Die Sirtuin-Diät - Jung und schlank mit Genuss: So verlieren Sie über 3 Kilo in 7 Tagen - Sirtfood Diet - das Original

by Aidan Goggins, Glen Matten, Gaby van Dam (Translator)

Wer Abnehmen und Genuss bisher für Gegensätze gehalten hat, sollte die sensationelle Sirtuin-Diät ausprobieren. Durch ausgeklügelte Gerichte mit leckeren Zutaten wie Avocados, Oliven, Ingwer und Brokkoli werden Fettverbrennungsenzyme in unserem Körper angeregt, die Sirtuine. Mit einem intensiven 7-Tage-Programm und einem nachhaltigen Ernährungsplan wird die Traumfigur schnell und leicht zur Realität.

Genres: Food, Health, Diets, Nonfiction, Nutrition, Adult, Cookbooks

279 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2016

Reviews

[Joyoti Bondi · Rating 3 out of 5]

A useful reference with some good recipes but can you call something a revolution if it's only been tried by 49 people in an exclusive London health club? Even if you then go on to write a book about it and market it so comprehensively that major supermarket chains run out of stocks of the diet's number one component? Um, yeah ok maybe.
In its favour, the programme proposed by the authors is a diet of inclusion, not exclusion. On that level I loved it. The entire focus of the food plan is the huge range of ingredients that are included. In fact I don't recall a single mention of the foods to avoid. So, it's all about eating more of the top 20 foods common to the healthiest, longest living populations around the world. Turns out kale, turmeric, capers, extra virgin olive oil, red onions, walnuts, rocket, coffee (more on this later), cocoa and more good stuff switches on a set of genetic information we all have but don't all have switched on. When it's switched on, our bodies apparently metabolise more efficiently and protect against and recover from disease more efficiently. I did follow the diet for seven days and found the health benefits immediate and remarkable.
My weight, however, did not change at all.
Three years ago I was diagnosed with chronic fatigue. At first my search was all about cures, now I have decided to focus on the present moment and live as well as I possibly can with what I have. So I approached this seven day plan as an experiment in living well rather than weight loss. I didn't once feel hungry, despite the daily calorie intake being vastly less than my usual. The three times daily intake of the Sirt Green juice was an immediate pick me up as well as being very satisfying. I very rarely drink coffee, as it tends to disagree with me, but this week I had a cup of full strength real home percolated coffee every single morning and did not feel any of the irritability or sleeplessness that I would have usually felt. The incremental effect of a diet that consisted completely of healthy Sirt ingredients was so powerful that I was able to have that daily cup of coffee and feel great - in the context of a day of superfoods. I did feel a lot more alert, happy and energetic than usual, and I recovered more quickly from the energy slumps that are part of my normal daily symptoms.

I have to say that by the middle of the week those daily green juices were really difficult to face, but even after the end of the seven day plan, apart from one day of rebellious pizza, I am back on to a more moderate version of the daily green smoothie because the benefits are so undeniable. I don't have a juicer, so I mixed the ingredients in the blender instead. It did make it more fibrous and bulkier than the authors' version, but I had no plan to be buying a juicer and I also wasn't going to let that stop me doing the programme. I also only stuck to the ingredients I could buy at Lidl or Asda, which meant dropping the expensive matcha tea, buckwheat and miso.
So I did make some changes, and my chronic fatigue means I do very little physical activity, which together may account for the lack of weight loss. But the health benefits have been very positive, and it's easy to incorporate many of the top 20 Sirt foods into a daily family diet. You could probably get some of those benefits without doing the extreme seven day introduction, though, and you may be more likely to think of kale as your friend if you don't have to force down three juices of it a day.
Bottom line - a great source of health information but chill with the seven day extreme version.

[Cyanemi · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's working miraculously. No hunger no cravings. the weight is flying off and I feel fantastic. The food and recipes are really delicious.

[Elif · Rating 3 out of 5]

Learning about the sirtfoods was fun but, as with many diet books, there are parts I disagree.

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[Patrik Hallberg · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very interesting read. Those that know me, know that I have a special interest in food and not just fine dining, but also how food can lead to improved health. This book focuses on sirtuins and how a diet based on food that fuels the Sirt1 gene can lead to drastic health improvements. The book is structured in a good way and goes through how you can do this change both as a carnivore and a vegetarian. It contains meal plans and how to after an activation program you can start including these foods in your normal diet and replace some of the common western foods with sirt food instead.

The issue of course is always to get started, but I feel positive that I will try this out. Some things resonate from other books like Turmeric, Chili and Red Wine (Pinot Noir, contains Resveratrol).

