Anyone else drink Mona Vie?

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wdb1966

 

[SP33Demon]

Originally posted by: wdb1966

Originally posted by: loup garou
I still want to know what these health benefits are.

Understand that Monavie products are neither drugs or dietary supplements, Monavie products are simply liquified fruit. While it does not claim to have medicinal values, many retails customers have testified that their health have improved upon drinking Monavie.

While all the fruits contained in MonaVie have unique properties that benefit your body, the acai berry has become the ?headliner? fruit because it is packed with nutritional value?proteins, healthy fats, fiber, vitamins, minerals, and trace minerals. More important than this, however, is the impressive amount of phytonutrients and powerful antioxidants that MonaVie is able to capture from the acai berry through its proprietary processing.

The acai used in MonaVie boasts the highest ORAC score against the hydroxyl free radical of any fruit or vegetable tested to date. The acai fruit is the star among other well-known antioxidants, such as blueberries, grapes, red wine, green tea, cranberries, blackberries, and pomegranates. By comparison, acai has more than 10 times the antioxidant power of cranberries.

Just reading Wiki showed your bolded statement above is misleading:
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A recent report using a standardized oxygen radical absorbance capacity or ORAC analysis on a freeze-dried açaí powder found that this powder showed a high antioxidant effect against peroxyl radical (1027 micromol TE/g). This is approximately 10 times more than lowbush blueberry or cranberry on a dry weight basis (Wu, 2004). The ORAC value for this freeze-dried powder was significantly higher than when other methods of drying the fruit were tested (Schauss, 2006c). Other powders with ORAC values this high include cinnamon (2675 micromol TE/g), cloves (3144 micromol TE/g), turmeric (2001 micromol TE/g) and dried oregano (1593 micromol TE/g) (Wu, 2004)... Cocoa has a high ORAC value, giving baking chocolate a value of 1032.
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While it may "boast" the highest ORAC of fruits and vegetables, many other common spices have the same or even TRIPLE the ORAC value versus acai: baking chocolate, dried oregano, turmeric, cloves, and cinnamon. And they don't cost fcking $25 a bottle. It's a scam, stick to your multi and put cinnamon/turmeric/cloves/oregano on your food and you're healthier than drinking this.

 

[AbAbber2k]

Many MonaVie pimps like to point to a 2006 study at the University of Florida trying to subversively claim that the acai berry kills cancer (I've seen multiple MonaVie reps try to do this). The actually study used polyphenolics (which have antioxidative properties and are found in all plants) extracted from acai berries in leukemia patients. The results of the study found that these chemicals could slow the proliferation of cancerous cells by anywhere from ~30-80%. MonaVie reps like to reword this and claim "IT KILLS 80% OF CANCER CELLS OMG!" wdb obviously knows ATOT would rip him a new asshole if he tried to pass that shit off here.

The truth is, polyphenolics are found in all plants, are found in high levels in berries, but the highest concentrations are found in the skins. Without knowing how MonaVie's proprietary processing system works, it's impossible for anyone to know how their product compares to just eating raw fruit. And the likelihood that their product increases the bioavailability of the nutrients contained within the acai berry is just about 0. Not to mention, there's a HUGE difference between drinking juice, and using antioxidative chemicals directly on cancerous cells. :roll:

In other words. This is a big fat scam.