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Type 1 diabetes develops when your pancreas stops making insulin, what the body needs to break down sugar. Nobody knows why this happens, and there’s no cure for it. Patients rely on taking insulin, but now, doctors say a drug could make that a thing of the past.Last year at this time, Ohio native Kaitlin Walsh-Reed was taking off on a plane for a trip to Florida. But today, the 17-year-old’s plane landed 800 miles north, outside Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis.

Fatty acids commonly found in dairy products have successfully treated diabetes in mice, according to a researcher at Penn State. The compounds, known as conjugated linoleic acids (CLA), have also shown promising results in human trials, signaling a new way of potentially treating the disease without synthetic drugs.

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Diabetes mellitus is a condition in which the amount of glucose (sugar) in the blood is too high because the body cannot use it properly. Glucose comes from the digestion of starchy foods such as bread, rice, potatoes, chapatis, yams and plantain, from sugar and other sweet foods, and from the liver which makes glucose.