Colitis, in Aajonus's framework, is an inflamed intestinal condition that the medical establishment diagnoses far too often and far too broadly among people who are experiencing intestinal problems. He is explicit that the medical profession's application of this diagnosis is excessive and imprecise. In his view, colitis is not some mysterious autoimmune attack or genetic inevitability, it is a direct, traceable consequence of what has been put into the body and what has been done to the intestinal environment.

The condition represents a state in which the intestinal walls have become inflamed as a result of volatile, caustic, or incompatible substances coming into contact with delicate intestinal tissue. The intestinal environment is not merely a passive tube through which food passes, it is a living, active biochemical landscape populated by thousands of varieties of bacteria, bathed in specific acid and enzymatic fluids, and lined with specialized villi that secrete digestive juices as food particles move past them. When this environment is disrupted, inflamed, and the fluids within it become volatile and ineffective, the walls of the intestinal tract suffer the consequences. That suffering is what gets labeled colitis.

Aajonus states directly: "This inflamed intestinal condition is medically diagnosed far too often among people with intestinal problems. Most often, I have found that people who are diagnosed with colitis have a poor intestinal environment and ineffective intestinal fluids." He identifies colitis as existing on a spectrum of intestinal damage, not an isolated disease but a presentation of a broader toxic and nutritional crisis in the gut.

Colitis is also situated within Aajonus's broader list of intestinal disease conditions that result when toxins accumulate in the intestinal tract. He describes it alongside IBS, Crohn's disease, peritonitis, and ulcers as all belonging to the same category of breakdown: "If it's in the intestinal tract, it could be IBS, inflammatory bowel disease. It could be Crohn's. It could be colitis, peritonitis, ulcers. Any one of those if it happens in the intestine." These are not fundamentally different diseases in his view, they are different presentations of degrees of intestinal toxicity and terrain disruption.

Ulcerative colitis specifically is treated as a distinct but related condition. One seminar attendee who had suffered from ulcerative colitis reported being able to control it through dietary manipulation, and Aajonus explained the mechanism behind why that worked and what a fuller solution would look like. He also mentions intestinal ulcers, bloody diarrhea, the constant need to remain near a toilet, as a related manifestation of the same basic breakdown in the intestinal environment.

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Aajonus identifies multiple specific root causes for colitis, all operating within his terrain-toxicity framework. None of them involve an attacking pathogen or a self-destructive immune system. All of them trace back to the introduction of substances, dietary or chemical, that damage the intestinal environment and render intestinal fluids volatile and ineffective.

Primary Cause: Cooked Food Byproducts

The foundational cause in his framework is the byproducts of cooked food. When food is heated, it is transformed into substances that the human digestive system was not designed to process. These cooked byproducts are caustic, altered molecules, denatured proteins, fractionated fats, destroyed enzymes, that create inflammatory conditions when they accumulate in the intestinal walls. He states: "Colitis is caused by cooked food byproducts and chemicals, including household cleansers that contacted food, absorbed through skin or inhaled."

The intestinal walls are lined with delicate mucus membranes. When the body is unable to produce sufficient mucus to protect these walls, often because of fat deficiency, which impairs mucus production, the raw intestinal tissue comes into contact with these caustic substances and becomes inflamed. This is the mechanical basis of the inflammation that characterizes colitis.

Chemicals: Household Cleansers, Absorbed Toxins, Inhaled Substances

Aajonus extends the causation beyond dietary choices to include chemical exposures that may not even involve direct ingestion. Household cleansers that contact food, residues on dishes, cooking surfaces, food preparation equipment, can enter the digestive tract in amounts sufficient to disrupt the intestinal environment. Chemicals absorbed through the skin and chemicals inhaled from the environment can also accumulate in the body and be dumped into the intestinal tract during the body's detoxification processes.

This is consistent with his broader framework in which the bowel serves as one of the body's primary detoxification channels, the intestinal walls actively secrete stored toxins into the bowel for elimination. When the toxic load becomes too high, or when the substances being dumped are particularly caustic, the intestinal walls suffer inflammatory damage.

