Ultraviolet Light

Solar radiation hitting the skin interacts with the fats stored in the skin layers. As that radiation is absorbed, it converts those fats into vitamin D directly in the skin. The skin then absorbs the vitamin D and takes on color in the process. The more color a person carries in their skin, the more vitamin D they have stored. Aajonus used this to explain why dark-skinned African populations could theoretically go an entire generation without direct sunshine and remain relatively healthy, having built up a substantial vitamin D reserve, while white-skinned people have no such reserve and must produce vitamin D on a continuous daily basis.

Cream applied to the skin cannot undergo this conversion. Aajonus was specific about this: only whole milk or butter placed on the skin can be converted into vitamin D under sunlight. Cream does not contain the right molecular structure for that transformation. At the same time, even without anything applied to the skin, the fats naturally present inside the skin tissue from proper dietary intake will undergo vitamin D conversion when exposed to sunlight.

In summer, one hour of sun exposure can produce enough vitamin D for two weeks. In winter, the lower intensity of sunlight means a person may need to go outside for an hour once every three days to maintain adequate levels. He also noted that milk, butter, and to some extent meats contain vitamin D, but cooking destroys it. Raw dairy remains a vitamin D source; cooked dairy does not.

Sunburn, in Aajonus's framework, was not caused by the sun itself but by a deficiency of utilizable fat in the skin. People who ate processed and cooked fats, or who applied any skin lotion including commercial sunscreens, lacked the fat infrastructure in their skin needed to absorb and transform solar radiation properly. When that infrastructure was absent, the radiation could not be converted into vitamin D and instead damaged and dried the skin, producing vast amounts of dead cells the body could not afford to discard. Skin cancer developed in people who were especially deficient in utilizable fat in the skin.

The skin's natural oils, produced and secreted by the body, function as a natural sunblock. For this reason, showering or bathing on the morning of a planned sunbathing session was counterproductive and should be avoided. Washing removes those oils and leaves the skin unprotected.

For people who wanted to promote tanning and reduce the likelihood of burning, Aajonus recommended rubbing unrefined cold-pressed coconut oil or peanut oil into the skin the night before sunbathing, not immediately before. Coconut oil is a tanning lotion by nature, drawing more sunlight into the skin and promoting absorption, which is why applying it immediately before sun exposure can increase burning rather than prevent it.

People who had previously sunburned easily before beginning the Primal Diet were, in his clinical experience, able to sunbathe without sunblocks and without burning after one to five months on the diet. He advised starting with short exposures, as much time as feels comfortable, and building gradually. Those who had gone without sunbathing for many months each year might burn slightly in the first outing of the year, but subsequent outings would typically be burn-free.

He described a specific case of a client with red hair and very white skin who had been on the diet for nearly ten years but was afraid to sun because she had a history of cancer and prior second-degree sunburns. She spent a few hours at the beach without applying anything to her skin the night before, turned bright red, felt burned, and applied raw cream to soothe it for 36 hours. Within three days the redness and soreness disappeared completely with no peeling at all, which she described as the first time in her 42 years that this had happened.

Aajonus also noted a personal example: he could not put any oil on his skin for 24 hours before sunning, and could not bathe for 24 hours prior. He always felt burned for a day afterward, and then it faded to a tan without peeling. He regulated his first outing of the season to no more than 20 minutes per side per flip.

Coconut cream was Aajonus's primary sunscreen recommendation. It breaks down vitamin D for faster absorption, which he considered beneficial, and it keeps the skin whiter, meaning it blocks conversion to the degree that it requires more sun exposure to accumulate the same amount of vitamin D. He noted that because he used so much coconut cream he stayed whiter than he preferred and needed more sun to compensate.

For sunburn already present, he described several remedies. Raw cream rubbed into the burned skin soothed and nourished it and helped the skin absorb the radiation already captured in the tissue. He also described bathing as soon as possible after a burn in a bath containing at least one cup of raw unpasteurized apple cider vinegar and, if available, two cups of raw milk stirred into the bath water. After bathing, gently rubbing plain raw kefir, raw milk, or egg white into the sunburn every two to six hours and leaving it on the skin would soothe and relieve pain. Aloe vera gel taken directly from the plant, not from a store, was also listed as a remedy for soothing radiation from sun exposure.

If burning and peeling continued despite normal precautions, he recommended putting milk on the skin every few hours to help convert the vitamin D or pull the radiation out of the system, interpreting this as a sign that too much radiation had been absorbed for the skin's current fat stores to fully convert.

He developed a specific sun formula that he described as new within approximately six months of when he mentioned it. It consisted of equal parts coconut cream, butter, and raw cream. For an eight-ounce jar, he specified two ounces of butter, two ounces of cream, and two ounces of coconut cream, blended together with half a teaspoon of honey and one-eighth teaspoon of royal jelly. He was emphatic that each ingredient alone would cause burning: coconut cream alone, cream alone, or butter alone would each result in sunburn. Only the combination provided proper protection and supported tanning.

