Skin

Aajonus was direct: all skin disorders are caused by industrial chemicals. The poisons are either secreted through the skin as they make their way outward, or they are built into the skin tissue itself, damaging cells as they move toward the surface, and eventually evaporating or shedding as dead skin. When the toxins are especially caustic and the skin is not sufficiently protected by fat, they damage the cell walls as they pass, producing inflammation, pustules, hives, and lesions.

He also identified frozen meat as a specific and demonstrable cause of skin disorders. Freezing in a machine is an industrial process, and it creates chemical byproducts in the meat that function similarly to other industrial contaminants. He conducted his own experiments to establish this. He took meat from the same animal, the same cuts, and divided it into two groups, one frozen, one refrigerated at around 55 degrees Fahrenheit. He fed these to groups of dogs and cats, giving them nothing else, no butter, no dairy, no honey, no bones, just the meat and a little water. Within three weeks, some of the animals eating frozen meat began developing skin problems. Within six weeks, all of them had signs of skin disorders. Within ten to twelve weeks, all of them had pronounced skin disorders. One animal developed scabies so severe that it was bleeding, peeling, and producing large open sores resembling psoriasis covering the whole body. Some animals lost their hair. The animals were constantly scratching, irritable, and could not rest day or night. The group eating the same meat unfrozen had no skin disorders at all. Their coats were beautiful, shiny, and lustrous, even at the end of thirteen to fourteen weeks on nothing but raw unfrozen meat and very little water.

He then took the sick animals and divided them further, feeding some frozen butter and some unfrozen butter. The group eating unfrozen raw butter healed their skin disorders approximately five times faster than the group eating frozen butter. He was emphatic about the conclusion: freezing alters nutrients and reduces their value significantly, and fresh meat and fresh dairy are always superior to frozen.

The skin requires fat in order to function as an elimination route without being damaged in the process. When toxins pass through skin that is fat-deficient, they abrade and burn the cell walls, producing the visible symptoms of skin disorders. The body also draws fat from the skin when it needs to bind and transport toxins through the lymphatic system. If someone is highly toxic, the body will continuously pull fat away from the skin to harness the poisons, leaving the skin bare and unprotected. When sunlight then hits fat-depleted skin, the skin cannot convert those rays into vitamin D because the conversion process requires fat to be present in the skin. The bare skin burns and blisters instead.

Butter is the primary remedy. Aajonus stated that he had seen all skin disorders reconciled by raw butter consumption. Consumed internally, butter is the only fat that reliably reaches the skin from ingestion, particularly when consumed as part of the lubrication and moisturizing formula, because the lemon juice and egg in that formula allow the liver to process it easily and route it to the skin. Cream, by contrast, is absorbed almost entirely by the glands, organs, and nervous system and does not reach the skin in the same way. He noted that some patients eating a pound of butter a day still had extremely dry skin, because their organs and glands had been so deficient for so long that they consumed all the fat before any reached the skin, the same way larger children at an orphanage get to the food first, leaving nothing for the smallest ones.

Coconut cream applied topically also protects the skin and helps prevent damage as toxins exit. The recommended approach is to apply butter, coconut cream, or a combination of the two to the skin so that when poisons leave, there is sufficient fat present to buffer the cells from the caustic material passing through them.

Aajonus created what he called the moisturizing lubrication formula, or lubrication moisturizing formula, the two names being used interchangeably with the observation that women respond better to "moisturizing" and men to "lubricant." The formula consists of butter, lemon juice, egg, and a little honey. The lemon juice pre-digests the butter slightly, allowing the liver to handle it easily and direct it to the skin. This formula is described in his recipe book on approximately page 145.

He also described a more elaborate skin cream involving butter, coconut cream, dairy cream, honey, and royal jelly. The formula he described most specifically was made with three parts: one with butter, one with coconut cream, and one with dairy cream. Adding a fourth part with a tiny bit of honey and royal jelly made it what he called a phenomenal moisturizer. However, he specified this is appropriate only for going out in an acidic environment, as honey on the skin can block oxygen absorption if applied too thickly.

