์ด ์„ธ์…˜์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ ์„ค์ •์ด ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋‹˜์˜ ๊ณ„์ • ์„ค์ •์„ ์˜๊ตฌ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณ€๊ฒฝํ•˜๋ ค๋ฉด ๋‚ด ๊ณ„์ •์œผ๋กœ ์ด๋™ํ•˜์„ธ์š”.
์›ํ•˜๋Š” ์ˆ˜๋ น ๊ตญ๊ฐ€ ๋˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ์šฉ ์–ธ์–ด๋ฅผ ๋‚ด ๊ณ„์ •์—์„œ ์–ธ์ œ๋“ ์ง€ ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
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๋‚จ์„ฑ์˜ ํ˜ธ๋ฅด๋ชฌ ๋ณ€ํ™” 

๋‚จ์„ฑ์ด ๋‚˜์ด๊ฐ€ ๋“ค๋ฉด์„œ ๊ฒช๋Š” ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์‹ ์ฒด ๋ณ€ํ™”๋Š” ํ˜ธ๋ฅด๋ชฌ์˜ ๋ณ€ํ™”์—์„œ ๋น„๋กฏ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฌ์„ฑ์ด ํ๊ฒฝ ์ค‘์— ๊ฒช๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ ์œ ์‚ฌํ•œ ์ƒ๋ฆฌํ•™์  ๊ณผ์ •์„ ๋‚จ์„ฑ์ด ๊ฒฝํ—˜ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์—์„œ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ฅผ '๋‚จ์„ฑ๊ฐฑ๋…„๊ธฐ(Andropause, Male menopause, Man-opause)'๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ถ€๋ฆ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋ชจ๋“  ์—ฌ์„ฑ์—๊ฒŒ ํ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ๋Š” ํ•„์—ฐ์  ํ˜„์ƒ์ด์ง€๋งŒ ๋‚จ์„ฑ์€ ๋ชจ๋‘๊ฐ€ ๋‚จ์„ฑ๊ฐฑ๋…„๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฒช์ง€๋Š” ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋‚จ์„ฑ๊ฐฑ๋…„๊ธฐ์— ๋“ค์–ด์„  ์ค‘๋…„ ๋‚จ์„ฑ์€ ํ…Œ์Šคํ† ์Šคํ…Œ๋ก (Testosterone) ๋ฐ ๋””ํžˆ๋“œ๋กœ์—ํ”ผ์•ˆ๋“œ๋กœ์Šคํ…Œ๋ก (Dehydroepiandrosterone)์ด ์„œ์„œํžˆ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ์†Œํ•˜๋Š” ํ˜„์ƒ๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จ๋œ ์ง•ํ›„ ๋ฐ ์ฆ์ƒ์„ ๊ฒช์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 

ํ˜ธ๋ฅด๋ชฌ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ๋‚จ์„ฑ์—๊ฒŒ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚˜๋Š” ์ผ๋ฐ˜ ์ฆ์ƒ:

  • ํ”ผ๋กœ
  • ์šฐ์šธ์ฆ
  • ์‹ ๊ฒฝ๊ณผ๋ฏผ
  • ์„ฑ์š• ๊ฐํ‡ด
  • ๋ฐœ๊ธฐ๋ถ€์ „
  • ์ˆ˜๋ฉด ์ค‘ ์‹์€๋•€ ํ˜๋ฆผ
  • ์•ˆ๋ฉดํ™์กฐ

๋‚จ์„ฑ์€ ๋‚˜์ด๊ฐ€ ๋“ค๋ฉด์„œ ํ…Œ์Šคํ† ์Šคํ…Œ๋ก  ์ˆ˜์น˜๊ฐ€ ์ž์—ฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ์†Œํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ์ „๋ฌธ ์šฉ์–ด๋กœ ์„ฑ์„ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์ €ํ•˜์ฆ(Hypogonadism)์œผ๋กœ ๋ถˆ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋‚จ์„ฑ๊ฐฑ๋…„๊ธฐ์— ๋“ค์–ด์„œ๋ฉด ์ด ์ˆ˜์น˜๋Š” ํ•ด๋‹น ์—ฐ๋ น์˜ ์ •์ƒ ๋ฒ”์œ„ ์•„๋ž˜๋กœ ๋–จ์–ด์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ…Œ์Šคํ† ์Šคํ…Œ๋ก  ๊ฒฐํ•์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ด‘๊ณ ๋ฅผ ๋ณธ ์ ์ด ์žˆ๋‚˜์š”? ์ฒ˜๋ฐฉ์šฉ ํ…Œ์Šคํ† ์Šคํ…Œ๋ก  ์ œ์ œ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด๋“ค์€ ๋‚จ์„ฑ๋“ค์ด ๋น ๋ฅธ ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ด๋Š” ํ…Œ์Šคํ† ์Šคํ…Œ๋ก  ์•ฝ๋ฌผ์š”๋ฒ•์— ์˜์กดํ•˜๋„๋ก ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋Œ€๋Œ€์ ์ธ ํ™๋ณด๋ฅผ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์™€ ๊ด€๋ จํ•˜์—ฌ ๋‚จ์„ฑ๊ฐฑ๋…„๊ธฐ์™€ ํ…Œ์Šคํ† ์Šคํ…Œ๋ก  ๊ฒฐํ•์€ ์•„์ง ๋…ผ์Ÿ์˜ ์—ฌ์ง€๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์€ ์ฃผ์ œ๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋งŒ ์•Œ์•„ ๋‘์‹œ๋ฉด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.1

ํ…Œ์Šคํ† ์Šคํ…Œ๋ก ์ด ๊ฐ์†Œํ•˜๋Š” ์›์ธ์€?

