Marmot oil received scientific confirmation in a 1988 research report*. This study found that various corticosteroids (natural relatives of cortisone) were present in small amounts in marmot fat. This natural cortisone substance is sufficient to give marmot fat its special power. This finding was new and unique in the animal world. This report points out that marmot oil and badger fat have been used to treat various ailments since the Middle Ages at the latest. The focus has always been on external use for the musculoskeletal system.
* Deutsche Apotheker Zeitung, 128, No. 38/88, research report by Hildebert Wagner and Dieter Nusser, Institute for Pharmaceutical Biology at the University of Munich