Cataracts are the collection of organic waste clouding the cornea and/or crystalline lens of the eye. This is not a disease in the conventional sense, it is the accumulation of debris that the body has been unable to properly eliminate from the ocular tissues. The eye, like every other tissue in the body, requires continuous removal of metabolic waste products. When circulation out of the eye is poor and the exit passage becomes congested, those waste products remain in the eye and progressively cloud the structures responsible for vision.

Aajonus states plainly: "Cataracts are the result of waste products failing to leave the eyes. Usually, the problem is poor circulation out of the eyes. The exit passage is probably congested."

He places cataracts squarely within his broader framework of toxin accumulation, the same framework that governs virtually every degenerative condition he describes. The eyes are not diseased in some mysterious or irreversible way; they are congested with organic debris that the body lacks the fat, the circulation, and the proper nutritional resources to clear. Once those resources are restored and circulation is improved, the body can resume its natural janitorial function within the ocular tissues.

Most blindness, according to Aajonus, is a result of cataracts. This makes the condition not a cosmetic or minor irritation but one of the most significant threats to long-term sensory function that his dietary approach addresses directly.

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Aajonus identifies multiple distinct causal pathways for cataracts, and they are worth expanding fully:

Cataracts are usually found in hyperactive individuals with high adrenaline levels who constantly exhaust blood and body fat levels. The excess adrenaline causes the body to burn through fat reserves at an accelerated rate. Because the eyes are entirely dependent on utilizable fats to maintain their cleansing and structural integrity, a body that is chronically depleted of fat cannot adequately nourish or cleanse the eyes. The body simply cannot clean debris from the eyes properly, and cataracts form.

Aajonus further explains in his iridology and glaucoma discussions that excessive adrenal output, any kind of hormone that will bind with sugars, causes sugars to behave as acids that eat away sheaths surrounding delicate ocular tissues. Most people with excessive adrenal glands get cataracts and glaucoma. The connection is hormonal excess leading to fat depletion and then direct ocular damage through acid chemistry.

Cataracts are also commonly found in diabetics as a result of improperly assimilated sugars and medicinal insulin. Their eyes are completely deprived of certain utilizable fats. When insulin is administered medicinally, meaning in its pharmaceutical, heated, processed form, it disrupts the body's ability to properly utilize fat at the cellular level. The result is the same endpoint: eyes deprived of the fats they need to function and cleanse themselves.

Aajonus notes that medicinal insulin also causes vision disorders more broadly. The connection is that pharmaceutical insulin, being a processed substance, does not behave as natural insulin would, and it interferes with fat metabolism in ways that leave the eyes nutritionally starved.

Across both causal pathways, hyperactivity/adrenaline and diabetes/medicinal insulin, the common mechanism is the same: the eyes are completely deprived of certain utilizable fats. Fat deprivation is the immediate causal mechanism. Whether that deprivation comes from exhausting fat through excess adrenaline or from pharmaceutical insulin blocking fat assimilation, the result is that the body cannot clean debris from the eyes properly, and cataracts form.

This is consistent with Aajonus's broader terrain theory in which fat is the primary solvent, protective agent, and carrier of nutrients throughout the body. When fat is unavailable or cannot be utilized, the body's natural cleansing systems break down and waste accumulates in tissues.

Beyond the nutritional depletion, Aajonus identifies a structural or circulatory component: the exit passage from the eye is probably congested. This means that even if the body has sufficient fat to mobilize and dissolve ocular debris, it cannot actually move that debris out of the eye. The drainage pathway is blocked. This is why his treatment approach specifically includes measures to improve circulation to and from the eye, not just nutritional supplementation.

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Cataracts fit primarily within the Root Cause / Terrain Theory and the Cooked Food of Aajonus's framework.

Terrain Theory: The fundamental premise is that the body accumulates waste when it lacks the nutritional resources, particularly fat, to cleanse tissues and when circulation becomes impaired. Cataracts are a direct expression of this: organic waste collects in the eye because utilizable fat is absent and circulation is compromised. The body is not attacking itself; it is unable to complete its natural cleansing cycle.

