Cetyl Myristoleate - A Unique Natural Compound
Valuable in Arthritis Conditions
A Sponsored Article
by Dr. Charles Cochran and Dr. Raymond Dent

Introduction
Arthritis is a disease of epidemic proportions,
but it has been around for so many centuries that it is considered
by most people as a part of growing old or a consequence of physical
injury. Arthritis is in fact a far more complex disease than
is generally known. For instance, Dorland's Medical Dictionary
describes 27 different types of arthritis, and that does not
include such diverse conditions as systemic lupus erythematosus,
scleroderma, fibromyalgia, and numerous other conditions which
some authorities consider to be types of arthritis.1
One authority states that there are approximately 100 causes
for arthritis.2
Arthritis is thought to affect more than
50 million Americans, and is generally accepted to be the leading
cause of movement limitation and disability. It deserves and
receives a great deal of research and medical attention. There
are hundreds of drugs, procedures, and medical aids and devices
directed at coping with the many manifestations of the disease.
Given this degree of complexity, certainly no one agent alone
could ever be expected to manage or cure "arthritis"
in its entirety. New agents take their place in the spectrum
and make a contribution. Now there is a relatively new discovery
of a natural substance, cetyl myristoleate, which shows promise
of making a great contribution in non-infective types of arthritis.
Cetyl Myristoleate
Cetyl myristoleate was discovered and isolated
by one person, working alone, on a quest to find a cure for arthritis.
Harry W. Diehl, while employed by the National Institute of Arthritis,
Metabolism, and Digestive Diseases, specialized in sugar chemistry.
He used his chemical knowledge and research instincts to great
advantage, identifying and characterizing over 500 compounds,
several of which were patented by the National Institutes of
Health (NIH). His most significant discovery before cetyl myristoleate
was a method of synthesizing 2-deoxydextroribose, a sugar used
in the preparation of oral polio vaccine by Dr. Jonas Salk.3
Diehl's interest in discovering a way to
help victims of arthritis began over 40 years ago when his friend
and next door neighbor, a carpenter, developed severe rheumatoid
arthritis. His condition deteriorated over time until he became
disabled. The neighbor had a family to support, but his arthritis
made that impossible. Diehl is a deeply religious man whose feelings
overwhelmed him as his friend's condition worsened. Harry thought,
"Here I am working at the National Institutes of Health,
and I have never seen anything that was good for curing arthritis."4
> He decided to establish a laboratory in his home and embark
on a search for something to relieve the pain and disability
of his neighbor and the millions of people who suffer from arthritis.
Unfortunately, he was too late to help the neighbor, but Diehl's
research did lead to the discovery of cetyl myristoleate, which
may someday be hailed as one of the significant nutritional discoveries
of the 20th century.
The Quest
As a researcher, Diehl knew that finding
a cure for arthritis first meant inducing the disease experimentally
in research animals. He started with mice, and quickly realized
that he was unable to induce arthritis in them. Diehl said he
tried every way he could to give those mice arthritis, but they
just would not get it. Then, he contacted a researcher in California
who wrote to him, "If you or anyone else can give mice arthritis,
I want to know about it, because mice are 100% immune to arthritis."5
At that moment, Diehl's research instincts told him that what
he wanted was already somewhere in those mice.
It was a long, tedious job, working on
his own in his spare time, but Diehl finally found the factor
- cetyl myristoleate - that protected mice from arthritis. As
Diehl said, "It didn't come on a silver platter to me, but
after years of chemical sleuthing and just old-fashioned chemical
cooking, I found it!" On thin layer chromatography of methylene
chloride extract from macerated mice, Diehl noticed a mysterious
compound, which was subsequently identified as cetyl myristoleate.
As Diehl was to prove, cetyl myristoleate circulates in the blood
of mice and makes them immune to arthritis.
Cetyl myristoleate is now known to exist
in sperm whale oil and in a small gland in the male beaver. At
this time no other sources in nature are known to contain cetyl
myristoleate. While the first amounts of cetyl myristoleate for
experimentation were extracted from mice, Diehl quickly developed
a method for making cetyl myristoleate in the lab by the esterification
of myristoleic acid.
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References
1. Dorland's Medical Dictionary, 25th Ed.
2. Shils, Olson, and Shike. Modern Nutrition
in Health and Disease. Lea & Febigen, 1994. Philadelphia,
PA. p. 1480
3. Diehl, H. W. and Fletcher, H. G., A Simplified
Preparation of 2-Deoxy-D-ribose Based on Treatment of a-D- Glucose
Monohydrate with Solid Calcium Hydroxide, Archives of Biochemistry
and Biophysics, Vol. 78, No. 2, Dec. 1958
4. Wright, M.D., J., and Gaby, M.D., A, Nutrition
and Healing, August, 1996, Vol.3, Issue 8, paraphrase from page
5.
5. Private correspondence to H. W. Diehl,
Rockville, Md. from Dr. Fay Wood, Univ. of Cal., Berkeley, 1969
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