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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Celsus, the Greek doctor who first described the varicocele

The Secret Life of Varicoceles

What’s squishy, worm-like, fills the space in the scrotum above your left testicle, can ache after a run and wreak havoc on your fertility? No it’s not your Johnson; it’s a varicocele. A…

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…

The internet as the universal mind of man

Will Operate for Food

  Here it goes again. Doctors are out of a job because of _____ (fill in the blank with antisepsis, antibiotics, vitamins, lasers, robots, etc). Now, it’s the Internet. A recent newspaper article…

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…

Dieting is like emptying the piggy bank when you were a kid.

A Bank Account to Empty

“You tell me I need to lose weight. How do I do it, Doc?” “My dear patient, it’s simple: treat your body like a bank account, but one that you should empty. Put…

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. …

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…

Picture of a brick cell phone from 1980s. Associated with male infertility?

The “Brick” Takes a Beating

While you were blabbing away, your cell phone took a hit this week. Basically cell phones were slammed from two sides. As much as any modern product, the cell phone is about as…

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…

Dr. Turek's gavel for the American Society of Andrology

Giving Up the Gavel

In two days, I will hand over the gavel. It’s actually a meat tenderizer that I bought to run the meetings this year and it worked just great. A gavel with teeth. Regardless,…

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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  • February 2, 2012 19:01

    Wow. Israel’s IVF rate per citizen is almost 10 times ours in the US! Why? The State pays for it. http://t.co/h3Eh9Com

  • February 1, 2012 23:17

    Happy early Valentine’s Day everyone! Next time, consider the surest form of contraception ever developed- vasectomy! http://t.co/InHZa4yS

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    Not sure that we are fans of this practice for everyone, but making young women more aware of their biological... http://t.co/SF1qGl4w

  • January 31, 2012 19:32

    Dr Turek comments today on ABC News about a new form of male birth control: http://t.co/yhEHwQL7

  • January 30, 2012 16:47

    New DrTurek Post: Your Hair or Your Hormones - It’s the perfect drug for 40 million men in America who are goin... http://t.co/jpVecb7D

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