Cooked Food / Processed Substances: The role of pharmaceutical insulin (medicinal insulin) points directly to the Cooked Food principle. Pharmaceutical insulin is a processed, heated product that disrupts natural fat metabolism. This is consistent with Aajonus's position that processed substances, whether drugs, heated foods, or chemically extracted supplements, interfere with the body's enzymatic and metabolic processes in ways that accumulate into degenerative conditions.

Detoxification: The treatment approach, hot water bottles, fruit meals with specific ingredients, olive oil, egg white, and butter in the eyes, is fundamentally a detoxification protocol. Moving waste out of congested exit passages is the goal, and this aligns with his detoxification framework.

Sovereignty: The strong caution against surgical removal of cataracts and the preference for dietary and topical remedies reflects his broader philosophy of maintaining bodily sovereignty, allowing the body's own cleansing processes to do their work without surgical interference that can cause scarring and permanently impair those processes.

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Aajonus does not interpret cataracts as a pathological entity that has befallen the eye from outside or that represents an inherent failure of the eye itself. He reframes the condition entirely:

Clouding is accumulation, not destruction: The cloudiness of the cornea and/or crystalline lens is organic waste that has collected there, the same kind of debris the body routinely moves out of every tissue. In the eye, that debris has not been cleared due to fat deficiency and circulatory congestion. The eye structure itself has not been destroyed; it is buried under accumulated material that can, in principle, be dissolved and eliminated.

Blindness is the endpoint of neglected congestion: Most blindness is a result of cataracts, meaning it is the endpoint of a long process of neglected nutritional deficiency and circulatory obstruction. This is not an inevitable consequence of aging but a consequence of chronic fat deprivation and poor circulation.

The condition is progressive but reversible: Cataracts continue to worsen as long as the underlying nutritional deficiency and circulatory obstruction remain unaddressed. But because the cause is nutritional and circulatory rather than structural, the condition can be stopped and sometimes reversed by restoring the nutritional environment and improving circulation.

Surgical "treatment" misunderstands the condition: Conventional medicine's response, surgical removal of cataracts, treats the accumulated debris mechanically without addressing the underlying cause. Moreover, it creates scar tissue that further impairs the eye's ability to cleanse itself, making the fundamental problem worse. If cataracts are removed surgically, there is a high risk of causing scarring which will further diminish the eyes from cleansing.

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Aajonus provides a detailed, multi-component protocol for cataracts. Every element should be understood as working toward the same goals: restoring utilizable fat to the eyes, dissolving and mobilizing the organic waste that has accumulated, improving circulation out of the eyes, and providing direct nutritional support to ocular tissues.

Consuming 1–3 tablespoons of stone-pressed olive oil every day for the rest of a person's life stops further development of cataracts and sometimes reverses cataracts. This is a lifetime commitment, not a short-term protocol. The olive oil provides specific utilizable fats that the eye requires to perform its cleansing function. The stone-pressed specification is critical, this is unheated, mechanically extracted oil that retains its full enzymatic and fatty acid profile. Industrially extracted olive oil, being heat-treated or solvent-extracted, would not provide the same benefit.

One patient reported faithfully having a tablespoon of olive oil every day for about six months and asking whether there was anything else they could do. Aajonus's response was to confirm the olive oil and add further protocols.

Aajonus prescribes a specific fruit meal to be consumed twice weekly. The exact formula, as given in his March 2013 correspondence, is:

• 2 ounces lime juice
• 2 teaspoons lemon juice
• 3 ounces of pineapple
• 2 tablespoons coconut cream
• 1.5 tablespoons raw dairy cream
• ½ teaspoon raw apple cider vinegar
• 1 tablespoon unheated honey

This formula is described as helping to dissolve blockages, specifically the congested exit passages through which the eye would normally drain its waste products. The combination of citrus acids (lime and lemon), bromelain from pineapple, coconut cream fats, raw dairy cream, the mild acid of raw apple cider vinegar, and the enzymatic richness of unheated honey creates a nutritional environment specifically oriented toward dissolving the accumulated organic material and clearing the congested passages.

