are different from any other supplement and why they work so well.
Because they are concentrated, essential oils are from 50 to 70 times more therapeutically potent than the herbs or plants they come from.
Essential oils are known for their ability to "fly" through the thickest cell walls. In fact, essential oils are nature's most effective delivery agent for feeding your body's several trillion cells with nutrition and oxygen.
How Do Essential Oils Work?
Essential oils have the ability to clean receptor sites on the surface of cells. This allows for the proper communication between cells. Essential oils have the ability to erase incorrect DNA and then to correct it. The root problem with cancer cells is that they contain misinformation. Essential oils can have another benefit where cancer is concerned because cancer cannot live in an oxygen rich environment and essential oils help to increase the level of oxygen in our cells.
Our sense of smell affects the limbic system of our brain. Because the limbic system is directly connected to those parts of the brain that control heart rate, blood pressure, breathing, memory, stress levels, and hormone balance, essential oils can have profound physiological and psychological effects. Anxiety, depression, fear, anger, and joy all emanate from the limbic region of the brain.The limbic lobe can also directly activate the hypothalamus. The hypothalamus is one of the most important parts of the brain, acting as our hormonal control center. It releases chemical messengers that can affect everything from sex drive to energy levels. The production of growth hormones, sex hormones, thyroid hormones, and neurotransmitters such as serotonin, are all governed by the hypothalamus. Not only can the inhalation of essential oils be used to combat stress and trauma, but it can also stimulate the production of hormones from the hypothalamus.
Excerpt from "Why Oils Heal and Drugs Don't"
by David Stewart, Ph.D.
The dangers of prescription drugs are intrinsic to the drugs, themselves. No matter how careful the physician in prescribing and how compliant the patient in following doctor's orders, even then deaths and damages occur. In fact, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, more than 100,000
Americans die every year, from properly prescribed, properly taken prescriptions. In this country, more people die from doctor's prescriptions every ten days than were killed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
The molecules of pharmaceutical drugs are all strange to the human body. In all the history of humankind, such molecules were never encountered or taken into any human body. God never made your body to accept and deal with these chemicals and antibiotics. Hence, you can find traces of prescription drugs in your body that were taken in childhood, decades ago.
On the other hand, natural molecules, such as those found in essential oils, are easily metabolized by the body. In fact, your body was created to handle them.
Drugs and Oils Work in Opposite Ways
Drugs toxify. Oils detoxify. Drugs clog and confuse receptor sites. Oils clean receptor sites. Drugs depress the immune system. Oils strengthen the immune system. Antibiotics attack bacteria indiscriminantly, killing both the good and the bad. Oils attack only the harmful bacteria, allowing our body's friendly flora to flourish.
Drugs never deal with the actual causes of disease. While they may give prompt relief for certain uncomfortable symptoms they will always disrupt certain other bodily functions. Thus you always have some side effects.
Oils are balancing to the body. Drugs are unbalancing to the body. Oils address the causes of disease at a cellular level by deleting misinformation and reprogramming correct information so that cells function properly and in harmony with one another.
Because essential oils properly applied always work toward the restoration of proper bodily function, they do not cause undesirable side effects. They are feeding the body with truth. Drugs feed the body with lies.
Doctors Speak Out
"The cause of most disease is in the poisonous drugs physicians superstitiously give in order to effect a cure." - Charles E. Page, M.D.
"The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine." - Sir William Osler, M.D. (Called the most influential physician of his age.)
"One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine." - Sir William Osler, M.D.
"If all the medicine in the world were thrown into the sea, it would be bad for the fish and good for humanity"
O.W. Holmes, M.D. (Prof. of Med. Harvard University)
"Every drug increases and complicates the patients condition."
Robert Henderson, M.D.
"Every educated physician knows that most diseases are not appreciably helped by medicine."
Richard C. Cabot, M.D. (Mass. Gen. Hospital)
"Our figures show approximately four and one half million hospital admissions annually due to the adverse reactions to drugs. Further, the average hospital patient has as much as thirty percent chance, depending how long he is in, of doubling his stay due to adverse drug reactions."
Milton Silverman, M.D. (Professor of Pharmacology, University of California)
"We are prone to thinking of drug abuse in terms of the male population and illicit drugs such as heroin, cocaine, and marijuana. It may surprise you to learn that a greater problem exists with millions of women dependent on legal prescription drugs."
