A Drink’s Purple Reign

"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." Look at any Network Marketing company and you find the same statistics. It's not the company, it's the people and the industry. People who treat this as a business don't see the financial results quick enough, so what do they do? They quit. Give up. Welcome to capitalism. If it were easy, we'd all be millionaires in network marketing. It is simply weeding out the quitters. MonaVie is a great product, and any critics out there need to look at the research and give the product a shot before bashing it.

As a food technologist for over thirty years, I can tell you that this product is nothing more than fruit juice. According to the MonaVie sponsored study (AIBMR/Dr. Schauss), this juice has an ORAC of 22.81 umoles/ml or 2,698 umoles for a days serving (4 oz.). Compare that to a SINGLE apple (red delicious variety) which has an ORAC of 6,413 umoles. You'll pay anywhere from $3.20 per day ($1,168/yr) to $7.20 per day ($2,628/yr) PER PERSON for MonaVie. An apple, which gives you almost 2 1/2 times the antioxidants, will cost you about $.50 per day ($183/yr) per person. There are ZERO studies that show that the 19 fruits in the product have any more synergistic effect than common super market produce. The only people that claim benefits are the distributors who are trying to peddle this stuff.

I have been drinking Monavie for five months. My decades of chronic fatigue and joint pain have gone. I am now at a physical comparison to when I was in my 20"s (I am in my 40's). 20 years of going to the doctor and taking endless drugs did not cure my chronic fatigue or joint pain. Additionally, four people who I have introduced the product to have had similar life changing health benefits from drinking MonaVie. Because of the negative reaction perpetrated by misguided people saying that MonaVie is just hype and a scam, I have not been able to share the drink to anyone else without being ridiculed. Thanks to the anti-MonaVie people, many other people who badly need this product will not try it. The truth is MonaVie has the potential to solve the chronic malnutrition problems of the general population in US and the around the world, as well as give a commercial reason to prevent the Amazon rain forest from being destroyed. I suggest the writer of this article seriously consider upholding the standards of Newsweek by writing a serious and well researched article on MonaVie, and leave out the amateurish jargon about insinuating that MonaVie caused his headache and then commenting his headache could have been caused by new glasses. The sarcastic tone of this article immediately led me to believe it was not an impartial, well researched piece of work. I suggest the writer of this article, Tony Dokoupil, consider focusing his negative writing skills on articles about products that really are a concern to our society such as the high sugar content of sodas and childrens cereals. Take a look everywhere around you at the obesity and other serious and expensive health concerns caused by a population consuming poor nutritional foods. MonaVie is part of the solution, and there are independent, factual scientific studies to back up the benefits of MonaVie. Tony Dokoupil, in your position of influence you should be part of the solution to this country's malnutrition problem rather than writing articles that are the caliber of a tabloid newspaper.

Glen Beets
Rochester Hills, Michigan

Hahaha! MonavieForLife, your comment made me lol. Great stuff.

Well well well..reading all these comments quite disturbs me actually.If any of you actually did some research, instead of google searching something and reading the first thing that pops up, and believing what that says, then you would know that Oprah is NOT, I repeat, is NOT suing Monavie. She simply got her lawyers involved to make sure anyone who is involved with Monavie does not use her name anymore. Then, if people continue using her name, she can take the suit further.

As a Black Diamond in Monavie I have a few things to say. First of all, Monavie is the ONLY company that has a patent on the freeze dried process of the Acai berry, and all of the other 18 fruits that are in the bottle. This means, a bottle of Monavie contains 100% of the nutrients from the fruits. Nobody else can do this! So to the people that are saying, "just eat your daily fruits, and you won't have to spend money on Monavie."...Well, the nutrients in an apple, for example, has gone down over 30% in the last 20 years. Not to mention all of the chemicals that are added to our so-called "healthy" fruits. Monavie is the ONLY product where you get 100% nutrients, with no chemicals.

Monavie cannot claim to cure or prevent any diseases..This is true. HOWEVER, I cannot sit back and think that the miraculous changes to my body since drinking the juice is a coincidence.Or the other hundreds of thousands of people who have lived with chronic pain, who can't sleep at night, etc. are a coincidence either.

Monavie has completely changed my life, my families life, and everyone we love and care about's life. Physically and financially.

