A Critical Look at Gary Young,

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 . This is only legitimate educational credential that I have been able to verify.

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 .

Professor Dr. Mustafa Keviz, a lecturer on the Agricultural and Plants faculty of Anadolu University, stated that Gary Young had never given any lectures there. The United Nations Development Organization never sponsored Young or invited him to speak. He showed up uninvited and convinced some officials to permit him to present on two topics. Professor Dr. K. Husnu Can Basar (then director of the Medical and Aromatic Plant and Drug Research Center, Anadolu University) described Young's presentation as inconsequential .

That is the background of Gary Young.

Essential Science Publishing, of Orem Utah, sells books, videotapes, and audiotapes, some of which propound Gary Young's ridiculous theories and claims for essential oils. This enables false claims that would be illegal in advertising to reach consumers through channels protected by freedom of the press.

Gary Young is an uneducated huckster with a track record of arrests for health fraud. He has repeatedly inflated and falsified his education, credentials, and experiences. His inability to recognize the limits of his knowledge and training contributed to the death of his own child. Sherman Johnson, M.D., a medical director of the now-defunct Young Life Research Clinic, deliberately administered a lethal dose of narcotics to a long-time friend, and then attempted to cover his actions by falsifying the death certificate. There is no reason to believe that either Young or Johnson has sufficient judgment, skill, or ethics to appropriately care for seriously ill patients.

Donald Gary Young. In the Superior Court of the State of Washington in and for the County of Spokane, filed March 8, 1983.

Young DG. Statement of defendant on plea of guilty. State of Washington v. Donald Gary Young. In the Superior Court of the State of Washington in and for the County of Spokane. , June 27, 1983.

G. Y. Research Institute of Natural Medicine d/b/a Young Life Research Clinic - Institute of Natural Medicine; D. Gary Young; Roger B. Lewis, M.D.; David K. Hill, D.C.; Michael Alsop, D.C.; and Patrick Gunther, L.Ac. United States District Court for the District of Utah, Case No. 2:05CV00894, filed Oct 28, 2005.