Organisations are spending thousands of pounds on Menopause talks, workshops, champions, coaches, and awareness programmes.

They trust that the person at the front of the room understands the biology. Employees assume that the information has been checked.

But how would anyone know?

Menopause awareness has grown much faster than biological understanding. Too many people teaching the subject have learnt a list of symptoms, treatments, and popular hormone phrases without understanding the ovarian ageing process beneath them.

Knowing about HRT is not the same as understanding Perimenopause. Memorising a symptom list is not the same as understanding why those symptoms may occur.

We raised awareness, but what did we teach people?

It was incredibly important to draw attention to Perimenopause. Generations of people were never taught that this stage of ovarian ageing existed. They entered it without language, context, appropriate healthcare, or any understanding of why their physical and emotional experiences were changing.

Greater awareness has helped people recognise symptoms, ask better questions, seek support, and challenge dismissal.

But did greater visibility have to come with incorrect biology?

Did people need to be told that their hormones were disappearing, their bodies were failing, or they were becoming a deficient version of themselves?

They deserved the truth. They deserved to know that ovarian ageing changes the hormone rhythm. They deserved to understand that symptoms can emerge while estradiol is still sufficient or even higher than it was previously.

They deserved education that created understanding, not fear.

The mental-health consequences matter

The language of loss, deficiency, collapse, and failure affects how people perceive their bodies and their future.

If someone is told that their physiology is falling off a cliff, every change can feel like evidence of deterioration. A challenging but manageable stage of ovarian ageing becomes a frightening message about permanent damage and inevitable decline.

That does not empower people. It can leave them feeling broken, frightened, and dependent on whoever claims to have the answer. It has also helped create an industry in which fear sells.

Doom-and-gloom messaging attracts attention. Weaponised biology creates urgency. The more defective people believe they have become, the easier it is to sell them a test, supplement, treatment, programme, or promise of getting their “old self” back.

Greater Menopause awareness was meant to end silence and dismissal. It should not have created a new marketplace for misinformation.

Awareness is not enough

Organisations are not only buying an hour of somebody’s time. They are lending that person authority and asking employees to trust what they hear.

That creates a responsibility to look beyond confidence, popularity, and polished slides.

Menopause education should leave people feeling informed, capable, and better able to understand their bodies. It should not frighten them into believing that they are deficient or direct them towards a predetermined solution.

We fought hard to make Perimenopause visible. Now we must make sure that what is being taught is true.

You can read more about what's actually happening during menopause transition HERE