Dr. BreAnna Guan

For many women, menopause is one of the most challenging times in their lives. You may feel like you’ve become irrelevant to society, simply because you’ve reached the end of your reproductive years. You may even mourn a loss of “femininity.” These feelings often stem simply from the unknown. There are so many unanswered questions, […]

Weight gain, irritability, bloating, fatigue, skin problems – they’re all just a normal part of being a woman. But are they really? Do you really have to accept them as your new “normal”? The truth is that these frustrating symptoms are common, but that doesn’t mean they’re normal. What many women don’t know is that

What is Menopause? Menopause is a period of time in a woman’s life that marks the end of her reproductive years. It’s diagnosed after you’ve gone 12 consecutive months without menstruating and typically occurs between your late 40s and early 50s. In the United States, the average age of menopause is 51 years old.1 During

Intermittent fasting is having a moment in the spotlight. Many people, including famous celebrities, swear by intermittent fasting, saying it helps them manage their weight and increase their energy. But is intermittent fasting all that its fans say it is? Can it really prevent disease and provide anti-aging benefits? What are its benefits and potential

If there’s one topic that seems to confuse and frustrate women across the lifespan, it would have to be metabolism. How can you speed up our metabolism? Why does your friend’s weight never budge, no matter what she eats, while you gain 5 pounds overnight? And how might your metabolism be affecting your overall health

Twenty percent of women with PCOS have normal or low body weight. Learn all about lean PCOS and how we treat it naturally.

Are you staying up late, overeating, avoiding exercise, bingeing on social media? Are you staying up late, overeating, avoiding exercise, bingeing on social media? Do you long to make lifestyle changes a reality?
How can change happen when these habits seem so hard to break? As a health consultant and licensed naturopathic doctor, I ask myself these questions all the time.Furthermore, what is the thing to get us past ourselves and make the changes we know we need to make?

Too often in the conventional medical realm with Peri-menopause and menopause, a woman is gifted with anti-depressants and the same old adage” well, this is what getting older is, and you’ll just have to deal with it like everyone else.”
Most of my clients are not satisfied with this thought process and don’t want to take pills to cover their

There is an ever-changing landscape of dietary recommendations and experts. With food rules and fads everywhere we look, how can we use mindful eating to optimize our health and relationship with food?

Connecting with and understanding our menstrual cycle can be a most empowering and health-promoting relationship. We can also adjust our lives and flow to be in sync with the rhythm of our hormones. Below you’ll find a few of my favorite ways to begin to connect to your monthly flow.