Acai Nutritional Supplement
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MonaVie is a health drink. The crown jewel in the MonaVie formula is the acai berry, found only high atop towering palm trees in the lush Amazon Rainforest of South America. Modern science has now validated the remarkable wellness benefits of the acai fruit. As a whole food by itself, the berry would provide a remarkable source of complete protein, health fats, essential vitamins and minerals. Particularly valuable are the class of polyphenols of which the acai contains over a dozen. High on the list are the anthocyanins, which contribute the deep red, blue and purple to the plant's appearance. Anthocyanins have a host of health benefits that have been identified in several studies. The final MonaVie formula includes acai berry, pomegranate, white grape, nashi pear, acerola, pear, aronia, purple grape, cranberry, passion fruit, banana, apricot, prune, kiwi, blueberry, bilberry, camu camu, wolfberry, and lychee. Each fruit and each portion were selected for their specific and known benefits. Their synergistic effect reaches far beyond what any single fruit could accomplish.
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Dear Claudia
by It's antioxidants
This is a response to Claudia who is relating her possible nerve damage to MonaVie.......
MonaVie is made up of 19 fruits. The crown fruit being the Acai berry, which has 10% more antioxidants that any other fruit found to date. We all know that antioxidants attack the Free Radicals in our bodies that cause damage to our cells, hence the detoxafication. When you are taking Chemo, your body is being filled with agents that are attacking your cells (very similar to Free Radicals) this is how the Cancer cells are destroyed. Then you started drinking MonaVie, and when it, in all of it's detoxifying glory, entered your body, it's reaction to all of the toxins was probably to clean them out as fast as possible. That may have happened through urination, rash, diarrea, etc, as the antioxidants worked to detox your body. I will agree that your reaction may have been related to your intake of MonaVie, but only in relation to the Chemo. After your Chemo is well over with, I would consider starting MonaVie again. I feel that it would naturally correct some of the problems that you're having, while detoxing the "leftovers" of Chemo still in your body. I think what happened to you can be compared to taking your car to the mechanic and when he's just starting to take the car apart, you ask for your keys and drive off- parts missing and all. You didn't have a choice but to do that, though, because your body needed to maintain it's levels of toxins from the chemo to fight your Cancer. However, I think now would be the time to take that car back to the mechanic, and let him finish the job.
:)
Good luck!
Monavie works?
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I can't believe Monavie cures anything since it is 97% blueberry juice. Just shows how powerful the mind is. All juice companies are hiding under the FDA rule that a liquid nutrient doesn't have to list the mg dosage on the bottle, only the highest to least. When you see "Proprietary blend" on any liquid nutrient all that means is "We aren't going to tell you how much of each nutrient is in our product, because if we did you wouldn't buy it." At best Monavie is a good antioxidant. Where are the connective tissue components? Where are the neurological components? Where are the trace minerals? Where are the essential fatty acids? Might want to look at www.bionetworth.net and by the way, you earn $20 from everyone that spends $85, not $10 from everyone that spends $136.50 like Monavie.
MLM's
by debbie
In response to Steve's comments on all MLMs.
You are incorrect on a few things you said. I am a director with Tupperware and have been involved with another MLMs in the past and I just wanted to correct a few of your incorrect comments.
You said that you have to have a downline to make money with an MLM and that's not true. You make more money ( a much higher percentage) off of what you sell than the residual that you get for what your downline sells- if in fact you even have a downline and the fact is, most people in MLM businesses don't even have any down line- yet they sell their product and make money.
I have not read many of these reviews but apparantly someone called corporations "pyramids" and you are denying that they're are any. Most, if not all, are pyramids - think about how the term "pyramid" came about. The few at the top are the money makers and the many at the bottom will never make that amount of money even if they are working much harder, perhaps selling far more product for the company. Someone at the top usually has to leave, get demoted or die for you to get that position (and those positions are very limitied unlike MLMs where there's always room for everyone---and only then can you make that much money.
