White Blood Cells

In Aajonus's account, the bloodstream was built to do two things only: carry oxygen to every cell in the body through the red blood cells, and remove carbon dioxide through the white blood cells. The white blood cells absorb carbon dioxide and carry it to the lungs for expulsion, or deliver it out through the pores of the skin. That is their first job. Their second job is eating dead red blood cells the moment those cells begin to break down, preventing any decaying reaction from taking hold in the blood. When a white blood cell consumes a dead red blood cell, the waste from that consumption is reutilizable as nutrients, or if not, it is simply expelled. The white blood cell grows larger as it takes on more material. When the white blood cell itself eventually dies, it migrates to the lymphatic system to be broken down, or is urinated or passed in feces directly through exit points from the blood into the bowels and urinary tract.

Aajonus emphasized repeatedly that if the blood only had to do these two things, oxygen delivery and carbon dioxide removal with dead cell cleanup, people would have extraordinary energy levels, needing very little sleep and maintaining strength throughout the day. He compared this to what healthy indigenous peoples once demonstrated. The reason modern people are chronically fatigued and weak is largely because the bloodstream has been forced to take on work it was never designed to do, including transporting nutrients to cells throughout the body, a job belonging entirely to the lymphatic system, and managing the enormous toxic load produced by cooked food, pharmaceutical drugs, vaccines, environmental pollution, and industrial chemicals.

White blood cells are 60 to 80 percent fat. Aajonus returned to this figure consistently across many lectures. They are not fat cells in themselves, but they are predominantly fatty in composition, which is what gives them their white color and their capacity to bind and neutralize toxins. This fat composition is what allows them to function as phagocytes. A fat cell, a white blood cell, can wrap around a toxin, hold it, and prevent it from damaging surrounding tissue. The body will hold on to those arrested toxins until its chemistry shifts enough to allow the toxin to pass out of the body safely.

Because the bone marrow, where red and white blood cells are bred and matured, is itself 60 percent fat or better, it is one of the primary storage sites for fat-soluble toxins. This means that the very environment in which white blood cells develop is often heavily contaminated with heavy metals, industrial chemicals, and other persistent poisons. The quality of white blood cells produced under those conditions is correspondingly compromised.

Red and white blood cells are bred exclusively in the bone marrow. Aajonus corrected the common medical claim that blood reproduces in the spleen, stating flatly that the spleen never reproduces blood. The bone marrow provides an environment where cells divide and mature. One cell becomes two, two become four, and so on. This is the only place where blood cell division and maturation occur, except in the fetus, where the process transitions through the kidney before settling permanently in the bone marrow at around 46 months of age.

Once the cells mature in the bone marrow, they enter the bloodstream to do their work. If the body is under sufficient stress and producing more cells than the blood can immediately use, the spleen draws out the excess and holds it in reserve. The spleen is primarily a reserve for red blood cells, not white blood cells. However, because modern people are so compromised in their ability to produce and maintain adequate blood cells, the spleen in many people also stores white blood cells, which Aajonus described as an unnatural state. The spleen's reserve function exists to protect against sudden blood loss. If a person swinging from a tree cut the jugular vein and lost three or four cups of blood, they would be immediately anemic and unable to run or climb. The spleen, once the clot forms, dumps its reserve of blood back into the bloodstream so the person is no longer anemic and has time to breed replacement cells in the bone marrow.

It takes 45 to 60 days for a red or white blood cell to mature in the bone marrow. When the body is toxic, it sometimes sends immature cells to the spleen as a maturation way station, which Aajonus described as creating additional complexity and problems. Immature red or white blood cells that enter the bloodstream before they are ready do not perform their functions. They take up nutrients from the blood without contributing oxygen transport or carbon dioxide removal. The person then has plenty of blood cells in terms of count but still experiences anemia and weakness because the cells are not functioning.