[Annie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sounds like a good diet, recommending healthy foods such as buckwheat, celery, cocoa, olive oil and green tea, even if they don't switch on your 'skinny gene'. Possibly waffles on/repeats itself a bit but you could skip the chapters that don't seem relevant. In the 2nd half, it provides a meal plan and recipes for 21 days.

Recipes I have tried:

Asian king prawn stir-fry with buckwheat noodles - really enjoyed this meal. The buckwheat noodles stuck together in a big clump as I didn't eat them immediately after cooking so probably should have rinsed them or timed them to be ready at the same time as the stir fry

Kale and red onion dhal with buckwheat - wasn't so keen on this meal as it tasted quite bitter (but Joe loved it)

Sirt muesli - massive portion (564 cals) but very nice, I will enjoy having this for breakfast

Sirtfood bites - really like these, slightly more savoury take on a raw brownie, great way to get turmeric into your diet, but very hard just to eat one or two!

[Sarah · Rating 2 out of 5]

A very repetitive book which could be condensed into a quarter of the pages. Little evidence to back up their claim. I eat a lot of sirt foods already within my diet and have done for years . May agree that by doing so I have prevented my weight becoming extreme. I haven't tried green juice a I don't have a juicer and I won't buy one to experiment in making the green juice.
Will the diet work.? possibly.
Is it full of recipes that are impossible to get ingredient for in rural Scotland?.- probably.
would.I recommend this book - possibly not unless they want to.borrow my copy. Although i have started making sure I am.getting.more sirt foods Into.my diet but not by green juice. however I have found I like the match a tea so that can stay even if it does look like bile!

[Victoria · Rating 2 out of 5]

If you want to learn how Adele became so skinny, this book is for you! Interesting, but also very extreme.

[Monica Lee · Rating 4 out of 5]

The blurb is not entirely clear--this book is not about fasting, it's about eating, specifically eating more of 20 foods that will activate your sirtuin genes.

The first half of the book describes the concept behind Sirtfoods; the second half outlines the diet.

You can buy into the concept and the science or not, but the recommended foods are probably full of more nutrients than say, a cheeseburger, so I bought into it. To be clear, you better decide you're willing to like, or at least consume, kale smoothies on this diet, but other than that, you can drink coffee and red wine, eat strawberries and dark chocolate, so let's be real: It isn't that bad.

I lost 4.2 pounds in a week by only sort of following the plan, and I'm willing to give it a go for a few more weeks.

[Pamela]

I liked this book. I found it well-written and easy to read, yet not simplistic. There is a good balance between presenting scientific data and the practical application of that data. I will try this out and see how the juices they recommend really work. The recipes look delicious! There is so much conflicting data on the use of olive oil, that I am not sure I want to use the amounts that these authors recommend.

[Sheri Maxwell · Rating 2 out of 5]

Easy read and there are a few good recipes. The juice is not one of them. It tastes like wet dirty grass. I honestly don’t know how anyone could continue to do this diet. It is expensive, I was the hungriest I’ve ever been, and the juice is disgusting. Not the book or the diets fault, but this is just not for me lol

[Mariana · Rating 5 out of 5]

Easy Read & Easy to Follow

Loved how the diet was explained and what are the best ways to incorporate into the current lifestyles. It’s not changing the way we eat but adding the best foods to our current routine to make it sustainable.

[Kąpi · Rating 4 out of 5]

it is a pleasant read, I won't judge the contents, as I am no expert

[Tiffany Brigner · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting but the juice is difficult to drink, found it to be an impractical diet plan

[Anne E · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing. Thank you! Finally a diet that neutralizes sugar cravings

