Congestive heart failure, as diagnosed and defined by conventional medicine, is in Aajonus's view almost entirely a misdiagnosis, a label applied when doctors look for and find either structural malformation of the heart or congestion and clogging of the arteries, but fail to recognize the actual mechanisms at work in most cardiac cases. His framework makes a sharp and explicit distinction between what medicine calls congestive heart failure and what is actually happening in the vast majority of people presenting with severe heart symptoms.

Aajonus stated directly: "There was no congestive heart failure. There was no congestive heart failure. You don't have any symptoms of that." He said this in the context of someone who had been officially diagnosed with congestive heart failure, explaining that what was actually occurring was thymic toxicity poisoning the heart, an entirely different mechanism that conventional cardiology does not recognize and does not look for.

In his framework, true congestive heart failure, actual congestion of the heart and its vessels, is something specific and distinct. It refers to a situation where the arteries, veins, or heart chambers themselves become physically blocked, narrowed, hardened, or clogged with crystallized, hardened fats, specifically vegetable oils, or plaque deposits. This is distinguished sharply from the far more common scenario of chemical toxicity causing muscle cramping in the heart tissue.

Aajonus described it this way: "If it happens in the heart, congestive heart failure. If it happens in the brain, aneurysms, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's. If it happens in their nerves and other parts of the body, Parkinson's also, MS. If you've got a disease, realize that the toxins have stored in that area." In this framing, congestive heart failure, when genuine, is a condition of stored toxicity in the cardiovascular region, not a structural or inherent weakness of the heart as an organ.

He also defined congestive heart failure in terms of what it is NOT: it is not the same as angina pectoris, which is chemically induced muscle cramping in and around the heart. The conventional medical system, he argued, diagnoses people as having congestive heart failure when it can find no other category to place them in, but this represents diagnostic failure rather than an accurate identification of pathology.

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Aajonus identified multiple root causes of what is called congestive heart failure, and he was emphatic that the causes differ depending on what is actually occurring in a given patient.

A. Vegetable Oils and Processed Fats

The primary cause of genuine arterial and cardiac congestion, hardening of the arteries, accumulation of plaque, and actual restriction of blood flow to and through the heart, is, according to Aajonus, the consumption of vegetable oils. He stated this unambiguously and repeatedly:

"Everything they told you is upside down and backwards. Animal fats do not cause congestive heart failure, does not cause arteriosclerosis. Vegetable oils do."

His reasoning is detailed and specific. Herbivores, who can actually digest vegetable-derived fats, have a digestive tract far more complex than the human digestive tract. They also have a body temperature between 101 and 105 degrees Fahrenheit. The human body temperature is 98.6 degrees and lower. Because vegetable oils are complex oils derived from cellulose and require higher metabolic temperatures and digestive complexity to process, when a human being consumes them, those oils crystallize and harden inside the human body. They do not remain fluid, they do not metabolize cleanly, and they accumulate in the arterial walls and throughout the cardiovascular system. "Hardening of the arteries. Especially if you've got hydrogenated vegetable oils."

He made the epidemiological observation: tribes that eat cooked vegetables have congestive heart disease. The modern industrial world has it in abundance. The connecting factor is the consumption of vegetable oils, not animal fats. He noted: "We have it in abundance. Why? Because we eat vegetable oils."

He also identified processed vegetable oils, including hydrogenated varieties, as particularly damaging because the hydrogenation process further alters the molecular structure of an oil that was already incompatible with human physiology.

B. Chemical Toxicity and Vaccine-Introduced Poisons

The second major cause, and the one that Aajonus considered responsible for most of the cardiac events he observed and experienced personally, is chemical toxicity, particularly from vaccine ingredients. He was specific about which chemicals: mercury, formaldehyde, liquid aluminum (from vaccines such as the polio vaccine), ether, and detergents.

These substances, when injected, travel through the body and settle in tissues for which they have affinity. When they settle in the heart muscle, they cause the muscle fibers to cramp, the identical mechanism as a charley horse in a leg muscle, but occurring in the cardiac muscle. The medical term for this presentation is angina pectoris.

He explained: "When you've got a mercury or formaldehyde that buries itself into the muscle tissue, you're going to have a charley horse in the muscles. Even if lactic acid builds up, you're going to have a charley horse in your heart, and the medical profession could never diagnose for that because they don't look for it."

