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The advanced home longevity station aims to address the main obstacle to longevity— the silent physiological impact of a modern lifestyle.
January 6, 2026
By: Michael Barbella
Managing Editor
After inventing the world’s first connected scale in 2009, Withings is attempting to redefine preventive health once again with Body Scan 2, billed as the most advanced home longevity station ever built. A CES Innovation Award Honoree, and developed in collaboration with cardiometabolic research centers, Body Scan 2 introduces more than 60 biomarkers, including, for the first time on a home scale:
As chronic illness continues to rise across the world, Body Scan 2 establishes a new paradigm: deep, personalized, artificial intelligence (AI)-driven, continuous preventive health at home—giving users the ability to detect and reverse physiological imbalances at a reversible stage, years before symptoms appear.
“The most powerful place to reinvent preventive health is the connected scale,” Withings Founder/President Eric Carreel said. “It’s the only moment where we naturally engage our whole body—hands, feet, posture—allowing us to capture more biomarkers in 90 seconds than any wearable can collect in weeks. Body Scan 2 turns this everyday gesture into a deep health assessment.”
Body Scan 2 aims to address the main obstacle to longevity—the silent physiological impact of a modern lifestyle. Sedentary habits, chronic stress, sleep disorders, and an unbalanced diet can gradually throw the human body off balance, without providing any noticeable visible signs. If left undetected, these imbalances can lead to such chronic conditions as diabetes, hypertension, atrial fibrillation, and heart failure.
“The strongest predictors of long-term health decline appear years before symptoms,” stated Dr. Thomas Platzer, general practitioner and nutritionist, and Scientific Advisory Board member of the German Society of Anti-Aging Medicine. “Measuring cardiac function, arterial stiffness, cellular vitality, and metabolic activity in a longitudinal and integrated way gives us a level of early detection that was previously impossible outside clinical research. It has the potential to change prevention for millions of people.”
Body Scan 2’s 60 biomarkers were selected for their predictive value on long-term health.
Body Scan 2 delivers a 90-second multimodal longevity assessment analyzing the core physiological systems that drive long-term health:
This in-depth body scan, extending down to the cellular level, is powered by the integration of five medical-grade technologies previously exclusive to clinical settings.
Personalized, Continuous, Actionable GuidanceUsing billions of real-world measurements from the Withings ecosystem, Body Scan 2 establishes each user’s individual physiological baselines, detects early deviations while they are still reversible, and delivers personalized recommendations that strengthen metabolic, cardiovascular, and cellular resilience.
Body Scan 2 provides a Health Trajectory score, which offers a clear view of long-term health, motivating users by showing how lifestyle changes could extend their healthspan.
Body Scan 2 guidance is especially valuable during periods that challenge cardiometabolic balance: chronic stress, sedentary routines, midlife visceral and abdominal fat gain, perimenopause and menopause, athletic training, or GLP-1 weight-loss treatments where muscle preservation is essential.
Premium Design, Built for Everyday UseBody Scan 2 combines a sleek, user-friendly design with advanced technologies to maximize usage. Its single tempered-glass surface houses eight ITO-embedded electrodes, combined with four stainless steel electrodes in the handle, to measure more than 60 biomarkers.
A retractable handle features a bright, high-resolution LCD color screen for viewing results during weigh-ins, and two buttons let users answer personalized lifestyle questions and receive longevity coaching prompts.
For long-term convenience, Body Scan 2 includes a rechargeable battery lasting up to 15 months, and all health data syncs automatically to the Withings app through Wi-Fi or Bluetooth.
With GDPR and HIPAA compliance, plus ISO 27001 and ISO 27701 certifications, Withings claims to set a new global standard for health data protection, combining security and privacy in a way rarely seen in the industry.
Pending U.S. Food and Drug Administration clearance for select metrics, Body Scan 2 will be released in Q2 2026, priced at $599.95 in the United States, €499.95 in Europe, £449.95 in the United Kingdom, and $899 AU.
A pioneer in real-life health monitoring, Withings created the first connected scale in 2009 and has continually innovated since then to offer an ecosystem of clinically validated connected objects, used by 12 million people worldwide, as well as by numerous healthcare centers and research institutes. The Withings ecosystem measures more than 90 biomarkers. It includes a sleep analyzer that detects sleep cycles, wake phases, and sleep apnea. It also features hybrid connected watches that notably track heart rate and its variations day and night, perform a medical-grade electrocardiogram to detect pathologies like atrial fibrillation, or monitor blood oxygenation. Its connected blood pressure monitors allow for home monitoring of blood pressure evolution, thanks to sharing reliable and exhaustive measurement reports with a doctor, and can integrate a stethoscope to detect at-home valvular heart disease, which is more frequent in cases of arterial hypertension.
Reference1 Richardson LC, Vaughan AS, Wright JS, Coronado F. Examining the Hypertension Control Cascade in Adults With Uncontrolled Hypertension in the US. JAMA Netw Open. 2024
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