June is Men's Health Month. It is the month for bringing awareness to men's health issues, so today we will be covering an important topic related to men's health. We will discuss what men need to be aware of about commercialized men's health clinics.

Over the past decade, there has been an increasing surge of low testosterone and erectile dysfunction clinics. Today, we are circling back to a previous interview with Dr. Jagan Kansal. It is a popular interview that Dr. Pohlman often directs his patients and friends to when they consider going to one of those clinics.

In the interview, Dr. Kansal covers the findings from a recent study describing the services provided at those stand-alone commercialized men's health clinics, as well as the providers administering the services. Those findings have been alarming for both urologists and consumers.

We are excited to bring this interview with one of the primary investigators from the recent study out of the vault. It has brought forward many concerns regarding those clinics, so be sure to stay tuned for more!

Dr. Kansal is currently concluding his fellowship training in men's sexual and reproductive health, at the Medical College of Wisconsin, in Milwaukee. He did his urology residency training at the University of Cincinnati. Soon, upon completion of his men's health fellowship, he will be leading the Men's Health Center at the DuPage Medical Group in DuPage County, Illinois, a multi-specialty group in Chicago. Be sure to tune in today to hear what Dr. Kansal has to say about the treatments and the providers administering them at these commercialized men's health clinics.

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Show highlights:

• Dr. Kansal discusses stand-alone, commercialized men's health clinics and some of the treatments that are being prescribed and administered in them.
• Education is a vital aspect of what Dr. Kansal is doing.
• Dr. Kansal describes the study looking into men's health clinics and explains how it was conducted.
• The kind of problems men were having with men's health clinics.
• Dr. Kansal explains how shockwave therapy works.
• The difference between shock waves and acoustic waves.
• What platelet-rich plasma (PRP) treatments are, and how they work.
• Dr. Kansal describes the types of providers administering the treatments at the commercialized clinics.
• The problems with injection therapy.
• What frustrates urologists about those men's health clinics.
• The costs of the treatments at the clinics are exorbitant.
• Dr. Kansal shares some of the findings of the testosterone therapy at the clinics.
• Not all men's health centers are bad.

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