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4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Young Living was one of the first major essential oils companies on the market, helping to launch an industry that is worth billions of dollars today. The company is built on the myth of its founder, whose miraculous medical recovery inspired him to devote his life to alternative medicine. But that story isn’t quite what it appears to be, and the people who believe in it sometimes pay a high price. Business Insider investigative reporter Nicole Einbinder uncovers the truth behind Young Living and its founder, Gary Young.

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0:00.0

Picture a cave, dark and ominous that's lit only by torch light.

0:10.2

There's a guy wandering through it who looks like Indiana Jones, you know, Kackie Shirt,

0:14.5

whether Jacket Fedora Hat.

0:16.5

He's looking for the Chamber of Longevity, a secret cavern that contains the elixir

0:20.8

of life.

0:22.0

As he moves his torch around the cave, he sees dozens of discarded medical products, empty

0:26.5

pill bottles, vials and sprays.

0:28.5

Yeah, that's what I thought.

0:30.9

I'm fair your products can never go the distance.

0:34.1

Etched into the wall are hieroglyphics of herbs, droplets and vases.

0:38.7

After 15 years searching the world, we found the right place.

0:46.6

Above them are huge letters that spell out the words, young living.

0:50.5

The man turns and sees a pedestal with a bottle sitting on top of it.

0:54.2

That's the elixir of life that he's been searching for.

0:56.9

Wait, something doesn't smell right.

0:59.8

It may be movie trap, since ancient truths have been corrupt and forgotten.

1:05.4

So he does that thing that Indiana Jones does and grabs the bottle by swapping it out

1:09.4

with a bag of sand.

1:11.0

But no surprise, the cave begins to collapse around him and he starts running as this

1:15.1

enormous boulder rolls after him threatening to crush him.

1:18.7

Suddenly, he emerges from this action movie onto a live stage where a stage prop

1:24.1

boulder rolls down a track behind him.

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