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Dr.Nicholas Perricone lists Acai as number One Superfood in his bestseller "Perricone Promise" and he is promoting Acai as very frequent guest on Oprah Show© for age-defying beauty: "Hidden within its royal purple pigment is the magic that makes it nature's perfect energy fruit. Acai is packed full of antioxidants, amino acids and essential fatty acids" Oprah herself states: "This little berry is one of the most nutritious and powerful in the world."
Oprah Winfrey calls him “America’s favorite doctor”.Dr. Mehmet Oz is perhaps the most accomplished and respected cardiothoracic surgeon in the United States. On February 5th, 2008 he's introduced a new entry into his Ultimate Anti-Aging Checklist- Acai Berry - "It has twice the antioxidant content as blueberry. Look at the food label and make sure they do not have too many carbohydrates. It's just sort of breaking through".
Dr.Lyle Mason - for the past 30 years orthopedic surgeon and physician for NBA's team Utah Jazz became member of Mona Vie's Board of Directors - he uses and recommends Mona Vie Active blend to his clients and the entire team:
"Working with athletes that are physically active, I understand the importance of dealing with oxidative damage caused by exercise Free radicals are a big problem for everyone in today's world.Glucosamine found in Mona Vie provide real boost for many of my clients. I can't tell you how many times I have someone say: "That really helped".
The Free Radical Theory Dr. Roy Walford of UCLA and Dr. Richard Cutler of the National Institute on Aging believe that antioxidants might play a major part in slowing down the aging process. Walford recommends a combination of undernutrition, antioxidants and exercise as the most practical means currently available to help man extend his life-span. Scientists think antioxidants might help to reduce the promulgation of free radicals by absorption. Free radicals are highly reactive chemicals which carry around an extra electron. The random release of these free electrons can cause irreversible reactions to occur in the body. These reactions include attacks on the structure of DNA, proteins and molecules which can lead to chain reactions. Free radicals can oxidize and slowly damage body tissues, particularly cell membranes. The free-radical theory was first introduced to the gerontological community by Dr. Denham Harmon, working at the University of Nebraska School of Medicine in the late 1950's and 1960's. Cells undergoing division are particularly susceptible to free radicals. The attachment of the free electron can cause the polarity of the affected cell component to shift which will in turn cause mutation. These mutations can continue to replicate causing major problems as the organism ages due to faulty DNA sequences.
By Roy Walford of UCLA and Dr. Richard Cutler
3/26/05
Dr.Felix Carillo* M.D has been exposed to Mona Vie after International Convention in Salt Lake City: "I began to suggest to my patients that they try Mona Vie as part of their diet and health program. I have been so impressed with the feedback from my patients that I have also discussed Mona Vie at length with many of my colleagues. Overall, the results have been great"
Dr. Andrea Pennington*M.D., C.Ac.
President, Pennington Empowerment Media, LLC.
Chief Medical Officer, Logical Images, Inc. is nationally known medical and health expert, both traditional and alternative forms. While being a keynote speaker of the seminar dedicated to woman's health as well as during interview with FOX4 in Kansas City Dr.Pennington called Mona Vie™ "A Life in a Bottle"
Dr.Jose F. Allongo* F.A.C.P. named "Physician of the Year" in 2004 by NRCC and one of America's Top Physicians for 2006 states passionately: "Health is your wealth, Mona Vie™ is an excellent product of powerful, natural juices that help the body heal itself." Currently, Dr. Allongo is a Clinical Professor at Nova South Eastern University, a Diplomat of the American Board of Internal Medicine, and he has been in private practice in West Palm Beach, Florida for 20 years.
Alexander G. Schauss, PhD, FACN, CEDS,iis the Director of Natural and Medicinal Products Research, Life Sciences Division, and lead researcher of Acai berry as well as patent holder for the most potent form of that berry- Freeze Dry OptiAcai™,/which is used in Mona Vie™ blend/: "This fruit is remarkably rich in a large range of macro nutrients, micro nutrients, and trace elements, essential amino acids, carbohydrates, fatty acids, vitamins and minerals."
Dr.Stephen Talcott, Ph.D, assistant professor with University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, published study showing that extracts from acai berries triggered a self-destruct response in 35%-86% of leukemia cells and almost 90% of melanoma: "Compounds that show good activity against cancer cells in a model system are most likely to have beneficial effects in our bodies."
Dr.Talcott, Ph.D. has become the member of Mona Vie Scientific Advisory Board in August of 2009 / see Marketplace/Trends page.
Dr.Doris J. Day MD. FAAD is a highly respected and sought-after in the area of cosmetic dermatology working as Clinical Assistant Professor of Dermatology at NYU Medical Center:" Interviewednfor People magazine she enthusiastically proclaimed: "This is an easy way to get great skin. Mona Vie™'s juice is only 20 calories and it delivers ton of antioxidants and flavonoids."
