A Message from the Founder of the Helen Foundation and Helen Foundation Clinics

Dear God,

You restored my wife Helen’s health after years of hurting and surgeries to greet me each morning with a lovely smile, to give gentle encouraging words during the day, to pray daily for our family and the Helen Foundation family, and to wish me a wonderful night of rest each evening.

You provided talented students and faculty at the University of North Dakota to discover patient self-administration of cortisol to control inflammatory/autoimmune diseases.

You provided Medical School administrators, physicians, pharmacologists, biostatisticians and faculty to plan and implement clinical trials.

You provided patients with restored lives to establish the Helen Foundation, contribute funds, and hire staff that work through difficult and blissful times to serve patients.

You provided physicians to do the doctoring for the Helen Foundation treatment throughout this wonderful country.

For all these things, I give you thanks and praise daily on this day of Thanksgiving.

Virgil I. Stenberg
Founder & Chairman
Helen Foundation and Helen Foundation Clinics

A Message From the President of the Helen Foundation Clinics

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our patients for placing your trust in the Helen Foundation in order that we might help you regain your quality of life. We have seen miracles this year. We have watched people walk after being in wheelchairs for years, people eliminating expensive and potentially harmful drugs within weeks, and have had people tell us, If they had not found us they probably would have taken their lives. We should all give thanks for all the wonderful things that have happened this year.

I would like to wish all of you a very Happy Thanksgiving.

Michael R. Codere
President
Helen Foundation Clinics

We are Back!

We are back from Florida. We are now home in sunny Arizona. This week we have two seminars. Our first one is today (11/16/10) at 2:00 pm at the Helen Foundation Clinic. The Clinic is located at 6641 E Baywood Ave., Suite C-2 in Mesa, Arizona. Directly across from the main entrance to the Banner Baywood Hospital.

Then on Thursday, November 18th at 2:00 pm we will be in Surprise at the Hampton Inn by Hilton. The Hampton is located at 14783 W Grand Ave., Surprise, Arizona.

If you would like to make reservations you can do it one of two ways. Go to our website http://www.helenfoundation.com and click on the seminar you would like to attend and fill out the info requested and send. Once we receive it you will receive a confirmation e-mail. OR you can call 1-888- TO HELEN (864-3536) if your local try 480-983-8376.

We look forward to seeing you.

We're in Florida!

We are currently in Florida doing seminar's. Now there is only two days left to join us. Tonight, 6:00pm we are at the Hampton Inn & Suites Clermont at 2200 E HWY 50 in Clermont. Tomorrow, the 11th we will be in Altamonte Springs at the Magnuson Orlando at 230 W State Rd 436. We will have two seminar's, one at 2:00pm and the other at 6:00pm. Then on Friday, the 12th we will be in Orange City at the Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites at 1330 Saxon Blvd. The seminar's will be at 2:00pm and at 6:00pm. So come and join us!

Want to know where else we will be? Check out our website! http://helenfoundation.com/

I Can Walk Without Pain.

When we were young, we walked, ran and jumped in school exercise classes, football, and baseball. Our legs would bend at midpoint at our every command. Everyone had knees and they always worked perfectly.

Then I got older. At first, there wasn’t much pain in my knees. It could be ignored with the hope that it would go away. Slowly and steadily the pains became worse.

Long walks were futile. The longer the walk, the more my knees hurt. So I walked less, gained more weight. The additional weight added to the burden my knees already had. This was a perplexing problem. The escape route was not obvious.

When I laid in bed trying to sleep, my knee pain appeared to get worse. Laying down, all I could focus fully on the pain. Sleep was difficult. Heat treatments were of no help.

As a professor of ancient history at the University of Nebraska, I gave lectures while standing on sore knees. Standing was better than moving. I put more emphasis on my words and less on body movement. How my body appeared to the students was secondary to how I felt. I consoled myself with the thought that the students were there to listen to what I had to say.

The surgeon concluded that my knee was ‘bone on bone’ after he carefully studied a black and white ghost image of what was my knee. I imagined what the pain would be if two bones were rubbed against each other within the flesh of my body. He continued to comfort me by explaining that I was not to worry about since he could saw off the two ends of the joint, drill out the bones, insert high tech, metal joints that would not rust, and inferred that it brand new knee without pain.

The surgery went well. It took quite awhile to get over it. There wasn’t much pain left in my bionic knee. I could function rather well. Overall, I decided that I really didn’t want to go through the surgery again should my left knee get that bad.