Robert Mendelsohn, M.D (author of the book, "Confessions of a Medical Heretic.)
"Drugs never cure disease. They merely hush the voice of nature's protest, and pull down the danger signals she erects along the pathway of transgression. Any poison taken into the system has to be reckoned with later on even though it palliates present symptoms. Pain may disappear, but the patient is left in a worse condition, though unconscious of it at the time."
Daniel. H. Kress, M.D.
"The necessity of teaching mankind not to take drugs and medicines, is a duty incumbent upon all who know their uncertainty and injurious effects; and the time is not far distant when the drug system will be abandoned."
Charles Armbruster, M. D.
For those of you who have taken prescription drugs over long periods of time, essential oils are your best friend because they can cleanse the residues of these drugs from your system once and for all and restore your body back to its natural healthy state.
Everything has frequency. In 1992, Bruce Tainio of Tainio Technology, an independent division of Eastern State University in Cheny, Washington, built the first frequency monitor in the world. Tainio has determined that the average frequency of the human body during the day time is 62-68 Hz. When the frequency drops, the immune system is compromised. If the frequency drops to 58 Hz, cold and flu symptoms appear, at 55 Hz, diseases like Candida take hold, at 52 Hz, Epstein Bar and at 42 Hz, Cancer.
According to Dr. Royal R. Rife, every disease has a frequency. He found that certain frequencies can prevent the development of disease and that others would destroy disease. Substances with higher frequency will destroy diseases of a lower frequency. Many pollutants lower healthy frequency. Processed/canned food has a frequency of zero. Fresh produce has up to 15 Hz, dry herbs from 12 to 22 Hz and fresh herbs from 20 to 27 Hz. Essential oils start at 52 Hz and go as high as 320 Hz, which is the frequency of rose oil. Clinical research shows that essential oils have the highest frequency of any natural substance known to man, creating an environment in which disease, bacteria, virus, fungus, etc., cannot live.
The Missing Link to Optimal Health.
Excerpts from a speech by Dr. Gary Young:
Let me show you what's going on at Cairo University with diabetes. This is just one of the simple studies that was conducted on diabetes. Blood glucose levels, this was a control group with insulin right here. Then they used bitter fennel and it dropped it from over 275 to 200. Common dill oil, below 200. Coriander brought it down to normal range. Simple essential oils. Yes, they're correcting diseases in many places in the world. Look what came off the Associated Press two months ago, very interesting, "Scientists examine role of food derivatives in preventing cancer." "Cancer fighting powers of plant oils. Small quantities of lavender have been shown to work against breast cancer in lab animals." In animal studies these say we get both the prevention of cancer and the regression of cancer. How many would sooner have a bottle of lavender oil rather than chemotherapy?
It was stated by the Medical Association, October of 1993, that if we:"could find an agent that would go beyond the blood-brain barrier, we could treat MS, Parkinson's, Lou Gehrig's and Alzheimer's successfully." June, 1994 it was documented that the agent of Sesquiterpenes has the ability to go beyond the blood-brain barrier and was discovered in high levels in frankincense and sandalwood oils.
Our lavender we produce in France, because we have our own farm in France and we have our own farm out in Idaho. We do our own growing in order to produce top quality. You have to distill this plant and that's how the oil is extracted, through steam distillation. It has to be at low pressure, low temperature, and lavender has to be in the chamber for a minimum of one and a half hours, better two hours. But the commercial distilling in Europe for the perfume industry distill lavender oil in fifteen minutes at 400 degrees and up to 150 pounds of pressure, and they pump chemicals into the water while they're doing it. So these are things that are very important for you to know. It's not just a matter of running out to a health food store and buying oils because the people who are marketing oils predominantly are in it for the money, they don't care about the purity and they haven't taken the time to study.
Just last week Alester University in Northern Ireland where they did a study of diffusing, vaporizing essential oils into an atmosphere with 210 colonies of bacteria, and it killed all 210. So it makes the most perfect air purification system that has ever been invented, or rediscovered, and we can't afford to be without it.
