Avocado is a fruit fat, one of the very few plant-based fats that Aajonus acknowledged has genuine utility within the Primal Diet framework. At approximately 80% fat, 15% protein, and 2–3% carbohydrate, it sits in a compositional category similar to coconut, though coconut edges it out both in digestibility and in bodily utility. Avocado is explicitly not an animal fat, and this single fact determines almost everything about how the body receives and uses it. In Aajonus's framework, only animal fats truly build, rebuild, soothe, stabilize, and sustain the human organism. Avocado, because it is a plant fat, is categorized primarily as a fuel source and a detoxifier, not a builder, not a stabilizer, and not a soother.

Despite these limitations, avocado has a legitimate and well-defined place in the diet. It is useful as an energy source, as a liver and gallbladder cleanser, as a detoxification agent, as a sodium source, and in specific therapeutic combinations. When eaten with meat, it tends to convert the protein into fuel rather than allowing it to serve as a building block, which is sometimes desirable and sometimes not. When eaten with the right foods and in the right quantities, it can serve multiple functions without causing harm. The key, as with all foods in this system, is understanding what the body will do with it and choosing accordingly.

Aajonus was emphatic: avocado will never stabilize the body. It will either detoxify or fuel, but it will not build. This is its defining characteristic and the lens through which all of its applications must be understood.

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Avocado is approximately 80% fat, 15% protein, and 2–3% carbohydrate. By contrast, coconut is 80% fat, 15% protein, and 5% carbohydrate, meaning coconut has a slightly higher carbohydrate content and digests more readily than avocado. Aajonus cited this compositional difference as the reason coconut digests better: "Coconut digests a little bit better than avocado."

One transcript also gives an alternate figure: "Avocado has 80, it's like coconut, 80% fat, 50% protein, 5% carbs", though the figure of 15% protein appears in multiple other transcripts, suggesting the "50% protein" figure may have been a speaking error. The more consistent figure across all sources is 15% protein.

Aajonus identified two dominant functions of avocado in the body:

1. Fuel (Energy) Production: When consumed, avocado's fats are predominantly used as a fuel source for energy. This means the body burns them rather than storing them or using them for structural repair. When avocado is eaten with meat, a substantial portion of the meat protein gets converted into fuel as well, approximately 50% of the meat, compared to 15% when butter is used. This makes avocado a useful early morning energy food but a suboptimal choice for meat meals where the goal is building and repair.

2. Detoxification: Avocado functions as a solvent and detoxifier. Aajonus described it as "great for cleaning the liver, the gallbladder and spleen." It dissolves certain compounds in the body, specifically compounds that bacteria, parasites, and fungus cannot handle, and helps remove them. This makes it therapeutically useful for people who need liver and gallbladder cleansing.

He was very explicit about what avocado cannot do: "It will never strengthen and soothe the body other than allaying poisons that may be irritating the body. But it cannot directly soothe the tissue let's say like raw cream can." And again: "It will never stabilize the body. The body will either use it for detoxification, or it will use it for fuel."

This is one of the most practically important aspects of avocado physiology in Aajonus's system. When you eat meat with different fats, the percentage of meat protein that gets converted into fuel (rather than used as building material) varies dramatically:

• No fat with meat: 80% of the meat is converted into fuel
• Avocado with meat: approximately 50% is converted into fuel
• Butter with meat: approximately 15% is converted into fuel
• Coconut cream with meat: some solvent reactivity (approximately 60% solvent reactive), so intermediate
• Eggs with meat: helps but increases hormonal output

The conclusion: "Why waste expensive meat when you have the fat stream? You can do that with avocado once in a while. You can use it as an early morning energy booster. But not frequently. It just is not as healthy. It won't make you toxic but it just won't give you the possible energy and homeostasis."

Aajonus noted that eating avocado with meat will drive the body toward hormone production: "Once in a while, you can have avocado, but if you have avocado with your meat meal, plan on getting a little bit hornier, because it'll go into making more hormones." This is distinct from eggs with meat, which also produce more hormones, but from a different biochemical pathway.

