Monday 5 June 2017

The Day Young Living Broke My Heart

The Truth about Gary Young - Young Living Essential Oils


I am following up on the latest Gary Young scam in Somalia. I wish to present the true facts about this man. Please distribute this everywhere that you can, send it to everyone you know, whether in Africa, Europe, and anywhere else in the world.

FAQ'S ABOUT GARY YOUNG - PART ONE

  1. Is is true that Gary Young is an MD?
Between 1982 and 1985, Gary attended Bernadean University and earned a doctorate in naturopathy: http://www.dgaryyoung.com/d-gary-young-about.php

This seems to indicate that Gary Young studied there for three years. Bernadean University is not a University, it is a company selling fake diplomas.

  • Reprint from an article in the New York Times, written by Laufey V. Bustany who holds a Master of Science degree in nutrition from Rutgers University and is a registered dietician: "Diploma mills are producing charlatans at an unprecedented rate. Not only do these organizations abuse the public's trust in professional degrees, but also entice students into "a partnership of fraud."

Gary Young's "degree" is a worthless piece of paper and offers only worthless credentials. He has NEVER been licensed to practice naturopathy in Utah or anywhere else.


  • In April 2002, a physician who telephoned Young Living was told that he was licensed to practice naturopathy in Utah. The Web site of the Utah Division of Professional Licensing (USOPL) lists the numbers of all licensed naturopaths, but the Young Living employee who was asked for Young's license number, said it could not be given out. After the physician complained to the UDOPL, Young Living removed the title N.D. and references to Young as a naturopath from the its Web site, but this misleading information still appears all over the Net on distributor Web sites.

  • Actually, he would have no reason to acquire a license because in Utah it is illegal for a licensed naturopath to "own, directly or indirectly, a retail store, wholesaler, distributor, manufacturer, or facility of any other kind located in this state that is engaged in the sale, dispensing, delivery, distribution, or manufacture of homeopathic remedies, dietary supplements, or natural medicines."
  1. What about Gary Young's claim that essential oils have cured his "paralysis"?

He claims to have discovered the healing powers of essential oils after he was allegedly "paralyzed for life" by a head injury. He claims to have discovered an essential oil cure for this supposed paralysis, but has never provided documentation of either the injury or his miraculous cure, according to Dr. Eva Briggs. MD

There is not one scientific evidence that essential oils cure paralysis. If this was true it would have been a great discovery for the worlds of aromatherapy, science, medicine, and for those who are paralyzed and could have use the same "cure".

  1. Is it true that Gary Young owned and operated a clinic in Mexico?

Gary Young claims that he operated the Rosarita Beach Clinic in Mexico that treated cancer patients with laetrile, which is a useless drug that can harm or kill people because it forms cyanide in the body. Additionally it is illegal.

  1. Why was Gary Young arrested in California?

From Mexico, Gary Young traveled to California and opened a clinic offering bogus treatments for cancer and other diseases/illnesses. He claimed falsely at that time that he was an MD. He was arrested in California on charges related to the sale of ineffective and worthless medical treatments.


  1. Other arrests?

When Gary Young returned to the Spokane area, he was arrested again, this time for assaulting several of his family members with an axe.

It is clear to this writer that even though Gary Young and his cult members claim to be religious and spiritual, such behavior is in direct contradiction with any religious belief.

3.What happened to Gary Young when equipped with a fake diploma he started practicing medicine without a license:

  • By the early 1980's Young had moved to Spokane, Washington. Although he had no training in medicine, obstetrics, or midwifery, he insisted on delivering his wife's baby underwater in a whirlpool bath. He left the baby under water for an hour. The otherwise normal healthy infant drowned. Although the coroner said that the baby would have lived if she had been delivered in a conventional manner, Young was never charged in that case. His plans for an underwater delivery the previous year had been thwarted when a health department caseworker threatened to prosecute him if he followed through with the plan.
  • In March 1983, Young was arrested in Spokane for practicing medicine without a license when he offered to provide an undercover agent with prenatal services and to treat her mother for cancer. He claimed falsely to be a graduate of "The American Institute of Physioregenerology." But the institute's owner said that Young attended only a few classes, did only 1/3 of the homework, and owed $1,800 in tuition [4-8]. The prosecuting attorney's statement of charges in the case said:

    • UNLAWFUL PRACTICE OF MEDICINE committed as follows: That the defendant, Donald Gary Young, in Spokane County, Washington, on or about February 24, 1983, then and there being, did then and there offer or undertake to diagnose, advise or prescribe for a human physical condition, or offer to penetrate the tissue of another human being, by means as follows: offering to deliver a baby of another person; by offering to treat another person for cancer and to detect the presence of cancer in another by. means of a blood sample which he would draw and by a blood test which he would interpret; and by offering to determine the nutritional needs of another person during pregnancy by drawing blood and interpreting the results of a blood test; the defendant at such time not having a valid unrevoked license to practice medicine.