2 years ago my family and I had everything for sell..our house, our cars, our dune buggy, and all of our desert toys. And now we have everything we could have ever imagined. As I sit here in Maui, an all-expense paid for trip by Monavie, and I read these comments of people saying Monavie is a scam..Well then I absolutely LOVE scams. I am not some fake person, or Monavie spokesperson..what I am is someone who is completely in love with this product, and the people in this business, and I can only hope and pray that in 5 years time you all will not be saying, "WOW!..I wish..."

Good luck to all of you, in health and wealth.

Are all these MLMs interested in just profit or can they deliver excellent, healthy products while doing good by society? I'm hoping I found the one. www.buildyoli.com

There is a new berry around, the Maqui Superberry. The berry contains 4-10 times the ORAC (oxygen radical absorbance capacity) than Acai and is known to reduce inflammation in the body. http://www.maquisuperberry.com/

I'd like to see Dallin of Monavie contract cancer and try to use his garbage juice to cure himself. I bet all the investigators at the FDA are having a laugh reading these comments.

Dallin and MonaVie are being sued by Oprah because that scammer from provo decided to swipe her name to peddle his garbage.

http://www.npros.com/2009%5C8%5C24%5Coprah-suing-monavie/

Mona Vie is a pyramid scam with false claims about their product that's being investigated by the FBI. I also can't believe INC magazine added them to their list of successful companies. that kind of garbage belongs in the back of entrepreneur magazine with all the rest of the failed gimmick ads. People should be able to buy what they want as long as they don't harm others, but their pyramid scam approach to sales is what will get them closed down eventually. However, had they avoided the pyramid scam approach and sold to stores and retailers they wouldn't be selling their garbage for $30-$50/bottle.

Still scumbag companies like this don't deserve the time of day in the media.

In addition, after reading many of the posts it would be interesting to see how many of these people who speak about the "miracle cure" of Monavie are actually distributors. This "patented process" that everyone speaks of is this endorsed by Monavie? Where is this information on their marketing material, it doesn't exist. Monavie does not even make some of the claims stated in the e-mails. In fact the FDA will hit anyone with a "cease and desist" by making such claims since they are considered by the FDA to be "false and misleading." That fact alone should be a red flag to those of you who consider this over priced juice a cure-all. If you were honest with yourselves you would come to terms with the fact that this is a multi-level marketing scheme preying on individuals who are looking to cash in on the promise of becoming "millionaires" In fact, how many millionaires are there? Monavie's sales pitch encourages you to prey on friends and family, and after spending $160.00 a month myself, and realizing that Monavie did not make me feel better at all, I had to ask myself was it really worth over $2000.00 per year? Could changing my lifestyle and eating better really be the cure? The answer was yes. I do feel better after changing my lifestyle, and it cost me a $65.00 per month gym membership. Savings:$1200.00 So I ask those of you who are selling the product to ask yourselves. Would you rather encourage your friends and family to spend $780.00 per year on a gym membership which has been proven to have cardiovascular benefits, helps with depression, causes weight loss (all of which has been scientifically proven) or would you rather encourage them to have a sedentary lifestyle, sit in front of the TV and drink their Monavie? If I cared about my friends and family, I know what path I would take. I don't even speak to my best friend anymore because she got involved in Monavie and became someone who was so enamoured with making money, that helping me feel better was secondary only to the promise of becoming an instant millionaire. She was not alone, but I have no doubts when the train ride ends and people see the Monavie organization for what it is, she will be. Would I encourage my father who has diabetes and heart disease to take Monavie with the promise that it will make him feel better? The answer is a resounding NO!!!! He is still on this earth because he changed his diet, and exercises. Nor would I encourage, my uncle who has MS or my cousin with breast cancer, or a good friend with Lupus or my sister who is often bed ridden with fibromyalgia. After personally suffering from depression and anxiety and being told that it would help with this, I took the product for 6 months along with my husband. We felt the same, had less money in our savings and felt totally "ripped off". So I ask those of you who defend the product, is it really the product you are defending, or the organization and th

haha, i always though that this kind of dubious business
could only work in indonesia

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.

Could you please give me where you get this information?

I just found a fruitavie at Costco for a lot less...what is the big difference?