Vehicle Exhaust

Aajonus identified several specific toxic components in vehicle exhaust. Benzene was the compound he mentioned most frequently in the context of both automobile and aircraft engine exhaust. He described being able to smell benzene in airplane cabins, particularly during the period when an aircraft backs away from the gate, and he treated that smell as a direct indicator of exposure. He also named carbon monoxide as a product of incomplete fuel combustion, noting that low-level exposure causes drowsiness and headaches, and that historically it caused lung toxicity in people who burned wood or coal indoors in poorly ventilated spaces.

Diesel exhaust he described as carrying a particularly heavy load of heavy metals in addition to gaseous compounds. Thallium, which he described as a highly poisonous metal compound, was specifically named as something found in diesel fuel and in air pollution from smelting operations. He gave the example of a woman who had grown up near a diesel fuel environment and inhaled "all of that diesel-like fuel with all those heavy metals" for 28 to 30 years, arriving at his practice at age 34 with fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, high anxiety, and depression. He explained that the heavy metals in her body were constantly dumping into the digestive tract, poisoning the bacteria there, and that the chemicals were ones her body had originally produced for physical exercise but which had accumulated without adequate outlet.

Polycarbonate compounds were also mentioned in the context of semi-truck exhaust, distinguished from the benzene and heavy metals of diesel. When someone described being exposed to exhaust from a semi-truck, Aajonus confirmed that the compounds involved were "a lot of heavy metals and gases" and immediately moved to what foods would help break them down.

Aajonus discussed airplane cabin air contamination from engine exhaust in substantial detail, treating it as a concentrated version of the vehicle exhaust problem that he dealt with personally because of his frequent travel schedule. He explained that with the exception of propeller planes, aircraft are designed such that fuel exhaust is pulled directly back into the cabin air system. He stated that you can smell benzene at the moment the plane backs out from the gate, and that it "stays in there the entire flight" because it comes through the engine continuously. If there is oil dripping, he said, you get heavy monoxide and benzene concentrations in the cabin that have permanently damaged some flight attendants and pilots, affecting their nervous systems to the point of being grounded permanently, though he noted this severe outcome happens on perhaps twenty flights per year out of hundreds of thousands.

For someone who flies three or four times per week as he often did, or who takes five consecutive flights to reach Australia, the cumulative benzene and exhaust exposure was something he took seriously enough to wear a twelve-layered filter mask for the entire duration of flights. He described the mask as preventing the neck ache he would otherwise develop without it on planes, and he sourced his mask, described as an all-cotton organic cotton design, from a specific supplier he referenced as "I Want to Breathe." He also carried an actual Israeli gas mask in his car for ground-level chemical emergencies, having been stopped at the Mexican border multiple times by agents who suspected him of being a terrorist because of it. He explained its purpose as protection against chemical spills on freeways, citing an incident near St. Louis as an example of the kind of sudden toxic event for which he kept it available.

He referenced Australian flight attendant and pilot unions who were suing every airline regardless of country of origin, having hired biological detectives to swab air compartments throughout aircraft and finding heavy concentrations of jet fuel residue. All the airlines denied it.

The case Aajonus described most fully in relation to heavy vehicle and industrial exhaust was a woman who had spent nearly her entire life near diesel fuel. She came to him at 34 with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue so severe she could not exercise, despite her body producing chemicals calibrated for physical activity. He described her depression as tremendous because the heavy metals were constantly leaching into her digestive tract and poisoning the bacteria there. Her high anxiety and inability to gain energy were direct effects of the accumulated toxic burden. He found her extremely resistant to the dietary changes he recommended, particularly to eating high meat, which he believed would have helped her most given the depth of her nervous system involvement. She would eat it occasionally but could not commit to it.

He also described flight attendants and pilots who lost short-term memory from cumulative in-cabin exhaust exposure over their careers, and noted that the cockpit environment, with its EMF load from capacitors combined with any exhaust exposure, made piloting one of the more biologically costly occupations available.

Within Aajonus's framework, the body stores what it cannot immediately eliminate. Vehicle exhaust compounds, particularly heavy metals and benzene derivatives, accumulate in the liver, in fat tissue, in the lymphatic system, and in the nervous system. The liver, which he said has only one legitimate function (producing bile to digest fat), becomes a storage depot for toxins when the body cannot process them fast enough. The lymphatic system, already the slowest of the fluid systems, becomes further burdened when it has to manage stored compounds from repeated exhaust exposure.

