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I use Salvia on a semi-regular basis. I’ve seen a lot of things on my Salvia trips so it would take something pretty special for me to call it a ‘memorable’ trip. Of course they’re all good in their own way; it’s just there are very few that I could remember a month later. Yesterday was a special day and I had a very special Salvia trip. The really lucid psychedelic hallucinations were really what made the trip so memorable. What a superb experience.

It’s difficult for me to describe my hallucinations because they are not just visual: instead they encompass all my feelings and senses. I’ll give it a shot, though!

My body’s – and more importantly my brain’s – first reaction to my deep inhalation from the Salvia pipe was to grow another head. This head was identical in every respect from my ‘normal’ head, but it grew quite convincingly out of my shoulder.

Then Sally – that’s what I decided to call her – appeared. Sally was a Salvia induced hallucination, of course, but to my frazzled brain she was the most beautiful and enchanting thing I had ever seen. A beauty in a pink dress who danced and put me under her spell. Sally was, in retrospect, the embodiment of Salvia which regularly casts a spell upon me. What a spell that is!

As of lately, the acai berry has received a huge amount of recognition from several different society commentators and media outlets, and not least because people realize that Acai Pills
help weight loss. If you look through the benefits offered by the acai such as weight loss and fighting against premature aging, it’s very easy to see why it’s getting so much attention.

A Michigan State Professor, Dr. Perricone is a very strong supporter for the Acai berry for weight loss. Oprah Winfrey has even recommended the acai berry as a wonderful fruit that can do great things. Since she happens to be a very famous person, worldwide, people will really take her opinion into consideration.

If you analyze the different potentials of the acai berry as a weight loss and dieting aid, you’ll want to hop onto the bandwagon, along with the rest of the supporters. It truly is that great.

For these reasons, Acai Pure has become a very popular product. When you buy Acai Pure, you get purified extracts of berries and the acai plant. It is designed by many medical experts to assist someone by providing all the nutrients that you would need when on a diet. Not to mention, the owner of Acai Pure are now offering a risk free trial, it isn’t very hard to find out why so many people are trying this great product.

Acai is the hot new thing when it comes to diets and dieting. People all over the world are starting to realize the benefits of adding acai to their diets or even of an acai diet.

Acai berries grow on the top of huge acai palms and are farmed by the local populations in their native land of Brazil; the palms grow in the rain forest, making access difficult. One of the problems with farming acai berries is that they degrade rapidly after removal from their tree, meaning transportation has to be very quick. Unfortunately, quick in this context means ‘really quick’ and it is very unlikely that Acai berries will last a journey to anywhere outside Brazil.

Up to the plate steps Pure Acai, a product designed to solve just this problem. Pure Acai consists, as the name suggests, just of pure freeze dried acai extract. The parts of the berry are extracted then condensed, processed and transported throughout the world. In the form of Pure Acai, the goodness stays there indefinitely, meaning you get the full benefit when your shipment of Pure Acai arrives on your kitchen table. Pure Acai has the distinct advantage over similar products of not being mixed with anything that isn’t from the Acai berry.
Pure Acai has the distinct advantage over compeditors

I am one of those people that buy Salvia online. I have done for years and it is not the sudden rush of reporting time that the drug is getting that sent me down that route. I am not insane nor do I suffer any adverse effects from the use of the Salvia. If I buy Salvia that does not make me a gun-wielding manic. I am just a normal person who has decided to buy Salvia and to enjoy the experiences that it provides me with.

This is why the blanket ban on Salvia that is being threatened incenses me so. If I want to buy Salvia then I should be able to without fear of being locked up! If it doesn’t hurt me, it doesn’t effect anyone else and it isn’t damaging anything, then honestly what is the problem?

The fever surrounding Salvia has come about fairly recently, and I find it all a little odd. This drug has been around for years and yet the authorities and the media decide to pounce upon it now. Why is that? The answer is that it is a soft target; Salvia is something that the politicians can pick on without fear of a backlash from the community. It is a common enemy that is good only for scoring political points.

The power of the media is, sometimes, really quite startling. Take the recent surge in interest in acai. Some years ago no one wanted to buy acai simply because very few had ever heard of it, and even fewer still had heard of the benefits that it can bring to those who use it in a controlled diet. Now people are falling over themselves to buy acai. The reason that this berry has gone from zero to hero? Oprah.

That’s right, Oprah Winfrey. Love her or hate her (and most love her), if you fail to appreciate the power that Oprah has over the population of the world, then you are missing the point entirely. This woman is a goddess. Her power has been ably demonstrated when she featured a book by Dr. Nicholas Perricone: The Perricone Promise. In this book Oprah points out that Dr. Perricone lists acai as the number one super food. At this point there was a huge rush as almost all the viewers struggled to buy acai.

