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Insulin allows your body to store or use sugar and to turn it into energy to make your body work.

People with diabetes type 1 have to regulate their own levels of insulin manually, measuring their blood sugar levels by pricking their finger to get a droplet of blood and then dosing themselves with some insulin by injection, multiple times a day. Get it wrong and their life is at stake, get it inaccurate and there are many very unpleasant side effects.

People without diabetes type 1 are lucky. Your body automatically measures and regulates your insulin. You don't have to think about it.

I want to help Diabetes UK, because I want to see development of automated systems that do the measurements and control the insulin release automatically for type 1 diabetics. Systems that are available to all and that are not designed to have inherent replaceable parts just to make a profit for the companies that make them...rechargeable, reusable, repairable.

My wife has diabetes type 1 and she is the strongest person I know.

Thank you for donating.

Thanks to http://www.parkrun.org.uk/ for helping me to keep healthy and helping me to achieve this marathon.

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