spicy foods upset my stomach (I can eat them, but it has consequences).
Same. It sucks. My brothers have continually given me shit for decades for being a bitch that doesn't like spicy wings. I'm like "dudes, it's not that I don't enjoy the taste, it's that my stomach will literally cramp up 4 hours from now and I'll be shitting pain."
I can also measurable lower my heart rate by conscious effort alone
I read somewhere a while back that people can learn to do this with training and a visualization. If you have a heart rate monitor that shows different color shades depending on your rate, apparently people can learn focus on making the color turn green and lowering their heart rate.
I used to wonder why adults didn't run up the stairs. I figured adults must just be no fun and didn't want to look silly running upstairs.
So all throughout my childhood, teens, 20s, and 30s I would usually run up my stairs because it just felt natural. Then not too far into my 40s, my knee was just like "nope".
Now I have to walk upstairs, which is lame as hell.
I was just talking about that same comparison yesterday! There are some big business interests in keeping older industries going. Whether it's oil and gas, meat, or whatever. It takes a ton of political pressure over time to make change, but the truly biggest driver is cost. Once the alternative becomes cheaper, it will snowball.
At his first vet appointment, they thought they heard a heart murmur. So we had to do two follow up appointments and scans. Turned out he was just nervous at the vet.
It was 42 for me specifically. Good luck!