How do modern weight measuring scales measure the values they measure (muscle rate, water mass, bone mass, protein, BMR, subcutaneous fat, and visceral fat)?
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And how does it differentiate between visceral and subcutaneous fat?>
And how does it differentiate between visceral and subcutaneous fat?>
How do they do it? They do it **poorly**.
I know what you’re asking is how do they actually make the calculations, and that is basically done by running a small electric current at a very low voltage through your skin and extrapolating a lot of other values based on a lot of assumptions. it’s very sensitive, not very accurate, and can be thrown off by things like sweaty feet and how much water you’ve had recently.
They guess, very poorly.
It’s kinda like you want to measure how windy it is outside, so you time someone riding a bike from the west part of town to the east part of town. Then you assume that if they arrived quickly, there was a strong wind in the east direction, and if they arrived slowly, there was a strong wind in the west direction. The problem with that is that while wind does matter, so do a lot of other things.
Scales that measure your bone mass etc. will send small amounts of electricity through your body, and make assumptions based on how that electricity travels. As you can imagine, it doesn’t work very well.
They guess, very poorly.
It’s kinda like you want to measure how windy it is outside, so you time someone riding a bike from the west part of town to the east part of town. Then you assume that if they arrived quickly, there was a strong wind in the east direction, and if they arrived slowly, there was a strong wind in the west direction. The problem with that is that while wind does matter, so do a lot of other things.
Scales that measure your bone mass etc. will send small amounts of electricity through your body, and make assumptions based on how that electricity travels. As you can imagine, it doesn’t work very well.
How do they do it? They do it **poorly**.
I know what you’re asking is how do they actually make the calculations, and that is basically done by running a small electric current at a very low voltage through your skin and extrapolating a lot of other values based on a lot of assumptions. it’s very sensitive, not very accurate, and can be thrown off by things like sweaty feet and how much water you’ve had recently.
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