Paul Turek, MD, Author at The Turek Clinic

Which is Cheaper: Vasectomy Reversal or IVF?

Posted on September 24, 2018 by Paul Turek, MD

Six of one, half a dozen of the other. Spoiled for choice. How do you decide which path to take to have children after a vasectomy? Do you do a vasectomy reversal or undergo a sperm retrieval and assisted reproduction (IVF-ICSI). Stuck between a pillow and a soft place now becomes a pillow and a […]

What’s Best for Your Boys, Boxers or Briefs?

Posted on September 17, 2018 by Paul Turek, MD

When you hear two different stories, which do you believe? Well that depends. Typically, we use 4 kinds of information to help us to decide what to think: intuition (gut feeling), source authority, logic and evidence. Now the story: Boxers are better than briefs for your fertility. Believe it? Intuition and logic suggest that the […]

Digital heat maps of sperm based on Sperm Mapping

Sperm FNA Mapping: Looking Beyond the Conventional to Find New Hope for Infertile Men

Posted on September 10, 2018 by Paul Turek, MD

How do you react when you are pinned against the wall by the unknown? Do you freeze? Succumb? Invigorate? I find that I get very calm and very creative. Going where no one’s been before feels atmospheric to me. And it’s where I do some of my best thinking. Fertility from Sterility Two decades ago, […]

Try Taking This Testosterone Quiz

Posted on September 4, 2018 by Paul Turek, MD

It’s the molecule you meet at puberty and that changes everything. It’s the key to your sex life. It keeps your muscles looking good. It’s great for longevity. It’s the Holy Grail of men’s health. It’s testosterone, right? Roids to the Rescue? Take this quiz to learn more about what testosterone really is and isn’t. […]

Post-Vasectomy Pain Syndrome (PVPS) Case Study

Posted on August 27, 2018 by Paul Turek, MD

The following case is an actual patient from The Turek Clinic: After having 3 kids in 5 years, the patient was more than ready to have his tubes tied. So, he did, by a colleague, and he did quite well thank you…for a while. “The procedure seemed to go OK, Doc, but lately my balls […]

Quiz: Is Your Erection Dysfunction Real?

Posted on August 20, 2018 by Paul Turek, MD

There’s a painting in an estate sale in a tony neighborhood. It looks old but familiar: the Salvator Mundi motif, very popular among northern European painters in the 1500s. The “savior of the world.” Da Vinci painted one, or so it’s been said. It’s bought for about $60. A cool, old, really nice fake. Truth is, […]

We Are Fully the Men Our Grandfathers Were

Posted on August 6, 2018 by Paul Turek, MD

Upon reading Nellie Bowles great piece “The Dawning of Sperm Awareness” in the New York Times about the conundrum of our dropping sperm counts, I asked myself: “Am I coming across as a disruptor by not being particularly worried that we are headed toward extinction?” I thought it a good opportunity to unpack the beef […]

How Millennials Are Really Good for Our Species

Posted on July 30, 2018 by Paul Turek, MD

There I was touring a shiny new fintech startup in San Francisco, excited by being at the epicenter of all that is tech. Just blocks from my office and only blocks from the likes of Twitter, Airbnb, Fitbit, Lyft, Salesforce and Google. And they were asking me questions about their fertility. A gaggle of curious […]

Five Questions to Know if Testosterone is Right for You

Posted on July 23, 2018 by Paul Turek, MD

You choose the clothes you wear, the food you eat, and the company you keep. In fact, you make more decisions daily than you might imagine: the average person makes over 200 decisions every day about food alone. So, whether we realize it or not, we’ve got the decision-thing nailed down. But is this true […]

How Sperm Mapping^™ Can Save Japan

Posted on July 16, 2018 by Paul Turek, MD

There I was, lecturing at the leading Japanese male fertility society at their annual meeting in Kobe, Japan and it hit me: Japan has a serious infertility problem. And they really need Sperm Mapping™. Children of Men Here’s the drone view. Japan has one of the lowest birth rates in the developed world (1.46, 2.1 […]