Tonsils

The tonsils are, structurally and functionally, very large lymph glands. Aajonus described them as "almost identical in behavior to a lymph gland." The entire lymphatic system is responsible for cleaning waste and toxins from the body, dissolving dead cells, neutralizing contaminants, and conveying the residue through connective tissue to be perspired out through the skin. The tonsils carry out that same process but with a specific geographic mandate: anything entering through the mouth.

When something potentially toxic is chewed and absorbed into the tongue or gums, the body transports that substance directly to the tonsils. There the tonsils produce a concentrated fatty fluid, similar in character to lymphatic fluid, that binds and arrests the toxin. The tonsils then work to dissolve and neutralize it and expel the resulting waste through the mucus membranes of the throat or the sinuses. This is why sore throats and mucus discharge are so frequently associated with tonsil activity. The throat and sinuses are the drainage channels for what the tonsils have processed.

All of the lymph glands in the neck region, Aajonus explained, serve the brain, the ears, and everything in the head down to approximately the clavicle. The tonsils are the largest and most strategically placed of those glands, positioned directly at the entry point of the oral cavity. Lymph glands in the armpits and breast area serve the torso, and those in the groin and inner thigh serve the lower torso and legs. The tonsils' position makes them the first line of defense for the body's most critical and most fat-concentrated organ.

Aajonus was emphatic and specific about when tonsillitis became a widespread condition: it emerged in the late 1940s and exploded through the 1950s. Before the mid-1940s, tonsillitis was rare. It did not exist as a significant medical problem in the early decades of the twentieth century or before. Its sudden mass appearance maps directly, in his account, onto the mass introduction of commercially canned foods.

World War II, in his analysis, was at least partially engineered to normalize the industrial food supply. The King and Queen of England, who he stated owned approximately 70 percent of global food production, along with the Rockefeller and Rothschild families who were invested in both the food and the medical industries, used wartime rationing propaganda to shift the general population away from fresh food and onto canned goods. Radio, billboards, and news networks across multiple countries promoted canned food consumption under the banner of supporting the troops. The result was that by 1945 through 1948, canned foods became a staple in American and European households. Women who had previously washed, cut, peeled, and prepared fresh vegetables could now simply open a can and heat the contents, and they embraced this convenience enthusiastically.

The cans themselves were the problem. Tin cans were not made of tin alone; they contained tin, lead, mercury, thallium, cadmium, and aluminum in varying amounts. The highly acidic and chemically preserved food inside the cans actively leached these metals out of the can walls and into the food. On top of the metallic contamination, the preserved foods were loaded with chemical preservatives including formaldehyde byproducts, which Aajonus described as essentially embalming the food. He estimated that at the time of the tonsillitis epidemic there were approximately 10,000 chemicals going into food; that number had grown to 60,000 by the time he was speaking.

All of that metallic and chemical contamination entered the body through the mouth when people ate canned food. The tonsils, doing their job, attempted to intercept and neutralize the metals. White blood cells and fatty lymphatic cells flooded the tonsils to break down the contamination. But the volume and toxicity of what was coming in was far beyond what the tonsils had been evolutionarily prepared to handle in ordinary circumstances. The tonsils began to disintegrate under the load. Children, who were being fed commercially canned baby food in addition to whatever the family ate, were especially affected. Aajonus stated that approximately 90 percent of children not raised on farms were getting tonsillitis during this period.

Rather than identify the cause as canned food and eliminate it, the medical establishment removed the tonsils. Aajonus noted that animal experiments had already demonstrated the connection between metal poisoning from canned food and tonsil destruction, but that knowledge was suppressed because the people who stood to lose from eliminating canned food were the same people who profited from the medical industry's response. The canned food industry made billions of dollars. The medical industry made money from tonsillectomies and from penicillin treatments. Aajonus named the Bush family as among those involved in the canned food industry during this period.

The connection between canned food metals and polio followed the same logic. Where metals from canned food settled in the tonsils, tonsillitis resulted. Where those same metals traveled down into the spinal cord, they damaged spinal cord tissue, and the body initiated a viral process to break down that damaged tissue. This was poliomyelitis. Both epidemics, tonsillitis and polio, appeared at the same moment in history, driven by the same cause.

Removing the tonsils does not eliminate the problem they were responding to. It eliminates the body's primary oral defense for the brain. Whatever the tonsils would have intercepted, neutralized, and discharged through mucus now has no filter. The heavy metals and other toxins ingested through food proceed directly toward the brain and other vulnerable tissues.