This hormonal stimulation property was directly observed in a long-running experiment with a yoga ashram community (see Section 12). When combined with oranges, avocado consistently produced strong aphrodisiac effects in raw-food vegetarians. Aajonus later refined this finding: "Since then, I discovered that watermelon and avocados together stimulate me more. Add raw fish, especially raw oysters to that and I don't have to wait a day or two for it to work."

Avocado is notably high in natural sodium. Aajonus stated: "Avocado is very high in sodium. So if you eat avocado and watermelon together, that would be a heavy concentration of salt, or of sodium, a good natural sodium. You notice that right after you eat watermelon and avocado, you'll start perspiring. Most people, if it's warm, if it's warm out, and you may not perspire before you will have eaten that." This combination was suggested for people who are not getting enough sodium for a balanced, relaxed feeling.

The fats in avocado, while useful internally, are noted to dry out and harden when applied externally. "If you take avocado and you rub it on your skin, you see it drying in place. And the moisturization doesn't last as long." The avocado oil, when rubbed on skin, turns green and develops small dark spots as it dries, a visible indicator of its drying nature. This is explicitly contrasted with coconut cream, which does not dry out and maintains moisture on the skin.

Aajonus described the drying mechanism: "Now, avocados is a fruit fat. However, I've not found it to help skin. It will also cause dryness, not as bad as a pressed oil will, but it will cause dryness." This places avocado on a spectrum, less drying than pressed oils, but more drying than coconut cream, and far less moisturizing than animal fats.

Aajonus explained that human bile makes 60 varieties of cholesterol, all designed for animal products, not for vegetable oils or avocado. While the liver will work on avocado and "it will work okay," this is not the primary purpose of the bile system. With pressed oils, "90% of the oils that you eat is passed out" undigested. Avocado is somewhat more digestible than pressed oils but still not optimally suited to human digestive chemistry, which was designed around animal fats.

When cheese is being digested and creates gas (a by-product of the chemical dissolution process), cream is the ideal fat to neutralize this because it coats the dissolved compound. Avocado can sometimes help but also can make things worse: "Sometimes what they'll do with avocado is they'll make it worse because avocado is a great detoxifier. So if you ate avocado and cheese, it might have more of a soothing, absorbing reaction. But if you eat avocado with anything else, it's likely to" worsen the reaction. Cream remains the gold standard for neutralizing these gases.

Aajonus repeatedly and emphatically stated: "So other fats, avocados really won't build the body. They'll help give you fuel energy, energy fat energy for fat for energy purposes and cleansing but not for building the body." And: "It doesn't react, you know, it doesn't stabilize and build the body. Only fats are the animal fats." He recounted his own experience: "I remember when I used to eat five to seven avocados a day. I still got skinnier the next day. Seven pounds of nuts, still got skinnier every day."

Avocado is safe for infants and young children, but with a critical caveat: it should not be used as a staple fat. "It is good for infants, but not as a staple fat. It does not build or heal the body; it mainly causes detoxification." This guidance was given in direct response to a parent asking whether raw avocado was acceptable for their young child. The same answer appears in two separate Q&A archives, confirming consistency.

Aajonus confirmed avocado is "fine" for domestic cats as part of a broader protocol involving papaya custard and other foods for detoxification.

Aajonus was direct about the fundamental limitation: "The fats of the avocado are not in congruence with the human body. It's coconut and then the animal fats." He made this statement in the context of explaining why animal fats are the primary fats the human body is designed to use. Avocado is useful, but it is a workaround, not the biological ideal.

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Aajonus described using avocado in a ripe but usable state, mashed, diced, or blended. There is no explicit guidance on a specific ripeness stage for therapeutic versus culinary use, but his recipes and references consistently treat avocado as ready-to-eat ripe fruit.

Because avocado oxidizes and can rancidify when exposed to air, Aajonus gave a specific technique for preservation in recipes: "I will put some avocado with it with just a touch of honey and blend it and blend it and blend it and some lemon juice and lime juice to preserve the avocado so it won't rancidify. You can put it in the fridge for two days sometimes. The avocado won't turn at all." This lemon and lime juice method was used in his raw wasabi recipe (see Section 10).

All references to avocado throughout Aajonus's teachings are to raw, fresh avocado. No cooked preparations are mentioned or endorsed. The therapeutic properties described, enzymatic activity, detoxification, fat utilization, are all contingent on the avocado being raw.

