Oprah Sues MonaVie

Copy of a MonaVie document that pictures Oprah:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/19211322/Oprah-to-sue-MonaVie-for-stealing-her-image-and-false-endorsement

So are you claiming that MonaVie helps your headaches and menstral cramps? That would sound like a medical claim to me. You know MonaVie is just food and thus you can not legally attribute your lack of [medical issue X] to MonaVie.

You know why MonaVie does not claim to cure or prevent any illness? Because it legally can’t. However, they found a loophole in the system. They can pay distributors who will say it anonymously in forums like these for them. That way someone comes around with headaches or menstral cramps and says, “Oh, I should try that.” Ka-ching, more sales for MonaVie and people like Casey.

On the other hand, there are stories like this one: Interesting MonaVie Story. Note that the person just learned to eat better. It turns out that there’s no magic in the bottle, it’s just fruit, which can be bought a lot cheaper.

You know there is always someone to criticize everything. The simple fact is if you take or drink something and it helps you feel better than it works for you. If I eat doughnuts everyday and I feel like crap that might be from the doughnuts, or it might be from something else either way it is not a universal claim nor does it have any true influence over your choice to consume or not consume mona vie or a doughnut. Casey has no benifit from putting her personal story on this site, she can not in any way profit from it because if some one wanted to try it they would have no idea of how to get ahold of her. Every one has a story about there life, and you who criticize have yours as well. If it works for some and not for others than so be it, thats our story. Did you ever think that because it may not work for you does not meen it may not work for someone else? There is a critic for everything, everything, religion, govnt, animals rights, terrorists, ect. Time to move on and just let things be.

See actually I dont ignore anything. It IS entirly possible to feel better on a healthy drink, diet, pill, vitamin ect. and if it works or allows someone to have better benefits than others than how can anyone say it is a complete placebo? Thats simply untrue. There are many different pills for many different situations and many different vitamins for many differnt situations. See the thing is it IS possible for people to have better reactions to different situations and healthy or non healthy foods. I am sure I would have a much different health effects by eating French Fries than some one else. What evey single person who is instantly critisizing MV or any other health product is passing judgemnet on something that maybe didnt work for them or someone whom tried it and felt the same way. I personally have had some changes in different things related to me, that is the truth wether a critic chooses to accept it or not. I am a christen, people say there is no god, I choose to believe there is regardless of what others say. The final point I will make is plain and simple, every person has a choice on what they do with there lives, and what they consume. I personally feel MV is a great product that I choose to consume regardless of cost, color, effects for anyone else. If you personally dont believe it works than so be it, dont drink it, leave it be to the ones who choose to. If I feel better even if it is a plecebo affect the bottom line is I feel better and thats all that matters.
Your opinion and conversation has been polite and well stated, but its just that our own diffencemof opinions.

scott, I think your missing the point of this post…Oprah is suing Monavie!

Why?

Because monavie reps mislead people about Oprah endorsing Monavie.

Why would they do that?

Because the value of the juice product is no better than Grape Juice.

Go Oprah!!!

Scott, I know that different things can have different effects on different people. Let’s remember that MonaVie is just fruit. So if you have an “effect” from MonaVie, you would have it from eating fruit.

In fact, you’d have more effect from just eating an apple if you use the ORAC score that MonaVie touts.

It’s a poor argument compare belief in juice to belief in God. People would consider that a cult. It’s also a poor argument to compare something scientifically proven to do something (like a manual car) to something scientifically shown to do nothing: http://www.mensjournal.com/superjuices-on-trial

I was going with a different analogy on the world being flat and it seems bad editing squelched that (my bad).

I don’t think the government tests apples straight from the tree. So I think we can assume normal oxidation in the numbers at: http://www.juicescam.com/monavie-vs-an-apple/. The apple would have to lose 15-30 times it’s potency to be on par with MonaVie for the cost.

