When 28-year-old Danielle K. gained around 50 pounds during the pandemic, she tried everything to drop the weight: intermittent fasting, working out consistently, and focusing on a balanced diet. But nothing made a difference on the scale or in the mirror. Danielle’s sister has type 1 diabetes and has started taking a prescription drug called Ozempic that has a known weight loss side effect. While the drug is technically prescribed and FDA-approved to treat type 2 diabetes, Danielle noticed that her sister shed “a significant amount of weight” after a year of injections. So, Danielle started doing her own research, diving into Reddit threads about other people’s experience using the…