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DEXA Body Scan

DEXA Body Scan

$199.00
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DEXA Body Scan (Body Composition) | MyHealthspan

A 15-minute medical-grade scan that reveals your true body composition — precise body fat, visceral fat, muscle mass, and bone density — far beyond what any scale or BMI can tell you.

How It Works

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Order online Purchase your DEXA Body Scan and our team coordinates your appointment at a partner DEXA clinic near you.
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Attend your 10-minute scan Lie still on the scanning table while the DEXA machine passes over you. The process is completely painless and takes about 10 minutes.
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Receive your detailed body composition report Your full breakdown of body fat, muscle mass, visceral fat, and bone density is compiled and delivered to your MyHealthspan app.
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Optional Longevity Coach follow-up Review your results with a coach to build a nutrition and training plan designed to optimize your composition and protect long-term health.

What You'll Learn

  • Your precise body fat percentage — not an estimate from a bathroom scale, but a medically accurate measurement from the gold-standard body composition tool.
  • How much visceral fat you are carrying, the metabolically active fat surrounding your organs that is most strongly linked to cardiovascular and metabolic disease risk.
  • Whether your muscle mass is sufficient for healthy aging, including regional lean mass in your arms, legs, and trunk — a key longevity indicator.
  • How your body composition compares to age- and sex-matched norms, so you know exactly where you stand relative to optimal benchmarks.

What's Included

  • Medical-grade DEXA scan at a partner clinic (approximately 10 minutes)
  • Complete body composition report with regional fat and lean mass breakdown
  • Visceral fat quantification with clinical context
  • Bone mineral density assessment with T-score
  • Age- and sex-normed benchmarking for all key metrics
  • Results stored and accessible in your MyHealthspan app

Who This Is For

This is for someone who wants to know what their body is actually made of, beyond what the scale says. BMI and body weight alone cannot tell you if you are "skinny fat" — carrying high body fat and low muscle despite a normal weight — or whether your visceral fat levels are creating silent metabolic risk. This scan is ideal for people between 35 and 65 who want an accurate composition baseline before starting a fitness or nutrition program, or who have been exercising consistently and want to confirm they are building muscle and not just losing weight. It is also used to monitor bone density as a longevity marker, particularly by women approaching or past menopause and by men over 50 who want to stay ahead of age-related bone loss.

What This Scan Measures

Total Body Fat Percentage

The precise proportion of your body weight that is fat mass, measured to a degree of accuracy that no consumer scale or handheld device can match.

Visceral Fat Level

The quantity of fat stored around your internal organs. Visceral fat is metabolically active and strongly linked to insulin resistance, cardiovascular disease, and inflammation.

Skeletal Muscle Mass by Region

Lean muscle mass in your arms, legs, and trunk, individually. Regional imbalances and low appendicular lean mass are early indicators of age-related muscle loss (sarcopenia).

Bone Mineral Density and T-Score

The density of your bones compared to a healthy young adult reference standard. This is the same measurement used clinically to diagnose osteopenia and osteoporosis.

Lean Mass Index and Appendicular Lean Mass Index

Composite scores that relate your muscle mass to your height, used to assess whether your muscularity is adequate for healthy aging relative to your body size.

Fat Distribution Pattern

Android (upper body, abdominal) versus gynoid (lower body, hip) fat distribution patterns, which carry different metabolic risk profiles and inform personalized nutrition strategies.

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"A comprehensive, affordable alternative to private testing. The kit included even more blood tests than I used to get, at a much more reasonable price. I plan to do another round next year and will be getting my husband started too."
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Frequently Asked Questions

How is a DEXA scan different from a body fat scale or hydrostatic weighing?+
Consumer body fat scales use bioelectrical impedance, which sends a small electrical current through your body. Results vary significantly based on hydration, time of day, and body temperature, often by 5-8 percentage points. Hydrostatic weighing (underwater weighing) is accurate but logistically inconvenient. DEXA is the clinical gold standard for body composition assessment, used in medical research and practice for its precision, reproducibility, and ability to measure regional fat and muscle distribution that no other method can provide.
What is visceral fat and why does it matter more than total body fat?+
Visceral fat is the fat stored inside your abdominal cavity, surrounding organs like the liver, pancreas, and intestines. Unlike subcutaneous fat (the fat you can pinch under your skin), visceral fat is metabolically active — it secretes inflammatory compounds and hormones that drive insulin resistance, raise cardiovascular risk, and contribute to systemic inflammation. Two people with the same total body fat percentage can have very different health outcomes depending on how much of that fat is visceral. DEXA directly quantifies visceral fat, giving you one of the most clinically meaningful body composition metrics available.
Is the DEXA scan safe?+
Yes. A DEXA body composition scan uses a very low dose of X-ray radiation — far lower than a standard chest X-ray and comparable to the natural background radiation you are exposed to in a few hours of daily living. It is considered extremely safe for healthy adults and is routinely performed in clinical and research settings. If you are pregnant, please inform our team before booking, as DEXA is not recommended during pregnancy.
Do I need to fast or do anything to prepare?+
No fasting is required. For the most consistent and reproducible results, we recommend arriving well hydrated, avoiding a very large meal in the two hours before your scan, and wearing comfortable clothing without metal (such as zippers or underwire). If you plan to track your composition over time, try to scan at a similar time of day and hydration level for each session, as these factors can create small variations in results.
How often should I get a DEXA scan?+
For most people, scanning every 6 to 12 months provides a meaningful picture of how body composition is changing in response to training, nutrition, or lifestyle interventions. Body composition changes relatively slowly — significant shifts typically take 3 to 6 months of consistent effort to appear clearly in the data. Annual scans are also valuable simply as a longevity baseline, particularly for tracking bone density and muscle mass as you age.

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