Best vitamins & supplements books according to redditors
We found 35 Reddit comments discussing the best vitamins & supplements books. We ranked the 17 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 35 Reddit comments discussing the best vitamins & supplements books. We ranked the 17 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
https://www.amazon.com/Nutrition-Physical-Degeneration-Comparison-Primitive/dp/1849027536
This book "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration" is about this. A lot of the reason for bad teeth among modern diets is what he calls "white" foods. White rice, white potatoes, white flour, white sugar, and food brought by the white man (canned food, fast food, processed food.)
The people eating the traditional pre-colonial diets had great teeth. Near-perfect teeth were the norm, not the exception.
Was it kind of like the BarCharts quick reference guides? Like this one?
FWIW, I definitely don't disagree with you in theory. I am just a random guy. And random guys are not often right!
If you think there is a small chance I am right, then I would check out these cheap Kindle books, which are slightly more credible:
This guy is an actual MD who prescribes D3 in the range that I take:
https://www.amazon.com/Power-Vitamin-Scientific-Practical-Information/dp/1508946310
This dude is what got me initially curious, he is a bit of a lunatic (what an endorsement!), but he cites a LOT of papers. After reading this, I read some more books.
https://www.amazon.com/Miraculous-Results-Extremely-Sunshine-Experiment/dp/1491243821
And then this one on K2:
https://www.amazon.com/Vitamin-K2-Calcium-Paradox-Little-Known/dp/0062320041
Also, I have gotten several friends and family members to run the same test in the last year, and all report positive results with healthy D and calcium levels. Again, I'm just a random dude, so YMMV, but I'm obviously a big believer at this point.
Thanks!
A couple of things you need to know about Vitamin C
Now to address the studies
Most of these studies are done using low and ineffective amounts of "Vitamin C" the 50/50 mix usually 500mg to 1000mg is the daily amount tested. When Linus Pauling, the father of modern chemistry and the only 2 time solo nobel prize winner started using Vitamin C to fight colds he was taking 1,000mg of l-ascorbic acid every hour from the time he felt the symptoms until he ended the cold. Doing this he saw a significant reduction in the duration of the cold/flu.
Want to learn about "Vitamin C" and what really means to your body, not the non-sense spewed out by pharmaceutical shills? Check out this book Ascorbate
First of all, calcium is pretty hard to be deficient in if you’re really eating a whole food AIP diet. Most people get too much and even doctors (who bother to pay attention to updated evidence-based guidelines) don’t recommend calcium supplements, as they don’t help osteoporosis, unless there is evidence of a legit deficiency. If you’re getting enough vit D you’re absorbing enough calcium.
Vit D lab values should be mid point on a blood test ~50-70, with “normal” levels being between ~30-100, & any Dr that says otherwise is either lazy or ill informed regarding pretty much all research over the last 10 years-always remember “normal” values aren’t even kind of the same as “optimal for best health/healing a broken body” levels. Fun fact: RDA for Vit D was established as amount needed to avoid rickets. Personally, I’d like to set the bar higher than non-rickets, especially considering how absolutely vital it is in terms of immune system function-regardless of calcium. But I digress...
“Vit K” is really two different things-K1 & K2 and they are not metabolically interchangeable. K1 is from mostly leafy greens and, as you alluded to, is the one that is best known for assisting with clotting. K2 is ONLY available after K1 has been converted via specialized bacteria and is used by the body (in simplified terms) to put calcium where it’s supposed to go-ie, bones rather than arteries.
Most humans aren’t able to convert K1 to K2 on their own in their own guts (even “healthy” adult guts, as demonstrated in research) and thus almost all K2 is gained through fermented foods like aged cheeses, sauerkraut, etc. One of the many reasons ALL traditional cultures ate fermented foods in one way or another & had great teeth!
Best food source of K2 anywhere is Natto, which is a fermented soy bean & used as a condiment in Asia. As with many Asian flavors/foods, it has a pungent “acquired” taste to it that even most “I love Asian food!” folks can’t bring themselves to gag down. Not only that, but on an AIP diet you’d have to weigh pros of a small exposure to a traditionally prepared soy product vs. just getting it through other types of fermented foods or even a K2 supplement (many D3 supplements now come as a D3/K2 combo formula).
