About Us

Welcome to UpYOURAntioxidants.com! This site is hosted by Rick & Chris Parlante. We designed it to be a useful, inspirational and educational tool for you to use as you grow your MonaVie business.

About Rick & Chris Parlante

Chris and I are thrilled to be MonaVie Blue Diamonds. For us, the key in life is not to worry about our own success too much. Instead, we focus on helping others accomplish their goals. And in doing so, our goals are also achieved.

This philosophy has blessed us with a top-producing real estate business, a fantastic lifestyle in beautiful Naples, Florida, a great family and personal life, and a gang-busting MonaVie distributorship.

That’s not to say we are guided only by instinct…

Twenty five years practicing martial arts and a bad car wreck put unbelievable stress and strain on my body. The pain was so great that doctors put me on a course of the most potent painkillers available. These same medications were soon deemed unsafe and taken off the market by the FDA. My doctor’s only advice for an alternative was double strength Advil, maximum limit per day. And that’s how I got by, for too many years.

At the time I was introduced to MonaVie, in August of 2005, I could hardly bend over to tie my own shoes. It took me 10 minutes, easing down, vertebrae by vertebrae, to get the job done. I listened to how MonaVie had helped others with pain, and even though I wasn’t convinced it could help me, I was ready to try anything. So I went on the juice.

The effects were not immediate. They said it might take a couple of months to start feeling different, and I didn’t expect a miracle – in fact, I didn’t expect much at all. Yet 3 months, and 12 bottles later, I did feel different. I felt good enough to cut out the painkillers completely. I think a big part of the healing process was that I was also sleeping better than ever before. I realized pretty quickly that MonaVie was a powerful juice.

Think about this: In August of 2005 I could barely tie my own shoelaces. In December of that same year, I took and passed my Jujitsu black belt test. Did I mention that at the time I was 50 years old? For some added perspective on the extreme physical and emotional demands of the black belt test, take a look at the video – this is literally 4 months after I couldn’t tie my shoelaces:

When I say MonaVie helps inflammation so the body can heal, decrease pain, increase energy and improve sleep habits these aren’t empty words – IT ALL HAPPENED TO ME.

Because of the people around me noticing the differences in me, they wanted to try the juice. So we gave a few people the opportunity to experience the benefits of the juice themselves. They kept on coming back for more and more and more, and that is when we realized what we had our hands on. The decision to build the business was a simple one.

What we’ve learned in over 4 years in this business – and what MonaVie the company has also learned – is that you don’t have to be really bad off to benefit from the juice. The juice can help everyone!

Bottom line is that Americans are generally unhealthy. Not because we want to be, but because it is increasingly difficult to eat right and have the time to take care of ourselves correctly. You’d think in this modern age that eating healthy would be easy. Instead, it is nearly impossible for the average person. Research shows that less than 10% of Americans get the recommended daily allowance of 11-13 servings of fruits and vegetables per day – that’s the minimum of what we need to be healthy.

MonaVie is a source of nutrition, an easy way to get the vital nutrition we need on a daily basis. Drinking just 2 oz. twice a day fulfills that RDA of 11-13 servings of fruits and vegetables. How much easier can it get?

By getting these nutrients and the super antioxidants found in MonaVie, we have the ability to increase our immune system and give our bodies a fighting chance against illness – including swine flu!

From the beginning of recorded time, and probably even before, mankind has known the secret to good health was in the food we eat. Over 2,000 years ago, Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, said: “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” If MonaVie is part of your food, you’re on your way to great health.

The Physical Benefits of MonaVie are Fantastic; But There’s Even More…

There is a need in our society for improved health and preventative measures to keep us healthy. Most of us live everyday in survival mode – just get to Friday, finish the week and squeeze in some time to relax or spend with family. That’s if you’re lucky enough not to be working 2 or even 3 jobs just to make ends meet. This need, to have the time and resources to relax, have some fun, travel, play, do the things that we WANT to do; this need to have more than just a job that may or may not be here tomorrow; this need to make a difference in our lives or the lives of others, to do something REAL…this need produced a mission in addition for better health for all at MonaVie – a mission embraced wholeheartedly by our R3Global family.

It’s funny how things happen. How people of like-minds “find” each other. Many believe that there are no coincidences, and in the case of the coming together of the R3Global family, that is very true.

For us, it is much bigger than the juice. It is a movement to healthy ways of thinking and of living. If you think you might be of the same mind, we invite you to join us.