Ep 214: Ex-FDA Dr. Josef: What Your Psychiatrist and Doctor Aren't Telling You

Dr. Josef Witt-Doerring was a director at a pharmaceutical company making close to $700,000 with a clear path to seven figures. He quit.

He had trained at Baylor, done a drug development fellowship at Janssen, and reviewed psychiatric drug safety data at the FDA. In 2020, he and his wife Marissa started TaperClinic.

Then he tells the story he rarely tells. Three coffees a day. Eight nicotine pouches. Eighty-hour weeks. He collapsed mid-shift and left the ER with hepatitis and fatty liver disease at 210 pounds. He was also taking Xanax to sleep. Today he runs the largest practice in the world, helping people come off psychiatric medication.

In this episode you'll learn:

• The three domains that decide your mental health, and the one almost everyone skips
• What to fix before you ever consider a prescription
• How these drugs were studied, and what your doctor is not telling you
• Why coming off too fast is what causes the damage
• What Dr. Josef changed instead of having his gallbladder removed
• Why he walked away from $700,000 and started over
• The motto he would put on a billboard in Times Square

Not medical advice. No one should change or stop a psychiatric medication without their prescriber.