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. 

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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

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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Chemicals in Food Purchases in any Market

How food can be altered from the original:

Aajonus describes a chemical danger and how to handle it.  This question and answer has been excerpted from and is typical of information in a Primal Diet newsletter where Aajonus sometimes answers subscriber questions. (click here for more info).

 

Patty: Hi Aajonus. The fresh fish in my local supermarket has been looking very shiny lately – like plastic. I called the buyer and during the course of our conversation, he told me filleted fish was run through a Chlorine Bath to kill bacteria. I was a little stunned and questioned him further. He told me as far as he knows ALL fish that is filleted is run through this chlorine bath; he saw the process.
Whole Foods told [a friend] recently they are spraying their fresh fish in the case with ionized water to keep it fresh looking. Neither of us knew what ionized water would do to the fish. [Another friend] said she was told to wash oysters because they are being irradiated. What is your safest recommendation of fish? Or do you, or has anyone found a GOOD MAIL ORDER FISH SOURCE ? I am going to try to research that soon.

Adulterations to our food increase daily.

Hi, Patty.  Adulterations to our food increase daily. That is why I stress that people have to invest in and own farms, period. There is no escaping the onslaught of chemicals in food purchased at any market, including Whole Foods because they embrace toxic genetically modified foods and carry very few organic products.
If you rinse meats with water rather than scrape them, you would probably wash the chemicals deeper into meats. Therefore, I suggest scraping meats. As soon as I arrive home from markets in industrial cultures, I scrape all surfaces of meat (red, fish, seafood, pork, etc.) no matter what kind. From a 1 lb. slice of meat, I remove up to 3 T. of meat by scraping it with a sharp flat-bladed non-serrated knife. Food-irradiating machines are very expensive and hazardous because they handle radioactive waste material. Only major food-manufacturing plants can afford it. Therefore, I assume that only the major oyster-producing processors would be able to irradiate oysters, such as canned and processed oysters, not in-shell oysters. Only buy in-shell oysters. However, with Fukushima disaster, I would check oysters monthly for radioactive material with radiation Geiger counters.
Ionized water neutralizes much proton-activity that helps bacteria digest food. Therefore, fish sprayed with ionized water will not predigest when exposed to oxygen. When you consume fish that has been sprayed, the ionized water will interfere with your intestinal bacteria’s ability to digest. So, scrape the surface of all fish, as I do as soon as I arrive home.

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/

Good Health - your highest priority

The good health of yourself and family should properly be your highest priority. Family health has never been under greater assault than today.

When maintenance of optimal health is at stake, TRUTH is FAR stranger than fiction. Sadly, for the naive masses of uninformed *SAD fans and 'pill-poppers', following so-called 'conventional wisdom' translates stealthily, almost imperceptibly, to slow suicide.

In the near term, without a massive and determined voter action, FARMageddon, with its inevitable flood of GMO FRANKENFOOD, will quickly become a grim reality. In my opinion, sickness, not health, will then become the NORM. No surprise then, that Big Pharma will be one of the chief beneficiaries of the resulting windfall of 'allopathic' disease remediation. Being very much aware of the evils of GMO crops and cloned animal foods, wary Californians are set to vote on a proposition that would mandate the labeling of ALL GMO foods and ALL products containing GMO ingredients. Lets hope that Californians win this decisive, MEGA-bankrolled battle. Europeans have banned ALL GMO foods as well as GMO seeds! Californians don't want them, either. Experience has shown that "As California goes, so goes the nation."

The knowledge contained in the PRIMAL DIET NEWSLETTER is much more than health insurance. It addresses fairly and FEARLESSLY the vitally-important, often shocking, health concerns NOW, when you need them MOST. More importantly, PDN deals with hidden, ignored, below-the-radar issues HEAD-ON (and more importantly, what you can do about them). PDN most often exposes the guilty offender(s) like "a deer in the headlights". This important and timely advantage allows YOU to make vital midpoint corrections to your menu and lifestyle, incorporating crucial life-saving information IMMEDIATELY. When you read PDN, the hard research has already been done for you by an adept, highly-motivated research biochemist (having HIMSELF narrowly escaped FIRST-HAND the terrifying experience of an orthodox medical **DEATH SENTENCE).

Sad to say, due to myriad conflicts of interest(s) permeating the upper level staff offices of the popular news media outlets, factual information relating to crucial health issues is highly unlikely to ever "see the light of day". Heads would roll.

If all else fails, please remember the drill: Investigate, Educate and Circumnavigate, NOT Medicate.

A word to the wise is ALWAYS sufficient.