Dr. Edward Szachowicz MD, Ph.D, FACS is Facial Plastic and Trauma Surgeon specializing in Facial Reconstruction, Rejuvenation and Anti-Aging is using Mona Vie™ blend to help combat surgery side effects as well as aid in post surgery healing: "Just think about it...drinking juice containing 19 of the world's healthiest fruits, packed with nutrients many of our bodies are lacking, in one easy-to-drink, easy to process blend. That's exciting."
Dr. Farid Zarif*, M.D.(candidate), MPH, ND, PhD has Double Doctorate, Intergrative Medicine,Nobel Prize Consideration, Quadruple Doctoral Candidacy, Clinical and Holistic Nutrition, Emphasis in gastroenterology and bariatrics. UCLA Alumni, Certified Naturopathic Doctor,
Registered Naturopath by the Council of Naturopathic Registration and Accreditation and founder of The Zarifian Method© uses and highly recommends Mona Vie™ in his "Mind and Body" program.
Dr. Billy Johnson holds a Ph.D in Molecular Biology/Microbiology and an MD from the University of Florida in Gainesville. He completed his residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, and practiced as a board certified physician in Virginia and Connecticut. In article about rise of childhood autism he wrote: "One of the ways to remedy the critical nutritional deficiency is with unique formula developed by scientists in 2005 that is available under brand name Mona Vie™.
Dr.Lou Niles* ND has become famous, "last resort" doctor for the end-stage cancer patients throughout US. Using his own proprietary program Dr.Niles never lost a patient and is very actively involved with Mona Vie™ as he saw great results with his patients, after incorporating our blend in his recovery program. Below, please find short- two-part presentation of Dr. Niles that took place in private setting of a small seminar.
Dr.Julie L.Waddell* M.D. has proven herself a leader interested in acquiring and perfecting cutting edge anti-aging technologies. She is a member of the American College of Phlebology, and recently attended the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgeons, adding medical, surgical and laser hair stimulation to her armaments. Specializing also in non-surgical and minimally invasive cosmetic services in her Omaha based practice: "I give Mona Vie™ blend to all my patients with each laser treatment- they look and feel younger faster. It's easy and realistic- giving you nutrients recommended by doctors."
Dr. Howard Sobel is a Board Certified Cosmetic Dermatologic Surgeon, as well as being the first editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Cosmetic Surgery and Aesthetic Dermatology. Dr. Sobel is a Clinical Attending Physician in Dermatology and Dermatologic Surgery at Lenox Hill Hospital, Beth Israel Hospital and Cabrini Medical Center.He has also been featured in New York Magazine's special beauty issue, Vogue, Elle, W, Glamour, New Beauty, Marie Claire, Allure and Cosmopolitan, appeared in major television network programs including CBS News, ABC News, NBC News, FOX 5 News, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, Good Day New York, The Today Show and 48 Hours. "It may be little, but this brightly colored Brazilian berry packs a big anti-aging punch. Acai berries are rich in emollients such as essential fatty acids and phytosterols that help seal in moisture and strengthen the skin's surface so it is more resilient against outside irritation. Acai reduces UV damage that eventually causes wrinkles, brown spots, and sagging."
Dr.Julian Whitaker M.D. founder of the Whitaker Wellness Institute / since 1979/ "Unlike other juices, most of the acai calories come not from sugar, but from healthful Omega-6 and Omega-9 fats". Acai is loaded with anthocyanins, known for their beneficial effects on the eyes, blood vessels, connective tissues and nervous system.It also contains hefty doses of fiber, potassium, iron, vitamins C and E.
Dr.Rashid A. Buttar D.O, FACAM, FAAPM, FAAIM - Medical Directore of the Center for Advanced Medicine and Clinical Reasearch in Huntersville North Carolina. Dr.Buttar is board certified in Clinical Metal Toxicology and Preventive Medicine.Mona Vie became organic extension of what Dr.Buttar was already doing:
"It is the only product that we use in my practice that is not either custom-made for us or that we manufacture ourselves" he says of the purple juice loaded with essential antioxidants.
FRUITS, VITAMINS, NUTRITION AND SUPPLEMENTATION
Compounds from black raspberries called anthocyanins may inhibit the growth of cancer cells of the oesophagus, according to a new study with rats from Ohio State Comprehensive Cancer Center. Our data provide strong evidence that those compounds are are important for cancer prevention," said the study's lead author, Gary Stoner, PhD. "The goal is to potentially replace whole berry powder with its active components and then figure out better ways to deliver these components to tissues, to increase their uptake and effectiveness. Ultimately, we hope to test the anthocyanins for effectiveness in multiple organ sites in humans," he added.“These observations suggest that if anthocyanins are to be effective in the prevention of esophageal cancer in humans, they will need to be administered in formulations that enhance their absorption into esophageal tissues,” they wrote.
