Thyroid

The thyroid is not a single gland. Aajonus described it as six glands in total: a left thyroid and a right thyroid, each with two parathyroids attached to it, giving four parathyroids in addition to the two main thyroid lobes. This means the body has constructed five backups for a single gland's function. He returned to this point repeatedly across workshops because he considered it the most direct anatomical argument for his interpretation of the thyroid's true role.

He asked the question in many ways: what is so important in the human body that nature would provide five backups for one gland? His answer was always the same. The heart and the lungs. If you fall from a height, if someone hits you hard enough to knock the wind out of you, if your heart stops and your lungs stop, the thyroid complex kicks in and produces the thyroxines needed to restart those organs. Without that system, a single blow to the chest during a football game, a fall from a tree, or any other trauma that stops breathing would be a death sentence.

The parathyroids function as backups to the thyroid itself. Aajonus described them as being like little adrenal glands in their capacity for rapid, high-volume hormone output. Each parathyroid on either side of the thyroid can produce as much as the entire thyroid gland in the same period of time. In addition to these six glands, the thymus gland sits lower, near the lungs and bronchioles, and functions as an additional backup layer for the heart and lung protection system. So the full protective system for the heart and lungs includes the two thyroids, the four parathyroids, and the thymus, all operating in a hierarchical cascade when the primary structures are overwhelmed or insufficient.

In children today, Aajonus observed that the parathyroids are often as active as or more active than the thyroid glands themselves, which he read as evidence of how toxic modern life has become even for the young. The parathyroids, which are supposed to be rarely used, are working constantly because the body is in a near-permanent state of emergency.

Aajonus described the thyroxine emergency response with physiological specificity. He spent time with a football team specifically to test this mechanism. He had players' blood tested before games and then again after they had been hit by multiple opponents hard enough to be knocked to the ground, lose the wind from their lungs, and in some cases have their hearts stop briefly. The thyroxine levels after such hits were, in his description, "off the roof," extraordinarily elevated, and this happened to be the only blood chemistry change he observed alongside a low oxygen level. No other hormone changed in that dramatic way. The thyroxine built up over several minutes, doubling by the fourth or fifth minute, until it produced enough stimulus to restart the breathing and heartbeat, at which point the player would be up and functional again within one to two minutes of being knocked completely out.

He extended this observation to cardiac patients. When a heart stops beating, thyroxine levels spike sharply and remain elevated for twenty to thirty minutes, even in patients who do not ultimately survive. The body is using its thyroid system to try to restart the heart regardless of outcome.

He also described his own personal experience of losing wind as a child when his brother punched him in the stomach, and sometimes having his heart stop in those moments. This gave him a personal reference point for the thyroid's emergency role, which he then tested formally with the football research.

In healthy animals, particularly healthy primates, Aajonus said the thyroid only activates at all when there is a blow to the chest that stops respiration. This is the sole condition under which a healthy organism's thyroid should be producing measurable levels of thyroxine in the blood. Any other presence of thyroid hormones in the blood is, in his framework, a sign of the chronic emergency state that toxicity and poor diet create.

The thyroid produces multiple thyroxines, and Aajonus described approximately six to seven distinct thyroxines that assist with heart, lung, and liver function. He also described four basic categories of thyroxine that address the functioning of the throat region, including swallowing, mucus production, and the maintenance of fluid flow through the narrow passage of the neck, which he identified as the most congested area of the body besides the ears and eyeballs, with blood, lymphatic fluid, neurological fluids, and the spine all passing through that tight channel.

In the context of toxin binding, Aajonus described thyroxines as functioning to bind with toxins that enter through the mouth and throat. T3, T4, and all the other thyroxines in his framework are produced in part to capture and neutralize contaminants that come down through the throat area. This is a separate function from the cardiac-pulmonary emergency role, and it explains why the thyroid is placed anatomically where it is, right at the throat, standing as a guard against anything entering from above.

He noted that hormones are composed of roughly sixty to eighty percent fat and about fifteen percent protein. Because of this composition, hormones including thyroxines are used by the body to bind and arrest toxins when fats are in short supply from diet. When the diet is poor and fat stores are depleted, the body will produce emergency hormones including thyroxines to deal with toxin loads, which means the thyroid is being called on not for its proper emergency role but as a toxin-management system. This is how chronic overuse of the thyroid happens, and it leads to exhaustion of the gland.

