Paul Turek, MD, Author at The Turek Clinic

The Smartphone Semen Analysis: Cool or Crazy?

Posted on December 3, 2018 by Paul Turek, MD

It’s amazing what you can do at home nowadays. Get a college degree, work a job, sell anything you own to someone half way around the world, garner YouTube fame, exercise along with hundreds of others, or self-publish a book. And now you can also analyze your sperm. Patient lab testing, otherwise known as “at-home” […]

Presidential Infertility Throughout American History

Posted on November 26, 2018 by Paul Turek, MD

Michelle Obama recently revealed in her book, Becoming, that she and President Obama were infertile. Both Malia and Sasha were conceived with IVF (in vitro fertilization) in the 1990s when IVF was only about two decades old. A hard story to tell (I’m sure) but an important one to hear from one of America’s most popular first […]

Do Flu Shots Affect Fertility or Pregnancy?

Posted on November 19, 2018 by Paul Turek, MD

Its flu season. You’re trying to conceive or maybe you’re pregnant. Should you get a flu shot? For those of you who never get the flu, here is the modern definition: A terrible sickness where you feel like you shouldn’t be able to walk, but somehow you can. For about a week, everything is achy […]

Tips for Coping with Infertility During the Holidays

Posted on November 12, 2018 by Paul Turek, MD

Along with the cool, crisp air, long nights and brisk mornings come….the holidays. Add to this a rash of mass killings, hurricanes, wildfires, downed jets and politics and what do you have? A season of especially high anxiety, magnified even more by that simple problem you’re quietly trying to solve at home: unwanted childlessness. Stress […]

The Penis: An Organ of Artificial Intelligence

Posted on November 5, 2018 by Paul Turek, MD

Artificial intelligence (AI) is on fire right now. But AI is by no means new. The concept was coined 60 years ago by John McCarthy who defined it as “the science and engineering of making intelligent machines.” And there’s been some impressive AI successes since then. Remember when IBM’s Deep Blue beat world chess champion […]

The "One and Done" Prescription for Male Fertility and Contraception

Posted on October 29, 2018 by Paul Turek, MD

The Case of the Month is an actual patient of The Turek Clinic. They sat down in front of me, both a little giddy about the idea of having another child. “I have boys and she has one too. We’d like to have one more, hopefully a girl,” he said. She nodded in agreement. They […]

Autumn and Infertility: A Match for the Ages

Posted on October 22, 2018 by Paul Turek, MD

I’ve always felt that having infertility is similar to having cancer. Not in a life-threatening way but certainly in psychological impact. They can both be brutal. But this is autumn, a time of change. Cloudy, Chance of Rain This first became apparent to me when we showed that infertile men had higher social strain and […]

Birth Defects, Fertility and Fatherhood

Posted on October 15, 2018 by Paul Turek, MD

Ever wonder about the future fertility of children born with birth defects? As a urologist, I’ve treated hundreds of boys with two common birth defects: undescended testicles and hypospadias. Throughout my career, it’s been hard to address the question of a boy’s future fertility with these conditions. Until now. Missing in Action Birth defects occur […]

The Science Behind Brosectomies®

Posted on October 8, 2018 by Paul Turek, MD

Cheers to the Topic article on Brosectomy® that demystifies for all time the “unorthodox” idea of having men do vasectomies in groups. Brilliant the way they got under the skin of why men might actually hesitate to get their wings clipped, or why they consider the snip as a “second puberty.” At the heart of […]

Nine Next Gen Men’s Health Problems that Need Solving

Posted on October 1, 2018 by Paul Turek, MD

As I was preparing for our international fertility meetings, and being the guy I am who likes to think big and help others, I embraced this year’s theme: “Focus on the Next Generation.” And then my mind began to wander. If I were given stupidly large sums of money, where would I invest in men’s […]