The Importance of DEXA Scans for GLP-1 Users w/ Tony Orlando

Everyone on Ozempic worries about losing muscle, almost no one is watching their bones, and one in two women over 50 will fracture one.

Registered dietitian Ana Reisdorf sits down with Tony Orlando, founder of DEXA Plus, to break down what a DEXA scan actually reveals about your body on a GLP-1: bone density, muscle, and the hidden visceral fat the scale will never show you. If you're losing weight on Wegovy, Zepbound, or Mounjaro, this is the metric that tells you whether you're doing it right — or quietly wrecking the muscle and bone you can't afford to lose.

IN THIS EPISODE
- What a DEXA scan measures (bone density, muscle, visceral fat) and why the scale lies when you're on a GLP-1
- Why insurance won't pay for a DEXA until age 65 — and what it actually costs out of pocket
- How rapid Ozempic and Wegovy weight loss can quietly drain your bone density
- Visceral fat vs subcutaneous fat: the hidden fat around your organs tied to type 2 diabetes and heart disease
- DEXA vs InBody and bioimpedance scales — why your body fat reading can swing 7+ points between them

ABOUT THE GUEST
Tony Orlando is the founder of DEXA Plus and a leading advocate for integrating precision health technology into modern healthcare and wellness practices. He works with medical providers, clinics, and performance facilities to implement DEXA scanning as a core tool for delivering accurate, actionable body composition data. Tony's focus is on helping providers move beyond the scale—giving their patients and clients real insight into fat loss, muscle retention, and metabolic health, especially in the context of GLP-1 therapies. His approach empowers professionals to use objective data to guide better decisions, improve outcomes, and create more personalized care. Through DEXA Plus, Tony is helping reshape how providers measure progress, turning weight loss from guesswork into something that can be clearly tracked, understood, and optimized.

CONNECT WITH TONY
Website: https://www.dexaplus.com
Find a provider: https://www.dexascan.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tonyorlando.dexaguru/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@dexaplus3583

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CHAPTERS
00:00  The warning no one gives GLP-1 users
01:58  Meet Tony & what a DEXA really measures
04:06  Why insurance won't cover it until 65
06:16  What a DEXA costs out of pocket
12:05  The hidden toxic fat around your organs
13:33  Protecting your bones on a GLP-1
20:20  DEXA vs InBody: why the numbers don't match
24:51  The protocol every GLP-1 user needs
27:11  VO2 max, RMR & the markers that matter
30:04  Where health and longevity are headed

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Yeah, I I I believe it should be mandatory. Before I get on a GLP one, I want to know what my body fat percentage is. I want to know how much muscle is on my body. And then I go ahead and put together a customized plan along with the GLP ones. We get on an exercise and nutrition plan. And then we monitor it. And then I come in every three months and get the DEXA scan. Hey, I'm losing weight. That's great. But if it's muscle, it's a big, big problem. And I see it every day. You see these people, they look like they're melting because they're on GLP ones. They're losing significant amounts of weight. They're doing it the wrong way.

SPEAKER_01 0:36

Everyone on GLP1 has heard the warnings about losing muscle. But almost no one is talking about what's happening to your bones. And one in two women over 50 will fracture a bone because of this. Welcome to the GLP1 Hub Podcast. I'm Anna Reisdorf, registered dietitian and GLP1 user. Today I'm joined by Tony Orlando, founder of DEXA Plus, national network of over 400 DEXA providers. He's been working with this technology for more than 25 years. And we're talking about why insurance won't cover a DEXA scan until you're already 65, the hidden toxic fat wrapped around your organs that never shows up on a scale, and what rapid weight loss on a GLP1 may be quietly doing to your bone density and exactly what to do at any age to know exactly where you stand. And if you are enjoying this podcast, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. And if you're watching over on YouTube, drop a comment below and let us know what you think. And if you've gotten your DEXA scan or not. So let's get into the episode. Welcome to the Jill P1Hub podcast. I want to welcome today Tony Orlando. We are going to talk about DEXA. Tony, thank you so much. Can you introduce yourself to the people, please?

