Bone density
How strong your bones are compared with a healthy 30-year-old.
DEXA
10 min
Body & strength
Sample reading
Ages 40–49
+0.4
T-score
Very low ≤ −2.5
Low −2.5 to −1.0
Normal ≥ −1.0
Illustrative ranges. Your physician sets yours.
(01) How it’s done
On the day
A low-dose DEXA scan of the hip and spine while you lie still on the table for ten minutes.
The radiation dose is less than a day of natural background radiation.
(02) Why it matters
What it tells us
Bone loss is silent until a fracture. The T-score compares your bones with a healthy thirty-year-old.
Measuring it in your forties gives you a decade to act, mostly with heavy strength training, protein, vitamin D and, when needed, medication.
(03) Same system
Body & strength
Measured on the same day, read by the same physician.
