Parathyroid

The parathyroids sit alongside the thyroid, two on each side, and Aajonus was consistent in describing this configuration as giving the body four parathyroids plus two thyroid lobes for a total of six glands serving the same underlying protective function for the heart and lungs. He sometimes described this as five backups for one gland, counting from the perspective of each thyroid lobe having two parathyroids as its reserve. He also framed it as a backup for the backup, a phrase he used repeatedly: "The parathyroids are already backup for the thyroid, but what is more important? The lungs and the heart."

The thymus gland sits below this system and serves as yet another layer of protection, backing up the thyroid and parathyroid specifically in relation to the lungs, esophagus, and digestive tract. Aajonus positioned these glands hierarchically, with the parathyroids being the more concentrated and urgent reserve compared to the thymus, which operates at a different level of urgency and covers a somewhat different anatomical territory.

The core purpose Aajonus assigned to the parathyroids is the production of thyroxins in emergencies where the thyroid cannot respond fast enough or with enough volume. His clearest example was trauma: if a person falls from a tree, hits the ground, and loses their wind with their heart stopping and breathing ceasing, the thyroid fires first, and if that is insufficient, the parathyroids fire next. He described thyroxin levels in trauma patients as being so high that only emergency physicians treating badly injured accident victims ever see comparable numbers. In healthy animals, this is the only time these glands would ever be called upon.

He used the example of a football player knocked unconscious on the field to illustrate measurable thyroxin spikes: "Test his blood before he goes on the field, and then test him after he gets hit by eight guys on the field. Knocks them out on the ground. Knocks the wind out of him. His heart stops beating." The concentrations of thyroxins in that moment are what restart the heart and reinitiate breathing. Without functional thyroid and parathyroid tissue to do this, the person would not recover without artificial intervention such as electric shock and forced respiration.

He connected this directly to heart attack mortality: when someone has a heart attack and cannot be resuscitated, it is often because the thyroid is already so ruptured and damaged that there are no functional reserves, no parathyroids capable of producing the hormonal surge needed to restart the heart.

In his hands-on readings at workshops, Aajonus frequently identified parathyroids as overactive rather than dormant, and he was careful to distinguish between overactivity that is producing results and overactivity that is compensating without adequate output. He described one individual's parathyroids as "overactive on both sides, but really not functioning that well. The one on the left is overactive but not producing much. It tries." This distinction, between a gland straining to produce and a gland actually succeeding, appeared throughout his assessments.

Overactive parathyroids in the absence of sufficient thyroid function were a common finding. When the thyroid is nearly nonfunctional, the parathyroids respond by working harder, sometimes continuously, because the body cannot afford to let the backup system rest when the primary system has failed. Aajonus noted: "The parathyroids are very overactive trying to make up for the inactivity of the thyroid gland." He also observed that in children, the parathyroids are "very well developed and they're working as much if not more than the thyroid glands because of our toxicity and problems," which he considered a troubling sign of how deeply compromised the modern baseline of health has become.

At the other extreme, Aajonus observed parathyroids that had essentially ceased functioning or appeared to have dissolved or atrophied. In one reading he described a parathyroid as looking "completely dissolved" alongside a thyroid that was not active. He described parathyroids as "underactive" in cases of heavy metal toxicity concentrated in the thyroid region, and noted deterioration patterns where the glandular tissue had broken down over time from accumulated exposure to solvents, metals, pharmaceutical residues, and the systemic effects of a chronically cooked-food diet.

He observed that deteriorating parathyroids often appeared alongside deteriorating tonsils and thyroid tissue, suggesting that the whole glandular complex of the neck and throat tends to break down or strain together. Scarring in the tonsil area, metal poisoning surrounding the throat, and toxic lymphatic congestion in the neck were recurring features in cases where the parathyroids were either barely functioning or straining without output.

Aajonus held a firm position that taking synthetic or even natural thyroxin supplements causes the thyroid and parathyroids to begin atrophying because the external supply eliminates the body's need to produce its own. He drew an explicit parallel to insulin and the pancreas: "If you take any kind of thyroxin, T3 or T4 supplement, thyroid is not going to do anything. It's going to start atrophying. It's going to shut down. Just like pancreas' when you take the insulin." He warned that if the glandular tissue deteriorates completely through disuse induced by supplementation, it may never regenerate.

When he recommended consuming raw glandular tissue from animals, such as raw thyroid from deer blended with milk and red onion, the purpose was to provide the body with raw hormonal and nutritional material that could stimulate the body's own glandular recovery without suppressing it. The principle was that the gland recognizes its own kind of tissue and uses that material to rebuild, rather than simply receiving a finished hormone that shuts down the body's own production.