Aajonus documented this trajectory in his own body. His tonsils were removed at age three, not because he was acutely ill at that specific moment but because tonsillitis had become a routine childhood diagnosis and tonsillectomy had become a routine procedure. After the removal, his body compensated by swelling the lymph glands in his neck to three or four times their normal size. Those glands took over the job the tonsils had performed. They have remained enlarged throughout his life. He described being able to see them visibly bulging, and he assured audiences this was not cancer or a cause for alarm but a structural adaptation his body made permanently to compensate for the missing organs.

He found that this compensatory swelling of the cervical lymph glands happened consistently in children who had their tonsils removed but not in adults who had the procedure done later in life. In children, the body adapted by overgrowing lymph glands or lymph nodes in the neck region to substitute for the missing tonsils, and this happened in approximately 50 percent of cases he observed. His own neck, he noted, became significantly larger after the tonsillectomy at age three because all of those lymph glands swelled to fill the gap.

When compensation does not occur adequately, the brain receives far more toxic load than it would otherwise. Aajonus stated that in nearly everyone he examined using iridology, the brain was the most toxic location in the body, with the highest concentrations of metals, toxins, and accumulated damage. He attributed this directly to the mass removal of tonsils in the 1950s and 1960s, which left generations of people with no oral filtration for their brain. The result was higher rates of aneurysms, Alzheimer's disease, seizures, and other neurological conditions.

He also noted that removing the tonsils shifted the discharge pathway. When tonsils are present and functioning, the body expels toxins outward through sore throats and mucus into the throat and away from the body. When the tonsils are gone and no adequate lymph gland substitution develops, "instead of having sore throats to expel it to the throat, guess what? It's all going" inward, deeper into the body's tissues and toward the brain.

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the medical and nutritional establishment began promoting the idea that dietary fat was dangerous and should be eliminated. Aajonus traced the consequence of this advice for the tonsils specifically. The tonsils operate using fat: the concentrated fatty fluid they produce to bind and neutralize toxins, the fatty white blood cells and lymphatic cells they recruit to break down contaminants, are all fat-dependent processes. When the population went onto low-fat factory diets, the tonsils lost their operating substrate.

The incidence of tonsillitis dropped significantly during this period, and he argued that this was not a success story but a disaster. Tonsillitis had declined not because the tonsils were healthier or the toxic load was lower, but because the tonsils no longer had the fat they needed to mount a detoxification response. The entire immune system began shutting down. Toxins that would previously have been caught and expelled through tonsil activity now accumulated in deeper tissues. The body became progressively more toxic precisely when the medical system read the drop in tonsillitis as evidence of improvement.

Aajonus observed in his bodywork and iridology sessions that tonsils could deteriorate without ever being surgically removed. He documented several cases where tonsils had simply dissolved or disintegrated, eaten away by chronic toxic exposure without a surgical instrument ever being involved.

In one session he observed a person whose tonsil on one side appeared completely gone, with no scar tissue visible, just an eaten-away gland. He explained that exposure to industrial solvents, chemicals in welding work, hairspray, nail polish alkaloids, and other chemical environments could cause tonsil tissue to deteriorate over time in exactly this way. A heavy equipment mechanic who was also a hairdresser illustrated the point: both occupations introduced sufficient chemical toxicity through the mouth and respiratory passages to gradually dissolve tonsil tissue.

In another session he observed someone who appeared to have no tonsil on one side: "Sometimes they just disintegrate because it takes care of so much garbage because they have to protect the brain." Vaccine-derived toxins were another cause he specifically mentioned, noting that vaccines introduce high concentrations of toxins that must then be filtered, and that the tonsils can be overwhelmed and destroyed by this load given that the brain is among the highest-fat organs in the body and therefore one of the primary targets for vaccine-introduced substances.

One of the most striking claims Aajonus made about tonsils is that they can regrow. He documented this in his own experience. His tonsils had been removed at age three. At age 53, approximately 50 years later, he developed a severe sore throat. He shone a flashlight into his mouth and found a new tonsil had grown back on the left side. He had been without that tonsil for 50 years and it regenerated.