SPEAKER_00 1:58

Well, thanks for having me, Anna. I really appreciate this opportunity. Yep, my name is Tony Orlando. I'm founder of DEXA Plus. And I've been working with this amazing technology for the last 25 plus years. So, you know, you mentioned GLP1s. That is one of the big drivers that's bringing lots and lots of attention to DEXA. So DEXA is going to be the most accurate assessment in a clinical setting of bone, muscle, and fat, including your visceral fat, which is a high predictor of type 2 diabetes and cardiac disease.

SPEAKER_01 2:27

Sure. So how did you get into doing these DEXA? Like what is your professional background?

SPEAKER_00 2:33

Yeah, it's just it just kind of was a natural progression. Uh started out many years ago providing imaging equipment, things like ultrasound and, you know, just kind of DEXA came along the way. And we noticed that there was a real need to provide this technology back then in more insurance-based medicine. And it was primarily used for just bone density to see if you had osteoporosis and if you're at risk for a fracture. And really, that's where the opportunity was born and where we've spent the last 15 years with DEXA is really in the wellness space, prevention, anybody on a weight loss program. And then also with the bone density part of it, there's an interesting challenge because insurance-based medicine, typically, you do not qualify to get a DEXA scan for bone health for a female until you're 65 and for a male 70 years old. Yet we have millions of people in their 40s and 50s that have osteoporosis, never been diagnosed or treated. So it's a big, big problem. We are solving that now through prevention, through cash-based medicine, so you can get access to this technology and these really important health markers. We're very big on uh working with providers, but also uh connecting consumers to providers throughout the country through our network of DEXAScan.com, where we have about 400 active providers throughout the country. I know you're based in Nashville, but we have providers over there and every major metropolitan area in the U.S.

SPEAKER_01 4:00

So since you started uh working with this, has insurance started covering it a little bit more or not really?

SPEAKER_00 4:06

They have not. It's really a big problem. If you look at females over the age of 50, one in two will break a bone as a result of poor bone health, and one in four men. So there's a major disconnect here. You know, people should really be getting their DEXA scans. You can get them anytime, you know, for body composition. But if we really look at bone density or bone health, it really should start in your 30s, maybe in some cases your 20s. Wow. Because we uncover osteoporosis and it's a little more prevalent in women. It's a big problem for men as well. But especially if you look at a petite female uh that's middle-aged, maybe in her 40s and 50s, the incidence of osteoporosis is extremely high and it's so preventable. Uh, and we want to catch this early. The key to catching it early and not waiting until you're 65, 70, 75 years old is you may have compromised health. You may have some issues that prevent you from doing weight-bearing exercise. So all these things we can do if we find out early. Early is the is the most important thing you can do. And then it's lifestyle changes. Again, it's weight-bearing exercise, it's supplementation. In some cases, it may be hormone replacement therapy. So it's great that a lot of people are really focused on their health nowadays. And we've noticed this post-COVID, it's been just a boom and wellness and willing to invest in our health. But there's some problems that come along with that. And the GLP ones can be one of them because if they are misused, which they often they are, first of all, they have to be with nutrition and exercise. And then secondly, it has to be with the right metric, which is not the scale. If I lose 50 pounds and 30 or 40 pounds is muscle, my body fat percentage is going up. And one of our top longevity markers is muscle. So as we get older, we have to retain and build muscle. Very, very important. So the DEX is going to really show that to you and show you how you're trending. Am I gaining muscle? Am I losing fat? If those numbers are flipped and we are losing muscle, we're going down a very, very bad path and we want to change course of action.

SPEAKER_01 6:09

Definitely. So if if you have to pay for a DEX out of pocket, like what do they normally run you? Like what would it cost to get it done?

SPEAKER_00 6:16

Yeah, on average, um, there are anywhere from $100 to $200. There are some providers that might charge a little bit less, some that charge more. But on average, it's between $100 and $200. And that would be for a total body scan. So when we get a total body DUXA scan, it takes anywhere from about five to ten minutes. It's going to scan us from head to toe, uh, and it's going to give us all three. It's going to give us uh segmental data on muscle and fat, along with visceral fat. And then again, it's going to give us our bone density. Now, if we do have reason for concern when we do that total body scan, we can follow that up with a hip and spine scan, which are the same scans that a hospital would offer.

SPEAKER_01 6:57

So the hip and spine, is that not evaluated in the full body?

