Angina pectoris, according to Aajonus Vonderplanitz, is the cramping of muscles in or around the heart. He describes it consistently across dozens of seminar transcripts, workshops, newsletter entries, and Q&A sessions using a single governing analogy: it is a charley horse of the heart. Just as a charley horse is a muscle spasm in a leg, painful, seizing, involuntary, angina pectoris is that same phenomenon occurring in the muscle tissue of or surrounding the heart.

He is emphatic that the heart is entirely muscle tissue. There is nothing mysterious or categorically different about it. The heart cramps for the same reasons any other muscle cramps: chemical irritants get into the tissue, the muscle contracts involuntarily in response, and unless the person relaxes and allows circulation to move the irritants out, the cramp intensifies and can become fatal. In his words: "Of course, like a charley horse, because that's what a heart attack is. It's a charley horse. It's a charley horse from some kind of chemical mixture that gets in and arrests the heart."

"ANGINA PECTORIS is the cramping of muscles in or around the heart. Most always, the cramps are a natural process by which the body tries to increase circulation and remove toxins and hardened fat from muscles and arteries."

He makes a critical distinction that separates his view from conventional cardiology: most always, the cramps are a natural process. The body is not malfunctioning. The body is actively trying to increase circulation and remove toxins and hardened fat from both the muscles and the arteries. This is a detoxification event, not a failure event.

He further defines angina as distinct from, though related to, congestive heart disease or arterial blockage, which is the only framework conventional medicine employs to explain it. In his own case, he explains that doctors tested him repeatedly for congenital malformation of the heart and for congestive plaque in the arteries, and they found neither. The heart attacks were real, he had over 300 of them, but they were not caused by structural obstruction. They were caused by chemical toxins stored in the muscle tissue of the heart.

He also describes what happens when the heart dries out: "When the heart dries out, it starts having muscle spasms, you know, like a charley horse." This framing connects the phenomenon to hydration and fat availability in the tissues, the heart muscle becomes insufficiently lubricated and nourished, and spasms result.

He is also clear that angina is classically considered an old person's disease, a disease of octogenarians, of people with long-standing congestive heart failure or blocked arteries. He developed it at age 15 and a half, which he notes repeatedly was highly anomalous and confounded his physicians entirely.

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Aajonus identifies multiple overlapping root causes for angina pectoris, which he traces meticulously in his own personal history and generalizes into his broader framework of chemical toxicity:

The most detailed and repeatedly stated root cause in all the source material is vaccine toxicity, specifically mercury, formaldehyde, aluminum, and detergents from vaccines, and in particular, the polio vaccine.

He states: "In vaccines, you have mercury, formaldehyde, aluminum, and detergents."

He developed angina pectoris within days of receiving his third polio vaccine injection at age 15 and a half. He says in multiple sessions: "Within about seven days, I was diabetic, juvenile diabetic, and I had angina pectoris." In other accounts he specifies "within 10 days" or "about three days later" or "within 10 days, 14 days of that." The range across different seminar transcripts varies slightly, three days, seven days, ten days, two weeks, but the consistent point is the near-immediate onset following the vaccine injection.

He elaborates on the mechanism: the toxins from the polio vaccine were stored directly in the muscle tissue of and around the heart. These stored chemical toxins, particularly mercury and related compounds, are what caused the persistent, relentless muscle spasms he experienced for years. He notes: "The toxins stored in there and stored in my heart gave me angina pectoris."

He also identifies the broader accumulation of mercury from earlier injections as predisposing the cardiac tissue to this outcome. He had been receiving injections every two to three hours during a four-to-five-day hospitalization at age 12 for what was misdiagnosed as appendicitis but was actually peritonitis from a perforated intestine. During that hospitalization, most injections contained thimerosal, an ethylmercury-based preservative. He states: "Just carried on for the whole time that I was in the hospital. And they were giving me injections every two to three hours in the arms and the buttocks, and most of them had thimerosal, more mercury poison."

From his newsletter: "The angina began within 10 days after my third polio-vaccine injection. Doctors and my mother, who was a nurse, never put the vaccine and my immediate on-set of angina together because they were conditioned not to."

