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Extreme Mercury Toxicity Sidelines Actor Jeremy Piven

sushi, fishChicago actor Jeremy Piven has unexpectedly left the cast of the Broadway revival of "Speed-the-Plow" because of a mercury count that his doctor said was the highest level he'd ever seen.

Piven, 43, wanted to continue but he was advised to stop. Dr. Carlon Colker, who had been treating Piven, said Piven was suffering from "extreme mercury toxicity" and that "a test revealed that Jeremy had ... six times a healthy amount of mercury in his system." Piven has long been a sushi eater, often twice a day, which may be the ultimate cause of the problem.

A major symptom of mercury poisoning is extreme fatigue. Piven was also experiencing neuro-muscular dysfunction, which resulted in his having trouble lifting his arms and legs.

Piven has won Emmy Awards for his role as foul-mouthed Hollywood agent Ari Gold in the HBO series Entourage. He had been performing to critical praise in "Speed-the-Plow" since October.

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This announcement comes just weeks after the U.S. FDA began arguing that pregnant women should eat more fish, even if it contains mercury! Although no definitive link has proven that Jeremy Piven’s twice-a-day sushi habit is what caused his excessively high mercury levels, common sense would indicate that there is likely a connection.

Recent testing of sushi bars show that sushi does often appear to be contaminated with mercury, and in some cases worse so than other fish.

Laboratory tests in New York released last year found so much mercury in tuna sushi that two or three pieces a week at some restaurants could be a health hazard.

In fact, eight out of the 44 pieces of sushi purchased by the New York Times for testing had mercury levels so high that the FDA could take legal action to remove the fish from the market. And the problem is certainly not isolated to New York.

When sushi samples from 10 high-rated Chicago sushi restaurants were tested it was found that:  

• 70 percent exceeded the Illinois Environmental Protection agency’s (IEPA) special advisory threshold for methylmercury. At that level, women of childbearing age and children are advised to eat no more than one serving per month

• 14 percent had a concentration higher than 0.730 ppm -- a level that no women or children should ever consume

• 10 percent of the tuna samples were unsafe for all consumers, because they contained mercury levels above 1.0 ppm, which is the legal action limit for fish sold in the U.S.

The dangers of consuming too much mercury are often focused on children and pregnant women because of the known damage it can pose to a baby’s developing central nervous system. However, as Jeremy Piven would surely attest to, too much mercury is dangerous for adults too.

The Risks of Mercury Poisoning

Thousands of tons of mercury are released into the air each year through pollution and waste. In the environment the mercury can transform into organic mercury, which is known as methylmercury, and accumulate in streams, oceans, water and soil.

Methylmercury also accumulates in the food chain, so each fish absorbs the mercury in other fish and organisms it eats. For this reason, larger and older fish such as shark, tuna and swordfish contain the highest levels of methylmercury.

People who regularly eat fish have higher levels of methylmercury than those who don’t, which is concerning, considering that methylmercury toxicity can result in paraesthesia (a tingling sensation on your skin), depression, and blurred vision.

In fetuses and developing infants it can also have negative effects on attention span, language, visual-spatial skills, memory and coordination. It is estimated that nearly 60,000 children each year are born at risk for neurological problems due to methylmercury exposure in the womb.

Mercury is especially damaging to your central nervous system (CNS), and studies show that mercury in the CNS causes psychological, neurological, and immunological problems including:

• Arrhythmias and cardiomyopathies
• Tremors
• Insomnia
• Personality changes and irritability
• Headaches

• Weakness
• Blurred vision
• Slowed mental response
• Unsteady gait

To make matters worse, mercury bonds very firmly to structures in your CNS. Unless actively removed, mercury has an extremely long half-life of somewhere between 15 and 30 years in the CNS!

Fish is Not the Only Source of Mercury

Eating fish frequently is one way to elevate your mercury levels, but it is not the only one. Silver dental fillings (amalgams) are another major contributor.

Amalgams are made up of 50 percent mercury. More than 100 million mercury fillings are placed each year in the United States, as over 90 percent of dentists use them for restoring posterior teeth.

The average individual has eight amalgam fillings and could absorb up to 120 micrograms of mercury per day from their amalgams. For comparison, estimates of the daily absorption of all forms of mercury from fish and seafood is 2.3 micrograms and from all other foods, air and water is 0.3 micrograms per day.

Adults with four or more amalgams run a significant risk of mercury-related health problems from them, while in children as few as two amalgams will contribute to health problems.

In most children, meanwhile, the largest source of mercury is that received from vaccinations or that transferred to them in utero from their mother.