His published recipe for the Primal Facial Body Care Cream is described in the recipe book and is intended to be rubbed into the skin and wiped away after 20 to 30 minutes. It must be kept refrigerated. In empirical tests, he stated it functioned as both a sunscreen and tanning lotion for all participants. It can be applied liberally to cuts, scrapes, and abrasions to prevent excessive scabbing, prevent the dryness caused by scabbing, and help wounds heal without scarring.

Aajonus made a distinction between protecting and nourishing the skin versus actually regenerating it. He stated clearly that the only substances that will genuinely bring skin back to life are fresh sperm and bone marrow, because both contain stem cells. Other fats, especially coconut cream, can protect the skin and support it, but they do not regenerate it.

He described discovering the effect of bone marrow on skin after his own experience with motorcycle accident injuries and post-injection skin damage. He began applying bone marrow directly to his skin and reported significant results. He asked a hairdresser at his Los Angeles co-op to experiment with bone marrow on her dry skin. When he returned from two months in Asia, her skin had changed completely: she appeared to have lost ten years off her face and at nearly fifty looked approximately forty. She continued using it daily and credited the bone marrow entirely. He noted that ideally a person would eat enough fat to lubricate the whole body properly from within, but direct application of bone marrow is an effective route for skin regeneration.

The relationship between skin and sunlight is fully dependent on fat. The sun hits fat present in the skin and the skin converts those rays into vitamin D. The converted vitamin D is then distributed throughout the body. If someone is so toxic that the body is continuously pulling fat away from skin to bind poisons, the skin is left with no fat to complete the conversion, and the sun simply burns and blisters it. Repeated blistering kills the cells and creates scar tissue, which is dead cellular tissue, and which can develop into skin cancer.

Aajonus was explicit that sunscreen causes more harm than the sun itself. Sunscreen is very toxic and he identified it as a cause of multiple sclerosis and lupus, both of which involve connective tissue breakdown.

For sunning, he specified that you should not bathe or shower the morning of a sunbathing session, because washing removes the body's natural oils that function as a natural sunblock. He also said he personally could not put any oil on his skin for 24 hours prior to sunning, and could not bathe for 24 hours before, and that this was also true for butter and cream or ginger mixtures applied externally. He always felt burned for a day following sun exposure, but the feeling then faded to a tan without peeling. He recommended regulating the first outing to no more than 20 minutes per side per flip.

Raw cream applied to the skin after sun exposure soothes and nourishes the skin and helps the skin absorb the sun that has been captured within it. If someone begins to burn and peel, he recommended putting milk on the skin every few hours to help convert the vitamin D or draw the excess radiation out of the system.

He described rubbing a little unrefined cold-pressed coconut or peanut oil, pressed below 96 degrees Fahrenheit, into the skin the night before sunbathing to promote tanning and provide some protection.

He worked with an albino at a yoga ashram in 1974. The man had red-white hair, skin so sensitive he had never been able to sun at all, not even for a few minutes. Aajonus put him on approximately three-quarters of a pound of butter a day with honey and some raw dairy including cottage cheese. After 10 days on that regimen, the man went upstairs and spent an hour in the sun without burning. Two days after that, he fell asleep in the sun for 10 hours and did not burn. His skin had changed from a dry white appearance to an oily appearance, and all the butter he had consumed had worked its way into the skin and allowed it to function in sunlight for the first time in his life.

He also described a client with red hair and very white skin who had been on the diet for almost ten years, who had a history of second-degree and worse sunburns and had avoided sun due to cancer. She spent a few hours on the beach without putting anything on her skin the night before. She turned bright red and was very sore, and applied raw cream to soothe the burning sensation for 36 hours. After three days, all redness and soreness disappeared with no sign of peeling. It was the first time in her 42 years she had sunned without peeling.

He described radiation absorbed through the sun as typically appearing red in the skin until it mixes with the fats present, after which it converts into vitamin D and the skin tans. People who absorb vitamin D very rapidly may not tan at all, which he attributed to a lack of fats. He pointed to Africans with their sun exposure and beautiful skin as evidence that sun alone does not cause wrinkles or aging.

The lymphatic system is supposed to collect localized waste, neutralize it using nutrients absorbed through the intestines, and then send the neutralized poisons under the skin to be perspired out. Aajonus described how you can feel the accumulation of unliquidated waste under the skin by touching it: if there is a noticeable layer of material between the skin surface and the muscle beneath, that is a store of unmoved toxins.

