Aajonus's Life Mission

“To help reverse disease and facilitate healthier lives and a more peaceful world for those interested.”

When I approached Aajonus in 2004 with my plan for me to set up the WeWant2Live.com site, I asked him his Mission.  He gave me the one sentence you see above.

Now in 2013 I look at that one sentence statement.  He DID live by this statement.  He also gave anyone who is not interested the immediate right to exit from the page or discussion, with no blame or shame.
On these pages I will occasionally put up some feedback from “those interested”.  If someone not interested comes along, they are invited to exit from this page right away.

There is no harm and no controversy in this statement as far as I can see and as far as any of the thousands of people whose lives he did improve.    Read on if you like, at http://www.wewant2live.com/

Also, see the tribute from one person who is now of great service to the raw foods community, having been resurrected from serious 'incurable' diseases which kept her bed-ridden much of the time:

Aajonus was a nutritionist who developed the Primal Diet, the very diet which saved Renée Ainlay's life (founder of Original Living Coconut) You can read Renee's journey here: http://www.originallivingcoconut.com/ReneesStory.aspx  Aajonus was also an activist for the non-profit organization, Right to Choose Healthy Food. He was the author of two books: We Want to Live & The Recipe for Living Without Disease. Aajonus traveled around the world, sharing his wealth of knowledge, helping people find vibrant health & come out of the grips of disease. Tragically, Aajonus fell from his second story balcony at his home in Thailand when it gave way. He suffered a broken spine & internal bleeding. He was taken to the hospital where he passed.

 

A Word From Renée, Founder of OLC

I am writing this with a very heavy heart. My dear friend and teacher Aajonus Vonderplanitz just recently passed away. He was on his 2nd floor balcony at his home in Thiland when it gave way. He suffered a broken back and internal bleeding and passed at the hospital. 

As many of you know my story, I have been following Aajonus's Primal Diet for 7 1/2 years. Not only have I regained my health, but Aajonus has inspired me and changed the direction of my life. I will forever be indebted to him and I am truly blessed to have known him. Not only has he helped me but he has helped others in my family (my husband, my kids & their families & my brothers). 

A pioneer of the raw food movement, Aajonus has paved the way for many. He first introduced the Primal Diet through his books, We Want to Live and A Recipe for Living Without Disease. His teachings didn't stop there, he made DVDs and wrote newsletters, gave lectures, appeared on TV talk shows, radio shows etc. He has accompished so much I cant even begin to name them all.  He was an activist for the raw milk movement. He spearheaded the abolition of California's ban of raw milk sales in stores. He gave countless hours of his time to help defend farmers against raw milk lawsuits. He has helped thousands of people regain their health over the many years. 

...

I will miss you my dear friend and teacher. I will miss talking to you and miss your heart hugs. You were a very special treasure to many. Along with everyone else I will do my best to carry on and share what I have learned on my jorney for health. Rest in peace my friend. I pray blessings, peace and comfort for your family and friends. -Reneè, Founder of Original Living Coconut

The Rawesome Trial was not a jury trial.  It is over; it has been settled.
As there have been so many inquiries about it, and the people involved,  and the mystery surrounding it, Aajonus's description will be available for public viewing at the following link through the first week of August:

http://www.wewant2live.com/2013/07/26/rawesome-trial-outcome-summarized-aajonus/ .

After that, it will be archived on the http://www.wewant2live.com site.

The Raw Primal Diet is Not the Paleo Diet...

Thanks again to Aajonus for wise, health-promoting insights! I owe him full recovery from lifelong eczema.

Best,

Bonny S.

http://www.onwingsofcare.org/

[The following message is from Bonny regarding a video'd interview TEDxOU called Debunking the paleo diet, in which Christina Warinner is interviewed]

Her premises do not coincide with those of Aajonus who advocates a raw Primal Diet (R) -- but it may describe the diets she is refuting, I don't know for I don't know about those diets.

The [raw Primal Diet of Aajonus Vonderplanitz] certainly does not eschew green vegetables or fruits; in fact, it considers them vital,and advocates juicing of vegetables, as their mineral and other content is sooo good for us.

She [Ms. Warinner] also misses the very very important point that it is RAW protein that is advocated, the raw feature is critical. (Again, I refer to Aajonus's raw Primal Diet, not to these diets that she is refuting.)  This applies to both meat and dairy/eggs.  

The raw Primal Diet also emphasizes all kinds of meats and all organs, not just beef muscle (which she calls the "meat myth.)

Teeth are part of the argument. Stomach acid and intestine length is also important.

I'll listen to this when I can hear the whole thing, but I caught these features in the first few minutes.

