TMG๋Š” ๋งŽ์€ ์Šคํฌ์ธ  ์Œ๋ฃŒ์™€ ๋ณด์ถฉ์ œ์— ์ฒจ๊ฐ€๋˜๋Š” ์ธ๊ธฐ ์„ฑ๋ถ„์œผ๋กœ, ์šด๋™์„ ์ˆ˜์˜ ๊ฑด๊ฐ• ๋ฐ ์šด๋™ ์—ฌ์ •์„ ์ง€์›ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. TMG๋Š” ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ๊ฑด๊ฐ•๊ณผ ์›ฐ๋น™์— ๋„์›€์ด ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๊ฑด๊ฐ• ํšจ๋Šฅ๋„ ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด ์ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ๋งŽ์ด ์•Œ๋ ค์ ธ ์žˆ์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

TMG๋ž€ ๋ฌด์—‡์ธ๊ฐ€์š”?

๋ฒ ํƒ€์ธ ๋˜๋Š” ๋ฌด์ˆ˜ ๋ฒ ํƒ€์ธ์œผ๋กœ๋„ ์•Œ๋ ค์ง„ TMG(ํŠธ๋ผ์ด๋ฉ”ํ‹ธ๊ธ€๋ฆฌ์‹ , Trimethylglycine)๋Š” ์ฒด๋‚ด์—์„œ ์ฝœ๋ฆฐ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์˜์–‘์†Œ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด์ง€๋Š” ๋ถ„์ž์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. TMG๋Š” ์•„๋ฏธ๋…ธ์‚ฐ ๊ธ€๋ฆฌ์‹ ๊ณผ ๋ชจ์–‘์ด ์œ ์‚ฌํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ 3๊ฐœ์˜ ๋ฉ”ํ‹ธ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๊ฒฐํ•ฉ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์–ด ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ด๋ฆ„์„ ์–ป๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

TMG์™€ ๋ฒ ํƒ€์ธ HCL์„ ํ˜ผ๋™ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ์•ˆ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋‘ ๋ถ„์ž๋Š” ์•ฝ๊ฐ„์˜ ์œ ์‚ฌ์ ์ด ์žˆ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋ฒ ํƒ€์ธ HCL์€ ์œ„์—์„œ ์—ผ์‚ฐ ์ƒ์„ฑ์„ ์ด‰์ง„ํ•˜๋Š” ์—ญํ• ์„ ํ•˜๋ฏ€๋กœ ์†Œํ™” ์ง€์›์— ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํ”ํžˆ ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