He notes that medicine at that time, and even now, does not look for chemical causes of heart attacks. Cardiologists are trained to look for congenital malformation or congestive plaque, and nothing else. He says: "The doctors don't look for any cause that could be chemical. They look at that time especially. They looked for congenital heart malformation or congestive heart failure... They don't blame toxins that get into a muscle and cause spasms."

Prior to the polio vaccine, he had received many injections throughout his childhood, tetanus shots, antibiotics (including penicillin, which he was allergic to), and various other medical interventions. Each injection added to the cumulative toxic load. He explains that mercury from injections does not exit the body efficiently: "We've only found in laboratory tests, only found in the first 24 hours, 7% is relieved in the urinary tract and 24% is relieved in the bowels. That's the maximum. And then after that, one half a percent for the next few days and that's it." This means roughly 30% of the mercury and other metals from those 76,000 trillion molecules (referring to his calculation of injection load) remain permanently in the body.

"A lack of enzyme-mutations for digesting, assimilating and utilizing cooked green foods and mostly vegetable oils are responsible for most hardening of the arteries that causes problems that may involve angina pectoris."

This causal pathway works as follows: when the body lacks the enzyme-mutations necessary to properly process cooked green foods and cooked vegetable oils, those fats do not assimilate cleanly. Instead, they harden within the arterial walls and muscle tissue. The body then responds by using muscle spasms, angina pectoris, to try to increase circulation and dislodge that hardened fat accumulation. This is framed explicitly as a body-healing response: "Sometimes the body manifests muscle spasms to help increase circulation, and the dissolution and removal of hardened fat accumulations, for example, the muscle spasms experienced with angina pectoris."

He frames the heart drying out as a precondition for muscle spasm: "When the heart dries out, it starts having muscle spasms, you know, like a charley horse." This connects to fat deficiency in the diet and a lack of properly utilized raw fats reaching the cardiac tissue, leaving it under-nourished and prone to cramping.

He references lactic acid buildup as part of the cramping mechanism, as he does for charley horses in general, noting that "Eating plenty of raw fat, especially coconut cream, with any of the following: unripe bananas, nonsteamed dates, unripe melons or unripe pineapple, helps to relieve the lactic acid build-up that causes muscle soreness." While not stated exclusively in reference to angina, this mechanism is part of his explanation for why cardiac muscle cramps occur.

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Angina pectoris in Aajonus's framework spans multiple causal layers:

Root Cause / Terrain Theory: The fundamental cause, vaccine-derived chemical toxicity, stored industrial pollutants including mercury, formaldehyde, aluminum, and detergents, places this condition squarely in the terrain theory framework. The body is not failing; it has been poisoned. The toxins stored in the heart muscle are industrial pollutants, not organic metabolic waste. He says explicitly: "90% of the time it will be [industrial pollution], and if it's any kind of a serious thing or near fatal, any type of extreme or chronic condition, it's an industrial pollution that's caused it."

Detoxification: The angina attack itself is reframed as a detoxification event, the body using muscle contractions to increase circulation, attempt to dissolve and remove hardened fat accumulations and stored toxins, and push that debris through the lymph and blood. The definition explicitly states: "Most always, the cramps are a natural process by which the body tries to increase circulation and remove toxins and hardened fat from muscles and arteries." When his angina returned briefly at age 60 for two weeks, he interpreted it as a detoxification event: "Because my chest area felt more relaxed after the 2-weeks episode, I determined it to be detoxification of the polio-vaccine toxicity that had stored in and around my heart 45 years earlier."

Cooked Food: The hardened-fat pathway, where enzyme-mutation deficiencies for cooked green foods and cooked vegetable oils lead to arterial and cardiac hardening, places a dimension of this condition in the cooked food principle.

Sovereignty: His repeated insistence that doctors told him his angina was "all in his head," that they refused to consider chemical or vaccine-related causes, and that the medical profession is run by pharmaceutical industry interests, all of this places the condition also within the sovereignty framework. He presents angina as a condition that medicine cannot or will not properly diagnose or treat, and uses his own recovery as evidence for his framework.

