Dr. Banting's Miracle Drug
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- What does it mean to be a scientific hero? That provocative question is at the heart of the strange-but-true story of the discovery of insulin in the early 1920s. Before insulin, type 1 diabetes condemned children to a horrible and certain death. But in one of the first miracles of modern medicine, insulin turned diabetes into a manageable chronic condition. History has given Canadian physician FrederickBanting the lion’s share of the credit in the discovery, but the real story is far more nuanced and dramatic. The mythic hero scientist might work for newspaper headlines and Hollywood films, but insulin shows us that the paths to revolutionary scientific discoveries are almost always far more complicated and ultimately more interesting.
My grandfather lost his mother to this when he was nine. She passed a year before the discovery was made.
As a type one diabetic, I am grateful to all scientists worked for saving diabetic peoples lives.
Hopefully some other scientists as well.
Hopefully soon some scientists will make it affordable maybe even free. May it be God's will
@@Dbjjr26 100%
I’m 53 years Type1. I’m so thankful to be alive!
I am 54 and a t-1 I have never had a Ha1c over 7 and that is the key to living a long life with it. My ant lived to 85 as a T-1 and just passed this year.
Agora está com 57 anos
agora esta com 58 anos
God bless you my son started when he was 5 yrs old and is now 8. I'm hope he lives a long happy life as well as yourself. With love and respect 🙏 may they find a cure one day if at all possible.
This is so amazing and excited. My first thought was to having this scientist it's most able to produce some product. Banting make me glad
I’m a type 1 diabetic and this video was amazing. Thank you for making it!
Sou diabético tipo 1 e esse vídeo foi incrível. Obrigado por fazer isso!
This is most certainly the greatest gift to the world that was discovered in Canada ! Patent sold for 1$ !
Charles Best is my uncle. Such a cool story to have in your family...
My grandparents both died of Type 11 diabetes leaving my mother, an only child, alone in large house in downtown Toronto at age 19. She told me she used to see your uncle on the streets in Toronto. I guess wit-h all the attention in the newspapers of the day, he was recognizable and a 'celebrity' to the residents who lived there. What an incredible achievement. Awfully glad that Dr. Banting acknowledged Dr. Best's contributions - as did the Nobel Prize Foundation albeit 50 years later.
@@singtweetypie that's amazing, my great grandma used to tell me stories when I was young...but I never understood the true impact of their achievements.
@@joshwilson1759 Well I am certain as an adult it all become very clear. The magnitude of these doctors' achievements and the huge impact their discovery had on the world is almost hard to comprehend. You must be so proud of your uncle and I know Canada is just as proud of this incredible research and discovery that helped saved millions of lives and will continue to do so for generations to come.
What I find simply fascinating is NOT the discovery of Insulin, rather, the discovery of how to make people diabetic! Plug up circulation to the pancreas ... then ka ching ka ching ... What a couple of great Ziontists!
I’m a type 1 45 years now I remember seeing the movie when I was a kid yes great insulin is a beautiful thing but now it’s time we get a cure for type 1 diabetes
My hometown is called Banting. And it's not related *anything at all* with insulin.
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Good old allliston Ontario 👍🔥🇨🇦 want a potato 🥔 ? Hahaha
Canadian hero
hey im Canadian eh
Amazing not 100yrs ago
Mcleod=leech
I made the same judgment like yours in the beginning. However after working in medical research for 30 years, I changed my opinion.
First, in the olden days, the system was very different. Banting may have the idea but he had no funding, no laboratory space and facilities of his own. He needed someone to provide him all of the above and McLeod did exactly that. Without McLeod, Banting may not be able to do any of his work. So in fact for him to show McLeod off by proposing his student Best as a co-winner was not very nice, to put it mildly, to being ungrateful to his benefactor Dr, McCleod.
Today, the head of the research lab is called the Principal Investigator, P.I. He/she is responsible for applying for research grants. He/she owns the grant money and hires people to work under him/her.
So in today's standard, McCleod was the P. I. who provided Banting with lab space, funding for equipments, dogs and even a student called Best.
Some principal investigators work closely with their people and some don't, depending on different situations. But irrespective of who produce the results and who wrote up the paper, the principal investigator's name is always put as the 'last author', if you understand what it means to be called the 'last author' of a research paper. It means he/she is the principal investigator, he/she owns the grant that funds the research, he/she oversees the whole research and signs off the paper, he/she puts his/her reputation at stake on the paper.
In today's standard, Dr, McLeod is the principal investigator and the 'last author' of Banting's paper/ work/ achievement.