This fruit meal is to be consumed twice weekly, not daily, which is consistent with Aajonus's general caution about fruit consumption and its effect on the system.

For the congested exit passages specifically, Aajonus prescribes a nightly hot water bottle treatment. The exact protocol is:

• Insert a hot water bottle into a flannel pillowcase
• Apply it against the side of the face, delivering heat to the side of the face including the eye on that side
• The next night, place the hot water bottle at the other eye
• Alternate the eye each night

This treatment is to be done nightly, or at minimum consistently, and works by increasing circulation to the ocular tissues and the surrounding structures that drain the eye. Heat dilates blood vessels and lymphatic channels, improving the flow of both nutrients into the eye and waste products out. The flannel pillowcase serves as insulation to prevent direct heat burns while still transmitting warmth effectively.

The instruction specifies alternating sides each night rather than applying to both eyes simultaneously. This may reflect a desire to allow each side's circulation and drainage to respond fully without competing with the other side.

Aajonus specifically recommends alternating egg white and coconut cream with lime juice in the eyes for cataracts: "Coconut cream with the lime juice. I would alternate them using the egg white in the eye for cataracts."

The raw egg white application is one of his most consistent recommendations across virtually all eye conditions, and it applies directly to cataracts. The protocol for applying egg white to the eyes is described in detail elsewhere in his teachings:

• Take about half a teaspoon of raw egg white
• Place it in an eye cup
• Put the head back, stretch the eyelid up
• Roll all the egg white around in the eye
• Do this to the other eye
• Do it once a day, but twice a day would be more helpful for more serious conditions
• Do NOT rinse it out, just wipe it off if it cakes on the eye

Alternatively, a simpler application method: tap the egg white onto the little finger, pull the lower eyelid down, look upward, and rub it along the white of the eye. Roll the eye around to coat it. It takes only about three minutes to absorb.

The reasoning: egg white has almost the same chemistry as tears but has more protein, so it feeds and strengthens the eye from the outside. The eye receives nutrients very slowly through the body's normal circulatory priority system, it is last in the chain. Applying nutrients directly to the eye bypasses that chain and delivers immediate nourishment to the ocular tissues. This will be absorbed into the white tissues, and even underneath into the deeper tissues, because the eye's surface absorbs substances applied to it.

The egg white in the morning is the preferred timing. Aajonus confirmed in his own case that egg white helped restore his eyes after severe corneal damage from the acid discharge of a dissolving tumor: he went from 8 layers of scar tissue and blindness in the eye to passing a driver's vision test 7 years later, with only one layer of scar tissue remaining, using egg white in the morning and butter at night.

The eggs should be from antibiotic-free and hormone-free chickens.

Raw unsalted butter is the complement to egg white, applied at night before sleeping. Sheep's butter is described as slightly more effective than cow's butter for eye applications. The protocol:

• Melt a dab of butter in the palm of the hand
• Pull the lower eyelid down, look upward
• Rub the butter onto the lid
• Lift both upper and lower eyelids and roll the eyes
• Leave it there, do not rinse
• Do this before sleeping because it will blur vision for approximately an hour, or in some descriptions 10–20 minutes

The butter is described as working in a "different, cleansing way" from the egg white. Where egg white strengthens and feeds the eye with protein, butter nourishes and soothes the eye with fat, working particularly on the cornea, iris, and sclera. Aajonus describes it as better than egg white for this purpose.

He reports people with coke-bottle-thick glasses who did the egg white every day and butter twice a week going to very thin glasses in a five-year period.

Red meat helps maintain eye muscles, and Aajonus recommends eating at least 4 ounces of red meat daily. He makes this recommendation specifically in the context of deteriorating eyesight and cataracts. The reasoning is empirical rather than theoretical: despite the fact that the eye contains extensive nerve structures and should theoretically respond to white meats (which he uses to regenerate nerve tissue), empirically it is red meat that improves vision and stabilizes the eye condition. When blurred vision occurs, eating red meat with a little cream corrects it within an hour.

