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The Primal Diet™ The life's work of Aajonus Vonderplanitz

I will have all the information in books.
They won't need me when I have all the information;
that's what I'm working on.  

I have devised a health approach on which people can depend on themselves for the rest of their lives.  

— Aajonus

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Title: The Primal Diet™: The Life of Aajonus Vonderplanitz
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A complete biography of Aajonus Vonderplanitz, following his life year by year, based on his own words, on news articles, and on testimonies from people who knew him. An excellent introduction if you wish to know more about Aajonus and how he came to develop the Primal Diet.

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Author: Rom
Price: Free
Pages: 70
Release date: 2025-08-26
Title: The Primal Diet™
Description

The most complete guide to the Primal Diet™. Although completely free, it's the best material for people looking to get started and for experienced people alike, whether you want to follow it 20% or 100%. Aajonus revised his books once in 2005; this book, although not made by him, incorporates all the subsequent massive amount of information that he discovered for the rest of his life afterwards.

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Testimony +3.5cm at 29, reversed white hair, x4 sales

Antal gained 3.5cm at 29 years old, reversed white hair, and quadrupled his sales with his newfound energy. This was only after 1.3 years on the Primal Diet.

The best part? He didn't even get coached 1:1, he followed The Primal DietTM book, which allowed him to follow Aajonus' diet in the most advanced way from the start and avoid all the pitfalls that make people fail and quit after having sustained damage.

He then joined the @primaldiet Telegram group where he shared his testimony:

Antal's testimonial screenshot 1
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Here is the photo of his white hair reversing.

Antal's white hair reversal
Author: Rom
Price: Free
Pages: 270
Release date: 2025-07-14

Where to get Aajonus' two main books in physical editions

Cover of We Want To Live by Aajonus Vonderplanitz
We Want To LiveFirst released: 1997Last updated: 2005
Cover of The Recipe For Living Without Disease by Aajonus Vonderplanitz
The Recipe For Living Without DiseaseFirst released: 2002Last updated: 2005

Aajonus' two books can be purchased in physical edition on the-primal-diet.com (currently out of stock), or on Amazon and eBay from third parties.

Watch out: Some Amazon and eBay resellers add notes telling you not to listen to Aajonus.

Warning: those books were last updated by Aajonus in 2005, and he mysteriously died in 2013. So they are partially outdated. Download Rom's book "The Primal Diet" for up-to-date information based on all of Aajonus' material.

AI Chatbots

Several of the leading AI LLM model providers allow customization and have been trained on Aajonus' material:

After comparisons were made, the most accurate one is currently Google's NotebookLM. It has more limited external capacities (doesn't process images or browse the web) but sticks very closely to the source material, and always cites it, visibly with 0 hallucinations, and with good enough reasoning although the context window is not infinite, it takes more time to answer because of that. For simple questions, it is 90% more than enough, for more complex ones, there is room for improvement.

⚠️ WARNING Those AI LLM tools are not perfect and make mistakes, sometimes you will get very accurate answers, other times complete nonsense.

Campaign to release Aajonus' unpublished works and stop promoting scammers and abusers

Since the 23rd of November 2024, the campaign has gained significant traction and support.

Read its presentation below or click on the first below to directly go to the campaign status page.

The organization that Aajonus created is gatekeeping his new books and other unpublished works he completed and was working on.

Aajonus wrote two main books, We Want To Live in 1997 and The Recipe for Living Without Disease in 2002.

From 2002 to 2013, the year he died, he was working on at least four whole new books, especially: his major book on detoxification.

It has now been 11 years since Aajonus died, and neither this new book, nor most of the other unpublished works, data from his recovered hard drive, as well as other data collected from his clients, which are numerous, have been released by the official primaldiet.net organization.

The organization could have sold the new books, and made money from them, just like they sell the old ones, but they have not. And do not plan to.

That's not all, Aajonus gave classes on iridology and palm reading, his diagnosis tools, that he created to train students to be his successors or collaborators.

These haven't been released either.
Nor were the papers of his experiments that he spent over a million dollars on, that are still sitting on his hard drive.

The official organization doesn't want new information to be known.

When Aajonus passed in 2013, the people in charge of the organization wrote the following:
"In the coming months his work will be compiled and organized".

Screenshot about PrimalDiet.org publishing material in the coming months

Note: wewant2live.com is the old address of the official organization's website, now primaldiet.net

11 years later, the highly anticipated detoxification book, even unfinished, and most of the other information, are still not released.

Why did they announce they would do it, and then didn't do it?

Paul is the official owner. He was the publisher of Aajonus' books, and when Aajonus died, he inherited his two trusts, Optimal Ways of Living, and Right To Choose Healthy Foods. He decided to appoint Jim as manager in the organization. Jim recently retired after the start of this campaign.

Screenshot identifying Paul Kruhm as trustee

Jim Ellingson, who was in charge of operations in the organization, told people to NOT share potentially life-saving information.

Jim Ellingson

Jim Ellingson
Old organization manager

Here is an example, where Jim received a thick blood remedy directly from Aajonus, and tells someone to not share it.