TMG๋Š” ์ฃผ๋กœ ๋ฉ”ํ‹ธ ๊ณต์—ฌ์ฒด๋กœ ์—ญํ• ์„ ํ•˜์—ฌ ์ฒด๋‚ด ํ˜ธ๋ชจ์‹œ์Šคํ…Œ์ธ ์ˆ˜์น˜๋ฅผ ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ๋„์›€์„ ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜ธ๋ชจ์‹œ์Šคํ…Œ์ธ์€ ์•„๋ฏธ๋…ธ์‚ฐ ๋ฉ”ํ‹ฐ์˜ค๋‹Œ์—์„œ ์œ ๋ž˜๋˜์–ด ์ฒด๋‚ด์—์„œ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด์ง€๋Š” ๋ถ„์ž์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜ธ๋ชจ์‹œ์Šคํ…Œ์ธ์€ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋ฉ”ํ‹ฐ์˜ค๋‹Œ์œผ๋กœ ์žฌ์ˆœํ™˜๋˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๋น„ํƒ€๋ฏผ(๋น„ํƒ€๋ฏผB12์™€ ์—ฝ์‚ฐ)์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์•„๋ฏธ๋…ธ์‚ฐ์ธ ์‹œ์Šคํ…Œ์ธ์œผ๋กœ ์ „ํ™˜๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ˜ธ๋ชจ์‹œ์Šคํ…Œ์ธ ์ˆ˜์น˜๊ฐ€ ๋†’์œผ๋ฉด ํŽธ๋‘ํ†ต, ์น˜๋งค, ์‹ ๊ฒฝํ˜ˆ๊ด€ ์งˆํ™˜, ์‹ฌํ˜ˆ๊ด€ ์งˆํ™˜(์˜ˆ: ์ฃฝ์ƒ๋™๋งฅ๊ฒฝํ™”์ฆ)์˜ ์œ„ํ—˜์ด ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์•Œ๋ ค์ ธ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋†’์€ ํ˜ธ๋ชจ์‹œ์Šคํ…Œ์ธ ์ˆ˜์น˜๊ฐ€ ๊ฑด๊ฐ• ์ €ํ•˜์™€ ์—ฐ๊ด€์„ฑ์„ ๋ณด์ด์ง€๋งŒ, ํ˜ธ๋ชจ์‹œ์Šคํ…Œ์ธ ์ˆ˜์น˜๊ฐ€ ๋†’์„ ๋•Œ ๋ฐ˜๋“œ์‹œ ์–ด๋–ค ์ฆ์ƒ์„ ๋™๋ฐ˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์•„๋‹ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฆ์ƒ์ด ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚œ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ์—ฝ์‚ฐ, ๋น„ํƒ€๋ฏผ B6, B12 ๊ฒฐํ•๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จ๋œ ์ฆ์ƒ์ธ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์œผ๋ฉฐ ํ”ผ๋กœ, ์ฒด์ค‘ ๊ฐ์†Œ, ์ €๋ฆผ ๋˜๋Š” ๋ฌด๊ฐ๊ฐ, ๊ทผ์œก ์•ฝํ™”, ์‹ ๊ฒฝ ๊ณผ๋ฏผ ๋“ฑ์ด ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋†’์€ ํ˜ธ๋ชจ์‹œ์Šคํ…Œ์ธ ์ˆ˜์น˜์™€ ์—ฐ๊ด€์„ฑ์„ ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์งˆํ™˜์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ๊ณจ๋‹ค๊ณต์ฆ, ๊ฐ‘์ƒ์„  ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ ์ €ํ•˜, ์•Œ์ธ ํ•˜์ด๋จธ๋ณ‘, ์‹ฌ์ง€์–ด ์ •์‹ ๋ถ„์—ด์ฆ๊นŒ์ง€ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์—ฐ๊ตฌ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด TMG ๋ณด์ถฉ์ œ๋Š” ํ˜ธ๋ชจ์‹œ์Šคํ…Œ์ธ ์ˆ˜์น˜๋ฅผ ๋‚ฎ์ถ”๊ณ  ๊ทธ ์™ธ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๊ฑด๊ฐ• ํšจ๋Šฅ์„ ๋ฐœํœ˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ๋„์›€์ด ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. TMG ๋ณด์ถฉ์ œ๋Š” ์‹ฌํ˜ˆ๊ด€ ๋ฐ ๊ทผ์œก ๊ฑด๊ฐ• ํšจ๋Šฅ์œผ๋กœ ํ”ํžˆ ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. TMG ๋ณด์ถฉ์ œ๋Š” ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•œ ํ˜ˆ๋‹น์„ ๋•๊ณ  ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•œ ์ฒด์ค‘์„ ์ด‰์ง„ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ๋„ ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

