Spleen

The most vivid and repeated teaching Aajonus gave about the spleen concerned what he called the emergency reserve: the body's ability to rapidly correct acute blood loss without entering dangerous anemia. He returned to this scenario across dozens of seminars, using it as a central illustration of why the body's design is rational and purposeful rather than flawed.

The scenario he used most often was a caveman swinging through trees who falls onto a sharp branch, lacerating his jugular vein and losing anywhere from one cup to one quart or more of blood before the wound clots. Without a functional spleen reserve, that person would be acutely anemic immediately following the bleed. Anemia impairs the delivery of oxygen to the muscles, rendering the person unable to run, climb, or defend himself effectively. In a primal environment with predators, that degree of weakness is lethal. A person who cannot outrun a tiger, a lion, or, as Aajonus often added with deliberate humor, a dinosaur, becomes dinner.

The spleen's role in this situation is to wait for the bleed to stop and then dump its entire reserve of stored red blood cells back into the bloodstream. Aajonus described this as happening within approximately one hour of clotting. Once the spleen has deployed its reserve, the person is no longer anemic, oxygen delivery is restored, and the muscles can function again. The individual can run, climb, and protect himself. The body then has approximately 40 to 90 days to manufacture new red blood cells in the bone marrow to replenish what was deployed, both in the bloodstream and in the spleen's reserve. During that rebuilding period, the person may have some reduced ability to regulate temperature through the spleen mechanism, but survival is not compromised.

He gave specific quantities across the various transcripts: losing two cups of blood would otherwise produce anemia lasting 60 to 90 days; losing three cups would leave the person effectively incapacitated; losing close to a quart would represent roughly a third to a fourth of total blood volume depending on body size. In each case, the spleen's reserve, when healthy, covers the shortfall and buys the body the time it needs to rebuild.

He also applied this function to modern scenarios and to women's physiology. He described a woman losing two to three cups of blood during childbirth and noted that a healthy spleen with a full reserve of three to four cups makes transfusion unnecessary in most cases. Similarly, a woman losing blood during menstruation draws on this reserve and replenishes it as part of the normal cycle. He said the body has a pint and a half supply available for exactly that purpose, allowing her to return to normal function immediately.

Beyond the emergency reserve function, Aajonus taught that the spleen plays a continuous and active role in regulating body temperature by adjusting the concentration of red blood cells in circulation. This function works because blood thickness directly affects how much heat the blood retains and radiates. Thick blood, with more red blood cells per unit of fluid, produces and retains more heat because the red blood cells are metabolically active and generate thermal energy as they carry and release oxygen. Thin blood, with fewer red blood cells relative to fluid, disperses heat more readily and cools the body.

When the body gets cold, the spleen dumps additional red blood cells into the bloodstream, thickening it and raising body temperature. Aajonus said this can allow the body to accommodate a temperature change of 10 to 20 degrees, and in one passage he specified that with a healthy spleen working properly, a person can withstand a 30-degree temperature change within an hour. Without the spleen functioning correctly, even a 5-degree temperature change could be dangerous or lethal in extreme cold.

When the body gets too hot, the process reverses: the red blood cells migrate out of the bloodstream and back into the spleen, thinning the blood and cooling the body. Aajonus described a temperature shift of approximately 1.5 to 2.5 degrees in either direction as sufficient to trigger a change in red blood cell quantity in the bloodstream. He described the spleen getting hot itself as the red blood cells concentrate there during a cooling event, while the overall body cools because the circulating blood has been thinned.

He noted that this temperature regulation function originally belonged exclusively to the spleen but that, as human beings became progressively more toxic over many generations, the kidneys were recruited into a supporting role. The kidney manages blood thickness from the fluid side rather than the cell side: when cold, the kidneys filter out water from the blood serum and increase urination, thickening the blood; when hot, the kidneys retain fluid to thin the blood and facilitate cooling. These two systems, spleen and kidney, now work together for a function the spleen once handled alone.

He explained the coordination of these two systems in practical terms: when a person gets cold, they urinate frequently because the kidneys are removing water to thicken the blood, while simultaneously the spleen is adding red blood cells to thicken it further. When a person gets very hot, urination slows or stops because the body is retaining fluid to thin the blood, and the spleen is drawing red blood cells out of circulation to assist the thinning. He noted that in a person on a very poor diet whose spleen cannot adequately respond, the kidneys must compensate by removing even more water, leading to excessive urination in cold conditions and potential heat prostration in hot conditions.

Under normal, healthy conditions, red and white blood cells mature entirely within the bone marrow before entering the bloodstream. Aajonus described this as the correct and intended pathway. However, he explained that as the body accumulates toxins, particularly heavy metals, the bone marrow becomes increasingly contaminated because it is a fatty tissue and the body uses fat as a storage medium for lipid-soluble poisons. When the bone marrow becomes sufficiently overloaded, it begins evicting immature red and white blood cells, pushing them out of the marrow before they have completed maturation.

