Tendons

Tendons connect muscles to bones. Ligaments, by contrast, hold bones together, as in the knee and ankle. Aajonus made this distinction clearly: "You have the tendons that connect the muscles to the bones. You have ligaments that hold bone together." The knee in particular has two tendons running on either side, connecting it to the femur and tibia, keeping the joint in place and allowing it to flex and straighten without moving out of alignment. Tendons and the fat and muscle tissue attached to bones at joint areas are the structures that allow the skeletal system to function with both strength and flexibility.

Because tendons have a higher mineral concentration than ordinary muscle, Aajonus specified that the diet supporting tendon repair and maintenance must reflect that. He recommended that a person with tendon problems eat approximately 70 to 75 percent red meat and 30 percent white meat, noting that without the white meat component, tendons would not rebuild quickly. Chicken was his preferred white meat for this purpose, and fish was also recommended due to its high mineral content. He stated this directly: "Without that white meat, you're not going to rebuild those tendons quickly. So you're going to have to have that 30% white meat. Chicken's a little better for that. Some fish is helpful, you know, because of the high mineral content. Because there's a higher mineral content in tendons and bones and cartilage."

For a person of approximately 5'5" in height with tendon degradation, he suggested at least a pound of meat per day. He also emphasized that the fat accompanying the meat was essential, specifically to lubricate the joints and allow nutrient delivery to the area.

Aajonus identified several categories of damage to tendon tissue.

Vegetable oils consumed regularly and incorporated into cell structure create the most insidious long-term problem. Because vegetable oils harden and crystallize at human body temperature over time, any cell built partly from those oils will develop crystalline inclusions when the cell dies and ruptures. This leaves scar tissue throughout the body, including in the tendons. "That cell dies and ruptures and you have scar tissue in your bones, in your bone marrow, anywhere else in the body in your tendons. And they live seven years, seven and a half years." He linked this mechanism directly to the development of arthritis, rheumatism, and osteoporosis.

Heavy metals, particularly mercury from vaccines, and chemicals including household cleaning compounds can poison the RNA and DNA, causing malformed or inflexible tendons from the outset. He stated that inflexible tendons arise from toxins, "especially heavy metals (such as mercury from vaccines) and chemicals, including household cleaning compounds. They may poison the RNA and DNA, causing deformity."

Injected chemicals, which Aajonus mentioned in the context of military injections, can cause tendons to shorten. He described a case where injections caused tendons to get shorter, explaining: "It's usually a chemical that's been injected into your body. Did you work in the military at all? The injections caused it. They experiment with it. They inject something, and usually in the hands. And it's usually in these three fingers." He recommended sleeping with the affected hands on a hot water bottle as part of addressing this.

Dehydration and metabolic dryness also cause tendons to shorten and buckle. He described a person showing signs of this: "You have signs of very much diabetic nature. You're so dry inside that your tendons are starting to buckle. It's even happening in your fingers. What that happens, usually when that shrinks like that, it causes the joints to go together and cause arthritis rheumatism or rheumatoid arthritis."

Tendons in the context of chicken diet-related shrinking were also discussed for one individual whose condition preceded vegetarianism: "The tendons have been shrinking and it causes the joints to rub together and that creates the inflammation. So yours isn't a normal arthritic and rheumatic condition. Yours is from irritation of rubbing together."

Electromagnetic fields from laptop computers and computer towers were also implicated in tendon-affecting conditions. He specifically connected EMF exposure to carpal tunnel syndrome and described how tower computers emitting 125 to 200 gauss needed to be kept over three feet away from the user's body.

Aajonus provided the most detailed account of tendon healing through his own motorcycle accident in Thailand. A large Harley-Davidson motorcycle, approximately 600 pounds, was laid down on his leg to avoid striking pedestrians. The tibia split all the way down to the ankle, the femur knocked off the top of the tibia, and bone fragments were driven up into the femur joint. On each side of the knee, one of the two tendons was torn completely free from the bone at opposite ends, causing visible lumps the size of golf balls where the tendons had buckled and retracted.

Orthopedic surgeons told him they needed to surgically pin the tibia segments together, remove the bone fragments from the femur joint, and surgically reattach both tendons, or he would never walk again. He declined all surgery.

In seven days, both torn tendons had grown back visibly. He described watching them: "Those two tendons that were buckled here, in seven days they grew back. The leg was still swollen, but those tendons grew back in a week. Didn't have to be surgically connected." The pain at the torn attachment points continued even as the tendons healed structurally, but the tendon tissue itself reconstituted in a week.

He walked without crutches at six and a half weeks. At six months, he was running two steps at a time up a staircase without pain. He noted the significance: "Can you imagine that at 60 years old? Looking like this at 60 years old and no exercise."

His protocol during this healing period included applying lime juice to open wounds, followed by coconut cream, then unheated honey, with raw meat applied on top as a bandage. He drank one quart of raw milk daily throughout. He also walked daily in a swimming pool, staying in the deep end to avoid full weight-bearing while maintaining circulation and movement in the leg.

The newsletter account confirmed: "Within 10 days my tendons had completely regrown and reconnected. However, my greatest pain continued to be at the points where the tendons had torn from my knee."

