Indigestion, in Aajonus's framework, is not a disease unto itself but rather the observable consequence of incomplete or disrupted digestion, a condition in which the digestive juices, enzymes, bacteria, and bile required to break down food are either absent, imbalanced, overwhelmed by toxins, or chemically altered by the residue of drugs, vaccines, cooked foods, and environmental poisons. It is the body's signal that the food entering the digestive tract cannot be properly broken down and assimilated, and that the stomach, intestines, gallbladder, liver, or pancreas are either congested with stored toxins, chemically damaged, or being called upon to perform detoxification simultaneously with digestion.

Indigestion manifests as heartburn, gas, bloating, belching, cramping, acid reflux, burning in the stomach or esophagus, regurgitation, and general stomach pain. In Aajonus's view, each of these expressions represents a specific failure mode within the digestive process, not a pathological condition requiring suppression with antacids, but a functional breakdown requiring nutritional correction.

He distinguishes indigestion from simple discomfort: when the stomach lining is dumping stored toxins, including vaccine residues, formaldehyde from carpets, drapes, paint, or medications, and other accumulated chemical poisons, into the food being eaten, the result is not merely discomfort but a contamination of the food itself, which then cannot be properly digested. This is a fundamentally different mechanism than the conventional medical framework, which views indigestion primarily as excess acid production.

Gas, which Aajonus describes as one of the most common expressions of indigestion, is specifically the product of bad chemical reactions in the gut, toxic gases produced when the digestive juices being secreted to break down food are themselves contaminated, or when foods incompatible with the body's current enzyme capacity are being consumed. He distinguishes between the "bad gaseous reaction, toxic gas" produced from incomplete digestion of cooked and processed foods versus the absence of gas that tends to develop when a person transitions to a raw primal diet and receives the nutrients their body actually needs.

Heartburn and acid reflux are defined as the dumping of caustic, toxin-laden hydrochloric acid, not natural, clean hydrochloric acid, from the stomach lining or from the hyoid membrane area upward into the esophagus. This acid is described as "not a natural and not a clean hydrochloric acid" because it contains dissolved poisons, including formaldehyde, vaccine residues, and other chemical toxins that have been stored in the stomach lining or in the tissues surrounding the stomach.

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Aajonus identifies multiple root causes of indigestion, all rooted in the same fundamental principle: the digestive system has been chemically compromised by the accumulation of cooked-food residues, medical drugs, vaccines, supplements, and environmental toxins.

Toxic Bile as a Primary Cause

One of the most important and consistently referenced causes of stomach aches, indigestion, and what doctors call "gallbladder problems" is the inappropriate dumping of bile. Aajonus states directly that bile is "a caustic substance", so caustic that "I can take a drop of bile and burn a hole in your arm like battery acid." When bile that has been stored in the tissues, not just in the gallbladder, is released during detoxification or triggered by eating, it dumps into the stomach or intestines in a free-radical, unbound state and causes burning, cramping, and pain.

He makes clear that what doctors diagnose as a "gallbladder problem" causing stomach ache is actually this process of bile dumping. He states that doctors "know that the gallbladder doesn't do anything but hold excess fat" in modern sedentary people, and that removing the gallbladder stops the immediate detoxification of bile-laden poisons into the stomach, which stops the stomach ache, but only temporarily: "They take the credit for getting rid of your indigestion until it pops up two or three years later."

The gallbladder, in Aajonus's framework, holds enough bile to digest 20 to 25 pounds of fat, a reserve built for the ancestral practice of consuming large quantities of animal fat in a single sitting after a hunt. The liver manufactures enough bile to handle only approximately two ounces of fat every six to eight hours. If a person without a gallbladder eats large amounts of fat at one time, even raw fat, they will get diarrhea because the liver cannot produce sufficient bile rapidly enough. This creates a digestive deficit that can also manifest as stomach cramping.