Essential oils were basically forgotten until 1921 when it started to come back into our time, from a gentleman by the name of Dr. Rene-Maurice Gattefoss. He was a French cosmetic chemist working in his lab one day when there was an explosion, and he received a third degree thermal burn on his hand, wrist and forearm. Knowing he needed to reduce the temperature, he reached over where one of his colleagues had just set a container with liquid in it, he thought it was water and plunged his hand into it. However, he discovered it was actually lavender oil. It healed his burn without a trace of a scar. That man was so excited that being a chemist, he took the lavender apart to understand and find out how it healed his hand without a scar. From there he gave the research to Dr. John Valnet who was a medical doctor in Paris, France. Valnet did nothing with it until the post war years of World War II when he was working with war victims from shrapnel wounds and losing them to gangrene because the antibiotics wouldn't work. Dr. Gattefoss sent him some oils and said, "Try the oils." He started using the oils and he saved every single patient.
Another thing that's really exciting is regeneration. How can you regenerate something if you can't stimulate circulation and activity? This comes right out of Dr. Richard Restick's work, top leading neurologist of the United States, Washington DC. We discovered that hearing could be restored with the oil of Helichrysum. Not only from loss of hearing but also from deafness, BORN deafness. Three people now have total restoration. I went to him to ask how and he said the oils are electrical. They increase the neurotransmitter that converts in the axon to electron, it fires across the synaptic gap right here. He said in a birth defect, the nerves didn't connect. He said that the oils would literally increase the firing of that synapses, and it will jump across the gap and connect to that nerve that did not connect. Once it starts firing it will start growing together until it hardwires. So essential oils have the ability to stimulate the regeneration of damaged nerve tissue. Helichrysum.
I've started teaching and working with people with oils for eradicating emotions and emotional trauma, it is life changing. I have been using the oils and working through the ears. In fact we have a little oil blend called Hope. If you ever feel depressed, manic depressant, or suicidal, a couple of drops rubbed right on the ears, not in them, and it can take the negative feeling away in just a matter of seconds.
Another beautiful area to work through is through the spine. Just massaging the oils up and down the spine, getting it into the nerve meridians, to get into the organs and glands in the body. It's absolutely incredible. We had a gal in Denver, Colorado yesterday, I had a seminar there and we had over 150 people in the seminar. She had a large knot on her spine. We just rubbed simple oils of spruce and wintergreen and Frankincense on it and it dissolved HALF in 20 minutes. And 150 people gathered around and watched.
I got involved with a doctor in Scottsdale, Arizona, Dr. Terry Friedman, a
medical doctor..I asked him if he would like to do some research and work with the oils to see what he could create, and he said, "I would love to." As of this day, one year from the time we started he now has 9 cancer patients out of 9 in remission from prostate and lymphoma and Hodgkin's. That's documented by the way.
Okay, we had a beautiful situation in Pottstown Pennsylvania just a couple of weeks ago. A nurse at one of the seminars said, "Dr. Young can I share a story with you?" and I said, "yes." She said, "One of the doctors I work for has a patient that has lupus. She's had it for a number of years and as she is getting older the lupus has just been progressively getting worse and worse and worse. She was in the hospital for tests and change of medication and my doctor told her there was nothing that could be done. He told her to just get her affairs in order." She said, "I felt so bad that when she started to leave I just walked her out and I gave her my bottle of ImmuPower. I said, why don't you take this home and just rub it on and see if it'll make you feel a little better and help you a little bit." I told her that "some of the oils here have been found to help support the immune system." The lady took it home. Three days later she called the nurse back and said, "what did you give me?" The nurse said, "why?" She said, "I'm feeling better. My strength is coming up, my energy is coming up." Five days after that, which was a total of 8 days, she returned to the doctor for a checkup. He could not find one symptom, not one trace of lupus.
God knew we were going to have these diseases. He knew what we were going to deal with. Do you think he put us down here to be victims? Absolutely not. He gave us everything we need to take care of the human body.
Our quality is second to none.
1. Plants: Young Living products are produced from quality plants grown in exceptional soil and harvested at the optimal time. Young Living has farms on three continents that total over 6000 acres.
2. Preparation: Honoring a strict commitment to respecting and protecting the time-honored wisdom, tradition and art of distillation, Young Living makes every effort to preserve "nature's living energy" in a manner as close to its natural state as possible.