My worst fears came to pass. The left knee did get more painful. Again sleep was better in an easy chair.

I retired from the University. My wife Janet and I moved to sunny Arizona. I could imagine the dry warm weather being soothing to my aching knee. It felt better to not walk on ice and not but on heavy winter clothing to ward off the Nebraska winters. However, the left knee pain continued.

Searching for an alternative to surgery, I attended a lecture on Microdose Therapy developed by a professor at a University for his wife with arthritis. It made sense. Janet and I discussed entering the program. The statistics were impressive and the risk of side effects appeared minimal.
To my amazement using Microdose Therapy, I lost most of my knee pain in one week. The little that was left totally disappeared shortly thereafter. I could walk without pain and after completing a walk, the pain did not come back.

Then I began thinking the relief was temporary and feared that it would come back. That was in 2001. Now it is 2006 and it has not come back. I won. I avoided knee replacement surgery for my left knee.

I am no longer a 20-year-old who can run, walk and jump. However, I can walk without pain. I am grateful to the folks at Microdose Therapy for having this potent treatment. Janet is great advocate of Microdose Therapy. I am more reserved.

I no longer take my knees for granted. With my knees not hurting, I live life more normally.

Nels Forde, Ph.D., Professor of Ancient History, University of Nebraska

Now I can dance!

Four months ago, I really didn’t think I had a future. My fear was that I would be in a wheel chair for the rest of my life. I had suffered with pain for six long years. I too a drug called Baycal for high cholesterol. It causes fatigue, muscle damage, 24 hour-a-day headaches and pain through out my body. I had back and shoulder pain along with restlessness nights

An acupuncturist treated me for four years for the pain. The acupuncturist suggested that I had fibromyalgia. I received little relief. No treatment lasted. I couldn’t go shopping. I had to stay in the car while my husband did the shopping. Injections into my back and shoulder were of no help. When I went to bed at night, I slept in a fetal position because of the pain.

I saw an advertisement for Microdose Therapy in the newspaper and decided Ill try one more treatment. Within four days I began feeling relief. I could stretch out my legs in bed and could sleep better. I discontinued using sleeping pills. I can now walk and go up and down stairs.

Today, I keep track of my pain level and part of my Microdose Therapy program. Things that used to stress me out, no longer have control over me. I now have control of my pain and symptoms with cortisol. My husband loves the new me and so do I. Thanks to God and the Helen Foundation and its crew, who helped me through the program, I am pain free most of the time. Now I can dance.

Mary Bastaich, Arthritis & Fibromyalgia

I can live life again.

“You just can’t cope with something that usurps things from every part of your life,” explains Helen with tears in her eyes. I have been through a lot of bad times, but fibromyalgia is the worst.

It all began in 1985 when I was diagnosed by a rheumatologist in New Hampshire with rheumatoid arthritis. I was told to take Tylenol. Over the succeeding years, the diagnosis was bursitis, tendonitis, osteoarthritis and finally at one of our country’s leading clinics, I was diagnosed as having fibromyalgia.

In all, I was prescribed sixteen different arthritis medicines over the years. Of the sixteen, prednisone was the only one that worked. The physicians would ramp up the prednisone dosage over six months, keep it at the maximum for another six months and taper me off prednisone for another six months. I went through five of these prednisone cycles. I gained weight each time, and then I would diet to lose it again. The last time, I gained weight and couldn’t take it off. I don’t want anymore prednisone.

Then we traveled to Arizona, and I found the weather was wonderful! I lost a lot of pain in the sunshine and dry climate. My constant companion husband of 55 year said, “That’s it. We are moving to Arizona.” After prednisone, I used azulfidine for years. But even in sunny Arizona, I began hurting again.

One day my husband encouraged me to go to a lecture on using Microdose Therapy for fibromyalgia. It made sense, so I started the program. The results were almost unbeleivable! Microdose Therapy gave me my life back. Now I can live life again. I often am somewhat critical of my past care, but that doesn’t solve any problems. I push the negative thoughts out of my mind, and am grateful to be pain-free again. Life is a whole lot better now.

Helen Day, Fibromyalgia

I have my life back!

Osteoarthritis started about the age of 40. Gradually, aches and pains increased throughout my body over the next 20 years. After I broke my left hand, it hurt and stayed hurting. It attracts my attention unpleasantly when I pull hoses and climb ladders. Naprosyn had been my trusted constant companion for years.