There are two problems with your BK/McDonalds analogy. One is that you are paying for the convenience of a restaurant. The other is that you $5 buys you meal. Because MonaVie doesn’t have significant calories (for a meal), you’d have to still go and spend your $5 at BK or McDonalds. So now you’ve spend $10 where you would have spent $5 before. Your cost of eating just doubled.

Of course you mean “alleged” billion dollar company, right?

I will go after companies that fit these two criteria:

1. Product is scientifically proven to not work (http://www.mensjournal.com/superjuices-on-trial).

2. Product is priced at ten to twenty times a competing product with no additional benefits.

The only other product I can think of that fits is Monster cables, which I don’t like either. I give Monster cables a pass because no body buys them thinking that they will cure cancer. Yet people do that with MonaVie because of distributors’ lies, distortion of the truth, and omission of the truth.

I don’t think it really comes down to beliefs, when it’s scientifically proven by independent labs in the Men’s Journal article. I suppose you can choose to not believe in electricity, but there it is.

I was never involved in MonaVie. An acquaintance told me about it. I thought $45 for juice was really, really expensive compared to the $3 100% juice I buy. I did research to try to figure out what an extra $42 buys me. The research only lead me to distributors making illegal medical claims and things like the Men’s Journal article that show it be a huge waste of money.

For $1500 a year, I want to be scientifically GUARANTEED that it’s going to make me much more healthier than a placebo (i.e. not healthier at all) and much more healthier than a vitamin would.

I’m confused what kind of “good results” people could even get from MonaVie. Everyone talks about vague “good results”, but no one really says what those are.

It’s been proven to have low nutritional value (compared to other juices like grape juice) in a lab. You are right that it hasn’t been proven to not have any effect on people. It would have be the one exception to all the foods in the world that tests poorly in a lab and comes out great in the body. Oh, except if it is a placebo…

I wasn’t a distributor when the person approached me – and yes he quoted $45 price. If you want to know more pricing details, I have written about how much MonaVie costs previously.

Well do you take crystal meth? I haven’t. Yet, I think I can be critcal of it. Of course BEN FRANKLIN (to borrow your quotes) may see things differently.

Scott, in comment #13 I explained why I’m against MonaVie. I could only find one other company (Monster Cables) that fit it. If you can find more, then just pretend they are the mine. Pick a car, any car you want, and make a case that it’s price 10-20x more than another car without delivering the consumer benefits. I’ll even start you out with a fresh place to comment on (http://www.juicescam.com/monavie-and-the-car-analogy/).

I think it’s hilarious that you called me close-minded. It’s why I wrote the article Being Open-Minded About MonaVie.

I’m not scorned, little, or unhappy, but thanks for assuming that I am. I’m also not negative, I just really don’t like to see people throw away a significant portion of their paycheck for unproven promises from biased salesmen. That’s called being a consumer advocate.

I’m happy to be wrong if someone can prove to me why I might be wrong. Give me some scientific evidence that MonaVie does anything more than $4 juice or a multivitamin. If you can not (and you haven’t thus far), then why shouldn’t I be telling people to save their money.

“You make your claims not really based on independent studies.”

How can you say that? Here are two examples: http://www.mensjournal.com/superjuices-on-trial
http://www.juicescam.com/monavie-vs-an-apple/

It doesn’t matter if it can be bought for $20 (which it can), it would still be about 10x as much as V8 Fusion Acia Berry (80 cents an ounce vs. 7 cents an ounce).

It’s a large part of the paycheck of the median household income (around $44,000 last I checked according to Wikipedia). For that average family of 4 it’s around $5000 a year – about 1/10% of the money they make each year.

I will give that MV has some nutritional value. I’ve always said it’s minimal. If I put .001mg of vitamin C in a pill and told you it would help you with X medical condition, any benefit you’d notice would be due to the placebo effect, not the vitamin C. To think otherwise is simply not rational.