ํ…Œ์Šคํ† ์Šคํ…Œ๋ก  ์ˆ˜์น˜๋Š” 30์„ธ ์ดํ›„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ 10๋…„๋งˆ๋‹ค 10%์”ฉ, ์ฆ‰ ๋งค๋…„ ์•ฝ 1%์”ฉ ์ž์—ฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ์†Œํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์ •์ƒ์ ์ธ ํ˜„์ƒ์ด์ง€๋งŒ ํ…Œ์Šคํ† ์Šคํ…Œ๋ก  ์ˆ˜์น˜๊ฐ€ ์ด๋ณด๋‹ค ๋” ๋น ๋ฅธ ์†๋„๋กœ ๋–จ์–ด์ง„๋‹ค๋ฉด ๋น„์ •์ƒ์ ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 

๋‹ค์Œ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์š”์ธ์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ํ…Œ์Šคํ† ์Šคํ…Œ๋ก ์ด ๊ฐ์†Œํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • ์˜ค๋Š˜๋‚  ํ…Œ์Šคํ† ์Šคํ…Œ๋ก  ์ˆ˜์น˜ ๊ฐ์†Œ์˜ ์ฃผ์š” ์›์ธ์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ๋น„๋งŒ, ๋‹น๋‡จ๋ณ‘, ์ธ์Š๋ฆฐ ์ €ํ•ญ์„ฑ์„ ๋“ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋น„๋งŒ ๋‚จ์„ฑ์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ์ „์ฒด ๋ฐ ์œ ๋ฆฌ ํ…Œ์Šคํ† ์Šคํ…Œ๋ก (Free testosterone) ์ˆ˜์น˜๋Š” ๋น„๋งŒ ์ •๋„์— ๋น„๋ก€ํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ฐ์†Œํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์„ค์ƒ๊ฐ€์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ์—์ŠคํŠธ๋กœ๊ฒ(Estrogen)์€ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • ๋งŒ์„ฑ ์—ผ์ฆ์€ ํ…Œ์Šคํ† ์Šคํ…Œ๋ก ์„ ๊ฐ์†Œ์‹œํ‚ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์œ„ํ—˜ ์š”์ธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ธ์Š๋ฆฐ ์ €ํ•ญ์„ฑ์€ '์นจ๋ฌต์˜ ์—ผ์ฆ(Silent inflammation)'๊ณผ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋„ C-๋ฐ˜์‘์„ฑ ๋‹จ๋ฐฑ์งˆ(hsCRP)์„ ์ฆ๊ฐ€์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์š”์ธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • ์‹ํ’ˆ ๋ฐ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ฒด๋‚ด๋กœ ์œ ์ž…๋˜๋ฉด ์—์ŠคํŠธ๋กœ๊ฒ ๊ฐ™์€ ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ด๋Š” ์ œ๋…ธ์—์ŠคํŠธ๋กœ๊ฒ(Xenoestrogen)์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋…ธ์ถœ์ด ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ์—๋„ ํ…Œ์Šคํ† ์Šคํ…Œ๋ก  ์ˆ˜์น˜๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ์†Œํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ œ๋…ธ์—์ŠคํŠธ๋กœ๊ฒ์€ ์‚ด์ถฉ์ œ, ํ”„ํƒˆ๋ ˆ์ดํŠธ(ํ”Œ๋ผ์Šคํ‹ฑ), ํก์—ฐ ๋ถ€์‚ฐ๋ฌผ, ์ค‘๊ธˆ์†(๋‚ฉ, ์ˆ˜์€ ๋“ฑ), ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์šฉ๋งค ๋“ฑ์— ๋“ค์–ด ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฌผ์งˆ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ œ๋…ธ์—์ŠคํŠธ๋กœ๊ฒ์€ ๋‚จ์„ฑ ์ฒด๋‚ด ์—์ŠคํŠธ๋กœ๊ฒ์˜ ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•˜์—ฌ ํ…Œ์Šคํ† ์Šคํ…Œ๋ก  ์ƒ์„ฑ์„ ๊ฐ์†Œ์‹œํ‚ต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • ์‹ ์ฒด ํ™œ๋™ ๋ถ€์กฑ๋„ ์›์ธ์ด ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์—ญ๋„๋ฅผ ๋น„๋กฏํ•œ ์งง์€ ๊ณ ๊ฐ•๋„ ์šด๋™์„ ์ •๊ธฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ•˜๋ฉด ํ…Œ์Šคํ† ์Šคํ…Œ๋ก  ์ƒ์„ฑ์„ ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ฆ๊ฐ€์‹œํ‚ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • ์ŠคํŠธ๋ ˆ์Šค๋Š” ๋ถ€์‹  ํ˜ธ๋ฅด๋ชฌ์ธ Cortisol(์ฝ”๋ฅดํ‹ฐ์†”)์˜ ๋ฐฉ์ถœ์„ ๋Š˜๋ ค ํ…Œ์Šคํ† ์Šคํ…Œ๋ก  ์ˆ˜์น˜์— ๋ถ€์ •์ ์ธ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์นฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ…Œ์Šคํ† ์Šคํ…Œ๋ก  ์ˆ˜์น˜๋ฅผ ๋†’์ด๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•

