Having body recomposition goals is one thing, but understanding your baseline and tracking progress over time will show you what your efforts are really contributing to. One underutilized test can help you get a better picture on your body composition and where excess fat may be hiding.

A DEXA offers precision measurements of muscle mass in different areas of your body, as well as the different kinds of fat in your body (it’s not just for bone density):

• Subcutaneous Fat: the fat you generally think of and can feel on your body, this kind of fat sits just under your skin and can be found all throughout the body. It accounts for approximately 80% of your body fat. While it produces some hormones, its purpose is cushioning, heat production, and energy storage.
• Visceral Fat: This is the fat that has greater impacts on your health. It functions as an endocrine gland and higher proportions of visceral fat is associated with insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, and the conditions that come along with it such as type 2 diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, and heart disease.

Muscle mass measurements are compartmentalized, meaning you can see how much muscle mass you have in each arm, leg, etc., offering data to support the areas that need the most improvement.

But this is only the highlight reel of what a DEXA can do for body recomposition; learn more here.

—David Berger, M.D., Endocrinology & Internal Medicine

+Mission: body recomposition

• How to use your workout to lose fat & gain muscle
• What this form of hidden body fat means for metabolic health
• Why we’ve moved beyond the BMI for body comp

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Somewhere along the way, we lost track of the fact that what happens in the bathroom offers us valuable insights into total body health. Now, we can get a better understanding of our baseline bowel habits and what they mean for our overall well-being with Kohler Health’s Dekoda:

• You simply attach to your toilet, use the bathroom, and see your insights in the Kohler Health app.
• Dekoda uses advanced optical sensors and spectroscopy (technology that reads specific wavelengths of light) to create a detailed reading of what you leave behind.
• You’ll see patterns and trends that get more precise the longer you use it, while finding trigger foods, tracking hydration, and getting alerts for signs of blood.

Get a clearer understanding of your digestive health, privately from your own home. Check out Kohler Health’s Dekoda and get proactive about your meals and hydration.

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We have plenty of cultural assumptions about what “healthy” looks like, but digestive patterns can vary significantly from person to person. Frequency and consistency can signal important things about our health, but first you need to know what’s “normal” for you. Kohler Health’s Dekoda is designed to help you do exactly that.