Steps to Remove Mercury from Your Body

First of all, you should reduce your exposure to additional mercury as much as possible by:

• Avoiding fish (unless it has been lab-tested and found to be free of harmful levels of mercury)
• Not having anymore silver fillings put in (if you need a filling, see a biological dentist who uses mercury-free materials)
• Avoiding vaccinations that contain mercury, such as flu shots
• Making sure any herbal remedies you’re taking are from a reputable source with strict quality testing (some low-quality remedies can be high in mercury and other toxic metals)

Next, I recommend that you have any existing amalgam fillings removed … but avoid making the mistake I did 20 years ago by having it done by a non-biological dentist. I’d say only about 5 percent of dentists know how to remove these fillings safely, so do your research and seek out a highly qualified biological dentist.

You see, when you have these fillings removed you can be exposed to significant amounts of mercury vapors if the dentist doesn’t know what he or she is doing.

My mercury exposure from having this done improperly nearly caused me to lose both my kidneys and go on dialysis. For this reason, I suggest you get healthy BEFORE having your fillings removed, as you want your detoxification mechanisms optimized prior to removal.

To remove mercury that has already accumulated in your body, I highly recommend reviewing my Mercury Detoxification Protocol, which details the things you can do right now to help detoxify your body of this toxic substance. If your mercury levels are seriously elevated, you should work with a knowledgeable health care practitioner to help you through the detoxification process.


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Posted On Dec 22, 2008
The sad thing was the way it was reported on the news. The report made it sound like he was faking being ill to get out of his broadway show. Some of the people linked to his show, all but rolled their eyes when they spoke about it in the report. What is wrong with people that they cannot have any compassion for someone when they can't "see" anything wrong with them? I've had fibromyalgia for 8 years now and I don't want any sympathy, but I've had plenty of eye rolls when people look at me and say "you look ok." Just because you can't see it doesn't mean it isn't there and that you aren't suffering inside.

 
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Rett
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Posted On Jan 06, 2009

So true. I wish I could count the times I've had that to happen with me about plaque psoriasis. I have it big time. People say,"Your doctor can give you something to "dry that up".  Or, "you are beyond help if you won't follow your doctor's orders". Methotrexate??? I don't think so. Dangerous drugs and steroidal external applications?? Nope. Psoriasis is not contagious but people look at me as if I have leprosy. I know this has nothing to do with mercury toxicity. But it does have much to do with how FDA and big pharma has so corruptied our thinking about anything medical or what should be considered a threat to humans and animals and wild life in general. But there remains reason to be hopeful. God's soon coming Kingdom heralded forth by His Son, Jesus, with power and with glory is our hope for a new world tomorrow. It's right there in your Bible. When we start hearing what God says instead of what humans say about Him, everything changes. After we repent and are baptized and receive the gift of the Holy Spirit to help us overcome the pull of this corrupt world, everything changes. We start learning how to please God in every aspect of our human lives. We are joyful that we will be given eternal life at His coming and reign with Him in God's glorious Kingdom here on a renewed earth. But don't believe me. Believe your Bible.



Mamachibi
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Posted On Jan 06, 2009

WellnessMom, my hubby suffers from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. He was first diagnosed in 1990, before it was considered "real." We had a wonderful, amazing, one-of-a-kind allopath that would spend hours researching the disease and ways of handling it. Every couple weeks, he'd call us in and discuss his research with us. Everyone thought he was "faking" and just not wanting to work. He has occasional flare-ups even now, 18 years later, but now that it's made the journals, at least we're not laughed at.

Sadly, my teenaged daughter has multiple chemical sensitivity. The same people who accused my husband of laziness are accusing her of not wanting to help with the housework.

Hang in there.



HeatherM
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Posted On Jan 07, 2009

Religious preaching has nothing to do with mercury toxicity either.

The Bible is mythology written by men. How an adult brain can believe it is the chanelled word of a spirit being known as God, completely baffles me. I went to Sunday School 'til the age of 12, when it dawned on my maturing mind, that everything I'd been taught was B.S. Don't order everyone to believe your fairy tale book.



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Posted On Jan 07, 2009

HeatherM

A fairy tale book? If you hold some anthropomorphic hollywood view of God then i would be inclined to agree with you. Subverted religious institutions aside if it's a view of positive consciousness then read the ten commandments with that in mind and then tell us it's rubbish.

Man cannot serve two masters. You either do good or you don't.

God is love. Love is God



rvrcitygrl
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Posted On Jan 07, 2009

I saw the same thing- they were laughing at him and saying "yeah, right." I thought, you fools- if you don't know about it, it must not be true, right?  One of my best friends alomst died of accute mercury poisoning a few years ago when she let a quack dig her fillings out.  She doesn't go near sushi now and is very particular about the fish she eats.  She was even inspired to become an ND.  