Dad

* Standard American Diet

** Dr. Aajonus Vonderplanitz, PhD, with Spartan stoicism, fought through years of abject despair, excruciating pain and frustration, at one point actually giving up and resolving to die by self-imposed starvation. Finally, with input gleaned from countless lectures, articles, books, experiments, personal experiences and a pivotal, life-changing stay among a tribe of friendly Arctic Inuits, Dr. Vonderplanitz formulated and further developed the radical protocol that he used to defeat his orthodox medically-imposed death sentence to save his own life. The core of this back-to-the-future protocol primarily consists of a hard-won collection of FACTS, PHILOSOPHY, PROPER FOOD and LIFESTYLE. The specifics have been duly outlined in two radical paradigm-changing books, "We Want To Live", "The Recipe For Living Without Disease" and a DVD, "Fast, Nutritious and Delicious Raw Food Recipes". These volumes comprise your best and most expedient route to OPTIMAL HEALTH.

Is Aajonus coming to your area?

Aajonus has made changes in his schedule of Primal Diet Workshops and a Primal Diet potluck.
Click here to see his schedule through the end of June.

Health Professional Writes to Aajonus

Hi Aajonus,

Lately, I have been using your genius to help my patients, when they will listen. Some take a long time to embrace some of the ideas, some jump right in, others...I go verrrry slowly with them. Of course, I recommend they get your books because I cannot possibly help them understand everything as well as if they just read them for themselves. One of my patients went to California for a consult with you and a new patient of mine is considering it.

Thank you so much for all the work you have done and are still doing. I am experiencing directly how profound it is and am awed by the power of raw food. It has changed the way I practice because I know there is only so much I can do for a patient if they won't change their diet to all raw as you describe it. The level of healing that is possible on the Primal Diet just blows me away...
Excerpted by webmaster, letter by J.J. Westrn United States

Medical trickery...

I am a survivor from advanced spinal cancer, for which I have had some major help from Aajonus Vonderplanitz and his Primal Diet! When I was first diagnosed, Aajonus sent me to the BioMedical Center in Tijuana to get their herbal formula to help me, in addition to the PD, since spinal cancer is considered generally to be fatal. I am very glad I took his advice.

When I went there a few weeks ago, their medical doctor pointed out something VERY interesting about the blood test readings: the medical community has established lower norms on some key parts of blood tests in order to get more customers for themselves. Case in point: Blood Glucose used to be 70-110 mg/dL as normal. That was a year and a half ago. Now the normal is 65 -100 mg/dL. That means that more people will have a higher than the normal blood glucose. That means more people will purchase diabetes medicines, and doctors will add more patients to their rosters, and the medical community (to say nothing of the pharmaceutical industry) will make lots more money! Medical trickery?

The same medical doctor also said that there was a similar lowering of norms for blood cholesterol readings. That means more patients on cholesterol and heart medication = more money for the medical and pharmaceutical industries! And who wins at that one? Is it the patients???

Barbara Ellingson

Dental Health

Here's a positive personal testimonial that was sent to us by Kelly in New Jersey:

I went for my biannual teeth cleaning today after 12 months on the primal diet. The hygienist said my teeth were easier to clean than before and the sensitive spot where I had oral surgery four years ago was not sensitive during the cleaning. I'm so happy to be having positive experiences on the primal diet!

New Year Option for Health

Here is wisdom of the ancients and some research, forwarded to you by Mark R., who is doing well on the Primal Diet:

"Man does not die, he kills himself." :Seneca.

"Let your medicine be your food and your food be your medicine." Hippocrates, father of modern medicine.

"I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica [pharmacopoeia] could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes." Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894) Lecture, Harvard Medical School.

Why not resolve now to radically improve your health in 2011 by investing in a quality vegetable juice extractor? LIVE fruit and vegetable juices preserve and protect LIVING CELLS. Make your juice extractor your liquid food source AND your pharmacy.

PLEASE. Don't put it off. Many vendors are having pre-inventory clearance sales as you read this. I've already done the research for you and found the best juice extractors (those scoring the highest consumer ratings) as follows:

GOOD: Least expensive. Heavy duty. Highest RPM motor of the group (producing heat and foam with moderately high enzyme loss), built like a tank, BUT many plastic parts are in contact with the juice (phthalate and bisphenol A can leach from plastic parts). Relatively dry pulp. www.championjuicer.com

*BETTER (has twin counter-rotating magnetic gears spinning at a very low 110 RPM): www.2-life.com/site/greenstar_elite_juicer.html


**BEST (Latest, most efficient and improved model, all stainless steel construction. Its twin counter-rotating gears spin at an ultra-low 86 RPM, preserving more than 85 percent of the original nutrients, producing little or NO OXIDIZING FOAM, the coolest juice, highest enzyme content, greatest VOLUME of juice, and the DRIEST pulp. www.angeliajuicer.com/detail.htm?ProductID=Angelia_8500_110V

Mark

* Mid-priced. Personal choice of, and recommended by world famous author, lecturer, researcher and nutritionist, Dr. Aajonus Vonderplanitz, PhD.