ํ…Œ์Šคํ† ์Šคํ…Œ๋ก ์ด ๋ถ€์กฑํ•œ ๋‚จ์„ฑ์ด ํ…Œ์Šคํ† ์Šคํ…Œ๋ก  ์ˆ˜์น˜๋ฅผ ๋†’์ด๋Š” ์ตœ๊ณ ์˜ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์€ ์ธ์Š๋ฆฐ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์„ ์ฆ์ง„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ ์ • ์ˆ˜์ค€์œผ๋กœ ์ฒด์ค‘์„ ์ค„์ด๋ฉฐ ํ˜ˆ๋‹น ์กฐ์ ˆ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์„ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ทผ๋ณธ์ ์ธ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผ ํ•ด๊ฒฐํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฒด์ค‘์„ ๊ฐ๋Ÿ‰ํ•˜๊ธฐ๋งŒ ํ•ด๋„ ํ…Œ์Šคํ† ์Šคํ…Œ๋ก  ์ˆ˜์น˜๊ฐ€ 50% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.2 

์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์ธ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ• ์™ธ์— ๋‹ค์Œ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ฒœ์—ฐ ์ œํ’ˆ๋„ ๋„์›€์ด ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์•„์—ฐ

์•„์—ฐ์€ ๋‚จ์„ฑ ์„ฑ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์— ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๋ฏธ๋Ÿ‰ ๋ฏธ๋„ค๋ž„์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ ์ „๋ฆฝ์„ ๊ณผ ๊ณ ํ™˜ ๋‚ด์— ๊ณ ๋†๋„๋กœ ๋ถ„ํฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•„์—ฐ์€ ํŠนํžˆ ์ •์•ก์— ๋งŽ์ด ๋“ค์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค(๋งค๋ฒˆ ์‚ฌ์ •ํ•  ๋•Œ๋งˆ๋‹ค ์•ฝ 2.5mg์˜ ์•„์—ฐ์ด ์†์‹ค๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค). 

์•„์—ฐ์€ ํ…Œ์Šคํ† ์Šคํ…Œ๋ก  ๋Œ€์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๋น„๋กฏํ•˜์—ฌ ๋‚จ์„ฑ ์ƒ์‹๊ณ„์˜ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ณผ์ •์— ๊ด€์—ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด ์•„์—ฐ ๋ณด์ถฉ์ œ๋Š” ์ •์ž๋ถ€์กฑ์ฆ์„ ์น˜๋ฃŒํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ๋„์›€์ด ๋˜๊ณ  ํŠนํžˆ ํ…Œ์Šคํ† ์Šคํ…Œ๋ก  ์ˆ˜์น˜๊ฐ€ ๋‚ฎ์€ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ์— ๋”์šฑ ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•ด๋‹น ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์—์„œ ์•„์—ฐ์€ ์ •์ž ์ˆ˜์™€ ํ…Œ์Šคํ† ์Šคํ…Œ๋ก  ์ˆ˜์น˜๋ฅผ ๋ชจ๋‘ ๋†’์ด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ฌ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.3 

๋‚จ์„ฑ๋“ค์ด ๋ถˆ์ž„, ์ •์ž๋ถ€์กฑ์ฆ, ํ…Œ์Šคํ† ์Šคํ…Œ๋ก  ๊ฒฐํ•์„ ๊ฒช๋Š” ์ด์œ ๋Š” ๋งŽ์€ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ์•„์—ฐ์ด ๋ถ€์กฑํ•˜๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.4,5 ์•„์—ฐ ์ˆ˜์น˜๋ฅผ ์ ์ ˆํ•œ ์ˆ˜์ค€์œผ๋กœ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋ ค๋ฉด ๋งค์ผ 30-45mg์„ ๋ณด์ถฉํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ข‹์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ˜ธ๋กœํŒŒ

