Aajonus Vonderplanitz understood late or absent menstruation, including amenorrhea, not as a disease or malfunction in the conventional sense, but as a direct consequence of insufficient hormonal production caused by nutritional deficiency, particularly a lack of raw fats, raw proteins, and the raw materials required by the endocrine glands to produce sex hormones. In his framework, menstruation is fundamentally a healthy detoxification process, the body's mechanism for expelling accumulated toxins through uterine mucus. When the menstrual cycle stops or becomes irregular, the body has lost the nutritional foundation necessary to both generate the hormonal cascade that triggers ovulation and menstruation, and to carry out that detoxification cycle.

He framed the menstrual period as something that should be welcomed rather than dreaded: "Singing happy menstrual. It should be a happy period." The absence of menstruation meant the body was deprived of this crucial 20% additional mucus discharge that gives women their longevity advantage over men, an advantage he calculated at approximately 20% longer lifespan and 20-30% less disease. When that channel is shut down, whether due to poor diet, vegetarianism, hormonal imbalance, or systemic depletion, the body loses one of its primary avenues for toxin elimination.

He specifically distinguished between two types of absent or late menstruation: the amenorrhea that results from severe nutritional deficiency (especially in young women raised vegetarian or on cooked food diets), and the altered menstrual pattern that occurs during and after menopause. Both are addressed with raw food protocols but through slightly different mechanisms.

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In Aajonus's framework, absent or late menstruation is driven by the endocrine system's failure to produce adequate estrogen and other sex hormones. He was direct: "You are absent and low in testosterone or estrogen, and that's your problem." The gonads, ovaries in women, are responsible for producing these hormones, but they require high-quality raw fats and raw proteins to manufacture them. When the body is deprived of these nutrients through cooked food diets, vegetarian diets, fasting, or processed food consumption, the glands become debilitated and cannot produce adequate hormone levels.

He explained the cascade in specific physiological terms: the pharmaceutical industry frames this as a hormonal problem requiring external hormone supplementation, but Aajonus argued the real issue is that the glands lack the raw materials needed to produce their own hormones. His often-repeated observation was that the endocrine system, and specifically the ovaries, can only function well when given the raw building blocks, undenatured proteins and unaltered fats, that raw animal foods provide.

Aajonus gave extensive discussion to how vegetarian and vegan diets specifically cause amenorrhea, particularly in young women. He described a case he personally witnessed:

"There's a girl in Hawaii who was 18 years old when I saw her last year. Her mother raised her vegetarian. She'd only had a period once in her life and was very, very pale and anemic. She was mainly a fruit eater. She was very weak, very swollen all over, very long, lots of hair."

In this case, the complete absence of raw animal protein, particularly raw meat, had so severely depleted her hormonal and nutritional foundation that her reproductive system had essentially not developed properly. She had experienced menstruation only once in her entire life at age 18.

He also referenced a scenario where the body, depleted from vegetarianism, is like a child who would take "five years to catch up", and for an adult vegetarian who transitions, "ten years." The thyroid and hormonal systems take significant time to recover when they have been chronically under-nourished.

Aajonus addressed a specific case involving a woman who had undergone a "Mayr Cure", a semi-fast of air-dried bread rolls with a small amount of milk or yogurt twice daily, with nothing after lunch, for three weeks, followed by five more weeks of a reduced diet with processed fats (cheese, sour cream, butter, yogurt), resulting in a 30-pound weight loss. His assessment was unequivocal: "That is the worst mono-style fast/diet of which I have heard. It clogs the intestines and plaques the heart and glands."

The consequences included loss of libido and, by the logic of his framework, would include disruption of the menstrual cycle. He explained: "If you want to regain your libido, you might have to gain some excess weight to afford the hormones necessary for sex drive. In many women, if the body", the quote trails off in the source, but the implication is that insufficient body fat and glandular nutrition leads to hormonal collapse, which shuts down reproductive function, including menstruation.

