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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Maybe it’s the way I’m built, but I tend to focus on the big picture whenever possible. I think it was Confucius who said: “A lion chased me up a tree, and I greatly enjoyed the view from the top.” Second that. Although I am caught up in the nitty gritty of daily medical practice, […]
I’m not sure exactly why, but I see a lot of men with “older” (>15 year old) vasectomies who want them reversed. It’s a daily occurrence. Sure, I have published and lectured on this topic, but I think patients also sense that I have a particular interest in these more complex cases. They fall smack […]
I think we all agree that the wheel and the light bulb were good inventions for mankind. We can argue whether Nobel’s development of gunpowder or the creation of alcohol from honey, rice and fruit during the Stone Age were equally important advances. So goes the story of human progress. Cookie Cutter Medicine There was […]
You have been told that you’re sterile. Absolutely no sperm in the ejaculate. You turn to the Internet for help, to learn what options you have and to avoid thinking about any deeper meaning of this horrific news. As you do this, you keep feeling that you really want your own genetic child. Yes, you […]
He sat down in front of me, looked me in the eye and told me that if I cannot find sperm, then he will divorce his wife in the Middle East. If he can’t provide seed for her to bear a child, then he is not worthy of being married to her. OK, that put […]
Award-winning urologist and men’s health pioneer Dr. Paul Turek authors Turek on Men’s Health, named one of Healthline’s top men’s health blogs (2016 to present) and one of the Top 30 Men’s Health Blogs (2017). The blog covers the gamut of men’s health issues, from infertility to hormones to vasectomy reversal.
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