Source: Cancer Prevention Research
January 2009, Volume 2, Number 1, Pages 84-93
“Anthocyanins in Black Raspberries Prevent Esophageal Tumors in Rats”
Multivitamin supplements have “little or no influence” on a woman’s risk of cardiovascular disease or cancer, according to results of the Women’s Health Initiative.
A study with 161,808 , over the period of 8 years, postmenopausal women aged between 50 and 79, reportedly the largest study ever conducted on this demographic group, found that multivitamins had no effect on the risks related to cardiovascular disease, and a range of cancers.The study, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, concludes that, while nutrition should remain a principle focus for the prevention of chronic diseases, it is unlikely that multivitamin supplements have a role to play.
“What this paper shows is that multivitamin use just doesn’t seem to make that much of a difference in this population,” said co-author Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller from Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. “It confers no additional benefit but it also does no harm. Based on our results, if you fall into the category of the women described here, and you do in fact have an adequate diet, there really is no reason to take a multivitamin,”
Source: Archives of Internal Medicine
9 February 2009, Volume 169, Number 3, Pages 294-304
“Multivitamin Use and Risk of Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease in the Women's Health Initiative Cohorts”
Authors: M.L. Neuhouser, S. Wassertheil-Smoller, C. Thomson, A. Aragaki, G.L. Anderson, J.E. Manson, R.E. Patterson, T.E. Rohan, L. van Horn, J.M. Shikany, A. Thomas, A. LaCroix, R.L. Prentice
Vitamin Pills: A False Hope?
By Tara Parker-Pope
Last year, a study that tracked almost 15,000 male physicians for a decade reported no differences in cancer or heart disease rates among those using vitamins E and C compared with those taking a placebo. And in October, a study of 35,000 men dashed hopes that high doses of vitamin E and selenium could lower the risk of prostate cancer. “I’m puzzled why the public in general ignores the results of well-done trials,” said Dr. Eric Klein, national study coordinator for the prostate cancer trial and chairman of the Cleveland Clinic’s Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute. “The public’s belief in the benefits of vitamins and nutrients is not supported by the available scientific data.”Everyone needs vitamins, which are essential nutrients that the body can’t produce on its own. Inadequate vitamin C leads to scurvy, for instance, and a lack of vitamin D can cause rickets.
But a balanced diet typically provides an adequate level of these nutrients, and today many popular foods are fortified with extra vitamins and minerals. As a result, diseases caused by nutrient deficiency are rare in the United States.
Scientists suspect that the benefits of a healthful diet come from eating the whole fruit or vegetable, not just the individual vitamins found in it. “There may not be a single component of broccoli or green leafy vegetables that is responsible for the health benefits,” Dr. Gann /professor and director of research in the department of pathology at the University of Illinois at Chicago./said. “Why are we taking a reductionist approach and plucking out one or two chemicals given in isolation?”
By Sarah Hills, 02-Mar-2009
Drinking a glass of wine a day could reduce the risk of Barrett's Esophagus (BE) - a precursor to oesophageal cancer - by 56 per cent, a new study has concluded.
Douglas A. Corley, a Kaiser Permanente, Northern California, gastroenterologist and the study's principal investigator, said. "We already knew that red wine was good for the heart, so perhaps here is another added benefit of a healthy lifestyle and a single glass of wine a day."One theory as to why wine reduces the risk of BE and oesophageal cancer is that the antioxidants neutralize the oxidative damage caused by gastro-oesophageal reflux disease, a risk factor for BE. Another theory is that wine drinkers typically consume food with their wine, reducing the potentially damaging effect of alcohol on oesophageal tissue.
The study is part of larger Kaiser Permanente study led by Dr Corley that looked at abdominal obesity and consumption of dietary antioxidants, fruits and vegetables in connection with BE. It found that people can reduce their risk of BE by eating eight servings of fruits and vegetables a day and maintaining a normal body weight. Corley advised those trying to prevent BE to keep a normal body weight and follow a diet high in antioxidants and high in fruits and vegetables as it is not actually clear that treating the acid reflux will necessarily prevent someone from getting BE
The research findings were echoed by two other studies published in the same issue of Gastroenterology. Australian researchers found that people who drank wine were at a lower risk of EAC and Irish researchers found that people who drank wine were at a lower risk for oesophagitis, an irritation of the oesophagus that follows chronic heartburn and often precedes BE and cancer.
