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fromWIRED
18 hours agoDo You Need A DEXA BD/BC Scan?
DEXA provides actionable body-composition metrics—visceral and total body fat and muscle—useful for health decisions, but requires clinician guidance to avoid psychological harm.
When injuries or infections occur, the immune system mounts a protective response by releasing cells and proteins to affected tissues. This complex cascade is called inflammation. But as we age, inflammation gradually increases and becomes persistent instead of being a state that occurs only when things go wrong. Among the cells that that help to regulate this inflammageing are a variety of macrophages - white blood cells that hoover up pathogens and cellular debris - that reside in fat tissue.