Screenshot of Jim Ellingson discussing Aajonus' formula

Jim tells people to not share the remedy, even though the organization is not selling it. Why?

The organization is gatekeeping Aajonus' information, preventing people from accessing it.

They also asked people from the community to give them data about their consults with Aajonus, which are extremely important to learn about Aajonus' unique iridology process, then never released anything.

For example, 3 years ago, a woman from the community wrote in one of the Facebook groups that she had a recording of her and her family's consults with Aajonus, and wanted to share it with everyone. She asked who to send it to.

Screenshot asking the community to submit consult recordings

She was about to share it to the community admins, but Jim and Paul intervened, and then this recording was never published.

Screenshot documenting Jim hoarding community consult recordings

The organization is not only gatekeeping information they inherited from Aajonus, but even other people's information that doesn't belong to the organization, taken away from the community!

The new unpublished detoxification book is real, and there is a plethora of proof that confirms it.

Click here to see more about the wealth of information they are gatekeeping...

The organization is sitting on Aajonus' information, doing nothing with it.

During the massive Covid19 vaccination campaign, Aajonus' new book on detoxification could have been extremely useful to help people detoxify from the injections, and prevent the terrible side effects and deaths that have occured.

This quote is strong evidence of it:

Aajonus:

That's why I'm going to write the book on detoxification, the next book. And that's for people who have, you know, had exposure to lots of chemicals and things that were likely to store in the body and did not come out naturally out of the system.

Q&A

Yet, the organization did nothing, they didn't promote the Primal Diet at all, and they didn't even publish those books.

In Aajonus' absence, it was the community that did all the work.

Since last year, aajonus.net, run by someone from the community, not affiliated with the official organization, sponsored the transcription of more audio files in a year than the official organization has done in 18 years.

Screenshot of aajonus.net new transcriptions

For a total of 139 new transcriptions in total:

  • 46 new Q&As including 19 never seen before
  • 7 Q&As from primaldiet.net redone because the official transcriptions were not of high enough quality
  • 35 Videos & Interviews
  • and 51 Workshops

In comparison, the official website is extremely small, and incomplete. All of this was achieved without the organization, in a fraction of the time.

The community is paying out of their pockets to process Aajonus' information and make it available, while the organization is doing close to nothing and gatekeeping it.

Jim and his organization are poor caretakers of Aajonus' legacy.
One year after Aajonus died, the organization lost aajonus.com and primaldiet.com.

Screenshot of old We Want To Live domains

They didn't pay to renew the domain names.
This is extreme incompetence, and shows how little they care about Aajonus' legacy, letting hoarders take the main domain names.

Jim and the organization have been making money thanks to new people that have been coming to the Primal Diet, brought by the efforts of people in the community.

The people who are not part of the organization, are the ones who have been growing the Primal Diet community, and graciously promoting the products of the organization.

Money that the Aajonus' trust received was supposed to go to the realization of projects, but none of those projects were ever realized despite announcements. Where did the money go?

See more about the trust's goals and its use of the funds...

The official organization started running a scam coaching business that goes against Aajonus' teachings

Recently, the organization has woken up from not making enough money anymore, and started a coaching service.

Phoenix Be

Phoenix Be
Coaching manager appointed by Paul

The community has already provided top-tier coaching for free in the meanwhile, and done the work the organization should have been doing, of making articles and compilations of Aajonus' works and teachings.

At the very least, since the organization is in possession of exclusive data from Aajonus, new books, many unpublished iridology consults, you would expect them to be able to provide a good coaching service.

They don't.

In fact, it is so terrible that they do not know the basics and go against the teachings of Aajonus, while pretending to be his successors who will take his work further.

This is what they post on the front page of their coaching website:

Screenshot from Primal Diet Coaching using Aajonus back-to-life claims
Screenshot of Primal Diet Coaching claim about new Aajonus material

Aajonus already took his own work further, but they are refusing to publish it. They are incapable of understanding his works, as they have shown multiple times, yet claim to be his so-called successors.

In a conference that cost a premium to attend, they are misleading people by going against one of the most important teachings of Aajonus, who warns against frozen meat.

Aajonus spent thousands of dollars to prove in a lab experiment that freezing is very harmful to meat, damages 80% of its nutrition, which is extremely high, and generates toxins.

He explicitly said:

Aajonus:

Frozen meat is toxic. So not a good thing to eat.

Q&A

It is also very clearly stated in his book:

Aajonus:

FROZEN FOOD: Freezing, like cooking, destroys nutrients. The colder foods get, the more nutrients are destroyed. Therefore it is always healthier to eat foods that have never been frozen. The nutrients in meat are especially harmed by freezing. The protein in raw meat that has been frozen is only 25% utilizable in the human body, whereas in fresh raw meat, the protein is nearly 100% utilizable. Freezing meat causes the Escherichia coli bacterium (E. coli) in meat to flourish quickly. When only frozen meat was fed to carnivores, they developed mange and other skin disorders, and sometimes scurvy. When the same meat unfrozen was fed to carnivores, they remained healthy and happy. See Refrigeration, page 197. Some fats, like raw cream and butter, seem to maintain well when frozen for short periods. See Ice cream, page 189.

