MonaVie, Acai, and Fruit Flies |
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It turns out that MonaVie is directing distributors to talk about a study about acai and fruit flies. The study in question is:
Sun X, Seeberger J, Albericol T, Schauss AG, Zou S. Açai palm fruit (Euterpe oleracea Mart.) pulp improves survival of flies on a high fat diet. Exp Gerontol. 2010;45:243-251.
You can find a synopsis of the article here.
A smart consumer may recognize that this another MonaVie marketing gimmick. To start with this is another piece of “research” with MonaVie’s Dr. Alex Schauss name attached. That makes 100% of all positive research that MonaVie recommends by their own Dr. Alex Schauss.
The other things to note about this “research”:
- It was done with acai
- MonaVie is not acai
- Acai is not MonaVie
- It was done on fruit flies
- Fruit flies are not humans
- Dogs are more advanced that fruit flies and more like humans (they aren’t insects, can understand language, clearly display emotion, etc…)
- MonaVie can be harmful to dogs
So what we have here is MonaVie trying to pretend it is acai. We have MonaVie trying to pretend that study about something else (acai) on fruit flies is something consumers should consider. We have information that MonaVie may be harmful to more advanced forms of life like dogs. It is completely without logic that one could apply this study to humans and MonaVie.
Originally posted 2010-07-13 21:03:46.
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August 19th, 2010 at 9:35 pm
First off let me just say that I think this is a very great and informative web site. While this may not be right on topic I figured it was worth bringing up. I don’t have direct experience with monavie per say I did however work at a restaraunt where a good portion of the employee’s became crazy about selling this stuff. A friend of mine who ran the cafe (along side his girlfriend) became involved with a distributor and began selling the juice at the restaraunt. Soon my friend’s girlfriend became absolutly obbsessed with selling and getting others to sell it. I however remained unconvinced that this was nothing more then one of those door to door pyramid like schemes that sold a lot of hot air.
All I kept hearing was how much money you could make by selling monavie, I can’t tell you how many times I heard about “how you can make $2,000 a week” from my buddy’s girlfriend. She seemed to have a success story for every new day of the week, and she reveiled how the person who got her involved makes more money selling monavie then he does with his oil change bussiness. I was never convinced that the drink itself was a miracle cure but I found the way everyone acted in regards to this bottle of juice to be extremly cult like.
At one point I was able to read some material that they give “new recruits” and became so convinced that there was something simply wrong with how this company worked. It seemed that it cost money to do anything, to join it cost a monthly fee to stay active in the monavie team program. My friend was spending well over a $150 a month just to stay involved. What bothered me the most however was how the people started acting once they began to sell this stuff, I mentioned it before but it was very cult like. Eventually my friend realized that he was just bleeding money and he stopped, however his (ex) girlfriend has taken it to the next level by using the cafe as a spring board for her career as a monavie millionare. I admit that I don’t know much about the product itself, but from what I saw first hand about the way they do bussiness I never had any interest in this so called miracle cure all.