TMG์˜ ํšจ๋Šฅ

ํ˜ˆ์•• ์ง€์›

์„ธ๊ณ„๋ณด๊ฑด๊ธฐ๊ตฌ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„์ ์œผ๋กœ 30~79์„ธ ์„ฑ์ธ 10์–ต ๋ช… ์ด์ƒ์ด ๊ณ ํ˜ˆ์••์„ ๊ฒช๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”์šฑ ๋†€๋ผ์šด ์‚ฌ์‹ค์€ ๊ณ ํ˜ˆ์•• ์„ฑ์ธ์˜ ์ตœ๋Œ€ 46%๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์ด ๊ณ ํ˜ˆ์••์ธ์ง€์กฐ์ฐจ ๋ชจ๋ฅธ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ณ ํ˜ˆ์••์ธ๋ฐ๋„ ์ง„๋‹จ์„ ๋ฐ›์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ์กฐ์ ˆํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์œผ๋ฉด ์‹ฌ์žฅ๋งˆ๋น„์™€ ๋‡Œ์กธ์ค‘์œผ๋กœ ์ด์–ด์งˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ณ ํ˜ˆ์••์€ ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„์ ์œผ๋กœ ์กฐ๊ธฐ ์‚ฌ๋ง์˜ ์ฃผ์š” ์›์ธ์ด๋ฏ€๋กœ ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•œ ํ˜ˆ์•• ์œ ์ง€๋Š” ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ์ผ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. TMG๋Š” ํ˜ˆ์•• ๊ฑด๊ฐ• ์ฆ์ง„์— ๋„์›€์„ ์ค„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์žฅ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ์ง„ํ–‰๋œ ํ•œ ์ง€์—ญ์‚ฌํšŒ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ์ฝ”ํ˜ธํŠธ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๋Š” ์ค‘๋…„ ์ด์ƒ ์„ฑ์ธ์„ ๋Œ€์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ํ˜ˆ์ฒญ TMG ์ˆ˜์น˜์™€ ๊ณ ํ˜ˆ์•• ๋ฐœ๋ณ‘ ์œ„ํ—˜ ์‚ฌ์ด์˜ ๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ์ค‘์ ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์กฐ์‚ฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

1,000๋ช… ์ด์ƒ์˜ ๋‚จ๋…€๊ฐ€ ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•œ ์ด ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์—์„œ๋Š” ํ˜ˆ์ฒญ TMG ์ˆ˜์น˜๊ฐ€ ๋†’์„์ˆ˜๋ก ๊ณ ํ˜ˆ์•• ๋ฐœ๋ณ‘ ์œ„ํ—˜์ด ๋‚ฎ์•„์ง€๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ฌ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์—์„œ๋Š” ํ˜ˆ์ฒญ TMG ์ˆ˜์น˜๊ฐ€ ๋†’์€ ์„ฑ์ธ์ด ๋‚ฎ์€ ์„ฑ์ธ์— ๋น„ํ•ด ์ˆ˜์ถ•๊ธฐ ํ˜ˆ์••๊ณผ ์ด์™„๊ธฐ ํ˜ˆ์••์ด ๋‚ฎ๋‹ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค๋„ ํ™•์ธ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์—ผ์ฆ ๊ฐ์†Œ

TMG๋Š” ๋ฉ”ํ‹ธ ๊ณต์—ฌ์ฒด๋กœ ์ž˜ ์•Œ๋ ค์ ธ ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด TMG๋Š” ์ฒด๋‚ด์—์„œ ํ•ญ์—ผ์ฆ ์ž‘์šฉ๋„ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•œ ์ˆ˜์ค€์˜ ํ˜ธ๋ชจ์‹œ์Šคํ…Œ์ธ์€ ์‹ ์ฒด์˜ ์ฃผ์š” ํ•ญ์‚ฐํ™”์ œ์ธ ๊ธ€๋ฃจํƒ€์น˜์˜จ ์ƒ์„ฑ์— ๊ธฐ์—ฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ˆ˜์น˜๊ฐ€ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋†’์•„์ง€๋ฉด ๊ฑด๊ฐ• ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ˜ธ๋ชจ์‹œ์Šคํ…Œ์ธ ์ˆ˜์น˜๊ฐ€ ๋†’์œผ๋ฉด ์‚ฐํ™” ์ŠคํŠธ๋ ˆ์Šค์™€ ์„ธํฌ ์˜ˆ์ •์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. TMG ๋ณด์ถฉ์ œ๋Š” ํ˜ธ๋ชจ์‹œ์Šคํ…Œ์ธ์„ ๋ฉ”ํ‹ฐ์˜ค๋‹Œ์œผ๋กœ ๋‹ค์‹œ ์ „ํ™˜ํ•˜๋„๋ก ๋„์›€์œผ๋กœ์จ ์‚ฐํ™” ์ŠคํŠธ๋ ˆ์Šค๋ฅผ ์ค„์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

