Anybody Drink that Mona Vie juice?

[Bo Faulkner]

Wife has been buying it and my cousins wife has been a regular drinker for a few months now and her cholesterol level has dropped 46 points in 2 months. I figure I'll give it a shot but was wondering if anybody else has tried it and had good/ bad results. It is made from the acai berry for those wondering what it is. Snake oil?? Superfood??? :drink

[Zelmo]

Wife has been buying it and my cousins wife has been a regular drinker for a few months now and her cholesterol level has dropped 46 points in 2 months. I figure I'll give it a shot but was wondering if anybody else has tried it and had good/ bad results. It is made from the acai berry for those wondering what it is. Snake oil?? Superfood??? :drink
Tastes disgusting....to me...I can't stand it, myself.

[FlyingDutchman]

I drank a few bottles of it last year and thought it was pretty good. Very expensive for what it is. I started thinking it was more psychological than physical.

[HEY!YOU!]

There are cheaper ways to get the same results.

[A-Bone]

There are cheaper ways to get the same results.

+1 to that. There are definitely health benefits to the berries included in the Mona Vie concoction (and those acai berries are veritably loaded with antioxidants), but the combination drink that they are selling is just another multi-level marketing concept. Always be suspicious of any "food" that is only available on a limited basis, any food that is "patented", and any substance that claims "superfood" status.

[bluesdoc]

BS:drink

[Dotneck]

I know a couple people who sell it but I've never tried it myself.....

[phishmarisol]

Fruit juice is good for you but you can buy it at the store for $3 a bottle. There is nothing in any of that stuff that isn't in regular juice.

[realityczech]

I know some folks that got wrapped up in that shit.
Liquid pyramid scheme to fleece $ from the uninformed

[908SSP]

Do a search. I did a couple years ago. Like 1% acai the rest is regular fruit juice so it is a rip off.

[Noah]

Seems to be just another in the long line of miracle juice scams-


http://www.sequence-inc.com/fraudfiles/2008/06/30/monavie-scam-or-not/

http://www.newsweek.com/id/150499

Critics call MonaVie a "legalized scam" that benefits only a few kingpin executives. The product itself, they say, is an overhyped fruit drink that eludes drug regulation by the Food and Drug Administration by letting its distributors (as opposed to MonaVie itself) make the health promises. On PurpleHorror.com, a hugely trafficked MonaVie discussion Web site so large that it's slow to load, outraged distributors and perhaps more level-headed juice fans trash the purple elixir. a NEWSWEEK reporter who took the MonaVie daily dose—two ounces, twice a day—for two weeks, didn't experience the drink's miraculous benefits, and got headaches. (Then again, that might have been because he got new glasses.)
Meanwhile, most of the million-strong sales team is really just drinking the juice, according to MonaVie's 2007 income disclosure statement, a federally required printout of their distributor earnings. More than 90 percent were considered "wholesale customers," whose earnings are mostly discounts on sales to themselves. Fewer than 1 percent qualified for commissions and of those, only 10 percent made more than $100 a week. And the dropout rate, while not disclosed by MonaVie, is around 70 percent, according to a top recruiter.