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Comment by Izikiel43

19 days ago

This sounds a lot like "Lorenzo's Oil" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenzo%27s_Oil

Hopefully with a better end.

What an incredible story! Thank you for sharing. So much for that New Yorker cartoon “Honey, come quick, I found something all the scientists missed” (well, something all the scientists thought was infeasible anyway).

  • It's a very sad story.

    The findings their parents do end up helping millions of other children in the early stages of the disease, but their son was too far gone for it to be effective.