Thyroid Hormone

Aajonus held that the thyroid glands and the thyroxines they produce exist for one purpose: to restart or sustain heart and lung function in emergency situations. If a person falls from a tree, takes a severe blow to the diaphragm, or suffers any trauma that knocks the wind out of them and stops the heart, the thyroid immediately releases thyroxine. He described observing this directly by testing blood from football players who had been knocked unconscious or had the wind driven out of them by multiple simultaneous hits. In every case, every thyroxine hormone measured was, in his words, "sky high," and the levels built progressively over several minutes until the heart and lungs resumed function. He described one experimental observation in which thyroxine levels doubled by the fourth or fifth minute following trauma, and then the breathing and heartbeat returned, after which thyroxine levels normalized. He noted that this was the only blood chemistry change observed beyond low oxygen levels, which he took as direct experimental confirmation that the sole role of thyroxine is cardiac and pulmonary emergency response.

He extended this logic to cardiac patients: when a heart stops beating, thyroxine levels spike for the next twenty to thirty minutes as the body attempts to restart the organ, even in patients who do not survive. He argued that people who die from heart attacks frequently do so because their thyroid has already been damaged or depleted, leaving the body without the hormonal tool it needs to recover. He stated plainly that removing these six glands through any means would mean a person could only be revived through electric shock and forced respiration, and that many would not come back at all.

He also addressed the parathyroid's role as a layered backup system. The two parathyroids on each thyroid function like small adrenal glands, capable of releasing large quantities of thyroxine rapidly when the main thyroid is compromised. Even in children today, he noted, he observed the parathyroids working as hard as or harder than the thyroid glands themselves, which he attributed to how toxic the modern environment is.

Aajonus was categorical that thyroxines have no relationship to hair growth or hair loss, weight gain or weight loss, daily energy levels, or adrenal gland co-regulation. He pointed to direct observational evidence: people who are bald have high thyroxine levels, not low ones. People who are overweight also have high thyroxine levels. When someone loses hair, thyroxine is not low. When someone gains weight, thyroxine is not absent. He stated that the pharmaceutical industry is fully aware of these facts and deliberately constructed the thyroid-hair and thyroid-weight narratives to exploit human vanity, knowing that millions of people, particularly women, would take thyroxine medication if told it would prevent baldness or obesity. He estimated that hundreds of millions of people worldwide were taking thyroxine for these reasons, none of which were valid from his perspective.

On energy, he was equally direct: energy in the body comes from red blood cells delivering oxygen to cells, which then combine oxygen with cholesterol to produce energy. Thyroxine contributes nothing to this process under normal healthy conditions. Taking thyroxine to feel energetic is a false mechanism, one that does not address the actual dietary and detoxification failures causing fatigue, and that leaves the underlying problem unresolved while the body's own glands are suppressed.

He also rejected the medical model that the thyroid directs or regulates other glands, including the adrenals, gonads, and pituitary. He acknowledged that the medical profession observed correlations between thyroxine levels and the activity of other glands, but argued that this is not a healthy physiological relationship. His interpretation was that when other glands are not producing their own hormones properly, the body may send thyroxine to those glands, where it is restructured into the hormones those glands are supposed to produce. He distinguished this from the medical claim that the thyroid is a master regulator, saying instead that the body can take any hormone and convert it into a detoxifier or into another hormonal substance, which explains the observed correlations without establishing top-down thyroid dominance.

Beyond their emergency cardiac and pulmonary role, Aajonus described an additional function he believed was responsible for the chronic overuse of the thyroid in modern humans. He argued that thyroxines, like all hormones, are predominantly fat, roughly 60%, with approximately 15% protein, which makes them effective at binding with toxins. Because the body uses fats and fat-based substances to neutralize and carry poisons, the thyroxines produced by the thyroid become recruited into a constant detoxification process that was never their intended primary role.

He stated that T3, T4, and all the other thyroxine variants function to bind with toxins that enter through the mouth and pass through the throat region. The thyroid is positioned to intercept contamination coming down from the mouth and nose, protecting the lungs and the surrounding structures. In the modern toxic environment, he argued, this protective function is operating continuously rather than rarely, which exhausts the thyroid over time. An exhausted thyroid can no longer produce adequate thyroxine for any purpose, including detoxification of the throat region and emergency cardiac response. He noted that symptoms like hair loss and other commonly attributed thyroid symptoms are actually downstream consequences of systemic toxicity causing thyroid exhaustion, not primary thyroid dysfunction.

