568. This Van Measures Your Muscle Mass

Commune with Jeff Krasno

Commune Media

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.6 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Today’s episode is a field trip! Jeff and Commune’s podcast producer finally took the advice of so many of our guests and went to get a DEXA scan…in a van! We also hear from the Co-Founder and CEO of Bodyspec, Elaine Shi, about the accuracy, accessibility, and future of this powerful tool to measure and track body composition.

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0:00.0	Okay, so here I'm in the body scan, the Dexascan van, and it's just like a normal kind of sprinter van style more or less.
0:11.5	I'm here with my man, what's your name again?
0:13.1	Freddy.
0:13.5	Freddie.
0:14.0	Okay, so Freddy's the, he's the man with the plan here.
0:16.6	He's the technician.
0:18.0	And he rolls up and he stations like next to a line businesses like
0:22.8	CrossFit hosts them and we're here in CrossFit Hollywood on LeBria.
0:27.9	And so yeah, it's like a sprinter van, but in the back you're not like chilling drinking
0:32.7	a cocktail per se.
0:33.9	There's like a flatbed Texas scan machine and, you know know you're recumbent on it and there's a like
0:41.2	very low radiation scanner that comes over you. It takes about like six and a half minutes, is that right?
0:48.1	And Freddie is really cool. He like if you have claustrophobia, don't worry about it. Just ask for Freddie because
0:54.5	he's chill and he'll engage in good little banter with you, ask you some questions, so you're
0:59.2	just kind of chilled out on the flatbed. And then in about 15 to 30 minutes, you get your results.
1:06.9	And there's a lot of different kinds of metrics that you get, but it's essentially overarching like a body composition diagnostic.
1:15.6	So some of the metrics that you get, Freddie, you might have to help me out.
1:20.6	Obviously you're getting like key body composition metrics. So like body fat percentage, right?
1:26.6	Overall like muscle mass,
1:30.0	lean body mass, bone mineral density. You're gonna get a bone mineral density. You also
1:35.9	get a VAT, which is your visceral adipose tissue, so visceral fat, mass, and volume. And then
1:42.0	you also get your resting metabolic rate. Got it.
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