Howard R Gurney, Young Living

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Howard Gurney YL

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Excited for the Awaken Tour Science Symposium! 🔬✨

Join us prior to Sunday Morning at the Awaken Tour Analytical Lab where you can experience advanced wellness technologies including InBody testing, PNOĒ metabolic testing, and VISIA facial scan analysis. These independent scientific devices provide insight into important biological markers and systems within the body — from body composition and metabolic health to skin wellness and cellular vitality.

We’ll then educate during the Science Symposium on Young Living products designed to support and maintain these biological systems through holistic wellness and plant-based solutions.

Science meets wellness at the Awaken Tour — we can’t wait to see you there! 🌿

If you recently started taking Balance & Burn and noticed a little bloating or some digestive changes, you’re not alone.

Clinical studies show berberine can alter the gut microbiome and temporarily cause gastrointestinal symptoms such as bloating or bowel changes in some people during early use. This can include a mild weight gain as the microbiome adjusts.

Since Balance & Burn works with metabolism, blood sugar balance, and digestive health, the body sometimes needs a short adjustment period while the gut adapts to those internal changes.

For many people, this is temporary and improves as the body becomes accustomed to the ingredients. Staying hydrated, taking it with food, and giving your body time to adjust can help support the process.

One thing I appreciate is understanding that natural products can still create very real biological changes inside the body — and sometimes that means your system is recalibrating before it fully settles into balance.

As always, listen to your body and talk with your healthcare provider if you have concerns, but a little temporary bloating early on can simply be part of the adjustment period for some people. It was for me for almost 4 weeks when I first started. This was such a great thing for me.

Innovation is rarely comfortable. Discovery is rarely perfect. And breakthrough science never happens from the sidelines.

Theodore Roosevelt said it best:

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena..."

That mindset is at the heart of our Research & Development.

In science, progress doesn’t come from avoiding mistakes—it comes from testing hypotheses, learning quickly, refining, and trying again. Every experiment carries the possibility of failure, but also the potential for discovery. The scientific method itself is built on iteration: observe, test, analyze, adapt, repeat.

At Young Living, innovation means being willing to step into the arena. It means creating boldly, testing rigorously, and learning fast. Some ideas succeed immediately. Others teach us what to improve next. Both outcomes move us forward.

The teams that are pushing boundaries in formulation, sourcing, product development, and research understand something important: failure is not the opposite of innovation—it is part of the process.

The people who create meaningful advances are rarely the ones criticizing from a distance. They are the ones willing to experiment, challenge assumptions, and keep pursuing excellence through persistence, curiosity, and science.

That’s how innovation happens.
That’s how breakthroughs are made.
And that’s how we continue striving to improve the products and experiences we deliver every day.

Join us at Awaken Tour. See the new innovation. See the future of what is so exciting. Please be part of our current and Future!!!!

My personal update. Since December 18, 2025, I’ve been consistently using Young Living Balance & Burn along with the pilot formulation of Master Cellular Nutrition, and the results have completely changed how I think about health progress.

For the first THREE MONTHS… the scale barely moved.

In fact, there were times my weight actually increased.

But underneath the surface, my body composition was changing dramatically.

Here’s what my measurements showed over time measured by Dexa and InBody 580 (the same device coming to Awaken Tour).

• Weight: 286.4 lbs → 269.5 lbs
• Body Fat: 39.1% → 30.4%
• Fat Mass: 108.4 lbs → 81.9 lbs
• Lean Mass: 169.0 lbs → 187.6 lbs
(This is what I am most excited about)
• Visceral Fat measurements also improved significantly

That means while the scale appeared “stuck,” or “broken,” or “failed attempt,” my body was actually:
- Building lean mass
- Reducing fat
- Improving hydration and cellular health
- Recomping before major weight loss became visible

Only recently has the actual body weight started dropping more noticeably.

This experience taught me something powerful:
The scale alone is one of the worst ways to measure real progress.

If I had judged success only by body weight during those early months, I probably would have assumed nothing was happening. Weight gained. Frustration. Doesn’t work. Failed formula? Right? Quite the opposite!

Internally, my metabolism and body composition were already shifting in the right direction. The way we designed the product to work. Metabolic shifting.

Real transformation is deeper than pounds lost.
Sometimes your body rebuilds first… and the scale catches up later.

Consistency. Patience. Cellular health. Time.

That’s the lesson. Who can relate?

I’ve been deep in my doctoral testing and studies at Purdue University, and one concept that keeps showing up in both research and my daily routine is context-dependent memory.

In cognitive psychology, context-dependent memory refers to the brain’s tendency to better encode and retrieve information when the environmental cues present during learning are also present during recall. These cues can be visual, auditory, and especially olfactory. Some research even suggests that chewing gum can provide a scientific reaction.

The olfactory system has a direct pathway to the limbic system, especially the hippocampus and amygdala, which are heavily involved in memory formation and emotional processing. This is why scent can be such a powerful anchor for recall.

For me, I’ve been intentionally pairing my study sessions with Young Living Lime Essential Oil. Its bright citrus profile is not just uplifting, it becomes a consistent sensory input during encoding. When I reintroduce that same scent before testing or recall, I am recreating part of the original learning context.

There is a growing body of research suggesting that scent cues can enhance recall accuracy when they are reinstated. It is a simple application of neuroscience. The same context supports stronger retrieval pathways.

Whether you are studying, building new habits, or working through emotional processing, it is worth asking what context cues you are creating and whether you can design them intentionally.

For me, Lime has become part of my cognitive toolkit. Which oil will you choose for your children during studying? Your spouse during research or getting prepped for a presentation at work? What to test or do better?

Context-Dependent Memory training. I highly recommend it.

Science has come a long way, from simply addressing nutrient deficiencies to embracing the dynamic, systems based approach of targeted functional nutrition.

In the early days, nutrition focused on basic nutrient support, preventing deficiencies and sustaining life. Today, we understand that optimal health requires more than just “enough”. It demands precision and a deeper look at how nutrients interact within the body’s complex biological matrix.

This is where nutrient saturation becomes critical. When cells are fully supplied with the vitamins, minerals, and cofactors they need, the body can move beyond survival mode. It activates what is known as biomass nutrient triage; prioritizing functional cellular repair, healthy cellular regeneration, and optimal function over mere maintenance.

But saturation alone is not the full story.

Modern functional nutrition emphasizes targeted bioactive compounds, specialized molecules designed to seek out and support inefficient or compromised cells. These compounds act with intention, helping restore cellular communication, energy production, and resilience where it is needed most.

At the same time, they play a key role in maintaining a healthy inflammatory balance. Inflammation is not the enemy, it is a necessary biological response. The goal is balance, supporting the body’s ability to respond, recover, and recalibrate without tipping into chronic dysfunction.

This evolution in science is shifting the conversation from deficiency to optimization, from general support to targeted precision, and from symptom management to “cellular mastery”!

Fuel the cell, transform your biological system.