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

Your opinion counts!

For anyone who has ever visited the www.WeWant2Live.com site at any time - featuring Aajonus Vonderplanitz - please give us your opinion; click here and answer a very short survey.

Aajonus has been interviewed...

Aajonus - the author of We Want To Live: the Primal Diet - has been interviewed by Kevin Gianni. Kevin normally interviews vegetarians but in this case interviews Aajonus to find out what is going on with the attacks on small farmers and how a raw foods co-op can not be stopped.
Click here for the first segment and click here for the second segment.

Aajonus - a world class nutritionist - visits with friends

World traveled author and speaker, and originator of the Primal Diet (TM) a raw food diet, will be in Marina Del Rey to visit with friends and talk about how to restore and maintain your health.

From one who has been there, Aajonus Vonderplanitz, PhD., came out of the grips of disease and death, when he was a terminally ill cancer patient in his early 20's. He has outlived his death sentence by 40 years. A very perceptive and experienced nutritional consultant, he is also a hands-on researcher. The fruits of his years in developing the Primal Diet (TM) are his two books: “We Want To Live” and “The Recipe for Living Without Disease.” It is a privilege to have him in Marina Del Rey on Sunday November 1^st, starting at 1:00 p.m.

There will be a pot-luck party from 1:00 to 3:00. Then there will be a discussion period called a “Q&A” period for the next two hours, where Dr. Vonderplanitz will address and answer people's questions. The pot-luck party is free; the discussion period costs $30.00 for anyone wanting to stay and hear more details about the Primal raw foods diet. This is an educational feast for those interested in their own health, and the health of their family and even their friends. Details of the pot-luck party and Q&A are available at www.wewant2live.com. On the left navigation bars, click on “Aajonus' RADIO SHOWS, lectures, workshops, potlucks and more.” You will get an orientation as to what goes on and what to expect in such a setting.

Jim Ellingson, who runs the www.wewant2live.com website has said “This is good people, a good time, and a great way to meet someone important, who has changed the course of many lives for the better.” If you are curious, show up and see for yourself. You might gain an understanding of some of the basics of nutrition, and how to apply the principles of good health in your own life.”

Aajonus will be interviewed on a subject that affects us all

Aajonus (the source of the Primal Diet and author of We Want To Live, The Recipe for Living Without Disease and the Primal Diet Workshop DVD set) will be interviewed at www.oneradionetwork.com on Thursday October 15, 2009 at 10 AM Central Standard Time which is 8 AM Pacific Time and 11 AM Eastern Standard Time. Aajonus' previous interview with Patrick Timpone of One Radio Network about the very timely subject of swine flu has proven to be a very classic and important interview. Tune in at www.oneradionetwork.com to hear this interview live!
note: this radio appearance will occur.

The raw food diet "as seen on TV"

Hi all,

"It" all started in the postwar years of the nineteen-fifties with Westinghouse spokeswoman Betty Furness' LIVE, on-camera TV performances when she brought her weekly, kitchen-oriented, homemaker-friendly sessions into our living rooms.

During these widely popular TV broadcasts, Furness often demonstrated the use of her Westinghouse liquifier/blender appliance before a LIVE guest and audience. The little Westinghouse Liquifier/Blender became the amazing vehicle to launch her now-famous, "multi-vegetable juice cocktail recipe."

Furness was responsible for this first-ever, eight (possibly more) liquified vegetable(s) Juice Cocktail, long before a similar, secret recipe ever became known as THE now-familiar V8 Juice Cocktail, and the property of the Campbell Soup Company. Furness, however, put V8 together FIRST, RAW, HOMEMADE, and on LIVE-camera TV before our very eyes, about fifty-one years ago. A nutritious and delicious new fitness drink recipe was born, and health-awareness history was made.

Soon afterwards, with so many movie screenplay characters mimicking Furness' morning vegetable juice cocktail ritual in their movie plots, the practice was quickly popularized as the homemade vegetable fitness drink, immediately making it a permanent fixture in modern-day, nutritionally-aware, upscale Americana.

To this day, over fifty years later, hundreds of thousands of us STILL follow Furness' timeless example, making our own FRESH, RAW, UNPASTEURIZED V8 vegetable juice coctails, every morning that fresh vegetables are available from our gardens, supermarket and/or refrigerators.

[Dr. Mercola, of internet fame, eats about 85% on the raw food diet, including raw eggs and raw meat.] "Raw food" is now the popular subject of more new books than any other of recent classification. ...The practice of "UNcooking" food, formerly prevalent only among primitive cultures dating from ancient Polynesia, but now de regeur in modern, upscale suburbia, is sweeping the environmentally friendly 'green' movement and becoming the silent revolution in kitchens all over the world.