3,000๋ช… ์ด์ƒ์˜ ๋‚จ๋…€๋ฅผ ๋Œ€์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ์‹ค์‹œํ•œ ํ•œ ๋‹จ๋ฉด ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์—์„œ๋Š” ์ฝœ๋ฆฐ, TMG, ์—ผ์ฆ ์‚ฌ์ด์˜ ๊ด€๊ณ„์— ์ดˆ์ ์„ ๋งž์ท„์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์—์„œ ํ•˜๋ฃจ 360mg ์ด์ƒ ์„ญ์ทจํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์€ ํ•˜๋ฃจ 260mg ๋ฏธ๋งŒ ์„ญ์ทจํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์— ๋น„ํ•ด ํ˜ˆ์ฒญ ๋‚ด C-๋ฐ˜์‘์„ฑ ๋‹จ๋ฐฑ์งˆ ์ˆ˜์น˜๊ฐ€ 19% ๋‚ฎ๊ณ , ํ˜ˆ์ฒญ ๋‚ด ์ข…์–‘๊ดด์‚ฌ์ธ์ž ์•ŒํŒŒ ์ˆ˜์น˜๋Š” 12% ๋‚ฎ์€ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ฌ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

C-๋ฐ˜์‘์„ฑ ๋‹จ๋ฐฑ์งˆ ์ˆ˜์น˜๊ฐ€ ๋†’๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ฒด๋‚ด ์—ผ์ฆ์ด ๋งŽ๋‹ค๋Š” ๋œป์ด๊ณ , ์ข…์–‘๊ดด์‚ฌ์ธ์ž ์•ŒํŒŒ๋Š” ์ฒด๋‚ด ์—ผ์ฆ์„ ์œ ๋ฐœํ•˜๋Š” ์„ธํฌ ์‹ ํ˜ธ์ „๋‹ฌ๋ฌผ์งˆ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ทผ๋ ฅ ํ–ฅ์ƒ

์šด๋™์„ ์ˆ˜๋“ค์€ ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„ ์ €๋งˆ๋‹ค ์šด๋™ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์„ ์ตœ์ ํ™”ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋…ธ๋ ฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด TMG ๋ณด์ถฉ์ œ๋Š” ํŠนํžˆ ํ›ˆ๋ จํ•˜๋Š” ์šด๋™์„ ์ˆ˜์˜ ๊ทผ๋ ฅ๊ณผ ํž˜์„ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ๋ฐ ๋„์›€์ด ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ•œ ์ด์ค‘๋งน๊ฒ€ ๋ฌด์ž‘์œ„ ์œ„์•ฝ๋Œ€์กฐ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์—์„œ๋Š” ์ €ํ•ญ ํ›ˆ๋ จ์„ ํ•˜๋Š” ๋‚จ์„ฑ์˜ ์šด๋™ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์— TMG ๋ณด์ถฉ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋–ค ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ฐœํœ˜ํ•˜๋Š”์ง€์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ง‘์ค‘ ์กฐ์‚ฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์—์„œ๋Š” ์Šคํฌ์ธ  ์Œ๋ฃŒ์— TMG ๋ณด์ถฉ์ œ๋ฅผ ์ฒจ๊ฐ€ํ•˜์—ฌ ์„ญ์ทจํ•˜๋Š” ๊ทธ๋ฃน๊ณผ ์Šคํฌ์ธ  ์Œ๋ฃŒ๋งŒ ์„ญ์ทจํ•˜๋Š” ๊ทธ๋ฃน์œผ๋กœ ์ฐธ๊ฐ€ ๋‚จ์„ฑ๋“ค์„ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์—ฐ๊ตฌ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ, ๋ฒ ํƒ€์ธ ์„ญ์ทจ ๊ทธ๋ฃน์€ ๋ฒค์น˜ ํ”„๋ ˆ์Šค๋ฅผ 10์„ธํŠธ ํ•˜๋Š” ๋™์•ˆ ๋“ค์–ด ์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ค‘๋Ÿ‰๊ณผ ํšŸ์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ฌ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํŠน์ดํ•˜๊ฒŒ๋„, 7๊ฑด์˜ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์—์„œ ๋‚˜์˜จ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ๋Œ€์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ์‹ค์‹œํ•œ ํ•œ ์ฒด๊ณ„์  ๋ฌธํ—Œ๊ณ ์ฐฐ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด, 7๊ฑด ์ค‘ 2๊ฑด์˜ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์—์„œ๋งŒ TMG ๋ณด์ถฉ์ œ์˜ ๊ทผ๋ ฅ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋’ท๋ฐ›์นจํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ฌ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ํ•„์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋‹น๋‡จ๋ณ‘