The major bones involved in blood cell production are the knees first, then the femurs, and then the rest of the body including the ribs, spine, shoulders, and hip bones. Aajonus noted this from his own experience with radiation damage to those bones during his cancer treatment as a young man, which destroyed two-thirds of his blood cell production capacity and produced multiple myeloma.

Leukocytosis is the condition in which white blood cells leave the bloodstream and enter the intestinal tract in response to the toxicity produced by cooked food. Aajonus considered this one of the most important and most suppressed facts about nutrition. When a person eats an exclusively cooked meal, anywhere from one-third to one-half of all white blood cells abandon the bloodstream and rush into the digestive tract to deal with the toxins and dead, damaged cells produced by the cooking process. Cooked dead meat cells, pasteurized animal cells, and any food that has been heated to the point of molecular damage all require white blood cells to enter the gut and eat the decayed tissue and manage the toxicity.

This represents an enormous loss of white blood cells. The white blood cells that enter the digestive tract to manage cooked food toxicity are often destroyed in the process. The person may lose 10 to 20 percent of their phagocytes in the digestive tract from a single cooked meal. Over time, and with every meal of exclusively cooked food, the body must continuously breed replacement white blood cells in the bone marrow just to compensate for the losses incurred at mealtime. Aajonus pointed out that the bone marrow is already compromised in most people, making this constant replacement demand all the more taxing.

Leukocytosis does not occur when a person eats raw food. It also does not occur if even one raw food item is included with a cooked meal. The enzyme activity and alkalinity present in even a single raw food item, such as a raw salad eaten with cooked meat and potatoes, is sufficient to neutralize enough of the toxicity to prevent white blood cells from leaving the bloodstream. Eating one raw food with a cooked meal reduces leukocytosis by approximately 80 to 90 percent. However, Aajonus maintained that even this small amount of white blood cell loss is still a loss, and that eating cooked food at all is still a problem. The reduction in leukocytosis from adding raw food does not mean the cooked food has become safe or digestible. It only means the body is slightly less devastated by it.

The medical and pharmaceutical industries, in Aajonus's view, have kept this information suppressed. He noted that while leukocytosis appears in medical literature, it appears in perhaps 100 writings out of millions of writings about blood and nutrition, making it effectively invisible to the public.

Pus is 95 to 98 percent white blood cells. Aajonus returned to this point in multiple lectures and framed it as one of the most misunderstood phenomena in conventional medicine. When the body accumulates damaged or dead tissue in a localized area, white blood cells flood that area, eat the damaged cells, and accumulate as the result of that cleaning process. What emerges as pus is almost entirely composed of white blood cells, with the remaining 1 to 5 percent being contamination, the toxins and damaged cellular debris the white blood cells consumed.

This is why dogs and cats immediately lick pus from wounds. Animals recognize that pus is a concentrated source of good fatty cells. Aajonus noted that animals "are not going to waste good white blood cells," because pus is only 1 percent contaminated and is mostly fatty, functional white blood cell material. The pharmaceutical and medical industries have conditioned people to view pus as dangerous, ugly, and a sign of infection requiring antibiotic intervention, when in Aajonus's framework it is simply the body's cleaning crew visible at work.

When white blood cells have consumed industrially toxic or venom-contaminated cells, the body throws them off as pus rather than allowing them to reabsorb, because the white blood cells themselves are too contaminated to safely remain in circulation. Normally, when white blood cells finish their local cleanup work without having taken on serious toxins, they can be reabsorbed directly back into the bloodstream. Aajonus described arriving at a point in his own health, around 2005 or 2006 by the timeline he gave, where he could watch a pustulation form at the surface of his skin, observe the white blood cells dumping their toxins into an amber or yellow crystalline substance resembling impetigo, and then watch the white blood cells return to work in the body rather than being lost. He described it taking from 1972 until approximately four years before that statement for him to reach that level of cellular health.

When antiseptics such as iodine or mercury compounds are used on wounds, white blood cells often will not enter the area to consume the destroyed and poisoned cells, thus preventing the cleansing and detoxification of the wound. Surgery, which involves mass cellular destruction, causes white blood cells to leave the bloodstream and enter the fluids in injured tissues to consume dead cells. However, when antiseptics are applied in that context, the white blood cells are inhibited from doing this work.