ํ˜ธ๋กœํŒŒ์—๋Š” ํŽ˜๋ˆ„์‚ฌ์ด๋“œ(Fenuside), ํ”„๋กœํ† ๋””์˜ค์‹ (Protodioscin)์„ ๋น„๋กฏํ•˜์—ฌ ํ™œ์„ฑ ์ƒํƒœ์˜ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์‹๋ฌผ์„ฑ ์Šคํ…Œ๋กœ์ด๋“œ(Steroid)๊ฐ€ ํ•จ์œ ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ž„์ƒ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์—์„œ ํ˜ธ๋กœํŒŒ ์ถ”์ถœ๋ฌผ์€ ์„ฑ์š•๊ณผ ํ…Œ์Šคํ† ์Šคํ…Œ๋ก  ์ˆ˜์น˜๋ฅผ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•˜๋Š” ์œ ๋งํ•œ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.6,7 ํ•œ ์ด์ค‘๋งน๊ฒ€ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด ๋งค์ผ 600mg์˜ ํŠน์ˆ˜ ํ˜ธ๋กœํŒŒ ์ถ”์ถœ๋ฌผ์„ ์„ญ์ทจํ•œ ๊ทธ๋ฃน์€ ์„ฑ์š•(81.5%), ํšŒ๋ณต ์‹œ๊ฐ„(66.7%), ์„ฑ์  ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์˜ ์งˆ(63%)์ด ๊ฐœ์„ ๋˜์—ˆ๊ณ  ํ…Œ์Šคํ† ์Šคํ…Œ๋ก  ์ˆ˜์น˜๋„ ์•ฝ๊ฐ„ ๋†’์•„์ง„ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด๊ณ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์—์„œ 35-65์„ธ์˜ ๋‚จ์„ฑ ํ”ผํ—˜์ž 50๋ช…์€ ํ”„๋กœํ† ๋””์˜ค์‹ ์ด 20% ํ•จ์œ ๋œ ํ˜ธ๋กœํŒŒ ์ถ”์ถœ๋ฌผ 500mg์„ ๋งค์ผ ์„ญ์ทจํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ, ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ๋ชจ์ง‘๋‹จ์˜ 90%๋Š” ์œ ๋ฆฌ ํ…Œ์Šคํ† ์Šคํ…Œ๋ก  ์ˆ˜์น˜๊ฐ€ 46%๋‚˜ ๊ฐœ์„ ๋œ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ฌ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ†ต์บ‡ ์•Œ๋ฆฌ

ํ•™๋ช…์ด ์œ ๋ฆฌ์ฝ”๋งˆ ๋กฑ๊ธฐํด๋ฆฌ๋งˆ(Eurycoma longifolia)์ด๊ณ  ๋กฑ์žญ(Longjack)์œผ๋กœ๋„ ๋ถˆ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํ†ต์บ‡ ์•Œ๋ฆฌ(Tongkat Ali)๋Š” ์ธ๋„๋„ค์‹œ์•„์™€ ๋ง๋ ˆ์ด์‹œ์•„๊ฐ€ ์›์‚ฐ์ง€์ธ ์†์”จ์‹๋ฌผ๋กœ ํ…Œ์Šคํ† ์Šคํ…Œ๋ก  ์ˆ˜์น˜์™€ ์„ฑ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์„ ๋†’์ด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋งŽ์ด ํ™๋ณด๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ€์งœ ์ œํ’ˆ์ด ์‹œ์ค‘์— ์œ ํ†ต๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด ์šฐ๋ ค๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ, ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ฃผ์žฅ์„ ๋’ท๋ฐ›์นจํ•˜๋Š” ์ฆ๊ฑฐ๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜์™€ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.8 ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด ํ…Œ์Šคํ† ์Šคํ…Œ๋ก ์ด ๋ถ€์กฑํ•œ ๋‚จ์„ฑ์ด ํ‘œ์ค€ํ™”๋œ ์ˆ˜์šฉ์„ฑ ํ†ต์บ‡ ์•Œ๋ฆฌ ์ถ”์ถœ๋ฌผ 200mg์„ ๋งค์ผ ์„ญ์ทจํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ ์ด ํ…Œ์Šคํ† ์Šคํ…Œ๋ก  ์ˆ˜์น˜๊ฐ€ 46% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ๊ณ  ํ”ผํ—˜์ž์˜ 90%๋Š” ํ…Œ์Šคํ† ์Šคํ…Œ๋ก  ์ˆ˜์น˜๊ฐ€ ํ•ด๋‹น ์—ฐ๋ น์˜ ์ฐธ๊ณ  ๋ฒ”์œ„ ์ด๋‚ด์— ๋„๋‹ฌํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ฌ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.9 ์ •์ž ์ˆ˜, ์„ฑ์  ์›ฐ๋น™, ๋ฐœ๊ธฐ๋ถ€์ „๋„ ๊ฐœ์„ ๋œ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐํ˜€์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.9,10