SPEAKER_00 7:02

It's all part of it. So when I do a total body, it's going to give me an indication of bone health. But if I want the gold standard, the most accurate assessment, I'll follow that up with a hip and spine scan. So that's what the insurance reimbursement revolves around. But we're uncovering a lot of individuals that are coming in primarily for the body count part of it, and then they see they have compromised bone health, and then we can follow it up with the traditional hip and spine scan.

SPEAKER_01 7:27

So after you do the scan, like you, I would assume you get some kind of printed report or something. So what are the markers that you're gonna see?

SPEAKER_00 7:36

Yeah, great, great question. And then along with that, is what do we do with this data? So we get this amazing data. So uh, you know, what do we do with this? So most of our providers on our website are very solution-based, meaning that not only we'll provide the scan, they'll they'll go over your results in detail, and they can make suggestions on what you can do to really improve your overall health, increase your bone density, and improve your body composition. So it's gonna tell you everything. So when we look at bone density, that's really based off a T-score. That's a very easy metric to read, whether you're normal, osteopenic, or have osteoporosis. So if your T score is negative one or higher, you're normal. So that's really clear and easy to understand. Now, when we look at body composition, that's very individualized. What's right for one person might not be right for another. So we want to look at that from an individual standpoint and build a customized plan for that particular person. So, for example, uh, a 50-year-old female, her results would be drastically different than maybe a 20-year-old male. So there's a little differentiator between men and and women, yes, and then also age-based. And then we have to get back to where do we look good, feel, feel good, function the way we want to function, and what are we willing to do to accomplish those goals? We all would ideally love to be sub-10% body fat, but for 99.9% of the world, there's no way that we're gonna get there or sustain that long term.

SPEAKER_01 9:14

I wouldn't want to do the effort that it would take to stay there, you know, personally. Personally, I don't I don't care to eat chicken and broccoli all day.

SPEAKER_00 9:21

And I think that's true for for almost all of us. So, and we want to live a balanced life. It's not just about our physical uh well-being, it's mental, it's emotional, it's all those things that are factored in. And that's a really great thing about where we're at in today's world with health optimization and medical. We're really looking at all of those things. And um, again, the focus being on prevention, you know, the old school of insurance-based medicine diagnose and treat sick people. Now we've really pivoted to preventing those diseases. And, you know, most of them are preventable. So to us, it all starts with a DEXA scan. It is a foundational metric. Everybody should get a DEXA scan done. Bone changes relatively slowly. So if your bone health is normal, you can get that done maybe once every couple of years. When we look at our body composition, that can drastically change in very short periods of time. So I could be 30% body fat today. And in three months with diet and exercise, I could be 22 or 23%, which is a massive difference, around a 30% reduction in my overall body fat percentage. You know, those are things that we we would like to get done uh every three months or at least every six months to get tested for our body composition.

SPEAKER_01 10:34

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SPEAKER_00 12:08

Yeah, it it's it's a big, big problem. There's subcutaneous fat and there's visceral fat. Subcutaneous fat's the fat you can see, it's the fat under your skin. When we look at uh visceral fat, that's that hidden toxic fat that's wrapped around our organs. So high predictive heart disease and type 2 diabetes. And we see a really high prevalence of visceral fat in middle-aged people, probably a little bit more prevalent in men. But if you take a hundred, uh 50, 60-year-old men, you're probably going to see high visceral fat numbers in at least 80, 90% of them. So it's not just the person that has a big belly. Uh, there's a lot of contributing factors to visceral fat. A lot of it has to do with lifestyle. Alcohol is a big contributor of visceral fat. But the great news with that is with lifestyle changes, diet and exercise, as your overall body fat comes down, your visceral fat will come down along with that.

SPEAKER_01 13:00

Right, right. And so you can make impact to that, but I believe it's a little slower to uh go away compared to the other.

SPEAKER_00 13:09

It is. And there's not a direct correlation. You could take two people that each have 35% body fat. One could have low visceral fat, the other could have high visceral fat. And really the only way to know that is to get measured. But again, with lifestyle changes, as long as you're moving in the right direction and your body fat percentage is coming down, your visceral fat should come down along with that.

SPEAKER_01 13:33

So I'm concerned that people are people with on the GLP one, they seem to understand the muscle thing. Like I feel like that's been hammered enough. Uh they they know they need to eat protein, they know they need to think about their muscle, whether they're doing it or not, that's a whole nother conversation. Yep. But the bone health piece I think hasn't been discussed very much. So, what do you recommend for somebody who who is losing weight and and maybe need needs to lose weight with the GLP one for like protecting their bone health? Like how what can what are some of the steps they could take, or how often should they check for the DEXA? Or what do you what can they do?

