Sulfites

Aajonus explained that sulfur-based antibiotics are prescribed specifically because sulfur dries out the system. For bladder and kidney infections, which involve inflammation and fluid accumulation, this drying effect suppresses the immediate symptoms. However, because the sulfur in these drugs is not in a food form, the body cannot utilize it biologically. It is, in his words, "an isolated rock," comparable in its industrial form to the material used in matches and explosives.

Because the body cannot process it as food and cannot easily eliminate it, the sulfur from these drugs accumulates. Aajonus described this as a caking process in which inorganic substances, when taken in supplement or drug form rather than food form, build up in the body like plaster rather than being utilized. The body may eventually attempt to expel this stored sulfur, but doing so requires dissolving it with solvents, pulling it through fat layers, into the lymphatic system, and ultimately out through the skin or nasal passages. This process itself carries risk because when the mobilized sulfur compound reaches the skin and contacts oxygen, it can ignite.

The most dramatic evidence Aajonus presented for this mechanism came from three women who appeared on a 60 Minutes episode he placed around 1971. Each of these women had experienced spontaneous combustion, meaning their bodies had literally caught fire without any external ignition source.

Aajonus became curious about this phenomenon because he already understood that certain bodily chemicals, when mixed with sulfur and brought to the surface of the skin, could cause burns. He noted that matches are made with sulfur precisely because it ignites on contact with oxygen. When he saw the 60 Minutes segment, which involved women who had spontaneously combusted, he immediately suspected sulfur drug accumulation was the common factor.

Through his publicity manager, who was the head of MGM Publicity at the time, Aajonus obtained contact information for these women. He described spending approximately a week working through channels to reach them, eventually making contact within about four weeks of the broadcast. What he found from each of the three women confirmed his hypothesis in a pattern he described as "weird" in its regularity.

The first woman had three quarters of her body burned. She had taken sulfur drugs for bladder and kidney infections for 32 years. The second woman had two thirds of her body burned. She had taken sulfur drugs for 22 years. The third woman had one third of her body burned. She had taken sulfur drugs for 12 years. Aajonus noted the numerical pattern, 32, 22, 12 years, and 3/4, 2/3, 1/3 of body burned, calling it a strange coincidence while noting he did not think it carried additional meaning beyond what it demonstrated about the relationship between duration of exposure and severity of outcome.

The mechanism, as he described it, was that sulfur mixed with salt, sodium, and other body chemicals and migrated to the skin, where it acted like nitroglycerin on contact with oxygen. The result was spontaneous fire.

The most severe case involved the woman with two thirds of her body burned. She was sitting in her trailer with her husband eating cereal, no cooking involved, just mixing sugar, milk, and cereal, and her body went up in flames. When the burned tissue was analyzed, the sulfur content was high. Aajonus stressed that this analysis confirmed the connection and that the medical profession and news media failed to report this finding or draw the connection to her decades of sulfur drug use.

Aajonus spoke from direct personal experience with this phenomenon. He reported having taken sulfur drugs several times as a child, and as a result he experienced spontaneous burning and eruptions on his own skin, including what appeared as third-degree burns appearing suddenly with no external cause. There was no flame, but the burns presented as severe tissue damage.

He also described a patient whose case he documented in one of his newsletters. This woman had a burn appear on her lower back in the area of the kidney. She had been given sulfur drugs for bladder infections frequently as a child. Aajonus provided photographs of the wound and described the healing protocol he employed for her.

This patient's wound was severe enough that it burned holes directly through the skin in four spots, reaching all the way down to the muscle, with blood clots present. The pain was significant, and she had three children to care for during the healing process. She communicated with Aajonus almost every other day, sending photographs to document the progression.

For this injury, Aajonus described a specific topical approach. He instructed her to put lime juice on the burned area. He explained that lime juice functions as an antiseptic that coats highly toxic material so the body does not need to waste white blood cells on it. He also used coconut cream applied to the wound. Clay with coconut cream was another element, with the coconut cream added specifically to prevent the clay from drying out the wound, since drying an actively exuding toxic burn would be counterproductive.

He reported that by approximately nine months after the event, she had some scarring but the condition had resolved and the damage was not progressive.

When asked whether MSM (methylsulfonylmethane), a marketed sulfur supplement promoted for detoxification and joint health, was safe or beneficial, Aajonus rejected this position entirely. He stated that MSM and all similar isolated sulfur supplements are poisonous. His objection was rooted in the same framework he applied to all inorganic, isolated mineral supplements: they are not in a food form that the body can properly utilize. He noted that MSM is not new, just "now marketed well," and that his objections to it came from his own long-period experiments.

He also addressed the claim, which someone raised to him, that sulfur bonds to toxins for detoxification. His response was that while sulfur in food, eggs and milk, serves biological functions, the supplemental form does not work this way in the body. Instead, it cakes and accumulates, causing the body to eventually react with solvents to try to remove it, generating dangerous chemical reactions, particularly when the mobilized compound exits through the skin and contacts oxygen.

Aajonus made an exception for sulfur occurring naturally in well water. When asked whether sulfur-smelling well water was a good or bad thing, he said it is a good thing. Natural sulfur in well water, he explained, helps pull toxic sulfur from sulfur-based antibiotics stored in the body. This is the opposite of the dynamic he described with isolated supplemental sulfur or drug-form sulfur. In water, the naturally occurring sulfur assists in drawing stored pharmaceutical sulfur out of the system rather than adding to the body's toxic load.

Aajonus connected sulfur drug accumulation to difficulties people experience when using topical fats on inflamed or irritated skin. He described people who have taken large amounts of sulfur drugs or sulfur-based allergy inhalers and who find that applying butter, coconut cream, or other fats to hives or irritated skin causes more burning and more heat rather than soothing the condition. The mechanism he described was that as sulfur exits through the skin, it causes burning upon contact with oxygen, and applying substances that facilitate this exit or that interact with the ongoing chemical reaction can intensify rather than relieve the sensation.

Allergy inhalers, he noted, are also often based on sulfur, employed to dry out respiratory passages just as sulfur-based antibiotics dry out the bladder and kidney. The same accumulation dynamic applies.

Aajonus's position on sulfur drugs and supplemental sulfur fits within his larger framework that any mineral or nutrient taken in an isolated, inorganic form, rather than embedded in a food matrix alongside complementary fats, proteins, enzymes, and other minerals, will not be properly utilized and will create problems in the body. He described this as minerals caking like plaster in the system. When the body eventually attempts to remove such deposits using solvents, the resulting chemistry can be dangerous, particularly when the mobilized compounds reach the skin and encounter oxygen.

He pointed to the pharmaceutical and supplement industries as equally guilty of promoting this framework, noting that the medical profession and pharmaceutical companies had adopted vitamins and supplements not because they are beneficial but because they represent additional products to sell. His case against sulfur drugs specifically was that they suppress symptoms while creating a long-term accumulation that the body cannot safely resolve, and that the most extreme outcome of this accumulation is catastrophic tissue destruction through spontaneous combustion.

In passing, Aajonus described one man who had so much mercury, aluminum, and sulfur from sulfur-based medications taken in childhood stored in his intestinal tract that the tissue appeared almost as black as the pupil of an eye. Aajonus thought at the time that this man was never going to have clean intestines and would need to eat cheese every day of his life, all day long, to absorb and remove those stored compounds through the fecal route.