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Posted On Jan 07, 2009

Rett:

Your psoriasis may have nothing to do with mercury toxicity but other metals may be the cause like copper is you have Wilson's disease. You may get tested for free copper or before you may even see green copper deposits on your retinas (Kaiser-Fleischer rings). An efficient treatment is to use very potent metal chelators like vitamin D3 (in high dose) and herbs containing saponins (like butcher's broom root). Months / years of treatment will be needed.



Apoztel
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Posted On Jan 08, 2009

Rett:

You can also use cilantro to rid yourself of metal toxicity.

About the Bible being phony; I wonder if you know anything about Ron Wyatt. He was an archeologist that did research into the finding of Noah's ark, Mt. Sinai, the Red Sea Exodus, and Sodom and Gomorrah.

Noah's ark was found in the exact place the Bible says it came to rest. In the mountains of Ararat. Huge anchor stones were found in close proximity, all in line with one another. The dimensions match the bible description almost exactly, but that can be explained by the splaying of the wood. The surrounding areas are named after the eight survivors on the ark. When tested for carbon, an indication of life, the ark was shown to have more carbon in it than in the surrounding areas. When looking at it you can even see the ribbed timbers. It used to be covered, but an earthquake revealed the sides of it and split it down the middle, allowing for further exploration. www.wyattmuseum.com/.../wpe20.jpg

www.wyattarchaeology.com/.../lamintedwood.jpg

www.wyattarchaeology.com/.../noah19.htm

www.wyattarchaeology.com/.../noah27.htm

They have found an underwater bridge in the Red Sea. On either side are huge drop offs. They also found coral encrusted chariot wheels and axles, human bones and horse bones. They've also found 2 pillars on either side of the sea that King Solomon erected to commemorate the crossing.

www.wyattarchaeology.com/.../redsea5.htm

www.wyattarchaeology.com/.../redsea8.htm

www.wyattarchaeology.com/.../redsea23.htm

www.wyattarchaeology.com/.../redsea6.htm

www.wyattarchaeology.com/.../redsea10.htm

anchorstone.com/.../bone_yard.jpg

In Sodom they've found nothing but ash and sulfur, exactly as the Bible says.

anchorstone.com/.../ash_and_sulfur.jpg

www.wyattarchaeology.com/.../layers.jpg

www.wyattarchaeology.com/.../rooms.jpg



Apoztel
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Posted On Jan 08, 2009

Near Mt. Sinai they've found altar stones, a stone that has calves drawn on it (indicating that the Israelites picked this up from their captivity in Egypt), and a water smoothed rock that is split down the middle (the Rock that Moses struck and water gushed out)that has several smaller water smoothed stones around it. They also found a fence around the bottom of Mt. Sinai just as the Bible says the LORD told Moses to build in order to keep the other Israelites from encroaching on the Mt.

www.wyattarchaeology.com/.../horeb1.jpg

www.wyattarchaeology.com/.../aaron_horeb_main2.jpg

www.wyattarchaeology.com/.../alter1.jpg

www.wyattarchaeology.com/.../alter.jpg

www.wyattarchaeology.com/.../calf.jpg

www.wyattarchaeology.com/.../3.jpg

This is just the archeological evidence. The prophetic evidence is even more astounding. The historical and the scientific claims are also verifiable.



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Posted On Jan 10, 2009

The B.S aspects of the Bible are the mythical fables, including the virgin birth, miracles & the resurrection..something about a son of God who died for for the sins of the human race,so our creator would forgive us. Makes little sense to me. The Bible's philosophy is not bad. Love is an emotion that humans & even animals feel, which bonds us together and aids in the success of our survival. It's funny how our positive emotions are called God, but what about our negative ones? If God made us, he made the negative emotions also. If God is only love, why is there so much suffering on this planet and extremes in weather that can kill us, or ruin our lives? Why did he make animals that violently slaughter each other for food, and humans who can be destructive, unlawful and exploitive. Athiests live in reality. God botherers live in a mystical world of believing there's a big daddy in the sky looking after them because they are special and have something called "faith." It's simply a personality trait, it's not a knowing of anything factual. Health forums aren't the place for pushing religion.



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Posted On May 21, 2009

Sorry that this seems to have become a religious discussion.  I only wanted to add that fortunately God shows no favouritism.  He's a "Big Daddy in the Sky" for anyone at all who might want to "Bother Him".



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Posted On May 25, 2009

crossed christ (corps on the cross) was always displayed in front of the church to tell no Xristians - see what hapeend to him it can happen to you if u dont obey us ; no one died for us. it was invented later to cover the real purpose of the crossed corps


 
 
 
Posted On Dec 22, 2008
I am totally amazed they made the correct diagnosis, rather than blame his fatigue on something else. If only the rest of the medical industry could follow suit.

 
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Posted On Dec 25, 2008

Did he have acute mercury poisoning or chronic mercury poisoning?
What tests did the doctor perform to discover it?



