Phthalates

Aajonus identified multiple overlapping routes through which phthalates and related plastic compounds enter the body. Canned food with plastic linings was the primary dietary route he discussed. Any processed food item with a plastic interior lining, which he said now includes virtually all processed food packaging, carries the risk of phthalate contamination. The outgassing is continuous and worsens with temperature, meaning canned or packaged foods that have been stored in warm conditions or handled in warm environments carry a higher phthalate load than those kept cold.

Synthetic clothing was identified as a respiratory and dermal exposure route. Aajonus pointed out that synthetic fibers are plastic fibers, and anyone wearing synthetic garments is breathing plastic particles continuously throughout the day. He posed the question directly: would you eat plastic? His point was that inhaling plastic fibers from synthetic clothes accomplishes essentially the same thing through a different route. The fibers get into the lungs and cause congestion, and because plastic does not transfer the way natural fibers do, it cannot be carried out of the body by mucus the way wool or silk fibers can be. He recommended natural clothing, specifically silk and wool, as substitutes, noting that an allergy to wool indicates insufficient mucus production to protect the mucous lining, not that wool is dangerous.

Building interiors, including carpets and car interiors, were identified as ongoing outgassing sources. Plastics in cars and household goods begin to flake and powder after approximately two years, releasing particles that are inhaled. Because dioxins and other antifungal poisons were deliberately introduced into plastic products to prevent them from molding, every particle of plastic that flakes off and enters the body also carries those toxic antifungal compounds. The PCBs, which Aajonus described as dioxins added to plastic to kill mold, are present in virtually every plastic surface in the built environment.

Dental composite fillings were mentioned as another point-source of plastic exposure. Aajonus noted that a substance used to cure plastic in composite fillings, which he referred to tentatively as BHS, was causing cancers in approximately 80 percent of laboratory animals subjected to the gases from hard plastics. His recommendation was to pay for porcelain inlays, onlays, or caps rather than composite plastic fillings, specifically to avoid this exposure.

The central harm Aajonus attributed to phthalates and their companion plastic compounds, particularly bisphenol phosphates, was the disruption of sex hormone production. He described phthalates and bisphenol A compounds as substances that the body treats as fats and tries to use in hormone synthesis. The problem is that when the body incorporates these plastic-derived molecules into hormone production, it produces the opposite of the intended hormone. If the body is attempting to manufacture testosterone, it produces estrogen instead. If it is attempting to produce estrogen, it produces testosterone instead. The result, as Aajonus described it, is a blurring of biological sex characteristics: women begin moving toward male hormonal profiles and men toward female ones.

He cited animal research to establish the mechanism. Experiments with frogs exposed to plastic compounds in their environment showed males becoming female and females becoming male, with the distinction between sexes effectively disappearing. Similar work with rabbits and other animals produced sterility. Aajonus connected these animal findings directly to observed trends in human populations, noting that in civilized cultures where people are regularly exposed to plastic molecules through food, clothing, and environment, the hormonal and physical distinction between male and female is diminishing.

He linked the mass uptake of pharmaceutical sexual dysfunction treatments, particularly Viagra, directly to this plastic-driven suppression of male hormonal function. He contrasted the contemporary situation with conditions sixty years earlier, when the cultural concern was finding ways to suppress excess male sexual energy rather than restore it. The inversion of that problem, in his reading, was caused by decades of phthalate and plastic compound accumulation in the body.

Aajonus consistently connected phthalate outgassing from plastic packaging to the broader problem of plastic fats, meaning hydrogenated vegetable oils, because both arise from the same underlying chemistry and produce overlapping forms of bodily damage. Hydrogenated vegetable oils have the same molecular structure as plastic, which is how plastic was accidentally discovered: a worker fell asleep during the hydrogenation of vegetable oil, and the prolonged process produced hard plastic. The body cannot distinguish between plastic from a can lining and plastic fats from hydrogenated oils; both behave as plastic inside the body, crystallizing, hardening, and blocking the lymphatic system.

Phthalates from packaging and plastic fats from hydrogenated oils both act as endocrine disruptors through the same route: the body attempts to use them as building material for hormones and produces aberrant hormonal products. Both accumulate in fat tissue throughout the body because they are fat-soluble. Both require significant thermal energy to mobilize and remove, which is why Aajonus recommended hot baths as a primary detoxification method for people carrying these compounds. He specified that plastic fats cannot be removed from the body without raising body temperature to 103 to 110 degrees Fahrenheit, and he prescribed hot baths of 40 minutes daily with two 90-minute baths per week, extending to 90-minute baths daily for retired people.

Aajonus did not offer a highly detailed, step-by-step elimination protocol specifically and exclusively for phthalates as a named compound, but the general framework he applied to plastic fats and plastic-derived toxins applies directly. The lymphatic system, which he identified as the primary distribution and detoxification network for fats in the body, becomes congested with plastic-derived compounds because they do not remain fluid at normal human body temperature of 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit. They crystallize and harden, blocking lymphatic channels.

Because the lymphatic system is blocked, toxins including phthalates and related compounds cannot reach the skin for elimination through perspiration, which Aajonus said should be the route for 90 percent of bodily toxins. Instead they are rerouted through the bowels and kidneys, routes he described as abnormal and damaging. Restoring lymphatic flow requires both dissolving the plastic deposits through heat and providing the body with adequate raw animal fats to replace the crystallized vegetable-based and plastic-derived fats with properly fluid lubricants.

He noted one case of a woman who passed what appeared to be stones after a cold, flu, and bladder infection sequence. When she took a hammer to the particles, she could not crush them; they were completely hard rubber. He interpreted these as solidified plastic compounds that had been mobilized by the cleansing process and expelled through the urinary system.

Regarding phthalate exposure from water stored in plastic bottles, Aajonus was direct: water is a solvent and leaches toxins from plastic containers. He stated that he could taste plastic in bottled water and that any person with functioning taste buds could detect it as well. His recommendation was to avoid drinking water from plastic bottles entirely and to minimize water consumption generally, since water in his framework acts as an aggressive solvent that can damage tissues if consumed in excess.

Aajonus acknowledged that beyond the already-known phthalates and PCBs, new plastic-derived compounds were being identified. He mentioned that a new substance, which he identified tentatively as PSH, had been found in plastics and was producing extraordinary amounts of cancer in laboratory animals. He presented this as evidence that the problem of plastic contamination is not static but expanding as more compounds are identified. His position was that the three-compound framework of phthalates, PCBs, and bisphenol compounds should be understood as a floor, not a ceiling, of known plastic-derived toxicity.