Diabetes, in Aajonus's framework, is a condition of impaired ability to utilize carbohydrate blood sugar or protein blood sugar (pyruvate) because of insufficient production of insulin, or because of faulty insulin manufactured by the pancreas. The pancreas either fails to produce insulin at all (Type 1) or produces insulin that cannot be properly utilized by the body (Type 2). This is not fundamentally a sugar-level problem, it is a pancreas-function problem.

Aajonus was absolutely insistent on this distinction: a high blood sugar reading is not the same thing as diabetes. The medical establishment conflates these two entirely different phenomena, and in doing so creates tens of millions of false diabetics. In Aajonus's clinical experience, 80 to 90% of all people diagnosed as diabetic were never diabetic in the first place. Their pancreases were functioning. Their sugar levels were elevated for other reasons, primarily because of what they were eating, and this was misread as a diseased pancreas.

The true signs of diabetes, according to Aajonus, are these and only these: - Inability to get out of bed due to absolute lack of energy - Inability to think straight - Frequent hunger and urination - Impaired vision - Muscle cramps shortly after eating sweets - Wounds that heal slowly and poorly

If those symptoms are not present, a person is not diabetic, regardless of what a blood glucose test shows.

The pancreas, in Aajonus's view, is not primarily an insulin-producing organ at all. It is the architect of the digestive system. When food enters the mouth and begins moving through the digestive tract, the pancreas measures every nutrient in that food, and it can distinguish between a tomato from the same vine or a cup of milk from one cow to the next. It decides how the food will be restructured into cells, nutrition, and energy for that specific individual's body. It handles the realignment of nutrients for each particular body. It also registers what enters the duodenum and tells the body how to reorganize it, how much enzymatic support the bacteria need in order to flourish and break down that content. The production of insulin is, in a healthy person eating a correct diet with only 5–10% carbohydrates, a minor and remote function of the pancreas. Insulin becomes the pancreas's dominant, exhausting labor only because we have forced it into that role by flooding the body with carbohydrates, processed sugars, grains, and fruits.

Aajonus's own experience was definitive. He was diagnosed with Type 1 juvenile diabetes at the age of 15 and a half, following his third polio vaccine. He injected insulin from age 15 through age 21 or 22. After adopting a raw food diet, specifically raw milk, he stopped taking insulin cold turkey and never took it again. Decades later, when tested at Washington University Medical School in St. Louis, his pancreas was found to be the healthiest and most productive ever recorded by the researchers. He produced all five varieties of insulin, including one variety the researchers had never previously encountered, and his pancreas drove blood sugar from a post-glucose spike of 360 down to 52–54, far beyond the typical stopping point of 104. The researchers said it was not medically possible for a former Type 1 juvenile diabetic to have a pancreas functioning at that level. Aajonus understood this as proof that the pancreas can fully regenerate when given the proper raw food nutrients.

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A. Industrial and Chemical Damage

For Aajonus, the deepest cause of true diabetes is industrial pollution and chemical contamination that damages the pancreas over time. He stated that in any serious or near-fatal chronic condition, approximately 90% of the time an industrial chemical is the cause. Chemicals that collect over the long term in a particular organ create a malfunctioning organ. When the chemical accumulation concentrates in the pancreas, the result is an inability to produce proper insulin. This is the actual origin of the epidemic.

Aajonus noted that his own pancreas had to be 90% toxic to have produced juvenile diabetes. He directly attributed his development of diabetes at age 15 and a half to the third polio vaccine he received. The vaccine, in his telling, was a direct chemical insult to the pancreas.

B. Dietary Overloading of the Pancreas with Carbohydrates

The second major cause is forcing the pancreas to perform a function it was not designed by nature to perform at scale: converting enormous quantities of sugar into glycogen. Humans, in Aajonus's teaching, were never designed to be high-carbohydrate eaters. He pointed out that Lucy, the oldest Homo sapiens remains found archaeologically, had a pancreas proportionally two and a half times smaller than the modern human pancreas. This, he explained, is because the pancreas was not supposed to be primarily an insulin-manufacturing gland. It only became so as humans ate increasing quantities of grains, fruits, refined sugars, breads, pasta, and cereals.

