The film tells the real-life story of Lorenzo Odone and his parents, Augusto and Michaela, inventors of the oil and founders of The Myelin Project.

Information About Lorenzo's Oil

Oligodendrocytes produce the myelin sheath, which wraps in layers around axons.

What is Myelin?

… the white matter coating our nerves, enabling them to conduct impulses between the brain and other parts of the body. It consists of a layer of proteins packed between two layers of lipids.
     Myelin is produced by specialized cells: oligodendrocytes in the central nervous system, and Schwann cells in the peripheral nervous system. Myelin sheaths wrap themselves around axons, the threadlike extensions of neurons that make up nerve fibers. Each oligodendrocyte can myelinate several axons.

What is The Myelin Project?

…an international grassroots organization whose mission is to accelerate medical research on myelin repair. more »

8th Annual Hammerfest Triathlon on September 19, 2004.

The Cure ALD Foundation, Diane and Bill Zmrzel to host fundraiser for The Myelin Project on August 30, 2004.

ALD, Lorenzo’s Oil and The Myelin Project were featured in a BBC documentary, which aired in the United Kingdom on July 21, 2004.

To know more, please visit the British Trust for The Myelin Project at www.myelinproject.co.uk »

Myelin Project June 2004 newsletter

Progress report on TMP-funded research »

Author donates royalties

Betty Jo Tucker directs royalties from biography of Susan Sarandon to The Myelin Project  »

Lorenzo's Oil now on DVD

North American version released April 6  »

A Letter From Augusto Odone

February 19, 2004  »