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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The cover from the book Joseph in Egypt by Thomas Mann

Why I Love Medicine-Redux

I was recently asked why I love medicine by a health care blog. They published what they could, but there is really more than my response to them revealed. I’d like to set…

Photo of feathers in a Kite Shop in Bejing, China by Dr. Turek

Diabetes Mellitus: The Infertility Triple Threat

Based on the feedback received from doctors reading the blog, we are introducing a new feature: Case of the Month.  This Case of the Month is an actual patient from The Turek Clinic….

The Swan Chair from the Turek Clinic

Try Not Sitting

Have you heard about a new disease that affects almost half of Americans and is lethal if it goes unchecked? It’s called “sitting disease.”  It’s real and it’s the new smoking. The Chair as…

Superman as no baldness problem.

Your Hair or Your Hormones

It’s the perfect drug for 40 million men in America who are going bald. Take it once a day to keep the hair on your head and shrink the prostate, which also commonly…

Vasectomy: A Delicate Matter movie poster

A Dozen Funny Reasons for Vasectomy

As a vasectomist, I realize that a vasectomy, that iconic way to stop family building in its tracks, is not simply a 10-minute procedure. In a man’s life, it is a significant cultural…

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…

Dr. Turek catches a wave at Waikiki

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…

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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    After a year of research and after hours effort, Dr. Turek's prenatal vitamin for men is out! Get it online at... http://t.co/NFmKDhX0

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