When refined sugars and cooked carbohydrates are consumed, the body first attempts to convert them into a more natural form. However, most refined sugar simply passes into the blood as mutant molecules. These mutant sugars overstimulate the liver and pancreas. The pancreas is forced to overproduce insulin to bind with these sugars and drive them into glycogen storage. Over time, this repeated overproduction exhausts the pancreas, ultimately leading to diabetic collapse. Aajonus stated that this progression, from high carbohydrate consumption to hypoglycemia (overproduction of insulin) to eventual pancreatic exhaustion, is the dietary road to diabetes.

He used the analogy of little mafia thugs: the pancreas, when flooded with cooked and processed food, has to create hormones it was never designed for, and these hormones go through every cell of the body demanding good-quality enzymes, proteins, and fats, leeching from every cell a little at a time until the system degrades.

C. Ancestral Dietary Patterns

Aajonus was also explicit that diabetes runs in his family not because of a genetic defect but because the same destructive dietary pattern had been repeated across generations. Eight of his cousins were diabetic by the time they were eight years old. Multiple aunts and uncles were diabetic. He said this was not because they had a genetic thing that predisposed them, it was because the ancestral diet was the same harmful diet and had not been broken. The genes themselves were breaking down because of that repeated poor diet, not because of heritable genetic disease in the conventional sense.

D. Mutant Sugars from Processed and Pasteurized Foods

Refined sugars are mutations, Aajonus explained. They include flash-pasteurized products. When these enter the blood, they enter too fast and without the enzymatic structure that would allow them to be properly processed. They cause the pancreas to overproduce insulin even when blood sugar is technically low. This is because the mutant sugar structure triggers a panic response in the pancreas. The result is wild swings: overproduction of insulin drives blood sugar into hypoglycemia, then the person craves more sugar to recover, causing another surge, and the cycle destroys the pancreas over time.

E. Ptyalin Enzyme Insufficiency and the Nature of Human Carbohydrate Digestion

Humans only have the ptyalin enzyme to digest carbohydrates, and that enzyme constitutes only 2% of human digestive capacity. This, Aajonus argued, is biological proof that humans were not designed to eat large amounts of carbohydrates. The pancreas, in its natural state, on a proper diet of primarily raw meat and raw fat with only 5–10% carbohydrates, does not need to produce significant insulin. It is only because of the cultural and industrial forcing of massive carbohydrate consumption that the pancreas has become, as Aajonus said, an enormous, overburdened insulin factory, worn out easily, leading to the widespread epidemic of diabetes.

F. Advanced Glycation End Products

Columbia University research, cited by Aajonus, found that 70–90% of the advanced glycation end products (AGEs) that form from carbohydrate-derived glycogen store permanently in the body. In healthy people, 70% of these toxic byproducts store in the body for life. In people with kidney conditions or diabetes, 90% store. These advanced glycation end products are highly acrid, acidic and destructive, and the body attempts to ward them off with fats. When proper fats are unavailable, the body binds the AGEs with bile and hormones like adrenaline, causing plaquing throughout the system. This is one reason why high carbohydrate consumption, even of raw fruits and raw grains, contributes to the conditions that lead to diabetes and systemic deterioration. Dairy, by contrast, causes this kind of glycation end product storage at only around 20%, and pyruvate (protein-derived blood sugar) manufactures only 7–8% of this waste, so it never accumulates in the body in the same destructive way.

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Diabetes spans multiple principles in Aajonus's framework:

Root Cause / Terrain Theory: The fundamental argument that diabetes is a pancreatic malfunction caused by chemical damage, ancestral dietary patterns, and the industrial forcing of a biologically incompatible diet. The fact that 80–90% of diagnosed diabetics are not actually diabetic at all belongs here, as does the argument about blood sugar levels having no diagnostic validity independent of symptoms.

Cooked Food: The argument that cooked carbohydrates, grains, breads, pasta, beans, processed sugars, exhaust the pancreas by forcing it to produce enormous quantities of insulin it was never designed to manufacture at scale. The advanced glycation end product research belongs here.

