Monitoring body composition with InBody involves using a specialized bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) device to provide detailed insights into various aspects of your body composition. Here’s how it works and why we use in as a comprehensive component of our nutrition and medical weight loss programs:
InBody is a non-invasive method of assessing body composition, meaning it doesn't require needles or blood samples. Instead, you simply stand on the device and hold onto the hand electrodes while it sends a low-level electrical current through your body.
One of the key features of InBody is its ability to provide segmental analysis, which means it can separately assess different parts of your body, such as your arms, legs, and trunk. This allows for a more detailed understanding of how muscle and fat are distributed throughout your body.
InBody provides measurements for various parameters, including:
- Total body weight
- Body fat percentage
- Lean body mass
- Skeletal muscle mass
- Body water content
- Basal metabolic rate (BMR)
- Segmental lean analysis
- Visceral fat level (fat around organs)
InBody devices are known for their accuracy and precision in measuring body composition. By using multiple frequencies of electrical currents, InBody can more accurately estimate muscle mass, fat mass, and water content compared to traditional BIA devices.
InBody is valuable for tracking changes in body composition over time. By regularly performing scans, you can monitor the effectiveness of your diet, exercise, and lifestyle changes and make adjustments accordingly.
InBody provides personalized recommendations based on your body composition results. These recommendations may include suggestions for optimizing muscle mass, reducing body fat, improving hydration levels, and enhancing overall health and fitness.
We use InBody as part of our assessment toolkit. By integrating InBody data with our personalized health and fitness programs, our clients can receive tailored recommendations to help them achieve their goals more effectively. At Path Health, our subscription roadmaps include body composition monitoring every 3 months or as recommended by your provider
Overall, InBody offers a convenient, accurate, and comprehensive method for monitoring body composition and assessing overall health and fitness. It is an invaluable tool used in our subscription medical weight loss plan to make sure our clients have optimized plans at all times during their journey on the path to health and wellness.
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