Aajonus noted that thyroid function is intimately connected to hormonal production and therefore to menstrual regularity. He observed in multiple consultations that when the thyroid is underperforming, the hormonal cascade necessary for ovulation and menstruation is disrupted. He noted in one consultation that someone's "thyroid right side is working okay" while noting menstrual irregularity in the same context, suggesting these systems are interconnected.

In the case of Debra, the newsletter patient who had missed her period for three months and was 50 years old, he noted low progesterone and was asked about thyroid nodules (diagnosed as papillary carcinoma), connecting the thyroid's compromised state to the disrupted menstrual cycle.

Aajonus placed enormous emphasis on blood fat levels in relation to hormonal function. He explained that without adequate fat in the blood and tissues, hormones cannot be produced in sufficient quantities: "You're absent and low in testosterone or estrogen, and that's your problem." The connection he drew was explicit: the gonads need fat to produce sex hormones. When body fat and blood fat are low, as happens with very thin women, with women who are over-exercising, with women who are malnourished, with women on low-fat diets, the ovaries have insufficient substrate to manufacture estrogen and progesterone, and menstruation ceases.

He made this structural point in describing how he evaluates women in consultations: "No fat in your tissue... You have overactive ovaries. The protein is broken down in them." This breakdown of ovarian tissue and its associated hormone production is, in his framework, what drives amenorrhea.

Aajonus also acknowledged that for women approaching or past menopause, absent or very infrequent periods exist on a spectrum. He was clear that occasional menstruation after menopause is not pathological, in fact he regarded it as healthy: "Although a woman may have completed menopause, she may occasionally experience menstruation. That is a healthy function where the body cleanses those tissues."

For post-menopausal women and women with infrequent periods, he observed that estrogen production from the ovaries could be supported through dietary means, bringing periods back to women who had gone years without one.

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This condition sits primarily within Root Cause / Terrain Theory and Cooked Food in Aajonus's causal sequence, with significant overlap into How to Eat and Detoxification.

• Root Cause / Terrain Theory: Amenorrhea in his system is always caused by terrain depletion, specifically the depletion of the glandular system (ovaries, thyroid, adrenals) and the blood's fat and protein levels. The terrain cannot support hormonal production, so the cycle stops.

• Cooked Food: He repeatedly pointed to vegetarian diets, cooked food diets, fasting regimens, and processed food consumption as the primary destroyers of glandular function. Cooked fats and cooked proteins do not provide the usable substrates the ovaries need to make hormones. Vegetarianism in particular destroys the hormonal foundation.

• Detoxification: Menstruation itself is a detoxification event, and its absence means that detoxification pathway is closed. He discussed how the blood fills with toxins during the pre-menstrual phase and uses the menstrual mucus as a discharge vehicle. When menstruation stops, those toxins have no outlet.

• How to Eat: The food protocols, beet juice, honey, ginger, horseradish, raw meat, raw yam juice, coconut cream, milkshakes before ovulation, are practical eating interventions to restore the cycle.

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Aajonus reframed late menstruation not as a disease but as a signal that the body's nutritional terrain is insufficient to sustain the hormonal cascade. It is the body being honest about what it has and does not have. There is no dysfunction in the conventional sense, the body is simply not producing enough estrogen and related hormones because it lacks the raw building blocks.

The absence of menstruation means the woman is missing the single greatest detoxification advantage women have over men. He calculated this at 20% more mucus discharge, which he connected directly to women living 20% longer and having 20-30% less disease than men. When that channel closes due to amenorrhea or menopause, women begin accumulating toxins that would otherwise have been expelled: "Women have the ability to discharge a lot of poisons at that time. And of course, if those poisons get into the blood and are unregulated, unharnessed by fat, you're", he trailed off, but the implication is that the toxins circulate freely and cause systemic damage.