Where to buy acai from? The Internet is the obvious answer, but it is available at health food shops, too. From wherever you choose to buy acai, you can be assured that you have made the correct choice. Even Oprah thinks so!

Acai is a wondrous little berry that provides so much of the nutrients and goodness that you body needs that it has been classified as a super food by many different industry commentators — even Oprah Winfrey — and it is widely accepted to help your body’s immune system.

Acai preserves are hands down the best way to get all the acai goodness you need. Not only do the preserves have almost 99% acai fruit in them, they’re also really yummy. If you’re looking for ways to introduce acai preserves to your family without encouraging them to eat with a spoon out of the jar, then read on.

Making a shake with acai preserves is a universal favorite, and it’s really easy: just add the acai preserves to some ice cubes, some syrup of your choosing, some sugar and some whole fruit. Blend it and there you have it. A really healthy, really exciting and really tasty shake.

You can use acai preserves at breakfast time to spice up your toast, your muffin, your pancakes or you can even add it to your cereal. Because it is so delicious on its own, you really don’t need to try very hard to make acai preserves work for you.

Since the rapid rise to fame of acai and the benefits of acai berry supplements became known, people are taking up the little fruit — and the many products that are made from it — for a variety of reasons. One of the most compelling reasons to start introducing the benefits of acai supplements into your diet is the effect it has on preventing the aging process. This does not mean to say that the benefits of acai berry supplements will prevent you from aging, but that it will prevent the physical effects of aging from appearing so early in your life.

Naturally any substance that can prevent wrinkles and sagginess is going to be popular. But acai and acai supplements can help to do much more than this.

It is thought that the ingredients in acai that help us the most — antioxidants and healthy mono unsaturated fats — will help to prevent the mental symptoms of aging, too. Doctors are even recommending the benefits of acai berry supplements to their patients to get and stay healthy.

It is not just the producers, the promoters and a few well known celebrities that are starting to laud acai with praises, it is newspapers and magazines all over the world; it is eminent nutritionists, scientists and doctors. Such a fuss over a little fruit? Acai is not ‘just’ a little fruit: it is the world’s greatest super food.

The positive welcome that the acai berry has received has been wholehearted, to say the least. Commentators from all over the media spectrum have been telling us just how great the acai berry is, how effective it can be a as tool to dieting, and just how much of it we should be taking on board every day. Dr. Nicholas Perricone even named the acai berry as the number one super food in his acclaimed book ‘The Perricone Promise’.

Another social commentator — perhaps less erudite than Dr. Perricone but with even greater influence — that has strongly encouraged the use of the acai berry is no other than Oprah Winfrey. Oprah featured Dr. Perricone’s book on her TV show and, consequently, gave it her endorsement. Both sales of acai berry products and ‘The Perricone Promise’ soared, and the world saw an unprecedented take up of acai diet plans.

The acai berry does contain a lot of nutrients and goodness essential to satisfy our body’s needs.  It really is no surprise that it has ascended in the way that it has: it just needed a helping hand to climb the ladder and get everyone’s attention. Oprah and Dr. Perricone — among others — have provided that assistance.

The management team at Monavie must be having a really strong sense of deja-vu at the moment. Not only is their product failing, but they and their parent company Monarch Health Sciences are being investigated by the FDA for what can only be described as dubious business practice.

Monavie was founded in 2005 by MLM company Monarch Health Sciences. The company base is in Salt Lake City, Utah. Many of the management team are ex-members of other (failed) MLM enterprises, and some even with other distributors of acai juices. You would have thought that with all this experience, they would have got something right!

Not that it’s on the top of their list of priorities at the moment, but their product is inferior to almost everything else on the market. It is more expensive — tipping the scales at almost twice the price of the vastly superior Amazon Thunder acai juice — it contains much less acai than its competitors (in fact it contains very little acai at all), and, to top all, the brand is being marketed to customers as a cure for many things that it is a not a cure for. Nutritionists everywhere have warned that Monavie’s outrageous claims as to the potency of their acai juice simply cannot be proved.

I’m not normally one to adhere to fashions and fads, no matter how hard my friends try to get me involved. I was a little shocked when I tried — and stuck with — acai juice, but then I discovered why: acai juice is not a fad. Acai juice is in fact a bona fide health food which tops up your amino acids, essentially omega oils and, most importantly, your anti oxidants. In combination this leads to an increased defense against infections and diseases; it means that the signs of premature aging are combated effectively, and it just means that you get — and stay — a healthier person.

The acai berry — from which the magical acai juice is made — is harvested in the Amazon basin in Brazil. This is as far as the berry gets because it rots very quickly indeed. The best way to get the berry to major markets in Europe and the US is to crush the berry and take the acai juice and place it in a airtight container. So while acai juice might seem a hugely convenient thing in its own right, it is also by far and away the best way for the farmers to get the berry to its biggest consumers. A winner in so many respects.