Wheat grass juice occupies a highly unusual and largely negative position within Aajonus Vonderplanitz's teaching. Unlike virtually every other green vegetable juice he recommended, wheat grass juice stands apart as something he consistently described as the single worst vegetable you can consume in juice form. This is a strong and repeated position that cuts directly against the widespread popular belief, present in the health food movement broadly, that wheat grass juice is a miracle drink or a superior green supplement.

Aajonus's concern is not marginal. He stated plainly: "I think wheatgrass juice is the worst vegetable you can eat." He repeated this across multiple workshops and written communications. The reason for this condemnation is specific and biochemical in his framework: wheat grass juice does not behave like other green vegetable juices in the blood. Where other green vegetable juices alkalinize the blood, which is the entire therapeutic purpose of consuming vegetable juice in a body burdened with toxicity, acid foods, medications, and environmental pollution, wheat grass juice instead turns the blood acid. At the same time, and paradoxically, it over-alkalinizes the intestines. This dual, opposing effect is the precise opposite of what the body needs from a green juice, and it is why Aajonus categorically rejected it as a standard or recommended green juice.

He repeatedly had to help clients recover from protocols involving large amounts of wheat grass juice, describing those who went through such programs as "basket cases near death." He did not simply say it was neutral or slightly inferior, he placed it as the worst option available, worse than all other green vegetable juices.

The only context in which Aajonus ever allowed or even explored wheat grass juice positively was its specific experimental use as a component in a mixture with raw milk to potentially stimulate human growth hormone (HGH) activity. Even in this context, his enthusiasm was limited and qualified. He experimented with this combination for roughly eight months to a year and a half before settling on a specific protocol, and he made clear this was the only circumstance in which he would consider wheat grass juice at all.

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The defining biochemical property of wheat grass juice in Aajonus's framework is that it turns the blood acid. This is directly opposite to the effect of all other green vegetable juices, which are consumed specifically because they alkalinize the blood. The entire rationale for drinking green vegetable juice daily, a cornerstone of the Primal Diet, is that toxic bodies, bodies burdened with decades of cooked food, medications, environmental pollution, and accumulated acrid compounds, have an over-acidic blood environment. Green vegetable juices flood the blood with alkaline minerals that bind with those acrid, acidic poisons and help remove them from the body. Wheat grass juice does not do this. It does the opposite.

Simultaneously, wheat grass juice over-alkalinizes the intestines. This is also harmful. The intestinal tract is supposed to be acidic, it depends on acidic bacteria, acidic digestive juices, and an acidic environment to properly break down food, especially proteins. When you alkalinize the intestines excessively, you neutralize the acidic bacteria and the digestive acids, causing gas, poor protein digestion, and disruption of the intestinal bacterial environment. Aajonus noted that this effect is exactly the opposite of what every other vegetable juice does, because other vegetable juices do not over-alkalinize the intestines when consumed in appropriate amounts.

This dual action, acidifying the blood while over-alkalinizing the intestines, creates what Aajonus described as a deeply destabilizing and harmful biochemical state. The blood becomes more acidic at exactly the moment the intestines become more alkaline. These are two parallel failures occurring at once.

Aajonus also noted that wheat grass juice is very high in sugar. A person in his workshop pointed this out, framing it as potentially balanced by the fact that wheat grass juice's molecular structure is very close to human blood. Aajonus acknowledged the molecular similarity claim but did not accept it as a justification for consuming wheat grass juice. His response was simply: "No, it's not", meaning it is not a good thing to eat on this diet, regardless of the molecular resemblance to human blood.

The one clinical population for whom Aajonus acknowledged wheat grass juice might have a legitimate use was diabetics and people with blood that is "too over-alkaline." He wrote in his book, referenced in the workshop transcripts, that wheat grass juice is not suggested for anybody except diabetics. People with sugar problems whose blood is excessively alkaline could potentially use wheat grass juice to help re-acidify it. This is a very narrow and specific exception that does not apply to the general population. It is the inverse of the normal situation: most toxic people have over-acid blood, and for them wheat grass juice makes things worse. But for someone whose blood is already over-alkaline, as can occur in certain blood sugar disorders, the acidifying effect of wheat grass juice may provide a counterbalancing benefit.

