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CFS is an extremely complicated disease involving the immune system
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CFS is an extremely complicated diseaseinvolving the immune system and the brain and who...

Unrest • 2017
CFS is an extremely complicated disease
involving the immune system and the brain and who knows what else

Full Transcript

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CFS is an extremely complicated disease involving the immune system
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and the brain and who knows what else.
Duration
10 seconds
Views
13
Timestamp in Movie
01:08:14
Uploaded
Oct 29, 2025
Genres
documentary, drama, history
Production
N/A

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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.
We're studying a very small population of severely ill patients - Unrest 00:09
We're studying a very small population of severely ill ...
We're probably collecting more data on an individual - Unrest 00:08
We're probably collecting more data on an individual
I've teamed up with really superb scientists. Three of them have a Nobel Prize. - Unrest 00:07
I've teamed up with really superb scientists. Three of ...
In two/three months we'll have some data to sit at the table and look at- not publish- - Unrest 00:09
In two/three months we'll have some data to sit at the ...
Almost exclusively the organization that funds medical research - Unrest 00:08
Almost exclusively the organization that funds medical resea...
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is the lowest funded of any major disease by a lot. - Unrest 00:07
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is the lowest funded of any major d...
Many of the people that are at NIH and have in the past not believed it's real. - Unrest 00:08
Many of the people that are at NIH and have in the past not ...
I've written two applications to the National Institutes of Health. - Unrest 00:05
I've written two applications to the National Institute...
Both of them were turned down without review. - Unrest 00:05
Both of them were turned down without review.
We have to attempt every door at NIH. - Unrest 00:05
We have to attempt every door at NIH.
If we get shut out from every door then the only recourse we have is go to Congress. - Unrest 00:07
If we get shut out from every door then the only recourse we...
This is what’s called TPN: total peripheral nutrition. - Unrest 00:07
This is what’s called TPN: total peripheral nutrition.
And that’s all he gets for food. - Unrest 00:05
And that’s all he gets for food.
The speech center gets affected. - Unrest 00:05
The speech center gets affected.
It's probably been a year since he's talked. - Unrest 00:05
It's probably been a year since he's talked.
He loved traveling and taking photographs. - Unrest 00:06
He loved traveling and taking photographs.
One day he asked us to take his camera out of his room. - Unrest 00:07
One day he asked us to take his camera out of his room.
And then he motioned for me to let him hold it for a minute. - Unrest 00:08
And then he motioned for me to let him hold it for a minute.
And he just hugged his camera and then told it goodbye and I took it out of the room. - Unrest 00:10
And he just hugged his camera and then told it goodbye and I...
He was my best friend. - Unrest 00:05
He was my best friend.