Penicillin and Antibiotics: Destruction of Intestinal Bacteria

Aajonus makes a very strong and specific claim about the role of antibiotics, particularly penicillin, in creating the intestinal conditions that lead to colitis, Crohn's, and inflammatory bowel syndrome. He states: "Ninety percent of the Crohn's disease that I've seen, and the IBS inflammatory bowel syndrome, has been created from penicillin. The greatest thing since the wheel, right? For the pharmaceutical industry, but not for the human race, because it destroys the intestinal tract, destroys intestinal bacteria."

He explains that penicillin is a mold that comes from birds that eat large quantities of grain. Birds can process it because it functions as a detoxification mechanism for them on a fungal level. But in the human body, this mold cannot be properly contained or processed. Once introduced, and particularly because it has been sterilized before pharmaceutical use, making it a radical and toxic form of the mold, it grows aggressively and destroys the intestinal bacterial environment. Every other antibiotic, in his view, operates similarly through this same mold-based mechanism.

When intestinal bacteria, particularly E. coli in the large intestine, are destroyed by antibiotics, the intestinal tract loses its primary means of completing protein and fat digestion, producing B vitamins, and maintaining the acidic environment necessary for healthy bowel function. The result is a terrain that cannot properly process food, that becomes inflamed by undigested particles, and that deteriorates progressively into conditions like colitis and Crohn's.

Poor Intestinal Environment and Ineffective Intestinal Fluids

Beyond the specific causative agents, Aajonus emphasizes that the underlying condition making all of these causes damaging is a "poor intestinal environment and ineffective intestinal fluids." This means:

• Insufficient or damaged E. coli colonies unable to complete protein and fat digestion
• Bile that has been over-alkalinized or disrupted, interfering with fat breakdown
• Digestive juices in the intestinal tract that have been neutralized, for example, by over-consumption of alkalizing foods, making them ineffective at processing incoming food particles
• A general absence of the right bacterial populations to manage the digestive process

He explains the over-alkalinization problem in the context of explaining what the "zone diet" was doing for the person with ulcerative colitis: "When you eat that particular, um, those substances together, it neutralizes the acidity. That's why you don't digest a lot. And it will neutralize the acidity that's causing the ulcerations. It causes the colitis." This is a temporary relief mechanism, neutralizing the acids that are causing the irritation, but it does not address the underlying reason those acids are volatile and caustic rather than productive and appropriate.

Pasteurized Dairy

Aajonus specifically identifies pasteurized dairy as a direct cause of intestinal damage and inflammation. He describes a man who had lived for 70 years in proximity to a toilet because of bloody diarrhea caused by intestinal ulcers, a condition he attributes to pasteurized dairy consumption. He notes: "He lived with, and he still lives, with the intestinal ulcers. He always has to be near a toilet. Can you imagine living for 70 years near a toilet because he's going to have diarrhea, bloody diarrhea. I got him to eat raw foods once and even raw meat and it all stopped. But then when he stopped having pain then he went back", indicating that the man returned to cooked foods and the condition returned.

He also notes: "Pasteurized milk and its products of any kind can cause mild to severe intestinal discomfort." And specifically regarding colitis: "Drinking raw milk that is not soured or predigested by kefir bacillus sometimes causes a problem with colitis." This means even raw milk, if it is not properly soured or predigested through kefir fermentation, can sometimes exacerbate the condition because it introduces substances into the intestinal tract that it is not yet capable of properly handling.

Lymphatic Congestion and Toxin Accumulation

In the broader causal chain, Aajonus places colitis at the end-stage of a process of toxin accumulation and lymphatic congestion. When the lymphatic system becomes overwhelmed with cooked food byproducts, chemicals, and unprocessable molecules, it cannot properly remove waste from cells and tissues. Toxins accumulate in specific areas of the body. Where they concentrate determines what the disease will be named. In the intestinal tract, this accumulation of toxins produces the inflammatory conditions that get labeled colitis, IBS, Crohn's, peritonitis, or ulcers, depending on the specific location, severity, and character of the damage.