    Young pled guilty to the unlawful practice of medicine and was sentenced to a year of probation. In the plea document he "explained" that he "was engaged in consulting [sic] people in alternative cancer therapy [sic] and offering dietary help in order to give people a program that would work."


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Sunday 5 March 2017

Young Living: Pure or Poison?



Have you ever trusted someone completely...only to discover they were hurting you all along?

Well, if you love Young Living oils, prepare to be emotionally compromised.

 In 2015, a California non-profit whose mission is to safeguard the public from health hazards, independently tested Young Living supplements and found 8 of their products contained dangerous levels of LEAD! I know...MIND BLOWN!

 Here’s the guilty line-up:

             Young Living Balance Complete Vanilla Cream
             Young Living Power Meal Vanilla Cream
             Young Living JuvaPower
             Young Living MultiGreens
             Young Living ComforTone
             Young Living FemiGen
             Young Living JuvaTone
             Young Living ICP

Someone please explain to me how a company that boasts of unrivaled “purity” has managed to widely distribute one of the most dangerous toxins!?

 The above products were found to contain more than .5 micrograms of lead. How dangerous could a microgram be? Terrifyingly dangerous! Lead exposures of just 0.0125-0.1875 micrograms per day have been associated with birth defects!

 How did Young Living’s CEO Gary Young respond to this crisis? Did he immediately recall the dangerous products? No. Did he issue a profound apology to the distributors and users who have been harmed by his product? No. He resigned to pursue “personal interests.”

 It gets worse. Did Young Living overhaul its leadership and processes to ensure future product safety? No. It merely promoted Gary Young’s wife to CEO!

 Young Living did make one significant change. All questions about the CEO switch are now fielded directly to Mr. Dan Rene, the senior VP of Levick PR, who according to the firm website, “specializes in high-profile reputation protection for companies embroiled in tax evasion charges, public crises, or reputational threats.”

Congratulations Young Living, you have completely lost my confidence.






The day Young Living broke my heart

Tuesday 31 January 2017

The Truth about Gary Young, Founder/CEO of Young Living

Recently, I started looking into essential oils for my fam. I had just gotten the babe to sleep and had curled up with some peppermint tea when I made the fateful Google search—“Young Living Founder and CEO Gary Young.” I was surprised by the number of negative articles that popped up. At first I dismissed the claims as outlandish and tried to distract myself with an article on frankincense oil. I mean, surely, this ‘esteemed specialist’ can’t only have a high school diploma, right?! But I couldn’t get rid of the pit in my stomach. In fact, I ended up spending the next month digging through court records, government inquiries, and expert testimonies. I was finally forced to admit that Gary Young is not a man to be trusted. Indeed, he has blatantly lied about his education, his certifications, and even his honors in order to increase his credibility and profit. Young Living Essential Oils has clearly tried to bury Gary Young’s past—particularly records of his multiple arrests.[1] It is my hope that sharing these documents will prevent you and your family from being hurt.

Education

Throughout his career, Gary Young has asserted that he is a “lifelong student.”[2] On his personal website, it states that “Between 1982 and 1985, Gary attended Bernadean University and earned a doctorate in naturopathy.” So Gary Young attended university for three years, right? Wrong! Bernadean, is nothing but a mail-order diploma mill that was never approved or accredited to offer any courses or degrees and was eventually exposed as a fraud by the Nevada Supreme Court.[3] Yikes! Even after the “university” was closed, Gary Young continued to publicize his “degree” on the Young Living website and in his self-funded publications.[4]
 
If you are unfamiliar with the phenomenon of diploma mills in the 1980s check out this startling New York Times piece by Laufey V. Bustany (who holds a Master of Science degree in nutrition from Rutgers University and is a registered dietician). In the article, Bustany asserts, "Diploma mills [were] producing charlatans at an unprecedented rate. Not only do these organizations abuse the public's trust in professional degrees, but also entice students into "a partnership of fraud." Gary Young definitely qualifies as one of the “charlatans” of which Bustany warns.

