Scalp

Aajonus described the lymphatic system as capable of directing heavy metals toward the hair and nails when those metals are too dangerous to circulate freely. When those toxic substances travel outward through the follicles and scalp, they can damage the follicles in transit. If that damage is severe enough, hair does not regrow. If it is partial, hair may come back in altered form, stringy, gray, or thin. The body does not stop trying to discharge toxins simply because the follicle is damaged; it continues pushing metals outward, and the resulting condition of the scalp reflects the ongoing pressure of that process.

Metals most commonly identified in scalp and hair discharge include mercury, aluminum, lead, cadmium, and thallium. Aajonus noted from his own hair analyses, in which he sent samples from eight different regions of his head under different names to avoid bias, that every spot on the head showed a different level of toxicity, confirming that the scalp does not discharge uniformly. The presence of gray spots on the head corresponded to areas of higher metallic accumulation. None of his samples exceeded a level of 4 on the testing scale, with most falling between 2.8 and 3.4, and one approaching 3.9 to 4.1.

The hair itself, being dead tissue except at the follicle, can safely contain toxic metals without causing immediate physiological damage. The body exploits this property deliberately, building heavy metals into the hair shaft as a way of removing them from internal circulation. The hair can contain concentrations of mercury, cadmium, lead, and aluminum greater than those found in any other tissue except at sites of specific internal damage. Hair analysis, in Aajonus's view, therefore provides an accurate record of what the body has been discarding over the preceding months.

Dandruff, as Aajonus defined it, is one or more layers of dry, dead skin on the scalp that crack and flake. The underlying cause is hardened fat or unutilizable fluid fat accumulating in or on the scalp. Bacteria accompanying this condition are not the primary cause of dandruff but rather a consequence of the body attempting to detoxify the fat. The bacteria are doing the work of breaking down substances the scalp cannot otherwise process.

Antibacterial shampoos, in Aajonus's framework, directly worsen this situation. Those shampoos poison the scalp, and the poisons from them are frequently absorbed through the scalp into the body and brain, where they contribute to impatience, discontent, and irritability. Eliminating the bacteria is counterproductive when the bacteria are present in service of detoxification.

The dietary solution is eating plenty of raw fat and alkalizing foods. Aajonus stated that this approach usually ends dandruff within one to two months. He acknowledged that dandruff may return periodically for a week or two when the body is in a phase of discarding old stored unusable fat and other toxins through the scalp. During those phases, the toxins cause the scalp to dry and the upper layer to flake, and a topical approach is appropriate.

The topical protocol for dandruff is as follows: once every second or third day, massage one and a half tablespoons of cold-pressed-below-96-degrees-Fahrenheit fermented coconut oil, or stone-pressed olive oil, blended with one teaspoon of fresh cucumber into the scalp. Let this mixture stand overnight. Then wet the hair, wash the hair and scalp with a whipped raw whole egg, let the egg remain for three to five minutes, and rinse hair and scalp thoroughly.

Balding, whether rapid or gradual, results in Aajonus's framework from metal poisoning. The primary sources he identified are canned foods, aluminum cooking utensils, deodorants, shampoos, soaps, and medications. Poor oxygen utilization is occasionally a contributing factor. Thyroid dysfunction, a widely promoted explanation in conventional medicine, was something Aajonus stated his experiments directly disproved. He had observed many people with high levels of thyroxine in their bodies going bald, and many people with high thyroxine also carrying excessive body weight, both of which directly contradicted the conventional claims about thyroid regulation of hair and metabolism.

When metals leaving through the skull damage the follicle, the result depends on the severity of that damage. If the follicle is destroyed completely, regrowth does not occur. If damage is partial, regrowth may happen but in an altered form. Aajonus recounted his own experience: following chemotherapy with AZT, a drug made from Freon that was administered to him during cancer treatment and outlawed the following year, he lost all his hair. Hair grew back in patches and came in gray. After 21 months, he had some regrowth, and periodically throughout the years following, areas of his scalp cycled through graying as he continued to discharge the metals from those injections. One area of his scalp never recovered and remained without full hair growth many years later, though he noted that more hair had grown into that area in the years preceding a particular workshop than had been present before.