Pharmaceutical Industry / Sovereignty: Aajonus devoted enormous attention to the pharmaceutical industry's financial interest in maintaining the diabetes diagnosis and the insulin-dependency system. He described it as a multi-billion dollar racket: 53 to 86 million Americans diagnosed, paying $1,200 to $1,800 per month for insulin, sometimes up to $1,700 per week for severe cases. Every amputation generates approximately $10,000 for the medical system. The pharmaceutical industry, he argued, captured all medical schools in the early 1900s through Carnegie and Rockefeller subsidies, and has since written the procedure manuals that doctors follow, ensuring that cures are never taught or implemented because cures destroy a revenue stream.

Detoxification: The process of the pancreas detoxifying being misread as diabetes onset, this is where false diagnoses originate. The pancreas periodically goes through slumps and detoxification cycles, during which sugar levels will temporarily spike. A glucose tolerance test taken on two consecutive days during such a detox cycle will produce false positives, and the pharmaceutical system immediately converts these into lifetime insulin prescriptions.

Raw Food / How to Eat: The solution: raw milk, raw meat, raw honey, raw fats, and low carbohydrates to rebuild and heal the pancreas.

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High Blood Sugar Readings, Not a Symptom of Diabetes

The single most important reframing Aajonus made is that a high blood sugar level, including readings of 300, 320, or higher, is not evidence of diabetes. He had seen many so-called diabetics with sugar levels of 300 to 320 who were completely asymptomatic, no ill effects whatsoever. This is because high sugar in the blood is primarily a dietary phenomenon: the body is throwing excess sugar into the blood because of what the person is eating. The pancreas may be functioning perfectly and producing proper insulin; the problem is the input.

He stated explicitly: "I have high blood sugar all the time but I'm not diabetic." He said that if a doctor took a glucose tolerance test on probably half the people in any room at his seminar, those people would be put on insulin. That does not make them diabetic.

Frequent Urination and Fatigue, Possibly Indicators

These are present in both genuine and false diabetes presentations. However, they can also reflect dehydration, detoxification, or dietary problems rather than true pancreatic failure.

The True Signs

Only these constitute genuine diabetes in Aajonus's framework: - Inability to get out of bed - Inability to function mentally (cannot think straight) - No energy whatsoever - Frequent hunger and urination (noted in the book) - Impaired vision - Muscle cramps shortly after eating sweets - Wounds that heal slowly and poorly

Emotional Volatility as a Symptom

Aajonus described the emotional behavior of uncontrolled diabetes from personal experience in vivid terms. The sugar level going up and down creates irrational emotional states. One minute a person can be screaming with a knife in their hand ready to kill someone, and the next minute they are loving and kissing that same person. This is not a psychological problem, it is a direct chemical and neurological consequence of wild blood sugar swings. The synapse firings in the brain misfiring from too much carbohydrate-derived glycogen creates stickiness in the neurological fluid and causes charges to fire in wrong directions, which explains loss of train of thought, manic swings, and irrational behavior.

Hypoglycemia as Precursor

Aajonus described hypoglycemia as very often a precursor to diabetes, not a separate condition. When excess insulin binds with sugars and converts them into glycogen, blood sugar drops too low, causing hypoglycemic symptoms. This overproduction of insulin is itself the mechanism that exhausts the pancreas, setting the stage for eventual diabetic failure. The pancreas, puffy and red in the palm-reading diagnostic that Aajonus used, indicates an overactive insulin-secreting condition, hypoglycemia. When the palm area above the ball of the thumb looks like a chicken's or turkey's cowl (folded, ridged skin), this indicates that the pancreas is nearly dead, inactive, and the person is heading into or already in diabetes.

Fainting and Seizures

Aajonus described passing out as the absolute worst physical consequence of untreated (non-insulin-medicated) diabetes. During his years as a fruitarian, he blacked out two to three times a day. He learned to move very slowly, rising from lying down or sitting like someone doing yoga, to prevent blacking out. He experienced slight seizures. He was emphatic that these seizures lasted at most 30 seconds, and no more than two minutes, and that this was the worst a non-medicated diabetic would ever experience. He considered this a manageable problem compared to the gangrene and amputation that result from insulin medication.