I make a lot more money than my up line because I have built a bigger business. That totally messes up the perfect "pyramid" picture that the corporation is. If TW was a pyramid, my up-line would make more money than I do and the person above her would make even more and so on, whether they work hard or not. From what you are saying, someone would think that she would make more than me because "my downline counts for her to right?" That's not true either. There are checks and balances so that you can't recruit some people, sit back and count the cash.
That's the whole unattractive thought behind "pyramid scheme" and every corporate has the perfect model of it. THat sort of thing happens in the Corporate world all the time though.
You can say well I worked harder to get that "top of the pyramid" position so I should make more but that's fine. Why should we point our finger and degrade MLM businesses because I worked harder at building a business than that person above and now make more money? Just be fair and look at them the same because when you break down the reality of both situations, there should be no negative comments about MLMs becasue it's much more fair than what I experienced in the corporate world - and i was never fired, repremanded or demoted in any way. I just would rather build a business for myself, always make more money for harder work - than build someone else's business and get paid the least amont that they can get away with paying me in order to keep me there. That's the corporate world.
Monavie business
by Sifunick
In reading all your posts I see a lot of discussion with regard to if this product does what it claims and it it contains what it claims to contain. Lets look at for example fresh squeezed orange juice. 1 12 oz serving at the local grocer is about $3.60 to $4.20 (Odwalla) that equals .30 cents per oz.(1/6th serving) Monavie Active $1.77 per oz (1 serving). There are two servings in one bottle of Odwalla fresh squeezed Orange juice at a 6 oz serving costs $1.8 per serving on the low end i.e. .10cents more then the Monavie Active and all you are getting is plain old orange juice.
Mona Vie
by Rex
Hey guys,
I just thought I would chime in on one important point: FDA approval.
The fact that the FDA has not approved MonaVie to treat or cure diseases does NOT mean that MonaVie doesn't work. It simply means that the necessary tests to determine efficacy, which can last years and cost millions of dollars, haven't been performed.
If you were dehydrated, you would drink water. But for the same reason MonaVie can't say that their drink gives you energy, Evian can't say that their water cures dehydration, or helps you smell better by diluting sweat.
The key to determining whether or not MonaVieworks is to try it yourself. In the 2 months my wife and I have been using it, she has lost 20 lbs and I no longer take Claritin for my allergies. So, even though MonaVie DID help her lose weight and CURE my allergies, the FDA won't let me advertise that on the bottle.
So, to see if it really works, you can only try it.
Great product
by NA
MonaVie is an amazing product. Everyone who drinks it in my family has improved health-wise. I know someone with an STD and it helped with the symptoms of that.
Illegal Claims - Binary Comp Plan
by BW
A couple of months ago someone approached me about the wonderful opportunity a Monavie distributorship is. The new cars, conventions, residual income, it was all presented as very attainable with just a little part-time effort.
When I asked about the products themselves I was given very little information, but after siting through a couple of parties where people, who were already distributors, told us that drinking Monavie lengthens lives, promotes weightloss, cures eczema, resolves insomnia, reverses autism, stops impotence, increases stamina, takes away aches and pains, cures cancer, eliminates ADHD, cures GERD, heart disease, and COPD. That was in only TWO meetings.
Over the following weeks the guy who told me about it to begin with kept calling and trying to get me to agree to sign on as a distributor. He also had a couple of other people he knows contact me to tell me how great they're doing with their own Monavie businesses.
During that same time I tried to research the Monavie products. I found that there's no disclosure of how much acai, or any other juice is in each different type. There's no telling. Since water isn't listed as an ingredient at all that's supposed to mean there's no water over whatever amount it took to properly reconstitute the fruit juice(s), but that still doesn't let anyone know how much of what fruit is included.
How does the company get away with not listing how much fruit juice is in a bottle? I thought if a product represented itself to be any part fruit juice the percentage had to be listed.
