AÇAI

The Brazilian açai berry is the crown jewel of MonaVie’s premier blends.

For countless centuries, the people of the Amazon have revered this unique fruit for its health-promoting properties and prized it as a source of health and vitality. The remarkable health benefits of açai are continually being documented by modern science. And because of its unparalleled antioxidant levels and extraordinary nutrient content, açai is now widely regarded as one of the world’s top super foods. Açai is rich in the following beneficial nutrients:

MonaVie™ features a delicious blend of the Brazilian açai berry—one of nature’s top super foods—and 18 other body-beneficial fruits. This Balance-Variety-Moderation approach to nutrition delivers powerful antioxidants and phytonutrients to help fight free radicals and maintain your body’s overall health.

The Premier Açai Blend™

MonaVie’s delicious blend of body-beneficial fruits is designed to nourish your body with powerful antioxidants and nutrients. Açai, white grape, apple, acerola, aronia, purple grape, cranberry, passion fruit, prune, kiwi, blueberry, wolfberry, camu camu, pomegranate, lychee fruit, pear, banana, cupuaçu, and bilberry.

Key Benefits

Essential Facts

In excess, free radicals produce harmful oxidation that can damage cell membranes and accelerate the aging process. MonaVie’s freeze-dried açai has a higher ORAC score than any other fruit or vegetable tested to date, boasting an antioxidant capacity more than 15 times higher than blueberries and more than 20 times higher than raspberries (J Agric Food Chem. 2006, 54(22):8604-10).

Powerful antioxidants found in fruits—like those in MonaVie—help prevent cellular damage by neutralizing free radicals

Original:

 MonaVie Original supports your body’s antioxidant and nutritional needs. MonaVie features a delicious blend of the Brazilian açai berry—one of nature’s top super foods—and 18 other body-beneficial fruits. This Balance-Variety-Moderation approach to nutrition delivers powerful antioxidants and phytonutrients to help fight free radicals and maintain your body’s overall health.

Active:

Enhances your body’s joint health. MonaVie Active features the additional benefits of plant-derived glucosamine, which has been scientifically shown to promote healthy joint function by targeting mobility and flexibility. Designed to support joint performance and recovery, this vital formula delivers the resources your body needs to get moving.

Pulse: 

 Helps maintain existing healthy cholesterol levels. MonaVie Pulse delivers added heart health benefits derived from plant sterols* (which studies suggest play a key factor in lowering cholesterol), resveratrol, and omega 3 fatty acids. Scientifically formulated with your heart in mind, this delicious formula offers key nutritional support to those watching their cholesterol.

*Foods containing at least 0.4 grams per serving of plant sterols, eaten twice a day with meals for a daily total intake of at least 0.8 grams and as part of a diet low in saturated fat and cholesterol, may reduce the risk of heart disease. Two servings (4 ounces) of MonaVie Pulse contain 0.8 grams of plant sterols.

MonaVie EMV is a healthy, natural energy beverage made of antioxidant-rich superfruits and energizing botanicals. This delicious drink delivers a unique blend of nutrients formulated to give you quick and lasting energy. Unlike most energy drinks that are loaded with ingredients that pump you up and then let you down, MonaVie EMV is a healthier energy alternative that enhances performance, boosts endurance, increases alertness, and reduces fatigue.

What are phytonutrients?

Phytonutrients are naturally occurring compounds that contribute to the flavor, color, and disease-resistance of plants (i.e., fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and legumes). Phytonutrients are powerful antioxidants, but their value extends much beyond free radical protection. Maximum health benefits are derived from consuming a variety of phytonutrients with a full spectrum of colors and pigments, such as those found in MonaVie products.

What are antioxidants?

Antioxidants are “agents” that help inhibit harmful compounds known as free radicals. Free radicals cause damage to your cells through the process of oxidation. By donating an electron to unstable free radicals, antioxidants neutralize their harmful effects. Obtaining a variety of antioxidants through diet or supplementation is essential to maintaining your good health.

What are free radicals?

Free radicals are atoms with at least one unpaired electron. In excess, free radicals produce harmful oxidation that can damage cell membranes. Free radicals are analogous to cattle let loose on a field of planted crops. Uncontrolled, the cattle would destroy the crops. Ranch hands are hired to make sure the cattle stay in place and graze. Antioxidants act much the same way. As the ranch hands for our bodies, antioxidants prevent free radicals from potentially damaging millions of healthy, functioning cells.

