Prostate
A muscle that drives ejaculation and supports erectile blood flow, not merely a glandular structure. Inflammation signals toxic accumulation from cooked foods, PSA testing is considered diagnostically fraudulent, and surgical removal reliably destroys sexual function.
The prostate gland in Aajonus Vonderplanitz's framework is understood primarily as a muscle that drives ejaculation and plays a direct structural role in male sexual function and urinary flow. He identified it as part of the sexual organ system, connected to the gonads and to the lymphatic system, and observed it in iridology both through the iris and through the hand, specifically at the base of the palm near the area corresponding to the rectum. When the prostate is inflamed or compromised, he viewed this not as a disease state requiring pharmaceutical or surgical intervention but as a detoxification process driven by accumulated toxicity, particularly from cooked and processed foods.
Prostatitis, in his view, is a detoxification of the prostate gland, primarily related to the absence of enzyme-mutations needed to handle cooked and processed greens. When a person lacks the enzyme mutations necessary to process these foods, the resins and residues from cooked greens accumulate in the prostate over many years. When prostatitis is compounded by environmental pollution, prostate cancer often results from that accumulated toxic load. He described the symptoms of prostatitis as pain between the scrotum and rectum, frequent urination accompanied by a burning sensation, blood or pus in the urine, and fever. In long-term prostatitis the symptoms expand to include lower back pain, premature ejaculation, and loss of potency.
His objections to conventional prostate medicine were strong and stated repeatedly across multiple contexts. He rejected PSA testing as a diagnostic tool, questioned prostatectomy as a procedure, and observed that dietary and raw food interventions could resolve what conventional medicine classified as prostate cancer without surgical removal of the gland.
The Prostate's Essential Functions
Aajonus described the prostate as the muscle that drives sperm out during ejaculation. Without a prostate, the musculature that assists ejaculation is absent, and the prostate also plays a role in supporting erection because it is involved in the blood channel pathways leading to the penis. He explained that an erection is the result of blood rushing into and filling the penis, which functions as a muscle that becomes rigid when engorged with blood. The prostate and the blood channels running through or near it are integral to this mechanism. When the prostate is surgically removed, some of those blood channels going down to the penis are destroyed, and the resulting loss of blood flow into the penis prevents erection.
He stated this plainly and with evident frustration, noting that men who have their prostates removed can no longer have sex, that their erections are eliminated or severely compromised, and that their partners are unhappy as a result. He described ejaculation as dependent on the prostate muscle generating the contractile force, and after surgical damage or removal that force is lost or greatly weakened.
PSA Testing
Aajonus rejected PSA as a meaningful indicator of prostate health or prostate cancer with consistent emphasis across multiple talks. His argument was empirical: if PSA were actually produced by or dependent on the prostate gland, then men who had their prostates surgically removed would have no PSA readings. Instead, he reported seeing patients who had undergone prostatectomy and still carried PSA counts of 80 to 100. He described this as "absolute bullshit" and stated directly that PSA has nothing to do with prostate cancer.
He identified PSA testing as a pharmaceutical industry tactic designed to push patients toward medication or surgery and to keep them on medication for the rest of their lives. In one passage he described a patient whose PSA count was around 31 or 32, and the conventional recommendation was medication followed by eventual surgical removal and radiation. He held that this entire sequence was unnecessary and driven by commercial rather than therapeutic interests. He placed PSA testing in the same category as other markers he considered misleading, such as blood glucose measurements in diabetes, stating that "PSA preventing your prostate, bullshit."
Prostate Cancer and Dietary Fat
Aajonus discussed prostate cancer from the angle of toxic accumulation and fat storage. He explained that the body stores poisons in fat, and that when the prostate becomes cancerous, the cancer represents a concentration of stored toxins in fat tissue within or around the gland. He described an experiment conducted by Dean Ornish in which men with prostate cancer were placed on a fat-free diet, and in approximately 40 percent of those men, the prostate shrank. Aajonus's explanation for this outcome was not that fat caused the cancer but the opposite: on a fat-free diet, the body begins pulling fat out of wherever it can find it, including out of the prostate, and when it pulls that fat out, the poisons stored in that fat leave with it. In 40 percent of cases this was sufficient for the prostate to shrink and heal. In 60 percent of cases it was not sufficient, and he speculated that this might relate to the degree of body fat available, though he noted that Ornish did not separate subjects by body composition, so no firm conclusion could be drawn.
