The fall season ushers in many favorite things: cooler temperatures, football season, outdoor activities like hiking and camping, and one not-so-favorite thing – the flu. While you can’t keep the flu from invading your space, what you can and should do is protect yourself from flu by getting your flu vaccination this year and every...Continue reading
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Hidden Dangers of the Paleolithic Diet
The Paleolithic diet and its imitators make an assertion that the reason why modern people is so fat and unhealthy is that the food we eat is bad for us, unsuited to the body that our ancestors evolved by consuming the foods they enjoyed during primitive times. But there’s an important fact they don’t put...Continue reading
Sick of Snoring? Understand Your Treatment Options
A man in Idaho recently tried to perform his own sinus surgery. He had been told he needed sinus surgery to stop snoring, and when he realized he couldn’t possibly afford the procedure, he decided to do it himself. He drank hard for a week straight, then inserted straws in his nose and hit himself in...Continue reading
Non-Surgical Treatment Options For External Hemorrhoids
While it may be an uncomfortable topic, hemorrhoids can be a problem for men of all ages. More than half of people over the age of 50 experience hemorrhoids at some point in their life. This painful condition is often characterized by anal discomfort and bleeding. Men suffering from constipation or dehydration, particularly those who...Continue reading
Opening up the Can-Troversy: Are Canned Foods Bad for You?
These days, it’s one of the most persistent messages we get from the healthfood side of the spectrum. Avoid canned food. Avoid processed food. Eat fresh food. It would be a lot easier to accept this as true if they weren’t simultaneously trying to hawk their very expensive alternative foods and ingredients. So what’s the...Continue reading
Playing the Genetic Cards You’re Dealt
The case of the month is an actual patient of The Turek Clinic. It’s unbelievable how your genes, those tiny little chunks of DNA that make you who you are, can be sources of both delight and despair in life. Azoospermic Angst My lovely patient was trying to conceive for several years. Upon evaluation, he was found to be...Continue reading
Shooting Straight After Vasectomy Reversal
What we do for love! You had a vasectomy knowing that, without a doubt, more kids were not a part of your future. Yet now, here you are, looking to have more rug rats. And this comes right after spending gobs of time and money sorting out the four C’s of the diamond ring thing. The Fork...Continue reading
Can Marriage Make You Healthier? Could Be
As those of us who work in men’s health know, one of the biggest obstacles keeping men from being as healthy as they could be is their overall reluctance to see a medical professional, whether that’s for regular, preventive care, or for an actual problem. When asked why they’re so resistant, men have a lot...Continue reading
The Anatomy of the Ejaculate
Here’s a million dollar question: From whence does the ejaculate come? The word “semen” is actually Latin, derived from “cemani” meaning “juice.” Great, Doc, but where does the juice actually come from? A Complex Sauce Fluids from several different body organs mix and mingle before being expelled as ejaculate. The much-maligned prostate, a reliable cause of urination issues with age,...Continue reading
Simple Things You Can Do To Reduce Your Cancer Risk
When it comes to cancer, there’s not a lot of good news out there. It’s an anxiety-inducing and often terrifying subject to discuss, and we tend to think of cancer as both inevitable and fatal. But thanks to some significant scientific advancements, we know that neither of those things is necessarily true anymore. In fact, the...Continue reading