Toxin Dumping from the Stomach Lining

Aajonus describes a mechanism he observed directly by placing tubes down people's throats and measuring stomach contents at frequent intervals: as soon as food enters the stomach, the stomach lining begins dumping stored toxins into the food. He observed that the body uses the food as a vehicle, hoping that the toxins will bind to the food and pass out of the system without being reabsorbed. This means that every meal a person eats is being contaminated with whatever toxins have been stored in the stomach lining, including two-thirds of all vaccines ever received, which "store in the stomach lining for life" and "drop particles of it into your food every time you eat."

He notes: "You have 25 minutes to eat before the body's stomach will start dumping into that, the stomach lining will start dumping those poisons into the stomach again, into food. So then if 25 minutes goes by and you're still eating, you have another piece of cheese."

Supplement Toxicity

For people who have taken large numbers of nutritional supplements, Aajonus identifies this as a major cause of indigestion at the start of the raw diet. He states to one workshop attendee who took many supplements: "You just poisoned yourself. So that may cause a lot of indigestion at first." The liver, gallbladder, and stomach become saturated with the alkaloids present in all supplements, and the body attempts to expel these through the digestive tract.

Absent or Damaged Digestive Juices

Aajonus uses his own medical history extensively to explain this cause. Having had his vagus nerve severed, a vagotomy, he was placed in the category of people who do not secrete hydrochloric acid. Without hydrochloric acid, protein cannot be digested, fats cannot be properly broken down, and carbohydrates cannot be processed correctly. He notes that conventional medicine's answer to excess stomach acid, Maalox, "liquid chalk," which is essentially dolomite, absorbs all of the hydrochloric acid and all of the intestinal juices as it passes through, causing a person to "basically stop digesting." The person continues eating but cannot assimilate nutrients, becomes increasingly malnourished, and may develop tumors or other conditions.

He notes that although humans have had their stomach's hydrochloric acid neutralized or removed, significant hydrochloric acid secretion continues throughout the small intestine: "We secrete just as much as any canine and feline in the small intestines if we count that it's in our stomach and that's what's in the small intestine." This is why even people who have had vagotomies can still digest food on the raw primal diet, the intestinal secretion compensates.

Menstruation as a Competing Demand on Digestive Resources

Aajonus identifies a specific cause of indigestion in women: the 7-10 days before menstruation. During this period, the female body uses menstruation as a primary detoxification pathway. Toxic substances pass into the bloodstream, creating a high demand for nutrients and enzymes to be pulled from the digestive tract and redirected into the blood to carry toxins out through the uterus. This depletes the digestive tract of the complex enzymes and white cells needed to break down difficult foods. "Since the blood has required and taken so many from the digestive tract, complex foods are more difficult to digest."

Hyoid Membrane Toxicity

Aajonus describes a specific anatomical mechanism for heartburn and acid-type indigestion involving a structure he calls "the hydyl" (the diaphragm membrane separating the stomach from the lungs). When this membrane becomes highly toxic, meaning cells in it are dissolving scar tissue or stored chemical poisons, it dumps these toxins directly above the cardiac sphincter, and the acids then "cause a burning all the way up, heartburn, or they cause indigestion and they dump." A hiatal hernia, in his view, is a tear in this membrane where the lung and stomach begin to encroach on each other's space, exacerbating this problem.

Raw Fat Transitional Detoxification

For people new to the raw primal diet who experience gas, bloating, and indigestion when consuming raw cream or raw milk, Aajonus identifies this as a detoxification reaction from the liver, spleen, gallbladder, or pancreas, particularly from the nerve tissue. "Raw cream has an affinity for the nervous system," and it begins pulling heavy metals out of the nerves in those glands, causing gas and bloating temporarily. He emphasizes: "It would cause it temporarily."