3. Purity: Achieved through the use of quality plants and meticulous preparation our finished product is 100% pure. Young Living essential oils are unadulterated, uncut and totally free of chemicals, pesticides and metals.
4. Potency: A passion for plants and our quality guarantee result in the production of the world's finest essential oils, and the right phytochemicals at the right amounts, representing unmatched strength and efficacy.
In 1993 Gary Young created the term therapeutic-grade. There was not then, and there is not now, an organization other than Young Living Essential Oils qualified to certify an essential oil as therapeutic-grade. While there are oils produced by competing companies they don't match Young Living's stringent "Therapeutic-Grade" requirements, and should never be considered similar class. Although we pride ourselves on meeting established industry requirements, Young Living sets the bar for quality standards and stands alone in the production of "Therapeutic Grade" essential oils.
As an example of how dedicated we are to the highest quality we rejected half a million dollars of rare helichrysum when it failed to meet optimal potency. Sadly, the oils we reject will often find their way into the marketplace through inferior quality brands.
Young Living plants, harvests and distills on their own farms. The best defense against adulteration is to completely control herb cultivation and distillation. This is why Young Living grows over herbs such as lavender, clary sage, melissa, thyme, sage, peppermint, spearmint, German chamomile, Roman chamomile and Idaho tansy. Young Living visits and inspects the farms and distillation facilities of the essential oil suppliers throughout the world on a regular basis. By personally inspecting the facilities of outside oil producers, Young Living ensures that herbs meet stringent quality specifications. Young Living uses state-of-the-art chemical analysis to check every batch of essential oils. Oils can go through as many as five separate levels of analysis before they are released. There is so much care that goes into every single drop of essential oil.
Something that is really exciting is that Gary Young is discovering plants down in Ecuador that have not previously been known of. He is getting to give these plants names! He is distilling these plants for the very first time. Essential oils that the world has never seen before!
"Young Living's essential oils are the finest I have yet analyzed. I gave their lavender oil my highest rating ---- 5 stars. Dr. Young's uncompromising attention to quality, and never-ending pursuit of perfection, are what make Young Living essential oils so very different from commonly available aromatherapy products."
Dr. Robert Pappas, Ph.D.
Applied Essential Oil Research
No other product line compares.
What sets Young Living supplements far above other companies is a few simple reasons: Young Living uses whole foods that are organically grown in their supplements, along with organically grown, or wildcrafted herbs. They also use NO synthetic coal tar chemicals, many other supplement companies unfortunately do use synthetic ingredients. Young Living uses Ningxia Wolfberries in many of its supplements. No other company has Ningxia Wolfberries. The longest lived people in the world - the Ningxia Chinese, eat one to two pounds of wolfberries every day. Young Living also uses Eleuthero Root in many of its supplements. You can look up the health benefits of that one. Finally, no other company uses therapeutic grade essential oils in its supplements, nor can they. Young Living is the world leader in therapeutic grade essential oils. As far as quality is concerned, no other company can compete with Young Living's quality, in its oils, supplements or personal care products.
Young Living has an expertly staffed, fully equipped laboratory for testing oils including a gas chromatograph, a mass spectrometer, and other equipment whose value adds up to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Young Living also has small labs on their farms to test the plants right from the field as they mature to determine the exact season and time of day to harvest the crop for the best oil. This is necessary because plants change their chemistry throughout the season and throughout the day, varying from week to week and hour to hour.
Gary Young is one of the few people in the world who can smell an oil and tell you what compounds are present, which are missing, and in what quantities. An essential oil company needs a person like that to check every batch of oil to make sure it is up to therapeutic standards. Such people can discern certain aspects of oil chemistry that a laboratory cannot measure. There are less than 200 people in the world with noses sufficiently trained to discern the chemistry of a fragrance and Gary Young is one of them.
Understanding the Cost and Value of Essential Oils
I'd like for you to envision being at the Young Living farm in Utah. This farm is located in a beautiful valley about an hour and a half South of Salt Lake City. There is a huge lake on one side, and mountains on the other. And as far as the eye can see, there are fields of lavender, peppermint, chamomile, and other wonderful and aromatic plants. Off in one direction, they have been growing German Chamomile, organically, all year and now it's time to harvest it. This time has been chosen carefully because the plant, and the flowers are at an optimal time to harvest the oil.