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Colitis sits primarily within the Root Cause / Terrain Theory of Aajonus's framework, because the entire condition is explained as a direct result of what has been introduced into the body, cooked food byproducts, chemicals, antibiotics, pasteurized dairy, and the resulting breakdown of the intestinal terrain.

It also belongs substantially within the Cooked Food, because cooked food byproducts are listed as the primary dietary cause, and the entire mechanism of intestinal inflammation traces back to the difference between what cooked food does to the body versus what raw food does.

It has significant overlap with the Microbes, because the disruption of E. coli and other intestinal bacteria, through antibiotics, colonics, enemas, alkalizing diets, or cooked food consumption, is central to the causal mechanism. The restoration of proper intestinal flora is central to the resolution of the condition.

It also touches the Detoxification, because the bowel functions as a detoxification channel, and when the body dumps stored toxins into the intestinal tract in quantities too large or too caustic for the weakened intestinal environment to handle, inflammatory damage results.

The How to Eat is directly relevant because specific foods, food combinations, quantities, and timing are prescribed as the means of correcting the condition.

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Early Symptoms: Abdominal Cramps or Pain, and Frequent Diarrhea

In conventional medicine, abdominal cramps and frequent diarrhea are treated as problems to be suppressed. In Aajonus's framework, diarrhea is explicitly welcomed as a detoxification process. He states generally about diarrhea: "Celebrate. Don't go into fear." The diarrhea associated with colitis is the body's attempt to flush caustic, volatile substances out of the intestinal tract before they cause further damage to the walls. The cramps are the intestinal muscles responding to the inflammation and to the urgency of moving these substances through.

The symptom of frequent diarrhea, in this framework, reflects a body that recognizes the contents of its intestinal tract as dangerous and is doing everything it can to expel them rapidly. This is not a malfunction, it is a defense mechanism. The problem is not the diarrhea itself but the underlying condition, the volatile intestinal fluids and poor intestinal environment, that is making everything the person eats feel like a threat to the intestinal walls.

Progressed Symptom: Rectal Bleeding

Rectal bleeding is a sign that the inflammation has advanced to the point where the intestinal walls are being damaged structurally, they are tearing, ulcerating, or eroding under the continued assault of volatile substances. In Aajonus's framework, this is a sign that the protective mucus lining has been depleted and that the intestinal walls themselves are coming into direct contact with caustic materials. This is not fundamentally different from the early stage, it is the same process continuing to more severe tissue damage.

He references this in the context of bloody diarrhea in the man who had lived with intestinal ulcers for 70 years. The bloody stool is the intestinal wall actively bleeding because it is being damaged by the materials it is being forced to process.

Inflammatory Bowel Syndrome: The Extreme Version

Aajonus describes inflammatory bowel syndrome as the extreme end of what colitis represents. In IBS, the intestinal environment has become so volatile that literally anything, including water, triggers gas, cramps, pain, diarrhea, and vomiting. He states: "When you have inflammatory bowel syndrome, inflammatory intestinal system, you can drink water. And you'll have gas and cramps and pain and diarrhea, vomit, all kinds of things." The people he describes suffered for ten to thirty-two years in this condition.

This is the reframing of the symptom spectrum: what begins as occasional cramping and loose stools, if the underlying terrain is not corrected, progresses to a state where no food, and not even water, can be tolerated without triggering a violent intestinal response.

Psychological and Neurological Symptoms

Because the intestinal bacteria, particularly E. coli in the large intestine, are responsible for producing the finite molecules of protein and fat that feed the brain and nervous system, and for synthesizing up to 80% of the body's B vitamins, the damaged intestinal terrain of colitis also produces neurological and psychological symptoms. Aajonus repeatedly connects colon problems with depression, anxiety, irritability, emotional volatility, difficulty concentrating, and inability to maintain trains of thought.

He states: "You notice people with colon problems have more of a problem with positivity and happiness. They are more irritable." And: "If you have somebody in the family, a child or whatever, who does not have good mental function, is on a good diet, they do not have the bacteria in the colon." People with colitis, in this framework, are simultaneously suffering from malnutrition of the brain and nervous system, because the intestinal damage prevents the bacteria from completing the final stage of digestion that feeds those systems.