Gangrene and Amputation, A Medication Symptom, Not a Disease Symptom

This is one of Aajonus's most emphatic reframings. Diabetic gangrene and amputation are not symptoms of diabetes, they are symptoms of pharmaceutical insulin treatment. Processed insulin, whether so-called natural porcine (pig) insulin or fully synthetic insulin, is processed in ways that make it a chemical rather than a true biological compound. When this chemical insulin converts sugar into glycogen, that glycogen is highly acidic, acrid, because the conversion was not performed by the body's own proper insulin. This acid glycogen stores in the extremities: legs, feet, toes, fingers, ears, nose. It then begins eating away the connective and surrounding tissue. Gangrene sets in as the body's molds (fungal organisms) attempt to break down the dissolved dead toxic tissue. The gangrene is actually a healing response to the tissue death caused by the acid glycogen, but the underlying cause is the toxic insulin, not the disease itself.

Aajonus was categorical: he had never seen a person diagnosed with diabetes who refused insulin ever develop gangrene or require amputation. Without the insulin injections, the worst outcome is a brief fainting spell or a two-minute seizure. With the insulin, over 25 to 30 years, toes are cut off, then the foot, then the shin, then the knee, then the thigh, then fingers, ears, and nose. He had personally seen hundreds of these cases, and many of those affected never go out in public and are never seen by the general population, they are home-bound.

He added that insulin is also injected directly into the body, bypassing the digestive tract, which means the chemical is flooding the system without going through any of the filtering, buffering, or digestive modifications that would mitigate its toxicity. Diabetics injecting one to three times daily into the stomach or thighs are accumulating chemical poisons in those regions that store in the legs and limbs, contributing further to the eventual disintegration of cells in those areas.

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Primary Healing Food: Raw Milk

Raw milk is the foundational treatment for diabetes in Aajonus's system. Hippocrates, whom Aajonus cited as the original source of this protocol, put all diabetic patients on an exclusive raw milk diet and reversed every case, including juvenile Type 1 diabetes, in six to ten weeks. Aajonus noted that the quality of milk in Hippocrates' time was higher: it was taken directly from the cow and consumed warm, fresh from the udder, never refrigerated. Refrigerating milk below 76 degrees alters the growth hormones and many active factors. Once you drop milk below 76 degrees, those factors are damaged. Aajonus, whenever possible, never refrigerated milk he obtained fresh from the farm.

Aajonus confirmed he had personally reversed his own Type 1 diabetes by beginning to drink raw milk. He went off insulin cold turkey, without even knowing at the time that raw milk was a cure. He only learned four years later that Hippocrates had used this same protocol.

Raw milk, at room temperature when consumed, can, according to Aajonus, completely reverse both high blood sugar and low blood sugar, both hyper and hypoglycemia. He called dairy "sacred on this planet because each way it is altered creates a whole new therapy."

He acknowledged that current milk quality, because of refrigeration and changes in dairy practices, means that raw milk alone may not be sufficient for severely impaired pancreases. For severely impaired cases, raw meat and raw pancreas glandular tissue are also required.

Raw Honey

Unheated honey is the second major protocol element. Aajonus stated that eating approximately ¾ cup of unheated honey distributed throughout each day replaces the functions of insulin that are missing from the blood while simultaneously healing the pancreas and encouraging pancreatic function. This is a direct substitution, the honey performs the work that the missing or defective insulin cannot perform.

Honey supplies enzymes to regulate and heal the pancreas and liver. Aajonus referenced this function in addressing hypoglycemia as well, eating 3 to 4 ounces of unheated honey daily regulates and heals the pancreas and liver. In his book he specified approximately ¾ cup per day distributed throughout the day for diabetes specifically.

He was asked whether a Type 2 diabetic could replace their insulin with natural honey while remaining on a cooked diet. He had never seen this work. He had tried working with people who were on 10 to 30 percent good diet in earlier years, but he no longer worked that way. He now required people to be at minimum 60 to 70 percent on the diet. He noted that honey is still 10% sugar, and for a diabetic, ideally they should have zero sugars, but on a good raw diet with raw fats present to deal with any excess sugar, a half cup per day is what he recommended in his book.

