Dexa and Body Fat Composition

DEXA is FDA-approved and quantifies your lean, fat, and bone mass (to identify osteoporosis), and visceral fat (which correlates to your risk for hormonal imbalances and disease)

Common alternative methods, such as BMI, Bioimpedance, Bod Pod, and hydrostatic weighing, are often used incorrectly as a surrogate for body composition health. But they can be dangerously misleading.

For example, if you have a BMI of 25 kg/m2, you may have a body fat percentage anywhere from 10-35 percent. If you use other alternative methods, you may see a margin of error range from 5 to 15%.

Whereas as a DEXA scan’s accuracy and precision ranges from a 1 to 2 percent margin of error, it also provides additional information that BMI and alternative testing methods cannot, including:

• Visceral Adipose Tissue (VAT), which is leading predictor of longevity, metabolic syndrome, and cardiovascular disease.
• Skeletal strength, your risk for osteoporosis, and how you compare to others like you.
• “Skinny fat” and sarcopenia risks, which has been found to be an important predictor of cognitive performance

• Skeletal strength, your risk for osteoporosis, and how you compare to others like you.
• Muscle symmetry to identify how your lean, fat, and bone mass compares in each region of your body.
• “Skinny fat” and sarcopenia risks, which has been found to be an important predictor of cognitive performance

Know Your Body… Benchmark your health with the gold standard of health testing. Start with your Dexa Scan testing. Review your results,  and discover exactly what to do to reach your optimal state of health.

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