I'm participating in the Beat the Bridge to Beat Diabetes to raise money to transform the lives of the millions of people living with type 1 diabetes (T1D).

When you have T1D, your body stops producing insulin—a hormone essential to turning food into energy. Even with the most vigilant disease management, a significant portion of your day will be spent with high or low blood-sugar levels, which can lead to unpleasant short-term side effects and even long-term complications like kidney failure, heart attack and blindness.

There is no way to prevent T1D and there is no cure – yet. But JDRF is working hard to change that. 

Scientific advances are being turned into therapies that are changing the course of T1D - now. And together, we have the power to drive these therapies to market as quickly as we can.

By donating, you can support life-changing research that helps people with T1D live healthier and longer, until a cure is found.

Your support makes it all possible.