Deceit.blog: #dietary-supplements https://deceit.blog/tag/dietary-supplements Essays on what manipulation costs and why it lands. Tagged "dietary-supplements". en Thu, 24 Sep 2026 08:08:07 GMT 60 MonaVie's own chief scientist called it "expensive flavored water." Distributors sold it as medicine anyway. https://deceit.blog/essay/monavie-mlm-pyramid-scheme https://deceit.blog/essay/monavie-mlm-pyramid-scheme Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Explain. MonaVie's chief science officer helped develop the product. He is on record calling it "expensive flavored water." He said the health claims made about it were "purely hypothetical, unsubstantiated and, quite frankly, bogus," and that he did not actually know how much açai the juice contained. The S…