{"id":152512,"date":"2025-06-02T16:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T16:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/152512\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T16:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T16:19:08","slug":"bryce-harper-on-clean-eating-the-value-of-tiktok-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/152512\/","title":{"rendered":"Bryce Harper on clean eating, the value of TikTok, and more"},"content":{"rendered":"

When the Phillies<\/a> open a series in Toronto this week, Bryce Harper<\/a> expects to be back in the lineup after a five-game absence with a bruised right elbow.<\/p>\n

But he\u2019s looking forward to something else, too: tiramisu.<\/p>\n

Harper is devoted to clean eating. He likes everything farm-raised and organic, not store-bought. He avoids seed oils and drinks raw milk and single-origin coffee. He partners with Just Ingredients, a Utah-based company that gets grass-fed whey protein from New Zealand. Among his favorite things, something that he said \u201cnobody knows about me,\u201d is baking bread with Kamut flour, which contains less gluten and more protein than regular wheat.<\/p>\n

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\u201cPeople kind of think it\u2019s a little crazy,\u201d Harper said, \u201cbut it works for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Harper has his indulgences, including tiramisu from his favorite place in Toronto. He recently joined Phillies Extra, the baseball show from The Inquirer, to discuss several topics, including his commitment to health and wellness. <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s an excerpt from our wide-ranging conversation, which has been edited for clarity and brevity.<\/p>\n

Watch the full interview below.<\/p>\n

Q: Can you describe your devotion to being all natural, to eating clean and why you do it?<\/p>\n

A<\/b>: I think obviously 2020 was a tough year for everybody. You didn\u2019t understand kind of what was going on. It was scary at the time. A lot of people were going through a lot of things. People were sick. So I thought to myself, \u2018What can we do to kind of be proactive in the situation?\u2019 Obviously there was not a ton of research about what was going on at the time. So, we kind of flipped the script and we\u2019re like, \u2018You know what, let\u2019s start eating better. Let\u2019s start looking at ingredients. Let\u2019s start looking at what we\u2019re putting into our bodies and our system. What can we do?\u2019 And so we went full blown granola, you could say. <\/p>\n

People kind of think it\u2019s a little crazy, but it works for me. It works for [his wife] Kayla, it works for my family, as well. We feel a difference. Obviously what works for me might not work for somebody else, so I\u2019ll never try to push it on anybody else. But I can let people know how I feel and what I feel on a daily basis. That\u2019s looking at ingredients, that\u2019s looking at certain things that you put into your system and put into your body, and that\u2019s a lot of back and forth. Like eating things [and saying] \u2018OK, I feel this way on this, I feel this way on this, let\u2019s stay away from that and let\u2019s be gung-ho on some other things.\u2019 Talking about holistic medicine and things like that.<\/p>\n

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My doctor out in Utah that I work with a lot \u2014 he went to Johns Hopkins, went through the whole route of being a really good doctor and everything else, and kind of went the other way and started doing holistic medicine. He\u2019s incredible. I do blood work every three months, understanding what my body is going through, what it\u2019s doing if I\u2019m going through sicknesses, if I have mold \u2014 all these things in your body. <\/p>\n

We travel so much that it can take a toll on you. Playing every single day, having kids, being up at night at 2, 3 o\u2019clock in the morning, how can I amplify my body and the way of my life, and feeling great every day going into it where my body doesn\u2019t feel so great because of the travel? So keeping track of all the things that I put into my system, keeping track of my sleep, keeping track of everything and trying to prolong what I can do on a baseball field but also prolong my life. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m not trying to live to 150 years old or anything like that, but it\u2019s just being able to play with my grandkids and being able to hang out with [his son] Krew as much as possible and \u2018go, go, go\u2019 with him because at 5-6 years old he is ready to roll every day. Dad has to put that cape on and do that, and I love doing that. So, I want to be able to do it to the full extent of my body and my mind and everything else.<\/p>\n

Q: You\u2019ve said you want to play into your 40s. You\u2019re only 32, so there\u2019s a long way to go. But when we talk about longevity in modern sports, Tom Brady is the gold standard. People have heard about his \u201cTB12 Method.\u201d If we had the \u201cBH3 Method,\u201d what would be some of the rules to live by? <\/p>\n

A<\/b>: I want this to be out there: What works for me might not work for somebody else. And so, the things that I do for myself, I believe in wholeheartedly, and somebody else might not do that, and that\u2019s OK. If somebody wants to eat Panda Express and do that, totally fine. I don\u2019t care. And I\u2019m not saying just Panda or whatever. But that\u2019s OK. That\u2019s fine. You do your thing. And if you\u2019re 80\/20 and you\u2019re 80% good and 20% bad, great. It\u2019s very, very hard to stay on the path every single day. And I get that, especially when I travel. But it became very easy for me to understand what places I want to eat at and where I want to go and things like that. <\/p>\n

TikTok has been a huge thing for me. Because I can find so many restaurants around the world or country that we\u2019re traveling to, and they\u2019re very hole-in-the-wall, mom-and-pop, and I love that. Your little mom-and-pop, eight-to-10-seats breakfast spots, lunch spots, things like that are so cool because you\u2019re able to really invest in the community of different cities or towns and really rely on local farming, local ingredients. Less ingredients is way better.<\/p>\n

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Seed oils is a big one for me. Trying to eat organic as much as possible. The only thing about organic ingredients and things like that is sometimes it\u2019s not the greatest, so you have to read the label. You have to understand what you\u2019re putting into your system. But if I can get a lot of things from local farming \u2014 Pennsylvania has such good local farming with Lancaster County being right there \u2014 so we get a lot of our dairy products and our egg products. Anything off the farm, that\u2019s what I want. They really understand, especially in Lancaster, how to treat their animals and the way they process their stuff and everything else. I do really good on beef. I love beef products, so my body amplifies when I eat beef. It really does. And so, for my blood work and everything else, I can see that. \u2026 <\/p>\n

I\u2019ll just give you something that I do in the morning. \u2026 I drink matcha in the morning, and I\u2019ll have a coffee in the afternoon. But in the morning, if I do like a beef meatball \u2014 I\u2019ll do those like throughout the week \u2014 or if I do ground beef in the morning, pasture-raised eggs, sourdough toast, and some avocado with some fruit. So it\u2019s just very simple, but it works for me. I love that type of food. People might be like, \u2018Well I like pancakes\u2019 and everything else. That\u2019s awesome. I love pancakes, too, but I know how I feel when I eat pancakes compared to what I eat with the breakfast that I do. And I love that type of food. <\/p>\n

I can kill my craving with fruit. Like honey, fruit, things like that. I really, really like that. And so I can kill cravings that way if I am craving something. But don\u2019t get me wrong, I love tiramisu, too. And so I\u2019m going to have that. \u2026 There\u2019s this place in Toronto that has an incredible tiramisu. And so, when I\u2019m in Toronto, no doubt, I\u2019m going to have some tiramisu. Is it good for me? Pr<\/p>\n

obably not. But I need that craving just a little bit so I can feel that and know, \u2018Hey, this is what I want.\u2019 <\/p>\n

And so, that\u2019s just certain things that I can kill my cravings on. But staying as on plane as much as I can, understanding that I feel great on certain foods when I don\u2019t feel good on other certain foods.<\/p>\n

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