Before the motorcycle accident, Aajonus had established this pattern of observation through a much earlier injury. The day before he was due to attend Stanford University for the British American Drama Academy, a step outside his house tipped and he ripped the tendon completely off his ankle, which swelled up like an egg at the base. Despite being on crutches, he attended his classes the following day, wrapped the ankle in an ace bandage, and participated in dance classes and movement classes through the pain. Within three days the tendon had grown back. It was still sore, but structurally restored.

A consistent feature of Aajonus's account of tendon healing is that structural regrowth precedes pain resolution. The tendon reconnects in days to a week, but the pain at the attachment points continues considerably longer. In the ankle case, pain resolved in two weeks. In the motorcycle case, some pain and soreness at the attachment points persisted beyond six months, though improving continually. He never conflated ongoing pain with failure to heal, treating them as separate processes.

He also described the gradual regrowth as visible and tangible from the outside. With the motorcycle injury, he could observe the buckled tendon bulges diminish as the tendons regrew into their proper positions over the first week.

Aajonus identified scar tissue within tendons as a particular problem that must be addressed before new cellular rebuilding can take place. Scar tissue inside a tendon blocks the formation of healthy new cells. His approach to this was pineapple consumed with either whipped cream or coconut cream, on a specific cycle: approximately four ounces of pineapple (described as roughly a half-inch thick circular slice) with cream, taken every seven days over a three-day cycle. The purpose was enzymatic: the pineapple enzymes break down the scarring so that new tendon cells can then be built in the cleared space.

He explained: "I hope that's going to help break down some of the scarring in the tendons so you can start rebuilding cells in there right away. Because unless some of that scarring is removed, you're not going to be able to build cells in there."

For a person who needed to rebuild their own tendons, Aajonus suggested consuming actual tendon tissue from animals. He described the method in practical terms: grind the raw tendons in a meat grinder, running them through approximately three times to reduce them to the smallest possible fragments so that hydrochloric acid in the stomach can break them down more effectively. "If you could take tendons and chop them up and grind them in a grinder, meat grinder, you would probably, if you can digest it, break it down. And the best possible way is to grind it. You know, put it through the grinder about three times to get it down into the smallest fragment."

He also ate bone marrow connective tissue daily when in Los Angeles, going through an entire package of approximately seven marrow bones per day, describing this as a practice that "helps regenerate tissue fast." He ate this with his meat meal every day he was in Los Angeles, noting he spent only about six weeks per year there and consumed a full package each of those days.

Aajonus consistently opposed the use of ice on injured tendons and strongly advocated heat instead. He described the mechanism in detail. Tendons that are tight or injured create pain by pressing on surrounding nerves, muscles, and other structures. Applying heat causes everything in the area to relax, allowing expansion, which then allows nutrient-carrying blood to circulate through and supply the area with what it needs to heal.

He described ice as appropriate only for a minute if needed to numb acute pain, but warned that athletes who routinely use ice on soft tissue injuries eventually find themselves unable to play and are removed from first-string positions, their performance declining until they stop altogether. "Don't use ice, except if it's just to numb the pain for a minute."

For spinal-related tendon and muscle tightness, he recommended sleeping with a hot water bottle against the spine, which allows muscles and tendons to relax and expand during sleep, relieving nerve pressure and allowing nutrient delivery for healing.

A case Aajonus discussed involved a woman who crushed her ankle, damaging approximately eight ligaments and approximately six tendons at their attachment points to bone. Doctors recommended surgery and recommended pressure foam bandages to immobilize the area. Aajonus opposed the foam pressure bandages specifically because they cut off circulation, which would cause scarring inside the crushed tissue and leave the ankle less mobile than before. He predicted that using the foam would require ongoing physical therapy to address the scarring the immobilization itself created.

The body's healing process in this case expressed itself as a heavy rash from the ankle, with the crushed matter from ligaments and tendons exiting through the skin in the form of bruising that progressed from blue to black to yellow, with the yellow representing dissolved dead red blood cells passing through the skin. Aajonus read this progression as evidence the body was actively clearing the damage.

Aajonus described a personal injury from childhood in which his brother sliced his hand completely across and severed the tendon. Surgeons were unable to reconnect the tendon, leaving him without full function in that hand: "I have no tendon here. I can bend this. I can move the thumb, but I can't bend it, and it's half the size of the other one. That happened when I was eight years old." He described this as a permanently weak hand with limited grip compared to the other.

In cases where tendons were identified as actively shrinking rather than simply torn or injured, Aajonus attributed the cause to chemical injections, dryness and metabolic depletion, or specific toxicity. Shrinking tendons pull joints closer together, causing the joint surfaces to rub and grind against each other, producing the particular form of joint inflammation he described as mechanical rather than purely toxic in origin. This is distinct from the more common arthritis pattern where toxicity in the joint causes inflammation. In shrinking-tendon arthritis, the primary driver is the physical compression created by the shortened connective tissue.

His protocol in such cases combined heat therapy on the hands and affected areas, a high-fat high-meat diet with specific emphasis on white meat for tendon rebuilding, and the lubrication formula from his recipe book (page 146), taken with meat meals and before sleep.

One exchange in the seminars addressed a claim that tracking devices had been injected into tendon tissue. Aajonus engaged with this practically: he had attempted to cut one out himself but found that because it was embedded in the tendon, the only way to remove it would be to cut out the tendon itself, which would destroy the function of the fingers. He said he had such devices in each hand, and described them as fluid chips rather than solid chips. He treated this as a real physical problem with no currently available resolution that would preserve hand function.

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