Cleanqueen
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Posted On Jan 06, 2009

If he were a woman, he would have been diagnosed with depression.



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Posted On Jan 07, 2009

Thank you, Heather. Please, people. We are discussing mercury, not the Bible.



ActionDan
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Posted On May 21, 2009

Over her in the UK, we tried consulting the Doctor & the Dentist because my wife appeared to be suffering with mercury problems.  The dentist flatly denied that it could be a problem.  The doctor said that there was no available test for low level mercury toxicity and suggested steroid tablets & antidepressants, but claimed that it may well last for the rest of my wife's life.  Fortunately the Chiroptractor that we see knew how to deal with it, so by following his recommendations she was clear within about a month.


 
 
 
Posted On Dec 28, 2008
I am reminded about a movie line voiced by Harvey Kittel on the topic of eating sushi, "If I want to consume mercury I'll eat a thermometer"
Assuming this story is factual, JP would have been better off with a more balanced diet. Of course dental amalgaqms are and coal fired power plants are all part of the problem.

What strikes me about the sushi connection is recent efforts by the food lobby to leverage the FDA into relaxing its advisories on the excessive consumption of fish. In the eleventh hour regulation frenzy, they made every effort to bypass their own science and drop the caution to nursing and pregant women and children about this problem. The fact is that top predators such as Tuna carry high loads of mercury and should be minimized in our diets.

 
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Posted On Dec 22, 2008
Hopefully this will get people more focused on the issue of mercury. What a shame that eating fish is bad for you now.

 
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Posted On Jan 06, 2009

I really hate what this world is becoming, we have resources to be free of OIL, COAL and other toxic forms of energy, yet we are locked into a 19th century energy technology, at what cost?

Our children will pay ultimate price living in environment we passed onto them.

Educate everyone about big business and financial scams going around maybe something can change:

http://zeitgeistmovie.com/  watch ADDENDUM



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Posted On Jan 06, 2009

It's hard to avoid noticing the futility of it all. Clearly, we are enveloped in a pathology that has plagued us throughout human history. I don't see anything actually getting better -- nevertheless, we can do what we are doing by seeking to improve nutritionally and spiritually. We are not going to "fix" the world, though we should continue to try.


 
 
 
Posted On Jan 05, 2009

Even fluoridation agents which are commercial-grade, contain a small level of mercury, arsenic, and other heavy metals and...radionuclides.  Ask your local utilities dept. for the AWWA Standard for Fluorosilicic Acid B703-06, latest issue, and see an entire page of contaminants.  

The phosphate fertilizer industry was required by EPA to use wet scrubbers to capture these toxic gases in the early 1970's.  Then they decided this was a useful liquid form of Fluoridation chemicals for our drinking water.

 Therefore, we are merely walking, talking, recycling units~~

Then just think, we flush and drain this water out into the environment!

 We are certainly fouling our nest.


 
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Posted On Jan 06, 2009

Yes Anita_203 and apparently that 'commerical-grade' fluoridating agent has never been officially approved by the FDA as fit for consumption as either food or medicine.  Instead it was "grandfathered in" because it had been in existence before an arbitrary date after which all new chemicals coming onto the market had to submit safety data.

At EU level there are now three grounds which could get my Irish Government and fluoridation into a LOT of trouble.

1. The EU Medicines Directive means that if you claim a health benefit or the ability to prevent or treat a disease then your substance is defacto a medicine. It must therefore be licensed. If you continue to peddle that substance without a license you can be criminally prosecuted.

So, as the chances of getting a substance listed on the EU Hazardous Substances list licensed as a medicine are very slim, it looks like the only way out for my Government on this point would be to suddenly stop claiming it prevents dental caries. In which case their reason for adding it ends.

They could face massive fines unless they end practise.

2. There are now EU directives in place concerning water quality under which polluters can be severely punished. Am not sure of the details but essentially if the fluoridating agent is on the EU Hazardous Substance list then adding it to water is an act of pollution.

They could face massive fines unless they end practise.

3. There are now EU Directives in place concerning food additives. Water is considered a food under these directives so anything added to it must be an approved food additive. It'd be one heck of a feat to get a listed Hazardous Substance suddenly approved as a food additive.

They could face massive fines unless they end practise.

But the end of fluoridation-as-our-waste-disposal-option would no doubt see agri-chem industries scurrying to find another way to distract from the consequences of our agri-choices.

We need to - collectively - find better ways of living...  



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Posted On Jan 07, 2009

"Yes Anita_203 and apparently that 'commerical-grade' fluoridating agent has never been officially approved by the FDA as fit for consumption as either food or medicine.  Instead it was "grandfathered in" because it had been in existence before an arbitrary date after which all new chemicals coming onto the market had to submit safety data."

And yet, stevia is not allowed to be marketed as a food additive (sweetner)!


 
 
 
 
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