The plants are harvested and brought to the distillery. In the distillery, there are several tall stainless steel cylinders about 20 feet tall, and about 8 feet across. They gently load the chamomile into these cylinders. Steam is run up through the plant material from the bottom, and picks up the essential oils as it rises. Together, the steam and the oil go out a gooseneck at the top and into a condenser where the steam is cooled back down into water. At that point, the essential oil floats to the top in a machine called a "separator" and can be removed.
So how much oil do you think you would get from this process? Remember, the still is about 20 feet tall, and about 8 feet across, and filled with German chamomile, gently packed down. When I ask that question, people usually guess a few gallons, or quarts, but you would only get ¼ - ½ of a cup of essential oil. THIS is why some essential oils are so expensive, and why they are so precious!
When I think of essential oils costing $20-$30 a bottle, all I can think about is what a bargain they are!!! And I'm amazed that we have them at all!!! And remember that in the 5 ml bottles, we have about 85-100 drops, and in the 15 ml bottles, we have 250-300 drops, so using them, by the drop is VERY COST EFFECTIVE!
Essential oils are very concentrated plant material. It takes at least 5000 lb. of rose petals to make 1 lb. of rose oil, making pure rose oil one of the most treasured AND expensive oils on the market. Although I'll tell you something.… Rose oil elevates the mood like nothing else. If you're feeling down, and you use a tiny amount of rose oil, there's just no way you can have a bad day. It took me several years to justify buying myself a bottle of rose oil because of the cost, but once I did, I vowed I would never be without it again. And by using tiny amounts of this precious oil, a bottle will last you for many years, and is, therefore, actually
VERY economical.
It takes 3 tons of melissa to distill one pound of oil, which may cost $9,000 - $15,000 a pound. 1 drop of peppermint oil is equivalent to 28 cups of peppermint tea. Think about what 28 cups of peppermint tea LOOKS like - that many cups would fill a table. Peppermint is a fascinating oil because it
elevates the mood, sharpens the mind, AND it helps regulate body temperature. During the summer, I like to add a single drop of peppermint oil to a gallon of water and I drink it to cool my body down. I recall once when my son, Chris, woke up with a temperature of 104 degrees. I was really worried because his temperature was so high, and decided that I would get dressed and take him to seek medical attention. I remembered that peppermint oil was supposed to cool the body down, so very quickly, I applied about 5 drops of peppermint oil to each of his feet, and then I hurried off to get dressed. About 20 minutes later, I re-took his temperature, and it was 99. It never spiked again, and with the help of oils and natural supplements like vitamin C and Thieves oil, Chris got better and better over the next few days Later, I thought about it, and realized that if one drop of peppermint oil is equivalent to 28 cups of peppermint tea, by using 5 drops on each of his feet, that was a total of 10 drops, which is equivalent to 280 cups of peppermint tea. He NEVER could have drunk that much tea!!! So by using essential oils, we're able to offer the body plant concentrates, which are VERY effective in improving wellness, and yet gentle, safe, and non-toxic! I'm SO grateful that we live in a time when we can become empowered to take care of our children using natural oils and oil enhanced products.
Vicki Opfer
Hospitals in United States Now Using Essential Oils
It’s no wonder more than fifty US hospitals are using Young Living essential oils. Essential oils are well documented for their powerful anti-microbial effect against infections like MRSA, VRE, Hepatitis, and many more.
Essential oils are currently being used at Beth Israel Medical Center for relaxation and pain relief for cancer patients.
Antibiotics and Essential Oils
The discovery of pharmaceutical antibiotics around 80 years ago was touted as a panacea for humanity. While their use has clearly saved many lives, in recent years their overuse and misuse has taken a tremendous toll on the health of people everywhere, contributing to the creation of the now infamous Super-Bugs.
According to Annie Wong-Beringer, Pharm.D., Associate Professor of Clinical Pharmacy at the USC School of Pharmacy, “Inappropriate antibiotic use may kill beneficial bacteria, opening the door for harmful bacteria to establish themselves in their place. It also may toughen up some bacteria by encouraging them to mutate and develop drug resistance.”
