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LAS VEGAS — A Las Vegas tightwad is selling one of his testicles for $35,000.

Mark Parisi — who makes and saves money from participating in medical trials — will be featured in Wednesday’s episode of TLC’s Extreme Cheapskates.

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The man will lose a testicle and it will be replaced with a prosthesis.

“You go in and you donate one of your testicles, they replace it with an artificial one and when you check out after 14 days you get a cheque for $35,000,” Parisi said, adding he was “anxious” and “excited.”

Parisi has taken part in a number of medical studies for cash and to save an estimated $700 in doctor’s fees for the free checkups.

Once he was paid $5,000 to take part in a study involving the deadly Ebola virus.

“Everyone was panicked when my friend and I did this study. Never tested on humans or animals before,” he said. “It’s $5,000 for a week, so why would I not do it?”

Among the man’s project wishes is to take part in a flatline medical experiment. That one would involve stopping his heart but authorities have put the study on hold.

“What they do is they stop your heart for one minute, but you still breathe. Stay there 14 days, pays $25,000. But the FDA stepped in and stopped that,” Parisi said.

The tight-fisted Parisi even takes his medical scrubs home.

“When I was doing clinical trials, I would take a pair home, I would use them for daily work, exercise and for doing other clinical trials,” he said.