Remarkably, the Bernadean University episode was not the first time Gary Young claimed a false degree. Prior to establishing Young Living Essential Oils, Gary Young ran a “clinic” in Rosarita Beach, Mexico. The clinic’s literature listed him as a graduate of the American Institute of Physioregenerology. But Mike Maher—the Spokane resident who founded and operated the institute—reported that Gary Young had never even come close to graduating. Indeed, Gary Young attended only a few classes, completed only a third of the homework, and owed $1,800 in tuition. Gary Young was forced to admit that he never secured a diploma from the institute and that his brochures simply had a “typographical error.”[5] I’m so sure!
What exactly was Gary Young providing in his Tijuana clinic? He claimed that “a three-week stay in his clinic and $6,000 will bring a patient into remission. A cure can be effected for $10,000. He claims a 90% cure rate for lupus and says that only 63 have died out of the last 1,000 patients he has treated during the last four years.”[6] The clinic also offered iridology, live cell analysis, and “blood crystallization,” which he claimed could detect degenerative diseases five to eight years before they caused symptoms. The L.A. Times ran an undercover, scathing report on Gary Young’s clinic. It is too hilarious to not include here word-for-word:
Some diagnostic methods used by Tijuana clinics that cater mainly to Americans appear as bizarre as the treatments offered. 

Upon request, the Rosarita Beach Clinic, run by naturopath Don Gary Young, sends a prospective patient a kit with sharp pins and two glass slides. The patient is directed to puncture the little finger of each hand and make five blood spots on each slide, one for the left hand and one for the right. The slides are then mailed along with $60 to the clinic for diagnosis.

A Times reporter prepared two slides, using blood from a healthy 7-year-old, 20-pound tabby cat named Boomer that belongs to Glendale veterinarian Ahmed Kalek. The slides were presented at the clinic by the reporter who identified himself as a prospective patient.

Sharon Reynolds, "health educator" at the clinic, who also casts horoscopes for patients at $50 each, examined the slides under a microscope that projects an image on a television monitor. She said she found evidence of "aggressive cancer" in the cells as well as liver problems. 

The cancer, she said, had been in the reporter's system for four or five years.

"You must have suspected something," she said, gazing up with sorrowful eyes.

The reporter said he had not suspected anything and suggested that another "blood crystallization" test be conducted that day. This time his own blood was used and Reynolds found signs of "latent" cancer but no evidence of "aggressive" cancer. She said that liver dysfunction was still evident as well as pancreas and thyroid problems.

She suggested another test be done in the near future and said in her report:

"Elevated level of toxicity must be reduced in order to promote assimilation, increase oxygenation and prevent degeneration. We recommend a supervised program of cleansing, detox and rebuilding."
The detoxification program at the clinic, which consists of colonics, a special diet and various nostrums, costs $2,000 per week, payable in advance. An at-home program is also available for $90 plus about $400 worth of vitamins and supplements that Young sells through his vitamin company in California.

The Times mailed a third set of slides for the follow-up test suggested by Reynolds. This time blood from a chicken in a Chinatown poultry shop was used.

Red cells in chicken blood are oval-shaped and have no nuclei--distinctly different from the round non-nucleated red cells in the blood of mammals when viewed under a microscope, experts say.
Nevertheless, the Rosarita Beach Clinic diagnosed the chicken blood as if it were from a human.
"There is inflammation in the liver," the clinic's report said. "Your blood is indicating the possibility of a pre-lymphomic (sic) condition. It appears as though you've recently undergone a high level of upset in your life which has weakened your immune response considerably."

It closed with the earlier prescription for detoxification, word for word.

Dr. Faramarz Naeim, head of hematopathology at the UCLA Medical Center, was asked by The Times to look at the cat and human blood slides as well as a chicken blood slide similar to the one sent to the clinic.

Naeim, who was told nothing about the blood, immediately asked about one slide:

"Is this human blood? It looks like chicken blood."

Naeim also said that blood slides used for valid diagnostic purposes must be thinly smeared and stained so that individual cells can be clearly seen under a microscope. Naeim and other blood analysts point out that information from such examinations is limited and is normally used in conjunction with other medical data in reaching a diagnosis.

'Just Drops of Clotted Blood'

The blood on the slides prepared for the Rosarita Beach Clinic was not smeared or stained and the cells are lumped together.