SPEAKER_00 14:05

Yeah, I mean, the first thing is is to know like there's nothing you feel if you have osteoporosis, you don't feel anything. There's no indications other than you fall down and you fracture a hip or fracture a bone. So we need to know. Um, and this stuff can start really as early as in your 30s, and in some rare cases, even your 20s. So just because you're healthy and fit, it doesn't mean that you don't have compromised bone health. So we need to know that's the first thing is to get measured. And then if we do have issues with our bone health, we want to supplement, um, we want to do weight-bearing exercise is probably the most important thing that you can do. And then for a lot of females that could be, you know, pre- or post-menopausal, going on a hormone replacement therapy program can be very impactful as well. So again, like we have to know first, we have no idea, you don't feel any different. It usually find out when it's too late. And if you break a hip, that's something that will alter the course of your life in a drastic way. And it can even lead to death. So those are things we want to avoid. Again, as we get older in our 50s, 60s, 70s. You know, we started, you know, really playing pickleball and learning a lot about pickleball these last couple years. And I see all these people in their 60s, 70s, like even older, that are running around the court, they're really fit. And I I could just imagine how many of them have osteoporosis. The first time they fall, they're done playing pickleball forever and their life is compromised. So we have to know this awareness and what we've been committed to is not only spreading the word through DEXASCAN.com, but putting providers throughout the country so that you can uh drive to a facility that's hopefully within 20, 30 minutes of where you live and get a scan for between 100 and 200. And these are things that can really potentially even save your life.

SPEAKER_01 15:58

So insurance companies, they're always looking at ROI, right?

SPEAKER_00 16:01

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_01 16:02

Like they want to pay for the minimum to save themselves money in the long run or whatever. So, like, wouldn't a hip fracture cost the insurance company quite a lot of money? You know, like where is the economics here? Because like I feel like if I'm I'm 46, if I could like start working on it, if I had bone density issues now and I didn't break my hip, like that seems like a $50,000 experience that they would have to cover. Or they could pay this hundred dollar thing today.

SPEAKER_00 16:34

Right. It's such a logical way to do it or to think of it, and it absolutely makes sense what you're saying. I don't know the answer why they wouldn't want to be very proactive and cover this scan for people maybe starting in your 30s. Uh, because the insurance reimbursement for a DEXA scan in a physician office, they pay the physician through Medicare about 40 bucks. So it's not a big expense for the insurance company. And to be very preventive, you're right, hip fractures are probably cost more than $50,000 for that type of an event. So if you can avoid that or reduce it by being proactive and reimbursing a physician $40 through that scan, it makes perfect sense. So there's a disconnect there. There's been many groups that have lobbied to bring that down. Also, the reimbursement is very low. So a lot of your insurance-based physicians, small offices, do not offer these scans. And what's happened through longevity, it's pivoted to facilities. Now we have many different market segments that will offer DEXA scans. So your non-traditional medical, you could go to a boutique gym in some cases, and they'll have a DEXA machine there. So it's becoming more widely available. But yeah, from an insurance standpoint, it really doesn't make any sense why they wouldn't want pretty much everybody to get a scan.

SPEAKER_01 17:51

Is the machine itself very expensive? Like I think of it like I know it's smaller than like an MRI machine, but I know an MRI machine is very like, I mean, I have to get an MRI for breast cancer screening, and it's like $2,500 for that thing each year, you know. The insurance doesn't want to cover it or whatever. But is the machine itself like ridiculously c costly?

SPEAKER_00 18:11

It's not. So the cost for like a brand new DEX is anywhere from around $50,000 to $100,000. And from a size standpoint, it's a little bit bigger than an exam table. So it can go into like an eight by ten exam room. So there's not a lot of barriers as far as putting in. It's not like an MRI, which an MRI, a brand new MRI could cost as much as $2 million.

