Young Living Essential Oils - Gary Young

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I have to vent here and hopefully will debunk an aromatherapy myth in the process. http://small-url.com/?5I http://forum.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=messageboard.viewThread & entryID=39768867 & categoryID=0 & IsSticky=0 & groupID=102565295 & Mytoken=15FC738B-B3C9-4564-9E3BD6BA51B3819B4169680I dear acquaintance of mine was espousing the miraculous qualities of Young Living Essential Oils today.First of all "Dr." Young will not disclose where he went to medical school.Plain and simple, this guy is good at marketing and his current wife is a marketing genius who was at one time in the higher echelon of Sunrider International. Building. Together they have launched their Young Living lies to cult status.Gary Young is now living in Ecuador. He claims it's because he's more free there to do the scientific research he needs to do to bring aromatherapy back to its respected status as a medical therapy. This is absolutely not true. Gary Young pretty much fled to Eduador because the legal heat was getting to be too much here in the states - which is pretty hard to do in Utah.From Quackwatch:This article describes the background and activities of self-styled naturopath Donald Gary Young, his multi-level marketing company Young Living Essential Oils, his former Young Life Research Clinic Institute of Natural Medicine, and his Raindrop Therapy. Also known as Don Gary Young, D. Gary Young, and Gary Young, he was born in Salmon, Idaho on July 11, 1949 and graduated from the Challis, Idaho high school on May 23, 1967 [1]. This is only legitimate educational credential that I have been able to verify.By 1981, Young moved to Spokane and opened the Golden Six Health Club in Sprague, Washington. Although he had no training in obstetrics or midwifery, he decided to deliver his wife's baby underwater in a whirlpool bath at the health club. He left the baby under water for almost an hour, causing the death of an apparently healthy infant on September 4, 1982. 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 [4-8].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].In 1988, Young was arrested in California for misleading and deceptive advertising and for selling supposed cures [13-15]. An undercover agent submitted a sample of her blood with a fictitious male name for the bogus "blood crystallization" test. Young reportedly told her that she had prostate cancer with cells that could act in a "potentially aggressive manner." Other charges against Young included selling unapproved medical devices and unapproved new drugs, manufacturing medical devices and drugs without a license, advertising drugs and devices to cure cancer, and practicing medicine without a license.He states that Bernadean University awarded him a masters degree in nutrition in 1984 and a doctor of naturopathy degree in 1985. However, Bernadean is a notorious mail-order diploma mill that has never been authorized to grant degreesYoung has never been licensed, as a naturopath in Utah or in any other state [17]. In April 2002, the Young Living web site used the title N.D. (naturopathic doctor) after Young's name and stated that Young was a naturopath. 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 sitesYoung also claims expertise in the design of equipment for the distillation of essential oils and says that he has designed and built several distillers for producing his oils. However, records from the Utah Occupational Safety and Health Division (UOSHD) suggest otherwise. On August 17, 2000, one of his homemade distillers ruptured at the lid/cover joint, fatally wounding a worker at Young Living Farms in Mona, Utah. The UOSHD's investigation concluded that "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." The agency's report said that the vessel had not been equipped with any type of device that could relieve overpressurization within it. Young Living was fined a total of $10,280 for seven safety violations found in the investigation of this accident. The report also noted that in 1999, two other distillation units had been taken out of service after the inspector found violations [25].Young and his third wife Mary Billeter Young started Young Living Essential Oils (YLEO) in Utah in 1992. The company justifies high prices by claiming that its products are purer than those of its competitors, but it provides no comparative information to support these assertions.In October 2005, Young, the clinic, and several members of the clinic staff were sued by a woman from Kansas who alleged that their treatment had caused her kidneys to fail and nearly killed her [42]. The complaint stated:* During a three-week period in which she was under the defendants' care, the woman underwent suspect diagnostic tests and was treated with multiple types of dubious treatments that included chelation therapy, hydrogen peroxide infusions, vitamin C infusions, and colonic irrigation.* Toward the end of her stay, she developed nausea, violent vomiting, weakness, and disorientation.* The clinic staff failed to recognize the nature or seriousness of the problem or make an emergency referral for appropriate treatment even when her she stopped producing urine.* Within hours of returning home to Wichita, Kansas, the woman was hospitalized for severe kidney failure from which she nearly died.The presumed cause of the kidney failure was the intravenous vitamin C, which can impair kidney function by causing calcium oxalate crystals to be deposited in the kidney tubules [43-45]. The lawsuit was settled with payment of an undisclosed sum.Around the time that the suit as filed, posted a note on its Web site that was closing the clinic and moving to Ecuador, where that country’s “constitution promotes and supports natural and traditional medicine.” [46] It seems likely that the relocation was related to fear of further regulatory action.