"They are just drops of clotted blood," he said.

Of the clinic's written diagnoses, he said:

"This is just garbage. It just contains words and terminology without making much sense. . . . It's crazy."

Sharon Reynolds, Rosarita Beach Clinic health educator, later defended her analysis of the chicken blood in a telephone interview.

"I have never seen chicken blood before, so I wouldn't know," she said. "If that had been human blood that would have been an accurate analysis of the blood.

"This is not a test where we see things in any way that a (conventional) blood test sees them," she continued. "I analyzed it in good faith. . . . As warm-blooded animals apparently we have things in common."

As for Boomer the cat, Reynolds insisted that, "It was not a healthy cat. That cat probably has leukemia. . . . If the cat is acting healthy, the cat could be a carrier of leukemia."

Mary Nightingale, assistant to veterinarian Kalek, said Boomer was tested for leukemia after the clinic diagnosis and was found to be neither afflicted with nor carrying the disease.

Sometimes, the "blood crystallization" analysis is used at the clinic to test the blood of a patient's family members and, if a disease is allegedly found, the family member might also be treated.[7]
More alarmingly, still, Gary Young also treated cancer patients with laetrile. Laetrile has been exposed as a potentially lethal treatment which causes the body to create cyanide in toxic amounts.[8]

Licenses & Certifications

Gary Young has never been licensed to practice naturopathy—but this hasn’t stopped him from claiming otherwise. From 1983–1993, Gary Young was arrested three times for practicing medicine without a license, served 60 days in jail, and even plead guilty on at least one of the counts.

For example, in March 1983, Young was arrested in Spokane for practicing medicine without a license when he offered to provide an undercover agent with prenatal services and to treat her mother for cancer. (He again claimed falsely to be a graduate of The American Institute of Physioregenerology). The prosecuting attorney's statement of charges in the case said:

UNLAWFUL PRACTICE OF MEDICINE committed as follows: That the defendant, Donald Gary Young, in Spokane County, Washington, on or about February 24, 1983, then and there being, did then and there offer or undertake to diagnose, advise or prescribe for a human physical condition, or offer to penetrate the tissue of another human being, by means as follows: offering to deliver a baby of another person; by offering to treat another person for cancer and to detect the presence of cancer in another by. means of a blood sample which he would draw and by a blood test which he would interpret; and by offering to determine the nutritional needs of another person during pregnancy by drawing blood and interpreting the results of a blood test; the defendant at such time not having a valid unrevoked license to practice medicine.

Young pled guilty to the unlawful practice of medicine and was sentenced to a year of probation. In the plea document he "explained" that he "was engaged in consulting [sic] people in alternative cancer therapy [sic] and offering dietary help in order to give people a program that would work."

Despite Gary Young’s multiple arrests, in April 2002, he still maintained that he was a licensed N.D. A physician who telephoned Young Living was told that Young was formally approved to practice naturopathy in Utah. The physician knew that the Utah Division of Professional Licensing (USOPL) website lists the numbers of all licensed naturopaths and asked the Young Living employee for Young’s license number. The employee said it could not be given out. After the physician complained to the UDOPL, Young Living removed the title N.D. and references to Young as a naturopath from its website, but this misleading

information is still posted on a biography website that can be accessed from Gary Young’s personal blog.[9]
Ironically, Gary Young would have no reason to acquire a license because in Utah it is illegal for a licensed naturopath to "own, directly or indirectly, a retail store, wholesaler, distributor, manufacturer, or facility of any other kind located in this state that is engaged in the sale, dispensing, delivery, distribution, or manufacture of homeopathic remedies, dietary supplements, or natural medicines."

Gary Young has also claimed that he is the only certified aromacologist in the United States—receiving his formal training from the Royal Masonic Hospital in London. But the Royal Masonic Hospital has refuted that they don’t even know who Gary Young is.

Honors

Gary Young’s “honors” are also boldface lies. In 1985, he boasted that he received the Humanitarian Award from the State Medical Examiner’s Office of Baja, California (one of six ever awarded) for his research and successful treatment of degenerative disease. The State Medical Examiner’s Office has flatly denied this claim. Gary Young has also asserted that he studied essential oil chemistry and was invited to give lectures at Anadolu University in Turkey—you guessed it, false.

