HRV Unpacked: Wearables, Stress, Sleep & Actually Listening to Your Body - feat. Paul Buono

These Little Moments Podcast · Apr 1, 2026 · 1h 5m

We start this one where we always do — just talking. Paul's been dealing with some gastritis stuff, there's a caffeine situation, and somehow we end up in a whole conversation about cultural identity and name pronunciation. You know how it goes.

Then we get into something I've been wanting to dig into for a while: heart rate variability. HRV gets thrown around a lot in the health and fitness world, but most people either don't fully understand it or they're obsessing over daily numbers instead of looking at the bigger picture. We break down what HRV actually is, what it's measuring, and why…