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Unlike olives, which "have a lot of strychnine in them" and require extensive specialized processing, avocado carries no comparable inherent toxicity concerns: "Avocado and coconuts are pretty common and no danger there, except for eating too much of it and getting diarrhea or losing your appetite for other foods. That's mainly with the coconut."

Aajonus described a period when he was eating avocados purchased cheaply, sometimes bruised or damaged ones for ten cents each, eating up to eight to ten per day during a period of nutritional desperation. No special sourcing requirements for avocado were given beyond general organic principles that apply throughout the diet.

In his restaurant protocol, Aajonus listed avocado as one of the safer whole foods to order: "I choose FRESH sliced tomato, avocado, peeled cucumber, onion and garlic." The fact that it appears in his list of acceptable restaurant foods suggests avocado's skin provides sufficient protection from external contamination.

Because some people lack the digestive enzymes to break down avocado properly, Aajonus gave this guidance: "Eating any raw fruit that appeals to you with avocado will help you digest avocado properly. Raw fruits include sweet, acid and sub-acid fruits, tomatoes, cucumbers, fresh corn on the cob." Pineapple was specifically mentioned as especially effective: "if you eat it with something like pineapple, you'll never know the difference because there's so much bromelain in the pineapple. We'll just melt it."

He also noted papaya does not provide the same intensity as pineapple: "it doesn't have the intensity and the citric acid to help break down the fats. Very different, papaya and pineapple."

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Avocado can be eaten with meat, but this has consequences for how the body processes the protein. Approximately 50% of the meat will be converted into fuel rather than used as a building block. If the goal is building and healing, this is suboptimal. However, it is acceptable when high energy is needed.

Aajonus was clear that additional fat should accompany this combination: "So you can have avocado and meat together? Yes, yeah, as long as you have some other fat with it." In his own example, he combined avocado and meat with raw cream and sour cream.

Aajonus praised the Mexican tradition of combining sour cream with avocado: "Now what's great with avocados, you know, the Mexicans know this, they put sour cream with the avocado. So delicious, man." This combination is held up as a culturally validated pairing that demonstrates intuitive wisdom about food combining, the sour cream provides a more stabilizing fat alongside the fuel-burning avocado.

• Avocado + tomato: Acceptable
• Avocado + honey: Acceptable
• Avocado + meat: Acceptable with additional fat
• Avocado + cheese: Can be tricky, see contraindications
• Avocado + fruit: Eating raw fruit with avocado helps digestion; pineapple especially effective
• Avocado + pineapple: Recommended weekly (see dosage)
• Avocado + watermelon: Provides high natural sodium, stimulates perspiration
• Avocado + oranges: Aphrodisiac combination
• Avocado + fish: "Avocado and fish are a wonderful combination"
• Avocado + corn + egg: A personal favorite preparation (see Section 10)

Aajonus repeatedly recommended butter as the primary fat with meat meals, with avocado as an acceptable but secondary option: "Avocado once in a while is okay, but avocado is very difficult to digest. Even to just less than cream. But it's used as a fuel. When you eat it with meat, and that's risking changing the meat into a fuel, too. So when you have butter with your meat meal it will never turn into a fuel." Butter limits meat-to-fuel conversion to approximately 15%, versus 50% with avocado.

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Despite avocado being a fat-rich fruit, Aajonus explicitly stated it does not help the skin and causes dryness when applied topically: "avocados is a fruit fat. However, I've not found it to help skin. It will also cause dryness, not as bad as a pressed oil will, but it will cause dryness."

The visual test: "If you take avocado and you rub it on your skin, you see it drying in place. And the moisturization doesn't last as long." Additionally: "if you take avocado and you rub it on your skin, you see it turns green, and it gets these little dark things as it dries."

The contrast: "If you put coconut cream on your skin, it won't be able to dry out." Coconut cream is explicitly preferred for topical skin application.

The practical conclusion: avocado is not recommended for topical use, and its drying properties when applied externally are a visible indicator of its nature as a fruit fat rather than an animal fat. Animal fats build and strengthen cells; avocado does not accomplish this externally any more than it does internally.

Note: A practical warning appears in the source material in brackets: "avocado stains clothes."