Conclusion

Perhaps you are still trying to internally defend Gary Young. I know the feeling. You may be telling yourself, “Gary Young may have had a colorful past but he is still an authority on essential oils, right?” Wrong. Several actual experts in the field of essential oils—all on the JEOR (Journal of Essential Oil Research) editorial panel—have formally responded to the transcript of Young's tape "The Missing Link" which has been posted widely on the Internet. This tape is his manifesto on essential oil’s healing powers. The experts concurred that his ideas are pure junk science. Robert P. Adams of Baylor University wrote, "Pure garbage. Nothing else." And Rodney Croteau of Washington State University declared, "Mr. Young's writings are among the most unscientific and intellectually unsound that I have ever read. There is no doubt that Mr. Young is a genuine quack."

Ultimately, if I cannot trust the CEO and Founder of Young Living, why on earth would I trust their product?

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Friday 13 January 2017

Shady Sourcing: Why I Can’t Trust Young living’s Essential Oils

Last week, was a total treat—I was invited to tour the farm that supplies the organic milk and free-range eggs that I buy at my local health store. Let's just say that getting some face-to-face time with the farm’s five new calves was the highlight of my summer. Anyways, the drive home was filled with an epiphany moment: that brand's ethics matter—really, really matter.

It might sound overly sentimental, but knowing where/how a product is sourced can make a profound difference. Being “source aware” is good for the soul, it’s good for the body, and it’s good for this friendly place we called Earth.

I started thinking about the origins of other products that I use on the daily. I was feeling pretty good about my Mrs. Meyers cleaning products, Puracy Shampoo, and SSEKO bags (gold, leather, and fair trade—yes, please!) but what about all my EO's (essential oils)? Somewhere between pouring drops of Lemon and Eucalyptus oils in my diffuser and sparkling water, I thought "Wait, where this really coming from is?"
So, I dived into some research. First off, I have to admit (blush) I wasn’t the brand-loyal girl out-there, so my essential oils drawer had a bit of everything—Young Living, doTERRA, and a couple other labels like Aura Cacia and Fabulous Franny. Anyways, turns out a little digging revealed quite a lot:

The (Seemingly) Good: Of all the brands I had in my oil entourage, both Young Living and doTERRA seemed to address and publish both their sourcing and ethics the most openly. DoTERRA stands by their “Source to You” (a really in-depth program that covers all sorts of good policies—from partnering with underdeveloped countries/fair trade to super transparent sourcing) and Young Living had this neat "Seed to Seal" promise. Their website emphasized their oil’s purity came from owning their own farms and controlling what goes into every bottle.

The Sketch: Okay, here’s where the bad news comes in, as I was looking into whole "Seed to Seal" from Young Living, I realized it’s sounds fantastic, but it is a bold-faced lie. Young Living claims to control all their oil sourcing, but when you take time to look at how many farms they own (and compare it to the amount of products they sell) things really, really don’t add up. We're talking about seven farms (that are less than _____ acres) creating all _________ products every year? Yep—that’s impossible. The more research I did, the worse it got.

On the flip side, when it comes to sourcing, I give the thumbs up to doTERRA’s oil origins. First off, they are a heck of a lot more realistic. I really appreciated all the material they publish about where each oil comes from—with a map, links, and stories describing the partnership farms all over the world. Plus, I became an ever bigger fan when I read about their Co-Impact Initiative. Three cheers for transparency! You can even find super specific details on doTERRA setting up ethical working practices everywhere from Nepal to Somalia and Madagascar.

And then the Ugly: Jumping back to Young Living, things went from bad to worse when I found this article all about false documentation. This leads me to a chain of examples where third-party testers discovering synthetic substitutes in Young Living’s oils, like Jasmine and Birch. All that info made me more than a bit sad—the whole purpose of essential oils was to embrace Mother Nature’s way of bringing us back in balance. But touting an oil is “all” natural when it’s synthetic is just aggravating. It’s like putting a “12-grain Sprouted Wheat” label on white bread. Not okay.

Anyways, on Saturday, when I went to purchase frankincense oil—it wasn’t a hard choice. Young Living’s and DoTERRA’s prices are about the same (in fact doTERRA is slightly less expensive) but I felt a lot better swiping my card for doTERRA because A.) They aren’t hiding their sources B.) Their third party testing C.) Their actively working to be ethically/socially responsible. Here's to the investing in the good stuff!

