Hyperactivity is a state of being unusually active and unable to relax, often accompanied by feelings of anxiety. In Aajonus's framework, hyperactive individuals are not suffering from a behavioral disorder or a deficiency of sedative drugs. They are people with biochemical imbalances, primarily involving excess adrenaline, insufficient raw fats, inadequate utilizable proteins, and in many cases, direct toxic poisoning from cooked and processed foods, preservatives, additives, and pesticides.

"HYPERACTIVE individuals are unusually active and are unable to relax, often feeling anxious. I hope by now people realize that children are not hyperactive because they are deficient in sedatives, drugs, or abuse."

He further distinguishes between two categories of hyperactive individuals:

Category One: Those who are hyperactive because they lack the enzyme-mutation for digesting, assimilating, and utilizing cooked proteins, especially in cooked and processed meat and eggs. These people also lack the utilizable proteins necessary to deal with irritants such as mustard, alcohol, caffeine, preservatives, food coloring, and other additives and pesticides.

Category Two: Those who are hyperactive because they have high adrenaline levels. Aajonus specifies that "children of this type are usually thin until at least teenage." Their hyperactivity is not rooted in cooked-protein allergy but in excess adrenaline production, which is a function of their particular constitution, including their activity rings (a feature visible in the iris that indicates how much hormone, including adrenaline, testosterone, and estrogen, a person generates on a daily basis and for how many hours of physical activity).

He also frames hyperactivity in terms of what happens in the body when high-carbohydrate sugars, especially from fruit and fruit juices, are consumed. The resulting manic, uncontrollable, anxious, agitated states he describes as adrenaline-stupored conditions. He personally experienced becoming "hyperactive and manic within 90 minutes after eating lots of high-carbohydrate fruits or juices" and initially viewed these states as "healthy high energy" until he recognized he could not control them and they were interfering with his goals and functioning.

Additionally, Aajonus identifies a distinct metabolic pattern in hyperactive, thin people who are running on carbohydrate: "You see these hyperactive, skinny people. You wonder why they have so much energy. If they don't keep moving and burn off that carbohydrate, they won't have a nervous system. So they're hyperactive because they have to be." This is a physiological survival mechanism, the body is burning carbohydrate so rapidly that constant movement is required to prevent nervous system damage.

He also identifies hyperactivity as a consequence of organ meat and gland overconsumption: "If you want to be hyperactive and intense, eat all glands and organs." He himself avoids eating too much liver or heart because it gives him more sexual and physical energy than he wants given his lifestyle.

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Aajonus identifies multiple root causes for hyperactivity, all rooted in his terrain theory and food-as-chemistry framework:

The primary cause cited for children's hyperactivity is the lack of an enzyme-mutation for digesting, assimilating, and utilizing cooked proteins, particularly cooked and processed meat and eggs. Without the ability to properly break down and utilize these proteins, the body cannot produce the stable neurotransmitters, structural proteins, and regulatory compounds needed to maintain calm, focused, relaxed behavior. The lack of utilizable proteins also prevents the body from neutralizing and managing irritants effectively.

Aajonus cites multiple tests from Canada and the USA showing that "preservatives and malnutrition cause hyperactivity in children that leads to violence in adulthood." He identifies a specific class of industrial chemicals, including bisphenol phosphates (BPAs) and other carcinogenic compounds found in packaged and processed food, as directly causing "erratic, violent behavior." The first book given to him by his nutritional tutor was produced at three to five universities in Canada and showed that children fed food from packages developed hyperactivity.

Some people are constitutionally wired to produce large amounts of physically motivating hormones, adrenaline, testosterone, estrogen, on a daily basis. Aajonus reads this directly from the iris of the eye through what he calls "activity rings" (which most iridologists label "stress rings"). The number of rings corresponds to how many hours of physical activity a person must undertake each day in order to metabolize those hormones productively. If a person with many activity rings does not exercise or engage in sufficient physical activity, those hormones do not get burned in productive activity. Instead, they fuel anxiety, restlessness, irritability, dissatisfaction, and hyperactive behavior. He states: "There are two doors from which to choose: Activity or Anxiety. Which do you choose?"

He describes athletes as having 7 to 14 activity rings and notes: "A lot of children are misunderstood. They're written off or concluded that they're ADD or ADHD. These are normally sports type people. There's nothing wrong with them."

Excess fruit consumption, fruit juice, and high-sugar foods, particularly when unripe fruits are not balanced with fat, or when large quantities of ripe fruit are consumed, cause hyperactivity by flooding the system with sugar, triggering adrenaline surges and erratic nervous system activity. "If you want to be hyperactive, eat high sugar." He observed this pattern personally during his fruitarian years and noted that he "could easily become hyperactive and manic within 90 minutes after eating lots of high-carbohydrate fruits or juices."

