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Who Should Consider a Scan?

Honestly? We think almost everyone can benefit from establishing a true, objective baseline of data to work from. However, a DXA scan is an incredibly powerful tool specifically for:

• People actively losing weight: To ensure you are safely losing fat, not burning through hard-earned muscle (which has very different long-term health effects).

• Older adults: To proactively monitor for muscle loss (sarcopenia) or frailty. Maintaining muscle mass is one of our best defenses against falls and loss of independence as we age.

• Anyone with metabolic risk factors: If you have a higher waist circumference, prediabetes, or high blood pressure, tracking visceral fat gives you a clear target for reducing cardiometabolic risk.

• Athletes & active individuals: To track muscle gain, fat loss, and physical adaptations from structured training programs far more reliably than a standard scale allows.

• People managing chronic illness or unintentional weight loss: To help safely identify malnutrition or concerning muscle depletion early on.

What to Know Before Booking

Getting your baseline is a simple, comfortable process, but there are a few practical things to keep in mind:

• It’s safe, fast, and easy: The scan takes just 10 to 20 minutes. It uses a very low dose of radiation—similar to or even less than a standard background medical X-ray.

• Pregnancy: Because DXA uses X-ray technology, these scans are not performed if you are or might be pregnant.

• Recent Medical Imaging: If you have recently had an MRI, CT, or other scan that required contrast dye, barium, or radioactive isotopes, you will need to wait 7 to 10 days for those materials to clear your system before having your DXA scan.