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anyone heard about Monavie - acai berry?
I am an advocate of vitamins/supplements, however, I do know that not everything that's purported as "good for you" or "natural" is really true. I've been reading on health benefits of Monavie, which has acai berry in it. I was looking into it this supplement for nutritional purposes only.
They sell it at the salon/spa I go to and everyone there just raves over it. But myself I'm not taking any supplements unless my doc o.k.'d it.
If you are on treatment I'd stay away from any supplement that you aren't absolutely 100% positive won't interrupt the course of the meds. It's just not worth it.
I've never heard of it and don't know if it has any complications on the liver or it's counterparts. That I'd ask a pro before I took for sure.
I've never heard of it and don't know if it has any complications on the liver or it's counterparts. That I'd ask a pro before I took for sure.
I'd like to know how it effects, or doesn't effect, our livers. I'm tempted to buy a mix of antioxidents I saw that included acai berry. I know the berry is from Brazil but that's it. Please post again if you find out anything about it, and I will too. Thanks OH
I printed out a listing of dietary supplements to avoid from hcvadvocate.org. The listing includes some supplements that are specifically associated with hepatotoxicity (liver poisoning), and other herbs to avoid by those with liver disease. I do not find any of the ingredients of Monavie/acai berry on this list. I am going to run it by my doctor in any event. From what I can tell, the ingredients have to do with fruit (pear, cranberry, kiwi, acerola cherry, blueberry, and many others).
Thanks. I think acia is not well known. The mix I found was mostly fruit based also. My heptologist generally doesn't care what supplements I take. They really aren't trained in nutrition or alternatives to phram drug prescriptions. I'm thinking about finding a good integrated care physician. Thanks again.
are a good thing to find, an MD, a nutritional background, etc...I drink this berry powder (for years now) from Garden Of Greens called BerrySplash, has all the berries in it as well as that one...but for my money, I just like to eat berries of any kind, cherries, blueberries, plus pomegrante juice...the works, I'm a big ole bear...
not a great study, (and I think this points to why there are hindrances with getting these elements studied properly) but got this from cnn...this is why one should use caution when using "some" herbs with medication, - cause they clean certain pathways of the liver...which is good when youre not on meds to begin with...not all herbs have this effect though..just my take from my own specialists....
Echinacea may not only help reduce the symptoms of a cold but may help prevent infection with some cold viruses, U.S. researchers said Monday.
People who took echinacea had a 58 percent lower risk of catching a cold, according to the researchers, who did not study the herb's effects directly but looked at the results of 14 studies in an approach called a meta-analysis.
Dr. Craig Coleman of the University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy, who led the research, cautioned that the studies involved only 1,600 people. They also involved various echinacea products, so it was still difficult to know for sure whether and how echinacea might work to prevent colds.
"All the studies trended toward reducing a patient's odds of developing a cold. But none of them was large enough -- they didn't have enough patients -- to prove it statistically," said Coleman in a telephone interview.
Coleman's study, published in the journal Lancet Infectious Diseases, is one of the few to take a look at the efficacy of echinacea, a widely used product derived from several different species of flower.
"Someone needs to do a really large, well-done, randomized trial. That is unlikely to occur because there is a lack of funding," Coleman said.
Drug companies cannot patent such a widely used herbal product, he noted.
Findings differ from 2005 study
In 2005, a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found echinacea was of no benefit in stopping colds. Coleman said it looked at only part of the picture.
"In that study what they did was they took healthy volunteers and they inoculated them, put a little Q-tip (cotton swab) up their nose. The problem is there are more than 200 kinds of viruses that cause colds," Coleman said.
The team that did this particular study only looked at a rhinovirus.
"So maybe it doesn't work against that kind of virus, but it does against the other 199 kinds."
Coleman said it also appeared as if echinacea reduced the duration of a cold by 1.4 days on average.
One of the studies looked at echinacea used together with with vitamin C, another common cold remedy, and that one showed the two together reduced the number of colds by 86 percent.
The term echinacea refers to parts taken from nine related plant species indigenous to North America. It was used originally by Native Americans and is now the most commonly used "nutraceutical" product -- a catchall term that refers to herbs and some supplemented foods.
Coleman, a pharmacist, said it appears to stimulate the immune system, although no one quite knows how it works.
It might also cause harmful effects, he said.
"While echinacea is generally regarded as safe, it hasn't undergone any long-term safety evaluation," Coleman said.
"So you should use it with caution."
Patients with autoimmune diseases such as lupus and multiple sclerosis should be particularly careful, he said. In addition, echinacea affects a liver enzyme that breaks down some drugs, so using it with prescription medications could cause drug interactions.
