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Welcome to The Model Health Show.

This is Fendin' To The Trish Next Grash Sean Stevenson, and I'm so grateful for you tuning in with me today.

On this episode, we're going to be talking about a fitness-related tool that often treats us like a tool.

We're going to be talking about the scale.

Is this the end-all, be-all, biometric feedback for us to establish whether or not we're in a good position with our health and fitness?

So we're going to break down some of the science around that, but also understanding that the scale is one of the most viable and accessible tools in our culture to kind of keep an eye on where we are with our body weight, specifically.

Because that's the only thing that it can really tell us is our body weight.

How much mass are we carrying around here on planet Earth?

This does not speak to the health of our endocrine system, the health of our nervous system and their integration.

Do our hormone production, are we in a position where we're producing robust, anabolic hormones that are building up our body that are helping to contribute to energy and healthy metabolic function?

Or are we producing an abnormal amount of catabolic hormones like cortisol and other catacolomines that are breaking our system down to rapidly and creating an imbalance, you know, contributing to inflammation and things of the like that are then leading to more issues with our body composition.

A scale cannot tell us what's happening inside of our bodies is just kind of an outside mass issue. Now we have a mass issue with body weight in our country for sure and BMI our body mass index.

It's one of the other metrics that's used is not perfect, but it adds another layer of understanding to where we are as a society.

And if we're just looking at this metric by itself looking at body mass index, well, then that would tell us that almost 250 million United States citizens are now overweight or obese based on that metric.

That number should be startling, but it's not foolproof. That's the thing. It doesn't tell us what our metabolic health is, but side bar our metabolic health is not very good here in the United States.

In fact, a recent study published in the peer review journal metabolic syndrome and related disorders determined that only 12% of United States adults are metabolically healthy.

That means 88% of United States citizens are metabolically unwell, metabolically unhealthy and the scale does not tell the whole story.

So it's what's happening again in our internal regions, what's creating the outpicturing of what we might see on the scale or body fat measurement.

These are the hallmarked things for us to focus on not to say that the scale is the ultimate enemy, but there's new data that's now demonstrating that it can create a psychological turmoil where people are trying to battle their bodies and battle this number.

And also this number creating this psychological sense of self worth.

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