He presented this as consistent with his broader framework in which fat is protective precisely because it stores poisons away from critical systems, and in which the solution to toxic accumulation is not to starve the body of fat but to provide the correct fats that allow the body to bind and remove toxins safely.
He also linked prostate cancer to hydrogenated oils, describing them as liquid plastic that causes cancerous cell accumulation by making dead cells impossible to dissolve. The body cannot dissolve plastic, and when dead cells cannot be dissolved and eliminated, they accumulate into cancer. Women can build fibroids in the vaginal area without immediately compromising function, but men may develop tumors in the prostate or elsewhere as a result of this same process.
Prostatitis Protocol and Diet
For prostatitis, Aajonus described a specific set of interventions from the framework. Drinking 8 to 12 ounces of raw green vegetable juice with half a teaspoon of raw unpasteurized apple cider vinegar once or twice daily helps cleanse the resins and residues that have collected in the prostate over many years of eating cooked greens. This addresses the root cause as he understood it, which is the accumulation of cooked-food resins in the glandular tissue.
Eating zucchini, pumpkin seeds, and unheated bee pollen helps revitalize the prostate gland. He did not elaborate extensively on mechanism in the surviving passages, but these were his specific food recommendations for prostate revitalization alongside the juice-and-vinegar cleansing protocol.
For someone dealing with ongoing prostate problems he indicated that pineapple has a specific role, though he counseled it in very small and infrequent doses. In one workshop exchange he told a person with a remaining prostate problem that they needed to eat a slice of pineapple every 10 days, no more than that, with the slice being approximately a half-inch circular section. He acknowledged this might seem like a waste but held that it was necessary for that individual's situation.
Prostate Cancer Resolution Case Study
Aajonus described in detail a man of approximately 60 years old who came to him with prostate cancer, chronic fatigue, mild fibromyalgia, and a non-functioning thyroid. Conventional medicine had planned to put him on Synthroid (he called it Armerol) for the thyroid and eventually on chemicals for the prostate, with prostate removal and radiation to follow. The man's PSA count was in the range of 31 or 32.
This man was standing in line at the pharmacy ready to pick up his thyroid medication when he decided he did not want to proceed with that path. He left the pharmacy, a friend called him, and through that connection he found Aajonus's book. He came for a consult and went on the diet. Within one month on the Primal Diet his thyroid was completely functional and he no longer needed thyroxine. Within a year the signs of prostate cancer disappeared. Aajonus was careful to specify that what disappeared were the actual signs of prostate cancer, not the PSA count, which he had already identified as meaningless. He cited this case as an example of what the diet could accomplish when someone rejected the pharmaceutical and surgical path entirely.
Prostate Cancer and Blueberries
In the context of his milkshake protocol, Aajonus noted that for someone with prostate cancer specifically, he would instruct them to add approximately 10 blueberries to their milkshake. He described this as a medicinal addition for that particular condition, distinct from his general instruction that milkshakes contain no fruit. He presented specific cancer types as calling for specific additions, for instance bitter cherries for other types of cancer, but blueberries specifically for prostate cancer. The milkshake base itself consists of milk, eggs, cream (which can be coconut cream as well as dairy cream), and honey.
Iridology and Palmistry Prostate Indicators
In his iridology and hand-reading work, Aajonus identified specific markers for prostate health and tendency. In the iris, a yellowish-brown area around the prostate zone indicates toxicity, with darker browns signifying greater saturation of toxicity. He described seeing such markings in the iris of a student and connecting them to prostate involvement alongside liver and colon toxicity in the same reading.
In palmistry, he located the prostate in the area at the base of the palm, specifically around the zone near the rectum, below the sex gland area. He stated that if this area is red it indicates inflammation, and if it is puffy and swollen it indicates an edemic tendency. He noted that when there are large veins visible in this area of the palm, the person has a tendency toward hemorrhoids as well, because of the vein structure in that region. He observed that a person's area does not need to be red to indicate a current problem; puffiness indicates a tendency. He also noted that a person with a large bone in that area of the hand has a tendency toward prostate issues, though it does not confirm active inflammation.
