Our last greeting to Augusto Odone
All the staff of Baraka publisher want to do homage to this great man that with so much love and strength has given hope to many families.
We’ll continue to spread his book with his memories, his story will live forever!
We have known this wonderful person who has become for us a source of inspiration and admiration.
The thing that has ever wanted was to share his story, he wanted to reach every heart and remember her beloved Lorenzo and his fight against the disease.

Augusto Odone dead in New York at 80
Man who invented Lorenzo’s Oil to save son dies
‘Lorenzo’s Oil’ Inventor Augusto Odone Dies at 80
Augusto Odone, inventor of ‘Lorenzo’s Oil’, dies at 80
These are the English versions of Lorenzo’s oil book.
In 1984, six-year-old Lorenzo Odone was diagnosed with adrenoleukodystrophy – an incurable genetic disease which destroys the brains of young boys. His parents, Augusto and Michaela, refused to give up hope and with great determination set out to research the disease and find a cure. Within only a couple of years they had discovered an oil which was able to halt the progress of the disease and Lorenzo, thanks to the oil, lived a further 25 years.
Augusto Odone tells the moving story of his life with Michaela and Lorenzo, Lorenzo’s illness and their fight to find a cure.
For more information on Lorenzo’s Oil
Family fears Lorenzo’s Oil will no longer be available
Congressional Luncheon Honoring Augusto Odone
During the Italian TV program “Heart of the days”
Augusto Odone has been interviewed on 12/12/2012. You can see it again on:
Lorenzo’s song sung by Phil Collins
In 1994, Michaela wanted to honor Lorenzo with a song. She wrote the verses with Lorenzo at her side, asking his approval for each line. Then she e-mailed them to Phil Collins, who answered immediately: “Don’t give the lyrics away; I want to put music to them myself.”
Here is Lorenzo’s song:
Cristina Odone and Keith Layden, the Director of CRODA
If the Liverpool Pathway had been around when my half-brother Lorenzo was diagnosed, he wouldn’t have survived a week
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Cristina Odone and Keith Layden, the Director of CRODA