McCollum Wellness Radio

After last week’s informative interview with Rev. Fred Shaw Jr. on the lack of science behind SSRI drugs, Dr. Duncan McCollum returns to this subject with even more research disproving this “chemical imbalance theory” that these drugs are based upon. A landmark mega-study— A Decisive Blow to the Serotonin Hypothesis of Depression —found the theory that depression is caused from a chemical imbalanc...

Serotonin is known as the “feel good” neurotransmitter that contributes to overall happiness and a stable mood. It is produced naturally in the brain. One of the many problems with drugs like selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) is that when you take them long-term they begin to wear out and damage the serotonin receptors on your nerves. The SSRIs stop working as a result, so the patien...

Dr. Daniel Carlat, a psychiatrist and editor of the Carlat Psychiatry Report, stated in an interview when asked about psychiatric medicine, “ We don’t know how the medications actually work in the brain .” Psychiatrists like Dr. Carlat still recommend these medications, explaining to their patients that it will help them with a chemical imbalance that they have in their brain. Dr. Carlat admits th...

The theory that depression is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain has been found in a landmark mega-study to be “ not empirically substantiated. ” In other words, there isn’t any scientific evidence to back it up. SSRI’s, which operate from this false chemical imblanace theory, have proven to be ineffective of curing depression in the long term, and in fact can cause more depression, anxie...

Reverend Fred Shaw Jr. , Director of Public Affairs and Spokesperson for the Citizens Commission on Human Rights International, has been a watchdog of the mental health industry for over fifty years. He is also the executive director of the NAACP Inglewood South Bay branch with a long history of working with the NAACP. He is the past president of the Compton NAACP. Rev. Shaw explains how every yea...

Antidepressants like selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are not solving the problem of depression, mainly because depression is not caused by low serotonin levels in the brain . In this health update Dr. McCollum breaks down exactly what it is that these SSRI drugs do to the brain. Finding the upstream causes of depression requires taking a bigger picture approach, placing the depress...

How does psychological manipulation occur in the pharmaceutical industry? Rev. Fred Shaw Jr. , Director of Public Affairs and Spokesperson for the Citizens Commission on Human Rights International and a watchdog of the mental health industry for over fifty years, breaks it down for us. First, a highly profitable idea comes forth. Next, someone with enough money capitalizes on it and pushes it. The...

If pharmaceutical drugs created impeccable health, then you’d think America would be top in the worldwide health ratings. After all, we take 75% of all the drugs manufactured in the world while only making up 4% of the world’s population. However, we are actually rated 47th in world health. How can this be? As it turns out, most if not all chemical drugs we take result in or risk certain negative...

Scientific Tech Daily recently published an article titled, Scientists Found No Evidence that Depression is Caused by “Chemical Imbalance” or Low Serotonin Levels. But if depression isn’t caused by low serotonin levels or a chemical imbalance in the brain, then what’s really going on here?  Rev. Fred Shaw Jr. explains how “depression” is a clinical term used to turn something like extreme sadness...

Rev. Fred Shaw Jr. , Director of Public Affairs and Spokesperson for the Citizens Commission on Human RIghts International, explains how every year 15.6 billion dollars are made selling the idea that depression is simply the result of a chemical imbalance in the brain. So then adding the right chemicals back into the brain should solve the problem, right? Unfortunately, this is not the case. In an...

Ben Azadi is the founder of Keto Kamp , an organization that teaches ancient healing strategies, ketogenic dieting, as well as different ways to fast used to improve cellular health. Both Ben and Dr. McCollum teach ancient healing principles that have been around for as long as humanity itself. They each have observed that when we apply these ancient strategies in our daily life, the body will nat...

Dr. Duncan McCollum and Keto Kamp founder Ben Azadi discuss how, more than ever in our times, we are faced with chronic inflammation. And the pharmaceutical industry is focused only on creating a perfect drug that will stop chronic inflammation as quickly as possible. However, most pharmaceuticals come with a long list of “side” effects, which aren’t really side effects but rather unintended direc...

Reflecting on our evolutionary roots, Ben Azadi founder of Keto Kamp reminds us that, “ We are hardwired as a species for feast–famine cycles .” When we fast correctly, we turn on this cellular process known as autophagy , where the body breaks down its own weaker, senescent cells to be reused as fuel for making stronger, healthier cells .  Fasting is a tool we can use to recreate these ‘times of...