MonaVie – Personal Team Testimonials

As the TGA does not allow Mona Vie Distributors to make claims regarding how the product has helped consumers free themselves of joint pains, headaches and even Leukemia, we need to rely on personal testimonials and this is why it is crucial to the success of this venture for each distributor to drink the juice themselves. The personal testimonials in our specific team are the following:

Neeshil P Neeshil would feel quite sluggish in the morning and found it hard to get out of bed. After the first few days of taking MonaVie, he felt a surge in energy and has not looked back. He’s up now early every morning going to the gym and feeling much more energetic. He would previously feel fatigued after the gym and get wrist pain. Surprisingly to his relief, he now does not suffer from this. Consequently, he has gone back to playing touch football, a sport he loved in his younger years but had to stop because of shin splints. By continuously taking MonaVie, now plays touch footy weekly and doesn’t experience the muscle pain he used to get the day after a match so he’s loving it!

Steve S Steve has constantly had a snoring issue for many, many years and his wife noticed that he is not snoring at all. Steve used to experience pain in his neck at night which would wake him up. This has now completely gone. Steve is feeling so good with his energy levels and overall results that he is finding himself telling his suppliers at work so that they too can enjoy the benefits.

There is no question about the popularity of superfoods. For the benefit of those who have yet to get to know what superfoods are, they are the whole foods which are enriched with vitamins, minerals, and a lot of health motivating properties. For a product to be named as such, it must contain a wide spectrum of antioxidants, minerals, vitamins, phytonutrients, and a lot other factors. There are several names of products that claim they are the best superfoods and one among which is the Brazilian acai.

The Brazilian acai is deeply set back in the rainforest of the Amazon region. The acai goes with the scientific name of Euterpe Oleracea. The fruit appears to be small in size, round in shape, and then dark purplish in color. The Brazilian acai bears lesser pulp yet a bigger seed. Others often mistake it for the grape fruit only that it is smaller and then darker as compared to it. This type of medicinal plant has piqued the interest of the experts as well as it has warmed the hearts of numerous people who are emphatically concerned with their well being. Others may not be totally convinced but once you get to know the amazing effects that the berry possesses, you would likely end up craving for your own chance to give it a try.

The following are the benefits that the Brazilian acai as a superfood is able to furnish its users.

The Brazilian acai berry enhances the metabolism process in a natural manner. When the metabolism process is improved, it would mean that weight loss is on its way to please you.

The toxins need to be flushed out of the body and this could be better done with the aid of a superfood product that boasts of its efficiency. The body toxins are wastes that could promote problems related to fat loss, bloating, gas, and the maintenance of sufficient energy levels.

The immune system is that which shields the body against diseases and infections. Therefore, as the immune system is improved, you lessen the chances of your body succumbing to illnesses and your metabolism further boosted to get on with its weight loss scheme.

Apart from the enhancement of the immune system as well as the metabolism process, the Brazilian acai similarly does a great job in stabilizing the circulation of the blood within the body. When there is proper circulation, the skin would become healthier and younger looking.

More than ever, the acai could fight against the cancerous cells that thrive within the body.

There are a lot other significant advantages that can be rooted from the Brazilian acai berry and thereby the products which are crafted out of this fruit are deemed to be useful and healthy options for many people.

A lot other superfood products have been conceptualized with the use of the Brazilian acai berry. Among of which are in the forms of energy drinks, ice cream, energy bars, juices, and pills. Whatever the type of superfood product it is, the fact remains that the benefits of the acai are very much significant and popular.

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Guggul:

Guggul is the name given to the yellowish resin produced by the stem of the

mukul myrrh (Commiphora mukul) tree found throughout India. It has been used

in Ayurvedic medicine for centuries in the treatment of arthritis, obesity,

and one of its prime uses was for “medoroga”. Medoroga is basically an

ancient diagnosis for what we know as atherosclerosis. It was effective for

this problem because of its ability to lower serum cholesterol and

triglycerides.

Guggul extract isolates contain safe plant steroid compounds known as

guggulsterones, which have been shown to lower lipid levels in your

blood. They actually lower serum triglycerides and cholesterol, as well as

LDL VLDL cholesterols (the “bad” ones) and as a bonus..raises HDL cholesterol

(the “good” guys). Guggulsterones also act as antioxidants in that they keep

LDL cholesterol from oxidizing, protecting you further from

atherosclerosis. Guggul has also decreased the “stickiness” of platelets,

which of course also lowers the risk of coronary artery disease and stroke.Â

There was a study which actually found guggul extract similar and even

slightly better than clobfibrate for lowering cholesterol levels…..

Niacin:

For some time, some practitioners have been using high amounts of niacin

(Vitamin B3) (also called nicotinic acid) to lower cholesterol. The problem

with this is that at the doses needed, about 3 grams per day, divided dosing,

patients experience side effects of flushing, headache, stomach pains and

even chronic liver damage, diabetic responses, gastritis or stomach

inflammation, eye damage and even gout. The other common form of B3 -

niacinamide (also called nicotinamide) – does NOT help cholesterol levels.

