Cool @ultratrain!
My husband and I have also just retired. Like you, we right-sized our housing. (We’re living in 850 sq/ft but stationary).
I am like your wife. I have never used pharmaceutical treatment, instead corrected my eating lifestyle and use herbs...mostly cannabis. That has allowed me to stay able. (I have MS, but all autoimmune diseases and inflammatory conditions start with a damaged gut wall lining, so it’s critical to repair it and not keep damaging it with the food a person chooses to eat.)
Peppers actually should be removed of their skin, seeds and cooked before consumption because of their high lectin load. Lectins damage and drive inflammation sky high.
Dr. Gundry’s work helped me a great deal and I am more than happy to share. ;)