One In A Million: A CJD Documentary from fatal insomnia cure Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 51 min 6 sec
✓ Published: 01-Aug-2015

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On May 10th, 1976, I lost my grandfather to Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease at the age of 69. Thirty-seven years later, on April 21st, 2013, I lost my mother to Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease at the age of 67. The genetic strain of this 100% fatal, untreatable neurodegenerative disorder is in my family’s DNA. There is a fifty-fifty chance that I carry the same gene that destroyed the brains of my family. Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (or CJD) is estimated to affect only one in a million people, but since it