Functional Medicine

Individualized Data, Personalized Treatment

With our medically validated body composition analyzers, you gain the insights needed to make well-informed and effective therapeutic decisions.

Modern medicine allows innovative clinical strategies to combat the growing burden of age-related disease and improve health. Functional and integrative medicine therapies to heal the mind, body, and spirit seek to identify and treat the underlying root causes and promote optimal wellness. Monitoring body composition serves as an adjunct to therapies and can contribute to longer, better lives.

Key Markers for Optimizing Health Outcomes

Increasing muscle mass and cellular health, decreasing fat mass, and maintaining healthy water ratios are core parameters key to helping maintain a youthful appearance and energy levels. The ability to track data and get feedback on body composition is vital to maintaining patient motivation and commitment to treatments designed to prevent disease and optimize wellness.

Clinical Precision in Body Composition Monitoring

seca’s body composition analyzers provide the perfect tool to quickly, accurately, and comfortably give the patient and practitioner access to the data they need to stay on track and monitor progress throughout the treatment journey.

Comprehensive Care through Every Stage

Equip yourself with the best in class, sophisticated technology to navigate the complexities of obesity care by providing insights into adiposity and muscle mass that motivate adherence, strengthen commitment, and keep your patients engaged in their care.

Prevention

Lay the groundwork for personalized, systems-based care by capturing each patient’s body composition baseline. Trends in fat mass, muscle mass, and water balance can reveal underlying imbalances before symptoms arise, helping you intervene earlier and with greater precision.

Treatment

In functional medicine, the focus is on root causes—not just symptoms. Whether addressing metabolic syndrome, hormone imbalance, or chronic inflammation, tracking body composition ensures interventions like nutrition, supplements, or medication are driving fat loss, preserving muscle, and improving cellular health.

Management

Chronic conditions require long-term strategies rooted in whole-person care. Ongoing body composition analysis enables you to monitor response to treatment, adapt protocols, and maintain patient engagement by showing visible, measurable changes beyond the number on the scale.

Videos and Media

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Medical Validation of the seca Body Composition Analyzers

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KEY BODY COMPOSITION METRICS FOR FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE

BMI

BMI is calculated from the measured weight and height and is presented in weight in kg divided by meters squared (kg/m2) so body weight can be assessed irrespective of height.

Fat Mass Percentage

The "Fat Mass %" indicates the percentage of total body weight that is composed of adipose tissue. This percentage is evaluated using BMI benchmarks established by the World Health Organization (WHO), which takes into account factors such as gender, ethnicity, and age.

Visceral Adipose Tissue

Visceral Adipose Tissue (VAT) refers to fat that is stored deep within the abdominal cavity surrounding internal organs such as the liver, pancreas, and intestines. Excess adipose tissue around the organs is linked to type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and high blood pressure because VAT is more metabolically active and produces hormones and inflammatory markers that contribute to inflammation and other metabolic diseases.

Skeletal Muscle Mass over age

Skeletal Muscle Mass over Age is represented with time/age on the x axis, and SMM on the y axis. The circle/dot is where muscle mass is now, and the black line shows what is likely to happen over time, as muscle mass decreases approximately 3-8% per decade after age 30, and the rate of decline is even higher after age 60. This view is intended to show continuous loss of SMM with age and motivate people to engage in nutrition and physical activity regimens to mitigate rate of decline.

Segmental Skeletal Muscle Mass

Segmental Skeletal Muscle Mass (SMM) shows the muscle mass in each limb (right arm, left arm, right leg, left leg) and torso, as well as total SMM in pounds (bottom left corner) which enables detection of muscular asymmetries, past or recent injuries (fractures and immobilization), and may indicate neuromuscular problems to investigate further.

Water Ratio

The water ratio describes the ratio of Extracellular Water (ECW) to Total Body Water (TBW). A typical ratio is often cited as 3:1 indicating 75% is ICW and 25% is ECW, however, is its essential to recognize that individual variations exist based on factors such as age, sex, health, and body composition.

Phase Angle

Phase Angle (PhA) measures the delay between voltage and current as they pass through the body’s cells, caused by cell membranes acting as insulators. This delay, expressed in degrees, reflects the balance of intracellular and extracellular water and the integrity of cell membranes. PhA is calculated using resistance (R) and reactance (Xc), with typical values ranging from 5–7 in healthy individuals and exceeding 9.5 in athletes. Higher values generally indicate better cellular health and function.

Body Composition Chart

The body composition chart (BCC) combines Fat Mass (FM) and Skeletal Muscle Mass (SMM) in a coordinate system, independent of BMI. Looking at the FM and SMM together can describe body composition as one of 4 generalized types and indicate how body composition is changing over time.