Frederick Banting
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Oct 2, 2026
Agent BlackveilNARRATOR
dangerous capitalist endeavors usually start as a gift.
Agent BlackveilNARRATOR
In 1923, a Canadian doctor named Frederick Banting sold the patent to insulin to the University of Toronto for exactly one dollar.
Agent BlackveilNARRATOR
His reasoning was simple.
Agent BlackveilNARRATOR
A doctor shouldn't profit from a discovery that saves lives.
Mary FincherHOST
Yeah.
Mary FincherHOST
So Charles Best and Banting discover in Frederick, Sir Frederick Banting discover insulin in early 1921.
Mary FincherHOST
And this is one of the most important medical discoveries ever.
Mary FincherHOST
They couldn't get a lot of funding, unfortunately, for it.
Mary FincherHOST
I've wanted to do this episode about Lilly for a while.
Mary FincherHOST
And I have to say, I learned a lot about him in doing this.
Mary FincherHOST
I did not know the story about the insulin and the insulin has always been something that, you know, going to U of T, all of us knew who Frederick Banting and Charles Best were because they discovered it.
Mary FincherHOST
And it was such an important, like probably one of the most important medical discoveries of all time was insulin because the lives were saved.
Kelly SixHOST
And so-
Erin PhillipsHOST
Thank you, Dr. Banting
Kelly SixHOST
... and it was, like, so effective, right?
Erin PhillipsHOST
Mm-hmm.
Ken BerryHOST
Imagine the impact that would have on the health of the entire world.
Ken BerryHOST
Now you may remember the story of Sir Frederick Banting.
Ken BerryHOST
He's the doctor who invented insulin back in the 1920s.
Ken BerryHOST
And he said, this doesn't belong to me.
speaker_5HOST
Right.
speaker_5HOST
Two researchers in Toronto, Frederick Banting and Charles Best, had just isolated insulin.
speaker_5HOST
They had miraculously proven that this compound could save the lives of patients who were rapidly dying from type one diabetes.
speaker_5HOST
But we have to look at their methodology.
Troy StapletonGUEST
Um, I actually put this one up for Gary Fedke because, um, Gary's doing a great job down in Tasmania, and he's just launched a clinic using low carb, high fat.
Troy StapletonGUEST
And, um, Gary didn't actually know, but Frederick Banting, who was a Canadian, was actually an orthopedic surgeon as well.
Troy StapletonGUEST
So it's interesting to have a couple of orthopedic surgeons who, um, you're gonna make a big difference in diabetes.
Troy StapletonGUEST
This was, um, a quote in The New York Times, um, when they first started ad- administering, uh, insulin to children.
Ming-Zhu HiiNARRATOR
The discovery was a true team effort.
Ming-Zhu HiiNARRATOR
It included the efforts of orthopaedic surgeon Frederick Banting and Charles Best, a laboratory assistant and medical student, to produce animal pancreatic extracts.
Ming-Zhu HiiNARRATOR
It also included the advice of Professor of Physiology John McLeod for preservation techniques and biochemist James Collip for the purification of insulin.
Ming-Zhu HiiNARRATOR
Although the chemical structure was yet to be determined, MacLeod called the substance insulin, derived from the Latin word for island, insula, referencing the islets of Langerhans.
Ming-Zhu HiiNARRATOR
Unfortunately, the relationships between the senior researchers Banting and MacLeod became strained to the extent of great hostility, which is well documented.
Ming-Zhu HiiNARRATOR
This peaked when the Nobel Prize was awarded to them, and Banting originally refused to accept the award because best was not acknowledged.
Ming-Zhu HiiNARRATOR
Fortunately, this animosity did not prevent the discovery of insulin.
Ming-Zhu HiiNARRATOR
The rapid clinical release of insulin, a gift to the world.