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it said something like 16 body fat and I was like well I sure don't look like I'm 16 body fat — and then I decided to go and Splurge for the dexa because at the time you know there's and there probably is still a significant difference in price so I'm gonna have the dexa scan and it was like no you're actually 9.3 percent
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so a body fat of nine percent and I would have been 38 years old — so I'm going to pull up my table of — what that is so you know that's that's low right that's sort of below the third percentile so that's that's that's really lean and for an f f Mi of 23.4 at that age 23.4 — it's above the 97th percentile that's the highest line in the nomogram
body weight at the time was just under 180 pounds and then what's being spit out is what the dexa scan is really good at telling you it's able to tell you how much lean mass you have so that's basically muscle and organs called 156 pounds how much fat Mass 16.8 pounds the mass of bone mineral content seven pounds and then fat free Mass which as you can see is just the sum of lean mass and Bone mineral content 163 pounds so body fat is calculated at 9.3 percent