** Heirloom quality, powerful, as well as the most expensive. If well cared for, however, the Angelia 8500 may possibly be the only juice extractor that you will ever need.

I Came Back... You Can Too

I Came Back... You Can Too

It took me four years full time to get well... The day after my diagnosis I closed my business, went on a fast, joined a Zen group, and literally turned my world upside down. I said to myself "...I can figure out what's up with me and fix me..." So I took my skills and went at my body, researched, asked, busted balls, spent all my money, then begged for free help, went away on retreats, fasted more, and in the mist of it signed up for a full load at college, which dismayed my friends and relatives, for in their mind I was dying...I studied, sat on my pillow and meditated, became close to a qigong master, and traveled the country to find the best teacher... One time I had to be emergency airlifted home, arriving at my acupuncturist near death, scarring the life out of him...I needed to rebuild myself from the inside out, to become literally a new creature.

I ate the wildest shit, I was raw for two years, lived on wheat grass and sprouts, then soo thin I could hardly stand I knew I need to be nourished... I found a man who told me about the primal diet, a raw diet that included all foods... Meat, eggs, tons of raw butter, goat milk, cream, and raw greens... After 2.5 months on that I awoke... (let me say that for years I had bleed every day, I’d awake with blood on my pillow, my nose clogged with it, my bed soaked from nite sweats, I would sleep on beach towels to absorb the sweat, changing them many times each nite) that morning no blood in my nose, my bed was dry. I thought... hmmm oh how interesting... hee hee...

This was the beginning... In the next two years I worked on my spleen (it was huge), rebuilt my body... I am now well, whole...
Smiles... gabriel 4/29/2010

Aajonus Vonderplanitz has a presence on Facebook

To all interested in blogging about the Primal Diet, this is to let you know that Dr. Aajonus Vonderplanitz, PhD. Nutrition, now also has a presence on Facebook.

You can join the chat that is ongoing on his page. There are interesting people, interesting questions and interesting responses! You are welcome to add your input into that chat.

You may also sign up for the blog and follow us and make posts on the blog, at www.wewant2live.blogspot.com.

This is for people with pets who eat healthy raw foods.

This post was from Dawn, about her pet dog, and how he got her to try the Primal Diet of Dr. Aajonus Vonderplanitz, PhD Nutrition.

"My 16 month old dog has been eating raw longer than I have, VBG! He was my inspiration for trying the Primal Diet. He beat all his litter-mates in this year's WRA Nationals (Whippet straight racing 200 yards per race, 4 races in the day) coming in 19th of 63 dogs entered. He's a wonderful athlete and a joy to have.

"He was on the raw diet for 3 weeks before I got him. Then I tried the vet's suggested dog food but he stopped eating. After reading "Switching to Raw" by Susan K. Johnson, he started eating again when I offered him raw food. He loves it. And now 1-year later we can see what a healthy happy boy he is. Thanks for the encouragement. I'm looking for a racing buddy in a second Whippet for him to run with at the Dog Park."

healing on all levels eating raw

"I so hope some day soon all doctors, nurses, physiotherapists etc lose their fear and practice [eating] raw and recommend raw omnivorism, and everyone heals on all levels. I guess the world would be boring then, but I would really appreciate it."
Roslyn S.

P.S. "If you don't know where you are going, when you get there you will be lost." Yogi Berra said that . He was a great American baseball player and down-to-earth philosopher. I quote Yogi as a way to thank Roslyn for a great statement of where we are going.
Another P.S. Roslyn monitors a great online social group. If you are on the Primal Diet and wish to be admitted to this group, email me at rawfoodresults@gmail.com for an invitation. Or apply at http://www.PrimalDietFriends.com.
See this important link: Health or Disease by Aajonus Vonderplanitz (this link will only be active for the next three days).

Primal Diet - a 'thank you' note to Aajonus

"I've been on the wonderful Primal Diet 12 years. When I first found Aajonus, I had some numbing in my arms. He saw in my irises that I had the onset of MS! I strictly followed his diet recommendations. At a checkup 1 1/2 years later, no signs remained!

Also soon after beginning the Primal Diet, my peri-menopause reversed, and only came back 2 years ago, at age 54. A number of other nice youthing [anti-aging] things happened! And I have better color and more energy than many 20 year-olds I know. Whenever I've had a health issue, Aajonus's advice has always been right on and worked. Our doggie is also Primal Diet and the picture of health.