Butter was described as the most effective remedy for preventing and healing sunburn after the fact, working faster than other fats including aloe vera or coconut oil. He gave an example of spending 35 minutes in the sun one day and describing the sun he showed on his face as evidence the formula was working well.

During sun exposure in Asia, he described getting a two-hour sun session once a week in one stretch, with butter and bone marrow rubbed into his body during the session while receiving a massage. When spending extended time in Asia, he would get daily sun exposure.

Aajonus repeatedly used the example of African and Asian populations who lived and worked in intense sunlight without developing the skin cancers, wrinkles, or other sun-related damage that Western medicine attributed to UV exposure. If sun caused wrinkles or cancer, he argued, Africans would not have "the most beautiful, freaking black skin on the planet." All of them would be wrinkled. He extended this reasoning to Asian populations working in rice fields under intense sun daily.

His conclusion was that sun damage was a product of the toxins and deficient fats in the bodies of people on processed diets, not of the sun itself. The more chemicals a person carried in their body, the more the body would extract fat from the skin to use it for processing and excreting those chemicals, leaving the skin without the protective fat layer it needed to handle solar radiation safely. The sun was not the pathological agent. The chemical body burden was.

Aajonus drew a sharp and consistent distinction between full-spectrum solar radiation and isolated portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. Full-spectrum sunlight, whether direct or reflected, carried all the spectral components in balanced proportion. The minerals in the body reacted to these different spectra in coordinated ways, with each spectrum activating different mineral movements and reactions. When the full spectrum was present, these reactions balanced each other out and produced the range of biological effects associated with health.

When a single spectrum or band was isolated, as in infrared lamps, ultraviolet lamps, or any manufactured light source, only a subset of the mineral reactions were triggered. He described ultraviolet light alone as activating approximately 23 ions in movement, which created imbalances rather than balanced systemic activity. More of a single spectrum produced a seesaw effect, pushing some mineral reactions without the counterbalancing actions of the rest of the spectrum.

He gave his own personal experience as evidence for how powerful and different full-spectrum solar energy was. When flying at altitude toward Finland, where the growing season was only four months but plants grew explosively due to constant summer light, he noted that the solar radiation coming through at that altitude was "a good full-spectrum radiation" that he found genuinely charging, provided he was wearing a mask to avoid the benzene and exhaust from the aircraft engines.

He stated directly: "There are no minerals in light. There are minerals in your body and minerals react to light." This framing was important to understanding why the sun worked biologically, and also why isolated spectra produced different and harmful effects.

Aajonus's position on infrared radiation was consistently negative, though he gave it some provisional qualified uses. His objections operated on several levels.

First, infrared is an isolated spectrum, not a full-spectrum emission. It excites certain elements in the body without the counterbalancing activity of the rest of the solar spectrum, making it overall harmful rather than helpful.

Second, infrared radiation destroys bacteria. He stated explicitly that one 20-minute infrared sauna session was equivalent in its antibacterial effect to consuming one antibiotic pill. Infrared pads applied to specific areas of the body would cause lower bacteria levels in those areas. Extended or repeated use of infrared saunas would gradually deplete bacteria in the body, harm the sinuses and respiratory system, and destroy mucous membranes.

Third, infrared is generated by nuclear or nuclearized mineral sources. He stated: "Any time radiation is created by a nuclear or nuclearized mineral, even infrared, it is an isolated ray and has not been found to be beneficial long-term, even when in the least magnitude." Sterile rock (ceramic) or manufactured light does not emit balanced rays, producing biological imbalances.

Fourth, infrared saunas operate at temperatures that destroy biological materials in the skin. He was consistent across multiple sources that 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43.4 degrees Celsius) was the upper threshold above which vitamins, enzymes, and bacteria in the skin and mucous membranes were destroyed. Infrared saunas ran at a minimum of 132 to 137 degrees Fahrenheit, which he described as too hot by every measure.

Fifth, infrared saunas produced high EMF fields. He stated the EMF field in an infrared sauna was over 200 milligauss, whereas animal cells were negatively altered at 3 milligauss. This placed infrared saunas at approximately 197 milligauss above the threshold for molecular alteration of cells.

He gave a childhood case as illustrative evidence: his brothers had acne and his father, an inventor and engineer with GE, bought an infrared lamp. The brothers used it mildly, and over a period of two weeks it damaged their skin. His father discontinued the recommendation, concluding that human skin was not adapted to use isolated infrared properly.

When the question arose about whether the heat produced by an infrared sauna might still be beneficial even if the rays were harmful, Aajonus acknowledged that heat producing perspiration was the mechanism that drove detoxification. He stated that in cases of autism associated with mercury accumulation, it was the heat causing sweating of stored mercury that produced improvements, not the infrared rays themselves. However, the sauna would gradually damage the child's sinuses and respiratory system by destroying bacteria and mucous membranes.

