Walnut oil, in the context of Aajonus Vonderplanitz's framework, is not a standalone pressed extract but is primarily discussed in the context of the oil naturally present within raw walnuts themselves, and by extension, the behavior of that oil when the walnut is consumed as part of the Nut Formula or used in recipes. Walnuts are among the softer, more digestible nuts that Aajonus recommended, and he specifically characterized the oil within them as "pretty good" relative to other nuts. However, he consistently and emphatically stated that nut oils in general, including the oil in walnuts, are almost impossible for the human body to digest, with only approximately two percent utilization of nut fat by human digestive processes.
Overview
Walnut oil, in the context of Aajonus Vonderplanitz's framework, is not a standalone pressed extract but is primarily discussed in the context of the oil naturally present within raw walnuts themselves, and by extension, the behavior of that oil when the walnut is consumed as part of the Nut Formula or used in recipes. Walnuts are among the softer, more digestible nuts that Aajonus recommended, and he specifically characterized the oil within them as "pretty good" relative to other nuts. However, he consistently and emphatically stated that nut oils in general, including the oil in walnuts, are almost impossible for the human body to digest, with only approximately two percent utilization of nut fat by human digestive processes.
Walnut oil as a pressed, extracted product falls entirely within Aajonus's broader category of pressed vegetable oils. In this category, he stated that all pressed oils, without exception, function in the human body at approximately 90% or more as solvents and cleansers, not as building, lubricating, or stabilizing agents. They are, in his framework, more accurately described as medicinal soaps or degreasers than as foods. Walnut oil as a pressed substance was never singled out as a recommended product in the way that olive oil or peanut oil (during earlier periods when cold-pressed versions were available) were, and it is notable that Aajonus's response when directly asked about walnut oil by name was to pivot immediately to the much narrower list of oils that he considered genuinely cold-pressed, namely olive oil and peanut oil, implying that walnut oil as a commercially pressed product did not meet his standard of being pressed below 96 degrees Fahrenheit.
Walnuts themselves, however, occupy a specific and important place in his dietary system: they are among the recommended soft nuts to be used in the Nut Formula, the primary vehicle through which Aajonus permitted and encouraged nut consumption, and are specifically called for when a person has liver problems, as he instructed that those individuals should stick to walnuts only.
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Properties and Effects
Aajonus was explicit and consistent on the digestibility of nut oils in general, and his statements apply directly to walnut oil whether consumed as a pressed extract or as the fat fraction within the walnut itself. He stated:
"Nut oils are almost impossible for humans to digest, maybe two percent, and that's about it."
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"We don't digest much protein or much fat from nuts. Even if they're germinated."
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"You don't digest nut oils very well. So we are meant to eat animal products. Period."
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"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. Oils pressed from anything except coconut are mainly utilized for cleansing the body as soaps. 90% olive oil flax oil any of those pressed oils."
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This means walnut oil, whether inside the nut or pressed out of it, does not function in the human body as a lubricant, structural fat, neurological fat, or stabilizing agent. Only approximately 2% of the fat fraction from walnuts will be utilized by the body in any constructive way. The remaining 98% of the walnut's fat, when consumed as part of the Nut Formula, is handled by the combination of egg, butter, and honey which neutralizes the enzyme inhibitors and allows at least the starch portion to be used by the body.
One specific and important warning Aajonus gave about walnuts, and by extension, walnut oil, is their tendency to lower cholesterol levels:
"You have to be careful with the walnut, because it lowers all nuts, really. Their oil has a tendency to lower other fat levels in your body, lower cholesterol levels."
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Aajonus considered this a problem on his diet, because he held that the highest possible cholesterol level is desirable when eating raw animal foods:
"And on this diet, you want the highest cholesterol level you can reach. You have 60 varieties of cholesterols that do those three things I talked about. Lubricate the body, give you the strength, and then protect the system... So on this diet, the more cholesterol, the better."
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This means that the oil within walnuts, and by extension any walnut oil consumed, has a cholesterol-lowering effect, which Aajonus considered directly counterproductive to the goals of the Primal Diet. This is not a minor side note but a core biochemical concern: walnut oil actively works against one of the foundational goals of the raw animal food diet, which is to build and maintain the highest possible blood cholesterol across all 60 varieties.
When addressing the general category of pressed vegetable and nut oils in direct response to a question specifically naming walnut oil, Aajonus immediately framed the entire category as follows:
"Also I want to say that oils, pressed oils, do not soothe or condition the body or stabilize it. 90% or more is used as a solvent to get rid of degenerative tissue, clots, plaques, you name it."