We Want To Live: the Primal Diet

Aajonus even contested the exact "argument" that Phoenix is giving in his speech about eskimos.

Click here to see the quote...

There are also people on the diet who report adverse effects from eating frozen meat, it is not only Aajonus who was saying it.

Yet they are telling people the opposite, without any proof, in Aajonus' own organization, to the people who are paying them to learn about his works.

Click here to read the experiment and more details...

It is not a gross mistake, it is pursposeful misinformation about Primal Diet.

They have a paid video called "Detox is not a disease", which by the title alone shows they have no idea about Aajonus' teachings.

Screenshot of Detox Is Not a Disease content

Aajonus made two books with the purpose of teaching people that disease IS detoxification, a disease is a healing process where the body is getting rid of toxins.

Aajonus:

Just remember, your disease is your detoxification. Your disease isn’t the problem, it’s the cure.

Q&A

What Aajonus teaches through his books is that disease is not something to be feared, and giving the body the right food and environment will help accompany the detoxification process so it is smooth and efficient, with the least amount of collateral damage incurred.

They are telling people the opposite in the title alone, misleading people who are paying them to learn about Aajonus' works.

On top of this, the video costs $40, which is more expensive than Aajonus' book!

They outright lie on their page about following Aajonus' works, they are actually subverting them.

Screenshot of claim about following Aajonus' work

Several people in the community have reported that after paying the organization to answer a question they had, the answer given by the organization is completely off, with irrelevant information, or that they don't know, further showing the organization has no idea what they are talking about when it comes to Primal Diet.

Screenshot used as evidence of coaching incompetence

The organization is therefore running a scam coaching business, while charging a premium for it ($250 for a 1h30 call to get worse guidance than you can get in passionate online groups for free), adding insult to injury with the fact that they are gatekeeping Aajonus' vital unpublished works, and pretending to be his successor.

See more about how their coaching business is fraudulent.

The official organization is promoting one of the worst abusers, making him the face of the Primal Diet and an heir to Aajonus

The organization promotes abusers who hurt people in the community in what can be considered organized crime.

Chris, aka 'EatRawMeat'

Chris, aka 'EatRawMeat'
Notorious abuser promoted by the organization

Chris aka "Eat Raw Meat", has run a vicious harassment and defamation campaign against innocent people in the community, telling his accomplices to leak the nude pictures of women for fun, encouraging people to leak addresses and stalk people at their homes for fun, encouraging people to make false accusations of pedophilia and sex trafficking, while himself being in cahoots with proven pedophiles who try to push women to suicide, destroying the community and the Primal Diet's reputation.

This is all detailed and substantiated with proof on the website eatrawmeat.online.

On that website, you can see at least 3 coaches left the project when they learned about Chris' actions and Phoenix covering up for him.

Despite having presented all the evidence, and having had to admit by email that the accusations are true, Phoenix didn't even make Chris take a backseat, and keeps forcing people to watch Chris' video as a prerequisite if they want to attend the paid meetings. All of this is explained on the website eatrawmeat.online.

Even Chris criticized Jim's greed, before he started to work with him:

Screenshot of Chris criticizing Jim's greed

Summary of the wrongful actions of the official organization:

  1. Gatekeeping aajonus' unpublished works, which contains vital information, 11 years after his death
  2. Promoting abusers, like Chris
  3. Scamming people with fraudulent coaching, trying to pass anti-Primal Diet advice, that completely goes against Aajonus' teachings, under the guise of official Primal Diet branding and stamp of approval
  4. Hoarding data provided by people from the community, that doesn't belong to them, paywalling information that should be free
  5. Not delivering on promises
  6. Attacking people who promote them, and who the work they should be doing, for free
  7. Not promoting the Primal Diet for 11 years

This has lasted long enough.
It is time for the official organization to release Aajonus' unpublished works, and stop damaging the community now.

Sign the petition to release Aajonus' unpublished works and other major information they are gatekeeping.


On Twitter/X, in only an hour, more than 50 people have voted for the release of the books, that is one more than person per minute:

Screenshot of Twitter poll about the detox book

Who would say no?
Exactly.

Demand the information to be published and their scamming and destruction of Aajonus' legacy on all levels to stop:

The official organization's contact information can be found on their website: primaldiet.net.

Not everyone in the organization might be satisfied with the status quo. Paul, Jim, and Phoenix are the ones who call the shots.

The organization's contact address is: facilitator@wewant2live.com.

Either Jim or now Phoenix reply to the emails sent to this address.

If they receive 100 emails from 100 people, they will know that a lot of people care about this. A backlash from the community is the only thing that can make them change their ways after years of them refusing to do so, including when people attempted to cooperate with them.

Update: our first wave of emails worked. Many people contacted them. They replied and important information came to light. Negotiations even started to sell the data. However, it isn't over. Read the update by clicking below:

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