Impetigo, according to Aajonus Vonderplanitz, is not a primary disease or infection in any conventional sense. It is a specific form of detoxification in which the body is expelling industrial toxins, primarily from injected anesthetics and vaccines, through the skin of the face and, in some cases, other parts of the body.

Aajonus defines impetigo as an inflammation in the skin characterized by itchy sores that tend to spread and ooze yellow pus that turns crusty. He also describes the exudate as a yellow, crusty serum, a fluid that can crystallize as it exits the body. In his direct observations, this serum has been confirmed under microscope to be actual stored drug compounds or metal residues from injections.

He is explicit that the crusty, yellow-to-amber crystallized fluid that comes out of the skin is the same substance that was injected into the body, not something the body itself has produced as a byproduct of disease. The body is, in his framework, actively and intelligently pushing this industrial waste out through the skin.

He further describes the appearance as holes or open sores, some of which can be quite large, oozing and dripping, not much blood, but significant serum and fluid output. He notes that on occasion these openings look like what conventional medicine calls impetigo, but in his understanding the mechanism is entirely different.

Aajonus experienced impetigo himself, it covered the area of his own face. He states: "I had it one time and it covered this part of my face." He has also worked with patients in whom impetigo covered the entire face.

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Aajonus identifies the root cause of impetigo as metal and chemical toxicity from injections, specifically:

1. Dental Anesthetics The primary and most common cause of impetigo, according to Aajonus, is dental injection, the anesthetic injected during dental procedures. He specifically names: - Novocaine - Xylocaine

He states: "Most impetigo is caused from dental injections. That's why impetigo mainly happens on the face." The face is the most common site because dental injections are made directly into facial tissue, and the toxins from those anesthetics are most easily expelled through the skin of the face, which is the nearest exit route.

However, he is also explicit that anesthetic can be injected anywhere in the body, and when it is, impetigo-like eruptions can emerge anywhere in the body, not just the face. He says: "Dental injections can be anywhere in the body. I mean, like anesthetic can be injected anywhere in the body. It can come out anywhere. But most often impetigo comes out the face."

2. Vaccines Aajonus identifies vaccines as a second major cause of impetigo, stating explicitly: "Impetigo is a result of vaccines also, and a lot of children get impetigo because of all the vaccines." He explains that the ingredients of vaccines, specifically mercury and aluminum, are expelled through the skin in the same yellow, crusty, crystallized fluid pattern that characterizes impetigo.

He documented a personal case in which he was apparently injected against his will and observed sores on his own legs that looked exactly like impetigo, with gray areas around them which, when scraped and examined, showed mercury and aluminum, the ingredients of vaccines.

3. Other Industrial Toxins Stored in Tissue Beyond dental anesthetics and vaccines, Aajonus describes a case in which a Thai woman who had consumed large quantities of canned foods over many years later developed impetigo on her face. In this case the root cause was the accumulated industrial residues from the canned food leaching into her tissue, which eventually began to be expelled through the face in the form of impetigo years later. He stated that she had been on the Primal Diet for approximately five years before this eruption occurred, indicating that the detoxification timeline can be extremely long, years or even decades after the original exposure.

4. Loss of Melanin Aajonus also frames impetigo as resulting from a loss of melanin caused by metal and chemical toxicity, especially from injections such as dental procedures and vaccines. This connects the skin-level toxicity to a deeper disruption of the pigmentation and protective systems of the skin.

5. Stored Pharmaceutical Drugs Aajonus describes his own teenage experience with tetracycline, he took it for a year following his own impetigo at age 14–15. Decades later, crystallized material came out of the area around his eyes, and under a microscope it was confirmed to be tetracycline. He explains this was stored in the eye socket bone tissue, because, as he states, "antibiotics and molds like to live where cartilage is," so the tetracycline had been residing in the bone tissue around the jaw and eye sockets all those years. This demonstrates that impetigo can trigger a cascading storage-and-expulsion cycle: the impetigo causes pharmaceutical treatment, the pharmaceutical drug then becomes another stored toxin, which eventually also needs to be expelled.

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Impetigo belongs primarily to the following categories in Aajonus's framework:

Detoxification, The central framing is that impetigo is the body doing exactly what it is supposed to do: pushing stored industrial poisons out through the skin. This is an intelligent detoxification event, not a pathological one.

Terrain Theory / Microbes, The conventional medical framing of impetigo as a bacterial infection caused by Staphylococcus or Streptococcus is explicitly rejected by Aajonus. He states: "What it is, it's a particular bacteria that breaks down certain damaged tissue caused by anesthetics, especially dental anesthetics. Now, the pharmaceutical industry, medical industry says that that bacteria is the one that's causing your problem. No, it's helping you get rid of the problem, which is the industrial toxins from the anesthetic."

This places impetigo squarely in the Microbes as Helpers principle, the bacteria present are not invaders or pathogens but rather specialized biological workers dissolving damaged tissue so that the toxins and dead cells can be expelled. The bacteria serve the body's cleansing process. He describes this as "a bacteria that breaks down dead facial cells or skin cells. That's a good bacteria. You just have to get to it safely."

Root Cause / Injections, The causation framework runs through the toxicity introduced into the body via medical and dental injections, situating impetigo as one downstream consequence of the industrial medical system's intervention into the body.