The difference with the soda is that you don’t see Pepsi charging 10x the price of Coke. If Coke charged you $1.50-$2, would you pay $15-20 for the same amount of Pepsi? No you wouldn’t. So logically if MonaVie wants to change 10x more per ounce than other juices WITHOUT justifying the price, you wouldn’t buy that either. If you want to pay $20-$45 for MonaVie, I have some $15 Pepsi to sell you.

When you pay for a beer at a bar you are paying for the restaurant convenience. We covered this in comment #13 with McDonalds vs. Burger King. The bars around me all charge around $3-4 for a domestic draft. I’ll tell you right now, that no one is going pay the 10x amount of $30-$40 at a similar bar.

Hopefully you get the point which is that it’s the price comparison between two equivalent things. Please don’t bring up the price of coffee at Starbucks, hot dog at a baseball game, or popcorn at a movie theater. They are pretty standard pricing across the country despite the Starbucks, baseball game, or movie theater. Also, I can make all three at home for cheap. Since I’ll consume the MonaVie from my home, does that mean that MonaVie is going to sell it for a dollar like the other products?

I think it’s perfectly fine to make a profit – just price yourself near your competitors ($4 grape juice, blueberry juice, and V8 Fusion Acai Berry). I don’t like people selling Yugos equivalents for $50,000 and trying to justify as, “People like you feel selling a product for a profit is bad.”

Scott also said, “simply put if a person of sound mind makes a purchase of there own will and the sale produces some profit than it is not a bad thing.”

The problem is that it’s nearly impossible to find someone with a sound mind when it comes to MonaVie. Any research on the Internet has distributors making illegal medical claims. We also have MonaVie using ORAC scores as if it’s proven to help you in the body… and also as if you couldn’t get a high ORAC content from a number of other sources. It’s misleading statements like MonaVie saying that it delivers the anti-oxidant capacity of 13 common fruits, when it’s really worse than one common fruit – an apple. There are a pile more misrepresentations that are made that trick the consumer into thinking they are getting what they aren’t.

Scott said, “Simple put again, if you cant afford it, dont buy it. I cant afford a yacht so I will stick with my Nitro bass boat…”

What people can afford today might not be what they can afford tomorrow. Our nation has a ton of debt and unemployment is at an all-time high. Very few people are prepared for retirement, and many baby boomers lost a third of their nest egg last year. My point here is that you never know what can happen. You can lose your job, you can have your retirement cut in half.

You mentioned being in a business where you are selling a certain type of car. You should be the first person to realize that the industry is having a difficult time in our nation (assuming you are in the US). The gov’t had to take unprecedented measures to save the industry. If they can’t do it tomorrow, and you lose your job for an extended time (through no fault of your own), you may wish you had your money for your juice back.

“…but you only quote what you read or have read, you have done nothing on your own, so until you get your own lab results and spend your own time figureing things out on a true unbiassed scale you have no true ground to stand on.”

When I was in the fifth grade, I read a book that said that the earth was round and not flat. I also read a book about how electricity works. At the time I hadn’t been around the world, nor had I shrunk myself to the size of an electron to experience that.

I have the results from three tests all showing the same thing – poor nutrition for MonaVie. One of them is the Men’s Journal one. One is the done by MonaVie’s own advisor Dr. Schauss of AIMBR. The last one was one where a distributor challenged someone named Food Tech and both worked together to set up the situation so that it couldn’t be biased. I hope to be writing articles about these soon, but with so much to write on, I don’t know when I’ll get there.

I agree with you on the Cash for Clunkers thing. I didn’t think it was very well run. The point is that the gov’t thought the industry was in bad enough to spend billions to try to fix it. If someone works in that auto industry, they may be best served saving up money in case there isn’t a job tomorrow. If you work in another industry, remember that it could be the next auto one – with big layoffs around the corner. Just because you can afford juice now, it doesn’t mean you can afford it 9 months in the future.

I don’t know many people that spend $5000 a year for a family of four on theme parks.

