A One-Line Promise Against An Invisible Age

Jochen Seipel’s Biohacker Summit Pitch Framed 5G And EMF Exposure As A Mounting Health Crisis, With Vivobase Offered As The Shield

At the Biohacker Summit in Helsinki on 3 July 2024, Jochen Seipel took to the stage with a message calibrated for an anxious, hyperconnected age: the modern human body, he argued, had become a kind of unwilling antenna.

Seipel, an electrical engineer and founder of Vivobase, presented his talk, 5G+ (EMF) - Potential Impact On Human Health, as both warning and solution. Wireless infrastructure was expanding, particularly in cities such as Helsinki, he said, while the biological cost of electromagnetic field exposure remained underestimated, dismissed or ignored.

His central claim was stark. “EMFs destroy our natural field, creating stress in the body, reducing skin resistance,” Seipel told the audience.

A Theory Of Modern Stress

The presentation rested on a sweeping interpretation of electromagnetic exposure. According to Seipel, technical frequencies had overlaid the Earth’s natural field, leaving humans, animals and plants increasingly disconnected from the conditions in which life evolved.

That disconnection, he suggested, translated into physiological stress. Lower skin resistance meant greater current exposure. Greater current exposure meant a body less able to defend itself.

He linked rising electromagnetic radiation levels with a reported increase in electrosensitivity, pointing to symptoms that included headaches, insomnia, fatigue, dizziness and difficulty concentrating. “We are walking antennas for electromagnetic radiations because we are full of water, and water is the best antenna,” he said.

In Seipel’s framing, the body’s water-rich tissues made it especially vulnerable. The brain, eyes, blood and organs, he noted, all contained high water content, which he said rendered them susceptible to microwave-driven disruption.

From Oxidative Stress To Burnout

Seipel’s argument moved from physics into cellular biology. Electromagnetic radiation, he said, could interfere with voltage-gated calcium channels, allowing calcium ions to flood into cells. This, in turn, could trigger oxidative stress and damaging biochemical cascades.

“Electromagnetic radiation causes oxidative damage in your cells, even at low doses,” he said.

He connected those processes to long-term nervous system strain, disturbed sleep, hormonal dysfunction, chronic inflammation and, ultimately, severe disease. His remarks drew on years of collaboration, he said, with Dr Siegfried Rilling, the German physician known for non-toxic cancer treatment and a formative influence on Seipel’s work.

The presentation made clear that this was not merely a consumer technology pitch. It was an attempt to recast electromagnetic exposure as a foundational environmental health threat.

The Vivobase Answer

The remedy Seipel offered was Vivobase, a line of devices designed, he said, to recreate a protective “natural field” around the body. These products, ranging from personal mobile units to home systems, purportedly increased skin resistance and reduced what he called the body’s “antenna function”.

“Vivobase creates a natural field, increasing skin resistance and reflecting electromagnetic radiation,” he said.

In practical terms, he described the technology as generating “spherics”, a broad-spectrum atmospheric signal associated with natural thunderstorms and the Schumann resonance. By restoring this field, he argued, electromagnetic radiation would be reflected at the skin rather than absorbed into the body.

The language was part engineering, part metaphysics, part wellness vernacular. Seipel described himself, with a smile, as a “spiritual electro engineer”.

Audience Curiosity, Skepticism And Hope

If Seipel’s talk struck a nerve, the extended question-and-answer session showed why. Audience members pressed him on cost, mechanism, evidence, placebo-controlled trials and competing devices already circulating through the biohacking marketplace.

He said Vivobase home units sold for around €400, with mobile versions priced at €230. He insisted the devices did not “neutralize” radiation in the environment, but instead restored the body’s ability to resist it.

“We need to go back to the roots, increase our resistance in the skin, so we are free from electromagnetic radiation,” he said.

Questions ranged beyond product design into civilisational anxiety. Should humanity build better shielding technologies, some asked, or slow its technological expansion altogether? What happened when higher-frequency systems such as 6G and 7G moved beyond the body and into what one attendee called “mind hacking and spirit hacking”?

Seipel’s answer was cautious but telling: both technological restraint and better protection would be needed.

A Familiar Biohacker Tension

What emerged in Helsinki was more than a talk about EMF. It was a microcosm of the biohacker movement’s enduring tension between fear of modern systems and faith in technical self-defence.

Seipel, whose background spans electrical engineering, health entrepreneurship and electromagnetic mitigation, embodied that contradiction neatly. He challenged the safety assumptions behind wireless society while offering a purchasable layer of personal resilience within it.

For believers, the appeal was obvious. A hidden threat had been named, mapped and met with a device. For skeptics, the presentation raised harder questions about causality, standards of evidence and the market value of invisible protection.

Yet the room’s energy suggested that Seipel had tapped into something real, whether or not one accepted every scientific claim. In a world saturated by signals few can see and fewer can explain, certainty itself has become a premium product.

At the Biohacker Summit, Jochen Seipel did not merely describe electromagnetic vulnerability. He sold the possibility that the body, with a little technological help, might still push back.

Frequently asked questions

What is Jochen Seipel's argument about EMF exposure?

That technical frequencies have overlaid the Earth's natural field, leaving humans, animals and plants disconnected from the conditions in which life evolved. In his account that disconnection becomes physiological stress: lower skin resistance means greater current exposure, and the body behaves increasingly like an antenna.

What mechanism does he propose?

Seipel argued that electromagnetic radiation can interfere with voltage-gated calcium channels, allowing calcium ions to flood into cells and triggering oxidative stress and damaging biochemical cascades. Electromagnetic radiation causes oxidative damage in your cells even at low doses, he told the summit.

What does Vivobase claim to do?

Seipel, an electrical engineer and founder of Vivobase, presented a line of devices from personal mobile units to home systems that he said recreate a protective natural field around the body, increasing skin resistance and reducing what he called the body's antenna function. Audience members pressed him on cost, mechanism and placebo-controlled evidence.

About the event

This recap is part of the Biohacker Summit 2024 Helsinki series, recorded in Helsinki on 2 and 3 July 2024. Read the summary of the whole event or join the next edition, HOLOLIFE Summit 2026 Amsterdam, on 14 and 15 November 2026.