For now, the manufacturers are winning
You may use shea butter as well for hydration, and avoid stripping the chapped skin off your lips so that there is no inflammation or irritation
But they have different strengths and for different purposes
Clean & High-Quality Ingredients : Formulated without harmful additives
Abbreviations BP: Blood pressure CI: Confidence interval CIMT: Carotid intima-media thickness eGFR: Estimated glomerular filtration rate HbA1C: Hemoglobin A1c HDL: High-density lipoprotein cholesterol ICA: Internal carotid artery L-C: L-carnitine LDL-C: Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol Lp(a): Lipoprotein (a) MetS: Metabolic syndrome MI: Myocardial infarction MPH: Maximum plaque height NSAIDs: Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs SAEs: Serious adverse events TMAO: Metabolites such as trimethylamine oxidase TPA: Total plaque area TPV: Total plaque volume WC: Waist circumference References Alberti KG, Eckel RH, Grundy SM, Zimmet PZ, Cleeman JI, Donato KA, Fruchart JC, James WP, Loria CM, Smith SC Jr, et al
The lipidomics data generated in this study have been deposited in Metabolomics Workbench under Project ID PR002013 102
