McCollum Wellness Radio

When Rockefeller was coming into power during the early 1900’s by controlling nearly all of the oil in the United States, he also set out to do away with all traditional medicine, including homeopathy, herbalism, and chiropractics. He wanted to replace these tried-and-true methods of healing with his highly profitable oil-based pharmaceuticals. Rockefeller ultimately succeeded in monopolizing and...

Functional medicine approaches sickness and disease by looking for the upstream causes and conditions that are creating the problem. Rather than simply treating symptoms to make them go away, functional medicine asks what is it that is actually causing the body to be sick in the first place? By treating the root cause of the problem, the symptoms will disappear all on their own. As a chiropractor...

The Tissue Regenerative Technology (TRT) machine, often called the “stem cell machine,” uses nothing but pulses of soundwaves sent into the body to awaken and activate dormant stem cells that then repair damaged joints and muscles. The sound comes out at 3,358 miles per hour, similar to the soundwaves generated by lightning. One of the groundbreaking feats of this machine is that it will naturally...

Dr. Duncan McCollum did not have an easy childhood growing up, yet the challenges he faced and ultimately overcame shaped him into becoming the incredibly resilient, determined, and successful physician that he is today. When he was a boy and all the way into early adulthood, Duncan didn’t know how to read or write. His learning disabilities created a lot of difficulties and setbacks for him in sc...

We are basically the effect of our own thoughts. We can use our thoughts to entrap us or we can use them to uplift and free us. As the saying goes, “What you think about, you talk about. What you talk about, you bring about.” Having clearly defined goals set for yourself is key. If you want to get to Hawaii and you start sailing west without any kind of map, you will likely never get there. This i...

A couple of Dr. McCollum’s patients share their experience with the TRT Machine, also known as the Stem Cell Machine. This device has helped hundreds of Dr. McCollum’s patients suffering with neuropathy, knee pain, back pain, difficulty walking, and so on. Dr. McCollum is still offering a $49 introductory special on TRT treatment at his clinic McCollum Family Chiropractic in Santa Cruz, California...

Dr. McCollum shares excerpts and information from his most recent best-selling health book Turn Back Your Biological Clock. In this book Dr. McCollum guides you through the most current natural healthcare trends and teaches you how to take charge of your own health.  The information Dr. McCollum covers was researched and utilized by some of the greatest names in natural and restorative healthcare....

Dr. McCollum reads the Author’s Note from his best-selling health book Turn Back Your Biological Clock . What happened to the rebel within us? When did we start to conform? My God, did I even say that word? When we were younger, learning to survive, and doing our thing, was some faction making a business out of keeping us sick? Wasn’t Wonder Bread supposed to “build strong bodies in 12 ways?” Were...

A couple of Dr. McCollum’s patients share their experience with the TRT Machine, also known as the Stem Cell Machine. This device has helped hundreds of Dr. McCollum’s patients suffering with neuropathy, knee pain, back pain, difficulty walking, and so on. Dr. McCollum is still offering a $49 introductory special on TRT treatment at his clinic McCollum Family Chiropractic in Santa Cruz, California...

Dr. McCollum’s best-selling book Turn Back Your Biological Clock tells the story of a typical, aging baby boomer who woke up one morning to embrace his own mortality. This book explains the principles of regenerative healthcare and reveals how in as little as three to eight weeks you can begin to reverse your biological clock and start to enjoy life again. This highly educational and entertaining...

What’s the difference between bad cholesterol and good cholesterol? What are the negative impacts of refined sugar and canola oils used in most of the commercial cooking and prepared foods we eat? Sally Fallon’s book Nourishing Traditions is a vital resource for understanding all of this. She provides information on healthy foods to eat and dieting practices we can take to improve our health. Most...

Canola oil is used in so many products we consume and foods cooked for us when we go out to eat. Unfortunately this oil is very harmful to our body. It is filled with free radicals, creating cellular inflammation and disrupting healthy hormone functioning. Processed canola oil is high in trans-fatty acids (the bad fats) and creates a deficiency in vitamin E, required for healthy cardiovascular fun...