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This characterization is consistent throughout all of his teachings: pressed walnut oil would behave exactly as olive oil, flax oil, or any other pressed vegetable oil behaves in the body, functioning overwhelmingly as a solvent, a cleanser, a degreaser, a compound used to disassemble toxic accumulations. It will not lubricate. It will not build. It will not stabilize. It will dry the body:
"Oils dry the skin out. The body makes solvents with them. They talk about them being... They break down cholesterol. They dissolve cholesterol. They get rid of free radicals. Why? Because they're a solvent. And they dry out the skin. They will dry out the glands."
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Aajonus addressed the specific issue of heat damage to the oil within walnuts in the context of commercial walnut preparation. He was informed that Ferrari Farms and Gibson Farms dehydrate walnuts at 110 degrees Fahrenheit in the shell before selling them. He was also told by Jeff Ferrari that above 110 degrees, the oil in the walnuts would go rancid. Aajonus's response was that dehydrating walnuts in the shell at 110 degrees is acceptable:
"In shell is okay, but out of shell that temperature destroys many enzymes."
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This indicates that the shell provides some protection to the walnut oil during the dehydration process at 110 degrees. However, the oil becomes damaged and many enzymes are destroyed when the walnut has already been shelled and then exposed to 110 degrees. This is a critical sourcing point: the oil within shelled walnuts dried at 110 degrees is enzymatically compromised.
Separately, Aajonus established the general rule for all fats and oils:
"When fat is heated over 96 degrees, that's different with butter and cream and dairy products. But when you're dealing with nut butters and you're making your own nut butters or you're using olive oil or coconut oil, when you get over 96 degrees, that's when you start altering the molecular structure so that it will start hardening in your body similar to a vegetable oil, vegetable fat. You do not want a fat turning crystallized and hardened in your body because that will lead to all kinds of problems. Cracking, dryness, arteriosclerosis, heart attacks, aneurysms, you name it."
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This rule applies to walnut oil and nut butter preparations made from walnuts: if the blending or warming process raises the temperature above 96 degrees Fahrenheit, the oil within the walnuts is altered at the molecular level and will behave harmfully in the body.
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Form and State
When directly asked about walnut oil by name in a seminar, Aajonus gave the following response:
"The only oils that are pressed below 96 degrees Fahrenheit that I know of, peanut oil and olive oil, and that's it."
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This is an explicit statement that walnut oil was not known to him to be produced at temperatures below 96 degrees Fahrenheit. Walnut oil as a commercial pressed product therefore does not meet his standard for raw oil and would be in the category of oils pressed at temperatures that alter the molecular structure of the fat, leading to potential hardening and crystallization inside the body.
As discussed in the sourcing section, walnuts dehydrated in the shell at 110 degrees were considered acceptable by Aajonus, with the shell providing protection. This means the oil within properly sourced walnuts (dehydrated in shell at 110 degrees or below, from farms such as Ferrari Farms or Gibson Farms) retains enough of its raw character to be used in the Nut Formula without the specific concern about enzymatic destruction that applies to out-of-shell drying.
Aajonus also referenced walnut oil in an entirely different context, the toxicity of burning walnut wood:
"Some of those are the worst because people will use walnut treated wood without realizing they're poisoning the thing. Well even just wild wood, like walnut with all that oil in it turns into a tar."
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This illustrates that the oils in walnut wood, when combusted, produce extremely toxic compounds, described as turning into a tar. This is a separate warning about exposure to walnut oil through inhalation of smoke from walnut wood, not about dietary consumption. The context was a warning about campfire smoke and oil paint fumes as sources of neurological toxicity.
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Sourcing and Preparation
As stated directly in response to the question about walnut oil, Aajonus identified only olive oil and peanut oil (the latter now largely unavailable below 96 degrees) as oils pressed below the 96-degree threshold. Walnut oil as a commercial product is implicitly placed outside the acceptable category because no such cold-pressed version was known to him. The commercial standard for walnut oil pressing involves temperatures well above 96 degrees, which by his framework means the oil has had its molecular structure altered, will behave as a hardening, crystallizing fat in the body, and will produce the full range of problems he associated with cooked fats.