When the body does attempt to clear these compounds, it routes them through whatever discharge channels are available: the mucous membranes of the sinuses, throat, bronchi, bronchioles, and lungs; through skin; through tears; through vomiting and diarrhea. He described this elimination as something to support rather than suppress. People who work in environments with heavy exhaust exposure, whether coal mining, oil refining, incendiary processing, or hospital fumes, accumulate compounds that may eventually trigger concentrated elimination episodes expressed as what conventional medicine would call cancer. He stated that such people need to accumulate protective fat quickly, because they cannot predict when such a detoxification cycle will begin.

Aajonus gave direct practical guidance about reducing exhaust exposure from vehicles. For new cars, he recommended opening all windows and doors and letting the vehicle bake in the sun for up to 30 days to accelerate the outgassing of toxic compounds from the car's interior materials. During that 30-day outgassing period, he said to leave all windows down while driving. In the newsletter version of this advice, he added that when driving during the outgassing period, one should wear a gas mask to prevent inhaling exhaust fumes from other cars, because having the windows open to release interior fumes means also being exposed to outside traffic exhaust. For people in climates with rain or snow, he recommended blocking the open windows with an awning during the outgassing period to prevent rain or snow from filling the car.

He recommended getting a car equipped with a good air filter for the interior to help absorb both ongoing outgassing from materials and environmental pollution from outside while driving.

He addressed the question of which type of vehicle produces the least exhaust directly. Hydrogen vehicles were his first preference because they do not produce gaseous monoxides and reduce oil dependency, though he noted that refueling is "nearly prohibitive" due to the near-absence of hydrogen fuel stations. Electric vehicles were his second preference for the same reasons, with the caveat that if the electricity in a given area is generated by oil or coal, the environmental accounting changes. He did not rank conventional gasoline and diesel vehicles as favorable options from an exhaust standpoint.

When someone asked about what to do after exposure to polycarbonate exhaust or diesel semi-truck exhaust specifically, Aajonus said the compounds to break them down are dark berries, or a combination of dark and light berries, and pineapple. He specified approximately half a cup of mixed berries with darker berries being somewhat more effective, combined with two ounces of coconut cream and dairy cream together, not pineapple alone, because pineapple on its own can cause a bad reaction in some people. The fat in the coconut cream and dairy cream serves to bind with the released toxins so they can be carried out of the body without further damaging tissues as they transit.

For general exhaust and chemical fume exposure, including industrial fumes, welding fumes, and similar heavy-metal-bearing compounds, he described the importance of eating cheese continuously, in sugar-cube-sized amounts (approximately half a teaspoon) every 15 to 45 minutes. He gave the example of construction workers who keep a two-cup jar of cheese on their tool belts with an alarm set every 15 minutes. Workers who weld or drill through materials containing heavy metals should wear a mask and use the cheese protocol as ongoing protection.

For smoke inhalation, which shares some properties with exhaust inhalation in his framework, he recommended butter, lubrication formulas, and a bit of coconut or olive oil to provide the fat-based binding and tissue protection necessary for recovery.

He also described an experiment he conducted in 1973 and 1974 in which he placed ionization machines in a sealed laboratory room and piped diesel exhaust and gasoline exhaust into the space on different days. He observed that the ions produced mechanically penetrated and neutralized the charge in protons from the exhaust, but that in the first phase of that reaction the destabilized protons bombarded everything around them. After a week, he removed pictures and furniture from the room and found that everything not covered was blackened by the particulate and chemical deposits from the exhaust, with clean silhouettes showing only where the furniture had shielded the walls and floor. He took this as a demonstration of how visibly destructive even mechanically neutralized exhaust pollution can be to surrounding surfaces and, by extension, to tissue.

Aajonus acknowledged living in Los Angeles and Malibu throughout much of his adult life and did not advise people to leave polluted cities as a prerequisite for health on the diet, though he was clear that a truly clean environment changes the body's requirements dramatically. He described his experience in his jungle property in the Philippines, where there were perhaps five motorcycles in the entire surrounding village and no other vehicles, as a baseline comparison. In that environment he drank far less milk and milk-based fluids than when living in the United States, where he said he consumed two to three quarts of milk daily to manage the toxic load. He described the diet as handling pollution "pretty well" for most people, with the qualification that someone who is nearly completely debilitated may need to relocate to a cleaner environment until the diet has improved their baseline enough to tolerate ongoing exposure.

He also noted that chemtrails, which he described as military and commercial planes spraying aluminum, barium, and other compounds, add a separate layer of airborne contamination on top of conventional vehicle exhaust, making the total air pollution burden in most areas of the world heavier than exhaust alone would suggest.

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