BEMIDJI — Professor Virgil Stenberg will present “Pain, Pain Go Away” at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 15, at the Bemidji Senior Center.
Stenberg, of Bemidji, has studied the use of the regulator cortisol, or cortisone, and is an advocate for its safe use to relieve arthritis.
Stenberg’s study used 2,428 participants with 38 cortisol-responding disorders. An average 76% improvement occurred in patients using small amounts of self-administered cortisone tablets without the side effects noted in the 1950s, which Stenberg hypothesized was due to overdose of naturally occurring cortisol.
“We can expect that inflammation diseases as fibromyalgia, arthritis, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, asthma, and neuropathy to become mere nuisances with joint replacements being relegated to museums,” predicted Stenberg in a news release.
“Lives will be restored. Inflammation pain will be all but eliminated. Thinking will improve. Fatigue will be reduced. Joint replacement surgeries will be cancelled. Premature asthma deaths will be avoided. Senior dementia will be reversed. Body movements will again occur with ease,” Stenberg stated.
“Fortunately, cortisol is generic and, as a hormone, compatible with prescription medicines. If patient self-administration of cortisol were universally implemented, there would be an estimated annual $2 trillion in direct medical costs saved.”
Stenberg is scheduled to present another lecture before the 2024 Global Congress on Pharmaceutical Sciences and Clinical Research in Singapore.
