We would not be where we are today if it were not for Frederick Benting and Charles Best. The two researchers at the University of Toronto took an extract from a dog’s pancreas that would change the lives of millions of people with diabetes. Until this discovery, diabetes was a certain death sentence. Now young people with diabetes and their parents could finally have hope. Over the course of a century, insulin has been continuously developed and has become more similar to human insulin. Always at the center: enabling people with diabetes to live as normal a life as possible. In the first episode of the podcast “Me and my diabetes”, which I produced for diabetesschweiz , Prof. Dr. Henryk Zulewski, Head of the Endocrinology and Diabetology Department at Triemli Hospital Zurich, and Susanne Landolt, pharmacist and medical director at Novo Nordisk, talk about the discovery of insulin and how the lives of millions of people with diabetes have become increasingly easier over the last 100 years.