Recently I visited a 54 year old lady with MS in a nursing home. I was filled with compassion and gratitude that this could have been me. Thank you, Aajonus, for your work."

Love,
Bess

Clean Hobby Farm Being Offered

John D.G. who is on the Primal Diet wanted you to know of a really pristine 'hobby farm' that is for sale, in the upper region of British Columbia, Canada. He felt this would be perfect for a young couple. Here is what he says:
"This sale is great news for anyone recovering from a health crisis who wants to go the AJ [Aajonus Vonderplanitz] way, really clean themselves up, and live in some awesome country. I am going to pull out and go to a deeper bush location, away from neighbours, where there is also clean water. These two sites are the only really clean water sites still in B.C.
For Sale: Super clean, 5 acre, pure spring water hobby farm 10 minutes outside Smithers BC Canada. New, unfinished, 2500 ft square in buildings, super clean and organic. Beautiful view and mountain side location, adjacent community forest, walking and cross country ski trails. Cul de sac.
"Excellent for young family. Unmatched anywhere for healthy air, soil, water, building materials. Must sell. 350,000 or best offer (already below mortgage price wtbowyer@yahoo.ca or 802 522-7893 or 250 892-0014."

"The Primal Diet is Health-giving"...

I’ve been on The Primal Diet for almost four years and have found it
very health-giving. No more achy back pain, gum disease, fibroids,
hormonal imbalances and other ailments I have already forgotten I had.
Using food as my medication is so freeing. Right now I am treating my
symptoms (and diagnosis by a rheumatologist) of rheumatoid arthritis
with diet, occupational therapy exercises, and meeting my emotional
needs head-on, not by taking steroids. After ten months on this
regimen, I feel that I am about 90% healed. I highly recommend taking
the time to explore what Aajonus Vonderplanitz and The Primal Diet can
offer for your improved and lasting health. My goal is not necessarily
to live longer, but to feel well every day, which is how I feel.
A.L.L., southern CA

"Increased Chronic Disease..."

"... of all age groups". This is from Sally Fallon of the Weston Price Foundation, re: The Proposed 1020USDA Dietary Guidelines, written on June 23rd, 2010, and sent to me by e-mail from Kimberly Hartke, who is the Weston Price Foundation Publicist.

Ms. Fallon calls these guidelines "a recipe for chronic disease."

Some of what she said was: "The proposed 2010 USDA Dietary Guidelines are a recipe for infertility, learning problems in children and increased chronic disease in all age groups." She further states that these guidelines "demonize saturated fats and animal foods rich in saturated fatty acids such as egg yolks, butter, whole milk, cheese, fatty meats...and animal fats. The current obesity epidemic emerged as vegetable oils and refined carbohydrates replaced these healthy, nutrient-dense traditional fats."

She goes into more detail by stating "Basic biochemistry shows that the human body has a very high requirement for saturated fats in all cell membranes; if we do not eat saturated fats, the body will simply make them from carbohydrates, but excess carbohydrate increases blood levels of triglyceride and small, dense LDL, and compromises blood vessel function. Moreover, high-carbohydrate diets do not satisfy the appetite as well as diets rich in traditional fats, leading to higher caloric intakes and often to binging and splurging on empty foods, resulting in rapid weight-gain and chronic disease."

So I say, lucky are we on the Primal Diet, who nourish our bodies with nutritious, raw animal foods and fats (as well as veggie juices and fruit smoothies) and accomplish detoxification at the same time.

Barbara Ellingson

Introduce Aajonus to your loved ones gently!

Hello! Now you may introduce Aajonus and the Primal Diet to anyone you know by a streaming radio interview - either on internet radio or on the phone. The phone numbers are perfect for people who spend a lot of time in their car:
1.213.550.4683 (Los Angles, CA USA)
1.408.648.4679 (San Jose, CA USA)
1.619.309.4285 (San Diego, CA USA)
1.916.239.4572 (Sacramento, CA USA)
1.813.321.0495 (Tampa, FL USA)
1.865.246.2595 (Knoxville, TN USA)

The internet radio works for either pc users (click here) or mac/ipod users (click here); this provides international access. This may be available for a limited time (except for subscribers) so make good use of it now.
To hear what Aajonus has to say to you personally become an annual subscriber at www.WeWant2Live.com. You get full access (24/7) to decades of Aajonus' interviews, plus all of the archived Primal Diet newsletters, various articles, essays, Aajonus' expert report on raw milk, etc. You will discover why these are 'for subscribers only' when you see the truths being
told, the lies & plots exposed and the simple ways to protect ourselves and our loved ones.