Aajonus was asked specifically about walnuts from Jaffe Brothers, supplied by Ferrari Farms and Gibson Farms, which are dehydrated at 110 degrees in the shell. His response:
"In shell is okay, but out of shell that temperature destroys many enzymes."
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This means that for the purposes of obtaining the oil within walnuts in the least-damaged form, walnuts must be sourced in-shell and dehydrated at no more than 110 degrees in the shell. The oil within out-of-shell walnuts dehydrated at 110 degrees is considered enzymatically compromised.
The industry reasoning given by Jeff Ferrari, that walnuts must be taken to 8% moisture content to prevent mold, and that above 110 degrees the walnut oil goes rancid, was acknowledged by Aajonus without contradiction, supporting the understanding that 110 degrees represents the upper boundary that even the industry itself considers safe for the oil within the walnut.
Aajonus warned that mechanical nut butter machines (such as the Champion juicer used as a nut butter grinder) heat up too fast:
"It heats up too fast. So, if you make it, you've got to only use a small amount at a time, a few ounces before the machine heats up, because it heats up very quickly with nuts."
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His preferred method for preparing the walnut component of the Nut Formula is to place walnuts in a small canning jar and blend them to a powder in small quantities, then add butter and honey separately. This avoids the heating issue:
"What I usually do is take the nuts, put them in a small canning jar, blend them to a powder and then add butter to it. Butter and honey. I will melt the butter down with the nuts in it with some honey, and then blend it all together and it's delicious."
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Required Pairing
Aajonus was explicit that walnuts and all nuts contain enzyme suppressants that, when the nuts are consumed without the proper combination of foods, will prevent protein digestion for up to 48 hours after eating, can cause depression, sluggishness, and neurological detoxification:
"Nuts have enzyme suppressants in them. If you eat them by themselves, it will prevent you from digesting proteins. It could also make you depressed or sluggish; it manifests differently for each person. That is why I always suggest you blend them to a powder, mix in an egg or some kind of fat, cream, peanut oil, coconut butter, butter..."
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"If consumed more often, especially two days in a row, it can cause neurological detoxification that will interfere with sleep between 12:30 and 5:30 A.M. Eating nuts that are not in combination with all of the foods in the Nut Formula, often interferes with protein-digestion of any food consumed within 48 hours after eating nuts."
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The neutralization of the enzyme inhibitors, and by extension, the conversion of the walnut oil and walnut starch into something usable, requires a specific combination:
"The combination of those oils and with the honey will neutralize those enzyme and protein inhibitors."
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"If you take the dried nut and you grind it into a powder and then add fat and honey, it neutralizes the phytic acid so at least you can digest the starch in it."
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The fat sources that Aajonus listed as acceptable pairings for walnuts in the Nut Formula, in order of preference:
1. Butter, always listed as the first and best choice 2. Raw cream, listed as the second choice 3. Peanut oil (cold-pressed below 96°F, Spectrum Natural brand), listed as third choice when available 4. Coconut cream, listed as a substitute for peanut oil when peanut oil was no longer available
He stated:
"I'll blend them into a powder and then I'll add peanut oil or butter and egg. I'll definitely put an egg in but if I have butter, I'll use butter first. Raw cream second. Peanut oil third."
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The egg is not optional:
"Blend it all together, you've got a nut butter. Your body will use that starch to bind with excess hormones in the body. Oh, I'm sorry, an egg, always."
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"Blend them into a flour, put butter in it with some honey, maybe a tiny bit of coconut cream, and there's your nut. Blend it all together, you've got a nut butter."
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When pressed oils (including the solvent fraction of walnut oil) begin dissolving toxic compounds in the body, Aajonus warned that without protective animal fats present, the dissolved toxins can be re-deposited in harmful ways:
"As they start dissolving compounds in your body, you want the other protective fats there to protect the cells and to chelate with those toxins that are released and dissolved. So you can eliminate them easier so they don't do damage."
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"If you get rid of the pollution without other fats to bind with those, you're going to be more polluted because you're going to have that gunk locking up in your systems in various areas."
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Contraindications
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The most specific contraindication Aajonus gave regarding walnuts and their oil was the cholesterol-lowering effect:
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> "You have to be careful with the walnut, because it lowers all nuts, really. Their oil has a tendency to lower other fat levels in your body, lower cholesterol levels."
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Since the Primal Diet is explicitly oriented toward building the highest possible cholesterol level, the cholesterol-lowering property of walnut oil makes walnuts a food to be used with awareness and, for those already struggling with fat deficiencies or low cholesterol, potentially to be used less frequently or replaced with pecans, pine nuts, or hazelnuts, which do not carry this specific caution.