Aajonus explored whether wheat grass juice, when mixed with raw milk, could stimulate human growth hormone activity. He stated: "The only time I've been experimenting for the past eight months was mixing wheatgrass juice and milk, and it does create some growth hormone effect." He also recounted arriving at this intuitively, he reasoned that if he took two ounces of wheat grass juice per quart of milk, it might create the beneficial HGH-stimulating effect he had been looking for as an alternative to expensive commercial HGH precursors. He confirmed: "And sure enough, it is."

He experimented with this formula for about a year and a half. He wrote that wheat grass juice "helps stir growth hormone activity" when combined with raw milk, but after a year and a half he concluded it "didn't really do much." There is a mild tension here between his workshop statement that it "does create some growth hormone effect" and his later qualifier that it "didn't really do much" over the long run. Both statements are present in the sources and should be understood as part of an evolving experimental assessment.

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Wheat grass juice, in the context of Aajonus's discussion, is the fresh-pressed juice of wheat grass, the young grass shoots of the wheat plant, not the grain itself. This is a different product from wheat grain or wheat germ, though Aajonus distinguished these clearly in different discussions.

The juice form is the only form discussed in the context of its effects on blood and intestinal pH, and in the HGH milk combination protocol. There is no suggestion that consuming wheat grass in any other form changes its fundamental property of acidifying the blood.

Freshness matters in the sense that Aajonus's general principle regarding vegetable juices was that they should be consumed relatively promptly or stored correctly. However, he does not give separate freshness guidance specific to wheat grass juice beyond the general principles he applied to all vegetable juice storage.

The HGH milk combination is described as a specific fresh mixture. Aajonus noted that despite not being a fan of wheat grass juice, "I hated it", he found it acceptable in the milk mixture, stating: "Not the best tasting milk, but I was never a wheatgrass fan. I hated it. However, in this milk, I do like it."

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Aajonus raised a concern in at least one workshop transcript about genetic engineering of wheatgrass. He stated: "gotta stop soybean and corn and wheatgrass now is genetically engineered by Monsanto company." A participant responded: "I didn't know about the corn and the wheatgrass." Aajonus then added a nuance: "I know the soybean has been genetically engineered for a long time corn has too grasses have but not necessarily wheatgrass so it's ancient origin I mean it's just poison that they're giving us." He also noted: "well you're only gonna get that stuff if you give it to a regular market." This suggests that commercially available wheatgrass, particularly from regular markets rather than specialty or health food stores, could potentially be genetically modified, though he acknowledged wheat grass itself has an ancient origin that is not inherently GMO.

Although Aajonus strongly discouraged wheat grass juice for most people, he noted in the context of juicer recommendations that the Green Star 1000, his preferred juicer, juices wheat grass as well as all other vegetables. He specifically named this as one of its capabilities: "The Green Star 1000 is a double stainless steel auger system. It juices wheat grass as well as everything else." This was not an endorsement of wheat grass juice but rather a description of the machine's versatility.

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The only pairing Aajonus ever discussed or endorsed for wheat grass juice was raw milk. This pairing was not described as a general daily food combination but as a very specific experimental protocol for HGH stimulation. The raw milk appears to serve multiple functions in this combination:

1. Masking the taste: Aajonus hated wheat grass juice but found it acceptable in raw milk. 2. Diluting and buffering the wheat grass juice: The ratio is extremely skewed, 3 ounces of wheat grass juice to 28 ounces of raw milk, meaning the wheat grass juice is a very small fraction of the total volume. 3. Providing the fat matrix: Raw milk's fat content likely provides the fat buffer that Aajonus always associated with the safe consumption of potentially reactive substances. The milk is not pasteurized, it must be raw.

He was explicit that this combination should not be consumed with other foods and should be taken at least one hour from any other food. The milk combination is described as the only way he used wheat grass juice at all, and even then with strict limitations on quantity and frequency.

There is no record in these sources of Aajonus recommending wheat grass juice paired with animal fat, butter, cream, or eggs in the way he recommended fat pairings for other potentially problematic foods. The raw milk itself appears to be the complete vehicle.

