Dr. BreAnna Guan

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.

Red clover herbal jelly Red clover is a phytonutrient that helps decrease the conversion of testosterone to estrogen (also known as aromatization). It contains isoflavones genistein and daidzein (also phytoestrogens) which can reduce hot flashes, retain bone density, and improve blood sugar regulation in menopausal women