Stomach

Aajonus described the stomach as having two compartments in one continuous organ. The first compartment is where hydrochloric acid is secreted and dumped into food. The second compartment, the duodenum, is where bile enters. He noted that medical nomenclature around this structure had shifted over time, with the duodenum previously considered the end of the stomach and now reclassified by some as the beginning of the small intestine, a terminological inconsistency he attributed to institutional confusion.

He compared the human stomach to the multi-chambered stomachs of herbivores to make the point about dietary design. Herbivores have two to four full stomachs with multiple sub-compartments within each. The human has one stomach with two compartments. Herbivores have digestive tracts thirty times the length of their torso. Ours is twelve times. Herbivores have sixty thousand times more enzymes to disassemble the cellulose molecule and take forty-eight hours to move food through their entire system, often chewing, regurgitating, and re-chewing the same food seven times. We have twenty-four hours, one stomach, two compartments, and none of the enzymatic apparatus for vegetation.

Carnivores such as dogs and cats have digestive tracts roughly three times the length of their torso and fifteen times more hydrochloric acid concentrated in their stomachs than humans do. Dogs and cats digest meat in ten hours. Humans, with less concentrated stomach acid but an equal total amount distributed throughout the stomach and small intestine combined, digest raw meat in sixteen to twenty-four hours. Aajonus used this comparison to explain that the human stomach was not inferior to carnivore stomachs but differently arranged, suited to a longer intestinal tract in which digestion continues past the stomach itself.

Hydrochloric acid is what the stomach lining produces, and for Aajonus this single fact settled the question of what humans are designed to eat. The stomach produces hydrochloric acid for animal matter only. It does not break down cellulose. It does not have affinity for vegetable protein, fruit, grains, or nuts. When you apply hydrochloric acid from a human stomach to animal cells versus plant cells, it acts on animal cells and does not touch cellulose fiber. The only way human hydrochloric acid can react on vegetation at all is if the vegetation has been cooked first, because cooking begins to break down the cellulose structure.

In the stomach specifically, hydrochloric acid concentration is lower than in carnivores. Dogs and cats have fifteen times more hydrochloric acid in their stomachs than humans do. But this does not mean humans produce less hydrochloric acid overall. Aajonus specified that humans secrete hydrochloric acid not only in the stomach but throughout the small intestines. When you count the stomach and small intestinal secretions together, humans produce as much hydrochloric acid as any feline or canine. The design is simply distributed rather than concentrated at the stomach, which is one reason human digestion takes longer.

Hydrochloric acid in the stomach breaks large chunks of food, particularly meat, into smaller particles that bacteria can infiltrate and consume. Without this dissolving action, bacteria cannot access the nutrients inside food. This is why chewing thoroughly matters in Aajonus's framework: dogs and cats can swallow large chunks because fifteen times more hydrochloric acid will dissolve them. Humans who swallow large pieces of meat without thorough chewing will secrete hydrochloric acid all the way through the intestinal tract trying to break down the food, and will still not fully digest it by the end.

When drugs or industrial chemicals are injected or ingested, the body uses hydrochloric acid in the stomach to neutralize them. Rattlesnake venom, he said, concentrates at the highest levels in the stomach because the body dumps it there, where the hydrochloric acid neutralizes it. Chemotherapy follows the same pathway. The stomach is the body's primary acid-neutralization chamber for ingested and absorbed poisons.

While the stomach is not heavily populated with bacteria compared to the small intestines, it does contain some. Aajonus identified Campylobacter as present in the stomach, formed within the stomach lining itself, and capable of surviving the hydrochloric acid environment. Campylobacter feeds on meat and dairy. Some bacteria enter through the salivary glands and survive the stomach's acid environment. The pharmaceutical and health industries, in his account, characterize Campylobacter as a dangerous pathogen, but Aajonus treated it as a normal digestive bacterium performing a necessary function in the breakdown of animal products.