He uses the example of monkeys: "You ever know a relaxed monkey? You ever see a monkey that wasn't masturbating all day long, male or female? That's what fruit does to you. It makes you a nervous wreck." He further notes that killer monkeys go on 24-hour fermented fruit binges, eating two to three pounds of highly fermented figs, guavas, or bananas, and then 24 to 30 hours later, like a stream of locusts, they kill everything in their path.

Hyperactive type-A personalities are described as having "a lot of adrenaline, low fat levels, and a lot of problems." Raw fat is the substrate that neutralizes, dissolves, and binds with excess hormonal byproducts and psychotropic waste chemicals in the nervous system and brain. Without sufficient raw fat, excess adrenaline and its biochemical byproducts cannot be properly contained, and hyperactive, manic, or anxious states continue unabated.

Eating too many organ meats, especially liver, heart, adrenal glands, and other glands, generates an excess of energizing hormonal compounds. Aajonus himself reports becoming so energized and sexually driven by too much liver that he cannot focus on his work. He therefore limits his organ meat consumption to what his lifestyle and activity level require.

A seminar attendee reports doing "about 100% red" meat, and Aajonus responds: "Another reason to hyper. OK. Buzz down. You like all that high energy, don't you? Yeah, I do." This indicates that a diet of 100% red meat creates excess energy and hyperactivity, and that blending with white meats (fish, poultry) is necessary to moderate energy levels.

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Hyperactivity falls across several principles in Aajonus's framework, but primarily within:

Root Cause / Terrain Theory: The foundational explanation for hyperactivity is biochemical, specifically the body's inability to process cooked proteins, the presence of industrial toxins that cause erratic behavior, and the physiological reality of activity rings determining adrenaline output. These are terrain-level disturbances.

Cooked Food: The cooked-protein allergy explanation places hyperactivity squarely in the consequences-of-Cooked Food principle. The damage cooking does to proteins, rendering them unable to be properly digested and assimilated, is the direct cause of the inability to produce stable neurological function.

How to Eat: The dietary remedies, nut formula, raw meat with raw eggs, raw fat, limitation of fruit, inclusion of cooked starch with raw fat in specific cases, fall within How to Eat.

How to Live: The activity ring framework, the direction to exercise, pursue sports, find a creative outlet, and harness adrenaline through physical or creative activity rather than allowing it to generate anxiety, all fall within How to Live. "A hobby, creative pursuit or sport is also helpful for high adrenaline types."

Sovereignty: The identification of ADD and ADHD diagnoses as pharmaceutical industry constructs designed to sell lifetime medication to constitutionally athletic children represents a sovereignty argument. "The pharmaceutical industry knows that if they're hyperactive all their life and you can convince a doctor...", the passage implies the industry deliberately pathologizes normal high-energy constitutions to create lifetime customers.

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Aajonus explicitly reframes ADD and ADHD not as neurological disorders but as the expression of a constitutionally high-activity body that is not being given appropriate physical outlets. "A lot of children are misunderstood. They're written off or concluded that they're ADD or ADHD. These are normally sports type people. There's nothing wrong with them, but the pharmaceutical industry knows that if they're hyperactive all their life and you can convince a doctor..."

He implies the passage that follows points to pharmaceutical industry exploitation: getting children diagnosed, medicated for life, creating lifetime customers.

A child or adult who cannot sit still, focus, complete homework, or engage in sustained mental tasks without being distracted is not neurologically impaired. They have excess adrenaline that has not been metabolized through physical activity. "Eating 3-4 ounces of the Nut Formula or cooked starch with raw fat thirty minutes before homework time, or a test, allows the mind to work without being distracted by excess adrenaline."

"All hyperactive children have potential genius, but unless they can utilize proteins or harness adrenaline, their genius may turn into antisocial behavior. If the excess adrenaline is not spent in physical activity, the body will spend it in anx, " (the passage is cut off but clearly continues toward "anxiety" or "antisocial activity"). The destructive or antisocial behavior is the adrenaline being discharged destructively because there is no productive outlet.

What Aajonus himself, during his fruitarian years, "had viewed as healthy high energy" was actually a loss-of-control adrenaline-stupored state triggered by high-carbohydrate fruit consumption. "I could easily become hyperactive and manic within 90 minutes after eating lots of high-carbohydrate fruits or juices. Until then, I had viewed those states as healthy high energy. Then I realized that because I could not control them enough, they interfered with what I wanted to achieve."

He describes the fruitarian radio show caller he heard before his own segment: "hyperactive, and he was going 20,000 miles an hour, wasn't listening to his host, was answering questions before they were even posed, and wasn't even answering them." He contrasts this with his own calm, focused state on raw meat and dairy.