The area at the large mound at the base of the thumb relates to the gonads and other sexual organs including the prostate, and if that area is flat or almost non-existent it indicates low activity or exhaustion of those organs. If the area is very large and puffy it indicates overactive hormone and prostaglandin production.
Aajonus's Prostate And Urological History
Aajonus described his own urological situation at length across multiple workshops as a case study illustrating the intersection of vaccine toxicity, bladder stones, and the structures adjacent to the prostate. Since infancy he had experienced extremely slow and thin urinary flow, requiring two to three minutes to begin urination and another two to three minutes to complete it. He attributed this initially to his natural variation but eventually discovered it had two structural causes: a bladder stone that had been growing since approximately age 2, and a urethra that had never developed beyond infant size, remaining as a thin narrow tract all the way from the bladder through the prostate to the base of the penis.
The stone itself was mercury-dense at its core, which he attributed to tetanus vaccine injections received in infancy. By the time he was 59 years old he could no longer urinate at all unless he lifted his leg like a dog to shift the stone's position. He eventually sought a urologist who used ultrasound rather than x-rays, which he would not permit. The urologist, along with four urologists at that clinic and approximately 20 nurses, had never seen a stone of that size, and it was described as the largest in medical literature and experience.
The stone was blocking the outflow of urination to his urethra, and because of its size there was no possibility of natural dissolution or passage. He consented to having a laser tube inserted through his urethra via a large cylinder that stretched the urethra substantially. There were four tubes in total inside the main tube: one for a camera, one for the laser, one for fluid, and one for suction. The urologist had estimated 40 to 45 minutes for the procedure. It took over one hour and 45 minutes because the core of the stone was described as being almost like metal, specifically mercury dense, black like steel, and the size of a large marble. The urologist had to increase laser intensity repeatedly while being careful not to damage the bladder wall.
He described the bladder wall itself as having been four inches thick, and the urologist scraped two inches off the bladder wall to reduce it to a functional thickness. This scraping affected his ejaculatory strength because the prostate muscle that drives ejaculation had been involved in or adjacent to the surgical area, leaving him with a weakened ejaculatory response in the months following the procedure, though he was hopeful for healing.
He noted that while the scraping of the bladder and the work in the prostate area had affected his ejaculation, his urination immediately postoperatively was transformed: from needing three to five minutes to start and two to three minutes to finish, he was urinating within 10 seconds of positioning and completing in 15 to 20 seconds, which he described as the first time since infancy he had experienced normal urination.
Prostate Removal Consequences Identified
Aajonus was consistently and emphatically opposed to prostatectomy. He described the consequences of prostate removal in physiological terms: the loss of the muscle required for ejaculation, the loss of the musculature in the penis that contributes to erection, and the destruction of blood channels running from the prostate area down to the penis. Without intact blood channels, the filling of the penis with blood that produces erection is impaired or impossible.
He noted that the wives and partners of men who had their prostates removed were unhappy because sex was no longer possible. He described this as an outcome that the medical framing of PSA and prostate cancer actively concealed from patients who were pushed into surgical removal on the basis of a test he considered fraudulent as a diagnostic indicator.
He referenced a man in one workshop audience who had a prostate removed via the stomach (a different surgical approach), and while he did not provide extended follow-up on that individual, the context was one of a body under significant cumulative medical burden alongside spinal osteoporosis and a heart attack.
Prostate and Sexual Health
Aajonus understood the prostate as part of a broader system that included the gonads, the testes, and the entire pelvic lymphatic and circulatory network. He noted that in one iridology reading, complications in the prostate appeared alongside poor circulation in the intestinal and pelvic area and poor function in the testes. These were understood as interrelated rather than isolated findings.
The gonads produce the hormones testosterone and estrogen, primarily for reproduction, and the prostate is part of the mechanical apparatus by which reproduction is completed at the point of ejaculation. Damage to any part of this system has downstream consequences for the others. He also noted that hydrogenated oils, plastics in food, and synthetic hormones have dramatically damaged the sexual function of modern men, driving the demand for pharmaceutical erection drugs, which he described as causing internal bleeding by trapping blood in the penis beyond the body's natural release mechanism.
He observed that watermelon, particularly the rind, contains compounds that help increase virility and hardening of the penis in males, and he connected this to the high collagen precursor content of the rind. He instructed that the flesh near the seeds should be avoided due to high sugar content, and that the rind and the small center section are the beneficial parts.
