Performance Nutrition Digest

Performance Nutrition Digest

Drinking water before DXA inflates lean mass estimates 💧

Standardisation must be used, even with “gold-standard” measures.

Tom Coughlin's avatar
Tom Coughlin
Sep 03, 2026
∙ Paid

Acute water ingestion influences lean soft tissue estimation from dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry: implications for clinical diagnosis

Thanks for reading Performance Nutrition Digest! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.

Study Details

This new study examined how acute water intake affects DXA-derived lean soft tissue estimates in 4…

User's avatar

Continue reading this post for free, courtesy of Tom Coughlin.

Or purchase a paid subscription.
© 2026 Tom Coughlin · Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start your SubstackGet the app
Substack is the home for great culture