Principal Investigators own the labs, own the grants and every bit of equipment in the lab. They do not usually or necessarily carry out the work themselves. They supervise students, post doctorates and research associates (many of them are Ph. D's) to carry out the projects. In turn, Research associates and students often delegate their work to technicians. So it's a group effort. It's not the glory of one person.
I feel sad for all the dogs who died just to ensure Banting and Best create this miracle drug. I love these animals more than ever.
you need biological systems similar to humans to improve our lives. no other choice.
its better then use slave or War Prisoder for medicine testing
I am not sad, I am thankful. They sacrificed themselves to save my life.
Every dog I've met has been that loyal, and every dog I've witnessed at the end of their life has continued to be that loyal regardless of the conditions. I really believe that know they are man's best friend for a reason.
How can you say “just to create this miracle drug” as if a miracle drug doesn’t cause a miracle? I am alive today because of the sacrifice of those dogs. I am forever grateful
It is incredible that there was one time that the unit price fell from 5 cents to 2 cents. It is a miraculous drug and saved millions of lives around the world. It is sad to know that now it is too expensive.
I was diagnosed with T1 in 2004 and I’m so happy I didn’t die and leave my parents back then. Eternally grateful to Banting, Best, Macleod et al
I am a T-1 and from the day I was diagnosed I knew I owed my life to Banting and Best. The other 2 were just there for the glory and the money.
Please remember that Insulin is not the cure it is just a treatment.
I was diagnosed in my late 20s and had a hard time coping with the fact that 100 years ago i would have withered away and died without this miracle drug. I felt like i was cheating death because so many before me suffered and did die, and i was just lucky enough to be born after this discovery became accessible. I still feel that way.. but it makes me all the more grateful for my fellow man that took the time to research and develop this treatment
Dude I feel that MASSIVELY. I was diagnosed in my late teens and I literally still think about it all the time. For what it is truly worth, Im glad that you werent born before the discovery. Let's make something good about our lives since we've been granted the chance! Maybe even in the way of helping other diabetics get the medicine they need by informing, etc. Keep the faith, man- your fellow sweetblood in arms!! 💪🩸🎗🫂
Drive by his childhood home all the time! High school Named after him in alliston Ontario
Cool- not only do we get to celebrate 2 scientists who helped save our lives, but so many!! Not just the ones who helped to discover all of the hypothesis and methods, but the ones today. Lets also celebrate the ones who have helped us to have blood testing methods, faster acting insulins, CGM tech, ketone monitoring- so much more has already been accomplished! The more to celebrate the merrier, for real 🙏💪
God blessed Dr. Banning and Dr. Best and Dr. Macleod Dr. Collin.. God blessed their souls
This is a beautiful explained and produced video. Very touching to see the countless kids whose lives were improved.
Bliss’s books is one of the first medical history books I read and still remains one of my favorites. PBS had a great miniseries based on this book as well
My great aunt had diabetes when insulin was discovered. It was a terrible disease. I don't know the story of her starting the drug, but I think my grandmother always lived in fear of what had happened to her sister.
Hello Anne, Good evening.
One of his relatives married into my family. What a great man to be able to help so many people.
Hello Sandra, Good evening. They all deserve credit for this, it amazing.
I was born & raised in London Ontario where Banting lived & where that flame burns 24 hours. They should make a movie about this & about the invention of penacillin. Both saved millions of lives & most a big reason for population explosion.
Great job on the presentation of this video. Very informative. Looking forward to more of these types of videos!!
It really is a miracle drug.
Realmente é uma droga milagrosa
I love and am obsessed with this story indeed all that transpired in those golden years of medical innovation out of Toronto a century ago.
This is amazing! It took a team , they all deserve credit .
Hello There, Good afternoon. Yea they all deserve credit, it’s amazing.
Might be fair to say if you look deeply most of research these days is also similar to Klein sadly they do a lot and suddenly in rush of need of funds or fear of lab closure they just publish and publish without hitting that holy grail for treatment
Frederick Banting was my first cousin, twice removed, that's right I'm related to him
I was highly offended by this Banting hate video.
It may be a bit much to say "other researchers got as far," and "superfluous", but Collip DID have as i see, ex aequo most important role, definitely more than Best
Edit: meanwhile Eli Lilly sons of bitches make all the money in the us by elevating prices. Buy Novorapid from Sweden, i do for 15 years now. Not an advertisement, i'm just diabetic xD
Woah
I am so sick of grown women talking like children.
And what do you mean by that? I don't understand