He reframed the case of the vegetarian-raised 18-year-old in Hawaii not as a disease requiring medical treatment but as total nutritional starvation of the reproductive system. Her pallor, swelling, weakness, excessive hair, and absence of menstruation were all symptoms of the same root problem, the body had not received the raw animal protein and fat it needed to develop the endocrine system, particularly the ovarian axis.

For women who do have periods but with severe cramping and PMS symptoms, which in his framework are related conditions, he reframed these as evidence of insufficient blood fat levels: "Check out a woman with severe PMS. You'll find high sugar in her blood, very low fat levels." He connected PMS directly to the same blood fat insufficiency that drives amenorrhea, placing both conditions on the same spectrum of fat and protein depletion.

He explicitly reframed late-life menstruation, in women in their late fifties, or women who have gone three to four years without a period and then begin menstruating again on the Primal Diet, not as abnormal bleeding or something to be medically evaluated, but as a healthy resumption of tissue cleansing: "Although a woman may have completed menopause, she may occasionally experience menstruation. That is a healthy function where the body cleanses those tissues."

He described having women in their late fifties who were "still having their periods. Not every month. But they are having them every three to six months. And they went sometimes three or four years without having a period. Back on the diet and the hormones start", the passage is cut off but the meaning is clear: the diet restores hormonal function sufficient to resume the detoxification cycle.

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Aajonus gave two primary interventions to bring on and regulate menstruation:

Beet Juice Formula: - 1 cup fresh raw beet juice - 2 tablespoons unheated honey - This helps bring on and regulate menstruation - Critical contraindication: do not use if pregnant - The juice must be fresh and raw

Ginger or Horseradish: - Eating grated fresh raw ginger root OR fresh raw horseradish root with other foods - "Usually brings on and regulates menstruation" - These are foods to be eaten with meals, not as isolated supplements - No specific quantity given beyond "grated fresh raw", the emphasis is on freshness and rawness

From the early training transcripts, Aajonus described a tablet-based protocol (appearing to reference a sea vegetable or mineral tablet, the text refers to tablets used to stimulate estrogen production and bring back menstruation):

• Dose: Four or five tablets, once a day
• Duration: Three to five days per cycle (more often four to five days, though "some people are more vital and they react very quickly")
• Frequency: Once every three or four weeks
• Total course: About three to four months
• Outcome: "They are back to normal" after three to four months of this protocol

He specifically stated this protocol: "Yes brings back their period. I've got women in their late fifties now that are still having their periods. Not every month. But they are having them every three to six months. And they went sometimes three or four years without having a period. Back on the diet and the hormones start p", the passage ends mid-sentence but the context is clear.

From We Want to Live: - Quantity: 1-2 cups of raw yam juice per session - Addition: 3 tablespoons raw coconut cream with each cup of yam juice - Frequency: Once every 3-8 days - Purpose: "Ensures hormonal production that balances mineral levels after menopause" - Critical timing: Yam juice must be consumed within 1 hour after juicing - He described raw yam as "easing the ill side effects of hormonal changes" alongside unripe banana

From the Q&A sources, Aajonus gave a specific protocol for restoring ovulatory function and the hormonal environment needed to produce healthy eggs:

• Formula: 2 milkshakes daily
• Timing: Consumed for 10 days before ovulation
• Purpose: "Usually will produce healthy ova"
• This was given in the context of a woman who had experienced miscarriage and absent or failed ovulation, but the principle applies to amenorrhea from the same nutritional deficiency angle

The milkshake formula in Aajonus's standard construction typically involves raw milk, raw eggs, raw cream, and sometimes fruit, all components designed to provide saturated fat, bioavailable protein, and hormonal precursors directly to the glandular system.

He was emphatic and repeatedly stated that raw meat, particularly beef, lamb, and fish, is the primary nutritional foundation for restoring menstruation in women who have lost it due to vegetarian or cooked food diets:

"She'd only had a period once in her life... She got on the diet within three months. She started having periods regularly. Everything just started maturing within three months on the diet."

