Dr. Turek's Blog

How Are Stem Cells Like Wine Grapes?

Posted on May 27, 2009 by Paul Turek, MD

Silicon Valley started in a small garage across the way from Stanford University by one man named Hewlett and another named Packard. There’s an historic plaque on that garage now, and a worldwide industry surrounds it. Stem cell research has just as much potential. Last week, I mentioned that I was a believer, that I […]

Stem Cells, Snake Oil and You

Posted on May 18, 2009 by Paul Turek, MD

We’re way past bottled snake venom now. The new miracle medical cure lies deep within us, in our stem cells, if we can only figure out how to tap into them. 100 days into President Obama’s term, and it seems that the scientific community here in the U.S. might just be getting the fuel it […]

Ramirez: A Lesson in Steroid Biology

Posted on May 12, 2009 by Paul Turek, MD

When a record-breaking athlete gets caught for doping, it’s not news anymore. It shouldn’t be. People have been taking drugs to increase physical prowess since ancient times. We’ve recently seen it with Barry Bonds, Jason Giambi, and now LA Dodger’s star Manny Ramirez, whose urine tested positive for a medication on MLB’s banned substance list. […]

No Sex? Get Some Sleep!

Posted on May 1, 2009 by Paul Turek, MD

As a men’s health specialist, I get to hear a lot of things that men wouldn’t tell their best friends. And a very common occurrence is their confession that they have lost some of their sex drive. “My partner is great and I used to want sex ALL the time, now it barely enters my […]

The Vasectomy Hoopla & Economic Downturns

Posted on April 20, 2009 by Paul Turek, MD

These are times fraught with uncertainty. A sunny day isn’t just a sunny day anymore: it’s also evidence of global warming. America has been at war for almost a decade, trusted financial institutions are folding and our economy appears to be on the verge of collapse. It seems only natural that people would look at […]

Spring, Bicycling, Sex and You

Posted on April 13, 2009 by Paul Turek, MD

, a coming-of-age film filled with dreamy Italian bicycles. With the extra money I earned mowing lawns, I bought a beautiful Raleigh racing bike with gorgeous Italian gears and toured rural New England, feeling like I was one of the scrappy townies in the movie. And so my love affair with bicycles began. It took […]

Men, Oysters and Sex

Posted on April 7, 2009 by Paul Turek, MD

The eating of an oyster is a tale of seduction. Crack open its rocklike shell at its most fragile point and it gives easily, revealing the delicate tissue at its heart. Eat it raw and it tastes of the soul of the ocean that made it. To many, it’s food pornography. An aphrodisiac. But oysters […]

Once Upon a Time in Barcelona

Posted on March 26, 2009 by Paul Turek, MD

While in Barcelona recently, meandering through the Parc Guell and Sagrada Familia, the weight of what happened earlier that day hit me. I reveled, as anyone might, in the outlandish works of Gaudi, but a part of me remained sober, due to my participation in a debate at a men’s health conference. By the end […]

What we found: Male infertility and Cancer

Posted on March 19, 2009 by Paul Turek, MD

So what did we find? The study showed that men who are infertile have a much higher risk (3 times) of developing testis cancer later in life than the average citizen. And this was based on some serious number crunching. We worked from a huge database of over 51,000 infertile couples who sought care over […]