Snipped from HuffingtonPost.com.

It seems a dangerous and very real medical condition is going to get a little more recognition these days. Heavy metal toxicity is more or less ignored by the medical community do due some unknown reasons by me. But, now that the notoriously famous Jeremy Piven has been recently diagnosed with a very acute version of it, maybe people will start realizing that the risk is real.

Even though many people don’t like him, I do. He happens to be in a couple of movies that I absolutely love. One of them being “Very Bad Things”, and he was brilliant in it. Now to hear that this guy is suffering from something that I intimately know about (no, I don’t personally have it), I feel for him.

So, to hear that the producer of the “Speed the Plow”, Piven’s current play, say, “So my understanding is that he is leaving show business to pursue a career as a thermometer,” just makes my freaking blood boil.

Here is a small portion of the article:

The doctor says that Jeremy is suffering from extreme mercury toxicity. Colker tells ET that a major symptom of mercury poisoning is extreme fatigue. In addition, Jeremy began experiencing neuro-muscular dysfunction late last week, which led to extreme difficulty in lifting his arms and legs. Then, this past Sunday, he began feeling dizzy. Now, the doctors have ordered enforced rest. Jeremy spent three days in the hospital recently and the doctor tells us exclusively that he is no longer in New York.

Colker tells ET that Jeremy has been an avid sushi eater for many years, regularly eating sushi twice in one day. He notes that Jeremy has also taken certain Chinese herbs, and that, in combination with the frequent sushi consumption, could have led to these elevated mercury levels. He informs us that a test revealed that Jeremy had the highest level of mercury that he has ever seen, which amounts to six times a healthy amount of mercury, in his system.

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