McCollum Wellness Radio

There seems to be this unexamined belief that, “If I don’t eat when I’m hungry, I’m only going to become hungrier and hungrier.” Dr. Mindy Pelz is here to show that that’s actually not true. She explains how the longer you go without food at some point a switch happens in the body, and it begins to consume its own stored fat cells, using them for energy. This process is now known as autophagy , an...

Dr. Mindy Pelz explains the importance of our cellular health and how this impacts our metabolism. When our cells get overloaded with toxins, this leads to all sorts of problems such as poor metabolism and auto-immune conditions. Dr. Pelz offers solutions on how to “fix the cell to get well.” By applying these tools and health practices, you can reverse many of the issues you may be facing. Dr. Mi...

Most people today are walking around with an unhealthy gut microbiome. This plays a huge role in numerous issues involving GI function, auto-immune conditions, and even your mental health and well-being. Dr. McCollum and his guest speaker, Dr. Mindy Pelz, explain why our gut health has plummeted in America and provide powerful solutions to heal the gut based on ancient practices now confirmed by m...

Whether you are fasting or working out to lose weight, it’s important to understand that toxins get stored in our fat cells. When we begin to burn off these fat cells, the toxins get released into our body. Knowing how to flush these toxins out of the body correctly is imperative. Tune in as Dr. McCollum and Dr. Mindy Pelz share important information on the best way to approach fasting and burning...

It’s important to know the difference between good and bad fats, especially if you are on a ketogenic diet. Tune in as Dr. McCollum and his guest speaker, Dr. Mindy Pelz, share information on which fats are healthy to eat and which fats you want to avoid. Dr. Mindy Pelz is a fasting expert, speaker, and best-selling author of four books. Her newest book, Fast Like a Girl , has proven to be an inva...

Dr. Duncan McCollum shares information on the importance of the birthing process. He explains what happens as a baby travels through the mother’s birth canal, and how this process is important for inoculating the baby with the mother’s antibodies that keep it healthy and immune to dis-ease. He also shares stories and testimonials of mothers who have witnessed their baby’s health improve immediatel...

Dr. McCollum interviews Captain Beth Montgomery, a 97-year-old WWII veteran, who shares her healing journey away from mainstream medicine. Like most older adults, her doctors wanted to keep her on pharmaceutical drugs to “manage” her health, however she decided instead to take her health into her own hands and hasn’t looked back since. Tune in to today’s episode with Carol Montgomery and her mothe...

When Dr. Duncan McCollum was a kid in the 1950’s only about 6% of children suffered from an autoimmune condition. Today, over 50% of children have at least one autoimmune disease, and oftentimes multiple diseases. What happened to our health? Why are so many children and adults suffering from multiple diseases? We live in one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world, and yet som...

Are you sick and tired of being sick and tired? Mainstream medicine is centered around symptom relief. Even though this can be incredibly helpful in crisis situations, by only mitigating the symptoms we ultimately leave the upstream cause (of the symptoms) unaffected, and so it will continue proliferating and creating more symptoms. In today’s episode of McCollum Wellness Radio, Dr. Duncan McCollu...

Dr. Duncan McCollum and his patient and guest speaker Billy Graff explore the world of chiropractics and why it is so important for everyone. Many people believe, “If I don’t have back pain, I don’t need to see a chiropractor.” This simply is not true. Dr. McCollum explains the importance of our nervous system and its role in ensuring healthy communication between our brain and the rest of our bod...

Dr. Taylor Pascal shares his story of why he left his profession as an orthopedic surgeon to become a chiropractic physician when he came to the realization that instead of performing surgeries, he could serve in preventing them from even happening. This is exactly what he does now as a chiropractor at McCollum Family Chiropractic . His passion was awakened when he saw the role chiropractics does...

Our thoughts literally change our cellular biology. The kind of thoughts we choose to think have the power to either derail our health and well-being or improve it. Dr. Pascal emphasizes this point, “It really is mind over matter.” Tune in to today’s Health Update with Dr. Taylor Pascal to learn about Vitamin G and why it is so important for optimal health and well-being. Get in Touch with Dr. McC...

