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c/glp1muscle·posted 1 year ago by u/priya_weiss

genuine question about DEXA that I am slightly embarrassed to ask

Training

Quick one. Canada here.

resistance training works very differently where I live than in the threads that dominate the front page, and I keep seeing people confidently given advice that simply does not apply outside the US.

Specifics: the route I used took 17 weeks and cost roughly what I expected. The admin was worse than the cost. The thing that would have saved me the most time was knowing which document to ask for at the start.

Happy to answer questions from anyone in the same jurisdiction.

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u/hassan_chowdhury6 points·1 year ago

Disagree. What you are describing is consistent with lean mass, not with what you concluded.

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u/priya_weissOP2 points·1 year ago

Disagree.

Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 84 weeks to accept.

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u/andres_restrepo4 points·1 year ago

This is correct. DEXA is the standard.

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u/hamza_zielinski3 points·1 year ago

My version of this: I was so worried about the injection that I put it off for eleven days. The injection is the easiest part.

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u/noor_ivaturi1 point·1 year ago·edited

lean mass retention is the 72 week conversation

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u/tomas_broberg2 points·1 year ago·edited

DEXA twice yearly is the pattern

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u/priya_weissOP1 point·1 year ago·edited

This is correct. DEXA is the standard.

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u/dexa_twice_yearlybody comp2 points·1 year ago

No. This is the kind of confident post that gets copied into a screenshot and repeated for years. Where is the evidence.

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u/freya_onwuka1 point·1 year ago

Three years on this site and the questions have not changed at all. Which is depressing or reassuring depending on the day.

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