Simply put, cooked food is not only an empty, enzyme-less morass of denatured anti-nutrients, but is, in its covertly sinister action, an insidious, progressive, blood vessel clogging substance. As such, it is little more than a caustic foreign agent, and a slow-acting systemic poison.

Consuming cooked food is scarcely more than subclinical suicide and is tantamount to tossing an odd collection of nuts and bolts into the finest, most delicately-balanced machinery known.

Although it may take decades of stealth to complete its sinister work, A) the processed/cooked food habit slowly and covertly nibbles away at our vital energy, B), it saps our strength and initiative, C), as the progressive disease process signs and symptoms eventually become serious enough to demand diagnosis, it is then given an orthodox medical name, and palliative medications are prescribed. As an expected outgrowth of this diagnosis and the orthodox medical treatment plan, eventually the usual crippling and reduced mobility develops. D), if no other action is taken to address the *true cause of the condition, the ravages of the process will continue unabated, eventually completely overwhelming ALL of the natural defenses of its unwary (and/or unwilling) host.

Why not take the time now to learn more about, invest in, rejuvenate, and re-vitalize your most valuable asset? We have but one body. A continued reliance on popular, albeit well-intended misinformation can slowly, almost imperceptibly, undermine and destroy health, at whatever its stage.

Can you afford to allow your state of health to follow its present course? In my opinion, two volumes can drastically alter that course for the better: 1) "We Want To Live" and 2) "The Recipe For Living Without Disease." Both by Aajonus Vonderplanitz, PhD. For more information, go to www.wewant2live.com.

To your health,

Mark R., Birmingham, Alabama

Dietary Quest for Health...

...Leads to the Primal Diet:
By age twenty-four, I had developed a painful hemorrhagic colon fissure requiring surgery. By age thirty, I had developed a bleeding duodenal ulcer that was 'treated' for three years. Both conditions were ultimately resolved by dietary means. During my fifty+ year quest to de-mystify and unravel the elusive secrets of optimal health, I attended many dozens of health
lectures/seminars. Each of them gave clues, but never the complete answer. I was inspired by, but still unsatisfied with health lectures, so for reference, I began to purchase, read, and slowly build a small library of seventy-five+ books. All were alleged to improve one's health. Some of them were in fact so far off-course that I later threw them away. To further expand my knowledge base on health and other important protocols, while holding a full-time job
with Southern Company Services, Inc., I attended UAB [University of Alabama at Birmingham] Regional Technical Institute night classes. In the final phases, I did all-night hospital rotations before working a full eight hour shift the same day, finally graduating as a state-licensed EMT [emergency medical technician] paramedic in 1976. Afterwards, I worked and continued my training at my own expense, alongside City of Birmingham's Fire Department Rescue
Services 'FireMedics,' maintaining my license for approximately 11 years. Why do I bore you with the above? Easy:
1) to establish some semblance of credibility, and
2) so that you won't waste your precious time and energy following the same meandering paths that I did in your mission to secure information necessary to provide for your own OPTIMAL health. Optimal health CANNOT come from potentially LETHAL drugs that can kill in all but the tiniest of dosages. Medications do not cure; they merely MASK the symptom(s), often
requiring progressively ever-larger dosages with their concomitant side effects and complications. Over time, I reluctantly came to the conclusion that what we've been taught about health is not always true, but instead is often predicated on centuries-old, false, even dangerous, postulations and/or on multitudinous conflicts of interest(s). All too often, such 'postulations' can be traced to profit motives. Clearly, there is certainly nothing wrong
with making a profit, so long it doesn't cost you your health, or even your LIFE in the 'bargain.' In an article appearing in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine, it was actually divulged that iatrogenic medicine (mistakes made by doctors and medical personnel in hospital environments) is responsible for more mortalities than by any other means! In the considered
opinion of an ever-expanding number of health researchers and practitioners, THAT is exactly what established, pharmaceutically-inspired, 'orthodox medicine' does. I now believe that orthodox medicine was largely responsible for the premature demise of one of our greatest American WWII Air Force heroes, Henry E."Red" Erwin, CMH [Congressional Medal of Honor]. Like ninety-nine percent of all physicians, your own MD is probably well-meaning and really wants you to get well, BUT he is far too busy to pursue alternative or complimentary medicine. He HAS to 'practice' medicine according to strict AMA protocols or risk censure and/or loss of his license to 'practice' medicine. Does your physician know who Professor Antoinne Bechamp (a
contemporary of Louis Pasteur), Royal Raymond Rife or Gaston Naessens, MD were/are? Highly unlikely. Key them in to your favorite search engine. These were/are men of vast accomplishments and genius who were unheralded GIANTS of their chosen professions. However, because they did not march in lock step with the prevailing dictums of their peers' professional societies, they were ignored, suppressed or even persecuted. Their so-called 'controversial' ideas, though now have been validated by time (my opinion), are still ignored by our pharmaceutically-driven 'orthodox' medical establishment today. It was not
until four years ago when I discovered two (2) pivotal, life-changing books,
i.e. We Want To Live and The Recipe For Living Without Disease by Aajonus Vonderplanitz, Ph.D., did I finally discover the truth, the INSIDE story about optimal health. My health
has improved ever since. These two books belong in every home, to be read, and re-read, until their principles literally become instinctive. In summary, don't be bamboozled by the disengenuous 'smoke-and-mirrors' propaganda of the pharmaceutically-inspired medical establishment. Instead, please take the time to think for yourself. Hippocrates, called the father of medicine, is quoted as saying "Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food". [Doctors are sworn in saying this as part of the Hippocratic oath. I asked one once and she said yes, she was sworn in saying that but food was more nutritious in Hippocrites' day. the editor]
Anthelme Brillat-Savarin wrote, in his major work Phyusiologie du Gout, ou Meditations de Gastronomie Transcendante: "Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are." Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach wrote "man is what he eats" which got switched around in popular vernacular to "You ARE what you eat." Food IS your best medicine. I don't know who said that first but I am saying it now. There is only one disease: MALNUTRITION. Investigate the two most important health-conserving textbooks of the 21st century.