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While not directly about walnut oil, Aajonus offered a comparative note: pine nuts suppress thyroid production, which makes them useful for hyperthyroid but contraindicated for hypothyroid. Walnuts do not carry this thyroid warning and are described as preferable for those with liver problems. This means for individuals with both liver problems and low cholesterol, walnuts are still the recommended nut for liver, but the cholesterol-lowering property of walnut oil remains a consideration.
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Aajonus warned that consuming multiple vegetable or nut oils together without the correct pairing can produce neurological detoxification severe enough to prevent sleep:
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> "But any other kind of oil with it, whether it's olive oil or flax oil, you're likely to cause a neurological detoxification and you might find yourself not able to sleep."
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This applies in the context of the nut formula: combining walnut (with its inherent oil) with additional pressed oils such as olive oil or flax oil is identified as a risk factor for neurological detox and sleep disruption.
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Aajonus specifically warned against soaking or germinating walnuts (or any nuts):
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> "Does sprouting seeds and nuts help with digestion? It makes it worse. It turns it into a vegetable."
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> "Nuts have an enzyme which prevents digestion. Once you germinate them, soak them, you turn them into a vegetable, so you do not digest them very well."
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> "Germinated throws it off into many more enzymes that are like phytic acid that prevent the utilization of certain minerals, that prevent the utilization of certain proteins, that prevents certain utilization of fats, so it's an old chain reaction."
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The walnut oil within the nut is therefore not improved by soaking, it is worsened, because germination activates additional enzyme-inhibiting pathways beyond even those present in the dry nut.
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In a separate but related warning, Aajonus identified the oil in walnut wood as producing extreme toxicity when burned:
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> "Some of those are the worst because people will use walnut treated wood without realizing they're poisoning the thing. Well even just wild wood, like walnut with all that oil in it turns into a tar."
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This implies that walnut oil in combustion transforms into highly toxic tar compounds, making walnut wood an especially dangerous campfire or fireplace fuel.
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Therapeutic Protocols
The primary therapeutic use of walnuts (and by extension the walnut's oil in combination with the full formula) is to provide starch that binds with and neutralizes excess hormones, adrenaline, anxiety chemicals, and other hyperactive compounds in the bloodstream. Aajonus was clear that this effect occurs in the bloodstream, not in the intestines:
"The starch will bind with certain kinds of pollution in the bloodstream, only the bloodstream. Not the intestines or anywhere else. So if you have a lot of hyperactive chemicals driving the body..."
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Standard Nut Formula, from We Want to Live and Recipe for Living Without Disease: - 2 to 4 ounces raw pecans or walnuts, pine or hazel nuts, sunflower or pumpkin seeds, or peanuts - 4 to 8 tablespoons unsalted raw butter (or substitute coconut cream) - 1 to 2 raw eggs - 1½ to 2 tablespoons unheated honey
Blenderize nuts in an 8- or 12-ounce jar on high speed until they are flour. Add remaining ingredients and stir. Blenderize on medium speed for 20–25 seconds until smooth.
Frequency: Once or twice weekly for most people. Some may need to determine by eating the formula when extra-stressed; if self-control improves within 12 hours, cooked starch is not needed.
Alternative fat: Substitute coconut cream for butter when butter is unavailable.
With peanut oil (when available, Spectrum Natural, cold-pressed below 96°F): Use 3 ounces of peanut oil; up to 4 ounces if using cream instead.
When someone has a liver problem, Aajonus specified:
"If you have a liver problem, stick to walnuts only."
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The formula remains otherwise the same, but all other nuts are excluded and walnuts become the sole nut component. This is one of only two condition-specific nut restrictions he mentioned (the other being pine nuts for thyroid conditions).
Liver problem nut formula: - 2.5 to 3 ounces walnuts only (no other nuts) - 2 ounces to 3.5 ounces butter - 1 to 2 eggs - 1 to 2 tablespoons honey Blend walnuts to flour first, then add remaining ingredients and blend.
For a case involving severe lymph problems, Aajonus specified a more detailed formula:
"You're going to have to have walnuts. You need to eat walnuts. With eggs. With butter when you can get it. If you can't get butter you need to make cream out of your butter. I mean butter out of the cream. Coconut cream will work. So coconut cream, egg. I have three ounces of coconut cream. One egg. And about half a cup of nuts. Walnuts. And blend those into a powder before you mix the rest of the ingredients. And only one tablespoon of honey in that. And no carob powder. And no peanut oil."