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Aajonus's protocol for colitis is multi-layered, with specific foods for different stages of the condition, different delivery mechanisms, and specific quantities and timings.

Stage One: When Intestinal Discomfort Is Active

The primary intervention during active colitis is:

"Eating raw fresh grapefruit juice, raw tomatoes or raw fresh tomato puree, and small amounts of no-salt-added raw cheese or cooked pasta with a raw fresh tomato sauce made with raw tomatoes and unsalted raw butter and/or stone-pressed olive oil neutralizes volatile substances in intestinal walls and improves intestinal environment."

The mechanism here is neutralization of the volatile, caustic substances in the intestinal walls. Raw grapefruit juice, raw tomatoes, and raw tomato puree are specifically chosen for their ability to work on the type of acidity causing the ulcerations. The raw cheese, eaten in small amounts, serves to absorb toxins within the intestinal tract.

Aajonus notes that as intestinal discomfort subsides, larger meals may gradually be eaten. The implication is that in the acute phase, the diet must be kept simple and easy on the digestive tract, with these specific neutralizing and soothing foods forming the foundation.

The Tomato-Celery-Cabbage Juice Alternative

In the seminar transcript, Aajonus suggests that celery and parsley juice combined with green cabbage juice would also address the underlying problem of acid-caused ulcerations. He makes this point in the context of explaining why the zone diet had temporarily helped a person with ulcerative colitis, because it neutralized acidity, and then offers this juice combination as a more complete solution: "If you were to have, um, let's say celery and, and parsley juice with green cabbage juice, you'd have, you'd eliminate that problem." He frames this as superior to the zone diet approach because it addresses the volatile acidity while also providing raw nutrients rather than simply neutralizing everything.

Raw Kefir and Soured Raw Milk for Restoring Flora

A critical component of the recovery protocol is restoring the intestinal bacterial environment. Aajonus specifically recommends: "Drinking raw plain kefir, when available, or soured raw milk helps restore intestinal flora."

He draws an important distinction here: regular raw milk that has not been soured or predigested by kefir bacillus "sometimes causes a problem with colitis." The predigestion process, the conversion of raw milk into kefir or properly soured milk, makes it safe and beneficial for a colitis-damaged intestinal tract, because the lactic acid bacteria have already partially broken down the milk proteins and sugars, making them easier for the damaged intestinal environment to process.

Making natural raw kefir from raw milk can be found in the Recipe section.

Aloe Vera Gel

"Eating the fresh raw gel from aloe vera plants is very soothing to intestines." This is specifically identified as soothing for the inflamed intestinal walls. The gel, taken fresh from the plant, not processed or bottled, provides a coating, soothing effect on irritated mucosal tissue.

Pineapple and Egg Smoothie: For After the Acute Phase

Aajonus specifies that the pineapple-egg combination is not for the acute colitis phase but for after the condition has improved: "When volatile and ineffective fluid conditions have been corrected, colitis subsides. Then eating a smoothie made with eggs and unripe pineapple once daily helps to cleanse other toxins from intestines."

He also provides an important edge case: "If the combination of pineapple and eggs continually causes flatulence, eating them separately usually resolves the problem." So the protocol has flexibility, if the combination together causes gas, the same foods taken separately can still provide the cleansing benefit without the discomfort.

For Severe Digestion Problems, Colitis, Crohn's: Simplified Eating Protocol

For people with very poor digestion, colitis, or Crohn's, Aajonus provides specific instructions about how to structure eating overall: "You do not want to eat and drink a lot of different foods at the same time, and you don't want to suspend a lot of your digestive energies, which aren't good anyway, on digestion. So you eat lots of eggs. You eat cheese every hour."

This protocol of frequent small meals, particularly eggs and small amounts of cheese hourly, reduces the digestive burden on an already compromised intestinal system, provides highly bioavailable protein in an easily processed form, and uses the cheese to continually absorb toxins throughout the day.