Actually cigarettes, casinos, and lottery tickets are highly taxed and the money goes back to help many state programs. I’m not advocating people spend their money that way, but there’s a silver lining. Do we have numbers of what good MonaVie is doing for the community? I haven’t been able to track down how much money has been used in the More Project, but I do have concrete evidence that MonaVie is either lying or misusing the More Project funds (source: The MORE Project is Misusing Funds?)

It’s one thing to say that no one spends every last dollar wisely, but few families spend $5000 on a product that is seemingly equivalent to what $400 will buy.

Lat thing DR. Schouss has a dvd called the power of acia, last time I checked he didnt say MV’s levels were insufficient. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2mxWPpOMiw .

Hmm, Schauss didn’t mention a thing about how much acai is in MonaVie. He just said that it was shown to be good. Now if you look at research he’s been involved with (PDF), you will note that MonaVie had an ORAC score of 22.8 μmol/mL. That’s an ORAC score 684 an ounce (30ml/oz.). That leads us to one MonaVie lie of having a score of 5000 per four ounces (it’s less than half that). It also leads us to an apple having a better ORAC score than MonaVie. So it’s really irrelevent if Dr. Schauss shows acai to have an ORAC score of 17 trillion… we are talking about MonaVie here and his data shows MonaVie to be a poor source of ORAC. So feel free to take Dr. Schauss’ side and shout his claim that eating an apple is better than 4oz of MonaVie.

The thing about you buying a car when you were 16 is that you thought it provided value to you… i.e. it gives you the benefit of getting you to one place to another easily – when it works. MonaVie tries to give the benefit of making you healthier, but I’ve shown scientific evidence that it doesn’t do that any more than $4 juice. So if you could go back to being 16 and spend 1/10th the money on your car and found that it did more (maybe lasted longer before breaking down), would you still by the same car?

I enjoyed the Aspirin comment so much, I had to write a whole post in response: MonaVie vs. Aspirin/Tylenol. Thanks!

This information is getting reported back to the FCC and FDA. Those organizations are fairly slow to act on such things. They did act to shut down Dallin Larsen’s last juice company.

22Michele you are wrong! I tryed using Monavie for my son and he was really sick! IT did not nothing for him! I went to see a doctor now and he told me the MONAVIE IS BS! Please don’t waste your time on this!

I have been using Monavie Active for a couple of months now. I experience a marked increase in my “getting older” body. So to try to see if it was the Monavie, I quit drinking it for a couple of weeks and lo and behold, the aches came back. I started drinking the Active again, and once again the aches and pains decreased. I have made no other changes to my eating and drinking habits, so I have to believe it is the Monavie. Maybe it is a placebo effect, I can’t tell you for sure, but if I can get out of bed and walk without pain, it is worth almost any price. If it doesn’t work for you, then good luck finding something that does work. After years of trying I have finally found something that does work and I will continue to use Monavie as long as I get the benefits.

Perhaps I didn’t word that the best. I was experiencing aches and pains in my “getting older” body so that is WHY I started using Monavie. I have tried so many products including glucosomine tablets and I did not get the benefits that I am getting from Monavie. Perhaps you can explain why Monavie works but the glucosomine pills didn’t. I think that kind of shoots down the placebo effect, because if just taking “something” would make me feel better, why didn’t the pills do that.

Well, I am a distributor and I know millionaires because of their involvement with the company. So, as we say in the MonaVia world, “we do not need negative people”.

My husband and I are in MonaVie and are having great success. I am so dissappointed to see all the negative, horrible things written since our experience has been the exact opposite. We don’t lie to people or mislead them; we simply present the opportunity and let people decide for themselves if it is something they would like to do. If you expect success in this business, be prepared for a lot of hard work, persistence and determination (just as with any other serious business venture). Yes, you will need to spend money as well. Starting your own business is an investment with alot of up front expenses. Any other business will have start up costs as well; many times tens of thousands and up. So I think $2,000.00 is more than reasonable. As far as the tools costing more in bulk than if purchased seperatley, I would like to ask Orrin why this is the case and post at a later date. We have had talked with him on several occasions and he has come across as nothing but a wonderful, honest and sincere man who really wants to help his team. Maybe it was an honest mistake. It seems today, that when anyone reaches a very high level of success or makes huge amounts of money that they all of a sudden come under attack an they just must be doing something wrong. Maybe we should be happyfor people who are successful and strive to learn from them and improve ourselves instead of being jealous because we feel like we haven’t accomplished enough in our own lives compared to them.

