Aajonus Vonderplanitz

We Want to Live

2005

A book setting out the Primal Diet: raw meat, raw dairy, raw eggs, and raw fats, with no cooked food. It is written partly as the story of Vonderplanitz's own illnesses and recovery and partly as a manual of food remedies. In the cancer section he reports a cohort: of 239 cases, 238 showed indications of reversal and 223 had survived, with roughly 90% reversal when there was no prior medical treatment and about 60% for lung and esophageal cancers. He argues that cooking destroys enzymes and nutrients, that raw foods let the body clear stored toxins and rebuild tissue, and that bacteria are not the cause of disease.

Cancer protocol survival rates

2011

A compilation of Aajonus's talks and interviews from 2000 to 2011 in which he reports survival and reversal rates for people on the Primal Diet, mainly cancer. The figures he cites include a 95% success rate, 96% of 242 cancer patients still alive after at least six years (a follow-up he attributes to Dr. Elnora Van Winkle), about 98% reversal with no prior medical treatment, and lower rates after surgery, radiation, or chemotherapy. He contrasts those numbers with the survival rates he attributes to medical cancer treatment.