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Women’s Hormonal Health and the Brain: How to Protect Your Focus, Sleep, & Performance at Every Stage of Your Career

If you were in the room for my neurobiology of women’s leadership talk, you heard the blunt truth: your hormones are not a personal issue. ...
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Feature card titled Why Your Hormones Are a Performance Issue, the neuroscience of hormones, a neurologist's guide to the hormones shaping your focus and sleep, by Dr. Romie Mushtaq, MD, Board-Certified Neurologist.

Women’s Hormonal Health and the Brain: How to Protect Your Focus, Sleep, & Performance at Every Stage of Your Career

If you were in the room for my neurobiology of women’s leadership talk, you heard the blunt truth: your hormones are not a personal issue. ...
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Why you wake up at 3 AM in perimenopause, a neurologist's guide by Dr. Romie Mushtaq, MD

Why You’re Waking Up in the Middle of the Night: A Neurologist’s Guide to Perimenopause and Sleep

Waking at 3 AM with your mind racing and heart pounding isn't anxiety or "just stress," it's neurobiology. As progesterone declines in perimenopause, your brain ...
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Language of Leadership: Supporting Neurodivergent Employees How to Support Neurodivergent Employees at Work | Dr. Romie Supporting Neurodivergent Employees: A Leader's Guide

The Language of Leadership: Supporting Neurodivergent Employees

Every May, we put up the ribbons. We send the emails. We remind people that, “it’s okay to not be okay.”And then June 1st arrives, ...
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Monks walking the Walk for Peace through a winter storm, illustrating steadiness through hard conditions

How to Keep Walking When the Path Gets Hard

Bad news is everywhere. Following brainSHIFT doesn’t mean we spiritually bypass the news, the division, or the discomfort many of us are feeling right now. ...
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What I’m Learning From the Monks (and Why It Matters for High-Functioning Helpers)

Last week, we talked about high-functioning helpers: the capable, responsible people who keep going even when our nervous systems are tired. This week, I want ...
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Dr. Romie Mushtaq, MD · Board-Certified Neurologist Keynote Speaker · Author, The Busy Brain Cure

You’re Not Failing 2026. Your Nervous System Is Overloaded.

Exhausted but still delivering? Dr. Romie Mushtaq, board-certified neurologist, explains why high-functioning helpers quietly burn out and the brainSHIFT that helps.
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Dr. Romie Mushtaq on NBC’s Bloom TV: Navigating Brain Health in a Hyper-Connected World

In my recent conversation on Bloom TV, I discussed the criticality of brain health for longevity, especially in our hyper-connected world. As a board-certified physician ...
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Log On. Rise Up. My Birthday Wish for All My Sisters

Kindness is Not Extinct. I walk on this Earth connected to a mission larger than myself;  spread a message of healing by bridging medicine and ...
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Mindful Leadership: Choose Calm and Manage Your Busy Brain

“You are responsible for the energy you bring into the room. Choose calm.”  Dr. Romie Mushtaq, MD on Mindful Leadership How do you feel at ...
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Listen Up: Is Busy Brain Wrecking Your Life? I’ll Show You How to Fight Back.

Wired and tired at the same time? Drowning in tasks but can’t focus on any of them? Forget what a good night’s sleep even feels ...
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Harnessing Mindfulness to Combat Stress in the Corporate World

In the latest episode of “Beyond the Meeting Room,” hosted by Mike Dominguez from Associated Luxury Hotels International, I had the privilege to discuss an ...
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