DEXA Body Composition Scan Clinics
A DEXA scan is a low-dose X-ray that measures muscle, fat, the fat around your organs and bone density far more precisely than any scale can. 26 clinics in this directory list DEXA Body Composition Scan, across 24 cities.
Facts on this page are checked against each clinic's own website. Oldest check: 24 August 2026. 19 of the 26 listed have been checked so far.
AYUN
Zurich · Switzerland
AYUN is a longevity clinic in Zurich listing VO2 max testing, DEXA scans, biological age testing and biomarker panels.
Biograph - New York City
New York, NY · United States
Biograph - New York City is a longevity clinic listing full-body MRI, VO2 max testing, DEXA scans and biomarker panels.
Biograph - San Francisco Bay Area
San Mateo, CA · United States
Biograph - San Francisco Bay Area in San Mateo lists 6 longevity services, including full-body MRI, VO2 max testing, DEXA scans and biomarker panels.
Cenegenics - Atlanta
Atlanta, GA · United States
Cenegenics' Atlanta centre: membership-based blood panels, heart and body scans, fitness testing and hormone therapy, led by a centre physician.
Cenegenics - Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills, CA · United States
Membership clinic in Beverly Hills offering physician-led biomarker testing, VO2 max, DEXA body composition, CIMT artery scans and hormone therapy.
Cenegenics - Dallas
Dallas, TX · United States
Dallas membership clinic offering biomarker panels, executive physicals, VO2 max, DEXA scans, heart and brain imaging, and hormone therapy.
Cenegenics Mexico
Mexico City, Ciudad de Mexico · Mexico
Santa Fe arm of the US age-management group, offering DEXA scans, VO2 max testing, biological age tests and NAD+ drips.
Centro Medico BluGallery
San Severino Marche, Marche · Italy
Cardiologist-led longevity pathways in San Severino Marche: ECG, echocardiography, carotid doppler, DEXA and coronary calcium scoring.
Clinic X
Zurich · Switzerland
Clinic X is a longevity clinic in Zurich listing full-body MRI, VO2 max testing, DEXA scans and biological age testing.
Clinique Printemps
Montreal, Quebec · Canada
Montreal longevity practice offering epigenetic age testing, full-body MRI, hormone mapping and four priced annual programmes.
Fountain Life - Dallas
The Colony, TX · United States
Fountain Life - Dallas is a longevity clinic in The Colony listing full-body MRI, VO2 max testing, DEXA scans and biological age testing. Founded 2020.
Fountain Life - Naples
Naples, FL · United States
Fountain Life Naples is a longevity clinic in Florida offering whole-body MRI, DEXA scans, VO2 max testing and glucose monitoring by annual membership.
Fountain Life - New York
White Plains, NY · United States
Fountain Life - New York is a longevity clinic in White Plains listing full-body MRI, VO2 max testing, DEXA scans and biological age testing. Founded 2020.
Fountain Life - Orlando
Orlando, FL · United States
Fountain Life Orlando offers whole-body and brain MRI, DEXA, VO2 max, genome sequencing and a 100+ marker blood panel on annual membership.
Gladden Longevity
Dallas, TX · United States
Gladden Longevity in Dallas lists 9 longevity services, including DEXA scans, biological age testing, biomarker panels and hyperbaric oxygen.
Human Longevity - San Diego
San Diego, CA · United States
Human Longevity's flagship San Diego clinic offers whole-body MRI, DEXA scans, CT, echocardiography and genome sequencing in a single visit.
Human Longevity - San Francisco
South San Francisco, CA · United States
Human Longevity's South San Francisco clinic runs a one-day assessment: whole-body MRI, genome sequencing, DEXA and hundreds of blood markers.
Lifespan Medical
North Vancouver, British Columbia · Canada
North Vancouver private clinic: 70-plus biomarkers, DEXA scans, VO2 max and cancer screening for a published $4,500 a year.
LifespanMD
Ottawa, Ontario · Canada
Ottawa membership clinic built on a two-day wellness assessment with VO2 max testing, DEXA, glucose monitoring and whole-body MRI via Prenuvo.
Lucia Magnani Health Clinic
Castrocaro Terme, Forli-Cesena · Italy
Residential clinic-hotel at Castrocaro Terme: Long Life Formula check-ups, whole-body MRI, CT, DEXA and oxidative stress testing.
Palace Merano
Merano, South Tyrol · Italy
Residential medical spa in Merano offering DEXA scans, in-house blood profiles, IV vitamin infusions and four- to eight-day Revital programmes.
Premium Longevity Clinic
Miami · United States
Premium Longevity Clinic in Miami lists 7 longevity services, including DEXA scans, biological age testing, stem cell therapy and hormone optimisation.
SoLongevity Clinic
Milan · Italy
Longevity clinic in central Milan listing DEXA body composition, VO2 max testing, epigenetic biological age and metabolomic panels.
Tamina Health at Grand Resort Bad Ragaz
Bad Ragaz · Switzerland
Residential longevity programmes at a Bad Ragaz clinic-hotel: VO2max testing, DXA scans, blood panels and hyperbaric oxygen, from CHF 9,900.