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No topical applications of wheat grass juice are described in any of the available source passages.

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• No more than 1 cup (approximately 8 ounces) of the wheat grass/milk combination per day
• Within that cup, the wheat grass juice itself is only 3 ounces mixed into 28 ounces of milk (per the full-glass formula), meaning the dose of pure wheat grass juice in any one sitting is 3 ounces at absolute maximum
• Earlier workshop references mention "two ounces per quart of milk" as his initial intuitive formula, there is a slight discrepancy between the workshop statement (2 oz) and the written Q&A responses (3 oz in 28 oz milk)

The on/off cycling, four days on, one week off, then four days on again, is mandatory. This is not a continuously consumed food. The cycling pattern implies a concern about accumulated effects from sustained use.

With the cycling protocol of four days on/one week off, and no more than one cup of the combination daily, the maximum weekly exposure (in active weeks) is four cups of the diluted combination, containing at most 12 ounces total of wheat grass juice spread across four days (approximately 3 ounces per day). In inactive weeks, zero consumption.

Aajonus acknowledged that after "a quart of it a week, I've had enough for the week", implying a natural saturation point exists even for the diluted, raw-milk-combined form of wheat grass juice.

For everyone except diabetics (and possibly people with over-alkaline blood), Aajonus's dosage recommendation is effectively zero. There is no "safe" or "small" amount of wheat grass juice he endorsed for general use outside of the specific HGH/milk protocol.

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Aajonus documented only one recipe or culinary application for wheat grass juice:

Wheat Grass/Milk Combination (HGH Formula) - 3 ounces wheat grass juice - 28 ounces raw milk - Mix together, consume as a beverage

He did not elaborate on whether the wheat grass juice should be freshly pressed immediately before combining with the milk, though given his general principles about vegetable juice freshness, fresh-pressed would be the most consistent approach.

He described the flavor as "not the best tasting milk" but noted that despite hating wheat grass juice on its own, he found it acceptable, even likable, in this milk format: "in this milk, I do like it."

No other culinary preparations of wheat grass juice appear in the available source passages. Wheat grass juice is never mentioned as an ingredient in any of his other formulas, sauces, smoothies, or food combinations.

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No derivatives of wheat grass juice are discussed in the available source passages. Wheat grass juice is itself the end product under discussion. Wheat germ and wheat grain are discussed separately in the sources in entirely different contexts and should not be conflated with wheat grass juice.

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Aajonus placed wheat grass juice firmly within the context of what he viewed as misguided and potentially dangerous health faddism. He described the culture around wheat grass juice, people "carrying wheatgrass juice and doing coffee enemas" as part of intensive health programs, as producing damaging outcomes. He stated that people who went through these protocols at places like the Hippocrates Health Institute (which he refers to as "the ophthalmology institute" in some passages) frequently "walk out of their basket cases near death." He added: "I have sent a lot of them, and I have to help them recover from that."

He described the entire framework of such programs, wheat grass juice, coffee enemas, intensive green juice fasting, vegetarian raw food, as "not a healing method. That's a decomposing method." This is a sweeping condemnation of a widely promoted alternative health approach.

Workshop participants and questioners repeatedly came to Aajonus with the assumption that wheat grass juice was a miracle health food. He directly and consistently challenged this at every turn:

• "We've been led to believe that wheatgrass is sort of a miracle drink.", workshop participant
• "I think wheatgrass juice is the worst vegetable you can eat.", Aajonus's response

He acknowledged that his book addressed this, but noted that many people had not read it. The popular belief in wheat grass juice as a healing miracle was treated by Aajonus as a product of misinformation in the health food world, analogous to the misinformation surrounding soy, whole grains, and other mainstream "health food" dogmas.

Aajonus raised concerns, though with some uncertainty and qualification, about the potential for commercial wheat grass to be genetically engineered by Monsanto. He grouped this with soy and corn as crops that had been subject to GMO contamination. He qualified that wheat grass's "ancient origin" may protect some varieties, but warned that regular market sources of wheat grass could be the genetically modified version. The implication was that even people who wanted to use wheat grass juice for its narrow legitimate purposes (diabetics, HGH protocol) should be concerned about GMO contamination in commercial sources.

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