He demonstrated this in workshops by touching different participants and describing how much material had accumulated beneath the skin at different points on the body. He described his own skin as sitting directly on the muscle with very little beneath it, because he was efficiently eliminating through perspiration.

When the lymphatic system is blocked and the skin is blocked, the body begins rerouting waste to feces and urine, which overloads those channels and contributes to compounding disease. He noted that 200 years ago, almost no children were born with disease, approximately one in ten thousand. By the time he was writing and speaking, the rate had risen to approximately one in ten, which he attributed directly to industrial chemicals accumulating in the body and disrupting normal elimination through the skin.

Before regular bathing became common, the human skin hosted between 2,300 and 2,600 varieties of Salmonella and between 3,200 and 6,000 total varieties of bacteria. These organisms lived on the skin in colonies of trillions, eating dead skin cells as they shed continuously. Unlike snakes, which shed all their skin at once, humans shed it constantly, and the bacterial colonies on the skin existed to consume that dead tissue as it came off.

With the adoption of daily bathing and soap, humanity has lost between 1,500 and 1,800 of those Salmonella varieties. What remains of the original bacterial flora survives in areas that cannot be washed without causing direct harm, including the nose, ears, mouth, and eyes. The soaps and industrial chemicals used in bathing have destroyed these bacterial colonies, which were never a threat but were a necessary part of maintaining the skin's surface without accumulating layers of dead tissue.

He advised applying nothing to the skin that you would not eat, because the skin cells absorb everything placed on them.

Honey is the one topical substance that requires particular caution. Applied too thickly or left on too long, honey blocks the skin's ability to absorb oxygen and creates a suffocating effect on the skin. Aajonus described applying honey to his face on two occasions during detox periods when he was thinking about skin appearance, and waking up approximately three hours later unable to breathe comfortably, feeling anxious, claustrophobic, and irritated in the skin. Multiple clients reported the same experience. His recommendation was to use honey on the skin only very thinly, diluted in milk or combined in a small amount with butter, and only in small applications that the skin can absorb before it accumulates enough to begin blocking oxygen exchange.

He referenced both his own experience and historical practice with urine applied topically to the skin. His mother had severe acne as a teenager and was told by a neighbor to wash her face with her own urine. Her acne disappeared and she used the same practice any time acne returned. His explanation of the mechanism was that urine contains fat in very fine microscopic amounts, which nourishes the cells at and near the pores, so that when toxic substances exit through the pores, the skin is not irritated and is protected. Urine also contains acetates that have been reduced to very fine molecules, which can penetrate the pores and help reduce the concentrations of poisons so that white blood cells do not need to rush to the area and can recede back into the system. He also noted that urine's ammonia and protein content helps dilute and neutralize oils that have penetrated deeply into skin, and recommended rubbing urine onto affected areas once or twice daily and leaving it on all day and night.

For beauty and detox support, he recommended applying a thin paste of one teaspoon of sun-dried powdered clay mixed with one and a half tablespoons of raw unpasteurized apple cider vinegar, or the clay mixed with one fertile raw egg, or the clay mixed with one tablespoon of fresh raw papaya juice with half a tablespoon of good mineral water. These are applied to the skin several times a week. Each medium draws and absorbs toxins differently, and he recommended alternating among them: apple cider vinegar version first, then egg, then papaya, as the healthiest rotating approach. Papaya specifically helps remove scars, including acne scars.

He noted that clay must be kept moist for it to continue working and referenced his explanation of this in Newsletter 14 of December 31, 2008 and Newsletter 25 of March 11, 2011.

Aajonus developed a detailed protocol for treating open wounds, skin loss, and burns using raw food applied directly to the damaged tissue rather than conventional medical grafting.

The protocol he described most fully involved applying lime juice first to any open wound where particles, debris, or potential contaminants might be present, because lime juice seals and surrounds foreign particles almost like a piece of plastic, isolating them so that they can be slowly expelled through the skin over time without causing infection. After lime juice, he applied honey over that, then coconut cream, then raw beef on top. He specified that chicken and pork do not work as well as beef for wound healing, and that beef works excellently. The layers were kept moist, covered with a damp cloth or gauze and then plastic, wrapped in a bandage, and left on for up to three days at a time.