In any case, though I understand your caution regarding Vit K-as blood clots are frequently deadly-the functional difference between K1 & K2 is the reason that your doctor hasn’t warned you off of pickles & aged cheese, like he has with too much spinach and salads, in fear of too much K2 ingestion.
I’d worry less about calcium than I would magnesium. Post is already long enough so I’ll let you research that on your own. More info about K2 can be found either through PubMed (for the deep dive science nerds of us out there who love the soporific effect of reading lengthy alphabet soup microbiology & statistical analysis scientific research) or the book Vitamin K2 & the Calcium Paradox.
Vitamin K2 and the Calcium Paradox: How a Little-Known Vitamin Could Save Your Life https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062320041/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_PtMiDb6G0XEJD
39% of americans are low in B12, because they often have absorbtion issues caused by pollution, smoking, surgeries, radioactive exposure. I take b12 supplements and get my levels checked. I also follow the McDougall diet which shreds the pounds like crazy. More info here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XVf36nwraw ( and don't let the title give you the wrong impression)
Source: http://www.amazon.com/Could-Be-B12-Epidemic-Misdiagnoses/dp/1884995691
Celiac disease is associated with clubbing, see, e.g., this paper - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3029079/ See also http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11761775 as another example.
The clubbing suggests that you should be thoroughly evaluated for osteoporosis/osteopenia/osteomalacia as well as fat malabsorption and vitamin and mineral deficiencies (e.g., calcium, vitamins D and K2 and other fat soluble vitamins (A and E), B vitamins, etc.).
Note that it is primarily vitamin K2 (menaquinone) - not K1 (phylloquinone) - that is involved in bone formation. This book - http://www.amazon.com/Vitamin-K2-Calcium-Paradox-Little-Known-ebook/dp/B00D5TSMAS/ - does a pretty good job covering the research about that.
One thing you can do is to make sure your vitamin D levels are sufficient:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4463890/
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/02/study-confirms-vitamin-d-protects-against-cold-and-flu/
I take 2000 IU twice a day now. I like this one by Now Foods:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001UZPY1O/
I was taking 5000 IU a day for a while, but then I got tested and my blood levels were on the high side of normal, so I dialed it down to 2000 IU once a day and they were on the lower side of normal, so now I'm doing 2000 IU twice a day. The key is to get yourself tested to see what your base level is, then get tested again after supplementing for a while at a particular does, and dial it in from there.
Incidentally it also seems to be a good idea to take Vitamin K2 and calcium if you're taking Vitamin D3. Apparently the D3 tells your body to absorb the calcium, and the K2 tells your body where to put the calcium - i.e. in your bones and teeth rather than deposit it in your arteries. I take this one:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002N1MW3W/
More info on the K2/D3/calcium link here if you're interested:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062320041/
I suffer from B12 deficiency. I was diagnosed like 5 years ago when I failed all my classes, was suffering from a lot of stress, hand shaking, a tiny bit of memory loss, having a hard time concentrating, feeling sad sometimes without a reason, sleeping problems and losing weight.
I started with a shot on a weekly basis for 2 months I think and then once a month for a couple of months or so.
It totally fixed me. I remember I felt the change around the 2nd shot.
All those symptoms I mentioned were gone for good. During the next years, when I started feeling funny I get a B12 count in a nearby lab and if I'm low on B12, just do the weekly shot for 1 month or so. It I'm not low it's probably just stress.
So, to answer your question. If you indeed suffer from B12 deficiency I totally recommend it. The coolest part is that if you pee after getting the shot, your pee will look purple-ish. But, if you don't have that problem, I don't see why you would want to get shots.
Go to a lab to get a B12 count, consider if you are feeling symptoms and decide from there. There's a cool book about B12 deficency.
Besides the D and magnesium you also need enough K2 to make sure the calcium ends up in your bones and not your arteries. You don't say anything about butter but if you're not eating it I recommend adding in some good grass fed butter. It will have good levels of K2 and fits quite well into the average paleo diet.