When my physician found that my kidneys were being damaged by this medication, I was forced into selecting from the alternatives placed before me. First, I had my hips replaced. Then the trouble moved into my knees. Next, Microdose Therapytm gave me relief throughout my body, but my wrist and neck still hurt. Then, I selected Prolo Therapy, irritant injections into troubled areas for a counterirritant action, for these.

This required discontinuance of anti-inflammatory medicines including Microdose Therapy. Predictably, I got worse, my wrist got better, I restarted Microdose Therapy, I got better yet, and my supervisor assigned me to a less physically challenging job. It took awhile, but I have my life back! With Microdose Therapy, I have control over the bad days without damage to my kidneys. Osteoarthritis does not control my life anymore.

Howard Clark, Osteoarthritis

Gained my Mobility Back!

Before I started the Microdose Therapy program my mobility was limited and the things I used to love to do I couldn’t do anymore.
During the Shower, I couldn’t believe the how fast the relief was. Within days I was able to slowly start doing those things I loved to before. I can travel with my wife without the pain and discomfort I had before.
Personally I would recommend the Microdose Therapy program to everyone. It’s easy and the relief you receive is fast.

Richard "Rocky" Frey, Arthritis

The Best Kept Secret

“My husband would have to help me up from sitting and hold on to me till I took the first few steps. It was painful to do everything. It was even very painful to sleep,” explains Kay Archambo with Fibromyalgia.

"I attended a seminar sponsored by the Helen Foundation. I decided to try it. I was amazed how fast I got relief. Within three weeks, I got to the point where I no longer took my narcotic pain medicine. I was able to walk and stand up straight. I began to ride my bicycle. I hiked four miles on the desert, climbed mountains, and carried a four pound rock back to the car. I get up from sitting without my husband’s help. My attitude has really improved. My husband describes Microdose Therapy as the best kept secret that people need. For me, Microdose Therapy has given my life back from Fibromyalgia, “ Kay concludes.

Kay Archambo, Fibromyalgia, Owasso, Oklahoma

Using the Microdose Therapy program, 83% of patients averaged 77% symptom relief. These results were accomplished by using an established, FDA-approved, generic medicine, hydrocortisone, in a new way, that is, patient self-administration. On Microdose Therapy, patients are taught to use hydrocortisone on the bad days and not on the good ones. When used in this way, the renowned efficacy of hydrocortisone known is retained and over dosage with its well-known adverse reactions is avoided.

I Have My Life Back!

I wouldn't have believed it was poissible. The Helen Foundation has given me my LIFE back. I have come from having to buy a wheel chair, and the use of a borrowed walker to riding a motorcyle again. This is the real deal. I had only suffered with Fibromyalgia for about 2 years, because of an auto accident. Many of the people I have meet have had it for a lot longer and are getting help too. The Helen Foundation is not in it for the money, they are there to help, and I feel compelled to help whomever I can. I know how dehabilitating Fibromyalgia can be, and with family and friends they felt helpless. I tried so many pain drugs, most of them with little help or bad side effects. I am off the Lyrica now, 600 mg daily, off the Oxy, and most of the 10 pills I was taking a day. I never thought I would ever feel this good again. Thank GOD for the Helen Foundation.

Doses of Hope By: Mike Gossie, Tribune Newspapers

Love drove Virgil Stenberg of Apache Junction to find a way to ease arthritis pain. “Seeing my lovely, caring wife hurting every night, her hands red and swollen, was very motivating,” said the retired University of North Dakota chemistry professor. “When I promised my wife I would research arthritis, it was a pledge I took as seriously as my wedding vow.”

Despite her husband’s promise, Helen Stenberg didn’t hold out much hope.
“I felt his research was more to improve my mental well-being than anything else,” said Helen, who was diagnosed in 1971 at age 37 with rheumatoid arthritis, but who has battled arthritis pain in her hands since she was 18.

“As the days turned into weeks, weeks into months and months into years, it was difficult to place much hope that my husband would add anything to the arthritis picture,” she said. “My hope was that a new magic medicine would be discovered somewhere that would make my pain disappear.”

What her husband discovered after 12 years of intense research has not only helped her, but more than 3,000 people. Stenberg developed an arthritis treatment called Microdose Therapy that he is struggling to get the mainstream medical community to embrace, even as university studies prove that it’s the most successful and cost-effective treatment available
Stenberg’s possible breakthrough has come at the right time. About 43 million Americans suffer from arthritis, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. By 2020, when all baby boomers will be older than 55, the CDC expects 60 million Americans will report some arthritis. About 11.6 million of them will have enough pain and stiffness to keep them from doing things they used to do.