An acceptable variation on niacin called inositol hexaniacinate has more

recently been prescribed by European doctors for cholesterol treatment

without the unwanted effects of niacin. It is used at the 500 to 1,000 mg

taken three times per day. It is newer and fewer studies have been done, so

if one takes it, make sure you have your cholesterol monitored to evaluate

its effectiveness and have liver enzymes, uric acid and glucose levels

checked just to be sure you are not one of the people prone to problems with

B3 therapy…..

[You may also try niacin in the form of "no flush" niacin hexaniacinate,

which most health shops sell - alone or in combination with small doses (less

than 150mg) of regular niacin (to minimise the uncomfortable flushing). It

is a good idea to take the niacin in combination with other members of the

vitamin B family - vit B complex, with at least 50mg of most Bs. MCS]

Other Factors:

Supplementing with Vitamin E (800 IU per day), Vitamin C (2-3 grams per day),

Octacosanol (from wheat germ..another good reason to use this food, as it is

also high in beta-sitosterol), Lecithin (2-3 grams per day), and garlic

supplements (600-900 mg per day) all have shown to be very helpful in

reducing cholesterol and triglycerides levels.

*** Here is some very brief information on other helpful supplements to

assist in managing different cardiovascular problems.

OTHER CHOLESTEROL LOWERING SUPPLEMENTS

Since lecithin is a very effective emulsifying agent, which also contains

choline and inositol, some authorities also suggest taking at least 1200mg of

lecithin capsules or granules 3 times daily. By the way, for those who take

skim or reduced fat milk, blending or shaking a teaspoon or two of lecithin

granules into the milk makes it taste much creamier and more palatable – add

according to your personal taste.

Chinese red yeast extract

Chromium picolinate

L-carnitine (2-4gm daily on an empty stomach)

L-arginine on empty stomach (avoid if suffering from herpes, shingles,

schizophrenia)

Bromelain and pectin enzymes (on an empty stomach)

Vitamin E (mixed tocopherols) 1000mg daily (begin with 200-400mg daily)

Vitamin C (plus bioflavonoids)

Oats (fibre) and other brans

Olive oil (raw, virgin, cold pressed, kept in refrigerator)

Fish oil

Green tea

Hawthorne berry (also for heart arrhythmias and hypertension)

Grapefruit (note that this can accentuate the effects of some cardiac drugs)

Boswellia

Aloe Vera

Alfalfa

Dandelion

Thyme

Turmeric

Other Supplements for Cardiac Use:

(e.g. for reducing inflammation of tissues, reducing blood pressure or

“thinning” the blood)

CoQ10 (75-150mg a day, with lecithin)

Magnesium (maleate, citrate, aspartate)

Willow bark, Aspirin (75mg a day with meals)

L-arginine on empty stomach (avoid if suffering from herpes, shingles,

schizophrenia)

Ginger

Fish oil

Capsaicin (from “hot” peppers)

MSM

Gotu kola

Ginkgo biloba

Bilberry

Primrose oil

Turmeric

AVOID

Refined carbohydrates

Highly sugared drinks (pop, sodas, etc)

Licorice (can increase blood pressure)

Hydrogenated or “partially hydrogenated” fats (in many cereals, margarines,

candies)

Transfatty acids (in many margarines, cakes, cookies etc)

Heated or fried fats and meats

Fatty meats

Lard and animal fat (many fast food chains use these fats in many products)

Coffee

Ephedra, ephedrine

Shark cartilage

NOTE

If you are considering the use of any of the above supplements, remember that

you should find out as much as you can by reading reputable web pages on each

of them, or consulting books such as:

Balch & Balch, “Prescription for Nutritional Healing”

The following metasearch engine should help you find detailed information on any

of the

above supplements:

http://www.metacrawler.com

If you suffer from any cardiac problems, it is essential that you seek

professional medical advice and ascertain if any supplements may interact

adversely with any medication which you may be taking. For example, if you

are on anticoagulants such as warfarin (Coumadin) or heparin, other

supplements such as fish oil, garlic, aspirin, vitamin E (large doses) and

several others can reduce the clotting ability of your blood even further.

If you are on a cholesterol-lowering medication such as one of then statins,

then many of the above supplements can increase the potency of these drugs,

so, in consultation with a suitable medical expert, you should adjust your

dosage accordingly or gradually wean yourself off such drugs, according to

your particular situation. If doing this, it is important that you regularly

have your cholesterol and HDL/LDL ratios checked and that you work under the

supervision of your doctor.

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