>>47250030how spicy you perceive any food to be is exclusively determined by what you're used to.
If you want to have a consistent level of hotness in your food you need to regularly increase the level of spice in your food, like how a drug addict needs stronger doses for the same high.
It doesn't explain why they eat spicy food in the first place, but it does explain how they can get so high tolerance to spicy food.