“We took Helen to the best experts we could find, watched them work and were confident they were applying the best technologies available,” Stenberg said. “When the results were less than satisfactory, I started looking at nontraditional approaches – magnets, bee stings, uranium mines – with an unbiased mind.”

Stenberg was concerned about approaches that were costly and unproven or dangerous such as uranium. He was more comfortable with harmless methods such as magnets.

“At least it would give people in pain hope that it might work,” he said. “Hope is nearly absent in people who are aching tremendously. Lack of hope leads to desperation. So anything that gives them a glimmer of hope that they can wake up the next day without pain, I’m excited about.”

But what really got Stenberg excited was a breakthrough that came in 1983. In studying how the body reacts to inflammation by releasing natural cortisone, Stenberg found that people with arthritis are unable to produce the extra cortisone needed to fight the pain.

"When arthritis threatens to multiply in the body, the body gives itself an automatic internal cortisone injection,” Stenberg said. “When that system weakens, mild arthritis develops. When it quits, arthritis packs its bag and moves in. I thought there must be a way to use medication in the same way the body uses cortisone naturally, and that’s by using it only when needed, to do manually what the body once did naturally.

The Breakthrough

When he first started his research at the University of North Dakota, Stenberg and his colleagues focused their attention on developing new ways to control arthritis. “We generated a number of hypotheses, or scientific guesses about what would work,” Stenberg said. “We synthesized new chemicals that we hoped would control arthritis, based on the database of what others were working on or had worked on previously. We tested the chemicals on animals. But despite our best efforts, their effectiveness didn’t exceed those on market.” Stenberg then turned his attention to cortisone, the miracle drug of the 1950’s that won the Nobel Prize in medicine for its arthritis control. But by the 1970’s, cortisone’s reputation was soiled by reported side effects of long-term use – increased bone deterioration, high blood pressure and weight gain.

The adrenal glands, located above each kidney, produce cortisone, which helps the body respond to stress; regulates the metabolism of proteins, carbohydrates, and fats; stimulates the liver to raise blood-sugar levels; and stems the body’s inflammatory response.
“If the body stopped producing cortisone, you would get Addison’s disease and die,” Stenberg said. “Cortisone is essential for life, is made by the body, for the body, without which we can’t live. Yet it was beaten up and trampled up and deemed improper to use for medicine. The question I had was how come the Creator put it in our bodies if it didn’t help us? It was a conflict I couldn’t resolve.
Stenberg resolved that conflict when his research led to the cortisone pulse discovery.
“The answer was relatively simple,” he said. “It isn’t daily production of cortisone that is faulty; the body also makes cortisone on demand for other purposes. The body gives itself an injection of cortisone when needed; much like a physician gives an injection to control pain or other problems. The body’s injection is silent, rapidly appearing and rapidly disappearing. That’s why my colleagues missed it.”
Stenberg’s theory was proven when researchers injected a chemical into the paw of a rat to cause inflammation. They then monitored the amount of cortisone in the rat’s blood. The concentration of cortisone increased by 12 times after 5 hours.
“In humans, when arthritis threatens, the body gives itself an injection and prevents the threat from becoming real,” Stenberg said.
When the body loses its ability to produce the cortisone pulse naturally, though, it needs a little help, he said.
“Cortisone can completely control arthritis, but can cause side effects if used improperly,” Stenberg said. “The key is to replicate the body’s mechanism. The body doesn’t give itself a cortisone injection daily, only when it is needed. Daily use isn’t natural, so that’s why side effects develop.”
With daily cortisone use, natural production wanes. As the natural production decreases, people with arthritis need more cortisone to control their pain. Knowing that high, daily doses have side effects, physicians usually wean patients off cortisone when they request more.

“My candidate for the greatest mistake in medicine is the decision made in the 1950’s to use cortisone daily,” Stenberg said. “When physicians used sufficiently high daily dosages to get the disease under control, side effects appeared. When they lowered the daily dosage to where the side effects disappeared, the disease reappeared.

In clinical trials Stenberg conducted, participants’ symptoms were first brought under control. Then, the patients were taught to make replacement pulses – in the form of a pill – when arthritis threatened and not at other times. The participants averaged 75 percent relief on cortisone and little on placebo. No side effects were observed. The results were independently duplicated and verified at the University of Alexandria School of Medicine in Egypt.
“We found that with controlled dosages of cortisone, based upon a person’s age, weight and sex, and by teaching self-administration of cortisone under physician supervision, we could virtually eliminate pain, swelling, tiredness and morning stiffness in five of six people within three weeks of treatment,” Stenberg said. “And the exciting thing is, we could do it for under $100 a year.”