The reason cardiologists miss this, he explained, is because "when they look for heart problems, they look for congestive heart failure or abnormalities within the structure." They examine for physical blockage, plaque accumulation, structural deformity, valve problems, or holes in the heart. They do not examine for chemically induced muscle spasm. They know that lactic acid buildup can cause a charley horse in a skeletal muscle, but they "totally discredit anything other than those two reasons for a heart attack", those two being congestive blockage and blood clots.

Aajonus himself experienced this directly from the age of 15½ to 22. The mercury, formaldehyde, ether, detergents, and aluminum from his polio vaccine had settled in his heart and pancreas. The result was 300 heart attacks over those years, 50 of which rendered him unconscious. Every cardiological examination he underwent found nothing, because there was no congestive heart failure and no structural malformation. The doctors told his mother it was all in his head.

C. Thymic Toxicity Poisoning the Heart

A third, distinct mechanism that Aajonus identified was the thymus gland becoming toxic and poisoning the heart. The thymus is anatomically adjacent to the heart, and when it accumulates toxicity, whether from chemicals, heavy metals, or other substances, it can discharge those toxins directly into or onto the heart muscle, causing cardiac dysfunction that mimics, and gets diagnosed as, congestive heart failure.

In a direct consultation recorded in the workshop transcripts, he told a patient: "You have a problem with your thymus. The heart doesn't look like it had a problem. Yeah, but my heart muscles don't close all the way. But that's from the toxicity in your thymus. It's poisoning your heart. It's right here, and it's just poisoning the heart."

He went on to explain that the patient's breathing difficulty and the need to sit propped up at certain hours, symptoms that the diagnosing physicians attributed to congestive heart failure, were actually the result of the thymus poisoning the adjacent heart. The diagnosis of congestive heart failure was wrong. The problem was in the thymus.

D. Heavy Metals Accumulating in Heart Vessels and Muscle

Related to vaccine toxicity but extending more broadly, Aajonus identified heavy metal accumulation in the arteries feeding the heart and in the heart muscle itself as a major contributor to cardiac symptoms. In an iridology reading during a workshop, he observed of one patient: "Lots of metals around the heart, in the heart and the vessels going to the heart." He instructed this patient: "If you start having heart palpitations, sit down and relax and enjoy it. You've got to get rid of those metals. They're in the arteries going right into the heart and it's very extreme."

E. Dehydration of the Heart Muscle

Aajonus also identified simple dehydration of the heart muscle as a cause of the angina-type presentation. He stated: "When the heart dries out, it starts having muscle spasms, you know, like a charley horse." This is distinct from congestive blockage. The heart requires adequate fat, both dietary fat and the fat layer that envelops it anatomically, to remain hydrated and functional. He described the fat pad on top of the heart as representing approximately 10% of the heart's total composition, and noted that some hearts have up to 20-23% fat protecting them. This fat layer is essential to the heart's function and protection.

F. High Blood Pressure Mismanagement

Aajonus identified high blood pressure not as a cause of congestive heart failure but as the body's appropriate protective response to congestive conditions. When arteries are congested or narrowed by crystallized vegetable oils, the body must increase blood pressure to force blood through those narrowed passages. To medically suppress that blood pressure with pharmaceutical drugs, he argued, is to remove the body's compensatory mechanism and thereby increase the risk of actual cardiac arrest.

He stated: "If you have congested arteries, congested veins, or a congested heart, you better have high blood pressure... you have a congested system, you better have high blood pressure to keep your veins open." And further: "If you have congestive arteries, congested heart, you better have high blood pressure to open the heart up."

He cited a UK study involving 45,000 people run over approximately 8 years that found people with blood pressure of 160–170 systolic had no heart attacks, while people with low blood pressure, those put on blood pressure medications, had all the heart attacks. He said: "High blood pressure is all you want if you have congestive arteries, congested heart."

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Congestive heart failure sits primarily in the Root Cause / Terrain Theory of Aajonus's framework, because the condition is fundamentally about where toxins have stored in the body and what physical consequences that storage produces.

It also belongs deeply in the Cooked Food, because the primary causative agent of genuine arterial congestion, vegetable oils, is a processed, industrially produced food product that the human body cannot properly metabolize.

There are strong elements of the Detoxification as well, particularly in how healing proceeds, the body must become strong enough first, then systematically detoxify the heart region, and this takes patience and years.

The Sovereignty is also relevant because Aajonus consistently reframed the congestive heart failure diagnosis as an example of medical misdiagnosis driven by limited diagnostic categories, a system that pathologizes the body's protective responses (like high blood pressure) while failing entirely to look for the actual causal agents (chemical toxins in muscle tissue). He repeatedly encouraged people to refuse conventional cardiac medications, particularly blood pressure lowering drugs, diuretics, and anticoagulants.

