Retina

Aajonus explained that the eye receives nutrients on a delayed cycle compared to the rest of the body. Food that is eaten travels through the nutritional chain and reaches most tissues relatively directly, but the eye sits at the end of a long delivery route. This is his core explanation for why topical application of nutrients directly into the eye is so effective: it bypasses the delay entirely and delivers nutrients to the tissues immediately.

For retinopathy specifically, he acknowledged that egg white applied directly to the eye and butter applied at night would primarily affect the outer layers, the cornea, iris, and sclera, rather than the retina itself. He stated this plainly: "It would if they did it long enough because the retina is very deep. We're mainly talking about the cornea, the iris and the sclera." However, he still recommended the egg white application for retinopathy because the nutrients are absorbed into the white tissues and then travel inward, eventually reaching deeper structures including the tissue under the eyelids. The body can then process and utilize what has been absorbed, and if the eye is being fed this way twice a day, it gradually supports the internal protein structures, including those deeper than the sclera.

For the person with retinopathy who described fluid leaking behind the retina and creating a bulge, Aajonus's immediate recommendation was to put egg white in the eye twice a day. He specified that once a day would be helpful but twice a day would be more helpful. The rationale was that the eye gets nutrients so slowly through the normal nutritional chain that direct topical application is the most reliable way to ensure consistent delivery.

The application method he described in detail across multiple sources involved taking approximately half a teaspoon of raw egg white, placing it in an eye cup, tilting the head back, stretching the eyelid, rolling the eye white around in the egg white, and then repeating for the other eye. After application, he instructed people not to rinse it out, only to wipe the excess off the outside, because rinsing removes the material before it can be fully absorbed. The egg white will cake slightly at the corners of the eyes, which he described as normal. The absorption time is approximately three minutes.

An alternative application method he described was to tap a small amount of egg white onto the little finger, pull the lower eyelid down, look upward, and rub the egg white along the white of the eye, then roll the eye around to distribute it. He used both methods in his recommendations depending on the context.

He noted that egg white has nearly the same chemistry as tears but contains more protein, so it feeds and strengthens the eye directly. For someone doing this consistently for eye problems, he observed that vision generally improves and sensitivity to bright sunlight decreases as the outer tissues strengthen. He stated that red eyes from irritation or other causes clear within approximately twenty minutes of egg white application.

Alongside egg white, Aajonus recommended raw unsalted butter applied to the eye, particularly at night before sleep. The reason for timing it before sleep is that butter blurs vision for a period after application, approximately thirty minutes to an hour depending on the source passage, and doing this before sleeping avoids the inconvenience of impaired vision during waking hours.

He described sheep's butter as slightly more effective than cow's butter for this purpose. The application method mirrors the egg white method: melt a small amount in the palm, pull the lower eyelid down, rub it along the white of the eye, roll the eye around. He specified that the butter should be fresh, not left out, because butter that has been sitting out becomes more acidic as bacteria begin to pre-digest it, and acidic butter applied to the eye can be irritating, especially for people who do not produce sufficient tears to protect the eye.

He described the distinction between egg white and butter as follows: egg white is primarily protein and strengthens the eye for the day against environmental stresses including pollution, while butter soothes and strengthens the eye in a different, cleansing way. The two substances work through different mechanisms and complement each other.

For someone who experienced blurry or red eyes after butter application lasting more than the expected period, Aajonus identified this as a sign of insufficient tear production. His remedy was to drink one milkshake daily to build up the protective moisture layer of the eye.

Aajonus's position on red meat and vision was one of the more striking empirical findings he reported. The eye is predominantly nerve tissue, more densely neurological than almost any other structure except the brain, and throughout the rest of the body, fish and fowl regenerate neurological tissue faster than lamb, beef, or venison. By that logic, white meat should be what corrects vision problems. But empirically, it does not.

He ran experiments giving people with blurry vision white meat continuously without result. When they ate red meat, even without cream, focus and vision improved within an hour. Adding a small amount of raw cream to the red meat amplified the effect. He repeated the distinction multiple times across different contexts: fish does not alter blurred vision, chicken and turkey do not alter it, but red meat resolves it within approximately one hour.

His stated explanation was that the eye is a muscle, but not the same in nature as other muscles. It is white in color and densely neurological, yet it depends on the substances provided by red meat for its proper function. He could not offer a complete mechanistic explanation and acknowledged that the finding was not linear or intuitive. What mattered to him was that it worked consistently and had been empirically demonstrated.

For retinopathy specifically, he linked this to the importance of eating red meat to stabilize the eye condition. Beyond addressing acute blurred vision, red meat was described as important for maintaining and stabilizing eye muscle function on an ongoing basis. He recommended at least four ounces of red meat daily for someone with deteriorating eyesight or eye muscle problems.

He also described blurred vision as a red meat deficiency signal. If a person begins experiencing blurred vision, that is a sign that red meat is needed immediately. Eating red meat with unheated honey was described in his book as the correction for blurred vision accompanying eyestrain.