Incompatible Food Combinations

Aajonus identifies specific food combination errors that cause indigestion-like reactions: - Fruit and eggs together cause "stinky gas" that "smells like sulfur" unless substantial cream, milk, and honey are included - Honey, milk, and eggs together, he personally could not digest this combination for almost 20 years due to the severing of his vagus nerve and the resulting absence of hydrochloric acid; he would get stomach cramps with all three together, though he could digest any two of the three without problem - Eating during a detoxification dump phase in the beef-and-orange drug detoxification protocol, mixing the beef and oranges during digestion or eating before either has completely digested "causes indigestion, increases nausea, and sometimes causes vomiting" - Fruit in general can "churn up" stored bile without being able to discard it, causing ongoing irritation

Cooked Food and Processed Sugars

Aajonus makes clear that cooked and processed foods are fundamentally indigestible and that indigestion from these foods is normal and expected. The human digestive acids and digestive bacteria etch cooked foods "two to seven, eight percent at max", meaning cooked food is almost entirely undigested. Only raw dairy, raw meat, and raw coconut showed complete digestion signs in the cadaver studies Aajonus references, each with different timing: meat 19-24 hours, milk 6-10 hours, eggs 27-30 minutes.

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Indigestion sits primarily within the Cooked Food / Terrain Theory / Detoxification principles of his framework.

• Terrain Theory: The digestive system's capacity to produce functional enzymes, bile, and hydrochloric acid is determined by the overall chemical terrain of the body. A body saturated with vaccine residues, pharmaceutical drugs, supplement alkaloids, and cooked-food acrylamides will have a compromised digestive terrain that cannot perform full digestion.

• Cooked Food: Most indigestion is a direct or downstream consequence of eating cooked and processed foods, which cannot be properly digested, which deplete enzyme stores, which leave toxic residue in the stomach lining, and which trigger inappropriate bile dumping.

• Detoxification: Much of what presents as indigestion, particularly on the raw primal diet, is the body using the digestive tract as a primary elimination pathway for stored poisons. The stomach aches, heartburn, nausea, and diarrhea that accompany beginning the raw diet are frequently detoxification reactions, not true indigestion from the raw foods themselves.

• How to Eat: The specific protocols around cheese before meals, timing of food, food combinations, and the use of ginger and honey fall squarely within How to Eat.

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Gas and Bloating: Not a sign of eating "gassy foods" but rather incomplete digestion, the juices being made to break down food are causing a "bad chemical reaction, toxic gas." When someone switches to a raw primal diet and the gas stops, it is because "the raw fat doesn't create those toxins that create the gas, those bad chemical reactions." If gas appears after beginning raw fat consumption, it is a temporary detoxification reaction from the liver, spleen, gallbladder, or pancreas releasing heavy metals and poisons through the nerve tissue.

Heartburn and Acid Reflux: Not excess acid production but the dumping of toxin-laden, chemically contaminated hydrochloric acid from the stomach lining or diaphragm membrane into the esophagus. "It's not a natural and it's not a clean hydrochloric acid. You can have formaldehyde in it from carpet or drapes or paint or vaccines." Green vomit specifically may be formaldehyde-induced.

Stomach Ache: Frequently a sign of bile dumping from the tissues, not from the gallbladder specifically, but from bile stored throughout the torso. Conventional medicine misidentifies this as a "gallbladder problem," removes the gallbladder, and temporarily resolves the symptom, only for it to return two to three years later.

Nausea: "Nausea is always a sign that poisons are dumping into the stomach. It's a good thing." Nausea during detoxification, during the beginning of the raw diet, or after eating eggs in large quantities as part of a detoxification pull is a positive sign that the body is moving stored poisons through the digestive tract.

Vomiting: "The best thing that could happen to you in life. Because the poisons leave there directly." Compared to diarrhea, where you "lose lots of nutrients that way and can become more exhausted", vomiting is the more efficient elimination pathway. After vomiting, eating can resume immediately.

Cramping and Stomach Pain Before Menstruation: Not a digestive disorder but a consequence of the female body redirecting digestive enzymes and white cells into the bloodstream to assist in toxin elimination through the uterus. Foods that require "complex enzymes and white cells for proper digestion", like bananas and cultured dairy, become indigestible during this window because the resources needed to digest them have been commandeered for detoxification.