The Cream-Butter-Coconut Cream Rectal Suppository: For Feeding Colonic Bacteria

This is one of the most detailed and specific protocols Aajonus describes, and it is directly applicable to colitis because the condition involves damaged colonic bacteria and depleted intestinal fats. The full formula and method:

Ingredients: - 3 tablespoons unsalted raw butter - 3 tablespoons raw dairy cream (or raw sour cream, "sour cream is even better") - 3 tablespoons raw coconut cream ("slightly fermented coconut cream is better than fresh to feed the bowel") - ¼ teaspoon raw honey

Method: - Combine all ingredients in a 4-ounce jelly jar with a lid - Place the closed jar in a bowl of hot water, hot enough to warm the mixture to approximately 105 degrees Fahrenheit inside, but not so hot it burns the hand - Shake the jar to combine the ingredients - Draw the mixture into a 4-ounce bulb syringe (an 8-ounce bulb syringe can also be used) - Get on all fours ("get on all four legs, you bark like a dog") - Insert the syringe into the rectum and squeeze the mixture up into the sigmoid colon - Then get down with elbows on the floor so the body is angled (face toward the floor, rear elevated) - Roll the belly like a belly dancer, breathing heavily, to move the mixture into the descending colon - Then lie on the right side, lift the left leg up, and roll the belly like a belly dancer again, this moves the fat over to the transverse colon and down into the ascending colon - Perform this procedure right before going to sleep at night so the mixture remains in the colon through the night

Why this works: The raw fats from the butter, dairy cream, and coconut cream provide direct nutrition to the E. coli and other bacteria in the large intestine. These bacteria normally receive only the leftover fragments of digestion, whatever was not absorbed in the small intestine and stomach. On a raw diet, so much of the fat is absorbed earlier in the digestive process that very little reaches the colon. By delivering fresh, raw, predigested fat directly through the rectum, the E. coli receive nourishment they would never otherwise get. The honey provides a small amount of carbohydrate that does not feed the E. coli (E. coli feeds on fats and proteins, not sugars) but assists in the overall mixture.

There is also bile already present in the large intestine, concentrated from the bile collected all the way through the digestive tract, which helps break down any fat delivered through this method. Aajonus notes: "Most fecal matter is yellow and brown because of the concentration of bile. So you usually got plenty of bile already in the large intestines."

Frequency: "Some people take seven days if they've had chronic constipation. You feel better." He suggests this can be done every two to five days depending on need, eventually decreasing to weekly and then less frequently as bacterial colonies rebuild and fat absorption improves. For people with colitis or chronic constipation, initial frequency may need to be every two to three days.

Alternatives within the formula: Aajonus notes that moldy butter that smells like blue cheese is actually the best option for the butter component, "anything that's predigestive is always better." Sour cream is better than fresh cream. Slightly fermented coconut cream is better than fresh. The more predigested the fats, the more directly available they are to the colonic bacteria, which already exist at the end-stage of the digestive process and need the finest, most pre-broken-down forms of nutrition.

Psychological effect: He describes immediate improvement: "Depression. A lot of psychological problems will disappear in minutes if you do that. The suppository." This connects to the mechanism, the bacteria in the colon are responsible for producing the finite molecules that feed the brain and nervous system, so feeding those bacteria directly produces rapid improvements in mental and emotional state.

Rectal Infusion of Raw Butter and Cream for Children and Adults with Brain/Nervous System Issues Associated with Colonic Damage

He also describes a broader application of the rectal fat infusion for anyone whose colonic bacteria have been damaged: "You may have to take some raw butter and raw cream and raw coconut cream and infuse that into their colon. So they will get fresh whole fats to be able to break down and feed and protect their brain and nervous system." This is specifically mentioned in relation to children with autism and poor mental function, but the mechanism applies equally to adults with colitis whose colonic bacterial environment has been damaged.

