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Izikiel43 | 23 days ago

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

Hopefully with a better end.

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arjie|22 days ago

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).

Izikiel43|22 days ago

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.