When the body is continuously overloaded with toxins, whether from cooked food, environmental pollution, industrial chemicals, or pharmaceutical exposures, the thyroid is pressed into continuous service. It was designed for acute, brief, high-intensity output in genuine emergencies. Using it as a continuous toxin-binding and low-grade emergency system depletes it. Aajonus described this exhaustion as the actual underlying condition when people experience hair loss, low energy, weight changes, and the other symptoms conventionally attributed to thyroid dysfunction.

He was explicit that hair loss is not caused by low thyroxine levels in any direct physiological sense. He described having observed many people with plenty of thyroxine who are bald, and many fat people who have high thyroxine levels. The claim that thyroid hormone governs hair retention and body weight is, in his word, "bullshit," and the pharmaceutical industry deliberately cultivated it because vanity around hair and weight is a reliable motivator for women and men to accept medication.

Energy levels, in Aajonus's framework, are produced by red blood cells delivering oxygen to cells, and by cells combining oxygen with cholesterols to produce energy. Thyroxine plays no role in this process. Attributing fatigue and low energy to thyroid insufficiency and prescribing thyroxine for it is, in his view, another fabrication. Proper diet and healthy cellular function produce energy; the thyroid does not.

Aajonus returned to this subject in many workshops because he considered it one of the clearest examples of how the pharmaceutical industry profits by targeting vanity and fear. He described the mechanism precisely: identify something people are afraid of, particularly women afraid of hair loss and people afraid of getting fat, then tell them a gland they have never thought about is responsible, offer a pill, and collect billions in ongoing prescriptions because the pill does nothing for the actual cause of those symptoms so the symptoms persist and the prescription continues indefinitely.

He described how the number of named thyroxine fractions has grown over the decades as a further mechanism for expanding the market. Where there were once only T1 and T2, there are now T3, T4, T6, T7, T10, and so on. Each newly named fraction creates a new diagnostic category and a new supplement to prescribe. He also pointed out that there is no multi-thyroxine product; each fraction is sold separately, compounding the revenue.

He also directly called out the claim that thyroid hormones regulate adrenal function and co-regulate the entire endocrine system below the neck. He rejected this on the grounds that seeing one hormone affect another in a sick population does not mean one gland normally directs another gland in a healthy body. What is actually being observed, in his framework, is the body cannibalizing thyroxine to convert it into other hormones when those other glands are not producing their own hormones adequately, or the body rerouting thyroxines to other glands where they are restructured into that gland's specific hormones. This is an adaptation to deficiency, not a healthy regulatory relationship.

Aajonus was unequivocal that taking any form of thyroxine supplementation, synthetic or so-called natural, will cause the thyroid to atrophy. He drew a direct analogy to the pancreas and insulin: when you give the body insulin from outside, the pancreas stops making its own and progressively deteriorates. If the pancreas deteriorates completely, it cannot be recovered. The same logic applies to the thyroid. When you supply exogenous thyroxine, the thyroid stops doing its own work and begins to shrink and shut down.

He stated that even the "natural" thyroid preparations such as Armour thyroid or organic pharmacy versions are not truly natural, because sterilizing the glandular tissue transforms it into a chemical substance. Once sterilized, the material no longer behaves as raw glandular tissue; it behaves as a pharmaceutical compound.

His clinical recommendation for anyone taking thyroid medication was not to take it continuously for indefinite maintenance, but to use it specifically and in a time-limited way to stimulate the thyroid into activity, then stop, allowing the diet and the thyroid itself to take over. He used the example of someone who had been on Armour thyroid, recommending a finite course at a specific dose to prompt the gland and then discontinuing the supplement before atrophy sets in.

Aajonus argued that a single annual blood test for thyroxine levels tells you almost nothing meaningful. He used the analogy of being given a million dollars and spending it all in a day: you would show zero balance at the end of the day, but that does not mean you are poor. If the body is producing thyroxine and using all of it to bind toxins or restart emergency cardiac and pulmonary responses, there will be little or nothing measurable in the blood at the moment the test is taken. A low or zero reading means the body is using what it produces, not that the body cannot produce it.

He noted that many people diagnosed with thyroid problems do not actually have thyroid problems. The gland may simply be dormant because the body is not in an emergency situation at the moment, or it may be that every thyroxine produced is immediately consumed. Neither of these represents a pathological condition. Eighty-five percent of the people he saw who had been diagnosed with thyroid problems and were taking thyroid medication had, by his reading of their hands, nothing actually wrong with the thyroid. The gland was either dormant or had simply been using all its production.