Severe Indigestion During a Spell: "If you've got a spell of very bad digestion, you may be detoxifying from the stomach, the esophagus and the intestines. This is not a time to eat other foods other than egg and cheese."

Paunchy Stomach / Gastritis: Aajonus links a paunchy stomach to a lack of enzyme-mutations needed to digest cooked green foods. The stomach becomes inflamed and distended from attempting to process foods it cannot break down. The remedy is to avoid cooked green foods entirely.

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Aajonus's single most consistently stated remedy for indigestion is ginger. He states: "Indigestion is frequently alleviated by adding ginger in juice or with the food that isn't digesting well."

He distinguishes between fresh and dried ginger and provides specific reasoning for each:

Fresh ginger: Should be juiced or pressed through a garlic press, never heated, never made into tea. Aajonus recommends juicing it or pressing it and adding it to the food or juice causing indigestion. He recommends this specifically for digestive problems with liver, "blend some ginger in with the liver", and for any food that is difficult to digest. However, he notes that in people with an acidic system who are not eating enough protein and fat, fresh ginger "has a tendency to thin mucus" and without adequate mucus, the mucous membranes of the digestive tract are not protected from irritation from the fresh ginger. For a highly acidic person, fresh ginger can burn.

Dried ginger (as used in Chinese medicine): "Dried ginger is recommended by Chinese medicine because it is slow to digest and allows juices to be secreted throughout the digestive tract as the pulp passes to the rectum." This makes dried ginger preferable for people with compromised mucous membranes, because it provides a slower, more distributed digestive stimulation rather than an immediate, concentrated one. Aajonus acknowledges the logic of Chinese medicine's preference for dried ginger but notes that fresh, juiced ginger is his preferred form when the person has adequate fat and protein to protect their mucous membranes.

Specific instruction: "When you have the liver, to make sure you digest it well, blend some ginger in with the liver." This applies to other difficult-to-digest meats and foods as well.

He explicitly warns against cayenne as a digestive aid: "Cayenne is a dangerous" substance, his framework identifies it as an irritant that provides "false energy" through irritation rather than genuine digestive benefit.

"Even if you've overeaten garbage. I don't want to tell you that to encourage you to eat garbage. But even if you have indigestion from eating, say you've gone for some kind of celebration, a family celebration, you eat all this really delicious, awful food, and you're sitting there and you can't move and you just want to throw up or go to the bathroom or something, you can eat honey and it'll move it through, start moving it through, because it'll provide enzymes to start digesting it."

Honey works by providing enzymes that begin digesting even improperly consumed food. Aajonus acknowledges that this doesn't constitute proper digestion, "maybe you shouldn't be digesting it properly", but it does help the body move the food through. Critical caveat: honey must not be heated above 93 degrees, because heating it destroys the insulin-like substance and the enzymes that make it useful for digestion.

Aajonus's most detailed and structured indigestion-prevention protocol centers on cheese. Because the stomach lining begins dumping stored poisons into food as soon as eating begins, eating cheese 10 minutes before any meal allows those poisons to be absorbed before the main food arrives.

Mechanism: "If you eat a little bit of cheese 10 minutes before you eat anything, you're going to absorb that toxicity. You have 25 minutes to eat before the body's stomach will start dumping into that, the stomach lining will start dumping those poisons into the stomach again, into food."

Timing protocol: - Eat cheese 10 minutes before the meal begins - Eat the meal within 20-25 minutes - After 25 minutes of eating, consume another piece of cheese - Wait 10 minutes, then the mucus layer will seal over the toxins - The body gets another 25-minute window of clean digestion

"So then if 25 minutes goes by and you're still eating, you have another piece of cheese. Wait 10 minutes. Or you just finish your meal within like 20 minutes and you won't dump anymore until the next meal."