How to detox naturally

And Build Health With A Good Raw Food Diet. by Barbara Ellingson. The following has been borrowed from the www.wewant2live.com website, with the author's and webmaster's permission.
Building Health and Detoxing on a raw food diet are two things that can occur together, only because of how our bodies respond to raw food. This way of eating which we call the Primal Diet, could even be called "how to detox naturally". There is no question that these bodies of ours are trying to survive the onslaught of industrial, food, airborne, and other toxins (sometimes self-induced toxins if only in the form of excess food and drink), to remain alive and healthy and to function for a very long time!
But back to our subject of building health and detoxing: on the one hand, our bodies are nourished by the raw, unadulterated fats carbohydrates and proteins we eat. On the other hand the raw fats naturally bind with toxins and escort them safely out of the body. For example we have heard Aajonus Vonderplanitz say often, that taking a sugar cubed size chunk of raw unheated and unsalted cheese, encourages the body to dump toxins in to the stomach, which the cheese then "mops up". Then of course we follow this up about 10 minutes later with other good quality raw food, which nourishes us.
That could either be freshly juiced vegetables, or a meat meal, or a fruit smoothie, etc. One overlooked factor in all this is that it happens so gently on a raw food diet--relatively speaking, compared with other historical methods (whether they were/are effective or not) like leaching, cupping, fasting and more modern procedures like chemo-coctails, and other highly toxic drug compounds and in the other extreme, cleanses. There seems hardly a risk to the raw food regimen, since these foods can be so delicious to eat, and also easy to prepare. Please see the book called "The Recipe For Living Without Disease". There is also little to no risk when we consider that this type of raw food detox diet can be added to any ongoing health routine. Aajonus Vonderplanitz has often said that we shouldn't attempt to force or speed up a detox, since it happens well enough anyway. Evidently he has reserved speeding up a detox diet for a few brave and healthy souls like himself and close compatriots, who have been on the raw food diet for some time, and who might not mind some of the reactions! He even gives ways of slowing down a detox to avoid those reactions. Please refer to his book "We Want To Live". But to FEEL the results of good health that are available by eating the raw food detox diet, is a wonder in itself, when we consider that a state of good health is really our birthright, and is at the foundation of everything we do every day!

