The menopause is at risk of being “medicalised” into something that always needs treatment, experts have argued. Writing in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), researchers said most women actually do not wish to have treatment such as hormone replacement therapy (HRT) unless their symptoms are severe. They argued that the “message that menopause signals decay and decline” is widely reinforced but only serves to make women “expect the worst”. They wrote: “Medicalisation and its narrow focus on symptoms may fuel women’s negative expectations of menopause and influence what physical and emotional …