Dr. Turek's Blog

Palm reading

Get Thee to a Palm Reader

“I heard that you’re a palm reader,” he blurted as he sat down across from me during my office visit with him. Sure, as a physician I examine men’s hands, as they can tell you a lot about his life and work. But beyond that, any closer reading I leave to others. But the comment […]

Stained human testicle

Where are We with Man Made Sperm?

“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!” Dr. Seuss I’ve been asked to report to the fertility community about where we are with man-made sperm.  Although we’re not where we’d like to be, it is certainly not for lack of […]

A beautiful red rose

Can Smelling Roses Extend Your Life?

Depending on how old you are, you may have heard the cliché phrase “stop and smell the roses.” How can taking the time to smell roses possibly improve or extend your life? Mind the words of the great philosopher Socrates, who said: “Beware the barrenness of a busy life.” Metaphorically then, smelling roses might just […]

Orchidometer

Is Bigger Better When It Comes to Testicles?

As I was being interviewed for a recent Tonic/VICE article by author Grant Stoddard about testicular implants, an interesting point was raised: Does the ole “bigger is better” notion that we typically associate with homes, jewels and penises also apply to testicles? Looking Pretty Down South Let’s start with a little perspective here. We humans do well with […]

Yogic positions; vasectomy

March Madness and the Yogic Vasectomy

It’s time of the year again! A time of tournaments and TV, massive couch potatoing and a general dumbing down of fatherly responsibilities. All in the name of sports. But men also tend to do something very unique during tournament month. They get snipped. A recent health insurance study found that during the first round […]

Banking on the Future

The Littlest Things Can Mean the Most

Did you ever notice how the smallest things can make your day? Think of all of the things you do every single day, some by habit and some by intent. Realize that any one of them can make your day, if you let it. Join me for a moment in thinking small. Double Dare Read […]

Roses and Valentine's Day

What We Do for Love and What Love Does for Us

They were moonstruck. Acting like no one else existed, they were silly, giddy and sat so close together that they stole the same air. The phenylethylamine, (love hormone) levels were so thick that you could cut it. Ah, love! A Quest for Love She was in her late 30s and it was her first marriage. […]

Mahatma Ghandi, renounced material things

Should You Worry When You Take Ibuprofen?

Is anything good in excess? Most of us can make the argument that excess has its place in life: pets, shoes, cars, art, love. Others, like Mahatma Ghandi, prefer the ascetic existence in which material things are roundly denounced. Throughout history even the greats can’t agree about excess: Hippocrates espoused that “everything in excess is […]

Worry beads

The Little Prosthesis That Could

The Case of the Month is an actual patient of The Turek Clinic. What’s one of the best ways to improve a man’s sexual health? Get him to stop worrying about his “junk.” And one of the best ways to wring out the worry is to ensure that things look normal down there. It can […]

The ruling is in on varicoceles

Varicocele and Infertility: Assumed Innocence, Proven Guilt

Innocent until proven guilty. Although pondered since the Digest of Justinian in 6th century Roman law, this tenant of justice only saw widespread acceptance in the US in the late 1890s. For those of us Latin buffs: “ei incumbit probatio qui dicit, non qui negat” describes it best. Innocent Bystander? You probably didn’t know this […]