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Freezing Your Fellows

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Looking for a great investment in dire times? Our national fertility organization just declared that the technique of freezing a woman’s eggs now safe and effective. Banking fertilized eggs or embryos after IVF procedures has been de rigueur for three decades. However, freezing unfertilized eggs from the ovaries of young women to maintain fertility later in life […]

My Time with Lance

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What do you think of Lance Armstrong? Are you disappointed, angry or simply indifferent about the accusations that he used performance-enhancing drugs to win seven Tour de France titles?  Maybe it hasn’t really crossed your mind. Regardless, many cancer patients, some dead and others alive, have drawn great strength from what Lance Armstrong has done […]

How to Choose a Vitamin

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I just read the latest nutritional supplement guide from Men’s Health magazine. A little overwhelmed  (or maybe underwhelmed) by it, I picked the brain of noted San Francisco nutritionist Natalie Ledesma with whom I worked to develop the Essential Beginnings system of supplements for conception, to learn more. Who Needs a Vitamin? Your body needs over […]

Fun Without Laughing

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The case of the month is a patient from The Turek Clinic. A 37 year-old man presented with his 35-year old wife describing a 2-year history of infertility. After trying for one year, the wife underwent medical evaluation that was normal. The couple then tried four cycles of intrauterine insemination (IUI) at UCSF, my old […]

Social Media Matters

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This is a guest blog post from colleague Jennifer Neeley, web strategist and professor of social media marketing at San Francisco State University. Before WebMD or Wikipedia, I worked at ABC-TV and helped bring the content from Dr. Dean Edell‘s HealthCentral.com into ABC websites. Honestly, it was largely because of Dr. Edell trustworthiness that ABC even considered […]

A Nobel Cell

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Take a piece of skin and turn it into a heart, some muscle or a bone or two. Pure fantasy? Not at all. Last week, the Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to two scientists who laid the groundwork for this to happen. The field of regenerative medicine is entering its teenage years. The Nobel Prize […]

A Piece of My Mind

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It was a welcome call from the Midwest: “Dr. Turek, thank you very much! We took your advice and it worked! My wife is pregnant.” Nice thing to hear from someone that I had never actually met. They had simply asked for my opinion. The first of many telemedicine pregnancies at The Turek Clinic. The […]

Sex and Biology 101

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When it comes to sex and your body, what is myth, what is magic, what is fantasy and what is true? Fancy yourself a know-it-all? Trying taking this quiz on male sexual biology and see how you do. The Mens’ Sexual Health Quiz Yup, the school year has started again. Time for a pop quiz. […]

Getting Off the Juice

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The case of the month is a patient of The Turek Clinic. This week, it highlights my recent lecture to the Northern California Chapter of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists in San Francisco (view presentation at the bottom of this post or on Slideshare). Addicted to Juice This 30-year old man is guessing that […]

Go Local, not Loco

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You’ve tried the triumvirate of pills for erectile dysfunction. Herbal remedies and over the counter concoctions haven’t helped. They either never worked or have stopped working. Frustration and sex are now good buddies. Time to get more creative about improving your morning wood. The Nature of Your Nature Much like a rocket, an erection is […]