The diet in question was the Primal Diet with emphasis on raw meat. He recommended:

• Quantity: At least one pound and a half of meat daily for severely depleted individuals
• Type: Red meat (beef, lamb) plus fish and poultry
• Preparation: Always raw
• Pairing: Lots of fat with the meat, "eat lots of fat with your meat"

For women who do have periods but are losing them due to fat depletion, and as a preventive protocol during the period itself:

• Frequency: Fat must be consumed every two hours during the menstrual period
• Quantity: "I don't care if it's just an ounce. I don't care if it's two tablespoons. I don't care if it's a half a cup. Every two hours you need to consume it."
• Sources: Any raw fat, butter, cream, coconut cream, avocado, raw milk, eggs
• Purpose: "That will buffer your PMS" and prevent the toxin overload that damages myelin, creates psychological symptoms, and disrupts the endocrine signaling that regulates future cycles

He recommended full-fat raw milk as a key component for women with hormonal insufficiency: "Drinking full-fat raw milk (when available), and eating fresh raw fish, raw mushrooms, and a diet that is high in raw fat works wonders."

For the severely depleted girl in Hawaii who had almost never menstruated, the shift to raw animal products, including dairy, was part of what restored her cycle within three months.

For some women, Aajonus indicated that sexual activity itself serves a supporting role in hormonal regulation related to the menstrual cycle: "For some women, having sex is beneficial because it flushes hormones and expedites the hormonal changes of menopause (not hormonal cessation)." He added: "If lacking a sex partner during this cycle, self-sex is helpful for some people."

This applies particularly to the hormonal transition zone, women approaching menopause, or women with irregular cycles, for whom the hormonal flushing effect of orgasm can help normalize the hormonal environment that governs menstruation.

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The most dramatic and well-documented timeline Aajonus gave was the case of the 18-year-old Hawaiian girl who had only menstruated once in her life:

"She got on the diet within three months. She started having periods regularly. Everything just started maturing within three months on the diet. It was amazing. Her whole life has changed. She's a very happy person now. It's only been a year."

He attributed the speed to children's and young people's accelerated response due to growth hormones: "Children have an ability to react quicker because they have the growth hormones already working for them."

For adults making the same transition from vegetarianism, he estimated "ten years" to fully rebuild the system, though significant improvements including menstrual restoration would occur much earlier in that arc.

In discussing a case of a child raised vegetarian, Aajonus noted: "It looks like it's going to take you about five years to catch up, which isn't bad. If an adult had to catch up from being a vegetarian it might take them ten years. So if you go on a good diet and eat lots of raw meat, you can correct it within about five years."

While this was about general hormonal and glandular restoration, the same timeline applies to menstrual function as one component of that systemic restoration.

For the specific protocol of four to five tablets once a day for three to five days, repeated once every three to four weeks, Aajonus stated: "About every three or four weeks, that's all. For about three to four months and then they are back to normal."

This suggests that women who have gone through menopause and lost their periods for years can restore at least occasional menstrual activity within three to four months of consistent dietary and supplemental intervention.

He reported having "women in their late fifties now that are still having their periods. Not every month. But they are having them every three to six months. And they went sometimes three or four years without having a period."

In the context of a woman who had a miscarriage and could not conceive (which involves the same FSH and ovarian axis relevant to amenorrhea), Aajonus stated: "It is likely that it will be another 18 months before your body will be clean enough from residues so that the fetus is unharmed; it takes about 2.5+ years."

This timeline, 18 months to 2.5 years, for full glandular and hormonal normalization gives a sense of the deeper restoration process involved in cases of severe hormonal depletion associated with amenorrhea.

In the context of pregnancy spacing and hormonal recovery, Aajonus cited tribal knowledge: "According to ALL tribes, it takes 7 years for the mother to completely recover from her previous child so that a new baby does not suffer any deficiencies." While this refers to post-partum hormonal recovery rather than amenorrhea specifically, it reflects his broader view of how long hormonal systems take to fully rebuild when depleted.

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