There is no question in my mind, looking at this speaker, that she eats much cooked food, including grains.

Thanks for sharing this!

Bonny S.

Staying Young with the Primal Diet of Aajonus Vonderplanitz

 Does the Primal Diet of Aajonus Vonderplanitz enable you to live a longer and more satisfying life, in good health?

Tune in to the National Geographic TV channel on Monday Aprill 22, 2013 at 10 PM EST to see an interview of someone who has been on the Primal Diet for about 15 years.

You can see the photo of the person being interviewed at http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/

channel/the-numbers-game/episodes/when-will-you-die/ - with raw milk, steak and chicken or fish on the table.   The subject is "how long will you live?".

Just for fun, guess his age and put that in the comment  box below.  I would be interested in what you have to say.

  

Potluck Party and Raw Food Book Signing Event

San Diego, California 

Primal Diet potluck and book signing event

Several health minded individuals are throwing a Primal Diet potluck and book signing event on Sunday February 3rd  in Carlsbad California. Aajonus Vonderplanitz will be present after the book signing/potluck party for a question and answer period for those who have read at least one of his books.  Others may attend in a listen-only mode.  Full details including directions, are at http://www.wewant2live.com/events-2/. Those who wish to attend but are not certain of what to bring may bring raw milk at room temperature or ripe tomatoes & avocados.

Aajonus Vonderplanitz is the creator of the Primal Diet ® -

a balanced raw food diet for optimum health. He recently returned to the USA after some months in Asia. He has seen and guided thousands through one on one consultations however hundreds of thousands more have achieved excellent health through the information in his two books. His first book We Want To Live:the Primal Diet brings the raw diet into the public eye and has achieved wide acclaim. The first five chapters can be viewed here on the at http://www.wewant2live.com/2011/06/05/aaa-wwtl-revision-2005/.

To see experiencesvarious health-minded people have had with this raw foods diet, clickhere.

Learn Creative Healthy Raw Food Recipes

Many of those attending show some stellar successes of anti-aging effects of the Primal Diet and some other key benefits of Aajonus's raw food diet – as covered in

• his original book We Want To Live:the Primal Diet (originally published in 1997;
  the 2^nd edition with additional material added in was published in 2005),
• his second raw diet book The Recipe for Living Without Disease and
• in his Fast, Nutritious & Delicious Raw Food Recipes DVD.

Attendees sample creative raw dishes and learn raw diet recipes from the people who make them.

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The Missing Piece of the Rawesome Puzzle

Rawesome selling commercial eggs and chickens meant more to Aajonus than it would to a casual observer.
Why would he act so strongly upon private investigator and other confirming reports of commercial eggs and chicken sales?
See http://www.wewant2live.com/why-is-aajonus-so-concerned-about-toxicity-in-commercial-chickens-and-eggs/

Aajonus's Scheduled International Appearances in 2012

A good raw food diet is in demand internationally.  Aajonus's books and Primal Diet Workshop DVD set (click here to see clips) have been very well received in more than 20 countries in recent years.
Now there is a demand for Aajonus personally! 


See http://www.wewant2live.com/events-2/ for details for each country.
In a nutshell, his 2012 international schedule is as follows: 
Toronto, Ontario, Canada June 2nd - 4th
Kuortane and Helsinik Finland, July 6 - 12
Geneva, Switzerland August 24 - 27
South Africa - a 3 city tour Oct 6 - 22

The book We Want To Live: the Primal Diet first came out in 1997. 

 Primal Diet is a formally and legally registered trademark owned by the author of the book, Aajonus Vonderplanitz (see http://www.WeWant2Live.com).  I suggest you read the book to gain a full understanding of the importance and relevance to health.

I spoke with a medical doctor once, asking her if she agreed to “Let food be your medicine and let medicine be your food” as brought down to us over the centuries from Hippocrates.

She said “yes, but that was then (meaning in the time of Hippocrates) and this is now”.

She is right about that. If you walk through the isles of a supermarket today and pull various items off the shelf – then try to live by eating these items and be healthy – you will not get the nutrients you need.

There are two huge differences between what is available today and what food was in the time of Hippocrates:

• The food of today has been altered in some way and
• something has been added or taken away from the original source of the food.

Find Out for Yourself:

I suggest you make a field trip to a grocery store, choosing the items for daily consumption – such as milk, breakfast cereal, juice, bread, prepared meat, pastries, desserts and so on, including catsup, mustard and butter.

I suggest you make a game of this, even involving your kids.

This reminds me of the kind of puzzle you can find in a children's magazine – for instance one challenging you to find the hidden animals in a picture. Take these common items and see how they have been altered from the original. You are invited to post what you find, at the bottom of this page.

