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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 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 left home at age 17 to seek his fortune in the
wilderness of Canada. He homesteaded 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 to 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 on 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, although not without pain.
Dramatic Improvement
It was this pain that eventually led him to discover the potential
of a powerful but little-known form of natural medicine -- essential
oils. Within 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. by 1986 he was able to run a half-marathon, finishing
60th out of 970 participants.
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
investigating the effects that essential oils have on the blood as
well as their ability to magnify the effects of other healing
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 oil production, from distillation and
harvesting to seed selection and crop management.
Despite the enormous power 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 angustifolia), peppermint, melissa (lemon balm), clary
sage, and many other herbs. He designed and built the largest, most
technologically advanced distillery for the production of essential
oils in North America, developing a proprietary distillation process
that preserves the integrity of essential oils.
In 1995, Gary was invited to Anadolu 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 to Weber State University on the properties of
essential oils.
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 world. 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.
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