Muscle, fat, and calories burned at rest change as you age, usually without anyone writing them down. In Balance Body records them on a dated record of your body, under the same conditions every visit, so you can see the direction.
In Balance Body, body composition service center.
209 E Baseline Rd Ste E208, Tempe, AZ 85283.
Most adults go twenty years or more without a record of how their body is changing. The scale shows one number. The mirror shows a feeling. A single reading shows one day. Without a series, the direction stays invisible until it shows up as a problem. Aging on Paper exists to put that direction on paper, early, while there is still time to use it.
Every record comes from the same three tests in the same order. There is no shorter version and no partial visit.
The conditions are part of the measurement. Preparation, rest, and positioning are the same on every visit, and the conditions are printed on the record. Where a condition differs, the difference is recorded rather than corrected.
Every record is dated and numbered, so each one can be placed beside the one before it.
Calories your body burns at rest, measured from your own breath rather than estimated from an equation.
Muscle, fat, and body water, segment by segment, calculated from electrical measurements taken under fixed conditions.
Grip force in pounds, measured directly. Muscle on the record shows what is there. Grip shows what it can do.
The office records your body and hands you the record. It does not diagnose, interpret, advise, or treat. What the numbers mean, and what you do next, you decide with the people you trust: your doctor, your trainer, your prescriber, your family.
The measurements that show how a body is changing are usually slow to reach, costly, and spread across separate appointments at separate addresses. When a number does exist, it is often recorded once and kept in a chart, out of the person’s hands.
In Balance Body puts all three tests in one visit, at one address, and puts the printed record in your hands.
A number you get once is a snapshot. The same number taken again under the same conditions is a series. That is what Aging on Paper is.
Your first test is $1. About an hour, no blood draw, 51 data points.