In this insightful podcast episode, Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander challenges the conventional view of aging and fitness. He introduces the concept of ‘psychological aging’ and explains why it’s the key to unlocking true longevity. Listen to the full episode and discover how to prioritize your internal health and well-being.

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This is a transcript from Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander who emphasizes that true wealth is great health, focusing on the importance of physical and mental well-being for men. Here’s a summary:

• Holistic Health:
  • Hakeem stresses the significance of regular physical activity (beyond just gym workouts), a clean diet, and minimal consumption of alcohol and addictive substances.
  • He measures success by health indicators like good sleep, strength, stamina, endurance, flexibility, and mobility.
• Mind-Body Connection:
  • He introduces the concept of “psychological aging,” arguing that one’s mindset and how they perceive their body significantly impact their physical health.
  • He believes that constant awareness of one’s body and health leads to better choices regarding diet and exercise.
• True Wealth vs. Superficial Appearance:
  • Hakeem criticizes the focus on superficial aesthetics, highlighting the difference between looking good and actually being healthy.
  • He argues that true health encompasses performance, endurance, and overall well-being, not just physical appearance.
  • He defines 4 types of aging, Chronological, Biological, Physiological, and the most important, Psychological.
• Combating Misinformation:
  • He aims to expose “fake c***” in the wellness and beauty industry, which prioritizes appearance over genuine health.
  • He advocates for a focus on internal health and functionality over external appearances achieved through artificial means.
• Longevity and Wellness:
  • He wishes to spread the message of healthy aging, and true longevity.

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Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (00:01) Men, if you’re exercising regularly and I don’t I mean only just going to the gym, but if you exposing your body to regular physical activity, whether that be walking doing calisthenics, playing some kind of sport going swimming riding your bike and you’re also paying attention. To what you’re putting into your body, the food that you eat, you know, for example, mainly staying away from junk food and a lot of the overprocessed stuff, looking at the ingredients and making sure that it’s minimalist and doesn’t have any of these questionable items in it that you have to.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (00:45) Use a Chemistry Dictionary to look up. And you know probably best to not drink alcohol. If you do keep it to a minimum and all that other type of addictive stuff, you’re on the top of your game, if you feel good, if you sleep well, if you, I feel it’s relatively strong if you have good stamina, endurance, you know flexibility mobility.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (01:13) And those are the real measures of your success is your health. One of my websites, which has been taken over by a bunch of robots. But they do provide some good hacks on it is exercising your mind.com and I started the website back in 2007 with the tagline wealth attraction research, and I thought that it was funny because it spelled out the word war.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (01:40) And it’s also one of the things that I felt was going on with people’s minds. Is that there’s a war going on when I looked at, uh, there was this. What’s that crazy guy who has that website, I don’t know if he still does it was called infowars and a prison planet, and I used to often say there are infowars.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (02:01) Being fought to keep humans on a prison planet, and in a lot of ways, and actually, that’s actually how I feel, because from the perspective of a clinical hypnotist, or a master hypnotist, having part of the degree from the hypnosis motivation institute in Tarzana, California, I recognize a lot of These things is big. The information that we get through so many different sources, as a war on the mind and it’s to keep people mediocre and people most people think that wealth is the stuff that they have and how much they can accumulate and show off in the clothes that they wear and the brands and the shoes and everything like that, and there are certain things.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (02:49) Of course that If you really understand a wealthy mind, some things will be important to you. And this is my opinion, but for example, I buy Toomey bags. But I only have you know probably like 10 of them altogether, uh, because of the fact that the first one that I ever got it was in 2000 and I still have it so the fact that it has such great quality that it’s lasted 20 years of regular use.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (03:20) I thought, okay, this brand to me is a good brand also cross pens, which also share a feature of the tubi bags because they stand behind their quality is that it has a lifetime warranty And so and they write really well and they have a great design and they feel good in your hand to some people who are probably in the know, those things might have some kind of status. But that’s not really why I continue to use those brands and again many of the cross pens that I have. If I haven’t lost them, which I usually don’t.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (03:54) I actually still have cross pens that I’ve had probably almost now 15 some of them almost 20 years now. And you know I have a bunch of them every once in a while, I’ll buy one just because I think that I really like the way it looks and I know the quality and I have a bunch of notebooks and things like that, which is another thing notebooks, you know I have like the moleskin. Notebooks or and then after a while I found ones that are similar.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (04:19) Which the quality was just as good and you know, really negligible. So I’m not really into that brand but that’s the point a lot of people get brands and stick to certain things like that and are really not probably not the best things that we should be choosing but to get back on point it. Really is about the true The wealth and so the website exercising your mind.com.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (04:48) Wealth attraction research. It is it says, you know, wealth attraction research and then the the sup, the title of that is great health, is the truest of all wealth and that’s the real point, and now that I’m 47 years old. And I have 20 something year olds coming up to me and saying, how can I get like you talking about, like?

