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At a cellular level you become less and less effective like a wound down clock
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At a cellular level you become less and less effectivelike a wound down clock

Unrest • 2017
At a cellular level you become less and less effective
like a wound down clock

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At a cellular level you become less and less effective like a wound down clock.
Duration
7 seconds
Views
14
Timestamp in Movie
01:05:11
Uploaded
Oct 29, 2025
Genres
documentary, drama, history
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Movie Summary

When Harvard Ph.D. student Jennifer Brea is struck down by a fever that leaves her bedridden, she sets out on a virtual journey to document her story as she fights a disease that medicine forgot.
>> Jennifer: If our neurons don’t have enough energy we can’t think. - Unrest 00:06
>> Jennifer: If our neurons don’t have enough energy w...
If our immune cells don’t have enough energy we can’t fight viruses. - Unrest 00:06
If our immune cells don’t have enough energy we can’t fight ...
And if our muscles don’t have enough energy we can’t move. - Unrest 00:06
And if our muscles don’t have enough energy we can’t...
But where you can really see it is when we crash after physical or mental exertion. - Unrest 00:08
But where you can really see it is when we crash after physi...
Our cells give out and all of our symptoms flare. - Unrest 00:05
Our cells give out and all of our symptoms flare.
Dr. Klimas's team can actually track this crash point on a metabolic level. - Unrest 00:07
Dr. Klimas's team can actually track this crash point o...
There's aerobic energy and there's anaerobic energy that you get from the cell itself. - Unrest 00:07
There's aerobic energy and there's anaerobic energ...
We teach people how to stay in that tiny little space of aerobic. And it is little. - Unrest 00:07
We teach people how to stay in that tiny little space of aer...
Sometimes it's two minutes, sometimes it's three minutes of effort. - Unrest 00:05
Sometimes it's two minutes, sometimes it's three m...
You can safely operate in this space without crashing. - Unrest 00:05
You can safely operate in this space without crashing.
The minute that you go into the anaerobic space and you ask the cells to make energy - Unrest 00:09
The minute that you go into the anaerobic space and you ask ...
>>Jennifer: I think this is half the reason this disease is so hard to understand. - Unrest 00:07
>>Jennifer: I think this is half the reason this disea...
Why someone like me can be walking one moment and look completely normal - Unrest 00:14
Why someone like me can be walking one moment and look compl...
I feel like l’m this broken battery that’s stuck at 10%. - Unrest 00:06
I feel like l’m this broken battery that’s stuck at 10%.
And when we crash, we disappear, so you never see us at our worst. - Unrest 00:08
And when we crash, we disappear, so you never see us at our ...
I was amazed to find out how many questions we’ve never really asked. - Unrest 00:07
I was amazed to find out how many questions we’ve never real...
And why thirty years into it are we still no closer to a cure? - Unrest 00:08
And why thirty years into it are we still no closer to a cur...
Oh, good. This is kind of amazing type of interview. Yeah. - Unrest 00:09
Oh, good. This is kind of amazing type of interview. Yeah.
You've spent your life tackling really hard problems. - Unrest 00:05
You've spent your life tackling really hard problems.
Why has it been so hard to figure out what's going on in patients like me? - Unrest 00:07
Why has it been so hard to figure out what's going on i...