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The most significant reframing Aajonus performs is calling angina attacks "heart attacks", but then immediately redefining what a heart attack is: a charley horse. He says: "You know, angina is heart attacks. It's muscle spasms in and around the heart. It's like you get a Charlie horse in your leg. Imagine having a heart."

By naming it a charley horse, he demystifies the terror of the event. The heart is not dying. The heart is not losing oxygen due to a blocked vessel. The heart is cramping, a mechanical event caused by chemical irritants in the tissue, just as lactic acid or cold or a mineral imbalance causes a leg to cramp. The solution is therefore not surgery, stenting, or medication. The solution is the same as for any charley horse: relax, allow circulation, and let the body flush the irritants.

Aajonus experienced 300 heart attacks between age 15 and a half and age 22. Of those, approximately 50 caused him to lose consciousness. He is explicit that this was survivable and that he understood, even as a young person, why it was survivable. Because he was autistic and, in his framing, not conditioned by the fear response that non-autistic people are programmed with, he did not tense up during the attacks. He simply relaxed or fell asleep.

He says: "Because I was autistic, I wasn't indoctrinated with the fear and the anxiety and pain that everybody goes through when they're having a heart attack. They tense up and buckle. I just fell asleep and relaxed, so the heart was able to start again."

The reframe is: passing out during a severe angina attack may be the body's protective mechanism, removing consciousness and with it the instinct to tense up and resist, which would make the charley horse worse. He survived all 50 episodes of unconsciousness by not fighting the cramp.

He also notes that lying on the floor at school during attacks, while the teachers simply left him there, allowed him to recover in about 10 to 20 minutes. The cramp would pass on its own once the body could relax and circulation restored.

He reframes the dismissal by conventional medicine as evidence of medicine's limitations, not of the unreality of the attacks. The cardiologists could not find congenital malformation or congestive plaque, the only two causes they searched for, so they declared the condition psychosomatic. He says: "The doctors, the cardiologists told my mother that my heart condition, my pain and passing out was all in my head... Here you've got a retarded child who comes up with the idea that he's having heart attacks."

The reframe is: those people who have toxins in their heart muscle and no structural defects "are always sent to a psychiatrist saying it's all in their head. And they take psychotropic medication that doesn't correct the situation. And they continue with heart attacks all the time or soreness going all the way through their body, projecting from the chest area."

The symptom pattern, chest pain, radiating numbness, pain projecting from the chest through the back, up the neck to the jaw, into the shoulder, is not mysterious. It is the pattern of toxic storage in and around the heart, with lymphatic congestion in the surrounding area. He reframes this entire presentation as a chemical toxicity issue requiring dietary resolution, not psychiatric intervention or pharmaceutical management.

He had sometimes up to eight heart attacks per week at the peak (though he also states "sometimes three a week" and "two a week" in different sessions, the variability reflects different periods of the illness). After a few months, the frequency dropped to one per week, then one per month, and gradually declined over the years from 15 to 22. He presents this natural progression as evidence that the body was working through the problem on its own timeline.

He describes experiencing a mild return of angina symptoms approximately "about two years ago" (relative to a particular seminar) and again for two weeks at age 60. He frames both of these recurrences not as disease progression but as the body finally reaching those old toxic stores and cleaning them:

"I had a slight bout with angina about two years ago and it was so mild it didn't pass out or anything. So basically what it was was my muscle tissues were cleaning from those years of still having been toxic."

"When I began drinking raw milk and raw carrot juice at age 22, my angina stopped and only returned for 2 weeks when I was 60. Because my chest area felt more relaxed after the 2-weeks episode, I determined it to be detoxification of the polio-vaccine toxicity that had stored in and around my heart 45 years earlier."

This reframe is critical: the return of a childhood condition during the Primal Diet is not a sign that the diet is failing. It is a sign that the diet has finally given the body enough resources to address the deepest stored toxicity. He states as a general principle: "Everything is going to revisit you. If you've had an illness as a child, that illness will revisit you in your lifetime because if you weren't on a good diet you never cleaned that area properly and you didn't rebuild it properly."