SPEAKER_01 18:32

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 18:33

You need extensive build-out and space, and you need really skilled uh personnel, RAT tax to operate the equipment. DAXs do have some regulatory requirements because it is an X-ray device. It is very, very low dose radiation. It's not harmful. It's like being in the sun for 15 or 20 minutes. But that being said, because it does produce X-ray, there are requirements and they vary from state to state. So a lot of times we'll have gym owners or personal trainers that will come to us and they'll want to integrate DEXA into their gym. They do have to have a medical director, somebody that provides medical oversight. And then every state is different from who can operate the equipment anywhere from anybody that we train, non-certified personnel, all the way up to radtex and maybe six or seven states.

SPEAKER_01 19:19

Okay. And then does it give you a picture of like what your body looks like on the inside, or no? Like the words.

SPEAKER_00 19:24

It does. It gives you so, you know, right from the printer that's interfaced with the computer from the DEXA, it'll give you a report. It'll show imaging, it'll show you uh color coding, and you'll have all your trending reports in there, and it'll give you the segmental data, meaning it'll look at my left arm, fat, muscle by percentage, by pound, compared to my right arm, my left leg, my right leg, Android, gyneoid. It gives you all of those things. And then what our company did, because they are medical looking reports, and for uh somebody that's not familiar with it, it can be a little intimidating to read them. So we did develop our app. So we have an app. It's a free download. Uh it's available on the Apple store. It's under DEXAScan.com. And the really cool thing with that is you can store your DEXA results in our app. And it's displayed in a way that's much easier to understand. It also gives you a health score based on your results, which is really cool. And then we're starting to integrate exercise and nutrition programming right into the app from your results based on what your results were. So it's very individualized through there. And a lot of our providers have the app integrated into their system. So they press a button and it'll go directly to the app. The ones that don't have it, if you go to a facility that does not have our app, you can manually punch in that data into an app you download for free. And then the really nice thing with that is if I continue to get DEXA scans every three or six months, it's gonna have all the previous scans and give me the trending data. And that's really what people want is they want access to this data. We want to make sure that we're trending in the right direction or if we're going in the wrong direction. And I'm gonna mention like some of the other technologies to measure body composition. There's a lot of them out there. Uh, some of the really well-known ones are like inbody and seca. And these are bioimpedance devices, and they absolutely have a place uh because the DEXA scan, you're gonna get every three or six months. It's a long time to go in between getting data to get any reinforcement. If I am I going in the right direction or the wrong direction. So, in between getting a DEXA scan, which is the gold standard, doing things like there's scales that you can get that that measure your body fat. And whether they're accurate or not accurate or correlate with the DEXA, they're gonna give you that trending tool. And over the course of 90 days or six months, if that number is improving on that scale, that means you're going in the right direction. And we all want that positive reinforcement and we want real time data. So, so that's where any type of bio impedance. Device. Some gyms have them. You can come in and get measured. Usually they're for free. You want to do it multiple times a week. Or you can even do it at at home scale. You can step on every single day.

SPEAKER_01 22:09

Yeah. I think that the people get real particular about precision. And I'm like, just look at trends, you know, just like your body weight. Like it changes every day because you went to Mexican last night and it went up a couple, you know what I mean? Like it doesn't really matter. Like, let's look at a trend over a month or months or however, you know, body composition changes a little bit more slowly than your day-to-day weight.

SPEAKER_00 22:33

It is a little bit of a challenging conversation because some of the other devices, like the bioimpedance, may measure you much lower than what you're on a DEXA. So you could get measured on an inbody or Seca, and maybe it shows that you're at 18%, and then you get on a DEXA, you might be 25 or 26%. So that's really, really common. So people will have a misperception of what their body fat percentage is. So what we want to do is we want to look at it this way. Again, they're different technologies, they measure different DEXAs can be the most accurate. The stuff I'm going to do every day, every week are the scales and bioimpedance. It's a trending tool. And then always back it up with the DEXA to get your actual results. They will often not correlate together. Okay. But it helps us to stay on track.

SPEAKER_01 23:23

That's so interesting that they can be that different. Because I feel like for some people, like that would mess with their brains.

SPEAKER_00 23:29

It does. And that's why that education piece is very important. It's so true. Uh, because a lot of times people get on DEX and they'll be very disappointed in what the results are. Again, different technologies, they measure different, and they both have a place because you're not going to get a DEXA scan every day, but you could get on a body fat scale and step on that every day. And even though it's going to bounce around, and some of these devices are drastically affected by hydration levels as well that will impact your body fat percent. So just kind of put them in perspective, take them for what they are. They both have a place and they're both very useful tools. It's just like on my Apple Watch, you can get a VO2 Max score. Now, that VO2 Max score on an Apple Watch is not going to be accurate, but if it's going up or down, it's going to tell you if is my VO2 Max improving? And that's really the value of it. And if you want to get an accurate assessment, go into a facility that does breath analysis with a VO2 Max testing system.

