Anybody, like me, who has ever used fat jabs will know how wonderfully transformative they are for your figure. A six-month stint on Mounjaro led to me losing nearly 4st, plus a further stone after coming off the drugs. It’s resulted in me being my slimmest in decades. This summer I’m a trim size 8, compared to the hefty size 18 I was two summers ago.But something else transformed while I was jabbing – and not in a good way.GLP-1 drugs have been linked to hair loss and I found that mine started to thin around month four, when I was on a 7.5mg dose, the highest I reached before tapering off. By then, the appetite suppression was strong and I clearly wasn’t getting enough nutrients.My hair started to come out at an alarming rate and lost all its gloss and bounce. I also developed the worst dandruff I’d ever had in my life and had to stop wearing black clothes because I was flaking so much. I started rubbing oils into my scalp and splashing out on expensive shampoo, conditioner and mask treatments that promised to clear up the problem but only seemed to exacerbate it.My hair is naturally very thick, meaning hair loss was easier for me to disguise than it was for others, but it was alarming to see my ponytail getting thinner and thinner. Eventually, after quitting the drugs, my hair stopped shedding and the hideous dandruff disappeared. But it never seemed to recover its healthy thickness and bounce.It wasn’t just my hair. My skin suffered too. If I say so myself I’ve always had good skin, mostly as a result of shunning the sun in a vampire-like way for the past 30 years. However, on Mounjaro, it lost its glow, becoming dry and flaky while my undereye dark circles were more pronounced.Of course, it’s not the drug specifically that causes the issues with hair and skin, but the lack of nutrients from a hugely reduced calorie intake. The appetite suppression was so powerful for me that, at times, I’d become one of those annoying people who ‘forgot’ to eat and when I did I clearly wasn’t getting enough omega 3s or drinking enough water. It’s been six weeks since Claudia Connell has stopped taking the pills but their use, and improved diet has meant her hair and skin have maintained their lustre The Lyma pills are not cheap – but compared to the cost of expensive face creams and make up that may not work, it could be a price worth payingI’ve always had a good skincare regime using retinol serums along with day and night eye creams and moisturisers but I felt like I was fighting a losing battle. I even splashed out on Victoria Beckham’s £104 foundation drops to see if they’d add a bit of oomph to my dull skin, but to no avail.In the end, it was a pill that restored my skin and hair to its former glory – a very happy surprise as I was taking it to help my muscles.The supplement in question is called Lyma, which I started taking seven months after quitting Mounjaro. It’s taken the wellness world by storm since its launch in 2018, with celebrity devotees including Kim Kardashian, Kate Hudson and Gwyneth Paltrow.Lyma recently tweaked their formula to appeal to GLP-1 users who may have suffered muscle loss. They marketed the supplement (which costs £199 for one month’s supply) as ‘exercise in a pill’ claiming the new adaptogen gynostemma pentaphyllum (an Asian herb extract) had been shown to mimic the effects of exercise.Sadly, after four months on the pills my feeble muscles did not miraculously tone up; however, six weeks into taking Lyma, my skin and hair transformed.My hair was not only restored back to its pre-jab glory, it actually looked the best it had since before menopause. It was glossy, my undereye dark circles faded and I looked refreshed and dewy – as though I was just back from a luxury spa break.My hair felt full and seemed to be growing at twice the speed it normally did, I know this because I needed to get my roots touched up after just five weeks, instead of my usual nine.One friend even asked where I’d got my extensions done and when I said I didn’t have any, insisted on patting my hair down in search of tell tale lumpy bonds.The magic ingredient responsible for this miracle is something called Cynatine HNS, a powerful dose of natural keratin peptides – these are the molecules that support our hair, skin and nail health (Lyma contains 500mg of Cynatine HNS and stand alone pills are available at a fraction of the cost).As we get older – I turned 60 earlier this year – our ability to produce keratin decreases. Most keratin supplements do not share the same amino acid profiles as humans. However, Cynatine HNS, derived from sheep’s wool, does making it more easily broken down and absorbed.Independent clinical studies support my experience with users reporting a reduction of hair loss, an increase in growth and anything up to a massive 95 per cent increase in hair volume after three months of use.When it comes to skin, 60 per cent of users noticed a difference in fine lines and wrinkles.It’s been six weeks since I stopped taking the pills (the cost is hard to justify) but their use, and improved diet has meant my hair and skin have maintained their lustre.The Lyma pills are not cheap – but compared to the cost of expensive face creams and make up that may not work, it could be a price worth paying for fat jabbers that are delighted to have lost the flab but less thrilled with their limp hair and dull skin.