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JJ Virgin

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Dhru Purohit Show
Don't Let The Scale Run Your Life: The Power of Focusing on Body Composition

And then ideally, once you hit 40 plus, maybe every six months, but then what you can do is correlate it. So at home, you could get a bioimpedance scale. So DEXA is going to be the best thing that you could do. Typically, you have to go to like a clinic or a doctor's office. There's a lot of centers. Not expensive. They're now under $100. A lot of doctors now have something called an in-body scan.

Dhru Purohit Show
Don't Let The Scale Run Your Life: The Power of Focusing on Body Composition

And then ideally, once you hit 40 plus, maybe every six months, but then what you can do is correlate it. So at home, you could get a bioimpedance scale. So DEXA is going to be the best thing that you could do. Typically, you have to go to like a clinic or a doctor's office. There's a lot of centers. Not expensive. They're now under $100. A lot of doctors now have something called an in-body scan.

Dhru Purohit Show
Don't Let The Scale Run Your Life: The Power of Focusing on Body Composition

And then ideally, once you hit 40 plus, maybe every six months, but then what you can do is correlate it. So at home, you could get a bioimpedance scale. So DEXA is going to be the best thing that you could do. Typically, you have to go to like a clinic or a doctor's office. There's a lot of centers. Not expensive. They're now under $100. A lot of doctors now have something called an in-body scan.

Dhru Purohit Show
Don't Let The Scale Run Your Life: The Power of Focusing on Body Composition

And an in-body is bioimpedance, which is based on total body water. And it sends a wave up your body and tests the resistance to it. And the resistance to it is how much body fat. It predicts body fat and predicts it in specific areas. So it's predictive.

Dhru Purohit Show
Don't Let The Scale Run Your Life: The Power of Focusing on Body Composition

And an in-body is bioimpedance, which is based on total body water. And it sends a wave up your body and tests the resistance to it. And the resistance to it is how much body fat. It predicts body fat and predicts it in specific areas. So it's predictive.

Dhru Purohit Show
Don't Let The Scale Run Your Life: The Power of Focusing on Body Composition

And an in-body is bioimpedance, which is based on total body water. And it sends a wave up your body and tests the resistance to it. And the resistance to it is how much body fat. It predicts body fat and predicts it in specific areas. So it's predictive.

Dhru Purohit Show
Don't Let The Scale Run Your Life: The Power of Focusing on Body Composition

based on total body water, which means that if your total body water is lower that day, you're dehydrated, you will look like you are fatter, right? You've got more body fat. If you're super hydrated, you'll look like you have less body fat, but your weight will go up. So this is where this is a little bit challenging because we fluctuate, right?

Dhru Purohit Show
Don't Let The Scale Run Your Life: The Power of Focusing on Body Composition

based on total body water, which means that if your total body water is lower that day, you're dehydrated, you will look like you are fatter, right? You've got more body fat. If you're super hydrated, you'll look like you have less body fat, but your weight will go up. So this is where this is a little bit challenging because we fluctuate, right?

Dhru Purohit Show
Don't Let The Scale Run Your Life: The Power of Focusing on Body Composition

based on total body water, which means that if your total body water is lower that day, you're dehydrated, you will look like you are fatter, right? You've got more body fat. If you're super hydrated, you'll look like you have less body fat, but your weight will go up. So this is where this is a little bit challenging because we fluctuate, right?

Dhru Purohit Show
Don't Let The Scale Run Your Life: The Power of Focusing on Body Composition

And this is why what I like to do is have someone have a bioimpedance scale at home They do their DEXA, they come home, they check where they are at home for over a week, every single day, they get that average and they can correlate it. I know that my DEXA reads me lower than my at home scale by a couple percentage points, right?

Dhru Purohit Show
Don't Let The Scale Run Your Life: The Power of Focusing on Body Composition

And this is why what I like to do is have someone have a bioimpedance scale at home They do their DEXA, they come home, they check where they are at home for over a week, every single day, they get that average and they can correlate it. I know that my DEXA reads me lower than my at home scale by a couple percentage points, right?

Dhru Purohit Show
Don't Let The Scale Run Your Life: The Power of Focusing on Body Composition

And this is why what I like to do is have someone have a bioimpedance scale at home They do their DEXA, they come home, they check where they are at home for over a week, every single day, they get that average and they can correlate it. I know that my DEXA reads me lower than my at home scale by a couple percentage points, right?

Dhru Purohit Show
Don't Let The Scale Run Your Life: The Power of Focusing on Body Composition

But I can use my at home scale just to make sure that I'm staying where I wanna be. And what I think we should do is just have a Bluetooth. You don't even have to look at it if this makes you nuts.

Dhru Purohit Show
Don't Let The Scale Run Your Life: The Power of Focusing on Body Composition

But I can use my at home scale just to make sure that I'm staying where I wanna be. And what I think we should do is just have a Bluetooth. You don't even have to look at it if this makes you nuts.

Dhru Purohit Show
Don't Let The Scale Run Your Life: The Power of Focusing on Body Composition

But I can use my at home scale just to make sure that I'm staying where I wanna be. And what I think we should do is just have a Bluetooth. You don't even have to look at it if this makes you nuts.

Dhru Purohit Show
Don't Let The Scale Run Your Life: The Power of Focusing on Body Composition

But you just take the average over a week because you cannot look at your weight every day and make any kind of intelligent decision because weight fluctuates a couple, you know, can go up a couple pounds, down a couple pounds based on what you ate, right? Or if you traveled. So we don't look at the daily to make a decision or beat ourselves up.

Dhru Purohit Show
Don't Let The Scale Run Your Life: The Power of Focusing on Body Composition

But you just take the average over a week because you cannot look at your weight every day and make any kind of intelligent decision because weight fluctuates a couple, you know, can go up a couple pounds, down a couple pounds based on what you ate, right? Or if you traveled. So we don't look at the daily to make a decision or beat ourselves up.

Dhru Purohit Show
Don't Let The Scale Run Your Life: The Power of Focusing on Body Composition

But you just take the average over a week because you cannot look at your weight every day and make any kind of intelligent decision because weight fluctuates a couple, you know, can go up a couple pounds, down a couple pounds based on what you ate, right? Or if you traveled. So we don't look at the daily to make a decision or beat ourselves up.

Dhru Purohit Show
Don't Let The Scale Run Your Life: The Power of Focusing on Body Composition

We look at the average over a week and then once a week do measurements as well, do that waist and hip to look at it as well. But what we're looking for is am I losing body fat and specifically body fat around my waist? Am I able to hold on to or build muscle? Those are the things we've got to look at and make the decisions based on.

Dhru Purohit Show
Don't Let The Scale Run Your Life: The Power of Focusing on Body Composition

We look at the average over a week and then once a week do measurements as well, do that waist and hip to look at it as well. But what we're looking for is am I losing body fat and specifically body fat around my waist? Am I able to hold on to or build muscle? Those are the things we've got to look at and make the decisions based on.