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Sit down. Eat unheated honey. Relax.

"If spasms occur, it is best to sit, eat some unheated honey and relax."

The mechanism is that honey, specifically unheated, raw honey, provides immediately available simple sugars and enzymes that the body can use without the digestive burden of complex foods. The honey supports the energy needs of the cramping cardiac muscle while the person rests and allows circulation to restore itself naturally. Forcing movement, tensing up, or attempting to "fight through" the attack, as one might do with a charley horse in a limb, makes the spasm worse.

If heart palpitations occur when drinking vegetable juice, particularly the first juice of the morning, the protocol is to add a raw egg to the juice:

"If you get heart palpitations from your first juice, those are toxins flowing, and the heart does not want them to rest in the heart or in a gland... If you have heart palpitations from a vegetable juice first thing in the morning, you whip a raw egg in it for about five or six days after that and drink it with a raw egg in it. Then try another week, try it one time without the egg."

He also states: "If you have that kind of angina, eat an egg with your vegetable juice. You have heart palpitations and you wonder, you're worried about a heart attack. You know how many people have heart palpitations? About one out of twenty when they eat the vegetable juice or during something else that they may get. It involves a massive heart palpitations... So, if it happens to you, just mix an egg in your vegetable juice the first one in the morning and then you don't have to worry about it."

The raw egg in the vegetable juice provides fat, protein, and lecithin that stabilize the detoxification rate, preventing the toxins from overwhelming the heart during the rapid absorption phase of vegetable juice drinking.

"...stone-pressed olive oil, raw pineapple, raw fresh onions and unheated honey very gradually restores the heart."

The full heart restoration approach includes:

• Stone-pressed olive oil, provides a medium-chain fat that reaches cardiac tissue easily and supports arterial integrity
• Raw pineapple, enzymatic (bromelain) action to help dissolve hardened fats; noted elsewhere: "Another food that helps remove plaque is citrus, especially pineapple"
• Raw fresh onions, sulfur compounds support tissue repair
• Unheated honey, provides immediately available fuel and enzymatic support

"Frequently eating fresh raw coconut cream with unripe banana gradually dissolves hardened fats."

He recommends the following combinations for dissolving hardened fat accumulations around and in cardiac tissue:

• Raw coconut cream with unripe banana, cited specifically for gradually dissolving hardened fats, which are part of the angina mechanism
• Coconut cream with unripe pineapple, enzymatic fat dissolution
• Coconut cream with nonsteamed dates, supports fat dissolution and lactic acid reduction
• Coconut cream with unripe melons, another variation on the same protocol
• Raw cream with unripe pineapple, another fat-enzyme pairing

He is careful to note that eating pineapple daily to remove arterial buildup requires moderation: "However, as I stated in my book WWTL, over-eating pineapple can cause extreme emotionality. If eating pineapple daily to remove arterial buildup, I suggest eating only 1 ounce per day with a raw fat such as 3-4 tablespoons coconut cream and 1 tablespoon raw cream or 1 teaspoon no-salt raw butter."

He describes his own protocol for addressing arterial plaque, which underlies some angina, using raw apple cider vinegar:

"I started taking vinegar and coconut cream to break down plaque."

He took raw apple cider vinegar approximately 30 times over eleven months. His arterial tests, previously showing abnormal plaque buildup (PSV 223 cm/sec and EDV 76 cm/sec in the right internal carotid artery), returned completely to normal: "The 2011 tests returned these results: Carotid Artery: Left: Normal; Right: Normal... The abnormal plaque buildup was gone!"

The pairing with coconut cream is implicit in his statement. The apple cider vinegar is used to chelate minerals and dissolve the calcified/hardened material, while the coconut cream provides fat to carry away dissolved material and protect tissues.

He emphasizes raw fat extensively as central to heart health. He describes his own intake levels, which produced clean cardiac results on tests:

"During the spring and summer, I eat from eight to ten ounces of raw cream a day, maybe more. And I eat, in the fall and winter, I'll eat a stick of butter a day minimum."