"Look at the fruitarians. They're quick to anger. Monkeys are very temperamental." The emotional volatility associated with hyperactivity, temper, agitation, rapid mood swings, is a direct expression of blood sugar volatility and adrenaline surges from high-sugar diets.

Children who are thin until at least their teenage years and hyperactive are identified as a specific constitutional type, the high-adrenaline type, whose hyperactivity is not primarily about cooked-protein allergy but about endogenous hormone production being too high relative to the physical outlet available to them.

Aajonus describes the physiological trajectory of hyperactive people who do not address the root cause: "They're still deteriorating and drying out and will probably have a cardiac arrest or some kind of cirrhosis of some gland, drying up and hardening of the gland in their late 40s and through their 50s and usually drop dead in their 50s. So you have a lot of aneurysms, heart, brain aneurysms. People dropping dead." This is the long-term expression of running the body on carbohydrate without fat, burning through the nervous system and glands.

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Primary Remedy: "Eating raw fresh meat with raw eggs, or raw meat with lots of raw fats alone, usually makes hyperactivity disappear."

This is the most fundamental and powerful intervention. The raw meat provides fully bioavailable proteins that bypass the enzyme-mutation problem entirely. Because raw proteins are not denatured by heat, the digestive system does not require the specific enzyme-mutation to process them. The raw fats provide the substrate needed to buffer, neutralize, and bind with toxic byproducts and excess neurochemicals.

Supporting Measures: "Also, getting lots of sunshine and fresh air helps the body utilize proteins."

Primary Remedy: The Nut Formula

"If people are hyperactive because they have high adrenaline levels rather than because of the cooked-protein allergy mentioned above (children of this type are usually thin until at least teenage), eating a Nut Formula at least twice weekly subdues the excess adrenaline."

Nut Formula Construction: - Use soft nuts only, walnuts, pecans, pine nuts - Do NOT use hard nuts such as almonds - Grind the soft nuts in a coffee grinder or similar device until they achieve a flour-like consistency - Mix with: raw egg, raw butter, and raw honey - This combination is important because the fat (egg and butter) and honey neutralize the phytic acid in the nuts, while still allowing the carbohydrate and starch from the nuts to bind with psychotropic byproducts and waste products from trauma and excess hormonal activity

The role of phytic acid neutralization: Aajonus explains that phytic acid in nuts binds with certain minerals and can block their absorption. However, combining nuts with fat (egg and butter) and honey neutralizes this phytic acid while preserving the ability of the nut starch to act as a binding agent for psychotropic bio-wastes, the neurochemical byproducts of stress, trauma, and excess adrenaline that accumulate in the brain and nervous system. He references Elnora Van Winkle's work cataloging every chemical in the nervous system and brain, 47 to 52 years at Milholland/Milhauser Laboratories at Columbia University, as the scientific backing for understanding why these psychotropic waste products accumulate and what binds with them.

Frequency for maintenance: Once per week minimum to prevent buildup.

Frequency for active hyperactivity: "If you're already into that space, or you move into that space, you could have one a day for two or three days in a row, and then it will go away and subside."

Quantity before homework or test: "3-4 ounces of the Nut Formula... thirty minutes before homework time, or a test, allows the mind to work without being distracted by excess adrenaline."

"On a few people who are usually very hyperkinetic, hyperactive, like, let's say, Joseph Mercola. Anybody like that. He should be an athlete instead of a doctor. They need some cooked starch, along with lots of butter, to harness it, because the nut starch isn't going to be enough for, " (passage continues).

Cooked Starch with Raw Fat: "If the Nut Formula fails to subdue hyperactivity, try eating some cooked starch with plenty of raw fat." The cooked starch acts as a stronger binding agent for the excess adrenaline and psychotropic byproducts when the nut formula alone is insufficient.

Timing: "Eating 3-4 ounces of the Nut Formula or cooked starch with raw fat thirty minutes before homework time, or a test."

From the early training transcripts, Aajonus gives specific frequency guidance for starch use in hyperactive individuals:

For a hyperactive individual with high adrenal activity who is also physically active (e.g., works out): "I will tell them to eat probably five times a day small amounts of starch."

Exception, Bodybuilders: "Unless they are actually bodybuilders, then they can eat more."

Gradual reduction of craving: As the body balances out, the craving for starch will reduce over time. "Eventually they would lose the craving for that as they balanced out." However, "It could be years though."

Reducing high-carbohydrate fruit intake: Aajonus reduced his own high-carbohydrate fruit intake "from 30% of my diet to 5%, and eliminating high-carbohydrate fruit juices." This resulted in vastly improved "clarity and focus" and the ability to "remain calm in most storms." He documented this improvement across "several hundred people" through experimentation.