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Lymph problem walnut formula: - Half a cup of walnuts (blended to powder first) - 3 ounces coconut cream (or butter if available) - 1 egg - 1 tablespoon honey only - No carob powder - No peanut oil
This is a restricted version of the standard formula with specifically reduced honey and the explicit exclusion of both carob and peanut oil.
For excessive hormones, anxiety, or too much adrenaline:
"Take those nuts and blend them until they are a flour. Then add raw egg, some butter, 2-3 tablespoons of butter and a tablespoon of honey. Then you have a very wonderful sweet nut butter. Now that you can eat to help bind with excessive hormones, too much adrenaline, too much anxiety."
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Formula: - Half cup soft nuts (walnuts, pecans) - 2–3 tablespoons butter - 1 tablespoon honey - 1 raw egg (always included) Blend nuts to flour, add remaining ingredients, blend together.
If exercise and the nut butter do not resolve the anxiety/hormone excess, Aajonus suggested moving to a small amount of whole grain cooked rice as a starch source.
"You can eat a nut formula, and what you do is take the softer nuts, the ones that are more digestible, cashews, I mean, yeah, cashews are okay, pine nuts, pecans, and walnuts. Those are your soft, main soft nuts. Take those, blend them until they are a flour, put butter in it with some honey, maybe a tiny bit of coconut cream, and there's your nut."
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Formula: - Half cup soft nuts including walnuts - Butter - Honey - Tiny bit of coconut cream (optional) - Egg (always)
Aajonus described the nut formula in its most pleasurable form:
"Take a half a cup of nuts, one of those four, and I'll blend them into a powder and then I'll add peanut oil or butter and egg. I'll definitely put an egg in but if I have butter, I'll use butter first. Raw cream second. Peanut oil third. And I'll add a tablespoon or two of honey and sometimes a teaspoon of carob powder, raw carob powder, and blend that together and have myself a little pudding treat."
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Pudding treat formula: - Half cup walnuts, pecans, pine nuts, or hazelnuts (or combination) - 3–4 ounces butter (first choice), OR raw cream, OR peanut oil - 1 egg - 1–2 tablespoons honey - Optional: 1 teaspoon raw carob powder
Note: the carob powder is excluded in the lymph problem variation, as Aajonus specifically said "no carob powder" for that condition.
For the honey/butter combination used as a restorative:
"Place 1 cup of room temperature unsalted raw butter in a tightly sealed jar and immerse the jar in hot water that is not hot enough to burn your hand. While the butter is melting, blend ½ cup of shelled raw walnuts (or other soft nut) until it is powder. When the butter is melted, add 4–6 tablespoons of unheated honey and the powdered nuts and blend. This mixture can be refrigerated and kept up to 3 months."
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Formula: - 1 cup unsalted raw butter (melted in jar in hot water, below hand-burning temperature) - ½ cup shelled raw walnuts, blended to powder - 4–6 tablespoons unheated honey Blend all together. Refrigerate. Keeps up to 3 months.
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Topical Applications
No specific topical protocols for walnut oil were described in the source passages. However, Aajonus did reference a topical moisturizing formula using pressed oils in general:
"Blend ¼ cup of good mineral water, 1 small tomato, or ¼ cup of melon with 1 tablespoon unsalted raw butter, unheated-above-96º Fahrenheit fermented coconut oil or 1 tablespoon stone-pressed olive oil. So that the oils are properly homogenized, blend until ingredients are warm to the touch."
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This formula uses stone-pressed olive oil, not walnut oil. No source passage names walnut oil specifically in a topical application.
The warning about walnut wood oil turning to tar when burned (see Section 6) implies that external exposure to combusted walnut oil is toxic. Aajonus mentioned that campfire smoke and oil paints were among the vectors for neurological toxicity, and walnut wood was specifically named as one of the worst campfire materials because of its oil content.
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Dosage and Safety
Aajonus established a clear upper limit for the consumption of any pressed oil:
"The body can only handle a tablespoon a day of those pressed oils. So it's a concentrated oil. And you figure in nature, in the coconut, there's seven to eight percent. In a leaf, they're about the same, six to eight percent."