He noted that the bacteria in the stomach are not for vegetation. They do not feed on anything but animal products. The mucous lining of the stomach acts like a sphincter valve, allowing poisons to dump from the stomach lining into the stomach cavity while preventing them from moving back, so that detox byproducts are contained and pass forward through digestion rather than re-entering tissue.

The lower portion of the stomach, the duodenum, receives bile from the gallbladder. Bile is manufactured by the liver, stored in the gallbladder, and dumped into the duodenum to digest fat. Hydrochloric acid handles proteins; bile handles fats. Bile disassembles fat molecules into smaller particles so bacteria can feed on them and so the body can reassemble them into the various cholesterol types it needs. Aajonus described three broad categories of cholesterol: one third for strength and energy, one third for protection, one third for cleansing.

Bile, like hydrochloric acid, is designed for animal fats. It does not break down vegetable oils or pressed plant oils like olive oil effectively. It does not fractionate avocado fat well. For animal fats, dairy fats, butter, cream, and meat fats, it performs perfectly. After the duodenum, bile continues to be secreted in small amounts throughout the small intestines, alongside additional hydrochloric acid, to continue breaking down fat and protein particles as they move through.

The stomach protects itself from its own hydrochloric acid through a mucous lining. This lining is as resilient as hair, and Aajonus used hair as the comparison deliberately: hydrochloric acid does not digest hair, which is why hairballs pass intact from cats and dogs. The stomach lining is composed of the same category of material. The mucous lining also functions as a barrier that prevents detox poisons from moving back into stomach tissue once they have been dumped into the stomach cavity.

When alcohol, tobacco, drugs, or other toxins deplete this mucous lining, the hydrochloric acid begins digesting the stomach wall itself. This is how Aajonus understood his own ulcer: the mucus was gone, the acid ate through the wall, and he began vomiting blood, sometimes up to a cup at a time. He described the mucus as essential not only for self-protection but for controlling the direction of poison movement during detoxification.

The stomach lining is also the most significant storage site in the body for injected substances. Almost everything ever injected into the body ends up in the stomach lining, because the body recognizes the stomach as a tissue that will not be dissolved by its own acids. Aajonus cited autopsy and exhumation observations: the stomach is the tissue least affected by decomposition. Because of this resilience, the body uses the stomach lining as a depot for accumulated industrial chemicals, vaccine adjuvants, pharmaceutical residues, and other poisons.

The body clears toxins stored in the stomach lining by dumping trace amounts of them into food every time a person eats or drinks. The stomach begins this dumping process as soon as food enters. Aajonus measured this directly by placing tubes into the stomachs of people who consented to the procedure and drawing out solution samples at regular intervals throughout the day. What he found was that as soon as food entered the stomach, the stomach began dumping stored poisons from the lining into the food. When eating stopped for ten minutes, the dumping stopped. The body was using food as a vehicle to carry toxins out of the body through the digestive tract.

This mechanism means that people who eat continuously throughout the day are constantly ingesting their own stored poisons along with their food, never giving the body the ten-minute window it needs to seal the poisons off under a mucus layer. He described a cycle where the stomach dumps poisons into food during eating, stops dumping ten minutes after eating ends, lays a mucous barrier over the remaining poisons, and then begins dumping again when food next enters. This is the basis for his cheese protocol, described in detail below.

When large amounts of chemical toxins dump into the stomach during the night (a concentrated detox period), they pool in the stomach and mix with hydrochloric acid and saliva. This is what produces the bitter, chemical taste many people notice upon waking. Aajonus described morning nausea and the unpleasant taste in the mouth as evidence of concentrated poison dumping. The vomit that follows a heavy dump, if vomiting occurs, is rich in industrial chemicals and almost free of bacteria.

Snake venom, he stated, concentrates at the highest levels in the stomach after a bite, because the body routes it there for neutralization by hydrochloric acid. He cited this as the known physiological explanation for why people survive rattlesnake bites when they do. The same applies to chemotherapy residues, pharmaceutical drugs, and any heavy toxin the body is actively eliminating.