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So I'm not a doctor, and I don't want to advise you to jump to injecting before talking to someone. But B12 serum tests alone aren't the best diagnostic for every situation. It will show how much B12 is in the blood stream, but it cannot show how well it is being used by the body. So if you're supplementing, it will show there's a lot. And when someone is injecting, the test becomes pretty useless as a diagnostic tool because the person being tested will always show a maxed out testing range. That's why there's a few tests that you would need to do to see the full picture. There's a good book I read this summer. Could It Be B12: An Epidemic of Misdiagnoses. It's easy to follow and understand. You could read an ebook version and make notes to ask your doctor about some other tests you might like to run.
I think the author, Sally M. Pacholok, also has some videos on youtube.
Edited to add: I forgot earlier, but if you want to follow the route most western docs prefer, you would need to go off b12 supplements for 4-6 weeks to go back to a “blank slate.” That would make a blood serum test its most helpful
Get Serious explains why weight training is important for older men and contains a weight training program.
They had tough diets back then. Like beef jerky,tough breads, nuts etc.
If you ate hard foods back then your jaw development and teeth were excellent
https://www.amazon.com/Nutrition-Physical-Degeneration-Comparison-Primitive/dp/1849027536
This book explains a soft modern diet changes this.
Proof in the book was a study of one generation of eskimos(i coukd totally be wrong on this but i think that was the group)whose teeth and jaws were excellent with hard food diets
Then examining the teeth and jaws the following generation of eskimos who ate a modern "soft" diet.
Reduced jaws and crooked teeth galore.
its said tongue posture is crucial in mewing amd while i actually believe its true(many remarkable changes in people who done this) there isnt any actual verified study on it
high, consistent megadoses of niacin (vitamin b3) has worked wonders for a few depressed people i know. i am not a doctor, and you should read about this before trying it. here's a book.
If you try the niacin, be advised that it's powerful stuff. It will open up your arteries more than anything known to man and the resulting "flush" will scare you to death if you're not prepared mentally.
It feels like a severe sunburn without the pain, if that makes sense, but it will pass within an hour or so, depending on dosage, and completely stop if you keep taking it.
I'm not a doctor and this is not medical advice, just sharing my personal experience anecdotally. That said, there's a book I recommend you read if you're interested in the topic by a physician who treated patients with niacin for more than half a century; it's called "Niacin: The Real Story: Learn about the Wonderful Healing Properties of Niacin"
Two books I would recommend:
Good Calories, Bad Calories
Ascorbate: The Science of Vitamin C
You can definitely find the latter online in pdf form, probably the former as well. Both address cancer.
There are currently some big studies being done on the importance of Vitamin D so you might want to do some google on it.
From what I've read (and I'm no expert) it is more efficient if you take Vitamin D3 and K2 together (you should be able to get pills or a spray with both of these together). It is more efficient to put the pill under your tongue as the body will absorb it better through the saliva glands than it will through the stomach.
Have a read of these two articles from Victoria Health
Vitamin K2
Vitamin D3
There is also a book from a NZ author called Ian Wishart that you might be interested in reading. Remember though, this guy is a journalist not a scientist.
I too have started taking 2000UI a day and can't believe the difference it has made in my mood and motivation.
https://www.amazon.com/Could-Be-B12-Epidemic-Misdiagnoses-ebook/dp/B00MERDLOE
Aside from a plethora of health benefits, the immediate benefits are skin ripping pumps. It increases blood flow and opens up all of your veins. Feels amazing when you're lifting as well. There's a burn that's way more intense than a Beta Alanine tingle, and I like that shit lol.
But seriously, if you're interested in why you should be taking it as well, there's a great book that goes into detail of what it does for you here:
https://www.amazon.com/Niacin-Story-Wonderful-Healing-Properties/dp/B07FQSX6V2/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=amazon+niacin+book&qid=1564488201&s=gateway&sr=8-2
I highly recommend it!
>I'm very ignorant about diets and b12. The necessity of b vitamins is a new concept to me.
It is to most people.
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It's rarely discussed, even among doctors -- who themselves (as with actually many things "medical" and "diet") generally speaking know diddly squat about it, beyond the fact that it's one of the official RDA "vitamins" and "Oh yeah, in this one class
at bandcampI mean back in med school -- I think it was 'Diet 101' or something like that -- they told us if someone is a vegan/vegetarian, they should probably be taking some kind of a daily B12 vitamin supplement thingee."-
Also, you have to keep in mind that while problems with "anemia" (and "treating" it via diet by primarily eating significant amounts of liver in one form or another) goes back to the mid 1800's -- the actual identification of B12 (and "intrinsic factor") is a mid-20th century thing (the actual molecular identification of B12 not until 1956,with the quick "syntesized" crap happening shortly thereafter {and IMO a mistaken conclusion of "TADA problem solved"}); it's full impact & importance has arguably been under the radar in the meantime -- eclipsed by all of the Ancel Keys/Cholesterol nonsense.