I am a user and became a distributor to get the per bottle cost down to @ $30. I am like most of you, at $250/month for my wife and I, am want undisputable truth this stuff is all they claim it is being really just a user of the product……geting ready to give Monavie the boot……

I just want the facts, is it so good it’s worth $30/bottle of do we get better results form just grape, blueberry and acia juices. the onluy thing keeping me hanging on is the liquid glucosamine they add to tyhe sport version….begiinning to wonder about htat as well…waiting and paying due to the perceived benefits/energy

I am a bodybuilder who trains very hard with the weights and the Monavie active has helped with sore joints, ligaments and muscles. Did not get this from capsule glucosamine but the liquid glucosamine seems to work. Might be placebo, but I ate very well to begin with? Just want to know the truth and if I am throwing away $250/month. Men’s health journal article is leaning me against….just don’t want the symptoms back if I quit?

Casey et all, I believed in Monavie as well but after a couple of years I began to wonder about the benefits versus $28/bottle. i am drinking a blueberry/acai drink from Costco that has better ORAC levels as well as plain old grape juice which has the same? I have been off the Monavie and did increase my glucosamine to offset the same in the Active style, but other than that I don’t see a big dropoff anywhere. Training harder and heavier in the weightroom than before? I guess you can make an extra $400/month selling this, but as I realized, others are going to conclude that the price far outweighs the benefits. No slam on Monavie, but just the facts.

I would direct you to the front page for most of the answers to your questions.

I am not a pharmaceutical sales representative. I run websites for a living. The websites I run are on the topic of helping people. In this case, I want to save people from spending $5,000 a year for a family of four to drink some juice that has been repeatedly shown to have marginal health benefit.

The medication you are referring to, saves hundreds of millions of lives a year. Don’t think so? Give up your polio vaccine or penicillin. We haven’t had a huge plague in a number of years, but it would good to bring those back as well.

As you say buying fruits and vegetables from a store is more healthy. In fact, MonaVie product specialists say that fruits are better. Of course that makes sense since it has significant amounts of fiber unlike MonaVie.

Eating organic isn’t that expensive. By your logic you would have to eat organic anyway since MonaVie doesn’t replace eating fruits. So you are essentially spending the money on organic fruits AND expensive MonaVie. That’s doubly bad!

Nice way to end your post with the I’m not a distributor argument. So why are you wasting all your time?

lol… i find it very funny to read so many people giving positive comments on MV, its like MonavieScam vs Everyone on this page… lol… best one would be sarcastic remarks on ORAC values… i was quite sceptical about this product, but if so many are positives about it, there might be some truth to it… after all, its all in the mind.

anyways, i came to a conclusion that MonavieScam is taking/endorsing another product, but for some reason, it didn’t go too well… typical scammers really.. just like a lot of MV seller, you all are in it for the money… lol

I will say that after 2 months off Monavie, my joints starting stiffening during heavy weight training sessions…..taking again starting today to see if that gets alleviated….going to just 2 ounces a day instead of four to economize……will advise in a few weeks…..