Nausea, in Aajonus's framework, is almost always a signal that poisons are being dumped into the stomach. The stomach is the primary staging area for toxin elimination, and when a large amount is being moved out at once, the person feels nauseated. This is not an illness and is not caused by the food. It is the body using the stomach to eliminate poisons, and the food is simply the vehicle the body is trying to use to carry them out.

He repeatedly emphasized that the food itself is not making the person nauseated on a raw animal food diet. The poisons already stored in the body are what dump into the stomach when food arrives, and the body makes it feel as if the food is the problem when in fact the body is poisoned, not the food. He drew this distinction carefully for people who experienced nausea when beginning the diet and concluded the food disagreed with them.

When nausea occurs, Aajonus prescribed small amounts of cheese, taken in sugar-cube-sized pieces every ten to twenty minutes until the nausea subsided. The cheese absorbs the poisons dumping into the stomach, binds to them, and carries them through without those toxins re-entering the bloodstream. Indians, he said, and many traditional cultures knew that when someone was bitten by a venomous creature, the poison went to the stomach and needed to be absorbed and carried out.

Aajonus described his own ulcer as the result of alcohol, smoking, disease, and stored toxins eating through the stomach wall after the mucous lining was depleted. He had quite a large ulcer in his stomach by age nineteen. The conventional treatment was Maalox, a chalk-based antacid that worked by absorbing hydrochloric acid. Absorbing the acid did stop it from eating the ulcer, but it also stopped all protein digestion and severely impaired fat digestion, because both processes depend on hydrochloric acid and the bile activity it facilitates. He was sometimes consuming five bottles of Maalox per week, and continued drinking alcohol while taking it, because the Maalox also neutralized the burning sensation from alcohol, creating a cycle of increasing damage and increasing antacid consumption.

He described becoming thinner and thinner despite eating, because without hydrochloric acid, food was passing through without being digested. The medical solution proposed was surgical: severing the vagus nerve to the stomach permanently so he could never again secrete hydrochloric acid, stretching the duodenum to three times its normal size, and removing part of the stomach to prevent food from hanging up at the ulcer site. The entire duodenum was scarred by this stretching procedure. He would have been placed in the category of people who must steam or cook everything they eat, including fruit, because any raw food without hydrochloric acid to sterilize it would expose them to bacterial and parasitical invasion.

Stomach scar tissue can develop when the body fails to manufacture enough mucus to coat the stomach wall, allowing digestive acids and compounds to eat into the lining. Aajonus observed this in one patient whose iridology reading showed approximately sixty percent of the stomach to be scar tissue in the duodenum region.

Stomach damage from conventional medical procedures also occurs in his account. Endoscopy and biopsy, he noted, cause lesions, ulcers, and sometimes cancer at the sites where instruments contact stomach tissue.

After his vagus nerve was severed and his stomach surgically altered, Aajonus found that he was still able to digest meat when he eventually transitioned to a raw meat diet. He considered this exceptional and attributed it to the fact that humans secrete hydrochloric acid throughout the small intestines in amounts comparable to what carnivores concentrate in their stomachs. The stomach surgery had removed his stomach-specific acid production, but intestinal secretion throughout the remaining digestive tract compensated for it. Dogs and cats digest their meat in ten hours; he found his digestion took sixteen to twenty-four hours, consistent with the longer human intestinal process even without normal stomach acid function.

Almost everything ever injected into the body ends up in the stomach lining, because the stomach is the most resilient tissue and will not be dissolved by its own acids. The body uses this as a long-term storage strategy. Toxins stored there are released slowly, in trace amounts, into food during eating. The concentration of poisons in the stomach lining is why vomit contains high concentrations of industrial chemicals. Vomiting is described as the fastest and most concentrated method the body has for expelling stored stomach lining poisons.

When the body is under acute toxic stress, such as a rattlesnake bite, chemotherapy, or heavy drug exposure, the body routes the highest concentration of those toxins to the stomach immediately, where hydrochloric acid neutralizes and contains them. The stomach is better at handling acute chemical assault than any other tissue in the body.

