Our body gets rid of excess estrogen the same way we evolved to get rid of excess cholesterol—by dumping it into the digestive tract, where it expects that there will be a lot of fiber to grab it, hold on to it, and flush it out.4140 Without fiber, excess hormones (and cholesterol) can just wind up getting reabsorbed into the bloodstream,4141 but our body just assumes our intestines are going to be packed with fiber all day long because that’s the context in which we evolved.
