Kelly K McCann, MD

Kelly K McCann, MD Integrative Medicine respects the innate human capacity for healing and emphasizes the therapeutic p

12/12/2025

If you feel worse before you feel better, your body isn’t failing — it’s recalibrating.

When you start a detox, new supplement, or deeper healing work, your body begins to mobilize what’s been stored — toxins, stress chemistry, even emotions.

That release can feel messy:
🧠Headaches or fatigue
😤 Brain fog or irritability
🤝 Skin flares or digestive shifts

It’s not regression — it’s movement.

In functional and environmental medicine, we call this a healing reaction — the moment your system begins clearing faster than it can eliminate.

Support your drainage pathways: hydrate, rest, sweat, and nourish.

Calm your nervous system: breathe, ground, and soften.

💫 Healing isn’t linear.
It’s cyclical.

You’re not breaking down — you’re breaking open.

12/09/2025

Feeling worse before you feel better isn’t failure — it’s physiology.

When you start a detox, mold protocol, new supplement, or deeper healing work, your body finally begins to mobilize what’s been stored — toxins, stress hormones, even old emotions.

Those chemicals and metabolites have to move through your liver, lymph, kidneys, gut, and skin before they can leave.

If those pathways are backed up or your nervous system is still in fight-or-flight, you may feel:
➡️ Headaches or fatigue
➡️ Skin breakouts
➡️ Brain fog or mood shifts
➡️ Temporary flares of old symptoms

It’s not regression — it’s recalibration.

In environmental and functional medicine, we see this as a healing reaction: the moment your body stops storing and starts releasing.

And in The Unforgetting Project, we recognize that release for what it truly is — the body remembering its natural rhythm.

Healing isn’t linear. It’s a spiral of remembering, repairing, and rebalancing.

💫 Save this for the next time your progress feels messy.

You’re not going backward — your body is catching up with your truth.

12/08/2025

You can clear your diet, your home, your supplements…

But if your mind stays toxic, your body will keep sounding the alarm.🚨

Every thought has chemistry.

Fear, guilt, and resentment release stress hormones the same way toxins burden the liver.

You don’t detox your way to health by restriction.

You get there through regulation — of your nervous system, your thoughts, your beliefs.

🌿 The next time you think your protocol “isn’t working,” check if your inner dialogue is keeping your body in fight-or-flight.

The deepest detox is remembering your thoughts create your terrain.

The body listens to every thought you think.Fear, resentment, self-criticism — they all release their own biochemistry.O...
12/06/2025

The body listens to every thought you think.

Fear, resentment, self-criticism — they all release their own biochemistry.

Over time, those patterns can inflame your nervous system as much as toxins in your environment.

Healing isn’t just about what you remove from your plate or your home — it’s about what you release from your mind.

💫 Detox your thoughts the same way you detox your body: gently, daily, and with compassion.

𝗗𝗲𝘁𝗼𝘅 𝗶𝘀𝗻’𝘁 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁. 𝗜𝘁’𝘀 𝗮 𝗿𝗵𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗺.
Every day, your body detoxes through your liver, lymph, kidneys, skin, lungs, and g...
12/05/2025

𝗗𝗲𝘁𝗼𝘅 𝗶𝘀𝗻’𝘁 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁. 𝗜𝘁’𝘀 𝗮 𝗿𝗵𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗺.

Every day, your body detoxes through your liver, lymph, kidneys, skin, lungs, and gut, but those pathways only work when your nervous system feels safe.

The real medicine most people skip is micro-detox:
💦 Hydration with minerals to keep lymph and kidneys moving
🌞 Morning light to set your circadian clock and support liver timing
🧘‍♀️ A slow exhale to activate your vagus nerve and lower acidity
🥹 Emotional release — tears, laughter, movement — to bring cortisol down
• Rest, where the brain’s glymphatic system clears waste

You don’t detox by doing more.
You detox by returning to rhythm.

In 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁, we explore detox not as deprivation,
but as daily remembrance — a way back to your body’s wisdom and your soul’s timing.

If your body has been asking for a different kind of healing,
comment 𝗨𝗡𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗚𝗘𝗧𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚 and I’ll send you the link to learn more and join the waitlist.

