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.
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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…

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Fertility from Sterility

Do you think it is possible to have your own children with absolutely no sperm in the ejaculate? Why yes. It happens on a daily basis in my practice. Honestly, the word “sterility” has…

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An Ounce of (Fertility) Prevention

“I’ve been told that my cancer is now cured… how do I get my fertility back? Patients ask me this question weekly all the time and I am glad to help. Some of…

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Insider’s Guide to Vasectomy Reversal

  Something like 25,000 American men a year want more children after having a vasectomy. The more popular of two options for fatherhood after vasectomy is a vasectomy reversal; the other choice is…

Joy of Cooking

The Recipe for Man Made Sperm

Stem cells rock. While the stock market tumbles, stem cell science is sizzling. I know, you’re thinking: what is he talking about? No diseases have been cured with new stem cell technologies. But, from what’s being discovered almost weekly now, I can tell you that male infertility is likely to be one of the earliest boxes ticked on the “Diseases to Cure” list for stem cells.

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Timing (And Position) Are Everything

Missionary? Doggie? Cowgirl? Kneeling Lotus? Quarter moon? Full moon? No moon? Is there really a best lovemaking time or position to have a girl or boy? History of Designing Sex for a Boy…

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Mice Sperm in a Dish

It’s not the mother load of discoveries in our field, but it’s pretty close. It tells us that the mother load is definitely out there…and within reach. Yup, the good news is that…

birds and bees: fertility is on the minds of cystic fibrosis patients

Busy as Birds and Bees

I paused and peered over the microphone at the audience. My first words were “I thought you’d never ask.” And I mean’t it. My lecture at Stanford Universitywas not conceivable two decades ago….

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The Ultimate “Green” Book

It’s the age of “green” no doubt about it. Houses, cars, and even lifestyles with small carbon footprints are part of a larger deeper, planetary respect. You may know of green pencils (from…

Why Blueberries Matter

Once in a great moon, something comes around that changes the way you think about things. Galileo’s dismissal of the earth-centered universe, the invention of electricity and the desktop computer are but a…

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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