Moreover, the OTHER issues I've discussed -- how the uptake is in inhibited by things like antacids, Zantac, Prilosec, etc -- well those are all even MORE recent (late, basically 1990's, last decade of 20th century) things... which upset the "problem solved" applecart (and likely reveal that it never really WAS "solved" with a little "pill" -- that may be sufficient to eliminate acute/fatal stages of anemia, but it doesn't fix all the rest -- again especially as MOST people's diets NOW are actually vastly different than they were circa 1960).
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If you want to do more digging, I'd recommend reading "Could It Be B12?" -- which admittedly comes off as a bit "alarmist" & even "over the top" (at least --ironically enough -- to people like myself who have & always have had, proper B12 containing diets, and suffer from NONE of the stuff vegans & others do -- no GERD, no "acid reflux", no "chronic fatigue", nor depression/anxiety, etc)... but I suppose given the abysmal state of many people's mental & physical health (due to a major B12 deficiency; again those gastro meds {which some people eat like candy or a "daily vitamin"}), perhaps the "alarmism" is warranted.
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>What I mean is someone who wants B12 has to already be aware of it and actively look for a for foods that contain it. Most people don't consume liver or bone marrow. I personally eat liver a lot and I find it delicious, I just hate the after taste.
Well, these days, I suppose you're probably right... there is so much ABSOLUTELY atrocious/abysmal "diet/nutrition" advice out there -- the WORST being the "vegan" crap, but the official mainstream "heart healthy" stuff ain't all that much better -- and so many people eating a completely SHIT convenience/snack/fast food diet (even if they're NOT ostensibly "vege/vegan").
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BTW there's lots of convenient ways to eat liver -- liver pate, liverwurst, braunschweiger etc. -- and the same with other "organ" meats; many/arguably even most "traditional" sausages by the way used to (and some still do if made in "traditional"manner) have good amounts of those types of meats in them.
(As opposed to crap like "hot dogs" which are a sort of faux-food, frankenfood, highly/overly processed crap with no one is really sure WHAT fillers, or what's all been done during processing.)
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And that's not including straight-forward prep cooking or baby beef liver, or chicken livers-- again several ways to make that VERY tasty (and yes, even eliminate the "aftertaste") -- chiefly doing a quick "boil" then frying with butter and/or bacon & onions...YUM!
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ALSO -- assuming your "uptake" isn't FUBAR'd -- your body DOES "store up" B12; and once you have a sufficient store (ideally you should have been born with enough, but of course "vegan" mommy... well who knows) it actually takes quite a long time (years) of crappy diet (or again, uptake inhibiting meds) to deplete it to a hugely problematic state... so it's not like a "normal/good diet" person really needs to eat some "pound of liver" every day (or even every week), especially if they're regularly consuming OTHER meats, animal products (eggs, milk, cheese, etc)... and (yet again) NOT regularly "popping" one or more of those uptake inhibiting meds. As all of those other animal products DO contain sufficient "maintenance" B12.
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>I never once believed humans should not eat meat...and when you look at vegans the smart ones give you a list of all the pills (vitamins and suppliments) one must take to compensate for the lack of nutrients that is only found in meat. So when I see that it's an automatic sign that they're full of shit and basing their diet not on reality but subjective morality.
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Yeah, it really IS rather amazing to me -- shouldn't be, because I've seen enough people who do it -- how many people have a whole like "Skittle" dozen+ pill assortment (including "one a day" vitamins, plus prescriptions, various OTC stuff) that they ingest regularly, daily or even multiple times per day.(And then in addition to that, still OTHER stuff that they take -- too frequently IMO -- for various other problems).
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And one would THINK that having a little "pile o pills" (meds, supplements, vitamins, whatever) like that would -- in and of itself -- be enough to ring the proverbial alarm bells for THEM as well; but I guess not.