ํŠธ๋ฆฌ๋ทธ๋Ÿฌ์Šค

ํŠธ๋ฆฌ๋ทธ๋Ÿฌ์Šค(ํ•™๋ช…: ํŠธ๋ฆฌ๋ทธ๋Ÿฌ์Šค ํ…Œ๋ ˆ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆฌ์Šค, Tribulus terrestris)๋Š” ์•„์œ ๋ฅด๋ฒ ๋‹ค ์˜ํ•™์—์„œ ์ „ํ†ต์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ•์žฅ์ œ ๋ฐ ์ตœ์Œ์ œ๋กœ ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋˜์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ ์œ ๋Ÿฝ ๋ฏผ๊ฐ„ ์˜ํ•™์—์„œ๋Š” ์„ฑ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์„ ์ฆ์ง„ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ํ™œ์šฉ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ…Œ์Šคํ† ์Šคํ…Œ๋ก  ์ˆ˜์น˜๊ฐ€ ์ •์ƒ์ธ ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•œ ๋‚จ์„ฑ์„ ๋Œ€์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ํ•œ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์—์„œ๋Š” ํŠธ๋ฆฌ๋ทธ๋Ÿฌ์Šค๊ฐ€ ํ…Œ์Šคํ† ์Šคํ…Œ๋ก  ์ˆ˜์น˜๋ฅผ ๋†’์ด์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ฌ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ํ…Œ์Šคํ† ์Šคํ…Œ๋ก ์ด ๋ถ€์กฑํ•œ ๋‚จ์„ฑ์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ์—๋Š” ํŠธ๋ฆฌ๋ทธ๋Ÿฌ์Šค๊ฐ€ ํ…Œ์Šคํ† ์Šคํ…Œ๋ก  ์ˆ˜์น˜๋ฅผ ์ฆ๊ฐ€์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ๋ฐ ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ผ๋ถ€ ์ž„์ƒ์  ์ฆ๊ฑฐ๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜์™€ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.11 2019๋…„ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด ํ…Œ์Šคํ† ์Šคํ…Œ๋ก ์ด ๋ถ€์กฑํ•œ ๋‚จ์„ฑ์ด 60์ผ ๋™์•ˆ ํŠธ๋ฆฌ๋ทธ๋Ÿฌ์Šค ์ถ”์ถœ๋ฌผ์„ ์„ญ์ทจํ•œ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ํ…Œ์Šคํ† ์Šคํ…Œ๋ก  ์ˆ˜์น˜๊ฐ€ ๋†’์•„์ง€๊ณ  ๋ฐœ๊ธฐ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์ด ํ–ฅ์ƒ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠธ๋ฆฌ๋ทธ๋Ÿฌ์Šค ์ถ”์ถœ๋ฌผ์€ ๋งค์ผ 100-250mg์„ ์„ญ์ทจํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ข‹์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋งˆ์นด

๋งˆ์นด์˜ ์ธ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์ ์  ๋†’์•„์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์นด๋Š” ํŽ˜๋ฃจ์—์„œ๋งŒ ์žฌ๋ฐฐ๋˜๋Š” ๋ธŒ๋กœ์ฝœ๋ฆฌ๊ณผ์— ์†ํ•˜๋Š” ์‹๋ฌผ์ธ ๋ ˆํ”ผ๋””์›€ ๋ฉ”์ด์—๋‹ˆ(Lepidium meyenii)์˜ ์ผ๋ฐ˜๋ช…์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์นด๋Š” ์ˆœ๋ฌด์™€ ์•„์ฃผ ๋น„์Šทํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฒผ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์นด๋Š” ๋‚จ์„ฑ๊ณผ ์—ฌ์„ฑ์˜ ์„ฑ์š•๊ณผ ์„ฑ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์„ ๋†’์ด๋Š” ํšจ๋Šฅ์œผ๋กœ ์ž˜ ์•Œ๋ ค์ ธ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐœ๊ธฐ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ ๊ฐ™์€ ์„ฑ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์„ ์ฆ์ง„ํ•˜๋Š” ๋งˆ์นด์˜ ํšจ๋Šฅ์€ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ž„์ƒ์‹œํ—˜์—์„œ ํ™•์ธ๋œ ๋ฐ” ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์นด๋Š” ํ…Œ์Šคํ† ์Šคํ…Œ๋ก  ์ˆ˜์น˜์— ์ง์ ‘์ ์ธ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น˜์ง€๋Š” ์•Š์ง€๋งŒ, ์ „์ฒด ๋‚ด๋ถ„๋น„๊ณ„์— ์ž‘์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ์ŠคํŠธ๋ ˆ์Šค์˜ ์œ ํ•ดํ•œ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ์ค„์ด๋ฉด์„œ ๊ธฐ๋ถ„, ์—๋„ˆ์ง€, ์ง€๊ตฌ๋ ฅ์„ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ํ˜•ํƒœ์™€ ์ข…๋ฅ˜์˜ ๋งˆ์นด๊ฐ€ ์ถœ์‹œ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ๊ฑด๊ฐ•์„ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•˜๋ ค๋ฉด ์ƒ๋งˆ์นด ๋ถ„๋ง์ด ์ข‹์€ ์„ ํƒ์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋” ๋†’์€ ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์–ป๊ณ  ์‹ถ๋‹ค๋ฉด ์ ค๋ผํ‹ดํ™”๋œ(์ „๋ถ„์ด ์ œ๊ฑฐ๋œ) ํ†ต๋ฟŒ๋ฆฌ์—์„œ ๋ฝ‘์•„๋‚ธ ์ถ”์ถœ๋ฌผ์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ข‹์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์นด์˜ ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ํ•˜๋ฃจ ๊ถŒ์žฅ๋Ÿ‰์€ 3-6g์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.13,14