๋‹น๋‡จ๋ณ‘์€ ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„ ์ˆ˜๋ฐฑ๋งŒ ๋ช…์˜ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ๊ฒช๋Š” ์น˜๋ช…์ ์ธ ์งˆํ™˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์„ธ๊ณ„๋ณด๊ฑด๊ธฐ๊ตฌ๋Š” 2000~2019๋…„ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์— ๋‹น๋‡จ๋ณ‘์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋ง์ž ์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ 3% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ถ”์ •ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

TMG๊ฐ€ ๋‹น๋‡จ๋ณ‘ ๋ฐœ๋ณ‘์„ ์˜ˆ๋ฐฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 71,000๋ช… ์ด์ƒ์„ ๋Œ€์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ์‹ค์‹œํ•œ ํ•œ ์ฒด๊ณ„์ ์ธ ๋ฌธํ—Œ๊ณ ์ฐฐ ๋ฐ ๋ฉ”ํƒ€๋ถ„์„์—์„œ ํ˜ˆ์ฒญ ๋‚ด ๊ธ€๋ฆฌ์‹ ๊ณผ TMG ์ˆ˜์น˜๊ฐ€ ๋†’์„์ˆ˜๋ก ์ œ2ํ˜• ๋‹น๋‡จ๋ณ‘ ์œ„ํ—˜์ด ๋‚ฎ์•„์ง€๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ฌ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋‹ค๋ฅธ ํ•œ ์ฝ”ํ˜ธํŠธ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์—์„œ๋Š” TMG์™€ ์ž„์‹ ์„ฑ ๋‹น๋‡จ๋ณ‘์— ์ดˆ์ ์„ ๋งž์ท„์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ž„์‹ ์„ฑ ๋‹น๋‡จ๋ณ‘์€ ์ž„์‹  ์ค‘ ๊ณ ํ˜ˆ๋‹น์„ ์ผ์œผํ‚ค๋Š” ์งˆํ™˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์Œ๋‘ฅ์ด ์ž„์‹ ์„ ํ•œ ์—ฌ์„ฑ 187๋ช…์ด ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•œ ์ด ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์—์„œ๋Š” ํ˜ˆ์ฒญ TMG ์ˆ˜์น˜๊ฐ€ ๋‚ฎ์„์ˆ˜๋ก ์ž„์‹ ์„ฑ ๋‹น๋‡จ๋ณ‘ ๋ฐœ๋ณ‘ ์œ„ํ—˜์ด ๋†’์•„์ง€๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ฌ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ•œ ๋ฌด์ž‘์œ„ ์ž„์ƒ์‹œํ—˜์—์„œ๋Š” ๋น„๋งŒ ๋ฐ ๋‹น๋‡จ๋ณ‘ ์ „์ฆ์„ ์ง„๋‹จ๋ฐ›์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์—๊ฒŒ TMG ๋ณด์ถฉ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋–ค ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น˜๋Š”์ง€ ์กฐ์‚ฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์—์„œ๋Š” ์ฐธ๊ฐ€์ž 27๋ช…์„ ๋‘ ๊ทธ๋ฃน์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„์–ด 12์ฃผ ๋™์•ˆ TMG ๋ณด์ถฉ์ œ๋ฅผ ํˆฌ์—ฌํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์œ„์•ฝ์„ ํˆฌ์—ฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์—ฐ๊ตฌ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ, TMG ์„ญ์ทจ ๊ทธ๋ฃน์—์„œ ๊ณต๋ณต ํ˜ˆ๋‹น์ด ๊ฐ์†Œํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ฌ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์—์„œ๋Š” ๊ฒฝ๊ตฌ๋กœ ํฌ๋„๋‹น ๋˜๋Š” ์„คํƒ•์„ ์„ญ์ทจํ•œ ํ›„ ํ˜ˆ๋‹น ๊ณก์„  ์•„๋ž˜์˜ ์ธ์Š๋ฆฐ ๋ฉด์ ์ด ๊ฐ์†Œํ•˜๋Š” ํ˜„์ƒ๋„ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ฌ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ฐ„ ๊ฑด๊ฐ•