Raw Meat, Particularly Fish and Beef

Raw meat is essential for regenerating the pancreas. For diabetes specifically, Aajonus recommended eating lots of fish combined with beef to regenerate the pancreas. Raw meat converts in the body into pyruvate, a protein-derived blood sugar, rather than carbohydrate-derived glycogen. Pyruvate is a clean sugar for the body. It only stores 7 to 8% of waste product in the body, compared to 70–90% for carbohydrate-derived glycogen. This means the blood sugar manufactured from raw meat does not create the sticky, systemic toxicity that carbohydrate blood sugar creates. This is the best way to resolve blood sugar problems.

Raw meat also provides the structural proteins and fats needed for the body to rebuild pancreatic tissue. Aajonus used raw meat together with raw milk for most of the 200+ diabetics he worked with, and nearly all reversed their diabetes, only two of those 200 still took insulin by the time he described this, and those two were only taking three units per day as a precaution.

Raw Pancreas Glandular Tissue

For severely impaired pancreases, where raw milk alone would not be sufficient, Aajonus specified that raw pancreas glandular tissue must be included. The body uses glandular tissue from the same organ type to repair that organ. He mentioned this specifically in the context of people whose pancreases were too damaged to respond to milk alone.

Raw Fats, Mandatory with Any Sweet Food

Aajonus was insistent that every time a diabetic eats anything sweet, raw fat must be eaten with it. The raw fat sources he specified include: - Avocados - Raw butter - Raw unsalted cream - Other unprocessed raw animal fats

The fat serves multiple functions: it slows the release of sugar into the blood, preventing rapid spikes that overwhelm the damaged pancreas; it binds with excess insulin to carry it to the bowels for elimination; and it prevents the conversion of sugar into glycogen that would then store in the body as advanced glycation end products.

The Hypoglycemia/Excess Insulin Protocol, Cooked Starch + Raw Fat + Fresh Fruit

For people with hypoglycemia (excess insulin production), which Aajonus described as the precursor to and related condition of diabetes, he described a specific three-part combination:

1. Cooked starch (such as French bread), the cooked starch goes in and binds with the excess insulin in the blood 2. Raw fat, the raw fat then binds with that starch-insulin complex and carries it to the bowels for elimination, so it does not store as glycogen 3. Fresh (raw) fruit, the raw sugar from the fruit attaches to the fats, causing it to be time-released into the blood rather than flooding all at once, maintaining stable blood sugar levels

All three must be taken together simultaneously for this mechanism to work correctly.

Jerusalem Artichoke

Aajonus mentioned in the palm-reading diagnostic context that when the pancreas area of the hand shows a turkey or chicken cowl pattern (folded, ridged skin indicating a near-dead, inactive pancreas and diabetic condition), the person needs to eat Jerusalem artichokes. This is specifically mentioned as a food for the condition where the pancreas is essentially inactive.

Low Carbohydrate Vegetables for Juicing

For his own diabetic history, Aajonus specified that he rarely used carrot juice (despite having been a practitioner of it in early healing). Instead, he juiced celery, zucchini, parsley, comfrey, and cucumber, all low-carbohydrate foods. He kept his overall carbohydrate intake very low, reserving a fruit meal for every other day (once every two days) rather than daily.

Vegetable Juice with Cream for Sugar-Problem Individuals

Aajonus noted that people with sugar problems (including diabetics) often have over-alkalinity in the blood. A straight vegetable juice can exacerbate this. He recommended always adding one to two tablespoons of cream to vegetable juice if a person normally has sugar problems, to buffer this effect.

Raw Goat's Milk, Specifically Referenced

Aajonus specifically mentioned raw goat's milk in the context of diabetics: "You give them goat's milk, raw goat's milk, and their diabetes disappears." He framed diabetics as people who fundamentally don't have a sugar problem, they have an energy problem. They don't digest carbohydrates properly, they experience insulin shock going back and forth, and the body is difficult to control. Raw goat's milk addresses this at the foundational level.