Echinacea may not only help reduce the symptoms of a cold but may help prevent infection with some cold viruses, U.S. researchers said Monday.
People who took echinacea had a 58 percent lower risk of catching a cold, according to the researchers, who did not study the herb's effects directly but looked at the results of 14 studies in an approach called a meta-analysis.
Dr. Craig Coleman of the University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy, who led the research, cautioned that the studies involved only 1,600 people. They also involved various echinacea products, so it was still difficult to know for sure whether and how echinacea might work to prevent colds.
"All the studies trended toward reducing a patient's odds of developing a cold. But none of them was large enough -- they didn't have enough patients -- to prove it statistically," said Coleman in a telephone interview.
Coleman's study, published in the journal Lancet Infectious Diseases, is one of the few to take a look at the efficacy of echinacea, a widely used product derived from several different species of flower.
"Someone needs to do a really large, well-done, randomized trial. That is unlikely to occur because there is a lack of funding," Coleman said.
Drug companies cannot patent such a widely used herbal product, he noted.
Findings differ from 2005 study
In 2005, a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found echinacea was of no benefit in stopping colds. Coleman said it looked at only part of the picture.
"In that study what they did was they took healthy volunteers and they inoculated them, put a little Q-tip (cotton swab) up their nose. The problem is there are more than 200 kinds of viruses that cause colds," Coleman said.
The team that did this particular study only looked at a rhinovirus.
"So maybe it doesn't work against that kind of virus, but it does against the other 199 kinds."
Coleman said it also appeared as if echinacea reduced the duration of a cold by 1.4 days on average.
One of the studies looked at echinacea used together with with vitamin C, another common cold remedy, and that one showed the two together reduced the number of colds by 86 percent.
The term echinacea refers to parts taken from nine related plant species indigenous to North America. It was used originally by Native Americans and is now the most commonly used "nutraceutical" product -- a catchall term that refers to herbs and some supplemented foods.
Coleman, a pharmacist, said it appears to stimulate the immune system, although no one quite knows how it works.
It might also cause harmful effects, he said.
"While echinacea is generally regarded as safe, it hasn't undergone any long-term safety evaluation," Coleman said.
"So you should use it with caution."
Patients with autoimmune diseases such as lupus and multiple sclerosis should be particularly careful, he said. In addition, echinacea affects a liver enzyme that breaks down some drugs, so using it with prescription medications could cause drug interactions.
forgot to say, as far as berries? berries are just berries, I fail to see how they could harm anyone...they are chock full of anti-oxidants....or there is some rasberry jam I better throw out...
I stopped a a golf driving range on the way home from work today to pick up my kid who works there. Imagine the driving range in 'Tin Cup' and then imagine a place 10 times dumpier. There on the booger-covered and cracked plexiglass window was a small, but very stained poster for Monavie. What caught my eye was that the meeting to discuss it was focused on the income-generating potential for people who wanted to be distributors. I don't know much about this stuff, but I know Tupperware. This place is about a dozen steps below the local do-it-yourself tattoo parlor/pawn shop. Still, maybe a good place for for a healthy elixir or at least some decent kitchenware. Bottoms up!
I think I get the gist of what you are saying...most of these products (berries, etc) are just high-powered anti-oxidants, are they the elixer for a longer life? Or can they rev-up your immune system? they can help -along with a lot of other factors...they are just plain good for you -that's all, yet they're turned into ponzi schemes cause everyone is fraid of disease...if the banana weren't around, and somebody just discovered it, the same thing would happen to nanners, there'd be Nanner-Distributors...why get these products from a distributor when many of them are on the grocery shelves...
The new XXX Vitamin water has acai - blueberry -pomegranate juice.
It's yummy. (triple anti-oxidants)
It's yummy. (triple anti-oxidants)
I just like to eat berries of any kind, cherries, blueberries, plus pomegrante juice...the works, I'm a big ole bear...
You forgot Dingle!!!!
I've surely picked my share, but never really considered eating one.....
You forgot Dingle!!!!
I've surely picked my share, but never really considered eating one.....
If you are on treatment do NOT listen to these people who are trying once and yet again to sell us the latest cureall.
Funny how about 10 people I've never seen or heard of before are on this ONE THREAD being in love with this BERRY that nobody in real life has ever really heard of except in vitamin water.
GO AWAY AND HAVE FUN PLAYING WITH YOUR DINGLING BERRIES.
Funny how about 10 people I've never seen or heard of before are on this ONE THREAD being in love with this BERRY that nobody in real life has ever really heard of except in vitamin water.