“I’m not a MonaVie distributor but my son attended a meeting last night”. I had never heard of MonaVie until this morning when my son called to tell me about this great product and a very exciting business opportunity. He’s not a kid and I’ve been around the block more than a couple of times. I told him it sounded good but a lot like Amway, which we had both been involved with more than 20 years ago. I told him I would check it out. I found many web sites and blogs, including this one, which is the best I’ve found on this subject. He told me about the many health and wealth claims that were made at the meeting and quite a few celebrity endorsements. He said they were told the product was not approved by the FDA yet but that ongoing studies, including one with 1,000 cancer patients would guarantee approval shortly. By the way many of the cancer patients are reporting significant improvement. One reported endorsement was from Rachel Ray. I checked out the interview on YouTube with Lara Spencer, who I suspect is a distributor. If you can call tasting the juice and rolling you eyes an endorsement, I guess she did.
My conclusion is that MonaVie is just another MLM scheme, a lot like Amway (what a surprise). You WILL waste your time and money. You won’t get rich. But if you like the juice, I can get it for you for around $20.00 a bottle with free shipping. Just send a $50.00 dollar finders fee and….. Oh never mind, it’s on Ebay.

I’m not for or against any products just stating my opinion. Yes I do take the Mona Vie product and yes I do find it makes a difference for me, I have more energy, sleep better, thinking is more clear and I find it keeps you regular. But as I stated before what something does for one doesn’t mean it will do for another. I think that is what this site is for to state you opinion.
As for my statement on food and cancer, have a look around you do some research. All the hormones, pesticides everything exception of organic has some sort of chemicle in it. I things could change today and life went to the way it was years ago cancer would decrease, it’s the way we live everything made easy. I have lost 3 from cancer and another batteling it as we speak. I wouldn’t write if I didn’t know what I was talking about. I do alot of research on what is going on in the world today. On TV the other day they had a doctor on there saying if you are not buying organic these are the fruits to buy that could be safe from pesticides, anything with very thick skin. Anything with thin skin grapes, apples etc no matter how much you wash the chemicle is in the fruit strawberry is the worst. So they say blueberry is the best for you but you buy it wash it and still eat the chemicle, you figure it out. I don’t know if any of you out there have children or not. Take a look around you notice the build on girls, hormones in the meat. Don’t walk with your eyes closed. Keep an open mind. Look out for yourself no one else cares. Smile it makes you feel good.

I do not sell this to anyone and only am a “distributor” at a cost of $39 to get the cheaper per bottle rate, so i have no real stake in this other than are the benefits real. After 2 months off and joints stiffening, I started using half doses and fell better training and have improved digestion in one week? Might be psychosomatic but i doubt it…….it’s too expensive but the positive results appear to be real for me…..seems like the way to make this a real success would be to lower the cost so more will try and use, but I only care about my results at this time and they are attirbutable to it’s use

Elaine,
I’m glad MonaVie is helping you. I also think it’s wise to do as much research as you can. I assume that because of your concerns about chemicals and pesticides you have checked out MonaVie and the ingredients in their juice. Are all of the fruits grown organically? Does it bother you that sodium benzoate (used as a preservative in MonaVie) when combined with vitamin C, can form the chemical benzene, which is a carcinogenic. Also scientists have called for the US Food and Drug Administration to retest the potential dangers of sodium benzoate and citric acid in soft drinks and fruit juices, because the tests proving its safety are quite old.
As to your statement that “if life went to the way it was years ago cancer would decrease”, that might be true. I’m not sure. I do know that the average life expectancy in 1900 was 45 yrs. old, in 1945 (the year I was born) it was 65 yrs. old and today it’s about 78 yrs. old. I don’t know about you but I think I’ll stick with the current conditions. The statement you made “take a look around you notice the build on girls, hormones in the meat”. Well it’s not just girls, take a look around. Its boys, girls and adults. And it’s not hormones. It’s a sedentary lifestyle, poor diets, a lack of parental supervision and a sense of entitlement.
I don’t have a problem with MonaVie, if you like it drink it. I don’t care if you want to pay 10X what something is worth, do it. I don’t care if you want to do all of this work so a small percentage of con-artists can get rich, do it. What I do care about is a large number of bogus claims about health benefits and wealth that can not be substantiated. You are into research, type MonaVie into your search engine, over 3,500,000 results. I didn’t check them all but I’ll bet most are testimonials about the health benefits of their fruit juice. I think what you will also find, as I did. Is a tangled (with a capital T) web of lies, deceit and some mighty suspicious activity.
I agree with you about not walking with your eyes closed and to keep an open mind. I also think it’s a good idea to look out for yourself. I don’t agree that no one else cares, this site is a pretty good indication that’s not true.
I don’t know if MonaVie can cure all of or any of the world’s ills. And no one else does either. What I do know, according to MonaVie’s Income Disclosure Statement and Income Disclosure policy. YOU WON’T MAKE MONEY SELLING THEIR JUICE. Unless of course you are in the top 0.00823 percent of distributors.
I am smiling, thanks.