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Thursday 12 January 2017

A Dangerous Mind: Gary Young

I hopelessly see the best in people. I defend the callous customer service rep., justify the aggressive flight attendant, even pity the petty thief. (My compulsion for compassion drives my husband crazy).
However, there is one individual whom I can no longer, in any way, pardon: “Dr.” Gary Young.
For those of you who don’t know, Gary Young is the tycoon founder and CEO of Young Living Essential Oils. I need to inhale some lavender oil just thinking about the man. Serenity now. Serenity now. Serenity now!
I used to love Young Living essential oils—frankincense, tea tree, jasmine—but after discovering Gary Young’s disturbing past, I have lost all trust in the organization. Indeed, I am stunned that Young Living’s leadership even allows him to be affiliated with the brand.
Ultimately, it’s only a matter of time until 20/20 does a scathing exposé on this man. In the meantime, below is a detailed timeline of Gary Young’s deceptive and dangerous dealings. As you can imagine, it took ages to assemble. But, it’s worth it if it protects someone from being hurt.
1973: The “Accident”
Gary Young has repeatedly claimed that as a young man he was left paralyzed by a logging injury to the head. According to an account on his website:
“After three weeks in a coma and four months in intensive care, Gary found himself paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair for life, according to the doctors’ prognoses.”
“I had three open skull fractures, and then I got meningitis lying in the hospital. I had 16 crushed vertebrae, 11 ruptured disks, 19 broken bones, and my spinal cord was herniated in two areas.”
It is remarkable considering his extended ICU treatment that no documentation of the critical injury has ever been found or provided. More suspicious still, Gary Young’s story has changed—significantly. He boasts that he cured himself with fasting and essential oils. But his brochure from 1987 solely attributed his recovery to “Oscillation Frequency Stimulation Infusion” without even mentioning essential oils. Hmm.
1981: First Arrest
Gary Young is convicted of a misdemeanor for practicing medicine without a license in Spokane, Washington. He is hit with 30 days in jail and a year-long probation.
1982: Infanticide
Although Gary Young lacks any training in medicine, obstetrics, or midwifery, he insists on delivering his first wife’s baby in a hottub. He left the baby under water for an hour! The otherwise normal and healthy infant drowned.
The coroner said that the baby would have lived if she had been delivered in a conventional manner, yet Gary Young is never charged in the case.
Gary Young’s plans for a similar whirlpool delivery the previous year had been thwarted when a health department caseworker threatened to prosecute him.
1983: Second Arrest
An undercover police officer asks Young if he will oversee a water birth for her. He declines, but offers prenatal care and cancer treatment for the woman's mother.
On March 9, he is then arrested by the Washington State police for practicing medicine without a license, for which he is convicted.
A bench warrant is also issued on June 27. Gary Young is given a 60 day suspended sentence and a full year probation for practicing without a license.
1986: The “Typographical Error”
Gary Young claims that he graduated from the American Institute of Phystoregenerology, but the Institute retorts that he never came close to graduating (he attended only a few classes, completed only a third of the homework, and owed $1,800 in tuition).
Ultimately, Gary Young is forced to admit that he never secured a diploma from the institute and that his brochure simply had a “typographical error.” (His only legitimate diploma is from Challis High School).
The prosecuting attorney’s statement of charges in the case says:
UNLAWFUL PRACTICE OF MEDICINE committed as follows: That the defendant, Donald Gary Young, in Spokane County, Washington, on or about February 24, 1983, then and there being, did then and there offer or undertake to diagnose, advise or prescribe for a human physical condition, or offer to penetrate the tissue of another human being, by means as follows: offering to deliver a baby of another person; by offering to treat another person for cancer and to detect the presence of cancer in another by means of a blood sample which he would draw and by a blood test which he would interpret; and by offering to determine the nutritional needs of another person during pregnancy by drawing blood and interpreting the results of a blood test; the defendant at such time not having a valid unrevoked license to practice medicine.
1986: Mailorder Diploma
On Gary Young’s personal website, it states that “Between 1982 and 1985, he attended Bernadean University and earned a doctorate in naturopathy.” So Gary Young attended university for three years, right? Wrong! Bernadean, is nothing but a mail-order diploma mill that was never approved or accredited to offer any courses or degrees and was eventually exposed as a fraud by the Nevada Supreme Court. Yikes! Even after the “university” was closed, Gary Young continued to publicize his “degree” on the Young Living website and in his self-funded publications.
1987: The Cancer Clinics
From Spokane, Young moves to Mexico. By this time he has divorced Donna and married his second wife, Dixie. Gary Young claims that a three-week stay in his Baja or Tijuana clinic (and $6,000) will bring a cancer patient into remission. A cancer cure could be effected for $10,000.
The clinic also “specializes” in interpreting blood samples. Dr. John Renner, a Board Member of the National Council Against Health Fraud, submits his own normal blood under three different names. The results varied wildly from “non-aggressive cancer cells” to “problems in the intestinal tract” to “pancreatic dysfunction.”
On October 23, a scathing undercover report by the L.A. Times further exposes Gary Young as a complete fraud when a reporter sends in healthy cat and chicken blood samples and is told that he has aggressive cancer and liver problems.
It is also worth noting that one of the clinic “treatments” was laetrile—which can be fatal due to forming cyanide in the body. This practice is strictly illegal.
1988: Third Arrest
