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From: Remi Category: Life Date: 02 June 2008 Time: 06:21 PM Review: Lorenzo's oil was the film of Lorenzo Odone who developed adrenoleukodystrophy [ALD], a neurological disease that usally proves fatal within months of diagnosis. His parents did not accept this verdict as a given and put themselves to work on finding a cure when Lorenzo developed the illness aged 6. They invented an oil, hence the eponymous name, that, though it didn't reverse the damage done by the illness, has been shown by a 10 year study to ward of the debilitating symptoms associated with ALD. I salute you, Augusto and Michaela Odone, for not taking 'no' for answer and showing the true spirit of medicine.