He also observed that if one gland is not producing its hormone, the body will use another hormone as a substitute. This means the body might be running high thyroxine levels not because the thyroid is the problem but because another gland is down and the body is converting thyroxine into that gland's missing hormone.

Aajonus was asked about Hashimoto's thyroiditis, described to him as an autoimmune disease in which the body attacks the thyroid and shuts it down. His response was to laugh and reframe the process entirely. In his framework, the body does not attack itself. What looks like the immune system attacking the thyroid is actually the body detoxing the thyroid: sending in janitorial bacteria, viral solvents, and other cleansing agents to break down and remove dead tissue within the thyroid that has accumulated from chemical damage. The thyroid shuts down temporarily during this cleaning process, but it is not being destroyed; it is being cleared out.

He compared it to what he had seen with liver damage: clients would suddenly have high levels of liver cells in their blood, and doctors would panic and alarm the clients, when in fact the body was simply clearing dead liver cells. The same mechanism applies to the thyroid under Hashimoto's. The apparent "attack" is janitorial activity.

He stated clearly: "Your body never attacks itself." The things being sent to break down tissue are bacteria, hormones in the form of viral solvents, parasites, and fungi, all of which eat dead tissue. They do not eat live tissue. What causes the dead tissue that requires this cleaning is industrial chemicals, pharmaceutical drugs, and other real toxins that break cells and kill them. The janitorial response to that damage is then falsely labeled as the body being self-destructive.

In a written response to a client with Hashimoto's, Aajonus noted that the thyroid "usually reconstitutes and rebalances within 3 months if thyroxin supplementation is not taken." He specifically warned against taking synthetic thyroid hormones during this period, as that would prevent the gland from reconstituting.

For hyperthyroid conditions, Aajonus observed that hyperthyroid typically follows a cold or flu because the thyroid may be exhausted after that type of detoxification. He said the condition will usually resolve on its own within three months without thyroxine supplementation. He specifically listed the symptoms being reported: rapid heart rate of more than ninety beats per minute at rest, feeling hyper or agitated while also being extremely fatigued, trembling, severe insomnia, heat and excessive sweating. He acknowledged some of these as signs of intense healing rather than disease.

He recommended eating five ounces of raw chicken at the same time as three ounces of raw fish with a quarter teaspoon of royal jelly to help the thyroid regain its composure. He also suggested lots of sleep and frequent naps, comparing the healing process to what infants need.

Aajonus addressed thyroid nodules in the same framework he used for all tumors and growths. Nodules are collections of dead cells that the body's lymphatic system has been unable to dissolve and has instead packaged into a contained structure. When dead cells accumulate and cannot be cleared, the body stores them, forming either fibroid masses or small nodules. Nodules are small benign tumors arising from that storage process. They are not signs of cancer by themselves, and the presence of a nodule does not indicate that the thyroid is malfunctioning in any dangerous way.

An enlarged thyroid or goiter he explained similarly: when the lymphatic system cannot dissolve all the dead cells accumulating in the thyroid, it stores them within the gland itself, causing it to enlarge. He specifically linked this to a client case in which a doctor had identified an enlarged thyroid, a goiter, and a nodule of 1.35 cm and had recommended biopsy and Synthroid. Aajonus's position was that the enlargement represented dead cell storage, and that the correct approach was to support lymphatic function and detoxification rather than biopsy or synthetic hormone therapy.

His recommendation for the lymphatic support protocol in this context included rubbing no-salt raw butter into the neck regularly, consuming raw apple cider vinegar up to two tablespoons daily with cheese eaten regularly to prevent mineral deficiency, and consuming the apple cider vinegar ideally in his Sport Formula. He also suggested half a cup of pineapple at least three days weekly but no more than four days weekly to support lymphatic dissolution of dead cells.

Aajonus rejected the claim that iodine protects the thyroid or prevents thyroid cancer. He described isolated iodine as always poisonous, noting it is used as a bacteria killer in medicine and dairy farming and has industrial uses, all of which are toxic. In his framework, isolated iodine is not a bioactive element but a rock mineral that the body cannot properly utilize.

He observed that animals whose diets are low in iodine do not show higher rates of thyroid problems or thyroid cancers. Animals that do not eat foods high in iodine do not suffer the diseases that chemistry attributes to iodine deficiency. He used this as evidence that the link between iodine supplementation and thyroid protection is not supported by actual animal biology.