Gary serves 60 days in jail and a full year probation for again practicing medicine without a license in Fife, Washington.
1988: Clinics Ordered Closed
On March 3, the State of California shuts down Gary Young’s clinic and fines him $10,000. The State finds that Gary Young made misleading representations, advertised drugs/devices that claimed to cure cancer, and practiced medicine without a license.
1992: Young Living Essential Oils Founded
By 1992, Gary Young divorces Dixie and marries his third wife, Mary Billeter Young. Taking cues from Mary’s previous multilevel marketing experience, Gary Young launches Young Living Essential Oils.
1993: Fourth Arrest
Gary Young is arrested for practicing medicine in Spokane, Washington—again! He pleads guilty.
1993: Fired from Young Living Essential Oils
On September 27, Gary Young is dismissed and terminated as President of Young Living for fraudulent misrepresentation of himself as a doctor to stockholders and the misuse of company funds to support personal endeavors.
1993: Fifth Arrest
Later that day, Gary Young returns to the office, shoves his second wife down the stairs and confronts his son and an employee at the back door with an axe. He is taken away by the authorities. His shaken victims are all issued protective orders by the Superior Court of Washington.
1996: Mother Knows
In a sworn statement on June 19, Gary Young’s mother attests that he is guilty of physical and emotional abuse to his wife and children.
1998: “Studying” in Turkey
Gary Young claims to be studying essential oil chemistry and giving lectures at Anadolu University in Turkey. His assertions are found to be wholly unsubstantiated by Dr. Stephen Barrett.
1999: First FDA Warning Letter
FDA warns of the drug use of Young Living’s Esspro7.
2000: Synthetics Discovered
Dr. Robert Pappas (while a paid consultant of Young Living) analyzes a birch essential oil sample and finds synthetics. Gary Young demands an apology for the results, but Pappas stands his ground.
2000: Young Life Research Clinic
Gary Young opens Young Life Research Clinic Institute of Natural Medicine in Springville , Utah. It offers testing ranging from “iridology, quantum xrroid, and live blood cell analysis.” Offered treatments include bio-electric field enhancements, colonic irrigations, raindrop therapy, prescribed Young Living supplements and oils.
Based on eight case studies celebrated by Young Life Research Clinic (at the yearly Young Living convention), typical treatment is incredibly costly and involves a complex regime Young Living oils and supplements as the majority of treatments. A brief internet search reveals that four months after the Young Living case study presentation, two of the eight participants had already passed away.
Because Gary Young does not have a license to practice medicine, he employs Sherman Johnson, M.D., (a pediatrician who doesn't have board certification) to run the clinic instead.
Before working at Young’s clinic, Johnson’s license was suspended for five years after being charged with a felony for misprescribing enormous amounts narcotics to his mistress. More shocking still, Johnson attempted to cover up his role in her death by listing the cause of death as pneumonia and ovarian cancer on her death certificate. Six months later, police exhumed her body. A medical examination showed no signs of ovarian cancer forcing Johnson to plead guilty to manslaughter. You can read Johnson’s disciplinary record on The Utah Division of Professional Licensing (DOPL) website.
2000: Raindrop Therapy
Young markets his “Raindrop Technique,” a controversial process where seven undiluted essential oils, two Young Living formulated blends, and two massage oils are dropped on the skin—often in concentrations that exceed the recommended safe doses.
Gary Young claims that his Raindrop Technique can treat scoliosis and rid the body of toxins/viruses. There is no scientific basis to this claim. What’s more, there’s no evidence that scoliosis is caused by either a virus or a toxin.
To build clout, Young states that he developed his Raindrop Technique after learning from Wallace Black Elk, a Lakota Sioux medicine man. Black Elk’s assistant went on record to state that that Black Elk did not ever collaborate with, teach any massage elements, or endorse the technique [22].
Gary Young also insists that veterinarians should use this technique. But still, no data has ever proven that the Raindrop Technique has helped with any animal or human medical conditions.
Take a quick scan through the National Association of Holistic Aromatherapists’ white paper which tears into his Raindrop Therapy in detail.
2000: More Blood on His Hands
A homemade Young Living’s distiller ruptures, killing a Young Living employee at the Mona, Utah, facility.
2000: 2nd FDA warning
On October 7, the FDA issues a letter to Young Living warning the company to never again claim that its products treat, prevent, cure, or mitigate disease.
2000: 3rd FDA warning
On December 20, the FDA issues another letter of warning to Young Living.
2000: 4th FDA warning
The FDA issues yet another letter of warning to Young Living.
2002: 5th FDA warning
The FDA identifies violations in the labeling of Young Living’s stevia dietary supplement.
2005: Kidney Failure
A Young Life patient Anne Adkins sues Gary Young’s clinic for her kidney failure, which almost killed her. She had no history of kidney problems prior to receiving Gary Young’s “treatments.” In a Utah federal complaint, she alleges that Gary Young used dangerous and unproven therapies.
2005: The End of the Clinic
Gary Young closes Young Life Research Clinic without warning or explanation in the middle of seeing patients. He moves to Ecuador.
2015: Lead Detected
A California non-profit whose mission is to safeguard the public from health hazards, independently tests Young Living supplements and finds that 8 of their products contain dangerous levels of LEAD.
2015: Resigns
Just 20 days following the lead revelation, Gary Young resigns to pursue “personal interests.” His wife, Mary, is promoted to CEO of Young Living. All questions about the CEO switch are now fielded directly to Mr. Dan Rene, the senior VP of Levick PR, who according to the firm website, “specializes in high-profile reputation protection for companies embroiled in tax evasion charges, public crises, or reputational threats.”



