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Docs Who LiftAuthor: Docs Who Lift
Drs. Spencer and Karl Nadolsky talk about nutrition, medicine, and fitness through the lens of two physicians who lift weights. Both doctors are former NCAA division 1 wrestlers who have gone into medicine. Dr. Spencer Nadolsky is a board certified family physician specialized in obesity medicine and lipidology. Dr. Karl Nadolsky is a board certified endocrinologist also specialized in obesity medicine. Language: en Genres: Health & Fitness, Medicine Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Food Noise Is Real, and Now We Can Measure It
Episode 159
Tuesday, 22 September, 2026
Dr. David Allison and Dr. Emily Dhurandhar join Dr. Spencer Nadolsky and Dr. Karl Nadolsky to break down their new research on food noise. Patients on GLP-1s kept describing the same thing: the constant background chatter about food finally went quiet. Allison and Dhurandhar convened an expert panel of physicians, psychologists, statisticians, and eating disorder specialists to define it properly and build a validated questionnaire to measure it.Their definition: persistent, unwanted, unpleasant thoughts about food that harm your social, physical, or mental health. The data revealed three distinct parts. Preoccupation with food, how inescapable it feels, and how distressing it is. That third piece, the dysphoria, is what separates food noise from hunger and cravings. Cravings can be enjoyable. Food noise is not.The conversation covers why food noise correlates with other appetite measures without being the same thing, patients who lose almost no weight on medication but refuse to stop taking it because of the mental relief, and whether food noise alone could justify treatment. They also share where the research is headed, from translations into ten languages and a new adolescent validation to a study testing whether food noise affects driving safety. And they answer the claim that Big Pharma invented the term. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