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"Let's say if you're making a sauce with olive oil and you've got four tablespoons in it, don't need any more pressed oils for four days. It's going to take you four days to get that out of the system, to utilize it, to make it into solvents, to clean the body, and to process it."
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This means that if walnut oil were to be consumed as a pressed oil (which Aajonus did not specifically recommend given the lack of cold-pressed options below 96°F), the maximum safe dose would be approximately one tablespoon per day, and consumption of four tablespoons of any pressed oil would require a four-day gap before consuming any more pressed oil.
The Nut Formula, which contains the oil naturally present within walnuts, should be consumed once or twice weekly, not daily:
"Some people may need to eat a little cooked starch with plenty of raw fat if they cannot digest the Nut Formula."
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"If consumed more often, especially two days in a row, it can cause neurological detoxification that will interfere with sleep between 12:30 and 5:30 A.M."
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This means the natural walnut oil within the nut, even when properly combined in the full Nut Formula, can contribute to neurological detoxification if consumed too frequently, specifically on consecutive days.
Aajonus specified a consistent quantity range: - Half a cup of nuts (approximately 2 to 4 ounces) - No more than 3 to 4 ounces - Blended fully to flour before adding other ingredients
He specified blending for about 30 seconds into a paste/powder before adding fats.
For any pressed oil that meets the cold-press standard:
"Oils that are properly cold-pressed or stone-pressed, that is, pressed below 96° Fahrenheit, should be kept from light. Placing each bottle of oil inside a brown paper bag, pressing the bag around the bottle, putting a rubber band at the neck, and putting the oil in the darkest, coolest cupboard prevents the bottle of oil from turning bitter and/or flat."
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Since Aajonus did not know of walnut oil pressed below 96°F, these storage guidelines apply to olive oil and (formerly) peanut oil, not to walnut oil specifically.
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Culinary Applications
Crust: - 1 cup raw walnut halves - 2 tablespoons unsalted raw butter - 1 tablespoon unheated honey
Place walnuts, butter, and honey in food processor and blend until ingredients form a ball. Butter bottom and sides of an 8- or 9-inch glass pie dish. Spread nut mixture and flatten evenly into bottom of pie dish. Chill in freezer for 15 minutes while making filling.
Filling: - 2 eggs - 6 non-steamed dates - 3 bananas - 8 tablespoons unsalted raw butter - 2 drops organic vanilla extract (optional)
Topping: - 15 ounces raw cream - 1 to 2 tablespoons unheated honey (optional)
Crust: - 2 ounces raw walnut halves - 2 teaspoons unsalted raw butter - ½ teaspoon unheated honey
Blenderize walnuts, butter, and honey in a 4-ounce jar on high speed using pulse-action for 5 seconds. Butter bottom and sides of 4-inch glass or ceramic pie dish. Spread nut mixture and flatten evenly onto bottom.
Filling: - 1 egg - 1 non-steamed date - ¾ banana - 2 tablespoons unsalted raw butter - 1 drop organic vanilla extract (optional)
Topping: - 3 ounces raw cream - 2 teaspoons unheated honey (optional)
Crust: - Raw walnut halves (quantity as specified for crust size) - 2 teaspoons butter - 1 teaspoon honey
Blenderize nuts, butter, and honey in a 4-ounce jar on high speed using pulse-action for 5 seconds. Butter bottom and sides of serving bowl. Evenly distribute crust on bottom and press firmly. Place in freezer while making filling.
Filling: - Chopped date and persimmon, blenderized on high speed for 20–30 seconds until thick
Topping: - Raw cream and honey blenderized until fluffy and stiff Let stand in refrigeration for at least 6 hours.
Crust: - 1 cup raw walnut halves - 4 large raw Medjool dates (stones removed, chopped, room temperature) - 2 tablespoons unsalted raw butter (room temperature)
Place all ingredients in food processor and blend until ingredients begin to clump into a ball. Spread and press mixture evenly into the bottom of an 8 x 6 x 2½-inch Pyrex baking dish. Place in freezer to stiffen while making filling.
Filling: - ¾ cup no-salt-added hard raw cheese (room temperature) - 16 tablespoons unsalted raw butter (room temperature) - 2 tablespoons unheated honey
Ingredients (1 serving): - 2 ounces walnut halves - ¼ stalk celery - ½ teaspoon fresh ginger root - 3 tablespoons coconut cream - 1 tablespoon unheated honey - 1 tablespoon chopped Thai basil, or mint leaves (optional) - ½ to 4 tablespoons fresh hot peppers
Blenderize celery and ginger together and strain out pulp. Warm coconut cream in a 4-ounce jar, capped with blender washer/blades/base, immersed in a bowl of mildly hot water for 5 minutes. Blenderize walnuts in an 8-ounce jar until they are flour. Add juices, honey, and coconut cream and blenderize all ingredients together on medium speed for 10 seconds. If ingredients stick to bottom while blending, remove from blender and shake loose, then resume blending.