With more reading and watching some news casts that had done investigative stories on Monavie I found out there is no patented harvesting or processing method. The patent was denied in 2005, but the guy who was recruiting me and a bunch of the people at the parties I went to all repeated as fact the company's patented process.
Distributors also said the product was FDA approved, which I also learned wasn't true.
Then I looked at the compensation plan and put pencil to paper. Even if the product was nectar of the gods the commission schedule is set up so that only the very top-most sellers get anything close to a decent living. MonaVie's own literature says that 91% of all distributors are classified as wholesale consumers, making less than $60 a week, before product costs or other expenses.
I learned all of this by reading the company's literature and doing a little footwork.
Then I found a knock-off - Fruitavie, at Sam's Club. It looks like the same thing as Monavie. It's acai juice, and actually lists juice at 98%. It's in a wine bottle, and I know enough about big companies and saturation. I think it's very, very likely that Monavie and Fruitavie come from the same factory, but with the distributors cut out of the Fruitavie profits. That's why 25 oz. is only $17.49.
Before you start screaming, what would ever make you think the owner(s) of Monavie would be above taking advantage of the distributors? The whole busines model is based on bad dealing. It's a little like dating a married man, and thinking he'll treat you different. If he'll betray someone who was the love of his life, the mother of his children, what makes you think he won't cheat on you, given an opportunity?
Don't believe the claims on here, that we have to eat 52 peaches to equal the nutrition of two peaches in decades past. Don't believe the endorsements unless you hear it from the horse's mouth. Just because someone says Bill Gates or T. Boone Pickens, Wayne Buffett or whoever drinks it doesn't make it true.
From what I can tell there's no more nutritional value in a $40 bottle of Monavie than there is in a lot of the more common $4 or $5 a gallon bottles of juice.
It's being said the economy is going to get worse before it gets better. Do you really want to be a part of separating hard working people from their money, when as it is there's already too much month left when the money's all gone?
not as good as fruits and vegetables
by Jay
I was able to try Monavie at a marathon expo. After researching it a little further and hearing all the wonderful testimonies, I decided to give it a try. Admittedly, I didn't give it the full 90 day test run which would consume 14 bottles and cost about $500. In my mini 30-day trial, I saw no results, positive or otherwise. But I exercise 5 days a week and eat on average 7 servings of fruits and vegetables a day. A lot of people on here say it's cheaper to buy the juice than to buy the recommended 5-9 servings of fruits and vegetables. I spend about $500 a year on fruits and vegetables. If you buy in-season and supplement with frozen/canned produce it is way more cost effective. The big drawback I see with MonaVie is that it's not food. I never felt full drinking my little 2-oz shot glass. But eating a banana or an apple definitely tides me over to the next meal.
I think MonaVie does have a case though. I have a friend who doesn't eat vegetables and many fruits because he doesn't like the texture. He is also on the road most of the time for work. He started taking MonaVie and definitely saw an improvement in energy and skin tone.
If you are looking for a major health boost, I would recommend changing your diet and exercise habits first. No drink in the world can match the powerful combination of proper diet and exercise. I would exercise strong caution before giving this to young children, who may have an allergic reaction.
Have an open mind...
by GeorgiaGirl
I have suffered with acid reflux for eight years. My medication is $395 per month, and if I dare miss a dose--I'm paying for it with intense pain and discomfort. A dear friend let me try her Monavie Active for a few days--and since then, I have not had to take one dose of my medication. So far so good. Obvioulsy, I'll be monitoring the results carefully--but it would be wonderful not to have to take two pills (of goodnes knows what) everyday. I found the juice on e bay for $25 per bottle and bought a case.
90 Days
by Non-believer
So I shell out $500 to test a product; or after that amount of money and time I "convince" myself that I feel better? Where is the share part of the MV model during this 90 days?
I think you are one of the sacrificial rubes.
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| Name: | MonaVie Acai Juice |
| Mfgr: | Monavie (more products) |
| Size: | 25 oz. |
| Dosage: | 1 - 2 oz. Daily |
| Retail: | $45.00 |
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