These immature cells in the bloodstream cannot perform their functions. An immature red blood cell cannot transport oxygen effectively. Instead, it consumes nutrients from the blood without contributing the oxygen delivery the body depends on, producing what Aajonus called a secondary anemia: a condition in which a person has an apparently normal red blood cell count but still experiences all the symptoms of anemia because the cells present are not capable of doing their work.

The spleen, in this context, takes on an additional and secondary function that Aajonus described as unnatural but adaptive: it pulls these immature cells out of the bloodstream and holds them in a separate compartment within the organ to allow them to continue maturing outside the bone marrow. He described this as the spleen providing a maturation space away from the toxicity that is overwhelming the bone marrow. This is why, in toxic individuals, the spleen begins to grow and expand. Doctors observing an enlarged spleen recommend its removal, but Aajonus was emphatic that removing the spleen in this situation eliminates the organ that is actively trying to save the person's blood cell production capacity.

He stated directly that anyone who has their spleen removed experiences immediate and lasting deterioration: reduced capacity for exercise, difficulty climbing stairs, general weakness, and vastly increased susceptibility to serious disease. He acknowledged that people with high adrenaline and testosterone levels are somewhat less affected than others following spleen removal, but said that everyone who loses the organ is permanently weakened. He also described the downstream consequences as potentially catastrophic: without the spleen's maturation and reserve functions, the person is at serious risk of leukemia, bone cancer, or chronic severe anemia at minimum.

Aajonus raised a specific concern about heavy metal contamination affecting the quality of blood cells stored in the spleen. When the spleen is itself contaminated with heavy metals, those metals leach into the red blood cells being held in reserve. When those contaminated cells are then released into the bloodstream following a bleed or a temperature regulation event, they are weakened and cannot transport oxygen as efficiently as healthy cells. The result is a secondary anemia even when the cell count appears adequate, because the cells that were deployed from the spleen are not functional at full capacity. He described this as one mechanism through which chronic anemia persists in people who appear to have sufficient red blood cell numbers.

He mentioned coconut cream in this context, though the passage did not extend into a full protocol for addressing spleen metal contamination.

Aajonus was specific about what the spleen should and should not contain under healthy conditions. The normal, natural state is storage of mature red blood cells only, with perhaps 1 percent white blood cells and no immature cells of any type. He said that in a healthy body there is no reason for the spleen to hold white blood cells in any significant quantity, and that the presence of substantial white blood cell storage in the spleen is a sign that the body is overproducing white blood cells due to toxic burden. He also said that the spleen becoming a filter for toxins is unnatural: healthy people do not have contaminated red blood cells requiring filtration, and the spleen was not designed to serve as a filtration organ.

The expansion of the spleen's role to include white blood cell storage, maturation of immature cells, and filtration of toxin-laden blood cells is, in his framework, entirely a product of industrial civilization's toxic load on the human body. He characterized each of these added functions as the body doing its best to adapt to conditions it was never designed for.

Aajonus addressed the situation of people who have had their spleens removed, and his position was that this is a serious and permanent loss with no adequate compensation available. Without a spleen, a person cannot tolerate significant blood loss without entering dangerous anemia, cannot regulate body temperature through the red blood cell concentration mechanism, and loses the maturation reserve that protects against bone marrow toxicity driving immature cells into circulation. He advised that people without a spleen need to be extremely careful about injury and bleeding, need to maintain adequate clothing to manage temperature since the body cannot self-regulate as effectively, and should ease into hot baths rather than entering them abruptly, drinking more fluids immediately before getting into hot water. He noted that without a spleen the kidney takes on even more of the temperature regulation burden, increasing dependence on adequate hydration and fluid management.

In one passage Aajonus offered a specific practical note about bleeding and the spleen: if a person has a cut that will not stop bleeding on its own, drinking freshly juiced green cabbage juice will stop the bleeding within minutes. He presented this as a straightforward remedy for external bleeding, framed in the context of his larger teaching that a person with a healthy spleen does not need to go to a doctor for an ordinary bleed unless the wound itself requires closure.

Across multiple transcripts Aajonus returned to the subject of spleen removal with consistent and strong opposition. Doctors recommend removal when the spleen is enlarged, which in his framework occurs precisely because the spleen is working harder than normal to compensate for bone marrow toxicity and to mature immature blood cells being evicted from an overloaded marrow. Removing the spleen at this point, he said, eliminates the organ that is most actively trying to sustain the person's blood health.

He described the observable decline following splenectomy in straightforward terms: people drop in physical capacity fairly rapidly, finding exercise, stair climbing, and sustained physical activity much harder than before. The temperature regulation system is compromised. The emergency blood reserve is eliminated. The person is left entirely dependent on whatever the bone marrow can produce in real time, with no buffer. In the absence of the spleen's maturation compartment, immature cells ejected from the bone marrow go directly into the bloodstream where they function as nutrient consumers rather than oxygen transporters.

He stated unambiguously that the outcome of spleen removal is a weaker body that will become terribly diseased, and that this consequence is both predictable and avoidable if the underlying approach of removing the organ is reconsidered.

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