MonaVie Contains Cancer Causing Ingredients

Wow, I love this site. I have a couple of questions. Where did The blogs owner and Vogal get a PHD? Does anyone who is bashing on this site take any perscrition drugs? If you do, why. Read the precaustions. Those things can kill you. Do you eat out at all? Do you drive in a car. MMM that new car smell. It will kill you. I can find people who hate every store and product in america. Some people love one doctor and others hate him. That is what makes this country great. I have heard that living close to power lines can cause health issue’s. Should we shut down all power stations. Gee that might hurt this site. You say it take very little time to come up with you post. What do you do with your other time? Help feed the poor or homeless, help build homes? Anything that would help others? Just a few thoughts from someone who thinks it is people like these negative people who are killing America.

“Great People” was trying to get you to shut up by saying there’s much worse things out there, such as homeless and hunger as if there’s no point in taking an issue with something if it is not the #1 problem facing society.

I’ve noticed this from distributors. They love to go on and on about how superstar MonaVie and TEAM is, with the Inc. 500 and all that crap, but when they get criticized they ridicule by saying we are attacking a niche thing no one cares about, with the whole “why do you care so much” argument.

I forgot to mention the CMO’s name by accident. It is Jeff Cohen and you can follow the links at my website to the offical Monavie website for more information. I copied and pasted his bio here’

[Editor's note: Please don't cut and paste content from another website here. People can read about the MonaVie CMO if they are interested. They know to look at MonaVie's website.]

You neglected to mention that, as is the case with almost any drink that contains benzine, the benzene levels are below those considered dangerous for consumption. Don’t worry, I’m sure you’ll have a valid argument against MonaVie at some point. In the meantime, you can still believe man never walked on the moon.

If this were any other beverage, I would doubt it contained enough benzene to have any health effects. However, this is MonaVie we’re talking about, the beverage that somehow manages to pack 13 servings of fruit into a two ounce serving! Clearly, MonaVie has some sort of mysterious effect that renders it exempt from normal laws of chemistry and magnifies the power of any chemicals in it far beyond anything that their concentrations should do. Who knows what this mysterious effect would do to the benzene in it? It could turn the tiny amount of benzene into 13 times the OSHA Permitted Exposure Level.

Live by the nonsense health claim, die by the nonsense health claim.

Chet,

It is important to note that studies on soft drinks don’t apply to MonaVie. They typically don’t contain vitamin C – half of the benzene equation. MonaVie has added sodium benzoate and vitamin C.

There’s no need to subject yourself to this risk in your health food. There are abundant other juices available at much lower cost that avoid this risk.

Putting gas in your car is probably equal to ten lifetimes of monavie benzene exposure.

Well your article doesn’t even remotely come close to proving that MonaVie has benzene in it. Whereas benzene is clearly up to 1.3% of gasoline.

I don’t know anyone who drinks gasoline. I certainly wouldn’t recommend it. I’m pretty sure that the FDA doesn’t regulate gasoline for ingestion in any way. Your comparison is like apples and transmissions as my wife likes to say.

According to MonaVie distributors the bottles aren’t shipped refrigerated, though the bottles say to refrigerate before and after opening, so one can’t depend on that. The bottle itself is tinted.

There’s no downside with going with one of the many other drinks, again it’s simply not a risk taking. If you can show that there’s no vitamin C or sodium benzoate in MonaVie or that they can’t combine to form benzene then it’s worth discussing.

Elevated temperatures and light can stimulate benzene formation in the presence of benzoate salts and vitamin C, while sugar and EDTA salts inhibit benzene formation.

Sugar inhibits the formation of benzene… hmm

Thanks you said this before. It’s not clear what amount, if any benzene is actually inhaled due to the open air nature of gas stations. At least it’s not clear to me without independent analysis. In addition, people generally fuel up only once a week or so – it’s not twice a day.

