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Body Composition Profiling (BCP) for true Health Measurements

BCP reveals your body composition and consists of five key measurements of your fat and muscle distribution. If you aim to avoid disease, stay healthy and extend your lifespan, then the BCP via MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) is the tool to check and track your health and longevity.

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BMI, the diagnostic tool most commonly used globally to determine obesity, has been shown to be a flawed and discriminatory health metric.1

Body Composition Profiling (BCP) for true Health Measurements​

BCP reveals your body composition and consists of five key measurements of your fat and muscle distribution. If you aim to avoid disease, stay healthy and extend your lifespan, then the BCP via MRI is the tool to check and track your health and longevity.

Find a clinic near you

BMI, the diagnostic tool most commonly used globally to determine obesity, has been shown to be a flawed and discriminatory health metric.1

BCP is a snapshot of how your lifestyle is manifested on your muscles and fat levels

It’s not the fat,
it’s where it’s at

Did you know that you have different types of fat in your body and that one can be more dangerous than the other?
  • Subcutaneous fat (ASAT) is the most prominent type of fat and it is stored just beneath the skin. "Our love handles".
  • Visceral fat (VAT) is stored around and between the abdominal organs and is the fat that is known to be linked to diseases. "The dangerous fat".

Same BMI, but very different BCP

These four men have the same BMI of 26. Looking deeper at their BCP, one can see that although they have the same BMI, the amount of high-risk visceral fat (VAT) varies a lot.

These two men have the same BMI of 26. Looking deeper at their BCP, one can see that although they have the same BMI, the amount of high-risk visceral fat (VAT) varies a lot.

Metabolically Healthy
→
Increase in Visceral Fat
→
Increased Health Risks*

Since BMI does not distinguish between different types of fat, it lacks the possibility to understand one’s health status and the opportunity to prevent disease. BCP delivers precise volumetric measurements of muscle and fat composition along with personalised reference data.2

* Specially diabetes and heart disease

Muscles tell us important information

Our muscles change over time—both in volume and composition. Actually, normal aging and inactivity causes 3% to 5% muscle loss each decade after the age of 30.3

As you can see, even though these men have the same BMI, these cross-sectional thigh scans show varying muscle quantity and quality. Your lifestyle is the factor that BMI omitted but BCP reveals.

BCP identifies changes in muscle health. What’s more important, your muscles can reveal critical health information.

Having poor muscle health is as bad for longevity as smoking 4

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Learn about the measurements and their link to diseases

Here you can read about cited references and deep dive into information about the measurements and the diseases linked to them, based on scientific evidence.
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

How long will the Body Composition Profiling take to complete?
BCP relies on images obtained by performing a full-body MRI Scan that captures images of key muscle and fat compartments, including the liver. The MRI Scan takes approximately 30 minutes to perform. The report is returned to your health care provider within 72 hours and is made available through the clinic/physician ordering the analysis on your behalf.
Will my health insurance cover the cost of the MRI and the analysis services?
As with most preventative health care services, insurance will not cover the cost associated with certain diagnostic tests. The cost associated with the MRI and the BCP analysis would be an out-of-pocket expense.
Can I use my Health Saving Account to cover the cost?
Maybe. Contact your HSA administrator to verify your plan’s allowances.
Cited References

1. https://www.wired.com/story/anti-obesity-drugs/

2. Linge J, et al. (2018) Body Composition Profiling in the UK Biobank Imaging Study, Obesity, doi:10.1002/oby.22210

3. eVolpi E, Nazemi R, Fujita S. Muscle tissue changes with aging. Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic care. 2004;7(4):405. doi: 10.1097/01.mco.0000134362.76653.b2.

4. Linge, J., Petersson, M., Forsgren, M. F., Sanyal, A. J., and Dahlqvist Leinhard, O. (2021) Adverse muscle composition predicts all-cause mortality in the UK Biobank imaging study, Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle, 12, 1513– 1526, https://doi.org/10.1002/jcsm.12834

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