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Inside The ‘Budget Ozempic’ TikTok Weight-Loss Craze
The Ozempic trend is sweeping the country and not just Hollywood. Aside from celebrities taking the type 2 diabetes drug and its fellow semaglutide, obesity drug Wegovy, people who aren’t in the spotlight are following suit but finding it difficult to keep up the expensive habit, so are opting for a budget weight option, laxatives. The United States is now experiencing a laxative shortage, partly due to a TikTok trend favoring them as a budget weight loss option instead of Ozempic. Many videos endorse stool-softening medications Miralax, Ex-Lax, and Glycolax as a way to lose weight quickly.
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