Aajonus described his own practice of not popping pustulations so that white blood cells would not be lost. If he did pop one, he would allow his dog or cat to consume the pus rather than discarding it, because he did not know what toxins the white blood cells had absorbed and whether they would be safe to consume himself. In cases where the pressure became too painful, he would sometimes pop the pustulation, but his preference was to let the skin naturally peel away so no live white blood cells were lost.

Aajonus fundamentally rejected the pharmaceutical industry's definitions of normal white blood cell counts. He argued that in a toxic world, a high white blood cell count is not a disease state. It is a rational biological response to the enormous toxic load people are carrying. Anyone living in an industrialized environment and eating a modern diet should have a high white blood cell count, and that count should be significantly higher than what pharmaceutical medicine designates as normal.

White blood cells are made up of 60 to 80 percent fat. They are primarily fatty cells. A person who is fat-deficient will have fewer white blood cells. Aajonus described a microscopy slide of someone's blood where only four white blood cells were visible, with some very tiny immature ones, and stated that person was not well. A person without enough fat in the diet cannot produce adequate white blood cells.

Aajonus described one client, a man from Seattle who was hyperactive and ran marathons, running seven miles every morning and fourteen miles a day when preparing for a marathon. That man had a white blood cell count of 800,000 compared to his red blood cell count, which was half that. This extreme ratio existed because of the enormous metabolic stress the running placed on the body.

He also described a client diagnosed with leukemia who came to him approximately twelve years before the lecture. Aajonus looked at him and told him he did not have leukemia, that he was simply producing an enormous number of white blood cells because his body was toxic and needed them. People who are highly toxic need far more white blood cells than medicine considers normal. The body is not malfunctioning when it produces many white blood cells. It is doing exactly what it is supposed to do in a toxic environment.

Aajonus described another client diagnosed with severe leukemia who was supposed to die fifteen years before the lecture. That person had been on the diet for twelve years and was still alive.

Because white blood cells are 60 to 80 percent fat, and because fat absorbs and binds toxins more effectively than almost any other biological material, white blood cells act as mobile toxin containers throughout the bloodstream. They can wrap around and arrest a toxin, holding it until the body can process it and pass it out. Aajonus described this as the white cells functioning like antibodies in the body, not in the conventional immunological sense, but in the sense of physically binding and sequestering harmful material.

The scale of resources required to manage even tiny amounts of industrial toxins is enormous. Aajonus gave the specific example of mercury: it can take 2,000 white blood cells to harness and control just two or three molecules of mercury. Mercury molecules are infinitesimally small, but the cellular cost of managing them is massive. This is why industrial chemical exposure and heavy metal accumulation deplete white blood cells so severely and why people living in toxic environments are chronically weak.

The more toxicity a person is subjected to, whether from diet, environment, pharmaceuticals, or industrial chemicals, the more white blood cells the body requires, and the harder the bone marrow must work to replace them as they are consumed in the process of managing those toxins.

White blood cells in their original function do not die from absorbing carbon dioxide, because carbon dioxide is not poisonous in a clean environment. However, when a person enters an environment with significant airborne pollution, the carbon dioxide the white blood cells absorb is full of poison, and the white blood cells die when they take it in. Red blood cells similarly die when they absorb oxygen that is saturated with poison. This is one of Aajonus's explanations for why modern people are being inundated with blood-related problems from the environment alone, independent of diet.

When a person goes five hours or more without eating, the protein level in the blood drops. When it drops sufficiently, the red blood cells begin consuming each other because there is nothing else to eat. The white blood cells, whose job is to eat dead red blood cells, then begin eating those damaged red blood cells. This creates a situation where the white blood cells are consuming red blood cells that are not fully dead because there is no other waste available to eat. Aajonus used this to explain why a person should not go five hours without food, and why he recommended having a small milkshake before sleep and another portion during the night if one wakes, so the blood always has protein available.