๋ฐœ๊ธฐ๋ถ€์ „

๋ฐœ๊ธฐ๋ถ€์ „์€ ์Œ๊ฒฝ์ด ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํžˆ ๋ฐœ๊ธฐ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๋ฐœ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์œ ์ง€๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์•„ ๋งŒ์กฑ์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด ์„ฑ๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š” ์ฆ์ƒ์„ ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐœ๊ธฐ๋ถ€์ „์€ ๋ฌผ๋ฆฌ์  ๋˜๋Š” ์ƒ๋ฆฌํ•™์  ์›์ธ์œผ๋กœ ์ƒ๊ธธ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 50์„ธ๊ฐ€ ๋„˜์€ ๋‚จ์„ฑ์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํ”ํ•œ ์›์ธ์€ ์ฃผ์š” ์Œ๊ฒฝ ๋™๋งฅ์˜ ์ฃฝ์ƒ๋™๋งฅ๊ฒฝํ™”์ฆ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ฃฝ์ƒ๋™๋งฅ๊ฒฝํ™”์ฆ(๋™๋งฅ์ด ๋”ฑ๋”ฑํ•ด์ง)์„ ์˜ˆ๋ฐฉํ•˜๋Š” ์š”์ธ์€ ๋ฐœ๊ธฐ๋ถ€์ „์„ ๋ฐฉ์ง€ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ๋„ ๋„์›€์ด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 

ํ˜ˆ๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ๋•๋Š” ๋ฐ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์‹์ด ์š”์†Œ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์‹์ด ์š”์†Œ๋กœ๋Š” ์ง€์ค‘ํ•ด ์‹๋‹จ, ์˜ค๋ฉ”๊ฐ€3 ์ง€๋ฐฉ์‚ฐ, ๋น„ํŠธ(Beet), ๋‹คํฌ ์ดˆ์ฝœ๋ฆฟ๊ณผ ๋”๋ถˆ์–ด ์„๋ฅ˜, ๋…น์ฐจ, ์†Œ๋‚˜๋ฌด ๊ป์งˆ, ํฌ๋„์”จ ์ถ”์ถœ๋ฌผ์„ ๋น„๋กฏํ•œ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ํด๋ฆฌํŽ˜๋†€(Polyphenol) ๋ฐ ํ”Œ๋ผ๋ณด๋…ธ์ด๋“œ(Flavonoid) ๊ณต๊ธ‰์›์„ ๋“ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.15,16 

๋น„ํŠธ๋ฟ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์•„๋ฅด๊ธฐ๋‹Œ(Arginine)์‹œํŠธ๋ฃฐ๋ฆฐ(Citrulline) ๊ฐ™์€ ์•„๋ฏธ๋…ธ์‚ฐ์€ ํ˜ˆ๊ด€ ๋‚ด ์‚ฐํ™”์งˆ์†Œ ์ƒ์„ฑ์„ ์ฆ๊ฐ€์‹œ์ผœ ํ˜ˆ๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.17 ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ด์ค‘๋งน๊ฒ€ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด ์•„๋ฅด๊ธฐ๋‹Œ์€ ๋ฐœ๊ธฐ ๊ฐ•๋„์™€ ์„ฑ๊ด€๊ณ„ ๋งŒ์กฑ๋„๋ฅผ ๋†’์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.18 ๋˜ํ•œ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์—์„œ๋Š” ์•„๋ฅด๊ธฐ๋‹Œ์ด๋‚˜ ์‹œํŠธ๋ฃฐ๋ฆฐ์„ ์†Œ๋‚˜๋ฌด ๊ป์งˆ ์ถ”์ถœ๋ฌผ(๋˜๋Š” ํฌ๋„์”จ ์ถ”์ถœ๋ฌผ)๊ณผ ๋ณ‘์šฉํ•˜๋ฉด ๋” ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ธ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ฌ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.19 

