[Dynseli]

What you said makes a whole lot more sense. It makes more sense for it to raise progesterone, than it lowering an androgen. I thought there was some anomaly with vitex, like this. In the abstract, it says vitex lowers prolactin (when there are excesses [hyperprolactinaemia]), and raises progesterone during the mid luteal phase. It also says it raises 17β-oestradiol. I still have to look through the rest of the paper.

We never went in to studying what each estrogen does. That might be something. Estrogens are a class of hormones, and we were always told estrogen is THE hormone.