He used this observation to make a broader point about the body's capacity for regeneration under the right conditions. He juxtaposed it with the case of a 50-year-old woman who had ground off a finger, including most of the bone, nearly to the first joint. He told her to apply lime juice, coconut cream, honey, and a slice of meat to the wound daily for months. After five months the finger grew back completely, with only slight deformity, and he documented this with photographs in his newsletter. The tonsil regrowth was offered in the same spirit: organs and tissues that medicine declares permanently lost can, under sufficient nutritional support, regenerate.

He also observed in bodywork sessions that some people who had their tonsils removed showed what appeared to be regrown tissue or enlarged lymph glands that had grown into a configuration that mimicked tonsil function. In one session he noted: "This one looks like it's regrown, or you've grown lymph glands to compensate for the missing... you may have grown it back."

One attendee at a workshop described a condition of having hard chunks coming out of the tonsils, which she called "tonsil boogers," with an abscess that seemed to accumulate material. She noted that certain foods, particularly the nut formula, seemed to exacerbate the condition, and that an eggshell fragment had once gotten caught in the abscess.

Aajonus's response addressed the formation of these hardened deposits. He indicated that material can build up in the back of the tonsils, often related to anesthetic and dental chemicals. He said that eating vinegar and pineapple would eventually cause such deposits to fall out on their own, and counseled against aggressive mechanical removal. He suggested that the body, including the tonsil tissue, can determine what to digest, and that the preferred approach was dietary support for the process rather than physical intervention.

In "We Want to Live," Aajonus described tonsillitis as a detoxification of the tonsils, characterized by reddened and swollen tonsils and throat, hoarseness, difficulty swallowing, coughing, fever, headache, earache, nausea, vomiting, sinus congestion and discharge, and swollen lymphatic glands throughout the body. He specified that tonsils mainly protect the brain by dissolving and neutralizing degenerative brain cells and that it is therefore preferable to keep the tonsils rather than have them removed.

He stated that tonsillitis usually occurs in individuals lacking enzyme mutations for eating cooked red fruits and vegetables and directed readers to his section on enzyme mutations for further detail.

He identified several things that interfere with tonsil detoxification and should be avoided during a tonsillitis episode: salt, caffeine (including soft drinks and chocolate), and cooked red fruits and vegetables. Salt he described elsewhere as an explosive and volatile substance that irritates detoxification processes throughout the body; it is equally disruptive to tonsil detoxification.

The specific protocol he recommended for tonsillitis used a blend of 3 cups of fresh raw tomatoes and 4 tablespoons of fresh raw lemon juice. This mixture should be made and consumed within one hour of preparation, and then four hours later the same mixture should be made fresh and consumed again. Other raw foods could be eaten as desired alongside this protocol. He specified that following this regime for one day usually relieved tonsillitis on the third day, meaning the resolution came two days after the treatment day, not immediately.

He also noted a caution: if the person had recently been through symptoms that were "experienced," meaning a significant detoxification event had already been occurring, tomatoes should not be eaten for a week or more in that circumstance, because tomatoes could produce too heavy a detoxification, causing the blood to become too toxic and raising blood pressure.

For an accompanying sore throat, he recommended drinking unheated honey mixed with a good mineral water, with "Naturally Sparkling" water specified as best, and said this usually brought relief.

He also noted that the tonsil-protecting function applies more broadly during recovery from tonsil damage: individuals with missing or severely deteriorated tonsils who are eating canned foods or processed foods have no defense, and their brains are "in much difficulty."

For individuals whose tonsils had been removed or had deteriorated, Aajonus recommended nutritional strategies to support the lymphatic glands that were compensating for the missing tonsils and to provide the fat those glands needed to function.

In one bodywork session with a person whose tonsils were completely gone and whose lymph glands in the throat were not working well, he recommended the lubrication formula once a day in the late evening for approximately six weeks, and then reducing to once daily. He specified that this person had fat in only two areas of the body to provide protection: the testes and the spine, with a small amount in the pancreas, making everything else extremely vulnerable. He prescribed lots of good butter and cream to address this deficiency, and suggested the lubrication formula in both morning and evening for the initial six-week period before cutting back.

He consistently stated that the brain becomes far more toxic without tonsils in place, more prone to aneurysm, more prone to blockage, more prone to Alzheimer's, seizures, and other neurological conditions, and that supporting the lymphatic system through fat-rich raw foods was essential for those living without tonsils.

In his bodywork and iridology sessions, Aajonus regularly assessed the condition of the tonsils visually, both through iridology and by direct observation of the throat with a flashlight. He documented a wide range of tonsil states across the many sessions transcribed in the workshops.