What happens if you go 10 minutes without eating after cheese: "Your stomach will put a lining of mucus over that, a barrier, so those toxins will stay and pass independently of whatever comes in following that layer of mucus."

For acid reflux, burning in the stomach or esophagus, or regurgitation specifically: "You have cream and cheese every time you want to absorb that very toxic hydrochloric acid substance."

For constipated people specifically: "Always have some fat with that cheese. Cheese will absorb the poisons. Then have the vegetable juice 10 minutes later so you're not washing those poisons back in the system."

For the burning sensation from bile dumping into the intestines: "Lots of cheese, lots of cream, and lots of butter. And eggs. You just have to, I mean, really do it."

For people getting detoxification-related indigestion from bile: "When I was getting rid of my bile, I was drinking half carrot and half cream." He states that cream, cheese, and butter bind with the bile and protect the intestinal lining.

For people new to raw cream or raw milk who experience gas and bloating: start with only half a cup per day for the first month, increase to a cup for the second month, and increase to a cup and a half for the third month. This gradual introduction gives the body time to detoxify the fat-soluble organs slowly rather than triggering an overwhelming reaction.

Aajonus recommends carrot juice specifically when bile is involved in the indigestion. He notes that carrot juice "causes more bile to expel from the system", which is both the reason it helps (it moves bile through) and why it must be used carefully. He used half carrot and half cream when clearing bile from his own system.

Important caution: Carrot juice causes the expulsion of more bile. In someone already overwhelmed with bile dumping, this can worsen the immediate experience before it gets better. Use only a small amount. In one practitioner's protocol recommendation, 10% carrot juice in a juice blend was suggested as a known remedy for indigestion.

Carrot juice is also noted as "helpful" specifically for binding with bile that has been released in the intestines.

"If you've got a spell of very bad digestion, you may be detoxifying from the stomach, the esophagus and the intestines. This is not a time to eat other foods other than egg and cheese. Cheese goes in first to absorb the toxins, egg follows to give the easiest most digestible food that there is. Proteins in the egg white are easily digestible."

Eggs are the fastest-digesting food in Aajonus's framework: 27-30 minutes for complete digestion, compared to milk at 6-10 hours and meat at 19-24 hours. This makes them the ideal food when the digestive system is under maximum stress.

For toxic bile dumping into the intestines: eggs bind with the bile. "Eggs are great to bind with that."

"Some people have really bad digestion, without having Crohn's disease. I'll tell them to take a little cube of pineapple or papaya with their meals, especially meat meals to help digestion."

Dosing for recovery after digestive problems: "Cut up some pineapple in a jar and have a chunk about every 2-3 hours. With that small amount you don't need butter or honey with it. You could have half a teaspoon of butter or cheese with it."

Pineapple is specifically used for people with enzyme deficiencies, including those who have lost the ability to produce certain enzymes due to scar tissue or damage. However, pineapple must never be eaten alone by very thin, acidic people, as it "will blister your mouth, it will cause bleeding, bleeding tongue, stuff like that." It must always be blended with raw cream, raw eggs, raw milk, or oil for protection.

For people with scarring in the digestive system (indicated by certain iris patterns): "underripe apricot, underripe pear, and medium ripe papaya" are recommended foods to supply the specific enzymes that have been lost.

For a specific pattern Aajonus identified in someone who had taken many supplements and whose gallbladder appeared "completely hardened" by iris analysis:

1. Eat 2 eggs, 1 tablespoon of honey, and butter about 10 minutes after drinking milk 2. Then about 15 minutes after that: 1 cup of milk with 1.5 tablespoons of cream and half a teaspoon of honey

This sequence is designed to "start pulling that out of the system", pulling the supplement toxins that have hardened in the gallbladder and surrounding fat tissue.

For intense bile-related stomach pain: "Lots of cheese, lots of cream, and lots of butter. And eggs. You just have to, I mean, really do it. Like I said, you know, just like I told him, lots of lube formulas in meat. Lots of eggs on their own."