์—ฐ๊ตฌ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด TMG ๋ณด์ถฉ์ œ๋Š” ๊ฐ„ ๊ฑด๊ฐ• ๊ฐœ์„ , ํŠนํžˆ ๋Œ€์‚ฌ์ด์ƒ ๊ด€๋ จ ์ง€๋ฐฉ๊ฐ„์—ผ(MASH)์„ ๊ฒช๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์˜ ๊ฐ„ ๊ฑด๊ฐ• ๊ฐœ์„ ์— ๋„์›€์ด ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ•œ ๊ด€์ฐฐ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์—์„œ๋Š” MASH๋ฅผ ๊ฒช๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์„ฑ์ธ 10๋ช…์„ ๋Œ€์ƒ์œผ๋กœ TMG ๋ณด์ถฉ์ œ์˜ ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์ง‘์ค‘ ์กฐ์‚ฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•œ ๊ฐœ์ธ์€ 12๊ฐœ์›” ๋™์•ˆ ๋งค์ผ TMG๋ฅผ 2ํšŒ ์„ญ์ทจํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์„ฑ์ธ 10๋ช…์œผ๋กœ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ์™„๋ฃŒ ์‹œ์ ๊นŒ์ง€ ์™„์ฃผํ•œ ์ธ์›์€ 7๋ช…์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์—ฐ๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ๋๋‚œ ์‹œ์ ์— ์ฐธ๊ฐ€์ž 7๋ช… ์ค‘ 3๋ช…์€ ๊ฐ„ ํšจ์†Œ๊ฐ€ ์™„์ „ํžˆ ์ •์ƒํ™”๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ๊ฐ„ ์—ผ์ฆ, ๊ฐ„ ์กฐ์ง์˜ ์ง€๋ฐฉ ์ถ•์ , ๊ฐ„ ์กฐ์ง์˜ ๋น„๋Œ€ ๋˜๋Š” ํ‰ํ„ฐ๊ฐ€ ํ˜„์ €ํžˆ ๊ฐ์†Œํ•œ ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ด ์ฐธ๊ฐ€์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ์„œ ํ™•์ธ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•œ ์ฒด์ค‘ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ

