Harry W. Diehl lived next door to a carpenter who suffered miserably from arthritis. Then he was given the task of creating arthritis in Swiss Albino mice to test a new drug, while a researcher at the National Institute of Health. But he couldn't! He injected those little guys with a chemical product called Freuds Adjunct which reliably causes severe joint inflammation in lab animals. But not in these guys.

And the riddle nagged at him until he set up a lab on his own to find out what prevented them from having raging joint inflammation. And that is when he discovered they had in their bone marrow a waxy substance that he called cetylmyristoleate. He took this waxy substance and injected it into lab rats that did get the joint inflammation from the Freuds adjunct, and it helped to diminish their joint inflammation.

Mr. Diehl was too late to help his neighbor, but when he developed arthritis himself, he decided to try injecting the cetylmyristoleate (CMO) into his own joints. The results were so significant that he published his original results with the Swiss Albino mice and the lab rats in the March 1994, The Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. . In the report he expressed his hope that other studies would be conducted, “particularly, more extensive tests of cetylmyristoleate analogues”.

Making CMO available in capsule form

In late 1994 the San Diego Clinic research staff did exactly what the researcher had hoped for. They developed an orally administered dietary supplement. The dietary supplement is an analogue with the name CMO. The San Diego Clinic did the first clinical study on CMO and its director, Dr. Len Sands, was the first person to take CMO.

In December 1995, CMO was introduced in Nevada to the medical community at the National Medical Conference on Aging. CMO became a star of the conference, resulting ultimately in hundreds of doctors prescribing CMO for their patients. In February 1996, CMO became available to the public as an over-the-counter dietary supplement.

2005, CMO is now being distributed and sold in over 44 counties, and helped ten’s of thousands of people suffering from arthritis pain and other immune related diseases