Donald Gary Young (July 11, 1949 - May 12, 2018) is an American businessman who is the founder, president and CEO of Young Living, a multi-level marketing company based in Utah that offers essential oils and medicinal products other alternatives.
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Careers
In the early 1980s, Young briefly studied massage therapy, though he did not complete the course. In 1982, Young opened a clinic in Spokane, Washington, which offered unauthorized medical services, including the birth of a child. In early 1983 when Young was 33 years old, an undercover Washington State police officer approached Young about doing underwater birth, as part of an effort to "oversee all registered professions". Young is reportedly offered to provide prenatal care, and treat maternal cancer officers, and was arrested for practicing medicine without a license, leading to a minor criminal sentence.
In 1986 while promoting himself as a naturopathic physician, Young operated the Rosarita Beach Clinic in Tijuana, Mexico, offered "detoxification" for cancer and lupus using treatments whose efficacy was questioned in an investigative report by the Los Angeles Times. To test the truth of Young's clinical diagnosis, a reporter handed over cat and chicken blood to the clinic staff, who failed to determine that the sample was not human, and subsequently diagnosed that the "patient" had an aggressive form of cancer and liver disease..
In 1989, Young began planting crops in Spokane, Washington, and built two distillation units. In 1993, he founded Young Living Essential Oils in Riverton, Utah. Young then moved the company to Lehi, Utah, and focused on the use of harvesting and extraction methods, which the company marketed without evidence as "a practice practiced during Christ's time." Young Living is reportedly one of the largest essential oil vendors in the United States with over three million subscribers. It operates as a multi-level marketing company in which 94% of Young Life's two million active members generate less than a dollar by 2016.
In addition to selling essential oils to its members, Young Living operates a clinic in Springville, Utah, which releases essential oils and other alternative treatment treatments for a variety of conditions, including cancer and depression. After completing the lawsuit with a former patient claiming vitamin C therapy at a clinic has caused kidney failure, the clinic closes the Utah branch and reopens in Ecuador.
Sales of the company's essential oils grew rapidly in the 2000s. The company's biggest competitor, doTerra, started in 2008 by executives who have left or been fired from Young Living. Young Living and doTerra have been cited by the Food and Drug Administration to make misleading claims about the medical benefits of their products.
In 2014 while Young is chief executive officer (CEO) Young Living, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned him and his company about illegal marketing products not yet FDA approved as a possible treatment or cure for the Ebola virus, and other diseases, including "Parkinson's disease, autism, diabetes, hypertension, cancer, insomnia, heart disease, post-traumatic stress disorder, dementia, and multiple sclerosis, can not accept self-diagnosis and treatment by non-medical practitioners." By 2015, himself as CEO with his wife assuming the role.
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Personal life
Young was born on July 11, 1949. In his teens, Young moved to Canada with the aim of doing homiliading in British Columbia. At the age of 24, he had an almost fatal felling accident, and had to use a wheelchair for a while. When rehabilitating, he studied alternative medicine, which eventually led him to use essential oils in an attempt to relieve his pain.
In 1982, Gary and his wife Donna Young attempted to give birth to her daughter in a whirlpool tub located in Young's "health club", but the child drowned in childbirth. While the death was declared unintentional, the district coroner's report stated that the child is likely to survive if conventional shipments have been made. Young then married again. His new wife, Mary, is the biographer, published by Young Living, and succeeds her husband as CEO of the company in 2015.
Young died on May 12, 2018, in Salt Lake City due to complications from a series of strokes.
Publications
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