Biohacking Your Genital Area for Longevity and Health
Veli-Jussi Jalkanen (FIN)
Health Inventor, Chair @ Salli Systems
Mr. Veli-Jussi Jalkanen is a health inventor, CAM and sitting health specialist. He has logically spread out sitting optimization to comprehend the whole physical working environment and started to think ergonomics as optimization of micro and macro circulation of the lymph and blood. Salli Concept includes awareness, furniture, their optimal use, sitting friendly clothing and body activity in numerous ways including PDNF, hormones and the electromagnetic body.
This talk explores the critical, often-neglected link between daily sitting habits
The third most used body part in working besides the eyes and brain is your butt. We need to know exactly how to improve its physiology and conditions to ensure that our genital health and sexuality are protected for longevity.
Summary
- Traditional tight clothing and underwear restrict lymphatic flow and circulation; shifting to loose-fitting attire or no underwear improves energy, focus, and overall comfort.
- Standard chairs exert excessive pressure on pelvic soft tissues, which can lead to nerve damage, numbness, and reduced sexual sensation in both men and women.
- Male genital health requires a specific temperature of 33°C; tight trousers and padded seats raise temperatures, potentially lowering testosterone and increasing prostate cancer risks.
- Weak pelvic floor muscles contribute to conditions like stress incontinence and organ prolapse, but active sitting habits and regular exercises can maintain their strength and function.
- Utilizing divided saddle chairs eliminates genital pressure, while standing up hourly and practicing pelvic floor exercises restores circulation and maintains long-term reproductive health.
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Biohacking Your Genital Area For Longevity & Health
At Biohacker Summit 2017 Stockholm, Veli-Jussi Jalkanen Made An Unflinching Case Against The Modern Chair
It was the sort of talk that could only thrive at an event like **Biohacker Summit 2017 Stockholm**, where the frontier between wellness, self-experimentation and provocation was deliberately porous. On **19 May 2017 in Stockholm, Sweden**, **Veli-Jussi Jalkanen**, the Finnish health inventor and chair of Salli Systems, stepped onto the stage with a title that all but guaranteed discomfort, laughter and curiosity in equal measure: **“Biohacking Your Genital Area for Longevity and Health.”**
What followed was not a joke, though Jalkanen delivered it with flashes of mischief. It was a sustained argument that one of the most neglected determinants of long-term health sat, quite literally, beneath us. His target was the modern habit of prolonged sitting on conventional chairs, tightened further by restrictive clothing, padded seats and a culture too embarrassed to speak plainly about the pelvis.
“There is too little sex in the world, and it is bad for health,” Jalkanen said. “We must realize that genital health is strongly connected with sexuality and the way we sit every single day.”
The Body’s Most Ignored Geography
Jalkanen’s presentation rested on a simple, disquieting proposition: people knew remarkably little about the pelvic region despite relying on it for circulation, continence, reproduction and sexual function. The pelvis, he argued, had been reduced to an afterthought of office life, compressed for hours each day under the dead weight of modern work.
“The pelvic structure is one of the most complicated parts of the body, yet we are totally ignorant of it,” he said. “We are neglecting this area simply because we are uncomfortable talking about genitals.”
For Jalkanen, this ignorance had consequences. Standard chairs, he said, placed constant pressure on pelvic vessels and nerves, altering temperature, humidity and blood flow. In both men and women, that pressure could dull sensation, disrupt circulation and gradually weaken structures that depended on regular movement and relief.
His language was often dramatic, but his broader theme was clear: sedentary life had been designed with productivity in mind, not physiology.
Why Sitting Became A Public Health Problem
The real scandal in Jalkanen’s telling was not merely that people sat too much, but that they sat badly, passively and for too long. Standard office chairs, in his view, compressed soft tissue across the pelvic floor and genital region in ways the body was never built to tolerate for twelve to sixteen hours a day.
He described the result as a form of tissue starvation, where blood and lymphatic flow were impeded by pressure and heat. The chair, that most ordinary object of professional life, emerged in his presentation as an instrument of chronic low-grade harm.
His proposed remedy was equally specific: **split-seat saddle chairs**, looser garments, better ventilation, regular standing breaks and pelvic floor exercises. The point was not simply comfort. It was circulation.
“You should not have any marks on your skin when you undress for bed,” Jalkanen said. “Pay attention to clothing and sitting because we do those things for up to sixteen hours a day, and circulation is vital.”