Weaning Off Insulin

For someone already on insulin, Aajonus was explicit: the process must be a wean, not an abrupt cessation. He said in the book it can take up to two years to wean someone off insulin. The process involves: - Stopping all cooked sugars of any type immediately - Staying away from all pasteurized juices - Eating raw fat every single time anything sweet is consumed - Eating lots of fish with beef to regenerate the pancreas - Beginning unheated honey immediately, this can actually reduce insulin requirements as it starts to function

Licorice Tea

Licorice tea was mentioned as a supplementary support that tends to balance out blood sugar, alongside the dietary interventions.

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Historical Benchmark, Hippocrates

Under the exclusive raw milk protocol as used by Hippocrates, raw milk taken fresh from the udder, warm, never refrigerated, all cases of diabetes, including juvenile Type 1, reversed completely in six to ten weeks. Every case. Aajonus confirmed this and said it applied even to childhood-onset cases.

Modern Adjustment

Because modern milk is refrigerated (damaging growth hormones and other active factors when dropped below 76 degrees), and because the overall toxic load in modern bodies is far greater than in ancient times, the reversal timeline is longer. Aajonus estimated that with modern milk and diet, it would take approximately three to six months to ten months to reverse diabetes, as opposed to six to ten weeks with the original quality milk.

Aajonus's Own Case

Aajonus developed Type 1 juvenile diabetes at age 15 and a half, following his third polio vaccine. He took insulin from age 15 through approximately age 21 to 22. He began drinking raw milk and within approximately a week felt well enough to stop insulin cold turkey, he described it as simply no longer wanting it. He has never taken insulin since. He explicitly stated: "I haven't had any insulin since I was 22 years old."

When tested decades later at Washington University Medical School, his pancreas was producing all five varieties of insulin, including one variety the researchers had never seen. He registered a starting glucose of 104, which spiked to approximately 240 after the glucose load, came down to 103 in the second reading, then to 53–54 in the third reading (half-hour intervals), at which point the researchers stopped the test because they said his pancreas must stop working. He countered that his pancreas was simply trying to eliminate every trace of the toxic sugar they had introduced. This result was confirmed on multiple test occasions.

Clinical Results with 120–200+ Diabetic Patients

Aajonus stated that over the course of his work, he had helped over 120 diabetics, and at other points in the transcripts referenced up to 200 diabetics. In neither case did any of them remain diabetic. He described healing diabetes as occurring within six months for every case: "Diabetics could be healed in six months. Every one of them." Out of approximately 200 diabetics, only two still took insulin by the time he was describing this, and those two were only taking three units per day as a precaution, described as having nothing to do with genuine need.

Weaning Timeline

For someone coming off pharmaceutical insulin, Aajonus stated the weaning process could take up to two years. This is because the body has become dependent on the external insulin and the pancreas has been further suppressed by the medicated state. The wean must be gradual, concurrent with the dietary shift.

Type 2 vs. Type 1 Recovery Speed

Aajonus indicated that Type 2 (insulin insensitivity or insulin that cannot be properly utilized) is easier to address. He called it "easy" in one context. Type 1, where insulin is not produced at all, requires more work, specifically the addition of raw meat (fish and beef) alongside raw milk to actually regenerate the pancreatic tissue. But he confirmed that even Type 1 can be fully reversed, as demonstrated by his own case.

The Fruitarian Relapse

Even after stopping insulin at age 22, Aajonus went through a period as a fruitarian during which his diabetes recurred. He was passing out two to three times a day, going into slight seizures. He learned to move in extreme slow motion when rising from any position to avoid blacking out. This lasted approximately three years. His solution was to eliminate fruit from his diet almost entirely and rely primarily on raw meat and raw milk. This experience demonstrated that diet, specifically carbohydrate intake, could reverse a healed pancreas and re-induce diabetic symptoms even in someone who had previously reversed the disease.

Rebuilding Proof

Aajonus described the moment of discovering, through the glucose tolerance test, that his pancreas had fully rebuilt itself as one of the most significant revelations of his life. He had not known whether the rebuilding had occurred because he still experienced problems when eating too much fruit, but the test proved definitively that the organ had regenerated. He said: "Here's a type 1 diabetic that actually reversed diabetes completely by rebuilding the pancreas. So it's all possible."

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