Meet Gary Young, Founder and President of Young Living Essential Oils

Gary Young, Founder and President of Young Living Essential Oils

America's foremost expert on essential oils and their therapeutic uses, D. Gary Young, is one of the few producers in the world who is devoted to producing pure, unadulterated, therapeutic-quality essential oils for public use.

Gary Young's credentials are impeccable. 

• He studied essential oils under Dr. Jean-Claude Lapraz, M.D., at the Geneva Medical University in Switzerland.  Dr. Lapraz, a French researcher, is famous his pioneering use of essential oils to treat and cure chronic respiratory diseases.
• Later, Gary Young went to Paris to study under Paul Belaiche, M.D., a leading French physician who brought much-needed understanding to the western world regarding the previously unknown chemical properties of essential oils.
• He then went on to the prestigious Warwick University in England, as well as the University of London, to conduct private research into the essential oils.
• Later, raveling to Cairo, Egypt, he studied essential oils under Dr. R.S. Farag, head of the biochemistry department at Cairo University.  Dr. Farag has written and published over 90 medical research papers on the essential oils, and has received more awards than any other person in this field of study.  In that body of work, he has documented the oxygenating molecular activity of essential oils, as well as their powerful anti-oxidant and anti-microbial activity.  (Farag, 1989)

Following this study and research, Gary Young founded his own clinic, where he experimented with pure essential oils and continued his research into their amazing therapeutic properties.  He also contributed to the field of blood crystallization study and helped advance the study of dark field microscopy.

Today, he heads Young Living Essential Oils, the company he founded for the purpose of bringing pure therapeutic-quality essential oils to the public worldwide.  He is one of a handful of experts in the world today who understand the complexity of cultivating, harvesting and distilling of plant materials to produce high quality essential oils.  He is also the first in North America to conduct research and clinical studies on the use of essential oils for the treatment of degenerative diseases.

His farm in Utah cultivates the largest single acreage of lavender in the world, and he is the first in North America to grow organic plants for the distillation of essential oils.