One concern about the GLP-1 class of metabolic disorder drugs is that the weight patients lose includes muscle as well as fat. BioAge Labs wants to test whether its experimental medication, dosed ...

Is your body trying to tell you something? TikTok’s latest health hack has users ditching nutrition labels and instead relying on “muscle reactions” to judge which foods are good for them. Fans claim ...

When she got her first job as a sports dietitian at the University of Oregon in 2011, Rachel Manor was tasked with putting teams of student athletes through the Bod Pod. Basketball players and track ...

When I was trained as an American physician, I was never exposed to the concept of muscle strength testing that is utilized as part of the pseudo-scientific field of applied kinesiology (AK). To be ...

The scale has never been a friend to Mana Mostatabi. Even back in high school, when she ran a quick 100m on the varsity track team, her BMI – a ratio of weight to height – put her in the overweight ...

Expert Dr. Salas-Whalen reveals that body composition testing, not just the number on your scale, is key to knowing whether ...

For decades, health experts have relied on body mass index (BMI), a ratio of weight to height, to classify people as underweight, normal weight, overweight or obese. But sometimes, you need more than ...

But what if I told you that you don't need to visit a fancy lab or use strange equipment to get an idea of how strong your leg muscles are? That's right! The answer might just be in the most common ...