Lorenzo's Oil: Adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD)

Lorenzo’s oil is a mixture of two toxic fatty acids in tryglycerol form, it was developed by the Odone family, when they were looking for a better treatment for their son Lorenzo who was by that time suffering from one of the disease of the leukodystrophy family called Adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD), which demyelination leading to degeneration of the brain and adrenal glands dysfunction, leading to inability to metabolize very long chain saturated fatty acids(VLCSFA). All that was known about this disease by the time was not enough to cure it, even the treatment of excluding food containing VLCSFA recommended by doctors and scientist by that time showed no positive results in fact it just increased the levels of Lignoceric(C24:0) and Cerotic(C26:0)
Augusto used a kitchen sink method to explain the nature of the disease to his wife. That’s when they saw that the best thing to do is to take Lorenzo off this diet because it’s just making it worse
They never raised any legitimate objection when they wanted the Odone to slow down in their quest to find the cure for their son’s condition. All they were thinking of is the cost of the fractions that the Odone wanted them to perform and that the government won’t allow to fund such experiments since it was not yet proven to work. The other problem was that it was not an easy task for scientist to work together since they are in a competition of being the greatest. But the blame was not to be put to them because it’s unethical for physicians to just perform and experiment on a human without any evidence of it to