Because the bone marrow is 60 percent fat or more, it accumulates toxins at very high concentrations. The brain and the bone marrow are the two areas of the body with the highest natural fat content, and therefore the two areas where fat-soluble toxins concentrate most heavily. In thin people who do not have much body fat distributed elsewhere, essentially all fat-soluble toxins go straight to the brain and bone marrow.

If a person has heavy concentrations of lead, cadmium, aluminum, tin, or other metallic poisons in their bone marrow, the red and white blood cells being bred and matured there will be very weak and very damaged, with mutations possible. The result is that even if the person is producing blood cells, those cells may be nonfunctional, immature, or incapable of carrying out oxygen transport or carbon dioxide removal. Aluminum and tin in the bone marrow, which Aajonus said is present in many people, can reduce blood function by 20 to 30 percent. A high concentration of lead and cadmium in the bone marrow can contribute to the development of leukemia, which in Aajonus's framework is bone marrow cancer caused by metallic poisoning of the breeding environment of blood cells, not a spontaneous malignancy.

Aajonus described leukemia specifically as the body evicting young, immature red and white blood cells from the bone marrow because the marrow has become so toxic it can no longer serve as a maturation environment. The cells are pushed out before they are ready, they flood the blood in an immature state, and the person becomes weaker even as their blood cell count rises, because immature cells do not perform their functions.

Aajonus identified three basic blood types relevant to what meat a person should eat, based on the natural tendency of the blood to produce red versus white blood cells. People with naturally acidic blood produce red blood cells easily but do not naturally produce enough white blood cells. This type should eat mostly white raw meat, meaning fish, fowl, and rabbit, to support white blood cell production and bring the body into balance. If this type eats red meat more than occasionally, they will tend toward irritability, impatience, overanxiety, and overaggression.

People with naturally alkaline blood produce white blood cells easily but do not naturally produce enough red blood cells. This type should eat mostly red raw meat, meaning beef, lamb, and venison. If they eat white meat more than occasionally, they will tend toward specific imbalances associated with insufficient red blood cell support.

In terms of dietary support, Aajonus noted that fish, fowl, and rabbit strengthen white blood cells rather than red blood cells, and that red meat strengthens red blood cells. In weak or seriously ill people who need blood rebuilding, he specified red meat as the required food, sometimes for three to six months, because the body in a weakened state cannot easily transmute one type of cellular support into another.

Five days of antibiotic treatment will destroy 1 percent of the bacterial colonies in the body, and antibiotics do not discriminate between bacterial species. They will wipe out the full range. More relevant to white blood cells is that antibiotics destroy not just bacteria but whole cells in the body. They kill white blood cells and red blood cells along with the bacterial populations they are targeting.

Additionally, antibiotics can stop the normal migration of white blood cells to areas that need them. If a pustulation or infection is forming and a person takes antibiotics, the movement of white blood cells to that area to clean up the damaged tissue can be halted, which prevents the detoxification and healing process from completing.

Losing large numbers of white blood cells produces weakness in the same way that losing red blood cells produces anemia. The body becomes less capable of managing toxins in the blood, less capable of keeping the blood clean of dead cellular debris, and less capable of removing carbon dioxide from the system. Because white blood cells take 45 to 60 days to mature in the bone marrow, any significant loss of white blood cells represents a deficit that cannot be quickly replaced. Aajonus stated that the solution is to stop taking in the poisons that cause the infections, pustulations, and inflammatory responses that consume white blood cells. If a person is not constantly being assaulted by industrial toxins and cooked food, white blood cells can do their work and return to the bloodstream after completing it rather than dying in the process.

In his most advanced state of personal health, Aajonus described being able to undergo a detoxification event with very little actual loss of white blood cells. The cells would arrive at a pustulation site, dump their toxins into the external crystalline substance, and return to the bloodstream intact. He described this as representing the ideal function, where the white blood cells complete their work without being sacrificed in the process.