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (05:14) It’s just the esthetic look of my body and I’m not a bodybuilder type. I don’t if I haven’t been to the gym to lift weight since December it is now March and uh, I do calisthenics, I do push-up some lunges and squats, and I crawl around and I do Kix and different things like that and I walk a lot. But for people to come up to me all the time about that, and then also to objectively know that I move better than a lot of people, even people who are in their 20s, that is the real wealth.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (05:51) Great health is the truest of all wealth and the reason why I know this is true objectively. It’s because a lot of people who Have money right with more money than me? There are a lot of billionaires and you know millionaires out there, okay, people like me a lot of money to help them get there control over.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (06:24) They’re physical bodies because they don’t feel good in them or feel like they don’t look good in their bodies. And so if people are willing to pay for that, you know that it’s a valuable asset and are some of them more aware of people in the health fitness and wellness industry, we’ll mostly talk about the the difference is in between chronological and biological aging. But that’s kind of a fad thing that’s going on now.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (07:01) And I understand it. But most of the time when you hear people talking about biological aging that you’ll hear things like that, people aging at different rates, you know, you’ll have 247-year-olds like myself and someone else, and the other guy that looks like a pile of dusty ash, and has just fallen apart in all kinds of ways whether it be because they’re Really overweight obese. Their skin looks bad like all kinds of stuff you know, they’re hunched over, or you know whatever and I’m not talking about people who have injuries or have suffered a disease or have been like combat veterans because those things take the toll on the body in a different way I’m talking.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (07:39) About a lot of the preventable stuff, because here I am, I’m not a mutant. I’m not an ex man unless I get a test and it shows that I am. You know that I had some kind of Wolverine powers.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (07:48) But um, because of the way that I’ve taken care of myself maintaining regular movement. And in being top of mind all the time, I understand that it comes from what I’ve been doing throughout time, you know time is one of the fundamentals of physics, right? We have space and time.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (08:08) End throughout time, which most people talk about chronological aging, which is true, that we’re all subject to that. There’s a couple of things that I think that are important mentioning. And I you know, and I’m not and I am asserting these things into this spectrum, this hierarchy you’ll normally hear, as I said before about Chronological aging and biological aging.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (08:33) And most of the time, biological aging is spoken of basically about esthetics, how people look. But I assert that the thing that influences biological aging more than the chronological aging, of course it can be argued when I say more then, but what I really mean is that’s something that heavily mitigates. The biological aging, the way that you look, but it’s also because it’s it has to do with internally, really biochemistry.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (09:03) But what really affects that is what I call psychological aging, it’s how you think about your body, for the example that I was using about myself, how it’s always top of mind. You know I’m looking at my body and right now I’m I have more fat on my body than I want to, and I can see it when I take videos and I’m talking, I’m like, oh, there’s a little bit of a rounding going underneath my chin there. I probably should do something big, it’s different, maybe up my calisthenics, or whatever it is, right.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (09:32) However, I haven’t lost my mobility or flexibility. And I’m still very active every day, although every once in a while, I know that it could be, because, for example I ate ice cream like 3 days in a row and that could be, it’s a part of it, but I don’t feel bad. I’m still sleeping well so on and so forth.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (09:49) But because it’s top of mind that happens throughout time, so there’s chronological aging and what happens throughout the time, as we’re growing through time is we are influenced by many different messages in our environment, which affects the way that we think and I call that psychological aging. And it is psychological aging that influence is mostly how you behave the things that you put into your body and how you move right? So what you eat basically and how you exercise and I’m just going to use exercise as a general term right for the way that we move, because it’s not just going.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (10:24) To the gym, it’s like I do all kinds of stuff besides calisthenics, I walk, I ride the bike. Sometimes you know, I do all kinds of things to stay active. Because that’s what fitness and health and wellness is really all about?