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• Daily use: Too frequent for most people, the liver struggles with avocado
• Every meal: Definitely too often
• Occasional use: Acceptable and beneficial
• Specific recommendation given: Avocado with pineapple once per week, "about a quarter inch circular slice of not too ripe pineapple with a whole avocado once a week"
• For one individual with kidney issues: No more than three avocados per week
• For individuals in need of aphrodisiac effect: Three avocados per day (with oranges and raw oysters), per specific recommendation

Aajonus described his own extreme experiment: "I've eaten up to 10 a day and still eating 7 pounds of nuts a day just can't get the nutrients out of it." He did not report harm from 10 avocados per day, but he consistently became thinner and lost weight, confirming the food's inability to build the body regardless of quantity.

He described a separate period: "I would eat eight avocados, ten avocados a day just to help. And I was eating anywhere from one to seven pounds of nuts a day, still working on waking the next day and losing weight." The persistent weight loss despite massive caloric intake confirms that avocado fats do not stabilize or build, they fuel and detoxify.

In a general dietary rotation, Aajonus recommended having avocado as one of the fat options with fruit meals: "eat 4-6 ounces fruit with 3-6 ounces of either raw cream, raw coconut cream, raw butter or avocado." Avocado can be rotated with other fats, not used exclusively.

Aajonus recommended rotating different fats throughout the day to avoid digestive difficulty from eating the same fat repeatedly: "you have difficulty digesting the same fat repeatedly, that's why you need to alternate them. Say you had cream in the morning and butter in the afternoon and coconut cream in the evening or avocado, just make it a different fat."

This rotation framework places avocado as one of four or five usable fats (cream, butter, coconut cream, avocado, sometimes sour cream) to be cycled rather than relied upon as the only fat.

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One of Aajonus's most detailed personal preparations: - Take fresh horseradish root, slice very thinly, blend to lumps - Add avocado - Add a touch of honey - Add lemon juice and lime juice (to preserve the avocado and prevent rancidification) - Blend thoroughly - Serve with raw fish

"I will put some avocado with it with just a touch of honey and blend it and blend it and blend it and some lemon juice and lime juice to preserve the avocado so it won't rancidify. You can put it in the fridge for two days sometimes. The avocado won't turn at all. So I blend that whole thing together and I've got my own wasabi. It can even sit in the fridge for two days."

This preparation can be used as a condiment for raw fish.

A personal favorite described in detail: - Mash one avocado - Mix in a raw egg - Take bites of this mixture alternating with bites of fresh raw corn on the cob

"I love avocado, corn and egg together. I take an egg, and I will mash the avocado, mix the egg and the avocado together and take bites of that with corn. Good! Take a bite of the corn and then take a spoon of the mix."

Aajonus also recalled making a version with raw cottage cheese: "I remember when I used to make the cottage cheese, I would take avocado, raw egg in the raw cottage cheese and eat that with corn. Heaven."

"Avocado and fish are a wonderful combination." No specific preparation given beyond the wasabi recipe, but avocado is identified as a complementary fat for fish. This is explained biochemically: fish tends to drive weight loss and stimulates nervous system fat-burning; eating avocado (or butter) with fish provides a calming fat buffer.

Aajonus described his own spontaneous meal preparation in a workshop setting: "I saw an avocado over there, and I brought my raw cream, sour cream. Guess what I'm having? And meat, yep." This combination, avocado + meat + sour cream/raw cream, is presented as a practical, acceptable, and enjoyable meal.

From The Recipe for Living Without Disease: - At meat meals, avocado may be used as one of the fat options: "6-10 ounces raw meat with raw egg(s) and/or 2-5 tablespoons raw butter, raw cream, raw coconut cream, no-salt-added raw cheese with an equal amount of butter or avocado" - At fruit meals: "4-6 ounces fruit with 3-6 ounces of either raw cream, raw coconut cream, raw butter or avocado"

Ingredients: - ½ avocado, cut into wedges - 6 circular slices raw cucumber - 3 circular slices raw zucchini, crookneck or sunburst squash - 1 stalk cauliflower tops - ½ tomato, cut into wedges - 2 sliced mushrooms - 1 serving of any sauce from the book - 2 tablespoons red onion (optional)

Arrange ingredients on a plate or in a bowl and eat with or without sauce.