Most of us have been raised to believe that high cholesterol is bad for you, end of story. This simplified understanding does not take into account the different types of cholesterol, some of which are very good for us and are actually necessary for the proper functioning of our cell walls. Polyunsaturated fats and trans fats (the bad fats) from processed foods and refined oils like canola oil cre...

Sugar, especially fructose, has been shown to be associated with shortening the lifespan in numerous scientific research studies. It has been associated with eating disorders, blood platelet aggregation (blood clots), neuropathy, diabetes, and more. Currently, 50% of all children in the United States have at least one chronic disease. This is likely due to a variety of factors, however the toxic e...

In 2005 the Environmental Working Group published a groundbreaking study titled “Body Burden: The Pollution in Newborns.” In this study they found 287 toxic chemicals in the umbilical cord blood of babies that had not even lived outside of the womb yet. This toxic overload may explain why we are so sick in this country and why our children experience a myriad of chronic diseases so early in life....

In 2005 the Environmental Working Group published a groundbreaking study that found 287 toxic chemicals in the umbilical cord blood of babies that had not even lived outside of the womb yet. This toxic overload may explain why we are so sick in this country and why our children experience a myriad of chronic diseases so early in life. We make up 4% of the global population and take 75% of all the...

Hormones carry important signals from the brain and organs to the cells. They tell the cells what to do to keep the body functioning properly. Many people when they hear “hormones” tend to only think of the sex hormones like estrogen and testosterone and don’t realize that hormones extend far beyond sexual functioning. They regulate everything from stress levels, sleep cycles, metabolism, inflamma...

The mainstream medical establishment is known for pushing pharmaceuticals, oftentimes resulting in drug dependency. These drugs may numb our symptoms, but they leave the underlying cause of the problem untouched. Not only this, these man-made chemical drugs often disrupt healthy hormone functioning. Hormones are how our cells communicate with the rest of the body so that they can know what to do....

The United States population takes 80% of all the opioids consumed in the entire world, and yet we make up less than 5% of the world’s population. What this says is that a lot of Americans are in pain, and sadly they aren’t told by their doctors how to end their pain. Many doctors don’t look hard enough to find out what’s the underlying cause of the pain. Instead, they only treat the pain itself (...

Hormones carry signals from the brain and organs to the cells. They tell the cells what to do to keep the body functioning properly. When toxins get in the way of these hormones they plug our cells’ receptor sites, stopping hormones from getting through the cellular membranes. This leads to hormone dysregulation and dysfunction, turning on “bad genes” and leading to chronic disease down the road....

Dr. Duncan McCollum’s office McCollum Family Chiropractics was voted #1 Best Chiropractor in Santa Cruz by Good Times Magazine. Dr. McCollum strives very hard to make sure every one of his patients is taken care of and that all of their health needs are met. This award reflects his commitment to excellence shared by him and all of his staff at McCollum Family Chiropractic. Dr. McCollum is so much...

In 2016, Dr. Yoshinori Ohsumi’s discovery with autophagy won him the Nobel Prize. Autophagy is an important process where the body breaks down the older, sicker and weaker cells and converts them to fuel the stronger, healthier cells. What Dr. Ohsumi discovered is that by fasting for 72 hours, autophagy is at its greatest. When you fast, your body begins to scavenge within itself looking for anyth...

Tune in to today’s Health Update to discover the best technique you can do to better your health. Dr. Duncan McCollum’s office McCollum Family Chiropractics was recently voted #1 Best Chiropractor in Santa Cruz by Good Times Magazine. Dr. McCollum strives very hard to make sure every one of his patients is taken care of and that all of their health needs are met. This award reflects his commitment...

Why is it that so few people die of natural causes these days? Today it is more common to die of diabetes, cancer, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease. How did we become so sick as a nation? We are among the most developed countries in the world, yet somehow we are rated #46 in the world for health. When we look upstream to the causes of chronic disease the answer becomes clear. Our environment is...

The greatest effect toxins have on our bodies are disrupted hormones. Hormones act as signals from the brain and body that tell the cells what to do. When these hormone signals get disrupted this can lead to all kinds of chronic and autoimmune diseases. Find out how we get exposed to lead and mercury in our environment and the best way to test for these heavy metals in your body. Dr. Duncan McColl...