SPEAKER_01 24:29

Right, right. Yeah. No, that that totally makes sense that it would be slightly different if people just need to realize that.

SPEAKER_00 24:35

Yeah, it's a hard discussion. It is. Yeah. I'm 16% body fat. This says I'm 25. It uh education is a really important part of that.

SPEAKER_01 24:45

Right. And so for people on GLP1s, I'd love to see some kind of body composition testing be part of like before you get your prescription. Yeah. You know, and monitor three to six months. What would be like your ideal protocol for somebody on a GLP one losing weight actively?

SPEAKER_00 25:04

Yeah, I I I believe it should be mandatory before I get on a GLP one. I want to know what my body fat percentage is. I want to know how much muscle is on my body. And then I go ahead and put together a customized plan along with the GLP1s, we get on an exercise and nutrition plan. And then we monitor it. And then I come in every three months and get the DEXA scan. Hey, I'm losing weight, that's great. But if it's muscle, it's a big, big problem. And I see it every day. You see these people, they look like they're melting because they're on GLP ones. They're losing significant amounts of weight. They're doing it the wrong way. So if we do it the right way, of course, if we lose 50 or 60 pounds, some of that inherently is going to be muscle. You can't avoid that. But we want to minimize the amount of muscle that we lose. So it should be incorporated as a program. Most of the providers we work with that offer GLP ones, they have DEXA scans within their facility. So I would encourage people to be very particular about who they work with, GLP ones, like doing the online stuff. I know it's convenient. So if you're going to go online, which you're fine to do that, go somewhere where you can get DEXA scans. But if you go to like our providers on DEXAScan.com, they will have the DEXA technology. So they'll do both. And they can help you and build a customized program for you. So we're not losing a lot of muscle. And we're really aware of what's happening within our body because what happening is on the inside is the most important.

SPEAKER_01 26:34

So for the app you mentioned, does it provide you with any advice?

SPEAKER_00 26:37

So that's the next iteration that we're coming out with. So it's going to have it built in there. It's not only going to have advice based on, so it's going to give you a health score based on your results, which is really cool. We just launched that. But then based on your results, it's going to give you a customized exercise and nutrition program. And then what else is going to be built into there is that if you need further help, there's going to be resources that you can go to. If you want to work with a dietitian or a nutritionist or get on an exercise program and talk to somebody that can build something customized for you. So we're building that all into the app.

SPEAKER_01 27:11

Yeah, it's cool because right now I I sometimes will get my health results and put them into Chat GPT and then I talk to chat about it. So having like a customized thing that actually was like on validated data, right, is probably more legitimate.

SPEAKER_00 27:24

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 27:25

Who knows what Chat GPT is telling me?

SPEAKER_00 27:28

And then, you know, from a health metric standpoint, that there are some relatively easy things to get. Like we talked a lot about DEXA today. Your VO2 max score is probably your top longevity marker. So if you have a high VO2 max score, you're more likely to live a long, healthy life. If it's a low VO2 max score, your health could potentially be very compromised. Those are things you want to get. RMR would be a resting metabolic rate, which is a measured metabolism. So if I want to lose weight, I want to be on a slight calorie deficit, but I should really work from an accurate assessment of my metabolism, not an estimated. And then one of the other things is everybody should get blood panels done a couple of times a year to get all those key measurements. Like those are pretty easy to integrate when you look at those. And if you can get those health metrics at least a couple of times a year, and then again with nutrition and exercise, you know, you're on a very good path with that.

SPEAKER_01 28:24

Yeah, I would love for all of those things to be kind of a standard, you know, like the DEXA I said, or some type of body composition at a minimum.

SPEAKER_00 28:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 28:32

And then lab work. But, you know, a lot of people do go to these telehealths, which is fine, but you want to have somebody like uh a human looking at you.

