Paul Turek
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But if you heat up the testicle, it's also close to the skin. So it's a radiator. So when the heat comes down the arterial blood, it has to cool. So it raises and lowers. And there was an article in the Journal of Irreproducible Results about 20 years ago. A man went to Big Sur and wore nothing. And he measured ambient temperature.
And then he marked on his leg with a marker where his scrotum hung, how low it hung. And he could tell the ambient temperature by how high or low his scrotum hung. He became a thermometer. So it does go up and down. Is that Peter or Tia Laffick? Journal of Irreproducible Results. Oh, God. Really cool. But it showed that it's very temperature sensitive.
And it goes up and down to regulate it closer to the body when you want it warmer, et cetera. You go into a cold shower or a plunge, where are your testicles? They're way up there. In my abdomen, yeah. And that's all the cremasteric muscle and it's all temperature driven. So it spends all of its time regulating its temperature to stay at 95%.
Now, saunas, baths, hot tubs, jacuzzis, steam rooms, change that. The worst one of those is anything underwater, submerging underwater, because you're one centimeter away, you're a liquid, it's a liquid, you're going to turn that temperature, maybe not the inner part of your body, but little kids going into hot tubs, right?
So I did a study, published it in the Brazilian Journal of Urology. I published 200 studies. This was the hardest one to get in. Everyone said, we know that it affects fertility, so we're not going to publish it. So I went into Brazilian Journal of Urology. It then went to the New York Times as a press release. That's how popular it was.
It's probably my most cited paper ever, and it's certainly not my best. It's very interesting. I took infertile men with low sperm counts and stopped the tubs. They were in hot baths. I used the word jacuzzi. Jacuzzi called me up and said, stop. Don't use that word. So I don't use that word. So hot baths or tubs. And I told them out and they went up 300%. Semen quality went up 300%.
Total mold count in three months or four months and 600% in six months. They have to give us some time. And that's that curve, the recovery curve. And we didn't look at fertility. We just looked at that recovery. And some men were zero and went up to close to normal.
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Interesting. So it's motility that the price- Then I calculated after that, I calculated a lethal dose of tubbing. So what's the lethal dose?
Yeah. So lethal dose to me means you're zero. You do it enough, you have no sperm. And it came out to be 20 minutes of a hot bath or a tub, 20 minutes, 104 degrees, three times a week would probably make you zero.
And interesting, the largest group of people in tubs in Northern California who did the study were environmental lawyers. Is your job that stressful? I said, yeah, it is. I mean, it probably is in California. All right.
So the only study ever done prior to that was a PhD thesis at Vassar College where someone had a guy dip their testicles into a bucket for 20 minutes at really hot and looked at their sperm counts or their fertility. And they went, that was the only, and I couldn't even find it, it wasn't published. You had to figure out this thesis thing. But that's how little was written about it.
And they gave me so much flack for publishing this. It was really funny. And the New York Times had an article said, drew a condom and it drew birth control pills and it drew a guy in a tub. It's like, pick your contraceptive. So it's huge. I'd say 10% of my population's in it. And then the next question is, what about saunas? So saunas is not underwater. It's not submersion.
But saunas are, you're in a hot room. It's going to affect it. And I would say the effect is one quarter to one third as profound as a hot bath or submersion.
Yeah. And then I would say steam rooms, showers are probably fine. Urine and ambient temperature is normal. And I think steam rooms are probably between saunas and depends how much time you spend, but it's probably not normal, but not a hot bath. Hot baths are terrible. Okay. And then what about the cold? I don't worry about cold.
I remember Surfer Magazine called me and said, I'm a Northern California surfer, right? Not an LA surfer. The editor of Surfer Magazine called me and said, are surfers infertile? I said, is that water bad for them? Because California water is 60 degrees. I said, no, I've never met an infertile surfer. So I don't think it's bad at all. All right. So the cold is okay.
Especially plunge where you're talking seconds. Yeah, yeah. You know, your testicles are going to go up and you're going to be able to maintain that heat. I think if you did it All the time, it would probably be bad, yeah. Because enzymes work in the testicle at that one temperature.
I have old vintage bikes that I used to race in Connecticut and I had them rehabbed and they're all Italian and they're all steel and they weigh a ton. And the seats are from Britain and they've got 10,000 miles on them and they weigh four pounds as much as like- It's just like a Brooks saddle, these Brooks leather saddles.
And you know, all worked out and it's like, That saddle nowadays is about half the weight of a carbon bike. But I love it. And I was thinking of maybe going senior league and doing this gorgeous steel frames and trying to keep up with those guys. Because it's not about the bike, really. It's like when you get golf clubs. And I got $150 set of golf clubs.
I'm going to be as bad a golfer with $1,000 club as 100. So it's really about the biker. But there are some differences, you know, in terms of momentum and the wheel force and all that. But I love my old steel bikes. And they see this. It's like I hang at my office when I come to work in the morning and I bike in San Francisco. And I have the seat. It's like, that's a bad saddle.
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