He connected this to the neck anatomy directly, describing the neck as the most congested zone in the body aside from the ears and eyeballs, with blood, lymphatic fluid, neurological fluid, and the spine all passing through a very narrow channel. Thyroxines, in his view, actively prevent blockages in this area by moving into the region and clearing congestion, which is why the backup system is so elaborate. He said the body maintains four types of basic thyroxines specifically to address the throat's functioning, including swallowing and mucus production, as well as keeping the network of fluid channels open in the neck.

Aajonus was strongly opposed to taking thyroxine supplements, whether synthetic or natural. He argued that any form of supplemental thyroxine, including Armour thyroid or pharmaceutical preparations like Synthroid, causes the thyroid gland to atrophy and shut down, in the same way that taking insulin causes the pancreas to atrophy and cease insulin production. He stated that if the thyroid deteriorates completely through suppression by supplementation, it will not recover. He drew this comparison explicitly: "just like pancreas when you take the insulin. You will never get that pancreas back together if it's deteriorated completely."

He further noted that even natural thyroid supplements sold as organic preparations do not function in the way raw tissue does, because any sterilization process converts the tissue into a chemical substance rather than a living biological material. The freeze-dried raw thyroid supplements he himself tested required continuous dosing to maintain any effect, and could not replicate what fresh raw thyroid tissue accomplished.

His personal experience with medical T3 and T4 was described as severely negative. He took them as directed by doctors for his own low thyroid condition and reported that they made him very sick and caused severe scarring acne, worse than the acne he had experienced throughout his life without scarring.

On blood tests for thyroxine, he raised a fundamental methodological objection. He pointed out that a single blood test taken once a year cannot tell whether the body is failing to produce thyroxine or simply producing and immediately using all of it. He used the analogy of being given a million dollars to spend in a day: spending all of it does not mean you are poor. A person who produces thyroxine rapidly and deploys it entirely will show low thyroxine on a blood test without being thyroxine deficient in any meaningful functional sense. He applied the same reasoning to insulin and diabetic diagnoses, arguing that many people diagnosed with thyroid problems have no actual thyroid dysfunction, and 85% of people he encountered who had been diagnosed with thyroid conditions and placed on medication had nothing wrong with their thyroid at all. Their thyroxine appeared low because it was being fully used, not because it was absent.

When asked directly about Hashimoto's thyroiditis, an autoimmune condition in which the immune system is described as attacking the thyroid gland, Aajonus reframed the process entirely. He said the body is not attacking the thyroid but rather detoxifying it, cleaning it out by breaking down damaged or toxic tissue within the gland. He compared this to a pattern he had observed in clients with liver damage, where liver cells appeared in the blood during a healing episode and frightened both patients and doctors, who interpreted the presence of those cells as evidence of ongoing organ destruction rather than elimination of dead cellular material. His position was that the same process occurs in the thyroid during Hashimoto's: the immune activity and antibody production represent the body taking apart the gland in order to clear it, and the thyroid shuts down temporarily during this process for functional reasons related to the cleansing, not because it is being permanently destroyed.

He told one correspondent that he did not identify a thyroid problem during his consultation because, from his perspective using hand and eye reading, there was no irreversible thyroid dysfunction, even though blood tests showed Hashimoto's markers. He suggested focusing on diet, digestion, and lymphatic flow as the appropriate response, rather than suppressing the process with Synthroid or other medications.

Aajonus described hyperthyroid conditions as frequently following a cold or flu, explaining that the thyroid may become exhausted after supporting a systemic detoxification event of that scale. Symptoms he associated with this state included a rapid heart rate of 90 or more beats per minute at rest, feelings of being hyper or agitated combined with extreme fatigue, trembling, severe insomnia, and excessive heat and sweating. He considered some of these symptoms to be signs of intense healing rather than pathological breakdown, comparable to symptoms seen in infants during developmental healing periods.

His recommendation for this state was to eat 5 ounces of raw chicken at the same time as 3 ounces of raw fish with one quarter teaspoon of royal jelly, which he said helps the thyroid regain balance. He stated that the thyroid usually reconstitutes and rebalances within three months on its own if thyroxine supplementation is not introduced during that period, since introducing supplemental thyroxine during the reconstitution window would suppress the gland's own recovery and potentially cause permanent atrophy.

He also recommended lots of sleep and frequent naps during this recovery period, mirroring the rest patterns of infants during healing.

Aajonus drew a sharp distinction between pharmaceutical thyroxine, even natural preparations, and fresh raw animal thyroid tissue consumed as food. He described his own protocol at length. He obtained a calf thyroid, described as weighing approximately three pounds and roughly the size of both fists, and cut it into thirds. Each third, approximately the size of his fist, was blended in a twelve-ounce canning jar with a small amount of milk and a little red onion, producing what he described as tasting like clam chowder. He ate one such preparation and reported that his thyroid functioned without interruption for six months afterward, at which point he repeated the protocol.