wish i could….I saw the $20/bottle comment and wished I could get it for that……i am not looking to make money, just for the honest truth about the products affects…..it seems to work for me by doing my little experiment? Many supplements start off that way and then your system saurates with them and the affects dwindle, but this seems different? It is MLM though and trying to contact those in the upper levels I was treated like a pariah when i aske questions about ingredients, whether it contained resveratrol etc. I am sure I have more education and experience than most of those previous Amway types working at Monavie and did not like their condescending, protective attitude which is why i won’t push thier product on anyone. it was like a non-Mormon trying to get in the Mormon tabernacle in Salt Lake City……i have tried and almost ended up in the SLC slammer instead of at SnowBird skiing whcihwe were there for…..not a big fan of anything Utah for that and now these reasons(except the great poweder skiing). When I spread the word about this product to family/friends, i give the a bottle to try

Tom,
The juice is all over Ebay, from $12.50 a bottle (if you buy 6 cases), on up. Most are from $17.50 – $21.75 a bottle with free shipping. They also have all of the other junk too. Hoodies, CD’s, t-shirts, socks. This is looking better all the time. I think I might become a distributor.

Elaine,

Choose to buy organic or not… that’s your choice. Not all fruit has hormones or pesticides. Keep in mind that MonaVie is NOT certified organic… so it can have all the hormones and pesticides that you fear. Yes, MonaVie may say one thing, but I’d much rather have independent certification than taking someone’s word for it.

Also if you are a distributor (I don’t know if you are or not), you must disclose that when posting here according to the the FTC and MonaVie’s guidelines. You also can not state that you find it has anything to do with your increased energy (unless you are talking about eMV), that it helps you sleep better, think more clearly, or keep you regular (there’s very little fiber in MonaVie).

Tom, I doubt that it can be anything but psychosomatic since no one can find anything in it that might be helpful to your bodybuilding routine, except for maybe glucosamine, which you can get elsewhere.

Mike from San Antonio said it all there. We do live longer than we did 100 years ago. I attribute that to improvements in medicine (so long polio, etc.) He’s write about the “It’s a sedentary lifestyle, poor diets, a lack of parental supervision and a sense of entitlement” making people more overweight. MonaVie isn’t going to going to change any of these. It’s not like MonaVie counteracts 2 double quarter pounders from McDonalds.

Unlike Mike from San Antonio, I do get sad when people pay 10-20x more than something is worth because they are uninformed. I want them to be informed which why I created this site.

As far as keeping an open-mind about MonaVie, that’s what we are doing here. We are looking for scientific reasons for whatever benefits that anyone claims to have received and we keep finding none. If you watch this video on what being open-minded is you’ll find that by bringing up these questions we are open-minded. The ones that say, “It just helps me sleep better” or “gives me more energy” are the closed-minded ones, because they aren’t asking “How would it possibly do that as it’s no different than if I just eat regular fruit.”

That’s a good point Mike. In fact, I thought it was good enough to expand a bit into it’s own post. Next time someone brings up the chemicals in other fruit, it will be easy to remind them that MonaVie is guaranteed to be any better.

If I’m going to spend that kind of money, I’d want that guarantee.

Well as you pointed out, Elaine seemed to think that MonaVie was somehow better than fruit bought in stores. The available facts do not seem to back this up. I want to make that point clear in case she has been lied to or didn’t have the facts on that particular point (as it seems).