He observed tonsils that had been surgically removed, identified by flat, scarred tissue where the gland had been. He observed tonsils that had deteriorated without surgery, appearing dark, eaten away, without scar tissue, just dissolved. He observed tonsils that appeared to be regrowing, identified by a mound of tissue that formed differently from lymph gland tissue. He observed healthy tonsils, which he described as appearing in "nice mound" form. He noted that truly good tonsils were extremely rare: "I've only found maybe 10 people out of 5,000 with good tonsils." Among the indigenous people he had examined, tonsil health was consistently better.

He also described seeing scarring that extended beyond the tonsil site itself. In one session he noted that the surgical scarring from a childhood tonsillectomy had extended all the way down along the vagus nerve to the stomach, and that whatever fluid had been used during the procedure, iodine or something similar, had tracked deep into the tissues. He said this kind of deep scarring in children commonly caused cramping, indigestion, belching, or heartburn, and identified the left side as particularly affected in the case he was examining.

He noted the asymmetry between left and right tonsils in many people, where one side had deteriorated or been removed more completely than the other, and the other side was compensating more actively. He advised patients to pay attention to differences in swallowing sensation on left versus right as a way of detecting asymmetric activity or nodule formation.

Aajonus connected the removal and deterioration of tonsils to broader effects throughout the body. He described a feedback relationship between the tonsils and the thyroid, noting that chemicals and metals which previously went to the tonsils in small amounts now hit the thyroid in larger quantities as tonsil function declined. The thyroid, he said, protects the lungs and the heart and keeps them functioning, and as the thyroid took on increasing toxic load previously handled by the tonsils, its ability to perform that cardiac and pulmonary support function was compromised. This, in his view, contributed to the need for cardiac resuscitation technology and electrical shock as interventions, because the thyroid was no longer adequately available to keep the heart functioning in emergency situations.

He also noted the relationship between tonsil removal and brain toxicity specifically through the accumulation of heavy metals. The brain uses metals to conduct electrical and light-based signals, making it naturally attractive to metals in the body. Without the tonsils filtering metals that enter through the mouth, those metals travel more directly to the brain. He stated that in virtually everyone he examined, the brain was the most metal-contaminated and most toxic location in the body, and attributed this directly to the historical mass removal of tonsils beginning in the 1950s.

In his newsletter he elaborated that when white blood cells were drawn to the tonsils to address tonsil cell damage caused by metal poisoning from canned food, those white blood cells were diverted from their primary function of eating dead red blood cells to keep the blood clean and efficient. The result was dirtier blood, compromised immune function, and downstream effects throughout the body.

Aajonus described what the tonsils should be doing in a non-toxic world: very little. In a world where food was uncontaminated, they would serve only emergency purposes. He gave the example of volcanic ash contaminating soil, causing plants or animals raised on that soil to carry toxic metals from the lava into the food supply. In that scenario the tonsils would be activated to capture and neutralize those metals. But this would be an occasional event, not a daily onslaught. The tonsils "should only be there for emergency purposes" in an ideal food environment, and their constant inflammation and overwork is a product of industrial contamination, not a normal feature of human biology.

Aajonus described the medical response to tonsillitis as a textbook example of treating symptoms rather than causes. The cause was canned food loaded with toxic metals and chemical preservatives. The symptom was inflamed, infected tonsils working to break down that contamination. The medical response was to remove the tonsils and to prescribe penicillin rather than eliminate canned food. The canned food industry's profits were protected. The medical industry gained a new revenue stream from tonsillectomies and antibiotic prescriptions. The pharmaceutical industry gained from penicillin sales. The people who would have lost from eliminating canned food, the Rockefeller and Rothschild families and the Windsor family, were also the people who profited from the medical treatment of the resulting disease.

Aajonus stated flatly: "The tonsils are never the cause of problems." Their inflammation is a response to a problem originating elsewhere, always in the food or environmental toxin load. Removing them is the equivalent of silencing an alarm without addressing the fire.

He also noted that the medical framing consistently blamed microbes for the problem. First it was a bacterial infection requiring penicillin, then it was a microbe requiring surgery. He drew a parallel to how polio was attributed to a virus rather than to metal contamination of the spinal cord, and to how the Spanish flu was given a geographic name to obscure industrial culpability. The naming and framing of disease, in his view, is systematically designed to remove any implication of industrial or governmental responsibility.

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