Then - if it is available to you – take another field trip to a self-sustaining farm. There was a Greek Orthodox monastery not far from where I grew up. You may find an Amish farm. If you do not find a self-sustaining farm, look on the right side of this page, to see the blog labels then click on Amish. You will find several refreshing weeks recorded by Nathan Donahoe... Start at the bottom and read up.

You will notice the distinct absence of table salt, an absence of refined sugars in any of its names (for example corn syrup), and anything you do find there has a simple name such as chicken or egg. No long confusing words or complex chemicals.

I am not trying to set myself up as an authority, but rather to get you to see how this works for yourself.  I suggest you research this a bit more yourself, including reading Aajonus's books.

Right to Grow and Consume Healthy Food

HI, healthy food lovers, [from Aajonus]
The battle continues in the Hershberger case. We have stayed them from rushing Vernon into trial and condemning him so far. We have forced a jurisdictional-challenge hearing on the judge for Friday March 2. Please fax and call the "officials" listed below who are trying to rob our right to grow and consume healthy food. We know and have the constitutional law on our side but the government and the courts need to be forced to follow constitutional law not their administrative law that does not follow constitutional law unless forced. We must force them.
... [see non-commercial farmer]...
Even the Wi Agricultural code exempts farmers, workers and owners from licensing and permits if only they consume the dairy, period. Remind them that the Nazis gained the greatest control of the people by restricting their farming and food rights and we will not permit it.
Take your and their time because they are trying to take your food rights. Be heard and make them listen. I am beyond the Mr. Nice-guy attitude toward tyrannical government agents, so if it is your demeanor to try gently to persuade them, wonderful. If it is your outrage that moves you, express it.

If you live in Wisconsin, or are near the Baraboo courthouse or want to travel there to partake in the events for food freedom surrounding this case, see the announcement of activities for March 1 and 2 below.

Ben Brancel, Secretary of Wisconsin Dept of Ag.
Office Phone: 608-224-5012
Office Fax: 608-224-5045

Scott Walker, Wisconsin Governor
(608) 266-1212
Fax (608) 267-8983
govgeneral@wisconsin.gov

Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen
(608) 266-1221
Fax (608) 267-2779

Eric DeFort, Asst. Attorney General
WI DOJ, Special Prosecutor for the County of Sauk
(608)266-8514

Judge Guy Reynolds
(608) 355-3222

[visit www.rawmilk.org and Jurisdiction Challenged]
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­­As the state of Wisconsin continues persecuting dairy farmer Vernon Hershberger, activists and supporters rally to his defense! See complete article on The Complete Patient

Two Day Event in Support of Vernon Hershberger

Thursday March 1, 2:00 – 5:30, followed by dinner
Friday March 2, 11:00-1:00 FOOD FREEDOM RALLY for Vernon

Know Your Rights! Support Your Farmers!

Make History With An UNPRECEDENTED Stand Against Oppressive Regulations!

Eat Really Delicious FARM FRESH FOOD!

Join the RAW MILK FREEDOM RIDERS and Farm Food Freedom Coalition for an incredible two-day event Thursday, MARCH 1 and Friday, MARCH 2, 2012 in Sauk County, Wisconsin.

DAY ONE: Rights Workshop

Thursday, March 1, 2012 2:00 PM-5:30 PM followed by a Farm Food Dinner

(Space is limited. Reserve your seat today. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how to exercise your right to the foods of your choice!)

RSVP: RawMilkFreedomRiders@gmail.com

SPEAKERS and RIGHTS TRAINERS INCLUDE: Raw milk activist, Max Kane. Canadian farmer and raw milk speaker, Michael Schmidt, Food Freedom Activist, John Moody, Author and blogger, David Gumpert, Activist and speaker, Mel Olsen and Raw Milk Freedom Riders/Farm Food Freedom Coalition Co-founder, Liz Reitzig and freedom activist and Constitutional scholar, Michael Badnarik.

Learn about a history of peaceful non-compliance, how to peacefully stand up for your rights in confrontational situations, how to take responsibility for your freedom. Farm-fresh dinner to follow.

DAY TWO: Food Freedom Rally in Support of Vernon

Please also join us the following day, Friday, March 2^nd, (11:00-1:00) for a FOOD FREEDOM RALLY in support of Wisconsin dairy farmer, Vernon Hershberger who faces criminal charges, and possible imprisonment, for providing raw dairy to his community via a private herd-share agreement. Vernon courageously stands for food freedom and sets a new standard for farmer’s response to these egregious government violations.