Ingredients (1 serving): - 3 tablespoons unsalted raw butter - 1 tablespoon unheated honey - 1 teaspoon grated fresh ginger root - 1 tablespoon raw carob powder - 2½ ounces raw walnut or pecan halves, pine or hazel nuts, or sunflower seeds
Warm butter and ginger in a 4-ounce jar, capped and immersed in a bowl of mildly hot water. Blenderize nuts in an 8-ounce jar on high speed until they are flour, then combine with warmed butter mixture, honey, and carob.
- 2 to 4 ounces raw walnuts (or pecans, pine nuts, hazel nuts, sunflower or pumpkin seeds, or peanuts)
- 4 to 8 tablespoons unsalted raw butter
- 1 to 2 raw eggs
- 1½ to 2 tablespoons unheated honey
Blenderize nuts on high speed until flour. Add remaining ingredients and stir. Blenderize on medium speed for 20–25 seconds until smooth. Alternative: Substitute coconut cream for butter.
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Primary Derivative
The primary "derivative" discussed in Aajonus's work is not walnut oil as a pressed product but the natural oil fraction within the walnut as it appears after blending to flour within the Nut Formula. This oil, combined with the egg, butter, and honey, is partially neutralized in terms of its enzyme-inhibiting properties, and the starch becomes available for bloodstream binding. However, the walnut's oil itself remains largely unusable by the body (approximately 2% digested), with the remainder functioning as a minor solvent within the framework of the full formula.
The walnut oil's cholesterol-lowering property persists even within the Nut Formula context, which is why Aajonus offered the caution about walnuts specifically in the context of fat levels and cholesterol, and why he maintained that pecans, pine nuts, and hazelnuts are alternatives that do not carry this specific effect.
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Historical Context
When asked directly about walnut oil and other nut/vegetable oils in terms of brands and cold-pressing, Aajonus documented that as of his seminars:
"The only oils that are pressed below 96 degrees Fahrenheit that I know of, peanut oil and olive oil, and that's it. Spectrum is the only one that does it."
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This places walnut oil outside the set of commercially viable options on the Primal Diet. The implication is that every commercially available walnut oil on the market, including those marketed as "cold-pressed," was not pressed at temperatures below 96 degrees Fahrenheit, the threshold Aajonus identified as the point at which fat molecular structure begins to be altered in ways that cause hardening and crystallization within the body.
Aajonus also documented that even previously acceptable oil sources changed their practices:
"I used to use peanut oil but, you know, Spectrum is doing their number and cold pressing toasted nuts, peanuts. So that doesn't make any sense."
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"She's asking about peanut oil. There's no more peanut oil available that's under even 150 degrees. So not even talk about it. Nothing available."
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This documents a trajectory in which even the most careful commercial oil producers, Spectrum Natural, moved away from the cold-pressing standards that Aajonus had relied upon, leaving the market with no acceptable pressed peanut oil. By implication, walnut oil, which never had a known cold-pressed option below 96°F, has always been in this unavailable category.
Aajonus documented a specific case of oil industry fraud adjacent to this topic:
"Borage oil is nothing other than cottonseed oil with another name, and it's very toxic. It makes animals very sick."
Aajonus Vonderplanitz
While this is about borage oil rather than walnut oil specifically, it establishes Aajonus's general position that the vegetable and nut oil industry is characterized by mislabeling, hidden heating processes, and toxic products sold under health-food marketing.
The specific exchange about Ferrari Farms and Gibson Farms documented in the Q&A materials is historically significant as it reveals that even suppliers considered reputable within the raw food community, selling to health food distributors like Jaffe Brothers, were dehydrating walnuts at 110 degrees Fahrenheit as industry standard. Jeff Ferrari's own statement that above 110 degrees the walnut oil goes rancid establishes an independent industry acknowledgment of the oil's vulnerability to heat damage. Aajonus accepted this sourcing (for in-shell walnuts) but made clear that out-of-shell dehydration at 110 degrees destroys many enzymes.
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