Comments on: MonaVie and J.D. Drew’s Health

By: Acai Berry Taste

Acai Berry Taste — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:32:56 +0000

Everything about this article is right up my alley. Thanks for the kind words!

By: Candace

Candace — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 15:52:55 +0000

As much as I wonder about the nutritional value, or lack thereof, in a bottle of MonaVie juice…I have come to seriously ponder the possibility of detrimental effects to a person’s critical thinking, sound reasoning, judgment, and rationalization skills from drinking MonaVie juice. We get the most incoherent rambling comments from distributors.

Kirk, your comment is almost impossible to follow, and is filled with errors.

Distributors like you, making comments like this one you’ve made, are what will get MonaVie shut down quicker than anything else.
Keep posting your inaccurate information online to blogs, you could be responsible for the beginning of the end.

And are you implying that you are a doctor or a member of the medical profession by stating that you “normally charge for these lessons”? If so, methinks you would end up in the poor house, as your information is inaccurate, your research faulty, and your credentials in doubt. Hey…maybe you’re on staff at MonaVie!
Now there’s something that would make sense.

By: MonaVie Scam

MonaVie Scam — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 14:53:30 +0000

MonaVie, the company, is the one that says ORAC is important. If you have another way of measuring MonaVie’s nutritional value feel free and present it. We haven’t found one yet, where MonaVie comes off well.

Just because blueberries are one of the ingredients in MonaVie, it doesn’t mean that it’s the more nutritious than pure blueberry juice. I could put a blueberry in a gallon of water and it obviously would not compare very well nutritionally to blueberry juice even though it has blueberries in it.

There is significant talk here about phytonutrients, but I see nothing from MonaVie measuring the amount and types there. I could get a variety of them V8 Fusion for $3 for 46 ounces.

There is talk about the ORAC on freeze-dried acai. Unfortunately, no one is buying freeze-dried acai, they are buying MonaVie.

Did you read the study from FSU? I don’t believe acai killed any amount of cancer cells in lab rats. Beyond that there was no indication that the acai there is exclusive to the one in MonaVie. Beyond that, you are talking about one experiment a long time ago, that you claim involved rats.

If you think our numbers on MonaVie’s ORAC score are wrong take it up with MonaVie advisor Dr. Schauss. The numbers come from his clinical study. It’s not like we invented them.

I think that Oprah has threatened MonaVie with law suits. I don’t think Rachel Ray is a nutritionist. I have read numerous doctors say that it’s just overpriced juice. I’m not Regis and Kelly are medically or nutritionally certified either.

By: kirk

kirk — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 04:49:01 +0000

It is great to hear all of these “objections” from from the “Anti-MV” people…
The ORAC scale is only 1 of 7 different “measurable” radical assays (stop me if I am getting over your heads, Mr. Anti-MV, Mr. Mona Vie Scam, & Mr. Food Tech, CA {BTW, you don’t even know what is in MV, or you would not have written what you did, above, completely factually wrong i.e. blueberries are in MV}).
You can boost the ORAC scale of any food/beverage by adding Vitamin E to it, which is what many “Mona Vie wannabees” are doing.
You are trying to compare “apples (which ARE also in MV” to oranges (figuratively). None of you naysayers have talked about the phytonutrients in your “Super fruits.” A key factor you are all omitting is the role the vast variety of phytonutrients play in delivering healthful benefits to Mona Vie drinkers.
Furthermore, you don’t mention anything about the HORAC, NORAC, or 4 other measurable antioxidant assays performed on the freeze dried vacuum packed acai used in Mona Vie.
Are you familiar with the clinical studies performed at FSU Medical College in Florida???
Their clinical lab study showed the acai berry used in the MV formula (pattented process) KILLED 86% of the luekemia blood cells in living rats, when compared to the control group of luekemia blood cells in rats not fed the acai juice.
Also, you numbers are wrong on apples and blueberries ORAC scores rating higher than Mona Vie. First of all, both fruits are in Mona Vie (for the phytonutrient variety they contain), along with 17 additional fruits. The patented process we use (in the Amazon jungle) allows us to keep our acai ORAC assays at 10-15 times that of blueberries!!! Apples ORAC value is considerably less than blueberries.
I normally charge for these lessons, but I am tired of you LIBERAL (don’t deny it, you are a bleeding heart, hypocritical, lazy assed, cry baby, “the world’s not fair,” left leaning, loser)! Right?
BTW…i drive a ‘92 Nissan Sentra that gets 38mpg, most of the time when I am by myself. I drive a “gas guzzling” Landcruiser when I go anywhere with my family (for safety reasons).
What do you think of OPRAH Winfrey and her Dr. Oz? How about Rachel Ray, The Doctors Show, Kelly & Regis, The Today Show, (I am sure I have missed some of the programs/people you watch), but ALL of these people consume & promote Mona Vie. They have had it on their program more than once in most cases, and have stated EVERYONE needs to be getting Mona Vie into their diet!
Hope you take some time to do a bit more research before you go throwing up HERE, again.
Hey, Mona Vie might help you with YOUR problem, too.