Lubrication formula (referenced in the context of intestinal/digestive rescue): consists of meat mixed with substantial fat, butter, cream, eggs, to provide both the fat needed to bind bile and the protein needed to repair damaged gut tissue.

Vegetable juice "doesn't produce indigestion" in people with normal digestive tracts because "the stomach doesn't secrete hydrochloric acid because there's no protein in it or very little, it moves into the duodenum where it starts digesting, any micro fats that are in the juices will be mixed with some bile and then they're all absorbed within the first three inches of the intestinal tract. Maybe a little bit of pulp got through in the vegetable juice but not enough to cause indigestion."

However, for people with very poor digestive tracts or inflammatory bowel issues, vegetable juice should be the last meal of the day so that any dairy or meat consumed earlier does not get neutralized by the alkaline vegetable residue.

For inflamed stomach walls (gastritis): "Eating raw oysters and clams with raw fat soothes the condition." Additionally: "Drinking 2 ounces of fresh raw beet juice mixed in other vegetable juices and eaten with no-salt-added raw cheese once daily speeds the process." A raw milk eggnog, 2 raw eggs, ½ cup raw milk, ¼ banana, "works just a little bit slower but sometimes is more soothing."

Aajonus recommends the intestinal contents of cows or other herbivores for chronic digestive problems. "Our bodies can use it to help improve chronic digestive problems. I recommend that it be consumed shortly before meat meals." The contents of the bowel are scooped out, consumed immediately (the odor is described as "overly cooked vegetables with feces' odor"; a swimmer's nose clip is suggested). Typically recommended at about 2 ounces daily for those with chronic digestive or other serious conditions.

1.5 teaspoons of honey-butter mixture (ratio: 1 part honey to 3 parts butter) immediately followed by 2 ounces of milk, 4 times daily, is Aajonus's recommendation for lung congestion from chemtrails, but this formula applies broadly to conditions where the body needs soothing fat-bound nutrients to move through the system efficiently.

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For people beginning the raw primal diet who experience gas, bloating, and digestive discomfort from raw cream or raw milk causing a detoxification of fat-soluble organs:

• Month 1: Only half a cup per day of the reactive food (e.g., raw milk or cream)
• Month 2: Increase to one cup per day
• Month 3: Increase to one and a half cups per day
• Continue increasing gradually until full tolerance is established

This timeline represents a gentle approach to giving the body time to detoxify the liver, spleen, gallbladder, and pancreas without overwhelming the digestive system.

"If you've got a spell of very bad digestion, you may be detoxifying from the stomach, the esophagus and the intestines. This is not a time to eat other foods other than egg and cheese."

The duration of this phase is not specified precisely, but the protocol is clear: restrict to only egg and cheese until the spell passes, with cheese always going in first to absorb toxins and egg following as the most digestible food available.

Aajonus references one specific individual who had diarrhea, a form of digestive purging, for "a year and three months" while detoxifying stored poisons from taking large amounts of liquid mineral supplements. "Didn't bother him because he felt good every time he went. He got more of those poisons out of the system." This represents an extreme case, but illustrates that serious bile and toxin detoxification through the digestive tract can take over a year.

The specific protocol (2 eggs, honey, butter, then milk with cream and honey) is described as the beginning of "pulling that out of the system", suggesting an ongoing process rather than a short-term fix. The degree of hardening determines the duration.

The 7-10 day pre-menstrual window recurs every cycle. Aajonus does not provide a timeline for resolution of this pattern, but implies it improves as overall toxic load decreases through adherence to the raw primal diet. The management strategy is dietary restriction of complex, enzyme-demanding foods during that window.

Aajonus's own recovery from a vagotomy and complete destruction of hydrochloric acid secretion demonstrates that, even with severe surgical damage, digestion can recover significantly over years on the raw diet. He states that he eventually evolved to the point where he could eat "two quarts" of the honey-milk-egg combination daily "and be fine," though this took "almost 20 years" of adaptation.

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