SPEAKER_00 28:40

I couldn't agree more. Yeah, yeah. We all want convenience and access and doing that line stuff is great. I mean, it's really changed uh, you know, medicine. Uh but if you're gonna do that, go to a provider, find somewhere we can get your scan scans on your own.

SPEAKER_01 28:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:53

So if you're looking for a DEXA um and your your health insurance doesn't cover it, where should you should should you Yeah, uh just get on DEXAScan.com, B-E-X-A scan.com, punch in your zip code, and more often than not, you'll have a provider in your area. If there is not a provider in your area, you can chat uh through our website or reach out to our customer service and we'll find a provider for you.

SPEAKER_01 29:16

Okay, awesome. And then where can people connect with you online, Tony, or or follow your your Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 29:22

Uh so Dexaplus.com is uh where we work with a lot of our providers. Uh Dexascan.com is is more of a consumer-focused website. And we do have uh social media pages. So if you just look that up through DEXAPlus or DEXAScan, uh, we'll pop up. Anybody that gets on our website and they fill in their information, they'll be on our daily correspondence. Uh so we're very communicative, very educational. So they'll see a lot of content coming out from us with hopefully some useful information.

SPEAKER_01 29:51

Awesome. And then just one last question. What are is what is your hope for the future with health, with all these new technologies, GLP ones, DEXA, all of this? What do you what do you think the future is looking like for our health and longevity?

SPEAKER_00 30:04

I think it's looking great. I wouldn't have said that six or seven years ago, but all the things that have been talked about for 20 or 30 years about prevention and individualized health care and all these things, these things are happening. So I love it. I don't think we have to be dependent on insurance reimbursement. I think a lot of doctors are leaving traditional insurance-based medicine every day. They're leaving in droves. And people are becoming more educated, more aware about their health. So I love the trajectory we're on. Everybody should have some type of real-time data about their health metrics, and that's why we all wear these watches and aura rings and things like that. So I think we're on a very good path. I think there should be some things. I know we talked a lot about GLP ones, and I agree with that. I think that some things should be mandatory. I think there should be a requirement that if I'm going to be on a GLP one, I have to have an initial baseline and then ongoing measurements. And again, always exercising, you know, that's the foundation, exercising nutrition. So I think we're on a very good trajectory right now, and that runway is going to continue for a very long time. Doctors are very excited about longevity and prevention, and they are sick of sick care. So that combination, and it's become a very good business opportunity for them as well. So, you know, we have a lot of facilities, individuals that are starting brand new businesses that are thriving in this environment, and people are willing to invest in their health. So we have the perfect combination, and I expect this to be a very good, long ride. And uh, and we have all these great things, all these great catalysts, you know, at some point in our lifetime, people are probably living to 150 plus years old. Dr. David Sinclair thinks that maybe even indefinitely at some point.

SPEAKER_01 31:52

So gosh.

SPEAKER_00 31:54

Yeah, I don't know anybody would want that. Uh, we have the ability to live a long, long, healthy life. And the perception of what a 60-year-old should look like or a 70 or an 80-year-old, those things are being broken and shattered. You see some people that are 80 that look like they're in their 50s now. It's so encouraging. And, you know, I just turned 60 a few months back. And, you know, so it's very motivating for me to see people uh that because when I was a kid, a 60-year-old looked like of in most cases a very old person.

SPEAKER_01 32:26

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 32:27

So people can thrive if you really invest some time and effort into it. You can thrive and not only live a long life, but a very optimal, healthy life.

SPEAKER_01 32:35

Yeah, that's what that's what we really want. Well, thank you so much, Tony. This was very informative. I'm gonna call, book my DEXA right after we get off this call. So I appreciate it.

SPEAKER_00 32:43

Yeah, awesome.

SPEAKER_01 32:44

Awesome. Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 32:45

Great meeting. Thank you for the opportunity.

SPEAKER_01 32:47

Thank you so much for listening to this episode of the GLP One Hub Podcast. I actually went and booked my DEXA scan immediately after this recording because I hadn't had one. So if you can find a provider near you, you can visit the website linked in the show notes below to find somebody doing it near you. Highly, highly recommend. And if you want more support around doing GLP1 correctly, make sure that you are on the Steady State newsletter. You can find that in the show notes below. I send that out every Tuesday, and I try to provide actionable advice for your journey so you can optimize your health, your bone health, your muscle health, your mental health, all of the different things. And I'll see you in the next episode.