My stats - 65 years old, 5ft tall, moderate weekly exercise - hiking and rebounding, 80kg starting weight.
About 10 years ago, I became a keto advocate, and lost 10 kgs fasting with bone broth once a month for 5 days - and eating mostly keto in between.
8 years ago, I suffered a traumatic brain injury, and keto didnt really work as a weight loss tool anymore, I couldn't fast for more than a day or get into ketosis. Steadily my weight went up, and last year escalated to 80kgs. I should be mid 50 kgs. Instead of buying clothes size au 10-12, im buying size 16-18!!! After working hard, thinking hard, my body would be getting the chocolate. Maybe half a block per day. To not buy chocolate would cause me anxiety. I knew it was my brain needing it, rather than emotional food addiction.
Found this book randomly. And fortunately I was on holidays. I had time to do phase 1.
And you need time for shopping and cooking. I made 4 meals of any meal I had that I could freeze. Took 1.5 hours.  But I've really enjoyed the food so I dont mind cooking for that time - and by the end of the first week, i had enough in my freezer for four weeks.
2 weeks in I've lost 3kgs.
For the past 2 years, I've at best been able to maintain or slow my weight increase (only exception being the 2-3times i was able to do a broth fast) - not reduce it! So this is amazing.
What also changed?
My taste buds.
If you are looking at these foods and thinking ewww, I dont like bitter foods, I would say try them for a week.
My taste buds and food cravings have completely changed.
In the past eith keto, when im in ketosis, chocolate looked like cardboard to me.
With Sirtfoods - I dont even see it or think about  it.  Ive had zero chocolate or sweet food for 2 weeks (unless included). I had the green apple in yhe juice every day, and I had one low alcohol beer after a hike on a hot day, and a week later, last night I had half a glass of white wine mixed with mineral water - again after a hike, and even then it was only because it was open in my fridge after using it in a recipe a couple of says ago.
The urge to eat anything unhelpful to my weightloss journey or body's health has completely disappeared.
Downsides - the authors aren't really into freezing - so thats taken a bit of thinking through. Need to add labels with "xbuckwheat" with thr name, so I know what else I need to add.
I notice in the recipe books it has snacks etc that you can batch cook - but things like crackers - yes you can make 40 of them, but they only last 7 days.
So it might work for families, but not single people living alone.
These are minor things.
This diet will detox your body, which may come with nausea and headaches like any detox - I was already pretty clean so only had mild nausea some days for an hour or so. And ayay, I can feel my liver has just go of some old toxic stuff.
My bowels have been loose, so I could cut back on the juices to help with that.
Im in phase 2 now, but I will continue with 2 meals and 2 juices a day for now, instead of switching to 3 meals and one juice.
Before I started I was a breakfast and combined lunch/dinner, so that works for me. If im still hungry I will either have a cup of broth, another juice, or a snack. That's usually enough.
Oh and I've reduced the quantities in all the recipes by a third - think the amounts are geared for men who are athletes ! I could finish any of the meals.
Hope my review helps, as there is very little I could find googling. Im not on social media much - there might be more there.
If you've been struggling to lose weight really hope you try this one - you won't be hungry

[Dawid · Rating 3 out of 5]

Książka o małej objętości i dużej czcionce - z jednej strony fajnie się czyta a z drugiej odbija się na treści.
Nowa dieta którą odkryłem jakiś czas temu - dotychczas było wiadome, że głodzenie się i umiarkowany wysiłek fizyczny wpływają pozytywnie na zdrowie i długowieczność (choć głodowanie akurat ma skutki uboczne) a tu zostaje odkryty trzeci sposób, żywność która aktywuje pradawne geny.
Z żywności Sirtuinowej wymienione tylko 20 produktów - te najbardziej zasobne w sirtuiny.

Głównie książka oparta na 7+ dniowym planie diety Sirt - włącznie z dieta i przepisami (dla mięsożerców i wegetarian).
Podobno można na tej diecie stracić ponad 3 kg w 7 dni (1000kcal) - ale ja zamiast "diety cud" bym wolał książkę nastawioną na zdrowotne aspekty diety i jej związki z długowiecznością.

Pomimo poruszanego tematu muszę dać 3 STAR - przepraszam ale dużo mi brakuje w tej pozycji a postanowiłem surowiej oceniać książki...

[Stacy Lease · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was easy to read and understand and I fully intended to try the diet. The science seemed to be sound, despite only having been applied to a small study group. I purchased a juicer and the required ingredients for the green juice and figured I would get used to using the juicer before officially beginning. What a mess! I guess juicing just isn't my thing. Undaunted, I decided that I would trudge forward with this quest to jettison a few pounds. My next step was to set my official start date and go buy all of my groceries. As I put my list together and was beginning page three I decided that not only was juicing a pain, but also that this diet would be expensive! At this point I decided to send the juicer back and ditch this particular plan. I will try and incorporate more of these foods into my diet but I don't have much interest in actually following the plan.

[Katie · Rating 3 out of 5]

I took notes of what I needed to know b/c this is a library book. I was mostly just curious about the science and how it works. They explained it in layman's terms, but took forever to get to the point. I felt I was reading an infomercial. I will probably check it out again when I am prepared to add more sirtfoods in my every day. I, by no means, am not looking to lose "7 pounds in 7 days!" at my weight. I was looking for knowledge and gain inspiration. I will look for other books that incorporate Sirtfoods in their everyday lives, like 1 meal every day and a green juice. Of course this being a diet book it oversells the diet plan a little too much. I don't care about testimonials in which they all sound the same, people.

[Ana Maria · Rating 3 out of 5]

I followed this diet and truly felt great but I became very obsessed with getting the results I wanted quite fast and it became another diet in the pile. The recipes are great but it kept referring to a “eating freely and without guilt” mindset but I still had a lot of food noise and kept feeling bad when eating more than usual. I did like to understand better how a Mediterranean based diet can help your skin, body and mind to be more productive, look good and have longevity (which is the most important).

