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Lorenzo's Oil Finally Proven To Work

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Lorenzo's Oil Finally Proven To Work

I listened to a feature story on BBC Worl Service, today, about Lorenzo's Oil. A cure for a terrible degenerative disease, discovered and developed by the desperate father of one of it's victims, `Lorenzo.'

Apparently, after 10 years of tests, it's been found to reduce onset of symptoms, by up to 2 thirds!

The Story originally appeared in the New Scientist on the 26th September 2002!

The story's not on the BBC website yet, but there's a Lorenzo's Oil story from the YAHOO News Site.
Lorenzo's oil finally proven to work
(From YaHOO News, Fri, Sept, 27th, 2002. UK.)
By David Concar

The controversial do-it-yourself medicine that inspired the heart-rending movie Lorenzo's Oil has finally been proved to work. The new research ends years of uncertainty about the treatment and demolishes the claims of experts who repeatedly said it was a worthless quack remedy.

New Scientist has learned that Hugo Moser, the neurologist and doctor played by Peter Ustinov in the film, will on Saturday unveil the positive conclusions of a 10-year investigation into the oil's effects on a group of boys affected with the same genetic condition as Lorenzo.

Normally carriers of the genetic defect are at high risk of developing adrenoleukodystrophy, causing them to progressively lose the ability to move, hear, speak and - finally - breathe. Some victims, like Lorenzo Odone portrayed in the film, get the childhood form which usually kills within just two years. Others get the adult form of the disease, which strikes people in their late twenties and acts more slowly.

The new study shows that the boys whose parents scrupulously administered the oil - often in the face of scepticism from the medical establishment - were much less likely to go on to develop symptoms in childhood than boys who did not get the oil on a regular basis.

Boys carrying the defect have extremely high levels of very long chain saturated fatty acids in their blood. The oil brings these levels back down to normal in a way that can be tested, and this enabled the researchers to monitor which boys were getting the treatment on a regular basis...
Fair enough, it's already been reported on the FT Breaking News for the 30th September. But, it's a brilliant story. The cure is mostly a mixture of olive and rapeseed oils! The things desperate parents and people are capable of!
 
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