Post: #1

Anyone done a full body scan and was it beneficial?

My parents are getting older and I would love to make sure they are doing what they can to take care of themselves.

If you have done one, would you mind sharing your experience?

Many thanks in advance.

Post: #2

Friend got one for her aunt as a bday present.

Caught a tumor that would have otherwise only been detectable six months after the scan. (The scan sometimes detects problems before conventional medicine would notice them.)

Got her early treatment and saved her life.

Post: #3

I am sceptical about the value of full body scans in relation to cancer.

Below is an article which gives a critical overview of this:

http://hsr.sagepub.com/content/15/2/118.full

I am interested in this since I am sceptical about alot of the work going on around the issue of cancer:

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Post: #4

Bumping old thread.

Anyone else done this for any reason?

I've been pondering getting such a scan for my own self-analytical reasons. Analyzing certain sub-pathological issues which doctors are uninterested or unknowledgeable in, with aim to at least understand it, and possibly ameliorate them. I think you can get the scan, in DICOM file format, and view it yourself on your computer if you buy the software.

Has anyone else ever considered doing this, to answer 'why is my body like this' questions? I'm fascinated with this sub-pathological space which modern medicine still doesn't really touch. I see the future of medicine expanding much more into 'maximizing performance' than 'avoiding death'. After all, if you 'become sick' in the heart due to obesity, were you not already 'sick in the mouth' that created it? If you 'become sick' in the back due to posture, were you not really just injuring yourself in the workplace? And so on.

Post: #5

I did a DEXA body scan in March of last year. I found out I was a lot fatter than I thought I was. It motivated me to get a lot more serious in adjusting my diet so I could lose the blubber.

Post: #6

There's safer methods which don't involve exposing your body to radiation that I'd focus on instead. There's hundreds of different blood tests you can have (many of which reveal problems that can also be detected via CT scan), you can do genome analysis, gut biome etc. Do all of those then consider the more harmful options if you're still curious.