Cancer patient on the Primal Diet reports

This is to acquaint you with the recent trip to Mexico of the "in-progress" cancer patient (Barbara Ellingson) who is on the Aajonus Vonderplanitz Primal Diet--and in the absence of all medical treatment (no surgery, no chemo, no radiation). Things are once again going well! We show that all is holding steady. The spinal cancer which was far advanced 2 years ago upon diagnosis (per MRI and CT scan done at a local hospital) is showing reduction in some of the tumor sites on the spine, with some new growths on some other areas of the spine. From my understanding, this is consistent with the Aajonus Vonderplanitz' book called We Want To Live, (see index) and the fact that blood tests reveal that the tumor burden as a whole remains steady. In personal consulations with Aajonus, he has said from the get-go that it takes 2-4 years to begin to reverse this cancer.
2 years ago before the disease was first diagnosed (over Labor Day 2006), I was immobile for 3 days and had to be taken to the hospital on a stretcher in an ambulance in to their emergency room to find out what was wrong. When I was shown the MRI by the medical doctor (on his lap top computer) there were tumors, masses, lesions and damage everywhere on the spine. The cancer had largely taken over the sacrum, and was visible in the bone marrow.

I am now walking around (although slowly).
I FEEL BETTER! MORE ENERGY! (even despite the numerous "detoxification" symptoms.)

I am looking forward to a DETAILED report based on a comparison (film-to-film) of 2 MRI's a year and a half apart, that will be done in Mexico--soon, I am told. I will post that when I get it.

More information in detail is available earlier on the blog in November 2007, and also on the wewant2live.com website, namely my picture and poem, at the bottom of the home page.

We Want To LIve is the greatest work on health...

I am re-reading my new revised and expanded copy of Aajonus' 'We Want To Live '. I'm even more amazed as I revisit every paragraph. Absolutely brilliant. One day I hope to finally meet the man and get him to autograph my copy. I want to congratulate him personally on producing the greatest work on health and wellness that this (or any other) milennium has ever produced.
Mr. Ray, in Alabama

Avoiding heart disease with a raw food diet

My side of a story belongs on this blog. You will be hearing the other side of the story soon on this same blog. That there are two sides of the story does not mean this has been an argument, but there are definitely different points of view. I wish to remain anonymous by the way.
The story you will be hearing one of these days on this blog is from my wife. I will call her Molly.
The strength of her character is what makes this important to tell. Maybe some day I will write the book, but in a few seconds let me just say that she puts the word 'caring' in a whole new ballpark. I may be biased, but a complete stranger is not. A patient sharing a hospital room with her and only overhearing her conversations, later that day pleaded with the doctor to really take care of Molly well because she is somebody really special. In a nutshell, over Labor Day weekend on 2006 Molly went to the hospital because for three days she could not get out of bed or even stand. She was diagnosed at that time with advanced spinal cancer, based on the tumors in full view on an MRI.
Let me say right now that in my opinion, this could have been avoided. I say this with 20/20 hindsight in full view. If what I say enables anyone visiting this blog to avoid the same mistake we made, I will be glad.
The thing is, we had both read We Want To Live: the Primal Diet. We had both already benefited greatly from the work Aajonus has done. We should have known that he really has mapped out how to live without disease and there is no need to try other diets.
At the time we read the book (in 2001 or thereabouts) and Molly had a consultation with Aajonus, she was suffering from an illness only partially identified by an M.D. & heart specialist practicing in Beverly Hills (after a wrong diagnosis by an earlier M.D.). Aajonus spotted the (heart disease) problem easily during our consultation and he spotted what made the problem continue (inability to get a good night's sleep). He spotted these things not based on anything that we said, but through correct use of iridology. He told us the raw food diet details to enable Molly to reverse this disease. Within one year of following Aajonus' recommendations, Molly went from being a space case [where she couldn't climb stairs, would forget where she was heading when she got out of an elevator and so on] to her natural bright and intelligent state. She passed a physical exam by an M.D. with no trace of the former problem.
Right after this victory is where we made the mistake. She then went off Aajonus' recommendations a) she had solved the problem that had been so destructive before the raw food diet, b)because she didn't like the taste of some of the items on the menu (this was just before The Recipe for Living Without Disease came out, giving many many recipes for making food that is good for you also taste very good) and c) as apparently is the case with many good looking women, she was concerned about gaining weight.
Weight loss is the apparent goal of many diets offered these days. Molly selected one acclaimed weight loss diet, got the required check-up from her M.D. and started. She lost weight right away and continued to lose weight. Back problems began to creep into her life. This continued right up to the point where she ended up in the hospital diagnosed with cancer, over Labor Day weekend in 2006. Please understand there is no medical advice in anything I am saying; also, we are not naming the specific diet nor accusing them of intentional wrongdoing.

Now you will be able to follow her story, when it arrives on this blog, with an understanding of what happened before the diagnosis that brought her back to the raw food diet 100%.