A case of retinopathy was discussed in the source passages, involving an individual whose doctor told him the only way to save the eye was to use three different kinds of drops. The person declined the drops and instead used what Aajonus described as egg white, red meat, and unsalted butter as drops. The black material in the back of the eye, which had been the cause of concern, cleared, and the doctor's examination confirmed it was gone without any pharmaceutical intervention. Aajonus described the treatment as using egg white and unsalted butter directly in the eye to address the retinopathy, with the red meat component taken internally.

The timeline described was that the process began in December of one year, and by the late spring of the following year most of the damage had been cleared, though the vision improvement continued beyond the clearing of the structural damage.

Beyond red meat, egg white, and butter, Aajonus described several other dietary supports for eye health in general, which would also apply in the context of supporting retinal tissue.

Raw carrot juice was described as improving the general health of the eyes. Adding raw cream or unsalted raw butter to carrot juice increases the healing effect: four tablespoons of raw cream or two tablespoons of unsalted raw butter to one cup of carrot juice was the specific formulation he described for better eye health.

Adding a small amount of raw watercress juice to raw carrot juice was described as increasing the healing effect for night blindness specifically, but the general principle of supporting the eyes with red and orange foods appeared consistently. Fresh raw tuna, salmon, tomatoes, oranges, watermelon, and cantaloupe were described as soothing and healing for eyestrain and general eye health because of their red and orange pigments indicating abundant vitamin A content.

Bell peppers, especially yellow, were described as helpful for improving eyesight, best eaten with a meat meal.

For night blindness, a blended combination of fresh raw lemon juice, two to three raw eggs, and one to three tablespoons of unheated honey was described as alkalizing the fluids in the eyeballs. Night blindness was primarily attributed to low protein levels in the blood, with raw red meat as the gradual corrective.

Aajonus identified caffeine in any form, including chocolate, coffee, tea, and soda, as damaging to nerves and brain and specifically to the eyes in many people. Caffeine consumed by a mother during pregnancy or breastfeeding was described as capable of causing poor vision in her child. People on a predominantly raw diet who continued consuming caffeine did not improve their vision; it either remained poor or continued a slower progression toward poorer eyesight.

Excess adrenaline was described as causing dryness, nerve damage, and poor vision in some people. Medicinal insulin was identified as causing vision disorders. Processed sugars and antibiotics were listed as other causes of eye damage. Hormonal imbalances, particularly overabundance of adrenaline or insulin, were connected to glaucoma and cataracts, which are distinct from retinal conditions but part of the same broader eye-health framework.

Industrial solvents and heavy metals accumulating in the tissues were visible in the iris as brown, mucky coloration, and these substances were described as damaging to the overall cellular environment of the eye.

Lime juice put directly into the eye was described as capable of scarring the cornea. Aajonus recounted his own experience of acid from a dissolving tumor getting into his eye in one night and burning the cornea, resulting in eight layers of scar tissue and blindness in that eye. He recovered vision in that eye over seven years using egg white in the morning and butter at night consistently.

Aajonus's position on laser eye surgery was that it unnaturally changes the shape of a weak or damaged cornea without improving the underlying poor eye health that caused the cornea to misshape. If a person is on a poor diet, warped corneas will warp again within five years in approximately ninety percent of cases. Surgery can often only be performed once in a lifetime, leaving the person in a worse position after recurrence.

For people on a good diet who chose to have laser surgery, he reported they healed three times faster and their eyes were completely healed within ten days of surgery, able to go out in sunlight without difficulty. He advised against using antibiotics or antibiotic eyedrops after the surgery, stating that antibiotics destroy the bacteria the eye needs for proper healing and create keloid scar tissue. He attributed approximately ninety percent of difficulties following laser surgery to antibiotic use rather than the surgery itself.

Cataract surgery was described as carrying a high risk of causing scarring that would further diminish the eye's ability to cleanse itself. Once cleansing has begun naturally, surgical removal of cataracts interferes with that process.

Aajonus used iridology extensively in his consultations to read the condition of the body through the eye, though the retina itself is not the surface being read in iridology. The iris reflects the state of the tissues and organs throughout the body. He described being able to see scar tissue, lesions, degenerative tissue, toxic accumulations, and the relative percentage of living versus dead cells in different areas of the body through the iris, using both direct observation and photographing and magnifying the iris digitally.

He described his own eyes as having been brown and green when he was young and heavily toxic, and having cleared progressively to blue over more than thirty years on the raw diet. This progression, from dark to lighter and cleaner coloration in the iris, was consistent with his framework that brown and black coloration in the iris reflects acid toxicity, industrial solvents, heavy metals, and other stored contaminants, while filamentous, radiating structure and lighter coloration indicates cellular life and health.

He noted that he had never found a correlation between iris coloration and actual visual function. People with clear blue eyes could be nearly blind, and people with dark, manure-colored eyes could have perfect vision. The iris reflects the systemic cellular condition, not the optical function of the eye directly.