By: Cornelius

Cornelius — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:47:59 +0000

Lets talk business. to become rich with mlm’s you need exponential growth. ie you recruit a couple people they each recruit a couple people ext. exponential growth is unsustainable in the long run. you’re having plenty of people getting rich now because there are still plenty of suckers. when the suckers run out the people at the bottom of the PYRAMID are left as the supporting foundation for the millionaires on top. untill they wise up of course. but being suckers means it gets milked for a while.lol

By: Candace

Candace — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:48:10 +0000

Can anyone provide proof that a bottle of MonaVie juice has the phrase “100% juice” on the label? I have never seen that on any MonaVie bottle I have personally seen. And it is certainly not on the image of the label that’s on Lazy Man’s site here: http://www.lazymanandmoney.com/monavie-scam-was-my-wife-recruited-sell-snake-oil/ – which is where one would expect to see such a claim.
This person: patrick dotson claims in comments # 9 and 11 that the MonaVie label states “100% juice”. I would like to see verifiable proof of such a claim.

By: Food Tech in CA

Food Tech in CA — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:31:36 +0000

I really don’t care about the marketing part of your business. My experise is in the science. MonaVie is NOT a high source of antioxidants. Of the 143 items on the USDA ORAC Table of Selected Foods, there are 55 items with a higher ORAC (per gram) than MonaVie. This includes: apples, plums, almonds, raspberries, blueberries, etc… If you’re worried about grannie and her false teeth, no problem, I’ve got that covered, as well. Go to: http://www.pomwonderful.com/pdf/Antioxidant_Beverage_Study.pdf
Here you’ll find several fruit juices with a higher ORAC and total phenolics (polyphenols) than MonaVie. These include: store-shelf pomegranate juice, concord grape juice, blueberry juice, black cherry juice and cranberry juice. All for a tiny fraction of the price of MonaVie.
As for your suggestion that “rare exotic fruits” somehow are better for you, that is nonsense. Please cite ONE study that shows MonaVie has more phytonutrients than common produce. Chromadex Labs has shown that MonaVie is lacking the one indicator of high acai levels. That is anthocyanins. MonaVie’s level is 0.095 mg/ml (Chromadex – 2008). A very small amound, indeed.
So, all we have is your word “that it works.” And you happen to be a distributor. I’m not buying it.

By: F U anti-MV people

F U anti-MV people — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:52:30 +0000

My team is doing better than me because i have been busy with a lot of other things but i still manage! i still got people committed to help people down there which keeps my residual income going. It’s not easy but then again, it’s simple and not hard if your willing to put in the time. Leave it up to the distributor how hard they want to work the business. What do you have to say about all the other newtork marketing companies?? Either way were #1. We don’t even sell it directly. We basically recommend it only to people and let them know the facts in which they decide they want to do the same thing and promote. Who are you to stop that?

By: MonaVie Scam

MonaVie Scam — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:42:42 +0000

“It’s all depending on the person if they’re willing to do the work and put in the effort!”

When I was little people said I could do anything, become President of the United States, play quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, become the first person to walk on Mars…

The fact of the matter is that it is not so simple. There are few people making significant money in MonaVie. Perhaps you are the salesman equivalent of Jerry Rice. In that case, it all is very easy for you. For the other 99% who earn $3.75 a week, selling MonaVie is very difficult.

It’s great that you BARELY need to put time in it, but I don’t need to waste $2000 to have a try-out with an NFL team to know that the odds are stacked against me.

Show me the odds and you’ll show me the money…

By: F U anti-MV people

F U anti-MV people — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:14:24 +0000

Your driving me crazy with all your stupid assumptions man. It’s all depending on the person if they’re willing to do the work and put in the effort! A lot of people have determined there ‘why’ there doing the business yet, they still have fear bundled up inside of them, there not committed and motivated, they’re not following the proven support system and get a couple NO’s and give up. NEVER GIVE UP. Like i said, the VERY 1st month i did this business i made $200 in the second week and i BARELY put any time into this. That 12-1500 a year is an INVESTMENT! thats only pennies to what you can make in the long run! Even $2000 isn’t bad at all for a whole entire year, 12 months to have product to share to people with and see where you business can take you in 12 months. I know people who reach diamond exeuctive in 5 months, 7 months, 10 months, a year. It’s all on the owner whether you want to do work or not. The numbers are just ways to show what people are making.