Wild Health
Lexington, KY · United States
Wild Health is a longevity clinic in Lexington, KY listing VO2 max testing, DEXA scans, biomarker panels and biological age testing. Membership required.
Zoi
Paris · France
Paris check-up centre, 990 to 4,990 euros: DEXA scans, 150+ biomarkers, whole-body MRI on the top tier, 12 months of follow-up.
DEXA Body Composition Scan explained
A DEXA scan - dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry, a low-dose X-ray that separates tissue into bone, fat and lean mass - is the clinical reference standard for measuring body composition and bone density. You lie still on an open table for six to twelve minutes, fully clothed apart from metal.
The scan returns three things a bathroom scale cannot:
- Lean mass limb by limb, which is how you find out whether an arm or leg is lagging behind.
- Visceral fat - the fat packed around the organs in your abdomen, which behaves very differently from the fat under your skin.
- Bone mineral density, reported against a healthy young adult reference so that thinning bone is caught long before a fracture.
Its value is in the repeat, not the first scan. A single reading tells you where you are on a population chart. Two readings six to twelve months apart tell you whether a training and eating programme is actually adding muscle or only moving scale weight, which is the question most people actually have.
The radiation dose is small - a body-composition scan is in the region of a few hours of ordinary background radiation, far below a chest X-ray - but it is not zero, which is why clinics will not scan during pregnancy and why scanning monthly is not sensible.
What it costs
From this directory
Of the 22 priced clinics listing this service, 1 is in the entry band ($), 8 in the upper band ($$$) and 13 in the top band ($$$$). 4 further listings do not publish enough to place. 12 of the 26 require a membership rather than selling services one at a time; the rest can be booked individually.
The price gap between clinics comes down to what is attached to the scan rather than the scan itself. A raw scan and a printed report sits at the bottom. Add a technician who positions you consistently between visits, a clinician who reads the bone density result against your fracture risk, and a follow-up scan bundled at a discount, and the price climbs.
Body-composition-only scans are cheaper than scans that also report bone density, because the bone report needs clinical interpretation. Some clinics sell them separately; others report both from the same acquisition.
Sports and university labs often run the same hardware for less than a private clinic, without the clinical read. If you want the number and not the consultation, they are worth checking.
Where a DEXA scan is ordered to investigate suspected osteoporosis rather than to track training, it is a normal medical test and may be covered by insurance or a national health service. Screening scans bought privately are not.
Who it suits, and who it does not
It suits anyone changing their training or eating deliberately and wanting to know whether the change is landing on muscle or on fat, and anyone with a reason to watch their bones - a family history of osteoporosis, an early menopause, long-term steroid use, or a fracture that came too easily.
It is less useful as a one-off curiosity. A single scan without a follow-up gives you a number and no direction, and the number on its own rarely changes what a sensible person would do next.
It is not performed in pregnancy, and results are harder to interpret in people with metal implants in the scanned region or with significant fluid retention, since the scan infers tissue type from how the two X-ray energies are absorbed.
Questions to ask before you book
The answers separate clinics far more reliably than the service list on their website does.
- Does the report include bone mineral density, or body composition only
- Will I be scanned on the same machine each time, and by someone who follows a fixed positioning protocol
- Is there a discounted repeat scan, and at what interval do you recommend it
- Do I get the full report as a file, or only a summary printout
- Who interprets the bone density result, and will they put it in the context of my fracture risk
- What should I do before the scan - fasting, hydration, training - so that two scans are comparable
What the evidence says
Our own reviews of the research behind this service, written from the published papers and linked to them. They run whether or not the verdict suits the directory.
DEXA Body Composition Scan by city
Where to get it: every city with at least one verified clinic listing this service, most listings first.
DEXA Body Composition Scan: common questions
How much does a DEXA scan cost?
It varies widely by country and by what is bundled with it. The directory shows the price band each listed clinic sits in, and the honest answer is that the scan itself is cheap while the clinical interpretation around it is what you are paying for.
How accurate is a DEXA scan for body fat?
It is the most precise widely available method, and much more precise than callipers or a bioimpedance scale. Precision matters more than absolute accuracy here: the same person scanned twice on the same machine will get very close readings, which is what makes tracking change possible.
How often should you get a DEXA scan?
For tracking body composition, six to twelve months is the usual interval, because that is roughly how long meaningful change takes. Scanning more often mostly measures hydration and food in the gut rather than tissue.
Is a DEXA scan safe?
The radiation dose from a body-composition scan is very low - lower than a chest X-ray, and comparable to a few hours of the background radiation everybody is exposed to anyway. It is still avoided in pregnancy.
What is visceral fat, and why does DEXA report it separately?
Visceral fat is the fat stored around the organs inside the abdomen, as opposed to the subcutaneous fat under the skin. It is reported separately because it tracks metabolic risk more closely than total body fat does, and because you cannot see it from the outside.
Do I need to fast before a DEXA scan?
Most clinics do not require it, but they do ask you to keep the conditions the same each time - similar time of day, similar hydration, no heavy training immediately before - so that two scans can be compared.