Heads up - this is not medical advice.
This guide is for learning, not treatment. Anything on your scan that looks off should be shared with your doctor. We will point those out as we go.
BIOTEKKNA BODY SCAN USER GUIDE
Your Body Composition Scan. Use this guide to make sense of what your scan is showing. You will learn where each number lives on the page, what a healthy range looks like, and what you can do next.
A self-guided walk through your numbers
How to Use This Guide
Have your scan in front of you. The scan is broken into a few zones. We will walk through them in this order:
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Phase angle — the most important number on the page
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Hydration — total water, water inside your cells, water outside your cells
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Body composition — fat, muscle, bone, organs, protein, glycogen
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Energy and metabolism — your BMR and where your energy is going
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Goal setting — calories and macros for fat loss, muscle gain, or maintenance
A note on scan timing
Your readings shift with what you did the day before. Alcohol within 48 hours, hard exercise within 24 hours, a heavy meal right before, or being dehydrated will all skew the numbers. If any of those apply to you, treat this scan as a snapshot, not a verdict. A rescan in a few weeks gives you a cleaner picture.
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Phase Angle (PA°)
Your phase angle is the most important single number on your scan. Think of it as your cellular battery charge. It tells you how strong your cell membranes are and how well your cells hold their water. A higher number means more resilient cells and more energy to give. In this section you will find out where your phase angle lives on your scan, what your number means, what can drag it down, and how to bring it back up.
Your body is mostly water, and where that water sits tells a story. Healthy cells hold water inside them. Stressed cells leak it to the spaces around them. The scan gives you three water readings that work together. Here you will learn how to read your total body water, the split between water inside and outside your cells, and what to do if the split is off.
Your weight is one number. What makes up that weight is the real story. This section walks you through fat, muscle, bone, protein, and glycogen. You will see where each one shows up on your scan, what a healthy range looks like, and how to read them together. You will also learn why low muscle scores can sometimes be a fat effect, not a missing muscle problem.
Your BMR is the floor of your metabolism. It is the calories your body burns just to keep you alive, before you take a single step. This section shows you how to find your BMR, what a low number means, and how your scan breaks down where your energy is going across your organs. This is the number you will use to build your nutrition plan.
Once you know your BMR, the math gets simple. Pick your goal, plug in your numbers, and you have a calorie and macro target to work from. This section walks you through the four most common goals: lose fat and keep muscle, maintain, build muscle, or recover from underfeeding. You will leave with a daily calorie target, a protein, fat, and carb split, and a movement plan to match.
Your readings shift with what you did the day before. Alcohol within 48 hours, hard exercise within 24 hours, a heavy meal right before, or being dehydrated will all skew the numbers. If any of those apply to you, treat this scan as a snapshot, not a verdict. A rescan in a few weeks gives you a cleaner picture.