Unfortunately in America, we aren’t taught how to live a healthy lifestyle. Meanwhile American’s take over 80% of all the pharmaceuticals produced in the world, yet we only make up 4% of the world’s population. You’d think that if all these drugs were really helping us then we’d be rated as one of the healthiest countries in the world. Unfortunately, the opposite is true since we are rated 47th in...

The six most common words Dr. Duncan McCollum hears in his office are, “I thought it would go away.” Don’t wait until it’s too late. Dr. McCollum is here to empower you in taking the right steps today to first identify the upstream causes of discomfort and dis-ease and then to appropriately handle the causes that will then reduce and eliminate the undesired effects of the health problems you may b...

Chiropractics is so important for healthy nervous system functioning. Many people believe that you only need to go to a chiropractor when you are in pain, however this is simply not the case. Regularly resetting your spinal health is a lot like resetting a circuit breaker. Over time our spines get compressed which inhibits electrical nervous system communication with the rest of the body. As our n...

Therapeutic fasting involves a gradual step-by-step process that avoids the pitfalls and complications that may occur from diving into fasting head first. Therapeutic fasting first takes into account where you are at currently as far as your diet and lifestyle, and then from there moving gradually into intermittent fasting and eating the right kinds of foods that will easily support this new lifes...

So many people nowadays are walking around with some sort of digestive issue, whether it’s constipation, indigestion, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Celiac disease, or simply heightened food sensitivities that are restricting their diet. Taking the right steps toward healing and improving our gut microbiome is a powerful way to reverse or eliminate a lot of these digestive disorders. In today’s episode...

Our ancestors lived on a varied diet. The types of food they ate changed throughout the year based on what was available and in season at any given time. Our bodies thrive on change. Eating different foods strengthens our digestive system, making it more robust and adaptable. When we only eat the same foods day after day, our digestion actually becomes weaker and weaker until our bodies become sic...

Every time you eat a meal—which can be as little as eating a single nut—you activate your digestive system. If our body is continuously putting energy towards digesting our food, it will have less energy to spend on repairing and rebuilding the rest of the body. Intermittent fasting is important because it gives our digestive system a break and allows it to relax, and this in turn will actually cl...

When we help other people, we are also at the same time helping ourselves. Caring for others’ well-being with an open heart creates positive chemical reactions within our own body, generating beneficial “feel good” hormones like endorphins and serotonin. These hormones reduce stress and improve our health and well-being. The key to success is to serve. It could be as simple as giving someone a cal...

Our gut microbiome not only affects our physical health but also our mental well-being. This is because our gut microbiome serves as a major source of serotonin , the “feel good” neurotransmitter responsible for regulating our mood as well improving cognition, learning, memory, and sleep. Dr. Shayne Morris discovered this important link between our gut and our brain, calling it the ‘psychobiome’ o...

Antibiotics don’t just kill off the bad, harmful bacteria, they also wipe out the good, beneficial bacteria. After a course of antibiotics, our gut microbiome is left totally destroyed and can take years to rebuild. Without the presence of beneficial bacteria in our gut, this can lead to all kinds of digestive and immune disorders. Tune into today’s Health Update to learn what you can do after tak...

In order to reach our greatest health potential, we must first do what we can to eliminate stressors on the body. Our body by its own accord already possesses this incredibly powerful innate intelligence to heal itself. All we need to do is remove the interferences, so that the body can do what it is designed to do. As B.J. Palmer so famously pointed out, “The body needs no help, just no interfere...

A leaky gut is linked to a variety of health conditions including: autoimmune disease; digestive disorders such as Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Celiac disease, Crohn's disease, and food sensitivities; skin disorders such as acne, psoriasis, and eczema; arthritis; autism; mental disorders like depression; chronic fatigue syndrome; fibromyalgia; Parkinson’s disease; kidney disease; obesity; and dia...

When we eat unhealthy and toxic foods, such as ones sprayed with chemicals like glyphosate, our gut becomes inflamed and swells up. The inflamed cells then begin to break apart from each other creating small holes in our thin stomach lining. Now all sorts of toxins can leak out of our stomach into the rest of our body causing all kinds of sickness and disease. There’s a reason why the European Uni...