He applied this protocol to his own injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident in Thailand, in which he lost all the skin from significant portions of his body, down past bone in some areas, with muscle exposed and one bone filed down. The skin and muscle grew back in 12 days completely sealed. He was explicit that the alternative, conventional skin grafting from the thighs and buttocks, creates stretched skin and heavy scarring everywhere it is applied, leaving patients walking scar tissue in constant pain requiring ongoing medication.

He described a woman whose finger went into a coconut cream grinder and removed the tip of the finger, bone and all, to the joint. He had her apply lime juice, honey, coconut cream, and then beef. In 12 days, all the skin was replaced, and within that time most of the areas were barely pink, returning to normal skin tone.

He also described a man with severe road rash and skin loss who used the same protocol and healed in 12 days with barely any pink remaining.

He described applying raw sirloin to his own face overnight, five or six hours at a time, several times a week, after injections caused his skin to sag and dry dramatically. Each application removed approximately 2% to 4% of the wrinkles, with 10% of wrinkles disappearing after the very first overnight application.

For keeping meat applied to the skin during sleep, he did not describe an adhesion problem, noting for some reason the meat does not stick.

Aajonus connected skin coloration directly to the body's toxic load, particularly metal toxicity. He described a client named Joe Cosmon whose skin had been nearly gray before the Primal Diet, appearing almost as though made of metal. Over time on the diet, color returned through the grayness and a red flush appeared across the body, along with weight and strength returning.

He also attributed freckles and what are commonly called liver spots to specific glandular damage. He described his own development of freckles he had not had before following a series of injections. He explained that these spots are not produced only by the liver: dark cells pushed out by the liver, spleen, pancreas, and gallbladder, meaning cells from all of those organs that can no longer function as organ cells, are pushed out and repurposed as skin cells, which is why he called them not just liver spots but spleen, pancreas, and gallbladder spots as well.

Parameobenzoic acid, a B vitamin, regulates pigmentation in both hair and skin, and destruction of this vitamin through chemical exposure can cause changes in skin coloring.

Aajonus was strongly opposed to chelation therapy on the grounds that it systematically thins the skin. He described watching the first chelation therapy patient he was ever aware of go from a thick-skinned person to a very thin-skinned one over the course of months. That patient died of a heart attack when his heart tore, eight months after the chelation began, because chelation thins the entire system. He described seeing people only four years into chelation therapy already in clear trouble. He warned that sustained chelation would eventually leave patients with no viable skin, only scar tissue, because the progressive thinning of the skin leads to tearing and damage beyond what the body can repair.

He made a similar point about processed vitamin E, identifying that what is sold as vitamin E contains mostly solvent compounds sourced from Kodak and Fuji film developing processes, with perhaps five units out of a hundred actually from a plant source like soy or corn. Patients who took large amounts of vitamin E for their skin experienced skin that became translucent and thin, and began tearing, because the compound is actually a solvent. He described an actor friend who ran 100-mile marathons annually and took two full bottles of aspirin to get through each one. Following the race, he had to stay isolated for three weeks because the aspirin thinned his skin so severely it would tear from the lightest contact, behaving like wet toilet paper.

Aajonus was categorical about commercial skin products: all skin oils, soaps, and lotions made with processed oils, whether marketed as natural or not, smother and poison the skin while also lubricating it. The standard is simple: if you would not eat it, do not put it on your skin, because the skin cells absorb everything applied to them. He applied this to almond oil specifically, stating that it dries out the skin because skin cells are not meant to eat oil, by which he meant processed or extracted oil as distinct from the fat contained in whole food preparations like butter.

He described the general category of cosmetic and nanotechnology products that poison skin cells to cause them to lose memory, relax, and reduce wrinkles as creating cancerous conditions in the skin, because the mechanism is the same as what produces cancer: collections of dead cells and scar tissue.