The Effectiveness

Using the data he gathered during more than 20 years of research and clinical trials, Stenberg developed a protocol for arthritis treatment called Microdose Therapy. It is a physician-supervised, two-prescription treatment that is customized based on the disease, severity and medication history. Each client goes through a six-month education that includes patient control of cortisone, food allergy identification and control, antibiotics and a daily pain diary.
“Each patient rates the pain in each area on a scale of 0 to 10 – 0 is no pain and 10 is as bad as it gets,” Stenberg said “Simultaneously, the patient enters the amount of cortisone used that date. Our computer creates a graphic that charts progress, determines patient compliance, and recommendations for better symptom control and communication with the attending physician.”

Stenberg’s research has given hope to people such as Renita Rosenberg of Phoenix, who was diagnosed with fibromyalgia 20 years ago. To ease her pain, Rosenberg tried acupuncture, chiropractic, physical therapy, trigger-point injections, steroid injections and epidurals. She also took anti-inflammatory drugs, anti-depressants, muscle relaxers, pain pills and Lidocaine. But her pain kept getting worse.
“It got so bad,” she said, “I couldn’t function.”
She had to take a leave of absence from her job in educational software sales, a financial hardship for the single mother who is supporting a daughter in college. Her primary care physician, Dr. Klee Bethel, an anesthesiologist at Valley Lutheran Hospital in Mesa, learned about Microdose Therapy and referred her in July. Two months later, Rosenberg was back to work.
“My pain decreased 80 percent,” she said. “I was able to cut back on other medications by 75 percent, so I am in a much better mental state and my energy level is better. Now I can think. Before I couldn’t.”

Pain flares occur, Stenberg said, only when patients eat a food they are allergic to, break their routine or encounter a stressful situation.

“My arthritis pain had gotten so bad that I had to take 50 milligrams of morphine every day and pain pills on top of that,” said 87-year-old Raymond Heinhold of Mesa. “The pain was unbearable. When I started on Microdose in January, my pain level was over 200. Within three weeks it was down to 41. After three more weeks, the pain was completely gone.” Heinhold avoids the foods Stenberg identified as ones that can cause the pain to spike. “If I eat bread or anything made with white flour, I get the arthritis back,” he said. “I can have chicken and pork as long as it’s not fried. It has to be baked or done on the rotisserie. I can go a long time without any medication or pain as long as I stick with the diet.” As for the horror stories about cortisone, those on Stenberg’s protocol said they haven’t experienced any problems. “They scare people about the side effects of cortisone,” Rosenberg said. “But I’ll tell you I have had no side effects under the Microdoses I take. But I did have side effects from all the other drugs I took before."

Spreading the Word

Patient diaries reveal that more than 80 percent of the 3,000-plus people who have used Microdose Therapy have had their pain, swelling, tiredness and morning stiffness reduced within days – using medicine that costs less than $100 a year. According to an article in Newsweek, Americans spend more than $6.6 million yearly on arthritis drugs such as Vioxx and Celebrex (25 percent effective), Methotrexate (39 percent effective) and Enbrel (51 percent effective). Microdose outperforms all of them in effectiveness, the University of Alexandria study showed.
“The problem we have is that primary care physicians are crunched for time,” Stenberg said. “They have to pay for their building, for their support staff, for the utilities. The only way they can do that is with volume. They don’t have the time to look through a patient’s pain diary and analyze why their pain spiked.”

Some doctors, such as James A. Martin, former chief of staff at Mesa General Hospital, and Connecticut resident John B. Irwin, author of “Arthritis Begone,” have embraced Microdose Therapy. Both have treated more than 200 patients using Stenberg’s protocol.
In Dallas, Dr. Robert J. Koval has used Stenberg’s development to treat arthritic patients for two years. “The system gives control to the patient in treating their disease, which they like,” he said. “It actually gives them a numerical value as to when to treat and how much to dose. It takes a lot of guesswork out of the treatment plan and allows the patient to initiate treatment quickly with lower doses. This, in turn, reduces the severity of the arthritic flares because they can be nipped in the bud.”