 

Tuesday 10 January 2017

Distilling the Truth on Gary Young



In my early years with Young Living, I was a big fan of its founder and CEO, Gary Young. I particularly loved hearing Young’s stories about building the company from nothing.

Even then, however, I remember being alarmed when he described making a homemade distiller by welding two pressure cookers together.

Don’t get me wrong—I’m all for DIYing, but for me, safety always comes first.

The more I read into Young Living, the more I started to realize that perhaps all this “hoopla” about Gary Young’s distillery prowess  (like this blog post or this and this history sketch) might be just edge on the sided of distorted marketing mumbo jumbo. I was worried. Could Gary Young’s really be feigning expertise in an area of something seemingly so complex?

Then, in 2000, my fears were confirmed.

That year, on August 17, one of Gary Young’s famous homemade distillers dramatically ruptured. The explosion of the huge distillery fatally wounded Juan Gomez, a father of four, and a worker at the Young Living farm in Mona, Utah.

This heartbreaking episode spurred an eye-opening UOSHD investigation. The findings were shocking.  Not only was the fatal accident avoidable, UOSHD realized that in many ways Gary Young’s purported “expertly developed” distillers were actually fraught with errors and high-risk elements. One UOSHD report on case reads:

“No consideration was given in the design and construction of distillation vessels with respect to American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) requirements pertaining to the design and construction of pressure vessels.”[1]

In fact, the agency further exposed that the exploding vessel had not been equipped with a single type of safety device that could relieve overpressurization.  Eventually, Gary Young unit was cited with over seven different violations.

 At first, when I read the UOSHD report, I found myself wanting to defend Young.  Perhaps, he was unaware of the risks. Perhaps, Gary Young’s true lack of distillery education (see M.D. Eva F. Briggs, article) prevented him from anticipating such an error.

But, it turns out that only a year earlier UOSHD had found and warned YLEO that Gary’s distillers were subpar. In fact, two other YELO distillation units were forcefully taken out of service after the inspector noticed safety violations. A year later—without significant safety adjustments made—the August 17th tragedy occurred.

 Ultimately, I can’t stop thinking about the implications of this preventable tragedy. If the Young Living founder is this flippant about the safety of his employees, how can I possibly trust the safety of Young Living’s essential oils?


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