Put into action your right to demonstrate as instructed in the workshop and show solidarity with all independent farmers everywhere prior to Vernon Hershberger’s 1:00 PM hearing.

Food Freedom Rally: Friday, March 2^nd, 2012 11:00 AM-1:00 PM at Sauk County Circuit Court 515 Oak Street, Baraboo, WI 53913-2416

For full details see www.RawMilkFreedomRiders.com

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/farmfoodfreedom#!/events/231891596900592/

Primal Diet (tm) Workshops in USA and Internationally

Aajonus's schedule of Primal Diet (TM) Workshops for 2012 can now be viewed at:

http://www.wewant2live.com/3838/aajonuss-live-primal-diet-tm-workshops-potlucks-2012/

Success with the Hot-Water Baths

After hearing Aajonus speak on interviews about the hot baths

[on the www.WeWant2Live.com site], we were convinced that we needed to do this therapy [see pg 286 of We Want To Live: the Primal Diet for details]. We have a big, deep bathtub. It's 25 years old, and we never used it. So, we got a candy thermometer to check the water temperature. We keep the water temp between 106 and 108 degrees. It takes 2 loads of hot water to fill up the tub. We drain one hot-water-heater load into the tub, cover the tub (with a make-shift cover) to hold in the heat while the water heater heats up another load -- then we drain that load into the tub.

It registers around 108 degrees when we get into the tub.

We just slide the cover back and get into the tub, with our heads sticking out. (Only one of us can get into the tub at a time.) You stay very warm that way. We also heat up the bathroom with our electric space heater, so it's warm in the room to begin with. I have only worked up to 10 to 15 minutes, and Keith up to 20. But, we go a second step. Right after we get out of the tub and dry off, we immediately get into a bed in a warm room, and wrap ourselves (including our heads) in towels and blankets for half an hour (or more if we fall asleep). We look like mummies with a small breathing hole over our face. Boy do we sweat! We have a regular infrared sauna that we used to use, and we never sweated like we do in the hot bath and bed. We switched over to the hot bath after we heard Aajonus say that he felt the sauna was too high a temperature.

Keith has had some amazing detoxes through this. During his third hot-bath-bed session, he was smelling the organic solvent toluene coming out of his breath. He started smelling this while he was in the hot bath, and it continued on during the bed-sweating session. Over 35 years ago, my husband worked for several years in a plastic manufacturing plant as a chemical engineer. Without mask or fan, he breathed in toluene and other bad chemicals 8 hours per day.

This stuff was detoxing out of his body.

It was amazing to us, after all these years, -- to the point where he could smell it. It's funny -- he hasn't smelled it since, during any of the subsequent hot-bath-bed sessions. Another amazing detox episode was this past week, during his weekly hot-bath-bed-sweating session. He started feeling bad when he was soaking in the water -- just feeling yucky. Shortly after he got wrapped up in his "mummy" outfit in bed, he started violently chilling and shaking. I turned up the heater in the room, and put a lot more blankets on him. His forehead was not hot to the touch, so I knew he wasn't running a high temperature. He started having an "acid" stomach, which is not normal for him. He said he felt like he was getting a Dengue Fever flashback. (He contracted Dengue Fever -- a mosquito born infection like malaria -- while he was in high school in India. At that time, he had violent chills and shakes for 2 days. That was 47 years ago.) He has never had chills and shakes in all these years until this episode. This lasted for about 5 hours. We figure he was detoxing the Dengue Fever, because it was the same symptoms.

Between the Primal Diet and Hot Baths, we are seeing quick results.

We remember that Aajonus said that sometimes the body will dump it's toxins into the stomach to be neutralized by the stomach acids. During the 5 hours of chills and shakes, his stomach stayed very acid -- almost feeling like throwing up. He stayed in bed much of the next day, feeling wiped out and not hungry. But, the chills and shakes and reactions were over. So, we feel he had gone through another major detox.

The reason we get into bed to sweat after the hot baths is because of an incident I had when I was in High School. One time I had flu symptoms real bad. I took a real hot bath, because I was aching so bad. And then got into my bed,,, And I started sweating in the hot bed. After this I felt so much better. So, when Aajonus talked about the hot baths, I though about my experience in high school, and thought we should add the bed-sweating session to the hot-bath session. :o)

Happy, healthy new year!

Linda & Keith B.

Right to Choose Healthy Food - show time

David Gumpert visited Los Angeles on Tuesday October 4th and wrote a very complete and penetrating description putting raids and legal cases into perspective. He met with Aajonus and was present during the events described in his article here: http://www.thecompletepatient.com/.

