Sultan
Yusuf Ahmed Salah of Somalia recently posted a YouTube video in which
he claims that Young Essential Oils Founder Gary Young visited
Somalia to test resins from their rare frankincense trees and write
about his journey. According to Salah, Young promised to provide
donations to establish health clinics and money to train teachers.
Young
Living Farms legal department then contacted YouTube to request the
video be removed because it contained copyrighted materials and false
information to defame Young’s character. YouTube then removed the
video. After the video was removed Utah Stories was contacted by two
independent essential oils specialists telling us that Young Living
Farms is trying to silence the truth of what Gary Young did when he
visited Somalia.
Was
Sultan Yusuf Ahmed Salah indeed mislead and lied to by Gary Young? Or
is Salah himself an extortionist, as Young Living Farms claims?
Con
Artist of Healer? D Gary Young – Founder of Young Essential Oils
Salah
says that Young claimed to be a medical doctor and philanthropist,
and that he wanted to donate money to help them build clinics and
train teachers. According to Salah, the money was never sent, but
instead Salah’s photos were used in highly fictionalized account of
the events which occurred in Young Living Farms newsletter called
Essential
Edge to
promote Young’s successful very dangerous frankincense collection
trip to Somalia.
The
photos, used in a four-part series on Young’s Somalia trip, depict
Salah as a friend and protector of Young. Young writes in his
newsletter that Sultan Yusuf Ahmed Salah showed up to the airport to
ensure his safety. According to Salah, Young came to his village
without proper notice began asking for photos and misleading him and
his people with promises. Salah said he was most offended by how Gary
Young used his men to pose for photos demonstrating the “danger”
of his journey by posing with their guns.
Certainly
this story has a great deal more detail than what we are able to
present. Later in the day,Young Essential Oils Marketing and Legal
Team spoke to Utah Stories off the record.
Utah
Stories was scheduled to meet with Young Living PR and legal team at
their Lehi headquarters yesterday morning, but they cancelled the
meeting because we were unable to provide all questions beforehand.
Utah Stories requested prior to the meeting electronic copies of the
newsletters which have Young’s account of the story, before we
attempted to provide detailed questions. They have not provided the
materials.
We
are simply seeking Young’s side of the story. Young has a history
of a the very least stretching the truth. Young has consistently made
claims that his oils can cure illnesses and diseases they are
unproven to cure including infertility. Young has been convicted of
practicing medicine without a license.
Still
Utah Stories supports the essential oils Young Living promotes for
helping with stress relief , anxiety and muscle pain. The Utah-based
Young Living Farms is a world-wide businesses with seven farms. They
employ 1,000 people. But the facts of Young Living Farms success do
not forgive lies or misleading practices.
Utah
Stories was able to find Young Livings Essential
Edge
stories online and have provided Young Living Farms our questions.
But they have not responded to our e-mails except to make the
following statement:
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