Bryan Johnson· Author
This is why DEXA really is worth it. Low cost, high information value.
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The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
This is why DEXA really is worth it. Low cost, high information value.
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it surprised me how cheap a dexa scan is and if people just search the city they're in in dexa i think they'd be surprised to find that out
i think dex is the only way to do it truthfully i mean obviously it's not the single most accurate way to do it there are more accurate ways to do them but those would all be done in a research setting dexa is relatively inexpensive a hundred dollars in most places maybe if you're in a place like new york it's more but we're talking of something in the low hundreds of dollars not something that is thousands of dollars and the information it yields is also segmental which is really valuable
of the four things we're going to talk about today the least interesting of these is your body fat um the three other things that we talk about are your visceral fat which is one of the compartments of fat that is outside of the subcutaneous stores that's the areas where we want to store fat if we're going to put excess energy away we want it to be in subcutaneous pockets of fat as our capacity to store fat there get stretched we begin to spill over into other
I think everybody should have a dexa scan