The Male Body Under Pressure
A large share of Jalkanen’s warning focused on male reproductive health. He argued that tight trousers, underwear and padded seats raised the temperature of the testicles beyond their optimal operating level. According to the framework he laid out, male genital health depended on maintaining roughly **33°C**, a threshold he described as critical for sperm production and testosterone regulation.
In his account, nature had already solved the problem by placing the testicles outside the body. Modern clothing, however, undid that solution. Tight fabrics pressed the genitals inward, trapped heat and erased the body’s natural cooling mechanisms.
He linked those conditions to reduced sperm quality, impaired testosterone production and broader deterioration in male vitality. He also turned to the prostate, describing it as another vulnerable organ in a compressed pelvic “bowl” crowded with critical tissues and structures.
The cumulative effect of his argument was stark: what men considered normal workwear and normal sitting might be undermining sexual health, hormonal balance and long-term resilience without their noticing until much later.
The Female Cost Of “Good Posture”
If men were overheating and compressing sensitive structures, women, Jalkanen argued, were often harming themselves in the very act of trying to sit correctly on standard chairs. In a conventional upright posture, he said, the vulva could be pressed against the pubic bone, trapping delicate soft tissue and nerves between bone and seat.
He pointed to numbness observed in female cyclists as evidence that repeated pressure on the genital region could have lasting sensory consequences. More broadly, he argued that weak pelvic floor muscles, made worse by inactive sitting, contributed to stress incontinence, urethral instability and uterine prolapse.
This was where his presentation became bluntly anatomical. He described common but often hidden female health problems not to shock for the sake of shock, but to insist that embarrassment itself had become a barrier to prevention.
“If sitting is active and activates the pelvic area, you can maintain your pelvic floor muscles in good condition,” he said. “Avoid sloppy sitting to protect your long-term health and vitality.”
A Testimony From The Stage
The presentation did not belong to Jalkanen alone. He was joined by **Emilia**, a Norway-based medical student, who described how she had changed her own habits after conversations with him about anatomy, clothing and sitting.
Her account gave the session an experiential anchor that theory alone could not provide. She spoke of moving gradually toward looser trousers, skirts and seamless underwear, and eventually toward wearing as little restrictive clothing as possible. The change, she said, left her feeling less drained, less constrained and more focused during the day.
What mattered in her telling was not merely ideology but sensation. The body, once relieved of constant compression, seemed to register the difference immediately.
It was a striking moment in a talk otherwise heavy with warnings: a reminder that biohacking often begins not with gadgets or biomarkers, but with noticing what the body has been forced to endure and what changes when that burden is removed.
The Argument For Looseness, Motion And Ventilation
Jalkanen’s practical advice was repetitive by design. Loose, seamless clothing. No constricting waistbands or tight underwear. Better air circulation around the genitals. Standing up at least once every hour. Pelvic floor exercises for both men and women. Chairs that transferred weight to the sit bones while leaving the middle clear of pressure.
For women, he suggested wide skirts or dresses that allowed a spread-leg sitting position and reduced pressure on the vulvar area. For men, he went further, questioning the need for underwear at all if hygiene could be maintained by washing after toileting. He also cited supplements such as vitamin D and selenium as supportive measures, though these sat at the margins of his wider case.
The core message never changed: pressure and heat were the enemy, circulation the prize.
“Get up at least once an hour to get your circulation going,” he said. “No matter how well you sit, you still need motion and pelvic floor exercises to improve your physical health and maintain your vitality.”
More Than Provocation
It would have been easy to dismiss the session as a theatrical outlier, one of those knowingly eccentric talks that conferences use to jolt attendees awake. Yet that would miss what made it memorable. Jalkanen was not only trying to scandalise a room. He was trying to force a conversation that modern life had made strangely difficult.
In offices, on trains, at desks, in cars, the body’s most sensitive terrain was routinely compressed into silence. We could discuss sleep, posture, metabolism and productivity with scientific solemnity, but the moment the conversation moved toward genitals, pelvic nerves or sexual sensation, discomfort took over. Jalkanen’s presentation challenged that reflex.
At **Biohacker Summit 2017 Stockholm**, **Veli-Jussi Jalkanen** made the case that longevity was not only about what people ate, tracked or supplemented. It was also about where pressure accumulated, where circulation failed and where shame prevented honesty. His lecture may have drawn uneasy smiles, but beneath the provocation sat an unmistakably modern question: what else had everyday convenience taught us to ignore until the body finally objected?
Part of Biohacker Summit 2017 Stockholm