Stenberg hopes others in the mainstream medical community will accept and use his findings.
“There isn’t a physician in the world who doesn’t want his patient to do well,” Stenberg said. “It’s not a deliberate decision on their part to keep people in pain. They aren’t rejecting Microdose because it’s bad. We’re just going to have to fight our way in just like anything else. I just wish I didn’t feel obligated to keep up the battle.”
Besides the promise he made to his wife 30 years ago to help relieve her pain, Stenberg has carried a heavy financial burden trying to help others. During the last three decades, Stenberg has spent $2 million on research and development.
“It’s a financial nightmare,” said Stenberg, who still subsidizes the development of the treatment and said he lost $68,000 in 2000. “But these people are really hurting, and we can pull them out of the pain. To see them be able to start living again is my reward.”
But his biggest reward? “I got a wife back,” he said. Helen Stenberg has been virtually pain-free since 1984, the year after her husband discovered the cortisone pulse the body produces. “You can’t put a price on creating a way to get people out of their prison of pain,” Virgil Stenberg said. “I rather suspect that I’ll be lost in the dust in terms of credit when all is said and done. And do I care? No….I just don’t want people sitting around in pain when this works. I want to help people like Helen out of their misery. I want to see them free of pain. It isn’t about riches. It’s about giving people their lives back."

For Physicians: The Case for Microdose Therapy

Microdose Therapy is patient self-administration of hydrocortisone. When our patients are taught to use hydrocortisone on the bad days and not on the good ones, they use so little that hypercortisonism does not occur. Returning control to our patients not only decreases stress and fear but actually improves psychoimmunological status. It has been in widespread clinic use for 10 years for thousands of patients with no significant adverse reactions.

The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved hydrocortisone use for endocrine disorders, rheumatic disorders, collagen diseases, dermatologic diseases, allergic states, ophthalmic diseases, respiratory diseases, hematologic disorders, neoplastic diseases, edematous states, gastrointestinal diseases, and miscellaneous diseases. In accord with FDA expectations, Microdose Therapy performs with excellent efficacy:

Microdose Therapy avoids hydrocortisone-induced bone weakening

Hydrocortisone taken in high daily dosages over years causes bone weakening. Low dose hydrocortisone does not. The Mayo Clinic research staff defined the low dose upper limits to be:

Slocumb CH, Polley HF, Ward L. Diagnosis, treatment and prevention of hypercortisonism in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Staff Meetings of the Mayo Clinic, 32(a): 227-238, 1957]

Microdose Therapy patients average using 3 mg prednisone per day (12 mg hydrocortisone per day equivalent). In agreement with the Mayo Clinic results, no significant side effects have been reported using Microdose Therapy in thousands of patients served during since 1987.
Stenberg VI, Fiechtner JJ, Rice JR, et al. Endocrine control of inflammation: rheumatoid arthritis double-blind, crossover clinical trial. Int J Clin Pharm Res. 1992; 12(1): 11-18.
Slocumb CH, Polley HF, Ward L. Diagnosis, treatment and prevention of hypercortisonism in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Staff Meetings of the Mayo Clinic, 32(a): 227-238, 1957

One group took aspirin or phenylbutazone and the other 10 mg prednisolone per day (50 mg hydrocortisone per day equivalent). After two years and using X-ray analysis, erosion, subluxation and osteoporosis was worse in the aspirin group.
Joint Committee of the Medical Research Council and Nuffield Foundation, Ann Rheum Dis 18, 173-188, 1959

One group took 3.4 grams aspirin and the other 70 mg cortisone per day (70 mg hydrocortisone per day equivalent). After two years and using X-ray analysis, the joint erosion was more in the aspirin group than in the cortisone group.
Empire Rheumatism Council, Ann Rheum Dis 14, 353-370, 1955; 16, 777-789, 1957.

Louis A. Healey summarizes: “A low dose such as 7.5 mg prednisone per day is not cumulative and is thought to be useable indefinitely without producing osteoporosis or other serious adverse effects.”
Healey LA, Changing Therapy, Medical World News, December 12, 1988.

Microdose Therapy avoids hydrocortisone-induced adrenal suppression

Daily hydrocortisone administration is known to cause adrenal suppression. Microdose Therapy is scientifically designed to have 33% holidays from hydrocortisone use. During these holidays, the body’s adrenal gland hydrocortisone production is exercised to maintain production strength. In proof, Microdose patients do not use more hydrocortisone with the passage of time.

Microdose Therapy arrests joint destruction

“In patients with early, active rheumatoid arthritis, 7.5 mg prednisolone (equivalent to 37.5 mg hydrocortisone) given daily for two years substantially reduced the rate of radiologically detected progression of disease. The statistical analysis of radiologically-detected changes was based on 106 patients. After two years, the Larsen scores increased by a mean of 0.72 units in the prednisolone group indicating very little change, and by 5.37 units in the placebo group, indicating substantial joint destruction (P=0.004).”
Kirwan, JR New England Journal of Medicine, 333, 142-146, 1995.