The dietary protocol for balding includes eating raw berries with raw coconut cream, a little unsalted raw butter, and a little raw cream. This combination helps bind with metals so that they cause less damage to follicles as they exit the body.

The topical protocol for balding is rubbing into the scalp a blended mixture of one ounce of fresh raw aloe vera gel taken directly from the inside of the leaf, and two ounces of fermented coconut oil that has never been heated above 96 degrees Fahrenheit. This mixture, Aajonus stated, helps protect the scalp and follicles, usually stops hair loss, and sometimes promotes hair growth within several weeks, unless there is an allergy to shampoo interfering with the result.

Additional supports he mentioned include drinking naturally carbonated waters to assist oxygen absorption, drinking parsley juice with celery juice to support oxygen absorption, and addressing the metal load systemically through diet.

Aajonus introduced bone marrow as a topical scalp treatment based on his own experimentation and the results he observed in others. He noted that bone marrow contains what he described as embryonic-like stem cells, the only place outside of sperm and ovum where non-adult stem cells can be practically obtained. Unlike adult stem cells, which are specific to their tissue of origin, bone marrow stem cells retain a broader developmental capacity and can, in his description, become different types of cells.

After he began applying bone marrow to his bald spot, other people at his Los Angeles cooperative began experimenting with it as well. He had five people testing it, and reported that it was helping everyone grow thicker hair and in some cases promoting new growth in areas that had not had hair. Aajonus stated that anyone wanting to try this approach should apply it two to three times a week without washing the hair afterward, leaving it on.

The formula he described is approximately half butter and one third bone marrow, heated only to the point where it melts but does not cook, roughly four ounces total depending on hair coverage. Butter alone had also shown some benefit in his observation, thickening hair noticeably. The combination of butter and bone marrow was, in his view, the more effective formulation. He sourced his bone marrow from Buffalo through North Star Bison and from Amish beef farmers, receiving sections of bone that he allowed to come to room temperature so the marrow could be popped out.

He also described how, when he used butter for a long time, it helped thicken the hair, and with the bone marrow added, the results extended to areas of the scalp that had not previously produced hair. He connected this to the capacity of the stem cells in the marrow to respond to signals from the scalp environment and potentially regenerate follicle function. He acknowledged that this was still experimental.

He also stated: "I noticed that just using butter helps too, it helps thicken the hair, and with the bone marrow, because cells that can be, that have no DNA to tell them, it doesn't restrict the bone marrow cells, stem cells can become nerve cells, it can be anything."

Graying of the hair originates at the follicle level, specifically through the destruction of paraminobenzoic acid, also referred to as PABA or PABB in different portions of Aajonus's talks. This B vitamin regulates pigmentation in the follicle. When heavy metals, particularly aluminum, pass through the follicle, they neutralize and destroy the paraminobenzoic acid, eliminating the follicle's ability to pigment the hair shaft properly. Mercury also contributes to graying. When Aajonus took gray hair samples compared to non-gray hair from the same head and had them tested, the mercury in the gray samples was, as he described it, off the chart relative to the colored samples. Aluminum was consistently the highest-detected element whenever he checked his own gray areas.

Graying is therefore not an inevitable function of age but a record of what metals the follicle was processing during the growth of that hair segment. Because the body builds toxins into the hair over time, a single strand of hair can, in principle, record the history of metal discharge over the months of its growth. The onset of graying corresponds to a period of active aluminum or mercury elimination through the scalp.

Aajonus confirmed from personal experience that graying can reverse when the metal causing it is successfully eliminated. He described his own hair going fully gray in one area, then returning to its natural color months later as aluminum discharge eased, then cycling back into gray when another elimination phase began. He described areas of his scalp that had been "as gray as his" at a workshop and then returned to natural color within seven to nine months. He specified that this reversal happened because he "stopped dumping all the aluminum," which he acknowledged was partly a result of not eating properly enough to sustain a full detoxification cycle.