Dr. McCollum reminds us, “The greatest physician to ever walk this Earth lives inside of you and me.” This incredible physician is none other than our body’s innate intelligence. As the saying goes, “Our body doesn’t need any help, it just needs no interference.” For example, every time we choose to eat inflammatory foods we interfere with the health of our body. If our body is constantly expendin...

What is the optimal model for our health? Dr. Dan Pompa, an expert in the field of anti-aging and longevity, says that true health begins first on the cellular level. His motto is, “ Fix the cell to get well. ” Dr. McCollum works closely with Dr. Dan Pompa and teaches his “Five R’s” of cellular health: Remove the sources of toxic exposures Repair and regenerate the cell membrane Restore cellular h...

In the early 1960’s only 6% of children had a chronic disease. Right now in America more than 50% of children suffer from at least one chronic disease , and oftentimes multiple other chronic diseases as well. How is it possible that our health ranking as a nation has slipped down to 47th in the entire world when we are one of the top leaders in medical technology and advancements? Could it be by d...

If you created a pill that doesn’t cure anybody and doesn’t kill anybody, how long would someone have to be on that medication? The short answer is, forever. And each time a new drug is prescribed it creates new symptoms that often must be treated with another pharmaceutical, until you find yourself going from one drug to the next in a never-ending downward spiral of more and more problems. Most p...

“I love the way that you write!” is what one woman said after reading Dr. McCollum’s latest health book Turn Back Your Biological Clock . In this best-selling book, Dr. McCollum shares relevant and important health information but in a story mode. He wrote it in this way so that you can more easily grasp the scientific information he provides in a context that is relevant to daily life. In this cl...

Tune in today as Dr. McCollum reviews a mind blowing CMAJ research article titled, Just a Minute: Incredible Numbers at Play at the Macro and Micro Level by Biji T. Kurien . Every minute our bodies perform trillions of different functions to stay healthy and alive. Needless to say, the intelligence of our body to orchestrate such a feat is far beyond the sophistication of our most advanced technol...

Chris is a patient of Dr. McCollum at his clinic McCollum Family Chiropractic in Capitola, CA who shares his experience with chiropractics and how Dr. McCollum was able to save him from needing knee surgery. Get in Touch with Dr. McCollum Contact his team for more information about his 3-month True Cellular Detox Program , his $49 special on The Stem Cell Machine , and scheduling a health consulta...

When it comes to health, our environment is everything. This includes our environment within the body as well as our outer environment and how we handle the various stressors we’re faced with in life. Our body’s innate intelligence to heal itself is miraculous to say the least. Once we remove the interferences getting in the way of our health, our body naturally begins to repair itself. Interferen...

“So much happens in 1 minute, at both the macro level (the Universe) and the micro level (within the human body.” In this 2004 CMAJ article titled Just a Minute: Incredible Numbers at Play at the Macro and Micro Level by Biji T. Kurien we learn about the trillions upon trillions of functions that occur within our bodies every 60 seconds. Get in Touch with Dr. McCollum Contact his team for more inf...

America is the land of opportunity. It always has been and still is today. Perspective is everything. You can choose to see yourself as a victim of circumstances, or you can empower yourself and take charge over your life. The choice is always yours to make. Dr. McCollum encourages you to draw your line in the sand and choose to do something that you feel great about, whether it’s to travel, write...

Dustin is a patient of Dr. McCollum at his clinic McCollum Family Chiropractic in Capitola, CA who shares his experience with chiropractics and how it has improved his life for the better. Get in Touch with Dr. McCollum Contact his team for more information about his 3-month True Cellular Detox Program , his $49 special on The Stem Cell Machine , and scheduling a health consultation (offered for f...

Michael Olson interviews Dr. Duncan McCollum at the Pleasure Point Street Fair in Capitola. Dr. McCollum covers a range of topics from unhealthy fats and oils, obesity, Covid and what’s really making us so sick, intermittent fasting and autophagy, how the “Stem Cell Machine” works and what makes it so effective, as well as the rise of oil-based pharmaceuticals in allopathic medicine and its object...