His cardiac results at that level of raw fat intake were exceptional, near-zero plaque despite a history of heavy plaque since childhood. He notes that cardiologists expected to find terrible plaque given his stated fat intake, but instead found the opposite.

He also recommends: "It's always a good idea to eat at least one and a half tablespoons of butter with any meat meal."

He is explicit that his angina resolved when he began drinking raw milk:

"When I began drinking raw milk and raw carrot juice at age 22, my angina stopped."

Raw milk is the food he credits with ending the relentless 300-heart-attack sequence that had persisted from age 15 and a half to age 22. He does not give a specific quantity for raw milk in the context of angina specifically, but raw milk is central to the overall Primal Diet and serves as the primary hydrating, fat-delivering, protein-delivering food that supports tissue repair everywhere in the body.

"Drinking 2-4 cups of good mineral water and eating plenty of raw fat with most foods gradually correct this problem", referring to the hardened fat accumulation problem that underlies angina.

He gives specific vegetable juice composition advice when addressing cardiac tissue issues. In one consultation he recommends: "About 20% parsley, 5% cilantro, 15% carrot, 15% cucumber puree and the rest celery."

He specifies parsley, cilantro, carrot, cucumber, and celery as the components, with a specific emphasis on fish and chicken as the primary meats to accompany the juicing protocol when cardiac tissue is involved.

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His own recovery serves as the primary case study and is documented in considerable detail across newsletters and transcripts:

• Age 15.5: Third polio vaccine administered. Within 3–14 days (varying accounts), juvenile diabetes and angina pectoris develop simultaneously.
• Age 15.5 to 16: Peak frequency of attacks, sometimes up to eight per week, dropping after a few months to one per week.
• Age 15.5 to 22: Total of approximately 300 heart attacks. Approximately 50 resulted in loss of consciousness. Duration of unconscious episodes: up to 20 minutes.
• Age 22: Began drinking raw milk and raw carrot juice. Angina stopped. He never took insulin again. His diabetes reversed within several weeks.
• Age approximately 36–40 (mid-30s): He notes he had arrhythmia from age 13 "up until I was in my mid-30s," suggesting associated cardiac electrical irregularities resolved over a similar timeline.
• Age approximately 55–57: Cardiac testing showed minimal plaque (approximately 2% in carotid arteries, described as "can barely see it, just looks like a little bit of speckled film"). He says: "In another 10 years it probably won't be there." Earlier testing (around age 20 on the diet) had shown approximately 20% plaque on arteries.
• Age 60: Angina returned for two weeks. He identifies this as detoxification of vaccine toxicity stored since age 15.5. After the two-week episode: "My chest area felt more relaxed." This final detoxification episode, 45 years after the original poisoning, is presented as the body completing the cleanup of that original insult.

His arterial plaque tests over a 10-year period with the Life Line Screening service showed: - Initial reading post-angina years: Right carotid artery PSV 223 cm/sec and EDV 76 cm/sec (at 15.5 years) - Over 10 years of tests: Right carotid artery showed PSV ranging between 168 and 223 cm/sec - After approximately 30 applications of raw apple cider vinegar (over 11 months): Carotid arteries both returned to "Normal" bilaterally, with no aneurysm and normal peripheral arterial condition

He states as a general principle: "Everything is going to revisit you. If you've had an illness as a child, that illness will revisit you in your lifetime because if you weren't on a good diet you never cleaned that area properly and you didn't rebuild it properly."

This means that someone who suffered angina as a child or young adult, even if the symptoms resolved, should anticipate a revisiting, possibly milder, as the Primal Diet enables the body to finally address those old toxic stores. He presents his own two-year-ago mild angina episode and the age-60 two-week episode as examples of this pattern. In both cases, he reports the result was positive: tissues were cleaner and more relaxed afterward.

Based on his own timeline, approximately 35+ years from starting the Primal Diet to having nearly plaque-free carotid arteries, full cardiac tissue reconstruction from severe vaccine-induced chemical toxicity is a multi-decade process. He frames this as entirely acceptable and not a source of alarm: "I still had a little plaquing, and I've got 19 more years to get rid of it, but nothing dangerous."

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