Aajonus Vonderplanitz is a fraud?

Aajonus Vonderplanitz is from California and his real name is Dick something. He was an actor on General Hospital turn diet guru overnight. He has a self appointed Phd in nutrition. In an interview with Stanley Bass Aajonus said "I have always since age of 3, craved orgasim."

He has a book called 'We want to live' and its written like a novel. Very entertaining reading but for the uninformed, very dangerous information. Aajonus talks about eating green bananas vs ripe ones and that you should eat lots of white bread baguettes with raw unsalted butter if you get low blood sugar. But sweet fruit is bad he says.

A good friend of mine and ex housemate was an Aajonus fan. She ate his high fat, low fruit diet and I personally felt she suffered the whole time from melancholy, fatigue and binge prone eating as I later found out. She ended up getting some food poisoning from animal products and decided to do an unsupervised fast with phone guidance from 'dont eat more than a banana a day' John Fielder. She got real dehydrated and ended up in hospital on life support and passed away soon after from renal failure. I was in Thailand at the time and know for fact that had she not eaten this high fat, animal based diet, she would be here today and a different person.

All of the people that I have met that eat raw animal products have experienced varing levels of dental decay. From missing teeth to increasing cavities. Its no suprise with the amount of high acid load animal products that are consumed. Lots of raw milk, cream, eggs, cow muscle and bird. Apparently its meant to raise b12 levels but all of my friends that have shared their blood tests with me have low to borderline b12 serum levels. 

Aajonus came to Australia last year and gave a talk in Robina QLD. I knew 3 people that attended and they shared how Aajonus was sick from food poisoning the whole time. He had to cut his talk off early and spent the day and night vomiting in a bath tub and over the balcony outside. When question what was wrong, Aajonus said 'I was poisoned by the Thai mafia..' Yep.

He charged one of my friends 400$AUS for a 1hr consult. Fair enough but let me tell you what my friend got told..

Aajonus looked as his scalp and said: You have a very rare fungal infection and need to consume no water, eat green bananas and put a pin hole in some eggs and leave them on a window seal for 30-40days until they turn black and then eat them. So my friend did and he ended up taken to hospital in an ambulance when his throat shut right up and he felt like he was going to die. They have him IV antibiotics and steriods to fight the infection that was raging in this throat/lymph glands. My friend then when released from h ospital said he felt better and that his diet had 'promoted a cleanse he was not ready for'...

I asked him what is the difference between food poisoning and a cleanse? He said 'well if its raw meat and you get sick, its a cleanse and if its cooked meat and you get sick its food poisoning'.. Really? How do we explain all those people that died of Ecoli, listeria, botulism, stiga spores, salmonella, camphobacteria  from eating animal products or foods contaminated from animal products...

Here is a link from Dr Ralph Moss reviewing Aajonus Vonderplanitz book 'we want to live'.

Aajonus also recommends eating animal products for b12. But he says its not enough and you must put some meat in a glass jar and leave it in the fridge for a few months to 'get high'. Im talking black, green and blue 'high'. He also advise coprophagia (eating your own shite). One recipie Aajonus Vonderplanitz advises is 'a cut of fatty meat, smeared with your own faeces and put inside a glass jar in the fridge for 6months plus.'

Now this is coming from the guy that said he was a 'vegetarian sort of vegan' and ended up cycling out in the desert and almost dying but was saved by wild coyotes that killed a rabbit for him and made him eat it. He got healed within hours of his cancer. Yet Aajonus has NEVER shown any evidence of any of his 'hundreds of heart attacks/deathly cancer'. Maybe the word fraud is being generous.

For example, he claims that he has helped heal over 200 people of
cancer with his approach. He has said this *publicly* in print. And
yet he refuses to provide *any* evidence of these cases. And to the
best of my knowledge, no one has come forward testifying that they
were one of the folks healed by AV.

The same goes for his own diseases that he claims to have overcome.
They are numerous and quite serious. Surely there is a record
somewhere that he had some of these challenges. Yet nothing, as far as
I know, has been put forth by AV. Such an approach makes it very
difficult to go to bat for him.