Meat ratio: "I would say about 75% red. It could go up to 85%. But always eat them together." (meaning red and white meats together). Pure 100% red meat diet without any white meat (fish, poultry) creates excess energy and hyperactivity.

Organ meats, personal dosing: Aajonus limits his own liver and heart consumption because too much makes him sexually driven and unable to focus on work. He notes: "I don't want that kind of energy. I don't have a girlfriend living with me." He eats organ meats only when he is physically active enough to use the extra energy.

Because hyperactive, high-energy people often wake after five hours of sleep and find themselves unable to return to sleep, Aajonus prescribes a modified sleep protocol:

"If you're a hyperactive person and you wake up after five hours and drink some raw milk or eat some raw eggs and you can't go back to sleep, then the best thing to do is set your alarm for three hours, get up and eat something at that time. Then you have five hours to sleep before you eat again, and that's much more efficient."

In other words: - Set alarm for three hours (rather than five) - Wake, eat (raw milk, raw eggs, or a small food) - Return to sleep for five hours - Total sleep: eight hours achieved in two blocks - The key is eating BEFORE the hyperactive energy window kicks in, so the body uses that food for restorative sleep rather than activation

He distinguishes this from non-hyperactive people who can wake at five hours, eat, and go back to sleep without difficulty.

"If you're a hyperactive person and always anxious, don't chew, don't grind your food up. Make your body work hard. You know, to digest. Utilize that energy if you're not using it in physical activity."

This is a specific and unusual recommendation: by NOT pre-grinding or pureeing food, the hyperactive person forces their digestive system to work harder, thereby channeling some of their excess energy into the digestive process rather than allowing it to fuel anxiety or physical restlessness. This applies specifically if the person is not engaged in physical activity.

He contrasts this with his own practice: because he has zero activity rings and does not exercise, he makes everything liquid and pates his meats to maximize digestive efficiency and allow all his energy to go toward mental work rather than digestion.

While not food per se, Aajonus frames physical activity as a metabolic necessity for hyperactive individuals equivalent to a dietary intervention:

"A hobby, creative pursuit or sport is also helpful for high adrenaline types."

"Athletes have 7 to 14 activity rings. If you have 7 to 14, you better be active 7 hours a day minimum. If you have 14, you better be active 14 hours a day."

"People who utilize their activity hormones in activity, with or without regimented exercise, will be calm and happy if they are on an optimal diet and can digest and absorb proteins properly."

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"Eating raw fresh meat with raw eggs, or raw meat with lots of raw fats alone, usually makes hyperactivity disappear." This implies rapid, potentially immediate or near-immediate, reduction in hyperactivity for the cooked-protein allergy type once the appropriate foods are consumed.

For acute episodes of hyperactivity or excess adrenaline: "You could have one [Nut Formula] a day for two or three days in a row, and then it will go away and subside."

For pre-activity mental focus (homework, tests): "Eating 3-4 ounces of the Nut Formula or cooked starch with raw fat thirty minutes before" produces noticeable results within that 30-minute window.

During his fruitarian years, Aajonus was hyperactive in a way he found pleasurable because he had been so weak and sick his entire childhood: "the hyperactivity that I got from it, from all that sugar, was a change." He eventually worked through experimentation to reduce fruit from 30% of his diet to 5%, eliminating high-carbohydrate fruit juices entirely. He documented these changes across "several hundred people" and found consistent improvement in clarity, focus, and calm.

"My over-enthusiasm and zealousness mellowed. I became better able to communicate, write and read. When I ate too much fruit, I relapsed into heightened anxiety." This suggests that even after substantial dietary improvement, returning to fruit caused rapid relapse, confirming that the connection between fruit/sugar and hyperactivity/anxiety is not something the body fully adapts around, but must be managed through ongoing dietary discipline.

The craving for starch that hyperactive individuals experience (a compensatory mechanism by the body to bind psychotropic byproducts) gradually reduces "as they balanced out. It could be years though." This is the longest timeline cited, up to years before the underlying constitutional drive toward excess adrenaline and starch-craving normalizes.

While not specific to hyperactivity, Aajonus states the general improvement rate for people doing the diet 100% is "on average 2.5% to 3% a year improvement." This applies to overall cellular and glandular health. In the case of hyperactivity rooted in glandular dysfunction (overactive adrenal glands, for example), this timeline applies to structural healing of those glands.

"They're still deteriorating and drying out and will probably have a cardiac arrest or some kind of cirrhosis of some gland, drying up and hardening of the gland in their late 40s and through their 50s and usually drop dead in their 50s. So you have a lot of aneurysms, heart, brain aneurysms. People dropping dead." This is the trajectory for hyperactive individuals who remain on a carbohydrate-based diet without raw fats, never resolving the root cause.

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