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Yellow, crusty, oozing serum: The characteristic yellow fluid of impetigo is not pus produced by an "infected" wound. It is the actual stored toxin, the dental anesthetic or vaccine compound, being liquefied and expelled through the skin. This serum can crystallize as it exits the body. Aajonus confirmed this under a microscope in his own case, where the crystallized material from around his eyes was identified as tetracycline.

Itchy sores that spread: The spreading nature of the sores is not evidence of a contagious bacterial infection spreading across the skin. Rather, it reflects the body finding additional exit points in nearby skin tissue to expel the volume of stored toxin. As more tissue is mobilized for detoxification, more of the skin surface participates in the expulsion process.

Yellow-to-amber crystallized fluid: Aajonus describes the discharging material in his own vaccine-injection experience as "crusty, crystallized, yellow to amber fluid", the same descriptors used for impetigo, and specifically identifies this as the injected industrial compound exiting through the mucous membranes and skin.

The gray area around sores: In his personal case of apparent forced injection with vaccine compounds, the sores had a gray area around them. When he took a scraping and examined it, the gray material was mercury and aluminum, the components of vaccines. This reframes the appearance of the wound borders not as necrotic tissue but as metal deposits being mobilized and expelled.

Burning sensation: Aajonus describes a burning quality to the process of expulsion, particularly when lime juice was applied to the area, which surrounded the molecules that were damaging tissue. He acknowledges the burning: "It causes burning. You just have to get over the burning."

Covering large areas of the face: In severe cases, the impetigo can cover the entire face. Aajonus notes that the Thai woman he was treating had it cover her whole face. He himself had it cover a significant portion of his face. This is not seen as dangerous but rather as a proportional response to the volume of toxin stored and being expelled.

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Aajonus directs that impetigo should be treated by following the same dietary protocol he recommends for Diabetes, though he specifies "for different reasons." He writes: "Following the suggestions in Diabetes (for different reasons) heals this severe skin infection." The Diabetes protocol in his book centers around: - Raw meat (including raw fish) to gradually rebuild and support the pancreas and associated glandular and detoxification systems - 4 ounces of unheated honey daily to supply enzymes to regulate and heal the pancreas and liver - Eating small amounts of food frequently, rather than normal meals, to make the entire body work more easily and efficiently

Topical Protocol, Lime Juice and Coconut Cream: Aajonus describes a specific topical application process used directly on impetigo eruptions:

1. Apply lime juice directly to the affected area. The lime juice functions to surround the molecules of toxin that are damaging tissue, effectively containing the active poison at the surface level. 2. Allow the lime juice to soak in fully and dry completely. 3. Once the lime juice has dried, apply coconut cream over the area.

He describes observing this process on his own skin, noting that the lime juice surrounding the damaging molecules and then the coconut cream applied on top allowed the area to be managed more safely. He states: "I put lime juice on that. And the lime juice surrounded those molecules that were damaging tissue. And then I put the coconut cream over that. I let the lime juice soak in and dry. Once it was dry, then I put the coconut cream on. And here I was using like impetigo."

Meat Wrapping: In Aajonus's account of his own impetigo-like eruptions following apparent vaccine injection, he describes wrapping the affected leg with meat and honey while the sores were still open and oozing, and notes he was still climbing mountains while this was happening. This suggests his standard protocol of applying raw meat and honey as a drawing and healing poultice directly to open skin lesions.

Hot Water Soaking: Aajonus describes hot soaking as a method that helps accelerate the discharge from the skin, allowing more of the toxin to perspire out. He notes that after an hour of soaking in hot water, the skin was visibly less labored and not as blistered or rashed. However, he also observes that shortly after soaking, the eruption would begin again immediately, suggesting that soaking accelerates rather than terminates the process.

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General timeline, weeks to months: Aajonus indicates that impetigo eruptions can last from weeks to approximately a month or more, depending on the severity of the stored toxic load and the individual's history on the Primal Diet.

The Thai woman, full recovery over approximately 20 months with minimal scarring: Aajonus documents a Thai woman who had been on his diet for approximately five years when her impetigo erupted. The impetigo covered her entire face and was caused by residues from canned foods she had consumed many years earlier. He states that when it was all over, there was "very little scarring." He notes he saw her in February 2011 when the impetigo occurred, and then again in November 2012, and at that point she showed no lasting damage from the eruption. This suggests the active phase of the eruption was over within the months prior to February 2011, with full skin recovery observable by November 2012.

Recurrence pattern: Aajonus describes that even after impetigo has resolved, the eruptions can return in the same locations as the body continues to mobilize and expel deeper layers of the stored toxin. He describes his own experience: "Very rarely had a problem except some places where I had impetigo on the face. Those eruptions would come up again and go away." This indicates that impetigo is not a single event but can recur in episodic waves as the body works through successive layers of stored toxins over time.

Timeline in severely toxic cases or those recently on the diet: For individuals new to the diet or who have a very heavy toxic load from multiple dental procedures and/or extensive vaccine history, the process may be correspondingly more extensive. Aajonus notes that the woman who had been on the diet since age nine was better equipped to handle the detoxification, but she had also gone to 50% compliance during college, which contributed to the scale of her eruption.

His own ongoing experience: Aajonus describes impetigo-like eruptions returning intermittently on his own face over many years as his body continued to clear successive layers of stored dental anesthetics and pharmaceutical residues. This was not considered pathological but simply the ongoing work of detoxification.

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