Microdose Therapy is costs less

Microdose Therapy costs $80 a month when amortized over a 10-year basis to be one of the lowest costs medical treatments for chronic disease.

Microdose Therapy efficacy excels

Microdose Therapy excels in controlling rheumatoid arthritis:

Consider adding Microdose Therapy to your practice. You do the doctoring, we provide the technology and do the patient education.

I Feel Great!

With Fibromyalgia, I was unable to play with or care for my 1-year-old and 3-year-old granddaughters. I could not go shopping, walked with a limp, quit golfing, and had difficulty getting up from a chair without assistance. Quilting was painful. My knee had not healed properly from a complete knee replacement surgery. After attending a lecture by the Helen Foundation, my husband and I made the decision that I should enroll in the Microdose Therapy program. Then the almost unbelievable began. My Fibromyalgia pain was much improved in three days. After one week, I was amazed at how good I was feeling. My total knee replacement healed. Now I am able to get up from a chair by myself. I no longer limp. I sleep through the night without waking in pain. I feel great! I can now play with my grandkids! Help is only a telephone call away. You will find a friendly, knowledgeable, friendly medical staff at the Helen Foundation Clinic ready to assist you.

Pam Bellows, Fibromyalgia, Spirit Lake, Iowa

Pain-free in 3 Days!

The pain began when she was fourteen years old. After an automobile accident, the pain became continuous. “People who have not experienced that type of pain can’t really relate to it or understand,” explains Shirley. As her Fibromyalgia worsened, Shirley found it was difficult to do simple tasks as vacuuming, making the bed, and shopping. “I would do it but I would hurt all the time I was doing it. I would not wish this pain on anyone, not even my worst enemy.” “People who have not experienced this type of pain can’t really relate to it or understand,” explains Shirley. She and her husband moved to Arizona. Constant arthritis pain, a bout with cancer and an irregular heartbeat kept her from fully enjoying retirement. Shirley began Microdose Therapy at the Helen Foundation Clinic with the encouragement of her heart specialist. After three days, she became almost pain-free. “As you can imagine, I was totally ecstatic,” explained Shirley. “The medical profession does not realize there is a way to use cortisone that is not terrible. But it sure keeps me comfortable.” Shirley has not experienced the well-known side effects of hydrocortisone in the five years on Microdose Therapy because she uses so little hydrocortisone. “Hydrocortisone is a hormone of the body and when it is used in replacement dosages, nothing can happen,” explains Shirley, “Made sense to me and it really works.”

Shirley Kriger, Fibromyalgia, Apache Junction, AZ

I felt like I died and went to Heaven!

“No, Doctor, you call me if you have something new for Fibromyalgia,” retired high school teacher Jean Lee-Brown, Mesa, AZ, exclaimed after her physician had requested to see her again in two months.

“Do you know of anything that helps Fibromyalgia?” Lee-Brown asked of her still friendly EX in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. “I feel terrible. I have pain all over. All I want to do is lay around. Moving to sunny Arizona didn’t do it.” After listening, EX told of an 80-year-old sufferer who had gotten help from an experimental program at a nearby University called Microdose Therapytm. “Let me find out more,” replied EX, “I’ll get back to you.”

EX found the 80-year-old planting a tree in his back yard. The 80-year-old explained Microdose Therapy worked fine. He was well satisfied, but said the lead research professor had retired and moved the program to Arizona.

Lee-Brown enrolled into the Stenberg program in 1993. “In a few weeks, I felt like I died and went to Heaven,” explains Lee-Brown.

Fifteen years after Lee-Brown enrolled in Microdose Therapy, she summarizes “Over the years, my Fibromyalgia disappeared. I haven’t had to use hydrocortisone for the past four to five years. I never experienced hydrocortisone side effects. It has been like a miracle for me.”

Jean Lee-Brown, Fibromyalgia, Mesa, Arizona

With Osteoarthritis

With Osteoarthritis, I didn’t want to travel out-of-town and did very little walking. After my grandchildren visited, I was left with severe pain. I was experiencing chronic leg pain as well. It appeared as though physicians doubted the amount of leg pain that I was having. After a few weeks into the Helen Foundation Clinic program of Microdose Therapy, not only was my Osteoarthritis better and my leg pain was going away. In the end, Microdose Therapy changed my life. Now I take fewer drugs. If you want to get your life back, I strongly recommend doing the Helen Foundation Clinic program of Microdose Therapy.