๋น„๋งŒ์€ ๋‹น๋‡จ๋ณ‘, ๋Œ€์‚ฌ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ ์žฅ์• , ๊ณ ํ˜ˆ์•• ๋“ฑ ๋งŒ์„ฑ ๊ฑด๊ฐ• ๋ฌธ์ œ์˜ ์›์ธ์ด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. TMG ๋ณด์ถฉ์ œ๋Š” ๋น„๋งŒ๊ณผ ๊ณผ์ฒด์ค‘์— ๋„์›€์ด ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ•œ ์ฒด๊ณ„์  ๋ฌธํ—Œ๊ณ ์ฐฐ ๋ฐ ๋ฉ”ํƒ€๋ถ„์„์—์„œ๋Š” 195๋ช…์ด ์ฐธ๊ฐ€ํ•œ 6๊ฑด์˜ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์กฐ์‚ฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ, TMG ๋ณด์ถฉ์ œ๋Š” ์ฐธ๊ฐ€์ž์˜ ์ฒด์งˆ๋Ÿ‰์ง€์ˆ˜(BMI)์˜ ๋ณ€ํ™” ์—†์ด ์ด ์ฒด์ง€๋ฐฉ๋Ÿ‰๊ณผ ์ฒด์ง€๋ฐฉ๋ฅ ์„ ๊ฐ์†Œ์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ฌ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

3,000๋ช… ์ด์ƒ์˜ ์ฐธ๊ฐ€์ž๋ฅผ ๋Œ€์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ์‹ค์‹œํ•œ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ํ•œ ๋‹จ๋ฉด ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์—์„œ๋Š” ๋†’์€ TMG ์‹์ด ์„ญ์ทจ๋Ÿ‰์ด ์ •์ƒ ์ฒด์ค‘๊ณผ ์—ฐ๊ด€์„ฑ์„ ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ฌ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์—์„œ๋Š” TMG ์‹์ด ์„ญ์ทจ๋Ÿ‰์ด ๋งŽ์„์ˆ˜๋ก ๋ณต๋ถ€ ์ง€๋ฐฉ๊ณผ ์ „์ฒด ์ฒด์ง€๋ฐฉ ๋น„์œจ์ด ๋‚ฎ๋‹ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค์„ ๋ง๋ถ™์—ฌ ๋ฐํ˜”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ TMG ์„ญ์ทจ๋Š” ํ—ˆ๋ฆฌ๋‘˜๋ ˆ ๊ฐ์†Œ์™€๋„ ์—ฐ๊ด€์„ฑ์ด ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ฌ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋Š” ๋‚จ์„ฑ๊ณผ ์—ฌ์„ฑ ๋ชจ๋‘์—๊ฒŒ์„œ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ฌ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

TMG๊ฐ€ ํ’๋ถ€ํ•œ ์‹ํ’ˆ

๋งŽ์€ ์ž์—ฐ ์‹ํ’ˆ์ด TMG๋ฅผ ํ’๋ถ€ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ•จ์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. TMG ํ•จ๋Ÿ‰์ด ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋†’์€ ์‹ํ’ˆ์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ๋ณด๋ฆฌ, ๋ฐ€์‹น, ๋ฐ€๊ธฐ์šธ, ๊ท€๋ฆฌ ๊ธฐ์šธ, ํ˜„๋ฏธ, ํ€ด๋…ธ์•„์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ํ†ต๊ณก๋ฌผ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ ๋ฐ–์— ์‹œ๊ธˆ์น˜, ์ƒˆ์šฐ, ๊ฐ€๋ฆฌ๋น„, ๊ตด, ๋น„ํŠธ ๋“ฑ๋„ TMG ํ•จ๋Ÿ‰์ด ๋†’์€ ์‹ํ’ˆ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ฌ๊ฑ€๊ณผ ์šฐ์œ ์—๋„ ์ ์€ ์–‘์˜ TMG๊ฐ€ ํ•จ์œ ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