Source: Gastroenterology,
March 2009, Volume 136, Issue 3, Pages 806-815
“Alcohol Types and Sociodemographic Characteristics as Risk Factors for Barrett's Esophagus”
Authors: Ai Kubo, Theodore R. Levin, Gladys Block, Gregory J. Rumore, Charles P. Quesenberry Jr, Patricia Buffler, Douglas A. Corley.
Berry Research Breakthroughs: Top 10 Medical Studies of 2006
2007-01-16 - Paul M. Gross, PhD
After review of more than 300 research reports on berries in 2006, here are The Berry Doctor's choices of the top 10 medical science studies over the past year.
#2. Antioxidant capacity and other bio- activities of the freeze-dried amazonian palm berry, Euterpe oleraceae mart. (açaí).
Schauss AG, Wu X, Prior RL, Ou B, Huang D, Owens J, Agarwal A, Jensen
GS, Hart AN, Shanbrom E. Natural and Medicinal Products Research, AIMBR Life Sciences, 4117 South Meridian, Puyallup, WA 98373.
J Agric Food Chem. 2006 Nov 1;54(22):8604-10.
Synopsis.
One of nature's most color-intense fruits, açaí is attracting interest for its future use in functional foods where it could supply rich concentration of phenolic antioxidants and value as a deep violet colorant. In studies to characterize the antioxidant strength of açaí, these authors measured freeze-dried açaí powder /OptiAcai™/ against several assays of antioxidant capacity, finding the highest scores yet measured for a fruit against the super oxide radical and for total antioxidant strength. Anthocyanins were only partly responsible for this effect, as other, yet unidentified phenolics were present. Using human neutrophil cells as a model, the authors also showed that açaí phenolics remain intact and effective in low doses in exerting their antioxidant effect. This finding indicates that small amounts of açaí added to foods or beverages could provide significant antioxidant protection.
Note to consumers: açaí fruit from the South American tropics has the strongest antioxidant properties yet observed and has high promise for entering first-world markets as a functional food ingredient and colorant. As its effects are evident at low doses, it may become an ingredient of numerous foods, drugs and other consumer products where antioxidant protection is needed.
Blueberries may reduce childhood cancer risk: Study
According to new results from the Ohio State University, mice fed the blueberry extract doubled their lifespan, and had tumours 60 per cent smaller that in control mice.
Writing in the current issue of the journal Antioxidants & Redox Signaling, the researchers report their findings against tumours in walls of blood vessels called hemangionendotheliomas (HE), which affect about 3 per cent of children. Such tumours usually occur within four weeks of birth and more often affect premature infants. Although such tumours are often resolved naturally, they may reoccur and cause deformity, and can be life-threatening if they obstruct the airways.
“This work provides the first evidence demonstrating that blueberry extract can limit tumour formation by inhibiting the formation of blood vessels and inhibiting certain signalling pathways,” said lead author Gayle Gordillo.
“Oral administration of blueberry extract represents a potential therapeutic strategy [against] endothelial cell tumours in children.” The research could boost further the healthy image of the berry, already firmly engrained in consumer's minds for its apparent cholesterol lowering abilities, as well as indications that the fruit could offer protection from neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's.
Source: Antioxidants & Redox Signaling
1 January 2009, Volume 11(1): 47-58. doi:10.1089/ars.2008.2150
“Oral Administration of Blueberry Inhibits Angiogenic Tumor Growth and Enhances Survival of Mice with Endothelial Cell Neoplasm”
Authors: G. Gordillo, H. Fang, S. Khanna, J. Harper, G. Phillips, C.K. Sen
The contradictory science of antioxidants
By Stephen Daniells, 12-Mar-2009
Apparent conflicting results from randomized clinical trials and observational studies abound in the scientific literature. In the third part of a four-part series on antioxidants, NutraIngredients looks to get behind the contradictions.A vast body of epidemiological studies has linked increased dietary intake of antioxidants from fruits and vegetables to reduced risks of a range of diseases including cancer, cardiovascular disease and diabetes. However, when such antioxidants have been extracted and put into supplements the results, according to the randomized clinical trials (RCTs), do not always produce the same benefits, and may even be harmful. These observations have led to much negative publicity about antioxidant supplements, particularly the more well-known vitamin E and beta-carotene. Indeed, an article published in the New Scientist in 2006, authored by Dr Lisa Melton from the London-based registered charity, the Novartis Foundation, concluded that antioxidant supplements "do little or nothing". Furthermore, at the end of last year, results from two high-profile clinical trials reported that selenium and the vitamins C and E are ineffective against prostate cancer. Null results from the Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial (SELECT) and the Physicians' Health Study II were met with disappointment by many. In an editorial comment on the selenium studies in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Peter Gann, MD, ScD, from the University of Illinois at Chicago, said the results were "disappointing news".