He also noted that one of the worst long-term reactions to isolated infrared radiation was production of a toxic variety of vitamin D that could appear beneficial for one to two years, followed by a type of adrenal exhaustion accompanied by hyperactivity in the nerves. He compared these symptoms to the effects of overexposure to other forms of isolated radiation such as cell phone and WiFi radiation. He described removing that toxic vitamin D as troublesome.

For infrared pads specifically, he allowed that very short applications could be helpful, but that sustained or repeated use would cause harm through bacterial depletion in the areas applied.

Aajonus included ultraviolet lamps in the same category as other isolated-spectrum devices. Using ultraviolet light in isolation activated only a narrow band of mineral reactions, approximately 23 ions, creating imbalances rather than the balanced response produced by full-spectrum sunlight. He did not describe any beneficial use for UV lamps.

In the context of water filtration, he mentioned that UV light used to kill bacteria or algae in water systems was problematic, consistent with his general position that UV in isolation was an antibacterial agent rather than a health-promoting one.

Aajonus returned repeatedly to the commercial vitamin D industry as a case study in the misuse of radiation and the fraudulent mimicry of the sun's actual mechanism. The sun converts fats in the skin into vitamin D through its radiation. The commercial vitamin D manufacturing process attempted to replicate this by taking oil and exposing it to radiation. The difference was in both the starting oil and the type of radiation.

The oil used was hydrogenated vegetable oil, which Aajonus described as having the same molecular structure as plastic. Hydrogenating an oil created a molecule with an infinite shelf life that bacteria could not infiltrate, which he considered evidence of its biological inertness. Exposing this plastic molecule to radioactive isotopes, radium, uranium, or charged barium, forms of nuclear waste, produced something the industry called vitamin D, but which bore no resemblance to the molecule produced in human skin. He stated the commercial product did not even look 40 percent like natural vitamin D in molecular structure.

He also noted that even people in Congress who advocated for this process believed they were replicating the sun's mechanism, calling them stupid or motivated by profit, or both. He spent three months lobbying in Congress on related issues and described the legislators as generally captured by the system.

The only commercial vitamin D he considered genuinely vitamin D was fermented cod liver oil, specifically the Green Pastures product, where the liver oil was allowed to rise through natural fermentation and the result was a true vitamin D source comparable to eating butter.

Aajonus described the sun as going through an extended period of heightened solar activity, with its radiation storms broadcasting outward nine million miles farther than normal. He said this would continue through 2017, causing dramatic weather including heavy snowstorms and other atmospheric disturbances, with military use of HAARP technologies making the effects worse and faster. He framed this as a natural 26,000-year cycle in which the sun's activity caused the Earth's shift and the melting of the poles, distinct from the industrial contribution to global warming which he acknowledged but considered a secondary factor.

On the question of solar panels installed at a school, Aajonus said they were "very safe and better than the grid," giving a brief and unambiguous endorsement.

On the question of whether greenhouse glass distorted plant growth by filtering out certain light wavelengths, he responded that science had developed near full-spectrum glass approximately 40 years before the question was asked, and that plants did not appear ill-affected by fractured sunlight coming through glass because it was still sunlight. He compared it to the experience of living in a home with glass windows and challenged the questioner to demonstrate that glass in a home was harmful. He stated he had seen healthy plants grown in many modern hothouses.

He dismissed claims from other commentators, naming Mercola specifically, that burning wavelengths penetrate glass while vitamin-D-stimulating wavelengths are weakened. He described Mercola as "a think tank man with little var[iation]" and implied his positions came from theoretical frameworks rather than direct observation or clinical experience.

He did acknowledge that plexiglass existed in a more full-spectrum oriented form, which was relevant if one wanted to maximize light quality in enclosed growing or living environments.

For people dealing with excess radiation exposure from the sun, Aajonus gave specific food and topical guidance. Clay and milk applied to the body was described as one of the best combinations. Aloe vera gel taken directly from the plant, not from a store, could soothe from radiation. If burning and peeling were occurring, milk applied to the skin every few hours would help convert the vitamin D or pull the radiation out.

For broader radiation fallout or nuclear exposure, which he addressed in the context of the Fukushima event, he described a detailed protocol that included fruit from the pineapple plant, not the green skin, to soothe and heal radiation burn; oranges and avocados eaten together to help neutralize radiation; pineapple and no-salt raw cheeses eaten together to dissolve cellular radiation damage and harness byproducts; papaya with no-salt raw cheeses to prevent scarring; no-salt raw butter with no-salt raw cheeses to prevent radioactive minerals from entering cells; no-salt raw butter with unheated honey to aid digestion and healing; and one ounce of raw milk consumed once hourly to protect the intestines and nerves. Bathing in clay, kept moist, was also specified to draw radiation out of the body. One tablespoon of pre-prepared moist Terramin clay blended in three ounces of raw milk, taken two to four times daily, was given as an internal clay protocol.

For people who had undergone radiation therapy or chemotherapy, he stated that the quickest way to clear that radiation from the body was to eat large amounts of animal fat, with cream being the only fat he knew of that specifically soothed the nervous system.