Adrenoleukodystrophy also known as ALD is a genetic disease. This is a brain disorder where the myelin in the brain gets destroyed and one will have an unusual amount of saturated fatty acids. When the myelin gets destroyed the neurons in the brain start to stop telling the central nervous system what to do. At first a person will show behavior changes but as the disease progresses the symptoms become worse; causing people to become blind, deaf, experience weight loss, have seizures, and even lose the control over their muscles. A very well know case of this was shown in the movie Lorenzo’s Oil; and in the movie a boy named Lorenzo Odone was shown with having ALD. As this disease progressed in Lorenzo, his parents became determined to
