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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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.
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