Beta Cell

When you think of genes, you usually think of parents passing things down to their children. But what would happen if it went the other direction? Anastasia talks about her daughter Delilah's T1D diagnosis when she was five years old and then her own less than a year later.

Craig gets into a magazine. Laura gets married and breaks up.

In the summer 2017, the non-profit Beyond Type 1 put together a team of 20 people with type 1 diabetes from around to world to bike from New York to San Francisco over 10 weeks in an effort to raise money and, more importantly, awareness for what it means to live with type 1.

This is the beginning of a series where I interview members of Team Bike Beyond to figure out what compelled them to sign up for this team and how the journey has changed them since.

This first episode is with Cassidy, who has spent her whole life listening to her father tell stories from when he biked across the country when he was 22 years old. Now she has her own to share too.

For more information about Bike Beyond or if you want to attend a viewing or even host your very own screening of the Bike Beyond documentary, visit bikebeyond.org.

Most of the dialogue about type 1 diabetes is between people who have it, but what about those close to us who are affected by T1D too, the endearingly nicknamed “Type 3s?” In the third show from Beta Cell, The 3s offers the opportunity for them to join the conversation too in one-on-one interviews with the T1D in their life.

In this episode, Craig (T1D) interviews his friend Venus after she wore a Dexcom for 20 days about the surprising, and not so surprising, things she learned along the way.

Credit music: "Stayin' Alive" by Say Lou Lou

Laura considers one day, maybe, changing her lancet.

This episode is free. The guacamole is extra.

The amount of listens will determine Craig and Laura’s self worth.

Craig: "So how do you deal with the fact that you're gonna have to keep doing this, probably, forever?"

Laura: [Sigh] "Ummmm..."

As a 38 year old triathlete, Dave was confused when he was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes just days after completing the 2009 New York City Marathon. Fast forward six years later, after finally being diagnosed correctly, Dave found support from the Type One Run community to help conquer the real dangers of exercising—and living—with type 1.

Laura puts a Dexcom on her arm and goes grocery shopping.