In either event, if you are concerned about benzene form gas stations, perhaps you can pick up a N95 Particulate Respirator and reduce or eliminate that risk.

However, that’s a topic for another website as it certainly doesn’t apply to MonaVie or benzene in juice.

Hahaha how could a particulate filter block volatile gases?

It seems to me that the FDA found benzene in sodas that had sugar in it. Seems like the case is still open.

I suggested that N95 may help. I didn’t say that it definitely would. One could clearly get a gas mask that would help. It’s available for sale. Again, this isn’t the website for that information. I leave it to the reader to investigate that elsewhere.

Why wouldn’t soft drinks studies apply to MonaVie? Anything with vitamin C, sodium benzoate (or potentially potassium beznoate, I haven’t looked it because it’s not relevant to MonaVie), and sugar proves the point. Most soft drinks don’t have much or any vitamin C, so they tend not to show up anyway.

Anyway, look up Giant Light Cranberry Juice Cocktail at http://www.fda.gov/Food/FoodSafety/FoodContaminantsAdulteration/ChemicalContaminants/Benzene/ucm055815.htm. Here’s the nutritional information with 10g of sugar per serving: http://caloriecount.about.com/calories-giant-juice-cocktail-i254724.

MonaVie Scam Says:
December 10th, 2011 at 5:31 pm
Chet,

It is important to note that studies on soft drinks don’t apply to MonaVie.

10g sugar per 8 oz is a lot less than 24g per 8 oz

That was your quote about soft drinks not applying!

Monavie has 2.4 times more sugar that the juice you’re quoting with benzene. The juices that had as much sugar as Monavie had 1 or zero parts per billion.

MonaVie Scam Says:
December 10th, 2011 at 5:31 pm
Chet,

It is important to note that studies on soft drinks don’t apply to MonaVie. They typically don’t contain vitamin C – half of the benzene equation. MonaVie has added sodium benzoate and vitamin C.

There’s no need to subject yourself to this risk in your health food. There are abundant other juices available at much lower cost that avoid this risk.

My quote about soft drinks not applying to MonaVie was the following:

“It is important to note that studies on soft drinks don’t apply to MonaVie. They typically don’t contain vitamin C – half of the benzene equation. MonaVie has added sodium benzoate and vitamin C.”

It wasn’t that soft drinks don’t apply, but due to the fact that they don’t typically have vitamin C – they are missing half of the benzene equation. So someone could say that a soft drink has sodium benzoate in it and studies on that soft drink would likely show that it is benzene-free because it doesn’t contain vitamin C. The point here is to establish drink with both the vitamin C and sodium benzoate in it.

It may be true that sugar inhibits benzene, but it may be like how the police inhibit crimes. It slows it down, but it clearly doesn’t prevent it as we have real world examples and proof that sugar, sodium beznoate, vitamin C can coexist and still test positive for significant levels of benzene.

We can’t logically argue about more sugar in MonaVie preventing benzene because we have no way of knowing how much sodium benzoate is in MonaVie.

The point has been made dozens of times here that there’s no point in taking any kind of risk when there are versions without the risk readily available. You have not disputed this or addressed it.

Chet said, “The point of the study is that there is no risk!”
The study said, “Almost all samples analyzed in our survey contained either no benzene or levels below 5 ppb.” (The bold was added by me.)

I hope you can see the difference between those two statements. Clearly there is risk and I showed an example of it. You can’t claim there is no risk. It’s like watching 100 cars go by outside your house and concluding that cars never break down or that there are never any accidents.

You tried to show that vitamin c and sodium benzoate can’t combine to form benzene in the presence of sugar. You have failed. If you don’t have anything else to add, I think this dead horse has been beaten enough.

Stop comparing apples to transmissions with your analogies. ;)

All cars break down.

Only fruit juices and soft drinks with reduced sugar content have benzene.

Then you can explain the danger behind consuming a couple micro liters of benzene when the average daily consumption from normal atmospheric air is in the 400-3000 microliters per day.