In clinical observation, when people consumed iodine supplements he most commonly found iodine storing in the intestines, nervous system, brain, bones, and bone marrow rather than the thyroid. In a group of eleven people taking supplemental iodine, only one showed iodine stored in her thyroid. He noted that if iodine supplementation protects the thyroid by directing iodine there, but in practice it most often ends up in the brain and bone marrow instead, then the supposed protection trades a manageable thyroid condition for far more difficult conditions in structures where lymphatic circulation is extremely limited and slow.

He had personal experience of iodine radiation treatment for metastasized stomach cancer as a young person and had suffered the effects of blood and bone cancers resulting from it, which gave him a personal basis for his strong opposition to iodine in isolated supplemental form.

Aajonus described using raw thyroid gland from animals as the appropriate support for thyroid problems, not sterilized or freeze-dried preparations and certainly not synthetic hormones. He described the taste as quite delicious, very rich and salty, similar to clam chowder.

His own protocol for using raw thyroid involved taking the thyroid of a calf or buffalo calf, cutting it into three parts, blending it with milk, and sometimes adding a little red onion, creating something that tastes like clam chowder. His personal experience was that eating one whole calf or buffalo calf thyroid in a single preparation would sustain him for a period ranging from one and a half years to two years before needing to repeat it.

He contrasted this with freeze-dried raw thyroid supplements. When he used the freeze-dried version of the same glandular material, he found he had to take it continuously to maintain any effect. With the fresh raw thyroid, a single preparation lasting one meal produced benefits lasting over a year. The difference in his experience was clear and consistent.

He tracked his own progress across multiple uses of raw thyroid over years. The first time he used it, the benefit lasted about six months. The second time, a little over nine months. The third time, about a year and a half. The last time before the period he was recounting, it lasted three years. This progressive lengthening suggested to him that his thyroid was gradually healing and becoming more capable of sustaining itself over longer periods.

For clients with thyroid problems, he recommended the same general approach of eating raw thyroid gland. He also described, in the context of someone on a small daily dose of Armour thyroid, a specific protocol using the Nutripack raw thyroid supplement: five tablets taken all at once with a meat meal, five days in a row as a first session, five days a week. He specified that the thyroid supplement should be taken with meat because thyroid tissue is meat and the digestive processes for meat tissue support assimilation of the glandular material. He also used vanilla extract in this context, a quarter to a half teaspoon daily, as a way to stimulate thyroid activity before and during the glandular supplementation.

For general thyroid support, Aajonus recommended specific dietary combinations in some of the reading sessions recorded in the workshops. He prescribed two Medjool dates per day with an equal amount of cheese and approximately an equal amount of butter, eaten once a day, as a combination helpful for the thyroid. Butter and cheese together with eggs were also noted as supportive.

He recommended raw glandular tissue more broadly for people whose glandular systems were depleted, specifying that when purchasing thyroid gland the parathyroids come attached, so obtaining thyroid gives both. Testes and other glands were sometimes recommended alongside thyroid depending on the individual's condition.

Coconut cream rather than coconut oil was mentioned in the context of the broader glandular and nutritional protocol, with Aajonus emphasizing the distinction between coconut cream (the pressed juice of the thick white meat at roughly three to four percent oil) and coconut oil, which he said does not produce the same effects.

Aajonus described one specific mechanism by which the thyroid can be damaged internally by diet. If toxic sugar stores accumulate in the thyroid, it can cause hypothyroidism. He linked this to cooked foods and the body's inability to process sugars cleanly when the diet is inadequate, with the resulting toxic sugar deposits settling in glandular tissue and impairing function. This was one of several pathways by which he described dietary choices directly injuring specific glands.

Aajonus used the palms and inner hands as diagnostic windows, reading glandular conditions from the coloring, texture, and structural features visible there. He described the thyroid as having a readable presence in the hand, with one side of the hand corresponding to one thyroid and the other side to the other thyroid. He noted that the two sides do not have to look similar because one thyroid can be in worse condition than the other without correspondence.

A lesion in the hand reading indicated a dead area in the corresponding gland, a darker blotch without fibers passing through it representing a saturation of dead tissue. A gland showing poor coloring might indicate impaired circulation, atrophy, or breakdown. He described numerous individual cases in the workshop readings in which one thyroid was functioning adequately while the parathyroids were dissolved, or the right thyroid was in good shape while the left side was deteriorating, or both thyroids were dormant while the parathyroids were compensating.

He noted that in his experience, eighty-five percent of people diagnosed with thyroid problems whom he read had hands showing no actual thyroid pathology. The gland was dormant or consuming all production. This did not indicate disease requiring medication; it indicated a body in emergency mode that needed dietary restoration.

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