About the Authors

Hyung Gyu Park

Contributed equally to this work with: Hyung Gyu Park, Han Bin Lee

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Medical Nutrition, Graduate School of East-West Medical Science, Kyung Hee University, Yongin, Republic of Korea, Research Institute of Medical Nutrition, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Han Bin Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Hyung Gyu Park, Han Bin Lee

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation ILDONG Bioscience, Pyeongtaek-si, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea

Minjee Lee

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation ILDONG Bioscience, Pyeongtaek-si, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea

Haeseong Park

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation ILDONG Bioscience, Pyeongtaek-si, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea

Minji Kang

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Department of Medical Nutrition, Graduate School of East-West Medical Science, Kyung Hee University, Yongin, Republic of Korea, Research Institute of Medical Nutrition, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Minkyung Bok

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Department of Medical Nutrition, Graduate School of East-West Medical Science, Kyung Hee University, Yongin, Republic of Korea, Research Institute of Medical Nutrition, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Yeongtaek Hwang

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Department of Medical Nutrition, Graduate School of East-West Medical Science, Kyung Hee University, Yongin, Republic of Korea, Research Institute of Medical Nutrition, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Kyuho Jeong

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration

Affiliation ILDONG Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Hwaseong, Republic of Korea

Sungho Maeng

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Gerontology (AgeTech-Service Convergence Major), Graduate School of East-West Medical Science, Kyung Hee University, Yongin, Republic of Korea

Hyunjung Lim

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

hjlim@khu.ac.kr (HL); moonjs@ildong.com (JSM)

Affiliations Department of Medical Nutrition, Graduate School of East-West Medical Science, Kyung Hee University, Yongin, Republic of Korea, Research Institute of Medical Nutrition, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Jin Seok Moon

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

hjlim@khu.ac.kr (HL); moonjs@ildong.com (JSM)

Affiliation ILDONG Bioscience, Pyeongtaek-si, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Han Bin Lee (H.B.L.), Minjee Lee (M.L.), Haeseong Park (H.P.), and Jin Seok Moon (J.S.M.) are employees of ILDONG Bioscience. Kyuho Jeong (K.J.) is an employee of ILDONG Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. This study was commercially sponsored by ILDONG Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., which contributed to the study design and covered clinical trial-related costs. The clinical trial was conducted at Kyung Hee University Korean Medicine Hospital by the investigators, and ILDONG Bioscience received the study results and co-authored the manuscript with the investigators. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The authors declare no other competing interests related to this work.