TMG ๋ณด์ถฉ์ œ์˜ ๋ถ€์ž‘์šฉ ๋ฐ ๊ณ ๋ ค ์‚ฌํ•ญ

TMG๋Š” ์ฒด๋‚ด์—์„œ ์ƒ์„ฑ๋˜๋Š” ๋ฌผ์งˆ์ด์ง€๋งŒ, TMG ๋ณด์ถฉ์ œ๋Š” ์•ˆ์ •์ ์ด๊ณ  ์‹ ๋ขฐํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” TMG์ด๋ฉฐ, ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ํ˜•ํƒœ๋กœ ์„ญ์ทจํ•˜๋ฉด ๊ฑด๊ฐ• ์ฆ์ง„์— ๋„์›€์ด ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

TMG ๋ณด์ถฉ์ œ๋Š” TMG ์„ญ์ทจ๋ฅผ ์ตœ์ ํ™”ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ํŽธ๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์‰ฌ์šด ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. TMG ๋ณด์ถฉ์ œ๋Š” ์บก์Š, ์ •์ œ ํ˜•ํƒœ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํก์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ์‰ฌ์šด ๋ถ„๋ง ํ˜•ํƒœ๋„ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

TMG ๋ณด์ถฉ์ œ๋ฅผ ์„ญ์ทจํ•˜๊ธฐ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ ์ ˆํ•œ ๋•Œ๋Š” ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ์•„์นจ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด๋ฉฐ, ์„ ํ˜ธํ•˜๋Š” ์•ก์ƒ ์Œ๋ฃŒ 4~6์˜จ์Šค(120~180mL)์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์„ญ์ทจํ•˜๋ฉด ์ข‹์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. TMG๋Š” ์ทŒ์žฅ ์†Œํ™” ํšจ์†Œ์˜ ๋ถ„๋น„์™€ ์ƒ์„ฑ์„ ์ด‰์ง„ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฏ€๋กœ ์‹์‚ฌ(์ด๋ฅผํ…Œ๋ฉด, ์•„์นจ ์‹์‚ฌ)์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์„ญ์ทจํ•˜๋ฉด ์ข‹์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ณต๋ณต์— TMG ๋ณด์ถฉ์ œ๋ฅผ ์„ญ์ทจํ•˜๋ฉด ๋ฉ”์Šค๊บผ์›€์ด๋‚˜ ๋ณต๋ถ€ ํŒฝ๋งŒ๊ฐ, ์œ„์žฅ๊ด€ ๋ถˆํŽธํ•จ์ด ์œ ๋ฐœ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

TMG๋Š” ์‹œ๋„ˆ์ง€ ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋น„ํƒ€๋ฏผB6, B12, ์—ฝ์‚ฐ๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์„ญ์ทจํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์—์„œ TMG ๋ณด์ถฉ์ œ๊ฐ€ ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ด๋ ค๋ฉด ์ตœ์†Œ 14์ผ์ด ๊ฑธ๋ฆฐ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์„ ์‹œ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์€ ์„ญ์ทจํ•˜๋Š” TMG์˜ ์šฉ๋Ÿ‰๊ณผ ์งˆํ™˜์˜ ์ค‘์ฆ๋„์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์งˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งŽ์€ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์—์„œ ์ฐธ๊ฐ€์ž๋ฅผ ์ตœ๋Œ€ 6์ฃผ ์ด์ƒ ์ถ”์  ๊ด€์ฐฐํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ฒฐ๋ก 

TMG ๋ณด์ถฉ์ œ๋Š” ์‹ฌ์žฅ ๊ฑด๊ฐ• ์ฆ์ง„ ๋ฐ ์—ผ์ฆ ๊ฐ์†Œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•œ ํ˜ˆ๋‹น ์ˆ˜์น˜ ๋ฐ ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•œ ์ฒด์ค‘ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ ์ง€์›๊นŒ์ง€ ์ž ์žฌ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ํšจ๋Šฅ์„ ๋ฐœํœ˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. TMG๋Š” ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ๊ฑด๊ฐ• ๋ฐ ์›ฐ๋น™ ์ฆ์ง„์— ๋„์›€์ด ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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