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Clothes-lined about four years ago by a raging viral' infection which developed into Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME), a mysteriâ€" ous flu-like malady (more popularly known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome), the 44-year-old Oakville man is back on his feet again. He will never be the man he was, but he is philosophical on that score, even hopeful. A couple of years ago, Beatty founded the local support group for ME sufferers like himself - a for- mer university hockey player with an MBA from McMaster, the marâ€" keting man was fired from his job as national sales manager at a multi- national corporation â€" the company doctor could find nothing wrong with him. While his four-year law suit for wrongful dismissal is still pending, he ekes out a living on dis- ability insurance. Meanwhile, he “My life could be a lot worse,” he told this reporter. around a bone run with it. Fighting for Chronic‘Fatigue Syndrome sufferers fil<°l<3l<>|<>l<>l<>|<>|<>I<>|<>i<>l<>l<>I<>l<>l<*=l<>l<>l=>!<>l<>l<>l<>l<>l<>l<>l<>l<>l‘3l<>l<>l<*>l<>|I aul Beatty has the look and the tenacity of a bull- dog. Right now he’s got his teeth firmly clenched My advice‘ 1? Let him has made himself something of an expert on this complex and contro- versial disease once thought to be psychosomatic brought on by stress or depression. Last year, Beatty appeared on a David Suzuki “Nature of Things” segment (produced by Sheridan College professor David Tucker) which cast some light on the much misunderstood illness. He is also a director for the ME Association of Halton, Hamilton-Wentworth, and ME Ontario. Interviewed recently in the mod- est Lakeshore Road bungalow he shares with his new wife Lanka and baby boy, what is obvious is that the man has done his homework. He can talk the talk, as they say, con- verse in multiâ€"syllabic medical jar- gon with the best of them. “Science has not been able to put it all together,” he concluded of “Get the hell off saturated fats â€" before it’s too late,” was his dire warning. Beatty has tracked down most of the doctors and researchers in the world working to solve the ME rid- dle. He knows some of them per- sonally. He is a pipeline for the most up-toâ€"date studies. He has research into ME,,“but a lot is known already and gradually it is becoming clearer.” His personal area of research centres on “essential fatty acids” (EFAs) â€" how they affect cell metabolism and the body’s immune system. His belief is that EFA theraâ€" py is going to have the same sort of impact on medicine that antibiotics did when they first appeared. It is tall talk. But clearly, much does come down to diet. Training for Life! St. John Ambulance 466 Morden Rd. #201 Oakville, Ont. L6K 2T3 (416) 844-4844 learned to manage his own illness with some success by supplement- ing his diet with Efamol (Evening Primrose Oil linked with linolenic acid). But he is frankly critical of the medical profession, particularly in Oakville. “Doctors have to show compas- sion,” he suggested, “and admit (See 'Beatty' page 5)