Some of the hospitals using Young Living Essential Oils
Alegent Health Bergan Mercy Medical Center, Omaha, NE
Aurora Healthcare System, Foxpoint WI
Banner Health, Mesa AZ
Benedictine Hosptial, NY
Beth Israel Complementary Care Center, NY, NY
Children's Healthcare, Roseville, MN
The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, NY NY
Elk Regional Health Hospital, PA
Fairbanks Memorial Hospital, AK
Florida Hospital Medical Center, Orlando, FL
Goshen General Hospital, Goshen, IN
Heather Hill Hospital, Chardon, OH
Ingham Regional Medical Center, Landing, MI
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Oakland, CA
Manilaq Hospital, Kotzebue, AK
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, NY, NY
Mercy Holistic Health, Cincinnati, OH
Pinnacle Health, Harrisburg, PA
St. Barnabas Healthcare System, Toms River, NJ
St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center, Hartford, CT
In one test, the frequency of two individuals - the first a 26 year old male and the second a 24 year old male - was measured at 66 MHz each. The first individual held a cup of coffee (without drinking any), and his frequency dropped to 58 MHz in 3 seconds. He put the coffee down and inhaled an aroma of essential oils. Within 21 seconds, his frequency had returned to 66 MHz. The second individual took a sip of coffee and his frequency dropped to 52 MHz in the same 3 seconds. However, no essential oils were used during the recovery time, and it took 3 days for his frequency to return to its initial 66 MHz.
See how things we eat and drink affect our blood cells. Then see the affect our Valor essential oil has. You need to be using our essential oils for good health EVERY DAY!
Research has found that people who consistently use pure essential oils have a higher level of resistance to illnesses, colds, flus and diseases than the average person. Further indications show that such individuals, after contracting a cold, flu, or other illness, will recover 60-75 percent faster than those who do not use essential oils.
An executive with the Bristol-Myers Squibb pharmaceutical company made a frank admission to a Newsweek reporter in 2005: "The complexity and diversity of natural products can't be matched by even the most innovative human scientist. I think we're going to see a resurgence of interest in natural products."
Our essential oil chemical reference library has over 280,000 compound references that have taken us 12 years to compile. Today, with the instruments Young Living owns in our two laboratories, we posses the most advanced and complete laboratories in North and South America for the analysis of plant compounds and their identity.
Our instruments are the only ones in the world that are matched and calibrated to the instruments used in the Central Service Laboratory in France by Dr. Hervé Casabianca, who was on the directing committee that wrote the AFNOR Standards, which are accepted worldwide as the average essential oil standards. With Dr. Casabianca’s help, Young Living is raising the bar for the standards for Therapeutic Grade™ essential oils.
Gary Young
"The scientific evidence for alternative treatments can be compared to a ship the size of the Queen Mary II. The scientific evidence for orthodox (mainstream medicine) treatments, by comparison, would be compared to a ship that could fit in a bathtub."
- Webster Kehr
No other company will put forth the effort that we do.
To know how to farm, grow, harvest, and distill certainly gives an assurance that can come in no other way. To have a background in essential oil chemistry, a laboratory for testing the oils, and the ability to formulate is not likely to be duplicated. No other company in the history of essential oils has its own farms around the world where it sources new oils; develops better ways for growing and cultivating new plant species; distills the plants to produce pure, therapeutic-grade essential oils; and then tests the oils with high-tech equipment calibrated to match the GC-MS specifications set by Dr. Hervé Casabianca at the CNRS laboratory in France.
For most companies, money and power dictate their standards or lack of ethics. It is just too much work and costs too much money for other companies to oversee and pay the price for purity.
It has been critical to me to have a working association with other laboratories that have the same equipment to give truthful, third-party verification that is not found in the essential oil industry in America, except at Young Living.
The most important things to me are to serve my fellowmen and to honor my God by keeping that which He has given us in its most pure form with the highest therapeutic benefits possible.
- Gary Young
Young Living lavender farm at Mona, Utah
There is no way that you want to trust your health to any other brand of essential oils other than Young Living.
"I'd rather have a single drop of genuine essential oil than a 55-gallon drum of junk product."
Dr. Daniel Penoel
The following excerpts are from Holistic Aromatherapy, A. Berwick, 1994, Llewellyn Pub., St. Paul, MN pp. 168.
"Many of the oils on the market are of poor quality."
