DEXA Body Scan - Shed Fat, Not Weight

yopeeps025

OP what have you found for your dissertation in regard to like bod pod and hydrostatic weighing for the gold standard of measuring body fat % if you had?

BeckiSwim19

This is all really interesting stuff, thanks for getting so involved everyone!

Just one quick question, would you say the DEXA scan is worth the money? (basing it on £250 for the scan)

yarwell

sounds expensive to be honest when BodPod is a lot less.

Cheaper DEXA at http://www.body-composition.co.uk/BodyCompositionPrice.html

http://www.bodyscanuk.com/pricing.html
£20 off code at http://manvfat.com/dexa-scans-arrive-uk-made/

PAV8888

Edit after seeing Yarwell's better pricing!

lydiakitten

I had a friend who got a lot of DEXAs done to monitor her muscle/fat, after she'd been taking cortisone and having some chemos done. The medical doctors didn't seem to trust the scans that much, and only used them as one possible clue among others. Indeed, there is a lot of space for error and inaccuracy with DEXA scans, and they do use formulas based on population averages.

Plus it's expensive. Skinfold calipers have similar error margins and are free at some gyms.

Still, I maintain that the best way to know how fat or muscly your body is, is touching it, looking at it, testing it, feeling how strong or how squishy you are, comparing throughout a period of time. But that's just an opinion, of course.