Weight Management

We look at muscle mass and body water alongside weight. Telling what to reduce from what to protect is how you avoid harming the body.

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Weight Management

Q. Is the number on the scales not all I need to look at?

Q: Is the number on the scales not all I need to look at?

Managing by weight alone misses some things. Muscle mass — if muscle comes off too, basal metabolism falls and the body puts weight on more easily later. It also works against joints that carry weight, such as the knee Body water distribution — marked swelling makes weight look higher. In that case what needs to come off is not fat but fluid that is not moving At Jinju Dangdang Korean Medicine Clinic we check both with the InBody 770 . It is a model that can also show the swelling figures (body water distribution). We measure before treatment and measure again the same way afterwards. You see for yourself how the numbers have changed, and we decide the next step from there. We measure muscle mass and body water together with the InBody 770

If muscle comes off along with the weight, that works against you. Jinju Dangdang Korean Medicine Clinic looks at muscle mass and body water distribution as well.

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Managing by weight alone misses some things.

Muscle mass — if muscle comes off too, basal metabolism falls and the body puts weight on more easily later. It also works against joints that carry weight, such as the knee
Body water distribution — marked swelling makes weight look higher. In that case what needs to come off is not fat but fluid that is not moving

At Jinju Dangdang Korean Medicine Clinic we check both with the InBody 770. It is a model that can also show the swelling figures (body water distribution).

We measure before treatment and measure again the same way afterwards. You see for yourself how the numbers have changed, and we decide the next step from there.

Measuring body composition with the InBody — We measure muscle mass and body water together with the InBody 770

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Injun Eo

Director

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