Food Noise: a Real Phenomenon Deserving of Being Treated
Emerging evidence shows that many people experience food noise, that it can be measured and, at least to some extent, treated with a GLP-1 or other strategy.
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“Food noise” is experiencing a huge research moment. Patients have been talking about the phenomenon for the past few years, especially on social media. The realization that GLP-1 drugs seemed to dampen the impact of this unwanted preoccupation with food, or even make it disappear entirely, has caught researchers’ interest and has spurred a plethora of new studies, three definitions and related clinical tools, as well as hypotheses about the mechanisms underlying the phenomenon.‘Relentless, Real’“Even when I’m eating, I’m planning the next time I’m gonna’ eat,” one patient told Travis D. Masterson, PhD, director, Health, Ingestive Behavior, and Technology Laboratory at Penn State, University Park, Pennsylvania.
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