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Breathing Difficulty and Inability to Breathe While Lying Flat

The classic congestive heart failure symptom of orthopnea, inability to breathe when lying flat, requiring the patient to sit upright, was addressed directly in one of the workshop consultations. The patient described needing to "sit up a certain hour in the morning" and having episodes where they "all of a sudden couldn't breathe anymore." Aajonus identified this as a consequence not of the heart itself failing but of the thymus poisoning the heart and surrounding tissues. The remedy he proposed was dietary (eggs), not pharmaceutical intervention.

Heart Palpitations, Irregular Heartbeat, and Arrhythmia

Aajonus consistently reframed these symptoms as the heart detoxifying, dumping stored toxins, particularly heavy metals, out of its tissues. He stated plainly: "The heart needs to palpitate when it detoxifies. The trauma simply caused the heart to dump, probably heavy metals." He did not view palpitations as dangerous signals requiring emergency intervention. He viewed them as the heart doing necessary work.

He told one patient with metals in the vessels around the heart: "If you start having heart palpitations, sit down and relax and enjoy it. You've got to get rid of those metals."

He also said: "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."

Chest Pain and Angina

Heart pain in Aajonus's framework is almost always chemically induced muscle cramping, a charley horse in the cardiac muscle, rather than evidence of blockage or impending fatal heart attack. He described this from his own experience with 300 such events: the pain is excruciating, it can cause unconsciousness, but it is survivable if the person does not panic and tense. He explained that the medical profession recognizes lactic acid-induced charley horses in skeletal muscles but refuses to acknowledge the identical mechanism occurring in the heart muscle when triggered by chemical toxins.

Heart Muscles That Don't Close All the Way

When a patient reported that their heart muscles don't close all the way, a finding potentially consistent with a conventional diagnosis of dilated cardiomyopathy or valve insufficiency, Aajonus attributed this not to intrinsic heart muscle failure but to thymic toxicity: "That's from the toxicity in your thymus. It's poisoning your heart."

Rapid Heart Rate and Fluid Backup

In the mitral valve prolapse case documented in the Q&A, the patient's husband had fluid backing up into the lungs, difficulty breathing when climbing stairs, and a pulse rate of 100–110 beats per minute. Aajonus did not frame this as irreversible structural failure requiring surgery. He proposed a nutritional protocol and, following the protocol, the patient's heart rate dropped from 105 to 85 beats per minute within days.

High Blood Pressure

Rather than being a dangerous sign requiring pharmaceutical suppression, Aajonus reframed high blood pressure in the context of cardiac congestion as the body's intelligent protective mechanism. He argued: "You need high blood pressure if you have congestive arteries, congested veins, or a congested heart. You better have high blood pressure to keep your veins open." Suppressing it pharmacologically removes the body's compensation and can precipitate actual cardiac arrest.

Unconsciousness During a Heart Attack

Aajonus reframed loss of consciousness during a severe heart attack, which medicine treats as a near-death emergency, as the body's protective mechanism. When a person loses consciousness, they can no longer tense their muscles consciously. That relaxation allows the cramping heart muscle to release. He noted that if a person remains tense and awake during a heart attack, they keep the cardiac muscle locked in its cramp. Six minutes of sustained cardiac cramping causes brain death. But unconsciousness brings relaxation, which releases the cramp. This is why, despite passing out 50 times from heart attacks, he never died and suffered no permanent damage.

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For Chemically Induced Heart Attacks (Angina Pectoris) and General Cardiac Muscle Health:

Eggs

Eggs are Aajonus's primary cardiac food. In the case of the patient misdiagnosed with congestive heart failure (where the actual problem was thymic toxicity poisoning the heart), Aajonus prescribed: "Eat lots of eggs and just keep propped up. You know, like 10, 15, 20 eggs a day, even 30 eggs a day." This is not a modest recommendation, it is an intensive protocol designed to provide the raw protein, fat, and nutrients that directly nourish both the thymus and the heart muscle.

He also said in reference to acute heart palpitation episodes: "You get heart attacks, you have that kind of angina, eat an egg with your vegetable juice." And: "If you have heart palpitations and you're worried about a heart attack... eat an egg with your vegetable juice."

When vegetable juice triggers heart palpitations (because the enzymes in the juice are pulling heavy metals into circulation and the heart is racing to push those metals through and out of the body), he prescribed whisking a raw egg into the juice. He specified: "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."

