Hi , how are you ? This is Damaris Maria Grossman and I'm talking today about the use of a DEXA scan and I am in part two of the DEXA fit scan . So I went to get my body checked with the DEXA energy x-ray , to admit , for body composition and my results therein .
So first let's talk that when I first was doing any sort of body composition , I was in the 190 range and had significant amounts of inflammation , illness and issues , and through nutrition , glp1 medications and functional medicine , I was able to come down to a nice healthy weight and I'm very happy with my results .
I'm not skinny fat , but you know the body composition information will get you so much availability and it will really kind of let you know what's out there and what's going on . So for me , I'm going to share my screen and you're going to be able to see what that was for me .
And it's quite interesting because I know I'm not skinny fat and I've done very well now . But what it did mean was I had to make a lot of changes , which I'm very grateful for , you know , but it did take some time and now let's share you the results . So my results are from the scan . I actually got an A and I was lucky .
You know , I really thought it was more on the lower end , but I had lost a significant amount of weight . It went from 190 to now to 124 , 124 pounds . But the real kicker is not the number of that and the main thing that I want you to know is that I am , in total mass , in a safe zone 124 .
My body has quality amounts of fat versus lean muscle , so I'm in that safe zone . Body fat I'm in the low end to the best , meaning that I don't have . I've only about 25% of my body and body fat . I actually used to be on like the 45% range , so this has gone down significantly . My lean mass is around 87 pounds .
I like to bring that up just slightly more . My visceral fat is significantly lower . I think I was more in that one range that 0.5 . And my visual fat is kind of the fat that's surrounding the belly . And then my T score is significantly high here , 2.7 .
I was an athlete and I am Spanish and African American and there has been shown signs of that that descent has a higher T score . So even though I'm in my 40s , the T scores are higher . For this I think that the research or there should be more studies on this . But I believe that our T scores are a little bit higher in our bone density .
But I was kind of grateful , though , through everything that I've been through , that my T score had been quite significant and that means this T score is kind of a gives you an idea of what your bone density is , and the higher it is , the better you are .
Now , when I look at the distribution of my body fat , I only have about 32 pounds , 25% of body fat . Total Lean mass is around 70% , which is great . I want to have more lean mass over fat and I have to tell you this wasn't the opposite before .
I had more fat versus lean mass , and through time , and so , like I said , between medication , if needed , nutrition , exercise , lifestyle management , you can get these to be managed to a better place .
And then you can see here that I have body fat changes on the left and right arm , left and right arm and the right and left side and how that is differentiated , and it really kind of also lets you know behavioral wise , like I have more body fat on one side versus the other . Am I more dominant on one side versus the other . And why is that ?
You know , have I been lifting something more than the other things of that nature ? So if I have more muscle on the left side , have I been lifting more than on the right ? And then when you look at my scales here , the only thing here that I would say could be better is that my epidicular lean mass could be a little higher .
So that means that I really could get in a little bit more muscle , because what this means is when you're healthy , it provides the central insight of the muscular health , injury prevention and overall quality of life . So what this is saying is that it could be a little bit higher so they don't have any bone injuries or long term risk .
And this fat-free mass index is about average for me . It takes into account the total lean mass and it's dividing it by the fat mass and it's saying that it's useful to assessing your overall body composition . So I could be a little bit more . I could be more in the green range .
So this means that I could have a little less fat and more muscle , and this means I need a little bit more muscle , which I'm kind of aware of . The best part of this is I knew I was more of a parachute , meaning I'm more on the bottom , heavy on the bottom , than the top .
So that's where I'm more in the gynoemersis and the visceral fat is in my best . So I'm done so significantly better . When I was , I would say , a year and a half ago , I was in the two closer to the 2.5 range and then my mineral count T scores at a 2.7 .
So that right there is really really significant and very helpful for my long term bone growth and for my density of as an elder the patient . That's super important . And then when you look at kind of like my bone age , I'm around 39 . So a few years younger than my normal baseline base age , and for me I'm pretty happy with those results .
So that's just kind of where I come from .
The reason I talk about this or I'm having this conversation in the podcast is because and on this YouTube channel , is that I want my clients that I come to see need to get a DEXA scan and then if maybe they can get the 3D body scan or the VO2 and the basal mental bollock rate , if that's possible , but at least at a minimum the scan so that we have
an idea of where they lie and then kind of getting a repeat in about six months to a year for that individual and it really gives us a whole body picture and then getting a scan probably every two years , and it's quite affordable because this was only around 150 . So I think that it's definitely doable and it's a nice diagnostic tool .
But it's not just diagnostic tool . It really gives you awareness . So what it is is it's more , since it's the gold standard , it will give you a better idea of where you lie and what you really need to work on , and then you can go from there .
So that for me is pretty paramount and for those clients that I work with they will get a discounted code and it's mindful . So I'll put that in the show notes in the link to DEXA FIT for those in the North Jersey area and then DEXA FIT .
So if you have a good rest of your day and I hope to make sure that you guys have a mindful way each and every day . Thanks so much and have a wonderful rest of your morning or afternoon .