Raw Cheese: Hourly Small Amounts for Toxin Absorption

In a direct Q&A context regarding a patient dealing with intestinal issues involving toxins and blood, Aajonus specifically advises: "Eat a sugar-cube-sized amount of cheese every hour to absorb toxins." This protocol of tiny, frequent cheese consumption throughout the day is a key tool for managing colitis because the raw cheese acts like a sponge in the intestinal tract, binding to volatile caustic substances and carrying them through the system before they can further damage the intestinal walls.

For the Person Who Could Not Tolerate Anything, The Egg and Raw Cream Protocol

For someone approaching the state of ulcerative colitis or extreme digestive sensitivity, Aajonus describes a protocol he himself followed when he feared he was heading toward these conditions: "Have a raw egg every hour. 15 minutes later, have a tablespoon of raw cream. And then after a few days of that, start with three meat meals with honey butter. Three quarters of a cup of meat, three times a day with three tablespoons of honey butter with each meat meal. No other foods. Maybe a little fruit once a week and maybe vegetable juice, eight ounces or a cup once a week."

This represents a near-total elimination of everything except the most easily digestible raw foods, eggs, cream, meat, and honey-butter, with very occasional small amounts of fruit and vegetable juice. This protocol reduces the digestive burden to the absolute minimum while providing maximum nutrition in the most bioavailable raw forms.

Cream Suppositories for Those Who Cannot Digest Fat Through Normal Digestion

He makes a specific point about people who have such severe intestinal damage that they cannot absorb fat even through normal raw food consumption: "Some people just do not have the E. coli to digest the cream. To feed the brain and nervous system. And their bodies have been so starved for so long there's not enough cream that makes it into the bowel. It's already absorbed into the intestine. So what you do is you make cream a suppository. Fresh cream a suppository. And it works wonderfully."

This means the rectal delivery method is not just for constipation, it is for any situation where the intestinal bacteria are so depleted that the normal digestive pathway cannot deliver adequate fat to the colonic bacteria.

Clabbered Milk (Kefir via the Rectum)

In a direct conversation with a seminar attendee who had blood in the stool and scarring in the colon with very low bacteria levels, Aajonus recommends using clabbered milk rectally to encourage bacterial repopulation: "Use the clabbered milk. Right. To help encourage that. It can be fun. It isn't like some colonic, you know, where they're putting five gallons of water in you. It's just a nice kefir. It actually is very soothing. Is that kefir on a keister? Yeah."

This represents a different kind of rectal delivery, not fat for the existing bacteria, but fermented milk to introduce new bacterial cultures into a depleted colonic environment. The kefir contains living bacteria that can begin repopulating the damaged intestinal environment from the inside.

Whipworm/Trichinosis: Dr. Weinstock's Protocol

Aajonus is very enthusiastic about the work of Dr. Joel Weinstock at the University of Iowa, who treated inflammatory bowel syndrome, the extreme end of the colitis/IBS spectrum, using whipworm eggs from pigs. Aajonus reports:

• Six individuals who had suffered from inflammatory bowel syndrome for a minimum of ten years and up to thirty-two years were selected
• They had suffered so severely that even water triggered gas, cramps, diarrhea, and vomiting
• They received whipworm (trichinosis) eggs dissolved in Gatorade
• Five of the six received the worm
• Within four to six days (Aajonus gives slightly different numbers in different transcripts, "five days," "six days," "four days"), five of the six patients were completely asymptomatic
• They did not change their diet in any other way
• The relief lasted approximately five months
• After five months, the patients returned seeking more parasites

Aajonus situates this within his broader understanding: humans have always had whipworms as part of their natural intestinal ecosystem, just as pigs have. The absence of whipworms in modern humans is itself a sign of intestinal ill-health. The worms predigest food, making it available in forms the damaged intestinal environment can process, and they clean E. coli, which is described as the mechanism by which centuries of human populations maintained intestinal health through practices like wiping with the hands and then handling food.

Aajonus notes that he personally attempted to acquire whipworms and was unable to maintain a population in his own body, speculating that his heavy history of chemotherapy and radiation may have created an environment too toxic for the parasites to survive.

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Aajonus does not give a single fixed timeline for colitis recovery, but he provides information about timelines at multiple scales, from dramatic short-term improvements to longer-term reconstruction of the intestinal environment.

