Excerpt from a YouTube video in which the speaker defines “food noise” as maladaptive future-oriented thoughts tied to the brain's default mode network. The speaker links this pattern to anxiety and depressive disorders and raises the question of what cognitive bandwidth is freed when preoccupation with anticipated meals decreases.
Absolutely, you know, just, just picking food noise, for one. Right. Like there's this question of, well, what is food noise? And, you know, the best theory I've heard is basically the default mode network of the brain, which is what your brain is doing when it's not doing something else, which people are generally in half the time. It's generally always simulating futures. Futures. Right. So, like, what, what am I going to do next? What am I going to do? And that could be the source of anxiety for some. It's implicated in depression, depressive disorders. But food noise is basically maladaptive thinking about the future prospection. And so what happens when you're not spending 50% of your time or some, some high portion of your time thinking about your next meal or that you're hungry? What do you, what does that free up cognitive bandwidth to then go and do.
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