He notes this is counterintuitive: "Theoretically it should be the white meat but not empirically." He tested this with people and found that no amount of white meat (fish, fowl) would alter vision, but red meat would improve focus and vision within an hour. For the specific purpose of eye stabilization and maintenance, red meat, including steak tartare, is the primary meat recommendation.

Bell peppers, especially yellow bell peppers, help improve eyesight. These are best eaten with a meat meal, not on their own. This is consistent with Aajonus's general principle of eating vegetables with fat and protein to facilitate absorption of fat-soluble nutrients.

Eating raw salmon several times weekly speeds healing of the cataract condition. This is in addition to the olive oil and the other protocols, not a replacement. Raw salmon provides specific fats and nutrients that support eye health.

Drinking a combination of 2 ounces carrot juice and 2 ounces beet juice, 3–4 days weekly, speeds healing. The carrot juice provides vitamin A precursors (the orange pigmentation indicating abundant vitamin A content), and the beet juice supports circulation and liver function which in turn supports the body's ability to process and eliminate the organic waste from the eyes.

Eating plenty of raw fat and the foods suggested in Alkalizing Food soothes the overall toxic condition of the body due to excess adrenaline, one of the primary root causes of cataracts. This is the broader dietary framework within which the specific cataract remedies operate.

Beyond the internal fruit meal, Aajonus specifically mentions using coconut cream with lime juice alternated with egg white in the eye for cataracts. This suggests an alternating topical protocol, some applications being egg white, some being coconut cream with lime juice, applied directly to the eye.

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The hierarchy of outcomes is important to understand. Consuming 1–3 tablespoons of stone-pressed olive oil every day for the rest of a person's life stops further development of cataracts and sometimes reverses cataracts. The stopping of further development appears to be the consistent outcome; reversal is possible but not guaranteed. This is a lifetime commitment.

Aajonus describes people with coke-bottle-thick glasses who did the egg white every day and butter twice a week going to very thin glasses in a five-year period. This gives a general sense of the timeline for meaningful ocular improvement, years, not weeks or months. The eye receives nutrients on a delayed basis compared to other tissues because it is last in the body's circulatory priority chain. Topical application of egg white and butter helps bypass this delay, but the underlying tissue repair still proceeds slowly.

Aajonus describes having 8 layers of scar tissue from corneal damage from tumor-dissolving acids that burned his eye, and being told by an optometrist that he would never see out of that eye without a cornea transplant. Seven years later, he passed his driver's vision test with that eye, and when he returned to the optometrist, she said he had only one layer of scar tissue remaining. The tools used were egg white in the morning and butter at night. This suggests that even severe ocular damage can be substantially reversed over a seven-year period with consistent application.

Aajonus uses iris photographs to track the progress of toxin elimination throughout the body, and eye conditions are part of this progression. He describes having patients photograph their irises at regular intervals to observe the clearing of discoloration (yellow, brown, green) as toxins leave the tissue. He recommends people continue the eye-nourishing protocols "at least until their eyes clear up the yellow and the brown." This is a marker of progress, the irises clearing of color, rather than a fixed time period.

For brain toxins like penicillin, he notes it can take 40 years for the body to fully clear them. The speed of cataract resolution depends heavily on the severity of accumulation, the degree of circulatory obstruction, and the consistency of the protocol.

Once you begin cleansing, through the dietary protocol, olive oil, hot water bottles, and the specific fruit meal, the body begins moving the accumulated debris out of the eyes through the cleared exit passages. This process may itself produce symptoms as the debris mobilizes. Aajonus describes situations where toxins discharging through the tear ducts can temporarily affect vision, "Sometimes, consuming a lot of coconut cream causes many toxins from the brain to discharge from the tear ducts, and that affects vision temporarily." This kind of temporary worsening during active cleansing is normal within his framework and not a sign that the protocol is failing.

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