[diaLOG · Rating 1 out of 5]

书所基于的研究完全是伪科学，但中间又穿插着真实的生物/科学知识，但它们都是用英文写的（导致我必须不断查词，判断哪些是真哪些是假）……看得我 san 值狂掉

这本书的核心理论是：一种名为 sirtfood（西尔特食物）的食物集合能够让摄入者获得更多 sirtuins（长寿蛋白），从而让他们达到减肥增肌的效果。全书先从介绍 sirtuin 开始（Ch 1: The Science of Sirtuins），表示它们是如何让我们减脂增肌的（Ch 2: Fighting Fat, Ch 3: Masters of Muscle, Ch 4: Well-being Wonders），再介绍具体的 sirtfood 种类（Ch 5: Sirtfoods, Ch 6: Sirtfoods around the world），最后讲述如何通过饮食来减肥/增肌/维持（Ch 7: The Sirtfood Diet, Ch 8: Phase 1: 7lb in seven days, Ch 9: Phase 2: Maintenance, Ch 10: Sirtfoods for Life, Ch 11: Sirtfoods for all）。Ch 12 是问答，Ch 13 为 sirtfood 相关菜谱。

然而，整本书的诡异之处在于：它所基于的实验本身就极度不严谨。

① 实验样本 n=39（其中 2 人肥胖，15 人超重，22 人健康），这本身已经是一个极小样本，分散到“每个群体”的人就更少了...

② 实验完全用了不科学的体脂测量方法（完全不准的 BIA 而非 DXA，therefore 得出的“体脂率下降，脂肪减少的同时（运动）肌肉增加”的结论也显得十分可疑）

③ 实验并没有控制任何变量。一个人变瘦完全可能是因为这个人先前大量摄入 UPF，开始实验后摄入 UPF 量减少了。［如果想证明这是因为 sirtfood 而不仅是 non-processed foods 导致的变瘦必须有对照组吧...］这些样本本身就处于 calorie deficit 中（前几天一天才 1000 卡），和吃不吃 sirtfood 也不一定相关，以此类推。

④ 作者严重缺乏科学常识。例如 P29，作者将 BFP > 25% 称为“acceptable”而将 22% 称作“fit”，暗示 BFP > 25% 是微胖的；但对 BFP 有概念的人都知道，一般 DXA 测试里不管哪个大洲，哪个年龄的女性，BFP 的 P50 都高于 30%。对于全年龄段而言，25% 已经是 P8 的水平。实际上 2009 年的 DXA 研究显示在美女性平均体脂率为 40%（Kelly et al., n=6507, 数据来源于 NHANES dataset）。又比如 P238，作者在 glossary 中写 “...DHA is primarily found in oily fish and marine plants like algae”，但 algae 根本就不属于 plant，而是 protista（原生生物界）……

总之是很糟糕的一本伪科学，不会再读。看完后就丢掉了

[Jennefer Lee · Rating 3 out of 5]

For me this was a well written book which is encouraging. The idea is good and I am sure it would all work. I find it difficult to start things all at once so it may have to be a slow journey to get there. Practising making the green smoothies may be the biggest challenge for the 2 or so meals a day - the meals themselves less so.

[heather · Rating 2 out of 5]

I skimmed some of this since it was so repetitive. Interesting concept. Not surprising that subjects lost weight after one week when they drastically cut calories. Some of the vegan recipes have potential; I bought buckwheat just because of this book.

[Vaiva · Rating 2 out of 5]

Lacks scientific validity. Even though it claims to focus on inclusion of foods rather then exclusion highly limits calorific intake.

[Jennifer Rumack · Rating 3 out of 5]

Another celebrity diet book. I was intrigued with Adele's "secrets". There is some solid science here but mostly good common Mediterranean diet sense.

[Amy Griffin · Rating 2 out of 5]

Can't speak for the diet, the book just wasn't compelling enough for me to try it .

[Penni · Rating 3 out of 5]

Adele's celebrity diet. Might be worth a shot, cuz, why not.

[Filipa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Muito interessante. As receitas são boas e fáceis.

[One Sentence Audio Critic · Rating 3 out of 5]

2022 The Sirtfood Diet: Beginner’s Guide for the Celebrities’ Diet that Activates the Skinny Gene

[Claudia · Rating 2 out of 5]

Concordo con altre recensioni, i concetti potevano essere illustrati in un articolo. Interessanti comunque i principi base esposti.

[Bonita Parker · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was meh...

[Ismija · Rating 4 out of 5]

Steht im Grunde genommen das gleiche drin wie im Kochbuch, also warum zwei Bücher schreiben?