For those seeking to address graying through diet, Aajonus responded to a 2012 inquiry by recommending a raspberry mixture consumed daily for three weeks and then at least three days per week for as long as the hair remained gray. This should be consumed as the fruit meal in the afternoon, not near meat, and not on an empty stomach in the conventional sense but as the dedicated fruit portion of the day. He clarified that if a person was already on the Primal Diet, the graying was likely to be the diet forcing metal detoxification through the hair, which meant the process was appropriate and the body was doing what it was designed to do. The question was not whether to stop it but how to support the follicle and reduce the damage in transit.

He also noted that people over age 50 who have accumulated a lifetime of toxins find it very difficult to prevent aluminum from graying hair. Some younger or healthier individuals are able to rid aluminum from the body by building it into hair without causing graying at all, suggesting that follicle resilience and PABA status are variable.

Aajonus was consistently critical of commercial shampoos and hair products applied to the scalp. He identified conventional shampoos, particularly antibacterial varieties, as poisons that enter the scalp and migrate into the body and brain. The resulting effects are systemic rather than merely local, contributing to impatience, discontent, and irritability as the absorbed compounds affect neurological function.

Hair sprays were described as damaging to hair and very toxic to the sinuses, bronchi, lungs, blood, scalp, brain, and entire body. He offered a natural hair spray substitute: one and a half teaspoons of unheated honey mixed into one cup of good mineral water, poured into a spray bottle and used as one would normally use commercial hair spray. He noted that this mixture will eventually ferment, lasting as little as three days in warm temperatures and up to ten days in a cool environment.

He also mentioned that chemicals from professional hair care settings, such as hairspray used by hairdressers, can accumulate in the brain in a similar way to industrial solvents, drawing a parallel between the exposure a hairdresser would receive from hairspray and the exposure a welder would receive from metalwork fumes.

In describing his own hair care practice, Aajonus stated he used no commercial shampoos or conditioners whatsoever. His hair washing method used a blended mixture of one whole egg, approximately ten strawberries (or five to six if they were large), one tablespoon of honey, and enough milk to fill a ten-ounce canning jar. He blended this until it warmed, approximately three minutes. He poured some into a four-ounce jar for his hair. He then added a teaspoon of clay to the remaining mixture for body use.

He applied the mixture to his scalp, rubbing it in, and left it on for up to ten minutes while in the bath before rinsing. He described the mixture as actually cleaning without lathering. He did not wash daily in a way that stripped the scalp. He used butter in his hair as well, applying it by first spraying with something to create a base, then rubbing the butter in.

He mentioned that during bathing, if toxins were being perspired through the scalp, it was important to flush the scalp regularly by dipping the head into the water or otherwise rinsing, so that the discharged toxins were removed from the skin surface rather than reabsorbed.

Aajonus explained that hair over the scalp serves to protect the brain from excessive sun exposure, which is one of the reasons hair grows in that location. For bald individuals, the absence of this protective covering makes prolonged sun exposure a practical concern. His approach, based on personal experience including his own bald spot from chemotherapy, was to apply mud to exposed areas when in the sun for extended periods. He described doing this himself: "if I'm out there too long, I'll put mud on the place." He did not recommend commercial sunblocks.

Aajonus recounted in detail how forced injections given to him caused an extraordinary discharge of toxins through multiple routes, including through the scalp and hair. He described losing a tremendous amount of hair in the year and a half following those injections, particularly in the preceding four to five months, and noted that new hair was simultaneously growing in spaces where it had not previously grown, because the body was using the hair as a pathway to dispose of the toxic minerals from those injections.

He described the toxins from the injections as including what appeared to be glass-like crystalline material, plastic fibers similar to those in Morgellons disease, and various chemical compounds. The effect on the scalp was one component of a systemic discharge process that also involved the skin of the back and other areas. He connected the graying that followed these injections to the same mechanism that governs ordinary gray hair: metals destroying paraminobenzoic acid in the follicle.

He also noted that radiation exposure, such as that experienced by radiologists working with X-ray equipment, could produce a similar effect of absorbing into the skull and gradually making follicles impotent at producing hair, which he raised as a question when observing that an older radiologist was partially bald.