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Editorial
The Marvels of Mona Vie
March 21, 2008
In these days of green-mania news is certainly nothing hard to find. This article had its inspiration while sitting in my parked car in a busy strip mall late last week. A friendly stranger approached me, randomly.
Susie Puyol, who lives and works in Southeast Florida, is an Independent Distributor for Mona Vie, a product I’d heard about but knew very little about. Ms. Puyol was generous to offer me a bottle of this expensive-to-purchase elixir free of charge to test and see whether the product might benefit my personal health (or that of my family’s). For this magnanimous generosity, I’d like to offer the Distributor a public show of gratitude.
Packaged elegantly in a 25 ml glass bottle with a long, statuesque neck, resembling a bottle of fine Merlot (red wine), Mona Vie (which loosely translates to “long, abundant life”) is quite an offering. Its main component, as boasted about on the corporate website (www.monavie.com/puyol) is the Brazilian acai berry.
Indigenous to Brazil, and used for centuries by ancient Amazonian tribes, the acai berry has been deemed as nothing less than a “superfood.” It contains essential fatty acids (omega 3, 6 and 9), phytonutrients, vitamins and minerals, trace minerals, complex carbohydrates, amino acids, dietary fibre and antioxidants.
By drinking a mere 2 to 4 ounces of Mona Vie per day, the customer is consuming the minimum daily allowance of acai. Respectively, acai aids the human body in resisting disease, lowering lipids (fats) in the bloodstream and decreasing bodily inflammation; managing weight and promoting normal cell growth; providing nutritional support for bone, muscle, and connective tissue health; promoting proper digestion; promoting metabolism and detoxification.
With many of the above nutrients overlapping in their function(s), those who partake of them can be doubly- or triply-certain that their quality of life will be enhanced.
Designed for easy absorption into the body, positive effects can be seen and felt within a matter of days. With my only complaint being that the taste of acai is reminiscent of figs, dates and prunes, none of which fruit this reporter is personally fond of, my spouse drank most of the bottle of Mona Vie out of a wine glass.
Thus, although I have no astounding testimonial to share, I am delighted to share his. Prone to developing kidney stones, my husband had been experiencing lower back spasms for several days prior to receiving our gift of “superfood” and was certain that another excruciating bout with kidney stones and the subsequent passing thereof was forthcoming. He began drinking the product as directed every day, and not surprisingly, all the discomfort disappeared. It was just gone.
Only the passage of time over the next several days will tell whether or not the kidney stones have dissolved, or perhaps were prevented from calcifying in the first place, but for now, my husband is just grateful to be pain-free again.
Will Mona Vie ever be offered as a retail product (readily available for purchase at one’s neighborhood grocery store)? Priced at $45 a bottle retail, and looking like fine wine, at least on the outside, this is not an impossibility. SMGN outlined this in a recent article on direct selling and organics.
For the moment, anyway, the answer is yes and no – the corporate website stresses the ideal of providing one of the foremost business opportunities available across the globe today. 50 percent of the sales volume is reportedly paid out in distributor commissions, so for people like Ms. Puyol, who aggressively market this “superfood,” much income stands to be made from the industrious distributor rather than for Costco, Whole Foods, NutritionSmart or some other conglomerate. In this era of economic downturn, that is a good thing for individuals.
Fortunately, however, limited retail establishments may be set up as distributorships and sell the product on its shelves; specifically, according to Ms. Puyol, “places where you have appointments, i.e. chiropractors, spas, etc.” Thus, some natural products or health-food stores may qualify providing they meet the “appointments” criterion.
She went on to explain, “The cost of a distributorship is only $39.00 and 2 or 3 cases of juice. There are 4 bottles in a case. One bottle lasts 7-10 days. A single case wholesale is $130 + shipping = $143. You are not required to purchase anything, but if you don’t you do not become active.
The $39 gets you access to your back office (everything is calculated for you - commissions, projected auto-ships, order history, etc. etc. etc. You establish a place on the ‘seamless bi-anary network.’ You also receive pamphlets, cds, etc. from the corporation.”
With the company having established that the retail price for the active product be set at $45 per bottle, whereas the cost per bottle for a distributor is only $36.00, a hefty profit is to be made through retail sales alone.
A multimillion dollar international company, founded and presided over by Dallin A. Larsen of Provo, UT, Mona Vie boasts extraordinary income figures on its corporate website. The top distributors in the company reportedly earned in commissions, from January 1 through July 31, 2007, an impressive $3,926,900.
Comparitive research has suggested that along with the potential for incredible earnings, there is no other product on the market boasting the exact same health advantages. Closest are certain nutritional supplements provided by multilevel corporate conglomerate, Amway/Quickstar, such as the vitamin-infused Nutrilite, but none of Quickstar’s products contain acai or any other combinations of nutrients remotely close to the proprietary formula of Mona Vie.
For any readers seeking more information or wishing to become a distributor, you are encouraged to visit the corporate website at www.monavie.com/puyol.
Again, a gracious and heartfelt thank-you to Susie Puyol for introducing to SMGN such a phenomenal product. Thanks for saving us a trip to the hospital. To her health (and yours, reader)!
By Lisa Carvin, Freelance Reporter