Question: Dear CAOH Doc,

Can you tell me what kind of plastic are used for your Noni Juice. You’ve explained that they are “frosted” to reduce the UV radiation exposure and resulting “deterioration of the juice.” However, I would like to know just how stable this plastic is (say compared to glass bottles), and the contaminants and rate of contamination you expect from the plastic leaching into the juice over time. I appreciate the lengths you have gone to in order to provide a pure, organic product, for maximum health benefits, so I am hopeful you can provide for me a complete understanding of the container you have chosen for storing and distributing your Noni product

Answer: Dear Greg, We only use medical grade plastic bottles for our products. Our bottles will not leech into acid or basic solutions and perform as well as glass in regard to inhibiting product oxidation. Our will tolerate temperatures way above boiling and are practically unbreakable. Believe it or not, plastic is more expensive for us to buy than glass. The draw back to glass is that it breaks and the extra packing is very expensive also. With the amount of products we ship around the world we would be replacing quite a lot of broken bottles and/or spending a fortune on Styrofoam (not very earth friendly). We use a major company’s product with the highest reputation in the medical and consumer goods industry. All of our bottles are sterilized before any juice is put in them.

As a FYI: The majority of fruit juices you see packaged in glass are not done so because the manufacturer wants it to look good, it’s because the product is heat (hot) pasteurized. The bottles are then hot filled, put into boxes and stacked on pallets. There the box acts like an oven and the juice further cooks (in the residual heat), for sometimes up to 24 hours. This process can only be done with glass. If you tried this with our plastic bottle it would expand when hot than slightly collapse in on itself as it cooled down. It would now have an hourglass shape and the label would start to have problems too.
Heat pasteurization and glass packaging is done solely to increase the shelf life of the product, period. It’s a sad but true fact that the majority of juice manufactures who use this method make claims about their product from “raw ingredient data.” The finished product is not a good source for their wonderful marketing material, because the product inside is now dead.

Sincerely,

Marcus Ettinger DC, BSc.
 

Q: I was wondering if you know which is a stronger antioxidant Acai or Pomegranate? I hear claims that pom. is stronger than green tea, wine or blueberries but I also hear that acai is stronger than blueberries but I’ve never seen a comparison on the two? what can you tell me? Thanks for the info.

A: Larry,

(This is my take on that situation and just my opinion)

I don’t care what is a stronger antioxidant; A, E, Zinc, Acai, Goji, or Green Tea. They are all excellent sources of antioxidants, all unique in composition and all of them warrant taking. I take and recommend taking a variety of antioxidants daily. Which ones you choose is a personal preference. The goal is to always have a ready reserve of antioxidants available to negate any free radicals that are produced.
Check out our Mangosteen Elixir, it has many different antioxidant rich fruit juices in it and is my and my family’s favorite.

Please read “Noni and the Prostate” for more info on antioxidants.

Please read my paper on “Synergy” (in the Dr. Ettinger Thoughts section), it will answer your question in more detail.

Sincerely,

Marcus Ettinger DC, BSc.

Good Morning:

I am recommending Mangosteen, Goji, Noni, and Acai-Max products to my niece. She has breast cancer which has spread throughout her body, and I am wondering if it would be advantageous for her to “load-up” on the juices and to consume considerably more than two ounces daily of each. Also, is there any potential danger to consuming too much of these products?

Regards,

Bill

Dear Bill,

I am sorry to hear that news. I can’t see of any possible danger from consuming large amounts of the juices. Being that they are fruit juices the worst thing, I can imagine happening, would be a mild laxative effect. As far as being advantageous, I can not answer that. You must read all the data on these juices the net and library can provide and make your own informed decision.

I can tell you this, if a loved one of mine had cancer, I would try just about anything to get them better as long as it wouldn’t make things worse.

Sincerely,

Marcus Ettinger DC, BSc.

I am trying to decide whether to purchase Magnosteen elixir, goji or noni juice. I do have hypertension, hypothryoidism and endometriosis. Which product would benefit me the most and how much should I take? Thank You . Kathy

Dear Kathy,

First I want you to remember that these are nutritional fruit juices, they are not medicines. That said; each fruit possesses its own unique chemical make-up.
Each fruit has different combinations of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants (phenols, flavonoids and polysaccharides).

I am a big fan of the word synergy, the phenomenon in which two or more discrete influences or agents acting together create an effect greater than the sum of the effects each is able to create independently.

Mangosteen is great, Goji is great and Noni is great. One is not any worse or better than the other, each is special and unique. But if I could only pick one I would have to pick the Mangosteen Elixir. The Mangosteen Elixir contains Goji and Noni along with many other synergistic juices. So there you have it.

Sincerely,

Marcus Ettinger DC, BSc.