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (10:35) It’s regularly moving, rather than sitting around all day because your body gets conditioned to what you do and up, but this psychological aging, the way that you think about these things is what mainly influences your biological aging, and what I call physiological aging that mostly has to do with your mobility, having to do with your bones, joints and muscles right? The mobility You know, how can you, can you squat down what they call, like the Asian squat? You know, are you able to to touch your toes?

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (11:03) Like all these basic things, right, as I said in the beginning, if if you’re paying attention to these things, if you’re moving regularly, if you’re paying attention to what you put into your body reading ingredients on packages. You know, if you’re doing breathing meditation drinking lots of water getting food a lot, you know enough sleep. You know, maybe doing some static stretches here and there, although I don’t do a whole lot of them, but you know, for some things they’re important and sometimes they just feel really good.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (11:33) You’re ahead of the game and you should consider yourself. Really. I’m really fortunate that your psychological aging, the way that you’ve regarded your body and and throughout time, has it kept you mobile and supple and fit.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (11:50) And uh, and above a bunch of the fake c***, so there’s a bunch of fake c*** out there, which is what I’m going to finish up with. Is that you see a lot of stuff about biological aging talking about how the way people look, they’re esthetic. And that’s one thing, because you can go to the gym as an older guy.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (12:09) You know, I’m 47, you know, they consider us at this age, middle age, right, but you can go to the gym and you can take steroids. And you can put all kinds of creams and do this and that and get surgery and get fat sucked out of your body. You can look a certain way.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (12:22) Right, but what about your performance? What about your endurance? What about your mobility, right?

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (12:30) You’re in in your joints, you move around and everything like that. How about that. What about your sexual prowess in bed?

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (12:36) You know, especially, you know, a lot of guys so I’m single right, and so a few If you’re single and you want to date, right? What what’s it? What good is it, if you attract, uh, a mate, a girlfriend, a wife, and then you look really good, right, because that’s one thing that attracts people.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (12:57) But then you can’t perform, you’re not really able to function, you’re just like this bag of muscle. And it esthetically might look good, right, but but you can’t perform, you have no endurance, you can’t get it up. You know, this is also, this is not, this is not true health.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (13:14) This is not wealth and so my wealth attraction research is all about healthy aging, true, longevity, fitness and wellness and it’s beyond. Fake proxies, just the simple esthetics. And so this is something we’ll be talking about, more.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (13:37) There’s an elite group of us. They’re actually really taking care of ourselves. And we have to get the message out to people and expose a bunch of the fake c*** about people getting surgery and stuff sucked out of their body, and just looking this is the whole problem.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (13:49) With with what’s called wellness now and beauty and all that stuff like that is, people are wearing clothes and shoes and styling and hair and gels and makeup. And it has nothing to do what’s going on internally in their body, how they function and how they actually feel a lot of people. Aren’t functioning well and aren’t feeling good.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (14:08) And so this is what we have to address, so this is the 4 types of aging chronological aging, psychological aging, which directly influences biological and physiological aging.