My goal of this thread is to bring more information to this person who claims a lot but cant back any of it up. Ive watched his DVD and the highlight is an old man that claims he is in superior health and can now skip rope for a few minutes. Serious.

So next time you need some water, remember, you cant drink water and that Aajonus says 'deep yellow urine is a sign of health' so perhaps just put a tub of raw butter in the dehydrator and melt it down and drink that instead..






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  • He had a heart attack and fell off the roof.

  • he is dead right its really sad

  • Not merely a fake nutritionist: The late Richard Swigart, aka Dick Swigart, aka Aajonus Vonderplanitz, is also not an actor of record in any role on "General Hospital", or any other TV show or film.  

  • thanks!

     

  • well guys, safe to say I'm officially leaving 30 bad now.

     

    shit smeared meat FTW!

     

    • Wait, Melissa, don't leave 30 bananas a day, just don't follow Vonderplanitz crazy diet!

      I think you inadvertently read the desciption of the horrors as an endorsement, which it wasn't! I can't speak for the author of the criticism, but I read his review of Vonderplanitz as as reasons to stick with vegan and avoid the crazy rotted meat with poo on it diet.

      This site is more about a healthy Vegan lifestyle, abstaining from animal protein.

       

       

       

  • Great points Durianrider:

    I have 2 friends that have 'drunk the koolaid' that Vonderplanitz is selling and watch them with dismay.

    Myself: I'm what many people call a 'health nut' engaging in fitness, abstaining from salt, refined sugar, processed food, most red meat, pork, shrimp, soda, etc. While I am not a Vegan or Fruitarian I do juice, and eat a lot of vegetables. I also drink water rather than soda, and don't eat fast food as a rule.  That's me. Clean, fastidious, and groomed. My wife appreciates it.

     

    My 2 young friends, aka 'the smelly ones' have gone full throttle into the rantings of Vanderplanitz and

    reek of gamey rotted meat. They apparently aren't using a toothbrush, toothpaste or shampoo either. I asked point blank why I can smell their hair from across a room, and they said they now use 'eggs whipped to a foam and coconut milk as shampoo' , which worries me, considering all their eggs sit out at room temp. Yuck.

     

    The smell that emanates from practitioners of this 'diet' of rotted meat, is pungent. Their cars, house, clothes, all carry this FUNK as well. My wife has banned all visits from them, and frankly I can't blame her, it requires wiping down and cleaning any furniture they sit in every time they visit, and the house must be aired out.

     

    I only perused the bizarre cook book, and won't waste my time reading the 'we want to live' full book, but I can't imagine Vonderplanitz (cheesy fake name btw, I speak German and that name is nonsense.) hygiene tips are any better than his dietary tips. Neither person was suffering from any disease prior to the diet, so I'm not sure what motivated them other than hype to risk their health eating a diet that almost ensures perpetual virginity.

     

    Has anyone else noticed how much people reek when they practice the Vonderplanitz experiement?

     

     

     

    • What initially intrigued me about this site was the name, for once in high school, when I used to run 3-4 miles per day, I ate god-knows-how-many bananas in one sitting during lunch. It had to be close to twenty, as everyone ate the hoagies (NJ high school) but not the bananas, and gave them to me.

      My energy was thru the roof! I ran almost 2x my normal run that day, and still remember it to this day.

      I try to get my wife to eat more bananas to quell her occasional foot cramps. When she DOES get one and I ask if she had a banana she usually says "no, I forgot"nder her breath to me. EAT BANANAS!

       

      PS Happy Birthday to all those whose Birthday is today! Just noticed that.

  • Aajonus Vonderplanitz changes his story every time I hear it. That is the trademark of someone telling fibs.
  • I did too and she died last year from renal failure after getting dehydrated during a fast that was inspired after getting sick from some animal products.

    Another one ended up in hospital late last year close to death from food poisoning. Aajonus himself had to cancel his talk early due to vomiting on stage and spent the rest of the talk in a bath tub vomiting. He blamed the Thai mafia.

    I just heard yesterday that my mate Luke is having some serious health challenges from following Aajonus's scam artist advice. That sucks.
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