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These are inert estrogenically and are leading the body, but if an irritation locally intervenes before these water-soluble forms have left in the urine, the inflamed tissue will bind to the circulating inactive estrogens and reactivate them. Protesterone is a tissue anti-estrogen factor that inactivates, prevents the inflammation that captures estrogen out of the circulation and promotes re-attaching these solubilizing factors in a very systematic way. It lowers tissue estrogen content in lowering the tissue estrogen, it's re-establishing the water-soluble forms, letting it get the rest of the way out of the body through the kidneys. And so if you have adequate progesterone, you're going to have the inactivated forms of estrogen in circulation before it leaves in urine. But if you don't have adequate progesterone, all of these processes are going to be in favor of reactivating estrogen in the tissues so that it manifests when your blood estrogen is very low. The crucial tissues such as the breast, the uterus, and several other tissues that are subject to developing cancer under the influence of estrogen, these tissues increase their estrogen content during menopause when your blood estrogen is lowest.