์ „๋ฆฝ์„  ๊ฑด๊ฐ• 

์ „๋ฆฝ์„  ๊ฑด๊ฐ•์€ ๋‚จ์„ฑ์—๊ฒŒ ๋งค์šฐ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๋ฌธ์ œ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐœ๊ธฐ๋ถ€์ „์— ๋„์›€์ด ๋˜๋Š” ์‹์ด ์š”์†Œ๊ฐ€ ์ „๋ฆฝ์„  ๊ฑด๊ฐ•์—๋„ ์ค‘์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง€์ค‘ํ•ด ์‹๋‹จ๊ณผ ์‹ฌ์žฅ์— ์ข‹์€ ์‹ํ’ˆ ๊ฐ™์€ ์‹์ด ์š”์†Œ๋ฅผ ์˜ˆ๋กœ ๋“ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.20,21 ํŠนํžˆ ์ƒ๊ฒฌ๊ณผ๋ฅ˜ ๋ฐ ์”จ์•—์€ ์ „๋ฆฝ์„  ๊ฑด๊ฐ•์„ ๋•๋Š” ์˜์–‘์†Œ์™€ ์‹๋ฌผ ์„ฑ๋ถ„์ด ํ’๋ถ€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜ธ๋ฐ•์”จ์—๋Š” ์ „๋ฆฝ์„ ์— ์ข‹์€ ์•„์—ฐ, ๋น„ํƒ€๋ฏผE, ํ”ผํ† ์Šคํ…Œ๋กค(Phytosterol) ๊ฐ™์€ ์˜์–‘์†Œ๊ฐ€ ํŠนํžˆ ๋งŽ์ด ํ•จ์œ ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์–‘์„ฑ ์ „๋ฆฝ์„  ๋น„๋Œ€์ฆ์€ ์ „๋ฆฝ์„  ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จ๋œ ํ”ํ•œ ์งˆํ™˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 50์„ธ ๋‚จ์„ฑ์€ 2๋ช… ์ค‘ 1๋ช…๊ผด๋กœ, 85์„ธ ๋‚จ์„ฑ์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ์—๋Š” 90%๊ฐ€ ์ด ์งˆ๋ณ‘์— ๊ฑธ๋ฆด ์ •๋„๋กœ ๋‚˜์ด๊ฐ€ ๋“ค์ˆ˜๋ก ์œ ๋ณ‘๋ฅ ์ด ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์–‘์„ฑ ์ „๋ฆฝ์„  ๋น„๋Œ€์ฆ์˜ ์ฃผ์š” ์ฆ์ƒ์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ์•ผ๊ฐ„ ๋ฐฐ๋‡จ ํšŸ์ˆ˜ ์ฆ๊ฐ€(์•ผ๊ฐ„๋นˆ๋‡จ)๋ฅผ ๋“ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.& 

์˜ํŒ”๋ฉ”ํ†  ์ถ”์ถœ๋ฌผ(85-95% ์ง€๋ฐฉ์‚ฐ ๋ฐ ์Šคํ…Œ๋กค ํ•จ์œ )์€ ์–‘์„ฑ ์ „๋ฆฝ์„  ๋น„๋Œ€์ฆ์„ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋งŽ์ด ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋˜๋Š” ๋ณด์ถฉ์ œ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ํŒ”๋ฉ”ํ†  ์ถ”์ถœ๋ฌผ์˜ ์ž‘์šฉ๊ธฐ์ „์€ ์ „๋ฆฝ์„  ๋‚ด ํ˜ธ๋ฅด๋ชฌ ๋Œ€์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด ๊ฒฝ์ฆ ๋‚ด์ง€ ์ค‘๋“ฑ๋„์˜ ์–‘์„ฑ ์ „๋ฆฝ์„  ๋น„๋Œ€์ฆ์ด ์žˆ๋Š” ๋‚จ์„ฑ์˜ ์•ฝ 90%๋Š” ๊ณ ํ’ˆ์งˆ ์˜ํŒ”๋ฉ”ํ†  ์ถ”์ถœ๋ฌผ์„ ์„ญ์ทจํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ ์น˜๋ฃŒ ์ฒซ 4-6์ฃผ ๋™์•ˆ ์ฆ์ƒ์ด ์–ด๋Š ์ •๋„ ๊ฐœ์„ ๋œ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ฌ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.22 ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์‹œ์ค‘์— ์ถœ์‹œ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ๋Š” ์˜ํŒ”๋ฉ”ํ†  ์ถ”์ถœ๋ฌผ์€ ๋ถˆ์ˆœ๋ฌผ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๊ธ์ •์ ์ธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜์˜จ ์ž„์ƒ์‹œํ—˜์—์„œ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•œ ๊ณ ํ’ˆ์งˆ ์˜ํŒ”๋ฉ”ํ†  ๊ฐ™์€ ์ œํ’ˆ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ์ด์œ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.23

