Charlotte Touzalin was a young teenager when she began experiencing unexplained weight gain, irregular menstrual cycles, and unwanted facial hair—the same baffling health issues that had plagued her mother for decades without a medical explanation.
"I’d go home and I’d cry," said Touzalin, now an 18-year-old college student living in Colorado. "I didn’t understand why all this weight was coming back or why my friends didn’t have to shave their faces and I had to."