On the second occasion the effect lasted slightly over nine months. On the third occasion it lasted one and a half years, eighteen months. The final time he described consuming a raw calf thyroid before the time of one particular talk, it had lasted three years. He stated that clients he placed on this protocol similarly found that eating one whole raw calf or buffalo calf thyroid once every one to two years was sufficient to maintain thyroid function.

He explicitly contrasted this with freeze-dried raw thyroid supplements, which he had also tested on himself. Even though they were freeze-dried raw, not sterilized or cooked, he still had to take them continuously to maintain any effect and could not achieve the sustained benefit he obtained from fresh raw tissue. This difference, he implied, reflects something about the living biological activity of fresh glandular tissue that is lost even in freeze-drying.

For a client protocol using raw thyroid supplements (Nutripack brand, described as raw thyroid tablets), he recommended the following sequence: five tablets taken all at once with a meat meal, every day for five consecutive days initially. The rationale for taking it with meat was that thyroid is itself a meat tissue, the body is already metabolically engaged with processing meat protein and its associated compounds, and consuming the raw thyroid supplement within that context allows the body to carry and utilize it most effectively. After the initial five-day course, he recommended waiting three weeks, then taking four tablets for four consecutive days. This four-tablet, four-day cycle, separated by three-week intervals, was to be continued for approximately one year. He also recommended using vanilla extract, one quarter to one half teaspoon daily, to stimulate thyroid activity alongside this protocol, specifying that it should be an organic vanilla extract, and noting that only one brand he knew of at the time met that standard.

He recommended against iodine supplementation for thyroid support, stating that isolated iodine is always poisonous, used as an antiseptic and bacteria killer in medicine and dairy farming, and that it has many industrial uses that are all toxic. He noted that animals whose diets are low in iodine do not have higher rates of thyroid problems or thyroid cancer, directly contradicting the claim that iodine supplementation protects the thyroid.

Beyond raw glandular tissue, Aajonus mentioned several dietary supports for the thyroid. He recommended two Medjool dates per day with an equal amount of cheese and an approximately equal amount of butter, eaten once daily, as specifically helpful for the thyroid. He mentioned eggs with butter as part of a supportive dietary approach when thyroid function was compromised. He noted that fish eaten alongside eggs could provide important nutrients for thyroid recovery, and in the context of hyperthyroid specifically recommended raw chicken combined with raw fish and royal jelly.

He also mentioned celery juice and zucchini juice as supportive for the thyroid and surrounding glandular region, and referenced a juice protocol of 90% celery and 10% parsley for approximately six weeks, transitioning to 80% celery, 10% parsley, and 10% zucchini, with periodic additions of lime or lemon rind juiced with the rind included.

For individuals needing more direct glandular support, he recommended sourcing raw animal glands including thyroid and parathyroid together, since the parathyroids are attached to the thyroid and are obtained simultaneously. He suggested eating glandular tissue with heart or liver to support recovery.

Underlying all of Aajonus's positions on thyroxine is his broader framework that endocrine glands, including the thyroid, are designed for emergency use only and should not normally be producing detectable hormonal levels in the bloodstream. He argued that in an ideal environment with ideal nutrition, thyroxines would only appear in the blood during acute emergencies such as trauma, and would otherwise be present only in trace amounts. The fact that modern humans require constant thyroxine activity, with their thyroid and parathyroid glands operating continuously, is for him a sign of how toxic and nutritionally depleted human bodies have become.

He stated that hormones are being used by the body not for their intended emergency functions but as constant detoxification agents because the cells are overwhelmed with toxicity and have begun using their own intracellular hormone production to bind poisons rather than support normal healthy function. This forces the endocrine glands to compensate by producing what the cells can no longer supply. The solution, in his framework, is not to supplement thyroxines from outside but to reduce toxic load, improve nutrition, support digestion and lymphatic flow, and allow the body to restore a state in which the thyroid only needs to act in genuine emergencies.

He considered the entire hormonal measurement and supplementation industry to be built on a false premise: that because people living in toxic conditions show hormonal imbalances, those hormonal levels represent healthy baselines to be maintained. His view was the opposite: hormonal activity at the levels measured in modern populations reflects chronic emergency states, and normalizing those levels through supplementation while ignoring the underlying toxicity and nutritional deficiency is a mechanism for profit, not health.