I no longer accept that disease is the way of living

Healing and Health Issues

I've come to realize: start with food issues. I've done meditations, sports, etc., but none has done me a greater service than what I put into my body. Once I started to change my attitudes toward food, my health vastly improved.

I started this journey when my girlfriend suggested I check out [a site displaying your books] because she intuited some sort of affinity. I found out about this ascended master on [the site] and read some of the solstice channelings. Some of the teachings are too esoteric for me to comprehend, but what resonated was... advice to study and absorb the spiritual nature of food. Food that's cooked has little or no spiritual nurturing for us. You go to a supermarket and you can sense the elevated vibrations of the produce section and the low or dead vibrations of the refrigerated or processed foods sections. [The site] repeatedly points to the book We want to live, by Aajonus Vonderplanitz (rawmilk.org), which I finally ordered last Spring. It's become the most studied book I've had. I turn to it for any healing crisis I have and I've not visited a regular physician since I opened the book.

After a workshop and private session with Vonderplanitz,

I was onto my new food schedule. Weaned of coffee and alcohol, I found immediate health benefits in this new diet. The chronic health problems were gone over night and returned quickly when I didn't have access to my green juice during the week of moving into my house last month. Headaches though continued to flare up during stressful periods, but they now seem to have vanished, after I got my almgam fillings pulled a few weeks ago. John Butler, my healer in Syracuse, suggested I should get my teeth cleaned out now and not wait till I am healthier.
Right now, I am detoxing from mercury buildup and my lower back hurts a little, understandably. Some mercury leached into the body when the fillings were replaced (with plastic composites). Studies (with sheep) have shown that amalgam fillings leach into the body continuously, especially with hot beverages and foods. The kidney and the brain absorb the toxic metals, and I suspect now that many of us with lower back pain and/or urinary problems are fighting mercury poisoning. My back pain has been very subdued or vanished despite the mercury buildup in the kidneys due to the cilanthro I put in the green juice and the butter or coconut cream I eat with the juice. The fat traps the loosened mercury (made volatile by cilantro) and flushes it out of the body. Hot baths (with Epsom salt and baking soda for 22 minutes) help deal with flushing out radiation contamination and toxic metal through the skin, as does vigorous exercise.

Medical Myths

This raw foods diet dispels several medical myths and gives us tools to preach these new values:
1. fat is good: raw butter, raw coconut cream (homemade, with Greenstar juicer), raw avocados all are vital to build healthy fat cells in the body and strengthen the liver
2. eggs are great: raw eggs and lots of them heal during health crisis, take down swellings and flush out toxins. Forget the cholesterol scare.
3. eat starch in moderation: Aajonus suspects that my mother's heavy starch diet contributed to discoloring my eyes to brown. Now with this diet, the attempt is to bring them back to blue. Aajonus advises to eat a soft nut meal (ground nuts) only once a week.
4. raw [food] is an excellent source for healing.
5. raw milk is the best: this gets to the crux of our modern neurosis, that all milk and juices, etc., have to be processed, pasteurized and homogenized. Once I started drinking raw milk my teeth and gum pains disappeared.
6. green juices are beneficial: it's hard for our stomach to absorb raw vegetables, such as salads, especially cucumbers because they are high in fibers. With a Greenstar Juicer or other model that separates fiber and juice, we get a high energy drink; no need for coffee; well, I still retain my weakness for teas, even though I know full well that they make the body acidic.

I no longer accept that disease is the way of living, especially into old age.

I started on this new diet - and I have never followed any strict diet plan before -when I realized that quite a few of my friends had contracted cancer and some died because, as I suspected, of using chemotherapy. Given my own protracted health problems which could only be stabilized with antibiotics, I grew impatient and ask for new holistic perspectives. I no longer accept that disease is the way of living, especially into old age, I am no longer scared of cancers because I know that there's a way to reverse it, and it's not advertised by the medical establishment that pushes chemical treatment. Aajonus has been dubbed the guru of the 'underground raw milk movement' by the Wall Street Journal. They are taking note of us. Let's not be deterred by it, but convince ourselves to overcome fears and walk lightly on a new path of healthfulness.

Mecke N., Cortland, New York

"As the Radiation Fallout Continues to Rain on the World..."

A message from Aajonus Vonderplanitz:

"Hi, mutual natural health-lovers,

As the radiation fallout continues to rain on the world, governments hide the truth about the severity of radiation-poisons and the nuclear energy industry continues to rule governments, and so we must all do the best we can to care for ourselves..."

Click here for the full message.

Happy survival,
aajonus vonderplanitz, ph.d. nutrition
WeWant2Live.com