The mechanism he described: the blood pumps fast during detoxification, pushing toxins through the circulatory system. The intestines are 30 feet long, a huge surface area for dumping toxins. The heart and glands are much shorter and smaller. If cheese or eggs are present in the gut when the blood is racing and the body is dumping toxins, the body prefers to dump those toxins into the intestinal tract rather than have them lodge in the heart, brain, or glands.

Vegetable Juice Protocol for Cardiac Cases

Aajonus prescribed a specific juice formula for the thymus/heart case: "65% celery, 20% parsley, 5% cilantro, and the rest cucumber." The celery he chose for its mineral content and capacity to nourish the heart and nervous system; the parsley for its dense mineral and chlorophyll content; the cilantro for its known properties in relation to heavy metal chelation within his framework; and cucumber for its hydrating and cooling properties.

He also prescribed: "A tablespoon of coconut cream before each juice, a tablespoon of cow's cream in the juice right before you drink it, or half a tablespoon of butter before the juice." This fat component serves to buffer the intensity of the juice's detoxification activity and to protect the heart and glands from having metals dump into them rather than into the intestinal tract.

Raw Meat and Coconut Cream

In addition to eggs, Aajonus recommended raw meat and coconut cream for the patient with thymic toxicity affecting the heart. Coconut cream is his most cited remedy for arterial plaque and cardiovascular congestion. He stated that "coconut cream is the most effective way of removing plaque, especially when in combination with cilantro or berries. Next would be olive oil."

He also cited the role of stone-pressed olive oil and raw pineapple in gradually restoring the heart: "stone-pressed olive oil, raw pineapple, raw fresh onions and unheated honey very gradually restores the heart."

For Mitral Valve Prolapse with Fluid in the Lungs (documented Q&A case):

Aajonus prescribed: "1/2 cup white (greenish) head cabbage once daily for 6 days and consume as many raw eggs as possible, some as milkshakes and many by themselves."

He then extended the protocol: "I suggest that you give him at least 6 more days to improve to where he will not need surgery."

Following the protocol, the patient's heart rate dropped from 105 to 85 beats per minute within approximately 3 days.

An additional recommendation from a follow-up note in that same case: "He could eat about 1 teaspoon of no-salt raw [butter, the text is cut off, but the context implies raw butter]."

The patient's documented intake during recovery included: "3 plain raw eggs, 2 milk shakes and 1/2 cup green cabbage" on the first day; "3 plain raw eggs, 3 milk shakes and no cabbage" on the second day; "3 plain raw eggs, 2 milk shakes and 1/2 cup cabbage" on the third day.

Raw Cream

Aajonus's own dietary practice, which he used to demonstrate to cardiologists that his heart was clean despite consuming enormous quantities of animal fat, included 8 to 10 ounces of raw cream daily during spring and summer, and a minimum of one stick of butter per day during fall and winter. When cardiac specialists examined his arteries and heart expecting massive plaque (given this fat intake), they found instead "a completely clean heart and not a bit of plaque on it anywhere." This he used as evidence that raw animal fats do not cause arterial congestion, the opposite of what the medical establishment teaches.

Cheese

Aajonus described the role of cheese in heart palpitation episodes: cheese in the intestinal tract creates an ideal site for the body to dump toxins circulating in the blood during a detoxification episode. When the heart is racing to push toxins through, having cheese in the intestinal tract gives the body a preferred dumping site so those toxins don't lodge in the heart or other critical glands.

Hot Water Bottle Application

For heart irregularities, Aajonus prescribed topical heat: "The best way to approach healing of the heart is to apply a hot water bottle near the heart." This is not dietary but is part of his healing protocol for cardiac conditions. Heat increases circulation to the area, assists in loosening stored toxins, and supports tissue healing.

Breathing Exercise for Acute Heart Episodes

During any heart pain, cramping, or palpitation episode, Aajonus prescribed a specific breathing technique: "Breathe slowly, not deeply, because you put pressure on the heart, again, and you cause the muscle to cramp more. But you just breathe slowly and you'll inhale slowly and about half your normal intake of air and then hold it the same amount of time and then exhale to the same amount of time. So let's say you do it to a count of four. Inhale to a count of four slowly, hold to a four, and then exhale to a count of four."

He also described the Pranayama version: "Inhale to the count of 7, hold it to the count of 7 and exhale to the count of 7."

He was emphatic that breathing deeply during a heart attack is counterproductive: "Don't breathe deeply, because you put pressure on the heart, and you cause the muscle to cramp more." Half-breath, slow and rhythmic, held for equal counts, is the prescription.

