139: How to Make Aging Optional with Simple & Fundamental Health Truths with Dr. Steven Gabriel

Aug 29, 2025

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All humans have a psychological glitch that’s detrimental to your health. It speeds up aging, makes the number on your scale tick up, and causes you to overlook the fundamental health truths that result in 90% of your health.

The glitch?

The complexity bias, which means that humans prefer the complex to the simple.

When it comes to your health, this explains you’re naturally attracted to the latest biohacking technique instead of the “boring” fundamentals. Your brain is wired that way.

That’s why I invited Dr. Steven Gabriel onto today’s show. He spent 20 years working as an ER doctor and did his fellowship in anti-aging and regenerative medicine. Not only has he seen what disobeying the fundamental health truths does to your body and health, but he also talks in a way that makes simple and even obvious concepts actually “stick” in your psyche.

Or, in other words, he bypasses the complexity bias that makes health harder to achieve.

Dr. Gabriel and I cover a ton of bases in this episode including exercise, sleep, and nutrition. And he reveals the simplest ways to make aging optional by focusing on the few fundamental health truths.

Dr. Steven also shares:

How to improve your health today and tomorrow by acting more like a child
Why approaching your body like it’s a car makes it easier to live healthier
Dr. Gabriel’s almost-too-simple strategies for anti-aging (don’t let the “complexity bias glitch” make you overlook and ignore the simplicity)

Other highlights from the show include:

An ER doctor explains how disease spreads its tentacles in your body decades before it manifests as symptoms (even for serious ones like heart attacks and dementia) (2:56)
The 6 “Elements of Life” that, once optimized, help you feel like you’re 20 years old again (4:25)
How the natural isolation that happens as you grow older makes you age faster (6:22)
Have you been confused by the phrase “cellular optimization?” A doctor breaks down what this REALLY means at (9:36)
9 specific causes of aging for the human body and what you can do to slow it down (11:48)
The #1 healthiest thing you can do according to a physician with 20 years experience in an ER and who did his fellowship in anti-aging and regenerative medicine (23:48)
Why becoming breathless makes your body do everything better (28:14)
The scientific reason why the type of exercise you do does NOT matter (32:53)
The weird way eating every few hours stresses the body out (and why taking a break from eating, a la intermittent fasting, improves health in ways you might not realize) (37:09)
How to eat fewer lab-designed foods that hijack your taste buds and satiety signals by doing nothing other than listening to Dr. Garbiel speak at (41:02)
Why things grown in the ground like berries and veggies are the best foods to repair the body (they decrease oxidation, inflammation, the formation of cancers, and even help unclog arteries) (42:43)
The 4 Staples of Health according to an anti-aging doctor (48:51)

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Resources mentioned on this episode:

1. If you’d like to learn more about Dr. Gabriel’s “Make Aging Optional" approach, visit his website: https://drsg.co/

2. Or, you can follow him on Instagram @drstevengabriel