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The California Chapter of

The Arthritis Trust of America

by J.D. Allen, Executive Director/Secretary

It is a distinct experience for me to represent this

foundation as the Executive Director of the California

branch!

In the beginning it was my misfortune that opened

the door for me to investigate and comprehend rheuma-

toid disease. Amazing to me in that during just a short

period of time I have been able to grasp the enormity of

the disease and to discover the nihilistic (nothingness)

information available to the general public from conven-

tional medicine.

I spent four years after a series of minor injuries in

conflict with the medical community because they worked to give me

prescription drugs without any cognizance of a cause or true cure. It

was either a quick, easy fix or no fix at all — to them...! The all too

common answer was “We don’t know the cause.”

My answer to them was, “Why take medicine that has more side

effects than the disease itself with less than a placebo chance of a

cure?”

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It is simply ludicrous.

My opinion is that we as a society are receiving

less than adequate care in the whole field of degen-

erative diseases. As patients we must become aware

that there are alternative treatments with astound-

ingly successful results available.

I was given one to five years to live by top

conventional rheumatologists. I was so crippled I

was told that if I did not die from the disease that the

prescription drugs would eventually kill me. The

drugs were offered just to control or mask the pain

but not to attack the cause. Is this all that modern

medicine has to offer, and that is to suppress the

immune system?!

We have to demand choices that attack causes and

not the symptoms only. We cannot settle for

anything less. I am well aware that the obstacles patients encounter

physically, emotionally, and financially in some instances force

them to acquiesce to conventional methods.

The California chapter of this foundation has three goals:

1. Inform the general public of the alternative treatments that

exist through books, literature, manuscripts, periodicals,

J.D. Allen, Executive Di-

rector /Secretary of The

California Chapter of The

Arthritis Trust of America

Profile

George E. Meinig, D.D.S., F.A.C.D.

Permission to publish biography from Root Canal Cover-Up granted by Bion Publishing.

Dr. George E. Meinig is a dentist, nutritionist, acupuncturist, and author. Early in his practice, at a time

when few dentists treated root canal infections and only a handful of dental schools gave instructions about

the subject, Dr. Meinig practiced root canal therapy and taught the subject at dental association sessions

around the Middle West.

Those professional activities led to his being one of the founding members who started the American

Association of Endodontists (root canal therapists).

After World War II service in the air corps, because of this background in root canal therapy and his

holistic and nutritional approach to practice, Dr. Meinig was selected to manage the Twentieth Century Fox

Studios dental office.

His participation as a member of his dental society’s speaker’s bureau was a forerunner of lectures he

made in many parts of the United States and in four foreign countries.

As a columnist for 17 years, Dr. Meinig’s “Nutritionally Speaking” articles appeared weekly in the Ojai

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Letter

The Arthritis Trust of

America Newsletter

Dedicated to Eradicating Rheumatoid Disease From the Earth

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Published by The Arthritis Trust of America Copyright 1997 All Rights Reserved by Authors Summer1997

George E. Meinig, D.D.S., F.A.C.D.