He stated: "I've helped hundreds of people through it just by doing that." He described one woman who had three heart bypasses, nine other severe health problems including rheumatoid arthritis, who had been on his diet for nine years. She has no symptoms. "Anytime she gets that little heart pain, she does that little breathing exercise and it's gone in a minute and a half."

Egg Milkshakes

The milkshake formulation, raw eggs blended with raw milk and potentially raw cream, appears in multiple contexts as a foundational feeding tool for people too ill to eat solid food, including cardiac patients. The mitral valve patient was prescribed milkshakes as a central part of his recovery protocol, and his intake was tracked daily.

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Aajonus was explicit that cardiac recovery takes patience and years, particularly when the underlying problem is deep toxicity in the heart muscle or vessels:

For Thymic Toxicity Affecting the Heart: He recommended an intensive egg protocol (10–30 eggs per day), specific vegetable juice formulas, raw meat, coconut cream, and keeping the patient propped up to ease breathing. He did not provide a specific timeline for this case beyond emphasizing the need to reverse the thymic cancer-like condition.

For Mitral Valve Prolapse with Fluid Backup: The documented case shows rapid initial improvement. Within approximately 3 days of following the raw egg, raw milk milkshake, and raw cabbage protocol, the patient's resting heart rate dropped from 105 to 85 beats per minute. Aajonus suggested a minimum of 6 additional days beyond the initial emergency to see whether surgery could be avoided entirely.

For His Own Angina Pectoris: Aajonus began drinking raw milk and raw carrot juice at age 22, and his angina "stopped on the week." He stated: "And I had about 300 heart attacks in those years, 50 of them maybe unconscious. Not because I was autistic. I was basically an idiot. I hadn't learned concepts to sabotage myself." The angina that had plagued him from age 15½ to 22 ceased within one week of beginning raw foods. He noted it returned briefly for two weeks when he was approximately 60 years old, which he interpreted not as disease recurrence but as the body finally detoxifying the vaccine toxicity stored in and around his heart 45 years earlier. After that two-week episode, his chest felt more relaxed than before, consistent with his understanding of detoxification as a healing process.

For General Cardiac Strengthening on the Diet: The martial arts expert case provides a documented timeline. Before the diet, the man's heart rate was 170–180 beats per minute after three different levels of jump rope training. "When he went on the diet, within a year on the diet, he was down to 108. Heart rate was only 108 after doing that kind of jumping. Sometimes it was all the way down to 98."

The jump rope athlete case provides even more detail: the man charted his progress over a full year on the diet. He did three different levels of jump rope training per session. When he started, his heart rate three minutes after stopping any of those workouts was around 175. Over the year on the diet, every month it went down. After one year, when he completed 12,400 jumps, "three minutes later, his heartbeat was 110. Down and normal that quickly. No fatigue time, no downtime." And his steady-state heart rate after completing 12,500 jumps was "96, 98 to 102."

For Arterial Plaque Removal: At age approximately 56, Aajonus had a cardiac evaluation done. The cardiologists were "expecting to find all kinds of plaque" given his dietary fat intake. They found "a completely clean heart and not a bit of plaque on it anywhere." They worked on him for 45 minutes rather than the standard 20 minutes because they kept looking for something wrong. He did note: "I still had a little plaquing, and I've got 19 more years to get rid of it", suggesting that plaque removal via diet is a process that takes decades, not weeks or months.

For General Detoxification of Cardiac Region: He stated broadly for all conditions involving toxic accumulation: "If you're very weak and feeble, you need to eat a strict diet that does not detoxify. You need to strengthen your body and then eat a diet that will detoxify the area. It takes years. You have to be patient." First, build enough strength to handle detoxification. Then, undertake the detoxifying diet. Patience is essential. He noted he himself was 62 when he gave that talk and was "supposed to be dead", implying his recovery from multiple severe conditions including cardiac disease spanned decades.

For Cardiac Bypass Patients: One woman he described had three heart bypasses, nine other severe health problems, and after nine years on the diet had no symptoms of any of them. She uses the breathing exercise to clear any residual heart pain, which resolves in a minute and a half.

He described another patient, a man who was expected to die within a week or ten days, who had had "open heart surgeries, several bypasses." This man came to Aajonus's dietary approach and within three months got "so much energy, he started a stem cell company and works 14 to 16 hours" per day. He was 62–63 when he started, and was 74 at the time of the account.

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