Dr. Ania Jastreboff
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I do not want you to die.
Is that what the food noise is?
That's what the food noise is.
Yeah.
That's exactly what the food noise is.
Oh, I know.
So food noise is a manifestation of that biology, of that striving to survive.
So basically what happens is if we are living below our set point or our enough point, so again, in Oprah's case, 211 pounds, what happens is her body's like, well, we got to find a way to eat more.
You got to eat more.
If you don't eat more, we're going to die.
So constantly she may walk by the kitchen and be like, hmm, is there something for me to snack on?
Is there something...
And you don't notice.
So food noise is a manifestation of that biology.
It is persistent.
It is disruptive.
It is intrusive.
It really takes our attention away from all these other things that we could be doing.
And any time that somebody is living below their enough point, they may experience food noise.
That's right.