💫 Save this for the days you forget that healing can be simple.

𝗗𝗲𝘁𝗼𝘅 𝗶𝘀𝗻’𝘁 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁. 𝗜𝘁’𝘀 𝗮 𝗿𝗵𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗺.
Every day, your body detoxes through your liver, lymph, kidneys, skin, lungs, and g...
12/05/2025

𝗗𝗲𝘁𝗼𝘅 𝗶𝘀𝗻’𝘁 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁. 𝗜𝘁’𝘀 𝗮 𝗿𝗵𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗺.

Every day, your body detoxes through your liver, lymph, kidneys, skin, lungs, and gut, but those pathways only work when your nervous system feels safe.

The real medicine most people skip is micro-detox:
💦 Hydration with minerals to keep lymph and kidneys moving
☀️ Morning light to set your circadian clock and support liver timing
🧘‍♀️ A slow exhale to activate your vagus nerve and lower acidity
🥹 Emotional release — tears, laughter, movement — to bring cortisol down
• Rest, where the brain’s glymphatic system clears waste

You don’t detox by doing more.
You detox by returning to rhythm.

In 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁, we explore detox not as deprivation,
but as daily remembrance — a way back to your body’s wisdom and your soul’s timing.

If your body has been asking for a different kind of healing,
comment 𝗨𝗡𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗚𝗘𝗧𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚 and I’ll send you the link to learn more and join the waitlist.

💫 Save this for the days you forget that healing can be simple.

12/02/2025

You don’t have to earn your healing through effort.

When you stop fighting your body and start listening, detox happens naturally — through breath, rest, and rhythm.

You can’t cleanse in a body that feels unsafe.

You can’t repair while you’re rushing.

Healing begins in stillness.

🌿 Save this as your reminder: sometimes doing less is the most powerful medicine of all.

12/01/2025

You don’t need another supplement to fix
your fatigue — you need to understand it.

When your adrenals are overworked, your body doesn’t trust that it’s safe to rest or repair.

Here’s where to start:
☀️ Light before screens
🥩Protein before caffeine
🧘‍♀️Breath before stress
💤 Rest before collapse

Energy isn’t something you get back — it’s something you rebuild through rhythm.

💫 Save this post if you’re tired of being tired.

11/30/2025

Your thyroid and hormones don’t run on caffeine — they run on light.

Morning sunlight is the signal your brain uses to set every hormonal rhythm for the day.

🌞 It tells your body, “We’re safe. It’s time to wake up.”

When you reach for your phone first, your brain reads it as stress, not sunrise.

Here’s how to reset:
➡️ Step outside within 30 minutes of waking.
➡️ No sunglasses, no screens, just a few minutes of real light.
➡️ Breathe, stretch, or sip your water — that’s it.

Your circadian rhythm sets your cortisol, thyroid hormones, and metabolism.

Light is medicine — and it’s completely free.

💫 Save this post if you need the reminder to meet the sun before the screen.

11/29/2025

They told you it was 𝘯𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘭.
Normal to be exhausted.
Normal to gain weight.
Normal to feel foggy and overwhelmed in your 40s.

But 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘰𝘯 doesn’t mean 𝘯𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘭.
And your thyroid doesn’t whisper—
it communicates.

It slows down when you’re burnt out.
It speeds up when you’re overwhelmed.
Not because it’s broken,
but because it’s 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘆𝗼𝘂.

So instead of asking,
“𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘸𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘮𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘺𝘳𝘰𝘪𝘥?”
Start asking,
✨ “What is my thyroid trying to tell me?”

That’s where real healing begins.

🩺 Want guidance that goes beyond “normal labs”? Comment SPRING for more information about how to work with my team at The Spring Center.



11/27/2025

Most thyroid care stops at the surface.

But your thyroid isn’t just about TSH or T4 — it’s your body’s barometer of safety, nourishment, and truth.

My approach blends functional, integrative, and environmental medicine — and something deeper: the Unforgetting process.

Because sometimes the thyroid isn’t “broken.”

It’s holding back until you feel safe to speak, slow down, or come home to yourself.

🔄 Save this if you’ve ever been told “your labs are normal,” but your body says otherwise.

💬 Tell me: what’s your thyroid trying to say?

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