GO AWAY AND HAVE FUN PLAYING WITH YOUR DINGLING BERRIES.
Oh I get it ... more marketers selling more bs - no wonder you all just popped in to share your wonder cure for free?
Sure I'll take some free cureall wonder berries thank you very much.
See you in Osprey with the birds.
Sure I'll take some free cureall wonder berries thank you very much.
See you in Osprey with the birds.
Again - come on guys - main names clue into Google Ads... Get it?
Google viewing gets pay per click - or view.
Alright ---- Google ads work by google botting the page - and then rolling ads with key words.
So say acai berry - and VOILA --- you have Monavie... ta dah --- ADS... Wheeeeeeee....
LOL!
Sorry - I'm such a poor sport with marketers --- LMAO ---- NANNER DISTRIBUTERS R'US
I love it!
Meki
Google viewing gets pay per click - or view.
Alright ---- Google ads work by google botting the page - and then rolling ads with key words.
So say acai berry - and VOILA --- you have Monavie... ta dah --- ADS... Wheeeeeeee....
LOL!
Sorry - I'm such a poor sport with marketers --- LMAO ---- NANNER DISTRIBUTERS R'US
I love it!
Meki
the stuff tastes HORRIBLE and smells! Its about $45 a bottle here in los angeles and after drinking a whole bottle over a couple of week, i notice something .... "i'm missing $45"
Well - fine - getcher butt up here...
How's Nick today? Everything ok?
Super hugs to ya - and keep smiling - that makes this place light up like a thousand candles!
Meki
How's Nick today? Everything ok?
Super hugs to ya - and keep smiling - that makes this place light up like a thousand candles!
Meki
I love the Bossa Nova Acai Berry Juice. I mix about 1/4 of the bottle of juice with about 8oz of Pelligrino mineral water, add a squeeze of lime for a great drink. I believe in healty diet and the more variety with anti-oxidants the better. I'm with GoofyDad eat the berries! I found the Bossa Nova Acai Berry juice at Whole foods for $2.50 a bottle. They offer Acai Berry and 4 Acai and another fruit blend. I love the Acai/blueberry and Acai/Mango. They advertise every bottle we buy saves another rainforest tree. Being the tree hugger I am, how could I resist.
Ok ok ok ok - call me an idjit --- but my kid had poison ivy --- and my mom --- who is this weirdo shaman oil herb freaky religion kinda carlos casteneda off the wall something or other.... well she told me to put her in oatmeal with olive oil.
OK - so.. I uhm... like gritted my teeth cause the kid was clawing her skin off... I put her in a warm bath...
Added ground up oatmeal (threw it in the blender until it was powdery) about 5 cups (half of one of those round cannisters) and tossed in a cup of olive oil. Made her swish it all up.
I made her sit in there - through all her whimpering... (egads --- I sat in the restroom with her --- had the toilet ring on my butt for a few hours to prove it... )
And eventually I noticed she was playing --- and not scratching.
Made her sit in there a little while longer and it worked.
Dunno if she was just bored --- or if it worked - but if I had to - I'd use it again. LOL!
You have to scrub the tub --- and be careful cause the oil makes it slippery - but it works!
I can't help in the sleep department. Uhmmm I'm a partial insomniac now.
Meki
OK - so.. I uhm... like gritted my teeth cause the kid was clawing her skin off... I put her in a warm bath...
Added ground up oatmeal (threw it in the blender until it was powdery) about 5 cups (half of one of those round cannisters) and tossed in a cup of olive oil. Made her swish it all up.
I made her sit in there - through all her whimpering... (egads --- I sat in the restroom with her --- had the toilet ring on my butt for a few hours to prove it... )
And eventually I noticed she was playing --- and not scratching.
Made her sit in there a little while longer and it worked.
Dunno if she was just bored --- or if it worked - but if I had to - I'd use it again. LOL!
You have to scrub the tub --- and be careful cause the oil makes it slippery - but it works!
I can't help in the sleep department. Uhmmm I'm a partial insomniac now.
Meki
I take Mona vie on a regular basis, and so does my mother. We both suffer from digestive problems, my mother has fibromyalga and arthritis also. I can tell you from what we have both experienced I would take mona vie before I would take any prescription drugs. I have noticed a big change in the way we both feel. Mona vie is not a cure all and may not help everyone, but think about what you spend on prescription drugs and over the counter drugs, what is $45? And anyone who is even thinking about taking anything herbal or natural to treat their conditions shoud seek advice from their physicians.
I think suppliments are good and so are all the natural things which can help the liver.
How about the Homeopathic medicines? They contain only natural ingredients.
How about the Homeopathic medicines? They contain only natural ingredients.
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