To find what you are looking for, try one of the following: Go back to the page you were on. Look for information in our Help section or e-mail customer service. Look for information in community. Or go to one of these areas on the site: for medical news and health news headlines posted throughout the day, every day. © 2004-2017 All rights reserved. MNT is the registered trade mark of MediLexicon International Limited.Jeremy Piven suffered “shocking levels” of mercury in his system from eating too much sushi and Chinese herbs, forcing him to leave the Broadway play Speed-the-Plow, his doctor tells PEOPLE. “I pulled Jeremy from the show,” says Dr. Carlon Colker. “I’m an unpopular character right now.” Responding to skepticism over the decision to leave the play – playwright David Mamet joked that Piven was leaving show business to “pursue a career as a thermometer” – the doctor says the decision was purely medical, and one that Piven, 43, initially resisted.

“He’s disappointed that I had to pull the plug,” says Colker. “But I think he’s hurt more by the comments that he’s not trying or that he walked away. He’s been working straight for 30 years. He doesn’t walk away; I tore him away from it.” Colker, an internist and attending physician at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City and Greenwich Hospital in Connecticut, says Piven initially came to him after the show’s run began in late October, complaining of severe fatigue. “This was very, very unusual for him,” says Colker, who is also CEO and medical director of Peak Wellness in Greenwich, Conn., with another facility in Beverly Hills. “He’s known as the iron horse – he’s been working nonstop for 30 years, and he works 17-hour days.” After a battery of tests failed to reveal what was ailing the three-time Emmy winner, Colker checked his “heavy metals” and was “absolutely stunned” to find mercury at a level “almost six times the upper limit of normal and allowable,” says the doctor.

“It’s the highest level I’ve ever seen.” Colker attributes the high mercury count to Piven’s habit of eating sushi, often twice a day, compounded by certain Chinese herbs he was taking “for general health.” Piven was ordered to put a moratorium on the fish and the herbs, and his doctor sent a letter on Dec. 10 revealing the health problem to the Speed-the-Plow production staff. While Piven decided to continue with the show, his symptoms did not abate – and after a spell of dizziness led to a three-day hospitalization, Colker says he decided to put the curtain down on Piven’s Broadway run. The actor will be replaced by Norbert Leo Butz and William H. Macy. “It is very serious. Mercury can kill – it can absolutely cause cardiac arrest, kidney failure, even psychiatric problems,” says Colker, who was first interviewed by Entertainment Tonight. “He is going to be OK. This is completely reversible,” adds Colker, who believes Piven will be “rockin’ and rollin’ and ready to be his old self for Entourage” by March.

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Your email is safe with me.Jeremy Piven has mercury poisoning from sushi and Chinese medicine Did you know you can get mercury poisoning from eating too much sushi? Jeremy Piven now does. Dr. Carlon Colker, a doctor who has been treating the SAG award nominee and Emmy award-winner, tells ET, “Jeremy is disappointed that members of the production staff of ‘Speed-the-Plow’ and other members of the entertainment community have not rallied behind him during this health crisis.” Colker says, “Jeremy is suffering from extreme mercury toxicity. 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 on enforced rest, Jeremy spent three days in the hospital recently. Colker tells ET exclusively that he is no longer in New York. “Jeremy has been an avid sushi eater for many years, regularly eating sushi twice in one day.

He has also taken certain Chinese herbs, and that, in combination with the frequent sushi consumption, could have led to these elevated mercury levels,” Colker explains. He goes on to inform ET 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. ET via In Case You Didn’t Know I guess David Memet, who made the joke about Jeremy leaving to ‘pursue a career as a thermometer’, is feeling a little red-faced right now. One question that this doesn’t answer is, why aren’t his Broadway coworkers convinced he is indeed unwell with mercury poisoning. What is it about his recent behavior that makes them suspect of this doctor’s diagnosis? What are the Chinese herbs that Piven has been taking? You can take them for just about anything, like most holistic medicines if you have a complaint someone has a natural alternative for you to try. I believe that for some people they make a big difference, and for others it seems to do nothing.