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I mean shit... probably 90% of the stuff in my medicine cabinet -- even basic/banal crap like Aspirin & Ibuprofen -- is waaaaay past the "Exp Date" (we're talking YEARS), because I so rarely have the need to take any of it.
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LOL,I just looked, and -- just as one example -- yup there's a big old PINK bottle of "PeptoBismol" stuff... still "sealed"; but with "Exp Date 03/16" on the label. I'm sure there's nothing wrong with it... and now that I think about it, I'm also fairly sure I didn't even buy it for MY own use but rather for someone else.*
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* Note: Occasionally I do "salvage ops" of troubled guys (post divorce or other problems) and let them crash/live here in the little back/guest bedroom for a few weeks/months to get back on their feet, get a job, get their own place, etc. Anyway, back in mid 2014, one such guy had, in addition to other things, just gotten out of gastro/lower-intestine surgery (long story, details not important), so I think the "Pepto" was bought as a "just in case" med for him. But apparently he never needed any of it.
Muscle Up: How Strength Training Beats Obesity, Cancer, and Heart Disease, and Why Everyone Should Do It by P. D. Mangan
Best Supplements for Men: For More Muscle, Higher Testosterone, Longer Life, and Better Looks by P. D. Mangan
Dumping Iron: How to Ditch This Secret Killer and Reclaim Your Health by P. D. Mangan
Real Talk Muscle: Timeless Principles to help you Build MUSCLE by George "Ironthumb" Romasanta
Here: http://www.amazon.com/Could-It-Be-B12-Misdiagnoses/dp/1884995691
This is the book I brouyght that helped me. It does in fact say in that book that even psychosis/manic depression can be a symptom that's why I ask. I displayed manic depressive symptoms but they're weren't quite right. This is why. The B12.
My wife (mid-40s) suffers from strange tingling and numbness in her face, hands, legs ... been happening for years. She's wondering if it could be caused by low B12 (she also has had ulcurative colitis since childhood).
Her serum B12 levels come back as "normal", but she's been reading about something where that test can be deceptive that it doesn't show the amount of B12 that's actually active in your cells ... or something like that, she can describe it better.
There's books on the subject (specifically "Could It Be B12") that suggest an aggressive "B12 shot a day for a week" (or until symptoms subside) and then B12 shot a week, then one a month for life.
Do you have any familiarity with any of this? Thanks!
B12 er svært at få, men løses ved at spise en pille. Det er i øvrigt ikke kun veganere som har brug for B12, mange kødspisere får også for lidt, og https://www.amazon.co.uk/Could-B12-An-Epidemic-Misdiagnoses/dp/1884995691 er spændende læsning for alle.
Jeg supplerer min diæt med B-12, carnosine, vitamin D, vitamin A, DHA+EPA og magnesium, det er i øvrigt også anbefalet at kødspisere gør dette.
Meget forskning peger på at de fleste plantespisere får nok og korrekt protein: https://nutritionfacts.org/video/do-vegetarians-get-enough-protein/
I liked this book.
https://www.amazon.com/Could-Be-B12-Epidemic-Misdiagnoses/dp/1884995691
also that chris kesser has done podcasts on the subject I believe. He is a good listen...has been on Joe Rogan's podcast a few times.
What type of general medical testing has he had done?
B12 deficiency is pretty easy to miss because the blood test done can be ruined by anything containing folic acid (which is in a lot of "enriched" products), or certain types of seaweed. Also the serum levels have nothing to do with what is usable for the body. There are a lot of things in the body that have to function together to extract b12 from food, convert it from its natural format to a format usable by the body, etc. Some people opt to simply try B12 injections for a few months to see if symptoms improve. Make sure that if you do this you talk to the doctor about any medical conditions that can make B12 injections dangerous- there are a few that I don't recall off the top of my head.
Disclaimer: I am NOT a doctor. I don't know how much of what I've read is wishful thinking and how much of it is true. I just have the experience of going through a lot of grief over something that simply came down to requiring injections of B12.
In my readings I've also read that magnesium deficiency can cause similar issues, but that it is harder to test for. I've also read that Chrons disease and celiac disease can cause similar symptoms, etc.
