Dr.Martinez said:DEXA scan update relevant to protein intake: Scanned at months 0, 6, and 12.
Agreed on the ranges, with the condition that a single DEXA is not a measurement, it is one draw from a distribution. Hydration status moves the lean compartment by a kilogram or more between scans, so any comparison of scans done at different times of day or different hydration states is noise.
Worth separating that from lean-mass preservation, which this thread keeps folding into the same question. They behave differently and the advice does not transfer.
SleepDoc_PDX said:Agreed on the ranges, with the condition that a single DEXA is not a measurement, it is one draw from a distribution.
Same experience, arrived at from the opposite direction.
SleepDoc_PDX said:Agreed on the ranges, with the condition that a single DEXA is not a measurement, it is one draw from a distribution.
Adding the part of the answer the thread has not reached. Take it one variable at a time. Almost every unanswerable question in these threads is unanswerable because three things changed in the same fortnight, and no amount of subsequent argument can untangle them after the fact.
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