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According to her lawsuit (content warning, link includes weight stigmatizing language) which appears to have been filed on 8/2/2023 it appears to me that she was prescribed the drugs for Type 2 Diabetes based on the language used: This is an action for damages suffered by Plaintiff, JACLYN BJORKLUND, who was severely injured as a result of her use of Ozempic and Mounjaro, two injectable prescription medications that are used to control blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes. This is significant because the doses for weight loss are often larger (in some cases about 5 times as much) as those for Type 2 Diabetes

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They either are DHT derivatives themselves or they dramatically increase testosterone levels, providing more raw material for the 5-AR enzyme to convert into DHT