์ „๋ฆฝ์„ ์•”๋„ ๋‚จ์„ฑ์—๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ธธ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ฃผ์š” ์งˆํ™˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹ฌ์žฅ ๊ฑด๊ฐ•๊ณผ ์ „๋ฆฝ์„  ๊ฑด๊ฐ• ์‚ฌ์ด์—๋Š” ๋†’์€ ์ƒ๊ด€๊ด€๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.21 ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‹ฌ์žฅ์— ์ข‹์€ ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ „๋ฆฝ์„ ์—๋„ ์ข‹์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด, ์ง€์ค‘ํ•ด์‹ ์‹๋‹จ๊ณผ ๊ทธ ์‹๋‹จ์„ ๊ตฌ์„ฑํ•˜๋Š” ์‹ํ’ˆ์€ ์‹ฌ์žฅ๋ณ‘๊ณผ ์ „๋ฆฝ์„ ์•”์„ ์˜ˆ๋ฐฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.24,25 ์ „๋ฆฝ์„ ์•”๊ณผ ์—ฐ๊ด€์„ฑ์ด ์žˆ๋Š” ์ฃผ์š” ์‹์ด ์š”์ธ์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋ฆด์ด๋‚˜ ์˜ค๋ธ์œผ๋กœ ๊ตฌ์šด ์œก๋ฅ˜,26 ๋™๋ฌผ์˜ ํฌํ™”์ง€๋ฐฉ, ์œ ์ œํ’ˆ์ด27 ํ’๋ถ€ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ณผ์ผ, ์ฑ„์†Œ, ๊ฒฌ๊ณผ๋ฅ˜ ๋ฐ ์”จ์•—์ด ์ ๊ณ  ๋ฆฌ์ฝ”ํŽœ(Lycopene), ์…€๋ ˆ๋Š„(Selenium), ๋น„ํƒ€๋ฏผE ๋“ฑ ๋ณดํ˜ธ ํšจ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š” ์˜์–‘์†Œ์™€ ์ƒ์„ ์˜ ์žฅ์‡„ ์˜ค๋ฉ”๊ฐ€3 ์ง€๋ฐฉ์‚ฐ, ์–‘๋ฐฐ์ถ”๊ณผ ์ฑ„์†Œ์— ํ•จ์œ ๋œ ์•” ์–ต์ œ ๋ฌผ์งˆ์€ ๋ถ€์กฑํ•œ ์‹๋‹จ์„ ๋“ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์‹์ด ์š”์ธ์€ ์„ฑํ˜ธ๋ฅด๋ชฌ ์ˆ˜์น˜, ํ•ด๋… ๊ธฐ์ „, ํ•ญ์‚ฐํ™”์ œ ์ˆ˜์น˜์— ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์•Œ๋ ค์ ธ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์—์„œ ๋ฐํ˜€์ง„ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์‚ฌ์‹ค๋“ค์„ ์†Œ๊ฐœํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ† ๋งˆํ† ์™€ ์ˆ˜๋ฐ•์˜ ๋ถ‰์€์ƒ‰์„ ๋‚ด๋Š” ์นด๋กœํ‹ด(Carotene)์ธ ๋ฆฌ์ฝ”ํŽœ์€ ์ „๋ฆฝ์„  ๊ฑด๊ฐ•์— ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์‹์ด ์š”์ธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ํ•˜๋ฒ„๋“œ๋Œ€ํ•™๊ต(Harvard University) ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์ง„์ด ์‹ค์‹œํ•œ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด ๋ฆฌ์ฝ”ํŽœ์ด ํ’๋ถ€ํ•œ ์‹๋‹จ์„ ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋Š” ๋‚จ์„ฑ์€ ๋ฆฌ์ฝ”ํŽœ ์„ญ์ทจ๋Ÿ‰์ด ์•„์ฃผ ๋‚ฎ์€ ๋‚จ์„ฑ์— ๋น„ํ•ด ์ „๋ฆฝ์„ ์•” ๋ฐœ๋ณ‘ ์œ„ํ—˜์ด 21% ๊ฐ์†Œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.28 

๋˜ํ•œ ์…€๋ ˆ๋Š„๋„ ๋ฆฌ์ฝ”ํŽœ๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๊ธด๋ฐ€ํžˆ ์ž‘์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ์ „๋ฆฝ์„  ์„ธํฌ๋ฅผ ๋ณดํ˜ธํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ์ค‘์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์…€๋ ˆ๋Š„์ด ํ’๋ถ€ํ•œ ํšจ๋ชจ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•œ ์ด์ค‘๋งน๊ฒ€ ์ž„์ƒ์‹œํ—˜์—์„œ๋Š” ์…€๋ ˆ๋Š„์ด ์ „๋ฆฝ์„  ๊ฑด๊ฐ•์„ ์ง€์›ํ•˜๋Š” ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ฌ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.29  

๋…ธํ™”์™€ ์ƒํ™œ์Šต๊ด€

์ž์—ฐ์˜ํ•™์—์„œ ๋‚จ์„ฑ์ด ์ €ํ•˜๋˜๋Š” ํ…Œ์Šคํ† ์Šคํ…Œ๋ก  ์ˆ˜์น˜, ์„ฑ์š•, ์„ฑ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ, ์ „๋ฆฝ์„  ๊ฑด๊ฐ•์„ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์€ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์„ ์‹œ๋„ํ•  ๋•Œ๋Š” ํ˜„์‹ค์ ์ด๊ณ  ์ƒ์‹์ ์ธ ํƒœ๋„๊ฐ€ ํ•„์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณผ์ฒด์ค‘์ด๋ฉด์„œ ์šด๋™๋„ ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ์‹๋‹จ ๋ฐ ์ƒํ™œ์Šต๊ด€๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จ๋œ ์š”์ธ์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์‹ ์ฒด์— ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ์ŠคํŠธ๋ ˆ์Šค๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๋‚จ์„ฑ์ด๋ผ๋ฉด ์ด ๊ธ€์—์„œ ์†Œ๊ฐœํ•œ ์–ด๋–ค ์ฒœ์—ฐ ์ œํ’ˆ์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋”๋ผ๋„ ์›ํ•˜๋Š” ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์–ป์ง€ ๋ชปํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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๋ฉด์ฑ…์‚ฌํ•ญ:์›ฐ๋‹ˆ์Šค ํ—ˆ๋ธŒ์˜ ์ทจ์ง€๋Š” ์˜ํ•™์ ์ธ ์ง„๋‹จ์ด๋‚˜ ์น˜๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ž์„ธํžˆ ์•Œ์•„๋ณด๊ธฐ