You may wish to look at my other site that is the source for much of this information. The 3600+ comments is of particular note.

It takes some time to get through (as you can imagine) and there’s a lot of noise in with the signal, but the amount of information there is greater than here. This is why I’m starting to move the information here in a more organized fashion.

The hope was that most people would stick to the topic (i.e. discuss Oprah in the Oprah article), but I didn’t create a general discussion which was my oversight.

I’ve read most of the post here and was happy to see that many are positive. I too have had a positive experience after ingesting only two bottles of the ACTIVE. I know that it wasn’t just a placebo effect because my body(knees) was able to do things which I was unable to do prior.
One cannot receive the benefits that Mona Vie offers by eating a piece of fruit. You would need to eat multiple servings a day to gain such benefits.

So,Yes, you’re paying more for this product. Yet, the benefits are more and easily accessible to the hard working Americans in today’s busy society.
I believe it’s all in one’s priorities as to where their money is spent.
Some examples of money being wasted; expensive cellphones, three-wheelers, flat screen TVs, some cheap beverages and foodstuffs. (which can cause diseases to setup the digestive system for failure) I choose to spend my money first on that which will enhance my health. So,therefore cost isn’t a question. Everything else is immaterial.

NewStart,

What was the positive experience you had after ingesting two bottles of MonaVie Active? Are you sure there was no placebo
effect? According to Merriam-Webster, pla•ce•bo: an inert medication (like a fruit juice with no proven benefits) used for its psychological effect or for purposes of comparison in an experiment.

As for money being wasted, if we take your comparison and we assume that a family of four will spend approx. $5000 per year
On MonaVie.
Money being wasted:
*Expensive cell phone, around $600 or buy one from Porsche for $1600.
*You can’t buy three wheelers anymore so we will settle for a four wheeler, around $1800.
*Flat screen TV, a good one (54”) for around $1400.

With these products we know exactly what we will get. The ability to make phone calls, receive and send text messages, take
pictures, take a ride in the woods, watch a good movie or program. And still have $200 – $1200 to buy “some cheap beverages
and foodstuffs”, like Orange juice, V8 Fusion, fruits, vegetables and whole grain products, with proven health benefits. You may
consider this “money being wasted” and it may be, but I know what I will receive when I spend the money. I respect your choice
to spend your “money first on that which will enhance my health” and if cost really isn’t a question. Join a good health club, take
some Yoga classes, buy some good food and quit pissing your money away on some fruit juice with no proven health benefits.
MonaVie (the company) tells you, there are no proven health benefits and you won’t make money selling their product.
LISTEN TO THEM!!!

Because you posted to this site, I’m adding the comment from Oprah’s website.

“On August 19, 2009, Harpo, Inc., producers of The Oprah Winfrey Show and The Dr. Oz Show , along with Dr. Mehmet Oz, filed a trademark infringement complaint against 40 Internet marketers of dietary supplements, including acai berry products among others. Neither Ms. Winfrey nor Dr. Oz has ever sponsored or endorsed any acai berry, resveratrol, colon cleanse or dietary supplement product.

Harpo, Inc. has filed this lawsuit to let consumers know that these internet marketers are willfully using the names of well-known figures to deceive the public. Neither Ms. Winfrey nor Dr. Oz has ever sponsored or endorsed any acai, resveratrol or dietary supplement product and cannot vouch for their safety or effectiveness. It is our intention to put an end to these companies’ false claims and increasingly deceptive practices.

“The companies that are using my name to hawk these products are duping the public. I do not endorse any of these products. By falsely presenting products as ‘scientifically proven’ and endorsed by well-known figures, these companies do a gross disservice to the public health and could even pose a danger to those who believe their false and unproven claims. I am taking this step in the interest of public safety. I feel compelled to stand up against these companies and their deceitful practices.” -Dr. Mehmet Oz”