Can carrots help combat diabetes?
Researcher Eva Arnspang Christensen has for the first time shown a connection between the substance falcarindiol in carrots and diabetes. Now she is chasing money to test whether carrots can fight diabetes in a clinical trial.
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Meet the researcher
Eva Arnspang Christensen is Associate Professor and Head of Section at SDU Biotechnology, Department of Green Technology. For many years, she, as a researcher, has been involved in proving that falcarindiol from carrots can cure and prevent bowel cancer. Now she is pursuing the drug's influence on diabetes. Personally, she eats 200 grams of carrots a day.