Archive for the ‘Uncategorized’ Category

• MonaVie’s “Pain Reduction and Improvement in Range of Motion” Study

  Wednesday, May 4th, 2011

  [The following is research from frequent commenter Vogel... I have cleaned up some of the formatting.] I had a look at MonaVie’s latest publication that just came out this week. This is MonaVie’s worst study yet. My critical analysis follows; it is by no means all-encompassing of the many flaws. Publication Jensen GS, Ager DM, [...]

• Dr. Louis Niles and his Illegal Medicinal Claims

  Thursday, March 17th, 2011

  Dr. Louis Niles has been making illegal medicinal claims for MonaVie. You can find the videos all over YouTube if you search for Lou Niles there. Here’s one famous example of him in scrubs: … and here’s part 2: I dug back in the archives of the comments in my other website and found this [...]

• MonaVie is less than 2% Freeze-Dried Acai

  Monday, March 14th, 2011

  I give a hat-tip to a comment from Jim Lange for the research below. According to this website and other research, freeze-dried acai berry supposedly has an anti-oxidant value of 102,700 per 100g. This is also the number that MonaVie’s Dr. Alex Schauss has referenced in the past. This number may be debated, but for [...]

• Did Jon M. Taylor, Ph. D Predict a MonaVie Ponzi Scheme?

  Wednesday, March 9th, 2011

  I came across an article from 2004 by about a Utah Study on tax returns. There is a ton of useful information here, but one item in general made me stop reading the article and post it here. In particular it was point #2 on a list of 7 bullets from the findings: “2. Most [...]

• Dr. Joe Schwarcz Warns Against Acai Health Claims

  Thursday, February 24th, 2011

  While this article might not mention MonaVie specifically, it deals with a number of issues that we see in MonaVie community every day. For example, he is quick to mention “North American advertisers who have begun to import the juice of the acai berry, it has fantastic anti-inflammatory, anti-bacterial, anti-mutagenic and, above all, antioxidant properties!” [...]

• Conference Call Details

  Monday, February 21st, 2011

  There was an idea here that it would be a good idea to have a conference call. Leave comments to organize a conference call time and date details…