"LOW PRICES MAY ALSO MEAN THE OIL IS A SECOND OR THIRD DISTILLATION OF THE PLANT
MATERIAL, in which case it will have far less therapeutic value. Sometimes oils are diluted with another plant that
has a similar aroma, but costs less..."
A good reason why you only want to be using Young Living essential oils.
There is a great example of how adulterated lavender causes problems. In Jean Valnet’s The Practice of Aromatherapy, he writes about a man being treated with lavender for a problem in his “sit-down area.” The man went on a journey but forgot his lavender, so he purchased a fresh supply. Valnet then writes about what happened. “Unfortunately this essence was neither natural nor pure: one single installation was followed by a painful inflammation of such severity that the unfortunate person was unable to sit down for more than a fortnight” (14 nights).
While I was visiting one of the distilleries in France, I watched the synthetic solution being put into the extracted oil that was poured into the barrels. I was very surprised when I saw the export tags on the barrels showing they were going to a new company in Utah. I even took a photo of the tag. I’m sure the people in Utah had no idea what they were getting, which is typical of most buyers.
Gary Young
Just some of the things people have found relief from by using our products.
Some of the places where our products are used.
Just one example of why our products are superior to other wellness products and, after you read this, why you will want to start using it.
Most of us have heard about the benefits of MSM, and could easily assume that all MSM products are the same, but did you know that Dr. Ronald Lawrence, the person who "wrote the book" on MSM, endorses Young Living's MSM product (named Sulfurzyme)?
"Sulfur is the forgotten essential element." Carl Pfeiffer, M.D., Ph.D., a world-renowned expert on nutritional medicine.
The following information is from the Essential Oils Desk Reference Guide, 3rd Edition. Sulfurzyme is a unique combination of methylsulfonylmethane (MSM), the protein-building compound found in breast milk, fresh fruits and vegetables, and Ningxia wolfberry (Lycium barbarum). Together, they create a new concept in balancing the immune system and supporting almost every major function of the body. Of particular importance is the ability of MSM to equalize water pressure inside of the cells. A considerable benefit for those plagued with bursitis, arthritis, and tendinitis. Ningxia wolfberry supplies nutrients to enhance the proper assimilation and metabolism of sulfur.
INGREDIENTS:
Proprietary Sulfurzyme Blend
MSM is a special organic sulfur that combats autoimmune diseases including arthritis, asthma, lupus, and scleroderma. MSM is critical to proper skin, hair, and liver health. MSM is the subject of a bestselling book, The Miracle of MSM, The Natural Solution for Pain, authored by UCLA neuropsychiatrist Ronald Lawrence M.D., Ph.D., and Stanley Jacob, M.D.
Ningxia wolfberry (Lycium barbarum) contains minerals and coenzymes to support sulfur metabolism.
MSM: A New Solution for Arthritis, Allergies, and Pain [Also from the Essential Oils Desk Reference, 3rd Edition]
MSM (methylsulfonylmethane) is a natural sulfur-bearing nutrient that occurs widely in nature (found in everything from mother's milk to fresh vegetables). It is an exceptional source of nutritional sulfur -- a mineral that is vital to protein synthesis and sound health.
Why is sulfur so important to the body? Because sulfur is a mineral which, like vitamin C, is constantly being used up and depleted. When we fail to replenish our reserves of nutritional sulfur, we become more vulnerable to disease and degenerative conditions. Some possible signs of sulfur deficiency are:
Poor nail and hair growth
Eczema
Dermatitis
Poor muscle tone
Acne/Pimples
Gout
Rheumatism
Arthritis
Weakening of nervous system
Constipation
Impairment of mental faculties
Lowered libido
MSM is more than just another essential nutrient. According to research compiled by Ronald Lawrence, Ph.D, M.D. and Stanley Jacob, M.D., MSM represents a safe, natural solution for chronic headaches, back pain, tendinitis, fibromyalgia, rheumatism, arthritis, athletic injuries, muscle spasms, asthma, and allergies.
In a book entitled "The Miracle of MSM" [available from Essential Science Publishing and other places], both Dr. Jacobs and Dr. Lawrence discuss how MSM has benefited hundreds of patients. A UCLA neuro-psychiatrist, Dr. Lawrence is convinced that MSM will revolutionize how millions of people deal with inflammatory autoimmune diseases like rheumatism, asthma, bursitis, and tendinitis, as well as auto-immune diseases like arthritis, lupus, schleroderma and allergies.
