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Ozempic Fixed My Body. Then It Wrecked My Hair. Here's What I Did About It.

Luna Yu

Luna Yu

Founder & Chief Science Officer

Ozempic Fixed My Body. Then It Wrecked My Hair. Here's What I Did About It.

The Side Effect That Hits at Month 3

Five months into a GLP-1, I noticed my ponytail felt half its size. I didn't panic. I counted. Because that's what scientists do.

Turns out I wasn't imagining it. In Wegovy's own clinical trials, 3% of women reported hair loss — triple the placebo rate. A recent study found women on semaglutide face roughly double the risk compared to other weight-loss treatments. And the cruelest part? It typically hits between months three and six, right when you finally feel great about everything else.

Why Your Current Supplement Can't Keep Up

GLP-1 medications slow digestion and suppress appetite. Less food, fewer nutrients, worse absorption. Your body starts rationing: heart, brain, liver, kidneys first. Hair last. Always last.

That's a nutrient emergency. And most hair supplements were built for maintenance, not crisis.

Pills like Nutrafol deliver a strong payload, but at $88 a month you're swallowing four oversized capsules a day. The internet is full of women describing the experience: a sulfur smell when you open the bottle, nausea after taking them, bloating so bad they thought they had a stomach bug. One dermatologist put it bluntly: some of her patients simply couldn't take Nutrafol consistently because of the capsule size. The best formula in the world doesn't work if you dread taking it.

Gummies? The alternative has been beauty candy. Less than 100mg of active ingredients. Zero meaningful botanicals. Mostly sugar with a biotin sprinkle. Nothing engineered for a body in metabolic stress.

The First Gummy Built for Women Who Need Real Results

Folly wasn't designed to compete with candy gummies. It was designed to compete with clinical capsules — and make them obsolete.

1,675mg of active material per serving. 624mg of verified botanical extracts — pumpkin seed, nettle root, green tea catechins, reishi, rosemary, grape seed OPCs. That's roughly 70% of Nutrafol's total capsule payload, in a gummy that actually tastes good and won't turn your stomach.

Our dual-layer encapsulation (pectin gel outer, lipid nanoparticle inner) protects everything through manufacturing heat and stomach acid, then releases in the small intestine. Third-party tested: unencapsulated B12 lost 98% during production. Ours lost zero.

84% saw improved hair health in 30 days. $45 a month. No horse pills. No nausea. No choosing between your weight loss and your hair.

Luna

Luna Yu

About Luna Yu

Luna Yu is a biotech engineer and the founder of Folly. She spent her career solving delivery problems in pharmaceuticals before applying the same science to the supplement industry - starting with her own hair.

Founder & Chief Science Officer