Blenderize butter, papaya or mango, honey, egg, and lime juice together in an 8-ounce jar on high speed for 10 seconds. Immediately pour into bowl and stir in diced avocado and orange before it thickens. Let stand 3–5 minutes.

Avocado can be added to fruit salads including those with corn: "If you are making a fruit salad, put corn in it... And avocado goes well with that too." Corn is classified as a fruit by Aajonus, and avocado combines well with it and with other fruits.

In the context of sauces, Aajonus referenced guacamole as a recognizable avocado preparation when discussing nut mixture recipes and sauces, though he did not provide a specific raw guacamole recipe beyond general avocado combinations.

Aajonus listed fresh sliced avocado as one of the acceptable things to order at good restaurants, alongside fresh tomato, peeled cucumber, onion, and garlic.

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While avocado oil is not singled out in explicit detail, the general framework for pressed oils applies. Aajonus stated that all pressed oils (except for the fat contained within whole coconut and whole avocado) function primarily as solvents/cleansers: "90% olive oil flax oil any of those pressed oils... are the only two that you can get truly cold pressed." Pressed oils are "90% solvent reactive" and should be used sparingly, once a day, every couple of days, never as a primary fat. The whole fruit avocado retains its full fat, water-soluble vitamins, enzymes, and minerals; once pressed into oil, all of these except the fat-soluble components are lost.

Aajonus's skin experiment visible demonstrates the oil behavior: avocado rubbed on skin dries, turns green, forms dark spots. This is the behavior of the oil fraction behaving like a vegetable oil rather than an animal fat.

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Aajonus documented one of the most extended and controlled food experiments in his recorded teachings, centered on avocado:

He was responsible for selecting and buying food for an Indian ashram where Sadashiva was in charge. Sexual activity was "the absolute no-no." Observing that most raw-food fruitarians and vegetarians were often hungry and rarely assimilated enough protein, Aajonus chose a food combination he believed would act as an aphrodisiac. He bought "cases of oranges and avocados. Everyone ate the combination on the fly several times a day."

Results within five days: The Hatha yoga instructors "began talking about the anatomy of their female students. As the days went on, they became randy. Some started to touch the students, not in lewd ways but unconsciously sensual."

He stopped feeding them oranges and avocados. Within five days, everyone returned to normal.

Second experiment with witness Monica: Avocados and oranges were supplied again. "Within five days they started talking about anatomy. Within eight days, the touching began." Aajonus bought pears and apples to substitute; everyone settled. He then repeated the experiment a final time: "By the fourth day, the conversation was wild. Touching began."

On the sixth day of the second confirmed experiment, one instructor "shared passion with a woman he had admired." On the seventh night, Sadashiva called on Monica.

Aajonus's conclusion: "So much for mind over matter, or should I say, life in chaos. I'll take mind and matter in cooperation, life in balance."

He later refined his understanding: the effect worked on raw-food vegetarians. He did not know if it would work equivalently on people who were not raw-fooders. He also discovered that watermelon and avocados together produced stronger effects than avocados and oranges alone, and that adding raw oysters eliminated the two-day delay he sometimes experienced.

During a period of illness, pain (fibromyalgia, joint pain, headaches), and near-starvation in the desert, Aajonus subsisted heavily on avocados: "Sometimes you get avocados, five avocados, at that time you could buy an avocado and if I found ones with a little bruise on them or something, I could get them for ten cents. So, I would eat eight avocados, ten avocados a day just to help. And I was eating anywhere from one to seven pounds of nuts a day, still working on waking the next day and losing weight."

This period of eating massive quantities of avocado (and nuts) while still losing weight provided him with direct empirical confirmation that plant fats cannot build the human body, regardless of volume consumed.

Aajonus also referenced his time studying with a teacher who was "bacteria phobic as well as fat phobic" and would discourage him from eating fats. Aajonus noticed he "always felt better when I ate the fats", whether avocado or dairy. He eventually moved away from this teacher and toward understanding the difference between plant fats (avocado, nuts) and animal fats. The avocado-heavy phase of his life preceded his recognition that animal fats were essential for building.

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