Other doctors have also seen their patients dramatically improve using 2 to 4 grams of MSM daily. According to David Blyweiss, M.D., of the Institute of Advanced Medicine in Lauderhill, Florida, many patients experience a 50% improvement in their arthritis symptoms, along with less fatigue, better sleep and better ability to exercise.
Dr. Lawrence has also used MSM to improve the condition of patients who were virtually crippled with arthritis and back pain. One patient was able to get out of bed for the first time after just two weeks on MSM. And after two months of MSM use, he could walk to the grocery store.
Another of Dr. Lawrence's patients was a 70-year-old woman who was suffering from severe arthritis. In this case, MSM actually postponed the need for double knee replacement. In fact, after only two months on oral MSM, she was walking again with much less pain and stiffness.
Numerous other MSM users have experienced results equivalent to cortisone, but without side effects like immune suppression, fluid retention and weakness.
According to Stanley Jacord, M.D., there may be no pharmaceutical back pain therapy better, or safer, than MSM. "MSM has an important role to play in the nonsurgical treatment of back pain," he said. "I have seen several hundred patients for back pain secondary to osteoarthritis, disc degeneration, spinal misalignment, or accidents. For such pain-related conditions, MSM is usually beneficial."
"I have been recommending MSM for more that six months," says Richard Shaefer, a chiropractor from Wheeling, Illinois. "The results have been excellent. I consistently see major reduction in pain and inflammation in arthritic joints, along with improved range of motion. I can't think of a single individual who isn't getting some kind of positive effect."
MSM may have other benefits aside from its pain and inflammation-reducing properties. Numerous patients have reported a surge in energy levels along with thicker, hair, nails and skin. Some have even reported a softening of disappearance of scar tissue.
One user reported a marked increase in stamina and energy after starting on MSM. "For a long while I have had the blahs," complained Lou Salyer of Tucson, Arizona. "I had no stamina. I had to force myself to get things done around the house. After two days on MSM, it was like a blast of energy. I am amazed at how much I get done now."
MSM may also do much more than relieve pain. "Prior to taking MSM (30 grams a day for 20 years), I would have a cold or flu two or three times a year," Stated Dr. Jacobs. "Since I've been taking MSM, I've not had a single cold or the flu. I can't say that MSM prevented my cold or the flu, but it is a fascinating observation."
MSM contains an exceptionally bioavailable source of sulfur, one of the most neglected minerals needed by the human body. Carl Pfeiffer, M.D., Ph.D., a world-renowned expert on nutritional medicine, agrees. "Sulfur is the forgotten essential element."
Found in such foods as garlic and asparagus, the sulfur within MSM is a critical part of the amino acids cysteine and methionine, which form the building blocks of the nails, hair and skin. Sulfur is also found in therapeutic mineral baths and hot springs that have brought relief to arthritis sufferers for centuries.
MSM is very closely related to DMSO, a powerful pain reliever that was the subject of a "60 Minutes" report in April, 1980. DMSO has been approved by the FDA for interstitial cystitis, a painful urinary tract condition.
Of particular importance is MSM's ability to equalize water pressure inside the cells -- a considerable benefit for those plagued with bursitis, arthritis and tendinitis. These kinds of inflammatory outbreaks are created when the water pressure inside the cells jumps past the pressure outside the cells, creating pressure and pain. MSM acts as a sort of cellular safety valve, affecting the protein envelope of the cell so that water transfers freely in and out of the cell. The result: rapid relief and less damage to tissues. And because it elasticizes the hold between the cells, MSM can restore flexibility to inflamed tissues.
When our bodies grow older and are chronically shortchanged of key minerals like sulfur and MSM, the bonds between our cells become increasingly rigid and brittle -- a condition that can lead to a loss in skin flexibility and contribute to skin wrinkles. The internal manifestations of this cellular brittleness are far less visible but have a far greater negative impact on the body. MSM's ability to reintroduce flexibility into cell structures, therefore, can have widespread restorative effects.
Why is sulfur so important to the body? Because sulfur is a mineral which, like vitamin C, is constantly being used up and depleted.