Acne became a prominent issue in teenagers beginning in the 1950s, coinciding with the rise of canned food and increasing industrial food processing. Acne was present before, affecting perhaps 20% of the population because people already ate some processed and all cooked food, but the industrial era increased the toxic load substantially. The mechanism of acne is the same as other skin disorders: the body tries to discard resins and residues created from poorly metabolized cooked and processed foods, binds them with white cells and fat molecules, and pushes the resulting mass toward the skin. Because of the chemistry, size, or sharpness of those residues, which can be like glass at the cellular level, the mass burns, splits, or lacerates cell walls as it passes through the pores, creating lesions that weep and form pus. Avoiding cooked red and orange-pigmented fruits and vegetables, including all bottled or canned tomato sauces, usually eliminates acne in people who have a specific enzyme deficiency related to those foods.

He described urine applied topically as an effective acne treatment based on his mother's consistent use of it. He also described a case from his time in a vegetarian community in North Carolina where a man with skin as gnarly and scarred as someone who had done 25 years of heavy drugs and alcohol came to him. His iris examination confirmed the skin damage was from toxin discharge through the skin, but his internal organs appeared as healthy as a 30-year-old's at age 54. The man's insides had been protected by fat, even non-ideal fat, while the toxins had all been pushed outward through the skin. Aajonus used this as evidence that even imperfect fat consumption protects internal organs, with the skin bearing the full visible cost.

Aajonus described his own experience with skin grafting from childhood, when his hand was damaged by a lawn mower at age three. Surgeons grafted skin from his wrist to the damaged finger. The grafted tissue healed into tissue as hard as rock, so hard he could push the finger through plexiglass. That tissue remained for 27 years. Then, approximately one year after he began eating raw meat, the entire hardened grafted section blistered and fell off. His own skin grew back with normal sensitivity, a proper fingerprint, and a normally forming nail. He interpreted this as the body finally having sufficient materials and capacity to reject the foreign tissue and replace it with its own. He noted that this occurred at age 30 and used it to argue that the body can regenerate tissue at any age, not just in childhood, as long as it has the proper raw food diet to support the work.

Psoriasis involves industrial chemicals that are so concentrated at specific skin sites that they continuously damage and kill skin cells in the area. He described the effect of cortisone therapy on psoriasis: it improves the appearance by approximately 80% not because it heals the condition but because it so completely deprives the skin of fat that the cells at those sites are killed and can no longer react. They are no longer irritated by the industrial toxins because they are no longer alive or are too damaged to respond. The toxins continue to be eliminated through the skin at those areas regardless. He was clear that the skin cells in psoriasis areas must be constantly fed and protected from both inside and outside, as the industrial toxins move past them and abrade them both internally and through contact with whatever is applied to the skin.

The best way to harness the toxins and mitigate skin disorders, preventing them from becoming ulcers such as psoriasis, is to consume lots of animal fat, especially no-salt raw butter.

He described a particular presentation of sensitive skin associated with candida overgrowth: the skin is pretty dry, thin, and has little fat in it. It has small red splotches and bumps, is sensitive to heat, cold, and touch alike, and the person will easily develop heat rashes and may experience peeling. Itchy scalp, lots of dandruff, and small sores are also associated with this pattern. He identified this as a pattern in candida cases, where the absence of fat in the skin leaves it thin and reactive to essentially any stimulus.

Aajonus recommended hot baths regularly because heat opens the pores and allows the liquefied toxic material to pass through the skin and into the water. He described adding raw cream or coconut cream to the bath water and soaking for 15 to 30 minutes as a way to support this process while also protecting the skin. He fermented coconut cream slightly and used it as a soap, applying it before entering the bath or rinsing in the shower, and then using a cotton or silk cloth to remove the dead skin. He encountered a Philippine tribal practice of using smooth ocean rocks to brush off dead skin, and noted that when he had been consistently applying coconut cream, the tribe member brushing his back pulled off nothing but clean skin scrolls with no dirt, which was the expected result of keeping the skin well-coated with protective fat.

He described how water alone dries the skin: water is a solvent, and it breaks down the skin's surface, which is why skin feels dry after bathing. The correct response to dry skin, in his view, is not more water or hydration but more fat. He was categorical about the widespread medical claim that dry skin means dehydration: in 90% of cases it does not. The dry skin is caused by fat deficiency, not water deficiency, and putting someone on a sodium chloride and sugar IV does not solve the problem, it merely distracts the body with a different poison long enough for the original symptom to temporarily recede.

He also described an experiment in which he was in the bath and sodium came out of his skin, and it opened in the hot water because the heat expanded the blood vessels and allowed the substance to emerge.