Gary Young
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D. Gary Young is the founder and president of Young Living Essential Oils. His blog was created to give him an online vehicle to share his thoughts, travels and experiences.
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Hi Gary I am a distributor and essential rewards program customer. I love the oils very much. I also started to get ningxia red juice about a year or two ago and was taking it regularly until i noticed a bad reaction in my stomach very acidy. I am upset that they have ascorbic acid in the drink. So I discontinued. And I am fine with the berries.
Fast forward to today and I started getting the essential digestive enzyme and the omega blue on essential rewards. I start taking them thinking there would not be a problem and I start getting the same acidy stomach for a week. Very bad, keeping me up at night. I look at the bottles and there is stearic acid in both of these products.
My question is Why do these products have these cheap non organic acids in the products? You find stearic acid and ascorbic acid in stuff at the drug store. Horrible ingredients to have in such great products like the ones in young living. I was looking to get everything in one place by just using essential rewards and also having confidence in telling people how pure our products are. But I am having a hard time with those types of ingredients in 3 of the main products. I hope you dont view this as complaining and think of it as constructive criticism from a loyal distributor and customer. Hopefully you can make changes to these products and use a different ingredient. Thank you! I do LOVE the oils though!
I’ve been reading the above post with great interest and disappointment since I can read the letters but where are the responses to the issues? I keep hearing Gary wants to hear from you but where is Gary.
I’d also like to say without all the distributors, Gary wouldn’t be able to do what he does so thank you ladies and gentlemen for your role in supporting his efforts. Hip hip hooray to all.
Hello Gary, …first and formost we want to thank you from the bottom of our hearts for the wonderful time we had at conven..tion. It was definetly life changing. Great education, wonderful people and fun too. Thank you for all the free gifts especially the frankincense resin. How cool! I love my burner.We purchased your book The Gift and read to each other on the long drive home to Michigan. It was wonderful. We both loved it and are sharing it with others. Thank you again for a wonderful time.
Hi Joseph,
I do not know what Gary will say to your comments on the acids in the products, but, I will say the Gary has always said that the oils work better in an alkaline chemistry…that is why he gave us AlkaLime. If you use this product, I think that your problems will dissolve.