There's a book on B12 deficiencies and the different things that are common misdiagnoses: http://www.amazon.com/Could-Be-B12-Epidemic-Misdiagnoses/dp/1884956467 keep in mind that again- a lot of it might be wishful thinking and B12 might not be a miracle cure or the answer at all.
The cognitive issues might be related to sleep. If he has sleep apnea his sleep cycles might be wonky and whenever sleep is compromised there are often cognitive issues. Also if he has a lot of seizure activity the post-ictal state is pretty damned fuzzy from what I've heard.
Sleep can sometimes be helped with methylcobalamin (a different form of B12).
I'd be cautious though because 1- I'm NOT a doctor. 2- while I've read that some people with migraines and seizures see improvement with B12 supplements or injections, others apparently have seizures brought on by those things. 3- Doctors that I've talked to range in beliefs about B12 from "it can't possibly cause what you think it causes, it only causes anemia. If you're not anemic you're not deficient". To "It absolutely causes all sorts of things and it's essentially harmless because the body flushes it out so quickly".
Vitamin D is another thing to look into.
The thing is to find a doctor that will talk about these things without either being enthusiastically supportive of the whole thing to the point of dismissing all other ideas, but that will also not outright dismiss it. This is the type of doctor that you can trust to explore things with you without necessarily buying wholesale into every whackadoo theory out there. This type of doctor will also typically be able to come up with other testing or ideas to explore without having a pet diagnosis.
There are many studies that says Vitamin C doesn't do anything, but they use low dosages. Less than 2grams usually -- not enough. Check out this book, read the preview: http://www.amazon.com/Vitamin-Remarkable-Controversial-Healing-Factor/dp/159120223X/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1368535520&sr=8-3-fkmr1&keywords=miracle+of+vitamin+c+book
A skeptic is just the same as a person that's gullible. They have their mind set on a belief even against solid evidence.
In regards to Vitamin D (which is actually not a vitamin, but a steroid hormone produced by the skin and liver in response to UV exposure) I would recommend supplementing, as well as checking out this book
get this book and then do what it says
http://www.amazon.com/Track-Your-Plaque-prevention-coronary/dp/0595316646/ref=la_B002BLT426_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1452556351&sr=1-7
This Dr. uses advanced imaging technology to track plaque buildup, and has devised a diet and supplement regimen that is scientifically proven to cleanout blood vessels
also get some K2 supplements
http://www.amazon.com/Vitamin-K2-Calcium-Paradox-Little-Known/dp/0062320041/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1452556943&sr=8-1&keywords=Kate+Rheaume-bleue
> Lose the Cardio
One of the best looking, lowest BF trainers around told me the same thing. He played football 2 times/week or so and it was the only "cardio" he did. He ate fat+protein for the whole day and carbs AFTER lifting, in the evening, contrary to the "common" knowledge. He kept counting calories and ate various foods, including potato chips.
I'm doing pretty much the same thing now. My only "cardio" is going to be biking to work and back (sometimes 5 mins, sometimes 20 mins), some longboard, some rollerblades. Maybe even running outdoors for 20-30 minutes, maybe some HIIT, why not, I like the general feeling it gives me, it is important for the cardiovascular system. I'm not going back to that fucking treadmill, as it burns muscle as well and produces free radicals (source: http://www.amazon.com/Get-Serious-Dr-Brett-Osborn/dp/1940598206 - marathon runners look older because biologically they ARE older).
> Do Compound Lifts
I was very hesitant to even try it because of back problems, but Dr Osborn in the same book suggest that to fix my back problems was to improve my muscle and guess what... I started "real" exercises (deadlifts, squats, bench presses) about a month or so, I actually see a lot of improvement over what I did before, and I mean a lot of it.
Proper diet is a must, this been all over TRP subreddits, when I avoided fats and ate really low amounts of carbs and high amounts of protein I felt like shit, had no energy, burned muscle mass, this is a very bad idea. On the other hand, IIFYM.com for proper amounts of protein and fat and lower the carbs it gives there...
Both books filled with studies to back up their claims.
http://www.amazon.com/Magnesium-Miracle-Carolyn-Dean/dp/034549458X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1289048750&sr=8-1
http://www.amazon.com/Could-Be-B12-Epidemic-Misdiagnoses/dp/1884956467/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1289048809&sr=8-1