Learn how your body composition affects your long-term and day to day health, and why tracking lean mass, fat mass, and bone density with a Dexa Scan matters.
Most people focus on body weight. But your health is influenced far more by what your weight is made of than the number on the scale.
Your body composition, the ratio of lean mass, fat mass, and bone density, directly affects how you feel every day and how your health evolves over decades.
This article explains how your body composition affects both your long-term and day to day health, and why tracking it accurately with a Dexa Scan gives you meaningful insight.
Body composition breaks your body into key components:
Two people can weigh the same but have completely different body composition profiles and very different health outcomes.
Higher lean muscle mass supports a higher resting metabolic rate. This often translates into:
Excess fat mass, particularly visceral fat, can disrupt metabolic function and contribute to energy crashes.
Lean muscle mass supports:
Low muscle mass combined with higher fat mass increases effort required for simple activities, leading to quicker fatigue.
Muscle supports faster recovery from:
Better body composition improves tissue repair and reduces soreness and inflammation over time.
Higher visceral fat levels are strongly associated with:
Reducing visceral fat improves long-term cardiovascular outcomes.
Body composition influences:
Higher lean mass improves glucose control, while excess visceral fat increases metabolic risk.
Bone mineral density determines fracture risk and long-term mobility.
Maintaining strong bone density:
Strength training combined with proper nutrition supports both muscle and bone health.
Preserving lean mass as you age is one of the strongest predictors of:
Body composition plays a direct role in how well you age.
Scale weight alone cannot tell you:
You can maintain the same weight while losing muscle and gaining fat, a change that increases health risk without being visible.
A Dexa Scan provides a detailed breakdown of:
This level of precision allows you to track changes that directly influence both daily wellbeing and long-term health.
The scan itself takes about six minutes, making it efficient and easy to integrate into a health routine.
For meaningful health monitoring:
Consistent tracking allows early intervention before small changes become larger health issues.
Full body composition Dexa scans are not covered by insurance, making them a proactive investment in long-term health.
Your body composition affects:
The number on the scale is only part of the story.
Understanding what your body is made of gives you control over both how you feel today and how healthy you remain in the future.
If you want to understand how your body composition is affecting your long-term and day to day health, accurate measurement is essential. Kalos provides advanced Dexa Scan services to help you track muscle, fat, and bone changes with precision.
Schedule your scan today, your journey to data-driven fitness starts now.
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