An Indian man went to the hospital complaining of repeated vomiting and pain in his abdomen. An X-ray showed a large mass in his stomach. Doctors successfully removed 39 coins and 37 magnets from the intestine of the 26-year-old patient, and diagnosed him with schizophrenia. When asked why he swallowed the metal, he told doctors he thought the zinc in the coins would help “build his body,” and the magnets would insure the coins stay in his body.
* He believed women found him more attractive. With the magnets, in case you missed that.
* Doctors told him “Change what you eat,” and that’s what he did – he started eating change.
* For a while there, he was his own piggy bank.
* We should put the daily recommended amount of zinc into some kind of supplement tablet so people wouldn’t have to eat coins.
* By the way, zinc is not magnetic. If only the man with 37 magnets would have had a way to test that.