M.Sarim DVM, RVMP, RVMF

🧠 Fatal Familial Insomnia – The Disease That Stops You From Sleeping… Forever

Imagine never being able to sleep again — not for one night, not for a week, but for the rest of your life. Fatal Familial Insomnia (FFI) is one of the rarest and deadliest brain diseases known to science.
In this video, we’ll explain:
✅ What Fatal Familial Insomnia is
✅ How a single genetic mutation in the PRNP gene causes it
✅ Why it’s classified as a prion disease
✅ The symptoms and how they progress
✅ Why no treatment can stop it — yet
✅ What science is doing to find a cure

This is not your typical insomnia. FFI shuts down the brain’s sleep center in the thalamus, leading to a complete inability to sleep, severe neurological decline, and death — usually within 12 to 18 months of symptom onset.

Join us as we explore this rare disorder, its devastating effects, and the lessons it teaches us about the importance of sleep for survival.

https://youtu.be/gIQeMTBFJ3c