Award-winning urologist - and pioneer in Men’s Health - Dr. Paul Turek blogs weekly about issues such as infertility, vasectomy and vasectomy reversal, sexual and hormonal dysfunction and more. Keep up with latest in this fascinating field of medicine.
Sex Drive
Graph of how testosterone levels affect sexual function and muscle different

The Testosterone Tipping Point

Your car is not running well. It just doesn’t have the pick up it used to have. It’s low on gas so you fill it up, but it runs the same. OK, so…

Disney's Sleeping Beauty gets enough sleep

Why is Awake the New Sleep?

It was no surprise to me to read a recent study that showed that when Stanford men’s basketball players got more than 10 hours of sleep nightly, their on-court performance improved dramatically. They…

Da Vinci painting of a baby.

Are Fathers Better Citizens?

  As a surfer, I remember charging pretty big walls of cold, wintery Northern California water with the goal of getting a fast, albeit short, adrenaline-stoked ride. Years ago on Thanksgiving, I was…

Wire wheels from a vintage car. Lots to clean and fix to reduce stress

Guide to Surviving the Holiday Season

  Two patients told me that they were getting divorced this week. They came to the office and thanked me for all that I have done for them. They wished that the assisted…

Testosterone Molecule

What Testosterone Isn’t

  I see a lot of patients who think that their testosterone levels should be higher for various reasons. I would like to set the record straight. Even I have been heard to…

Lightening in Beijing

Am I a Disruptor?

I did well in high school and I did well in college. I loved medical school and tolerated my surgical residency, as it occurred well before the 80 hour medical workweek was established. …

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The Google Wrap (Up)

Got a slice of Google life this week with a lecture and lunch on the Googleplex campus. Here’s the Google wrap up. Now, this is a company with great ingredients for a healthy…

Photo of where Dr. Turek lectured; Palazzo Vecchio in Florence Italy

I’ve Been Googled!

I’ve given countless lectures in innumerable countries over the last two decades, but I am most excited about the one I am giving next Wednesday. Google has asked me to speak to them…

Eat oysters to improve sex drive. Picture of oyster.

He’s Gotta Have It

What is that urban legend? An 18-year old teenager thinks about sex every 3 minutes. And that’s while he’s awake. Ah, those were the days. Now that you are older, more serious, possibly…

A red foil-covered chocolate heart is a simple, romantic and chewable symbol for men

Men and Romance: Its Complicated

The definition of the word romance in most dictionaries, including the mother-of-them-all Oxford English Dictionary, includes the statement “a love affair.” In real life, however, the word romance means entirely different things to…

About Dr. Turek

A founder of the male fertility and male sexual healthcare movement, Dr. Paul Turek is also an internationally recognized master microsurgeon who specializes in vasectomy and vasectomy reversal, FNA testicular mapping, sperm retrieval and male erectile and sexual dysfunction.

He is a former Academy of Medical Educators Endowed Chair Professor of Urology, Obstetrics & Gynecology at UCSF and while there, directed a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant for training new leaders in men's reproductive health. He has authored more than 175 publications on genetic, urological and epidemiological issues in men's reproductive health and regularly consults for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the NIH and other branches of the US government and industry on matters relating to men's reproductive health. He currently holds an NIH grant to create a human artificial testicle to make sperm.

He is Past-President of the American Society of Andrology, a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, the Société Internationale d'Urologie and the Royal Society of Medicine (London). Dr Turek is also Editor of the Reproductive Volume of Netter's Images, 2nd Edition. His hobbies include vintage cars and long board surfing.

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