Because the stomach dumps stored poisons into food during eating, and because those poisons then get reabsorbed into the body along with the food, Aajonus developed a cheese protocol to intercept them. The cheese acts as a sponge and magnet. It passes through the stomach and intestinal tract without being digested (unless eaten with honey), drawing poisons out of the blood, lymph, and neurological fluid as it passes, locking onto them, and carrying them out in the feces.

The protocol works as follows. Before eating any meal, consume a small amount of raw cheese, approximately a sugar-cube size (about half a teaspoon for a small person, a teaspoon for an average person, a teaspoon and a half for a larger person, and a tablespoon and a half for a very large person). Wait ten minutes without eating anything else. During those ten minutes, the stomach dumps its stored poisons into the cheese. After ten minutes, the stomach stops dumping and lays a mucous barrier over the remaining poisons. Then eat the meal normally. The body will not begin dumping poisons into the food again for approximately twenty-five minutes. If the meal takes longer than twenty-five minutes, eat another small piece of cheese partway through and wait another ten minutes before continuing.

In the morning specifically, the stomach will have concentrated poisons during the overnight fast. Two tablespoons of cheese eaten first thing in the morning, for a small person, or two to four tablespoons for a larger person, absorbs the overnight accumulation. Ten minutes later, suck a raw egg, because eggs digest in a maximum of twenty-seven minutes and require very little digestive energy, making them the ideal first food after the cheese has done its work. For people experiencing morning nausea, the cheese eaten before any other food absorbs whatever is pooled in the stomach from the night's detoxification and carries it out.

The same protocol applies to cheese and butter together: both go into the stomach, both absorb the dumped poisons, and after ten minutes a mucous layer forms over the sealed toxins so they travel through independently of the food that follows.

If nausea occurs at any time during the day, Aajonus prescribed a sugar-cube-sized piece of cheese every ten to twenty minutes until the nausea resolved, because nausea indicates active poison dumping into the stomach.

In the specific beef-and-orange detoxification protocol for eliminating stored drugs from the body, Aajonus specified that food must be eaten only when the stomach is completely empty. This is because drugs being dumped into the stomach will be arrested there. Eating during the dump phase, or mixing the beef and oranges by eating one before the other has fully digested, causes indigestion, increases nausea, and can cause vomiting. He noted that vomiting during this protocol is beneficial and the fastest way for the body to eliminate the drugs after they have dumped into the stomach.

When food is not moving properly through the stomach and into the intestinal tract, Aajonus recommended physical movement to assist peristalsis. Rolling the stomach like a belly dancer, with shoulders and face on the floor and buttocks elevated on the knees, creates physical movement in the abdominal region that helps food move through the stomach and into the intestines. He taught himself this technique as an autistic child, sitting at the dinner table after meals to move food through so it would not hang up in the stomach.

He also noted that people with slow or dragging peristalsis, who might be worried about eating late at night, could sleep with the head slightly elevated above the buttocks to encourage food to flow downward through the stomach without hanging up.

The stomach cannot break down cellulose. Hydrochloric acid has no affinity for vegetable fiber, vegetable protein, or the proteins in cellulose. This is why vegetables must be cooked to be accessible at all to the human digestive system, and even then humans absorb only about twenty-three percent of the nutrients from cooked vegetables, all of it damaged by heat. Raw vegetables yield only about two percent absorption because the stomach has no tools for them. The stomach also cannot break down the oils in vegetables and plants effectively with its bile. The duodenal bile is designed for animal fats and handles them perfectly. Vegetable oils are not fractionated well by human bile.

The stomach does not digest cheese when cheese is used therapeutically, meaning the pancreas leaves cheese alone as it passes through. The magnetism of cheese is great enough that it draws poisons out of blood, the neurological system, and lymph as those fluids move through all of the digestive system toward the pancreas, and the cheese locks onto those poisons like a sponge and passes them out without digestion.