Frederick Grant Banting was a man of many ideas and one of them was of turning point in Canadian history. Frederick Banting had an idea that would unlock the mystery of the dreaded diabetes disorder. Before this, for thousands of years, a diabetes diagnosis meant wasting away people’s lives, there was no cure. Frederick Banting had a co-worker named Charles Best who helped in the discovery of insulin. Banting got the idea for his experiments while doing background reading for a course that he was teaching on sugar metabolism. He was impressed by an account in a fairly obscure surgical journal of a patient who had stones in his pancreas, a tissue in the small bowel, which as a result had been largely destroyed. Surprisingly the patient was not diabetic. This suggested to Banting the key idea that a small part of the pancreas which secreted the active substance might survive when the pancreas was lost, that it might be recovered and the active ingredient be extracted. They work long and hard in their laboratory at Victoria University in Toronto they tried and tried but failed many times until the summer of 1921, when Fredrick Banting and Charles Best were able to make a pancreatic extract which had anti diabetic characteristics. The key ingredients are mainly human DNA, they need the nitrogen based molecules that line up to make up the proteins, also to synthesize insulin you need tanks to grow bacteria, and nutrients are needed for the bacteria to grow. They were successful in testing their