Anyone have any luck with acai berry juice (or monavie)?

Just my opinion but...

this is just another pyramid scheme, making money with false promises without medical data to back it up. The people who bring you this juice are the same people from the infamous "noni juice" who have left because of all the law suits from their outrageous claims.

You can get the same nutritional benefits from buying a bottle of juice from your local grocery store for about $1.50.

you beat me to this ohana. my friend is also a distributor and has me trying it. he and his wife swear by it. his uncle is taking it too and he digs it. found out my sister also just started it (she doesnt have CD or any other disease) so she'll be good control for me if she actually sticks to it. i just started trying this 3 days ago cos i was given 2 free bottles. we'll see if i continue with it cos each bottle is like $35 and lasts you like 2-4 weeks, depending on how much you drink per day (1-2 oz per day). this may break the bank for me considering all the money i already spend on supplements. my friend, who is a nurse, told me a story of a person he talked to in the hospital who has crohns (he was there for something totally unrelated) and has been drinking this stuff for a while and said it alone has given him his life back - his stool is normal and goes less, has more energy and can now run again and is now training for triathalons. good for him. will it work for me - or you? who knows. glad i got a couple of free bottles to test it. but i am on so much stuff already in the health food realm that i anticipate it will be difficult for me to determine if it provides me with any benefit. i need a few people who currently have active disease and are taking meds and are eating the standard american diet to try this stuff and let me know what they think.

acai berry has some good stuff. it is a new health food craze taking over for the noni berry, mangosteen, and goji (wolf berry). sambazon (sp?) acai berry products found in most health food stores is cut with evaporated cane juice and water. monavie is not. hence imho monavie is a superior product than sambazon. monavie is banking on the free radical theory of aging (wikipedia it). in a nutshell, most damage to our bodies and the development of chronic disease is caused by free radicals. antioxidants combat free radicals. that is why primarily berries are called superfoods cos they are high in antioxidants and rank highest on the ORAC scale, which is the gold standard for measuring antioxidant capacity. monavie uses a combination of 19 different fruits, only one of which is the acai berry. it claims its ORAC score is 1027 (the next closest thing is the cranberry, having an ORAC score of 94). how they came up with this ORAC score for monavie, i dont know. i can only surmise that since it has 19 fruits, they added the ORAC of each one together to get such a high number. supposedly the fruits were specifically chosen to make a drink that is constantly releasing its antioxidant capacity over a long period of time, not just in one shot, making the effect last longer.


you do not get the same benefits from cheap juice. the best juice is made by you and drunk immediately. the rxn with light and oxygen make it lose its potency rapidly and thus you lose all the good nutrients. it only lasts like 3 days in an opaque container kept air tight in the fridge. cheap juice in the store is pasteurized (heat kills enzymes and facillites in destroying nutrients), made from concentrate, then cut with more water, and has added sugars bare minimum, if not other junk added it to it. it is a total waste of money. it is essentially sugar water marketed as a "health food". the best juice to get in the store is 100% juice NOT from concentrate and has nothing added. it tastes a lot more tart and will cost you like $10 a bottle or so. it aint as good as fresh home made stuff, but if you are going to drink juice bought in the store, this is the kind to get. it is better than not eating fruit.

I tried the Monavie. I'm not knocking the product; it's probably great if you can tolerate it. My personal experience was not good. The product contains not just the juice of the fruits, but the skins and seeds as well (totally pureed, of course) . Within a couple of days of using it, I had rectal bleeding. I can't say for SURE the Monavie was the cause, I just know the bleeding came and went with the stop and start of the product.

My disease is very unstable at this time, so if you're a little farther along, you might have a better experience.

Vic

I have a friend that sells acai in a powdered form through Market America -- you mix it with water. Apparently Oprah has spoken highly of it on her show? Is this the same as Monavie?

Thought I'd give it a try. I also take OPC-3 through this company...when I can afford it. It's expensive!

CrazyHarry - my husband just told me he wouldn't vote for Obama because Oprah endorsed him. What is it with guys and Oprah? Sorry, I digress...Back to topic. Good stuff, that MonaVie!