Short-term: Days to Weeks for Symptom Reduction

When the acute volatile substances in the intestinal walls are neutralized through the raw grapefruit juice, raw tomatoes, and raw cheese protocol, Aajonus implies that intestinal discomfort begins to subside within days. He writes: "As intestinal discomfort subsides, larger meals may be eaten." This language implies that a progression from very limited eating to expanded meals is expected over a relatively short period, days to weeks, once the right foods are introduced.

The Whipworm Precedent: 4-6 Days for IBS

The most dramatic short-term improvement Aajonus documents is through the whipworm protocol for inflammatory bowel syndrome: five out of six patients who had suffered for ten to thirty-two years were completely asymptomatic within four to six days of receiving the parasites. He repeatedly emphasizes this timeline: "Can you imagine suffering ten to thirty years, thirty-two years and all of a sudden you can eat anything. All the pain, all the suffering, the diarrhea, the vomit stopped in five days." This is not a claim about colitis specifically but about the most extreme end of the spectrum, and the rapidity of improvement is explicitly cited to demonstrate how fundamental the intestinal bacterial environment is to recovery.

E. coli Repopulation: 45-90 Days Minimum

A critical constraint on the recovery timeline is the time required to repopulate E. coli colonies after they have been depleted. Whether the depletion was caused by antibiotics, colonics, enemas, or the damage of active colitis, Aajonus states: "It takes 60 days minimum to repopulate it. And it won't repopulate it well if you're not eating properly." Elsewhere he says "45, 60, even 90 days." This is the baseline: even if every intervention is done correctly from the start, the intestinal bacterial environment requires a minimum of six to twelve weeks to rebuild to a functional level.

Cream Suppository Protocol: 2-7 Days for Constipation Relief, Longer for Bacterial Rebuilding

For the fat suppository protocol specifically: "It takes anywhere from two to five days. Some people take seven days if they've had chronic constipation." This refers to the time before a bowel movement occurs once fresh fat has been delivered to the colon. The bacterial rebuilding that follows is a longer-term process. He describes a graduation: "It could be every two days that you have to do it at first. After a couple of weeks, then every three to four days, then every week, and then eventually when you've got such a population and you're eating very good and always supplying good fats, enough to get to the bowel, you'll never have constipation again."

Long-term Vegetarians and Soy Consumers: 10-20 Years

For people whose intestinal environment has been severely and chronically damaged, particularly "long-term vegetarians who ate lots of soy products, especially soy chips", Aajonus states that "recovering from chronic constipation while eating my PD can take 10-20 years." This is because E. coli have been "severely mutated" and the bowel is "constantly poisoned by the body dumping its detoxified stored toxins into the bowel." This extreme timeline applies to the most severe cases of intestinal bacterial damage. For standard colitis cases, the timeline is shorter, but the principle applies: the more severe and long-standing the intestinal damage, the longer the recovery.

Crohn's Disease: Months to Years

For the 14-year-old girl with Crohn's disease, whose joints were severely swollen, who had been on medication and antibiotics for two and a half years, Aajonus reports that "nine months she was normal, lots of eggs and lots of dairy corrected very quickly." This gives a sense of scale for severe intestinal inflammatory conditions: nine months on the diet for a young person with a fresh (if severe) case of Crohn's to reach normal functioning.

Peritonitis: Three to Six Weeks

While not colitis specifically, Aajonus's account of healing his girlfriend from peritonitis, a severe intestinal inflammatory condition, on raw foods gives another reference point: "She got well in six weeks, I mean in three weeks, and was back to ballet class in six weeks." The doctors had told her it would take a year to recover if she survived, and they expected she would not survive without hospital intervention and medication.

The 70-Year Case: Complete Cessation When Diet Changes

The man with intestinal ulcers and bloody diarrhea for 70 years experienced complete cessation of symptoms when he ate raw foods including raw meat, but returned to the condition when he returned to cooked food. This illustrates both that recovery is possible even after decades of suffering, and that maintenance of the raw diet is required to sustain the improvement.

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