The Sirt diet or Sirtfood diet, has become famous for being followed by celebrities such as singer Adele.
It is in fact known to have been Adele’s diet that followed it initially to lose the first 15 kilos, and then do another diet plan.
According to the Sirt diet, you can lose a lot of weight thanks to the foods that activate sirtuins , particular proteins with an antioxidant action. With the Sirt diet it is possible to lose 3 and a half kilos in 7 days.

Proposed by Aidan Goggins and Glenn Matten, a nutritionist and a journalist, the book of the Sirt diet has been translated in Italy, with the title of “Sirt, the diet of the lean gene”.

Let’s see if the book may interest you and above all how it is possible for the authors to lose (in health) so much weight in such a short time.

SIRT DIET: WHAT YOU EAT

The authors in the book speak of twenty foods that are said to be natural activators of sirtuins. These are proteins discovered in the early nineties that slow down the aging processes, perform an anti-inflammatory and antioxidant action, reduce stress.

It must be said that the history of sirtuins has so far been confirmed by a few pilot studies: only one in humans, others in guinea pigs.

The foods would be the following: red wine, green cabbage, rocket, citrus fruits, green tea, turmeric, blueberries, parsley, capers, apples, dark chocolate, olive oil, cumin, lucuma powder (you can find it organic), kaniwa , pseudocereal similar to quinoa, goji berries, dates, alchegengi, charcoal, bitter cocoa, coffee, celery. Also according to the authors of the Sirt diet, eating these foods would trigger the leanness gene in us, prompting the body to shed excess fat and gain lean mass without gym sessions. However this definition is not scientific. A thinness gene obviously does not exist.

Currently we know from some studies that to differentiate a thin person from a fat person is not only a happy or unhappy genetic heritage, but also a more or less differentiated bacterial flora.

It is not just a matter of having good bacteria or bad bacteria, in short, but also of how many strains we have of one or the other. So much so that it has recently been speculated that a transplant of fecal bacteria from a thin person to an obese person could make the obese one lose weight ( study ).

Nutrition from this point of view can undoubtedly help us improve our enzymatic and bacterial activity. And in particular, foods with antioxidant action play a very important role in this sense.

But losing weight just for this?
No, unless you follow the Sirt diet plan.

We will now see the diet.