Robert Hankerd, Osteoarthritis

It is a Miracle!

My pain medicine had stopped working for my Osteoarthritis and Fibromyalgia. I couldn’t go walking with my boyfriend. Often I would cry myself to sleep at night and was scheduled to have a hip replacement. During the first two weeks on the Helen Foundation Clinic program, half of my pain disappeared. I was flaring because of eating milk, wheat and gluten. After completing the program, I go to ball games and can walk around the entire stadium. I cancelled my hip replacement surgery because the pain went down so much. I can laugh again. My work colleagues say “Penny’s back.” For those starting the Helen Foundation Clinic program, Microdose Therapytm, for Osteoarthritis or Fibromyalgia, I recommend that you stick to the rules, follow everything the doctor and your educator says and you will love life again. It is a miracle!

Penny L. Sehr, Osteoarthritis and Fibromyalgia

My Pain Dropped!

Rheumatoid Arthritis, back pain and stiffness were dominating my life. I could only picture a future filled with the same pain and deformities my mother and grandmother suffered.

By the ninth day of Helen Foundation Clinic Microdose Therapy program, my pain had dropped dramatically. It has decreased consistently and steadily since. I am very excited about the changes in my life using Microdose Therapy. I leave the walker in the car, sleep uninterrupted from pain, and have more energy. I can also write legibly!

Instead of fearing the future with Rheumatoid Arthritis and back pain and forcing myself to go on despite the pain, I now have hope and a positive attitude for each new day.

I Feel a Lot, Lot Better!

It is difficult to describe Polymyalgia Rheumatica pain to someone. I was so limited in what I could do because of being full of pain. Walking with support didn’t help the discomfort nor my mobility.
Four months into Microdose Therapy, my health continues to improve. Daily, I am happy that I started the program. Each day, I see improvements. When I had my first good night of sleep, I really felt better. To sleep through the night without pain, now that was a miracle for me with my Polymyalgia Rheumatica! I am so surprised and pleased with Microdose Therapy, it gave me a new life! I feel a lot, lot better.

I Have Thanked God.

“I will never take cortisone,” Lila Dahl exclaimed. “Years ago, my husband was put on cortisone. He put on weight and lost his voice. My interest continued because I suffered from arthritis, Sjogren’s syndrome and Fibromyalgia. “I attended one of the educational sessions for Microdose Therapy at the Helen Foundation. People spoke who were in much worse shape than I. One had been in so much pain and stiffness that he had been unable to sleep in a bed in years. After a few weeks on Microdose Therapy, he could get up from sitting easily, walked readily and was sleeping in a bed. After the session, I shed tears thinking of the changes I witnessed in peoples’ lives.”

“I bought Dr. Stenberg’s book, Arthritis. The Simple Solution, which told of the many years it took to develop this safe plan. To my surprise, I lost almost all Fibromyalgia pain, stiffness and fatigue within the first weeks of Microdose Therapy. Now after five years on the program, I have not lost my voice, gained weight or any other side effect. I am comforted to learn that hydrocortisone is a regulator of my body put there by the Creator. I exercise, golf, and bowl.” Lila summarizes, “My advice for other chronic pain sufferers is to learn what Microdose Therapy is doing for people. Try it, faithfully follow instructions and learn which foods are giving you trouble. Practice using hydrocortisone to just replace the missing to avoid hydrocortisone side effects. All you have to lose is the pain. I have thanked God many times for the steadfastness of Stenberg and the dedicated people, who worked with him to develop, test and apply this program that has helped thousands of people.”

I Have NO Pain!

Helen Lorts
Centralia, MO

About 10 years ago I was diagnosed as having Osteoarthritis. The pain in both knees steadily increased. Back pain was also bad, and I needed pain medication every four hours. After scheduling a knee replacement surgery, I attended a lecture on Microdose Therapy. It sounded good, and I decided to try it. Immediately after starting Microdose Therapy, my Osteoarthritis pain began to lessen. Each day became better than the day before. After completing the first few weeks, my back and right knee pains were gone. Now except for a minor pain in my left knee, I have no pain! Needless to say, I cancelled the surgery. I got a bonus—the digestive problems that were bothering me improved. I just feel so much better! I think Microdose Therapy is a great program and wish it were available in Missouri. I have lots of friends who suffer from Osteoarthritis and Rheumatoid Arthritis that I believe this program would help.