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About Young Living
Gary Young, founder of YLEOs
Gary has a strong belief in God. Seeing a need and filling it, he co-creates with God on formulas addressing the problems of the world through his passion—essential oils!
What process does Gary go through when he is making new blends? First, he thinks about what is the need? Then, he asks for divine direction from God. Usually the formula comes to his mind, with exact ratios.
Gary's Story
| On February 8, 1973, Gary Young suffered a crippling injury from a logging accident that changed his life forever. This accident?which nearly cost him his life?transformed him both physically and emotionally and would eventually impact the lives of countless people in ways he could have never imagined. |  |
Gary Young was raised in the central mountains of Idaho on a ranch with no indoor plumbing or electricity. Learning at an early age to survive off the land, he home-steaded 320 acres and began building a sizable ranching and logging operation. It was here that he suffered a near-fatal-logging accident.
After three weeks in a coma and four months in intensive care, Gary found himself paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair for life, according the doctors? prognoses. Following two years of intense pain and depression and three suicide attempts, he resolved to regain control of his life. He fasted o juice and water for almost a year and finally regained sensation in his toes, marking the beginning of his long and painful road toward recovery. Later he embarked on a worldwide investigation of natural medicine, from herbology and acupuncture to nutrition and naturopathy. This relentless research coupled with an iron determination enabled him to eventually regain his mobility and ability to walk. By 1986 Gary was able to run a half-marathon, finishing in the top 10 percent of almost 1,000 contestants.
Relief from Pain
Though mobile, Gary continued to experience intense pain. It was this pain that eventually led him to discover the potential of a powerful but little-known form of natural medicine?essential oils. With a very short time, Gary cast off the persistent pain that he had borne for almost 13 years as he began tapping the power of essential oils.
Worldwide Search for Truth
After receiving a master's degree in nutrition and a doctorate in naturopathy, Gary opened a family practice in Chula Vista, California, and a research clinic in La Mesa, Mexico, where he conducted cutting-edge research in many areas of natural healing. He began investigation the effects that essential oils have on the blood as well as their ability to magnify the effects of other healing have on modalities, such as herbal medicine and acupuncture. His work was of such magnitude that in 1985 he received the Humanitarian Award from the State Medical Examiner's Office of Baja, California (one of only six ever awarded), for his research and successful treatment of degenerative disease. This research eventually led him to combine essential oils with herbal formulas.
Building on his clinical research in the mid 1980s, Gary traveled across three continents and a half-dozen countries to investigate both traditional and modern uses of essential oils, gaining insights on every facet of essential production, from distillation and harvesting to seed selection and crop management.
Despite the enormous poser of essential oils, Gary was unable to fully harness their potential due to the highly varying quality of oils available at the time. While pure essential oils had the ability to produce spectacular results, Gary found that chemically altered or adulterated oils were often ineffective and even harmful.
New Avenues Open Up
This motivated Gary to develop his own organic herb farming and distillation operation in 1993 under the name Young Living Essential Oils. Purchasing land in Utah and Idaho, he began cultivating lavender (Lavandula angustifola), peppermint, melissa (lemon balm), clary sage, and many other herbs. He designed and build the largest, most technologically advanced distillery for the production of essential oils in North America.
In 1995, Gary was invited to Andolu University in Eskisehir, Turkey, by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization to present his research on plant germination and organic farming, as well as his research at Weber State University on the antibacterial properties of essentials.
Gary has continued to probe the fundamental basis of human health on his recent journey to Hunzaland in the Himalayan mountains of northern Pakistan, home to some of the longest-living people known in the worlds. By investigating the Hunza people's dietary and lifestyle practices, Gary obtained important new insights on not only extending life but also avoiding disease.
Over the years, Gary's knowledge of natural medicine and essential oils has become enormously valuable to countless people throughout the world. The company that Gary founded almost a decade ago to disseminate both traditional and modern knowledge of different healing modalities has grown to encompass more than 250,000 distributors in 20 foreign countries. Essential oils have already transformed the way we deal with illness and aging, and they are continuing to revolutionize natural medicine, states Gary Young.
The company that Gary Young founded now leads the industry in production, distribution and nutritional use of essential oils and essential oil enhanced supplements. In Gary Young's words:
"At Young Living Essential Oils, we provide answers to those who are seeking truth. To our commitment to grow, distill, manufacture and market the highest quality products in the world, we're bringing better health, education, joy and prosperity to people everywhere -- improving longevity, and increasing the quality of life."
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