Aajonus did not offer a single dedicated protocol for the parathyroids separate from the broader support of the thyroid gland complex and the overall raw diet, but he made several specific observations and recommendations in the context of glandular recovery.

For individuals with underactive or deteriorating thyroid and parathyroid tissue, he recommended obtaining raw thyroid gland from deer or other animals and blending it with milk and red onion, describing the result as tasting like clam chowder. He described this as the most direct way to regenerate the gland: eating the corresponding raw glandular tissue from an animal provides concentrated material the body can use to rebuild that specific tissue.

For the general support of glands throughout the neck region, including the parathyroids, he emphasized the need for stable animal fats in the body, because without adequate fat the body has no buffer against acidic compounds and toxins that irritate and damage glandular tissue. He observed in one case that "you have no stable animal fats in your body, so everything is very, very tenuous. Any compound that is of an acidic nature will irritate" the affected area, directly connecting fat deficiency to glandular vulnerability in the throat.

He recommended the lubrication and moisturizing formulas for individuals whose glandular tissue, including the parathyroids, appeared to be drying out and shriveling, describing the tissue in one case as looking "almost like beef jerky" and noting that daily lubrication formula application was necessary to prevent further desiccation and support regeneration.

For hyperthyroid states, which involve overactive thyroid and compensating parathyroid activity, he recommended eating five ounces of raw chicken at the same time as three ounces of fish with one quarter teaspoon of royal jelly to help the thyroid and associated glands regain balance. He noted that hyperthyroid episodes typically follow a cold or flu where the thyroid was exhausted by the detoxification effort, and that the system usually reconstitutes and rebalances within three months if thyroxin supplementation is not taken.

Across dozens of individual readings documented in the workshop transcripts, Aajonus noted the following recurring patterns in parathyroid status:

Parathyroid tissue described as "excellent" was the rarest and most notable finding, and he commented when it appeared that this was how all glands should look, observing the healthy energetic activity as a contrast to the compromised states he saw most often.

Left and right parathyroids frequently differed substantially in activity and condition within the same individual, with one side often compensating for the other. He noted cases where the right parathyroid was very overactive and fine while the left was barely functioning, and cases where the opposite held. He also noted that the side with better glandular function did not always correspond to the side with better circulation, suggesting glandular health and circulatory health are not simply parallel.

Cases involving heavy metal poisoning, particularly in the throat, neck, and tonsil regions, consistently showed parathyroid debilitation. Metal toxicity from vaccines, penicillin shots, and environmental sources concentrated in the neck area and impaired the entire glandular complex there.

Cases involving excessive water consumption showed waterlogging and dissolution of glandular tissue, including the parathyroids, consistent with his broader position that excess water consumption dissolves tissue and undermines glandular integrity.

Cases involving long-term deficiency of animal fats showed parathyroid tissue that was thin, barely active, or partially dissolved, while cases involving adequate fat consumption showed better-preserved and more functional glandular tissue overall.

Aajonus placed the parathyroids within a larger argument he made repeatedly: that the pharmaceutical and medical industries have fabricated a false picture of the thyroid and parathyroid system as regulators of weight, hair loss, and energy, when the actual biological purpose of the entire six-gland complex is to protect the heart and lungs in emergencies. He described the promotion of thyroid supplementation as a commercial strategy built on vanity fears, fat and hair loss being the two most exploited anxieties of modern culture, designed to get people to take thyroxin preparations indefinitely.

He argued that low thyroxin readings in a blood test do not indicate a need for supplementation; they indicate that the body is not in emergency mode, which would be the appropriate state for a healthy person who has not just fallen from a tree or sustained trauma. He described the proliferation of thyroxin product numbers, from T1 and T2 to T3, T4, T7, and beyond, as evidence of commercial expansion rather than medical discovery, noting that the existence of multiple products with no multi-thyroxin combination formula demonstrates the absurdity of the enterprise.

His framework held that the correct response to impaired parathyroid and thyroid function is to address the underlying cause: remove the toxic load through raw diet, warm baths, and targeted foods; provide raw glandular tissue to support regeneration; and ensure adequate animal fat is present in the body as a buffer. The glands will then begin reconstituting themselves as the environment they operate in becomes less hostile, which is the only sustainable restoration because supplementation forecloses that recovery by eliminating the body's incentive to produce its own hormones.

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