If records are meant to be broken... are secrets meant to be revealed?  Deep in the Brazilian rainforest, the shadows are slowly revealing what many across the United States swear is a wellness potion. People who've tried it swear by it!
 Along with 18 other fruits...the exotic acai berry is the foundation of what's in a glitzy wine bottle.   It's called Mona Vie. 
Supporters  and distributors at a recent network marketing party in Savannah treat it like the fountain of youth.  "The aging aches and pains that we had were just fading away, " says Ron Prudhomme a Mona Vie Distributor.

It's loaded with antioxidants.  Some doctors say that can increase your energy and strengthen your immune system. "For me it took only 2 weeks to feel the difference in my migraines. I went off of it just to test it and sure enough I will get the migraines if I don't take the Mona Vie," says Fotini Cherry.   Beth Spivey claims the juice is the answer to her aches and pain.
'I had bone spurs that was removed out of my shoulder and it left me in a lot of pain.
I started drinking it and in about a week in a half the pain was gone, and I also had kidney stones.  In about a month I was have no more kidney stones."  But what many see as a miraculous cure...comes with a price.  Mona Vie will cost you about 45 dollars a bottle.
That's nearly two dollars an ounce.  With a recommended dosage of 4 ounces a day...one bottle will last about a week.  Do the math...that's more than two-thousand dollars a year.
 

Saint Joseph's/Candler’s Clinical Dietician Gary Youngblood says many of the same health benefits of Mona Vie can be found in produce you eat every day.   "I'd say just simple fruits and veggies.  Not only because the science isn't there for this particular product to say that it's going to work for everybody.  The only way to prove that is to have more research and have it published in a scientific journal.  That's the only way the product can be validated and can be beneficial to everybody with the results it would show", says Youngblood.   Dr. Stephen Talcott agrees with Youngblood.  He tested the acai berry in 2006 at The University of Florida.
 His study showed extracts from acai berries triggered a self-destruct response in up to 86 percent of leukemia cells.  Talcott cautions the study was not intended to show whether compounds found in the berries could prevent leukemia.   But that study is one Mona Vie distrubitors talk a lot about.   In a phone conversation -- and this is also on his webpage -- Dr. Talcott told says his study has nothing to do with Mona Vie.  In fact, he's tried to fight them legally.   Talcott goes on to say the question is how much acai is really in that juice blend of 19 different fruits.  Other than what's printed on the nutrition label, there's nothing in this bottle that tells us how much acai berry or pomegranate or any other ingredients Mona Vie has. We asked Mona Vie to find out exactly how much acai berry juice ends up in each bottle - and we were told that Mona Vie's formula is a company secret." 

Beth Spivey took her overpowering results to her doctor.   "I've seen good really good results in my patients who have tried it so it's like a win-win situation,” says  Doctor Greg Whitaker.  The doctor  says he even tried the juice with no expectations.   " I had some split skin on my heals like a Podiatrist would treat and they healed on their own.   Would you recommend Mona Vie for pain? Yes I've been treating fibromyalgia for over 24years.
 I think it does help fibromyalgia and chronic muscle aches and pain, and arthritis symptoms,” says Doctor Whitaker.  Even though Doctor Whitaker gives the alternative treatment his stamp of approval, the fact remains....the science is incomplete and results vary client to client.

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