and around the heart. According to Aajonus, this process "will actually grow, natural bypass, and build whole new arteries, rebuild the heart structure, this damaged heart is the problem, completely rebuild." He reported that Don Ho, who had undergone three open-heart surgeries and several bypasses and was expected to die within ten days, lived another year and a half and returned to work as a performer. Aajonus presented this not as a recommendation for medical intervention but as an illustration of what stem cells can accomplish, and he connected it to the practice of eating bone marrow, which he said contains undifferentiated stem cells that "helps regenerate cells faster."
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*Cross-References*
- Kidney function and ammonia production - Spleen and red blood cell storage - Bone marrow consumption - Egg consumption before and after surgery - Appendix as biological library