InBody570 Body Composition Reports

BodyRecompMD
BodyRecompMD Posts: 1 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Is there a feature on myfitnesspal to upload data from my body composition report in order to offer tailored macro recommendations?

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  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 35,013 Member
    Nope.

    And if you're offering that as a service, you'd want to explore it through MFP's partner program, not here in the Community. Advertising in the Community is against the rules.
  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 10,030 Member
    AnnPT77 wrote: »
    Nope.

    And if you're offering that as a service, you'd want to explore it through MFP's partner program, not here in the Community. Advertising in the Community is against the rules.

    Oh, well spotted!
    How would macros influence existing body composition anyway other than getting a minimum of protein and fats.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 35,013 Member
    yirara wrote: »
    AnnPT77 wrote: »
    Nope.

    And if you're offering that as a service, you'd want to explore it through MFP's partner program, not here in the Community. Advertising in the Community is against the rules.

    Oh, well spotted!
    How would macros influence existing body composition anyway other than getting a minimum of protein and fats.

    The more muscle you want, the more protein you need: Still within some rational limit, but more than you'd strictly need if not lifting progressively (obviously also an essential part of that goal).

    The more muscle you have, the more protein you need: Again, still within some rational limit, but since protein is for maintaining lean mass, it's logical that people with more lean mass need more protein than those with less lean mass.

    Those are the main relationships I could see between body composition and macro mix that I think could produce some actionable information. From seeing others post about their InBody reports, I think the reports may suggest a macro mix, though maybe that's something their trainer provides from looking at the body composition information.

    If InBody does suggest a macro mix, it would be very quick and easy for any user to modify their macro settings to match the recommendations, though they might need MFP premium to do that with precision. Maybe there's some more complex benefit that could be accomplished by importing InBody report information; I know little about the reports' contents.

    Only my personal non-professional non-expert opinion, but I don't think the nutrition issue is is so complex that feeding in an InBody report is going to add a lot of value to the process. I grant that MFP's defaults are a broad brush, something that will be a good start for most typical people with typical goals and routines, and not a dangerous start for most others. Tailoring the MFP goals to personal needs is a rational thing. But getting to a reasonable result isn't rocket science, and while InBody is reasonably accurate in a statistical sense (i.e., on average over a large sample set of), it has some possible accuracy pitfalls for individuals, IMU, and last I knew it was still considered less accurate than DXA, but that's not something I follow closely.

    In my PP, I should've been more sensitive, I think. It's very possible that OP is a user trying to interpret and act on his own InBody report (though the user name makes me skeptical, I admit). If he is a regular guy working with his own report, I think he'd get some reasonable nutritional advice from the Community here if he posted his results, described his goals, and told us where he is now in terms of eating habits and fitness routine. There'd be some bro-science advice, too, probably, but I think a careful reader can sort out the solid information.

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