5 things we learned about Taylor Swift’s health and wellness habits from ‘New Heights’ podcast

Taylor Swift just appeared on New Heights with her boyfriend and show co-host Travis Kelce.
During the two-hour recording, Taylor shared all kinds of health and wellness tidbits from herself and her loved ones.
Here’s everything you need to know, from her post-tour recovery tactics to her new baking obsession.

The world is still reeling from Taylor Swift’s viral appearance on her boyfriend Travis Kelce’s podcast, New Heights, on Wednesday, where she not only announced a new album (!) coming out in October, but also shared lots of insider details about her life and career. It was fun, it was super insightful, and it might have been the longest anyone has ever heard the pop star speak in public. In short, it was all kinds of magical.

And while the 35-year-old talked a lot about random things (like her current obsession with making sourdough and supporting Travis’ quest to adopt a wild otter), she also dropped plenty of health and wellness nuggets from her life and her loved ones. From her tour recovery, to her dad’s health conditions, and new favorite food, Taylor was super open.

Here is everything we learned about Taylor’s health on the podcast episode.

She has had Lasik eye surgery
Taylor casually threw in that nugget while talking about seeing the traditions her fans started doing in the audience during the Eras tour. “I’ve had Lasik,” she said. This actually isn’t new news: Taylor previously shared information about her surgery in October of 2019 on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, even revealing video of her groggy self that her mum filmed post-surgery.

Apparently those surgical results are holding strong nearly six years later, because Taylor shared that she could see plenty from the audience during her tour.

However, you should know that LASIK can come with some pretty serious side effects. Women’s Health previously reported that up to 75 percent of patients complained of chronic dry eye at least four years later, according to a 2025 study in Ophthalmic Research. And between 10.5 and 13.3 percent of patients experience chronic neuropathic corneal pain, which is a condition where the brain sends pain signals to the eye, one year after LASIK or similar surgeries, according to a study published this year in the British Journal of Ophthalmology. It’s possible patients may develop visual distortions like glare, halos, starbursts, and double vision, according to the FDA.

But so far, so good for Taylor.

She’s currently obsessed with baking sourdough loaves
In case you weren’t aware, Tay’s big into baking. And on the episode, Taylor spoke a lot about her latest baking obsession post-Eras Tour—sourdough bread—pointing out that she reads recipe blogs and has gotten Travis involved with the stretch-and-folds portion. She walked co-host Jason Kelce through all of the sourdough variations she’s tried so far (cinnamon swirl or blueberry lemon, anyone?) and even revealed that she’s workshopping a “Funfetti” sourdough for Travis’ nieces, because they love rainbows. “Right now, we’re very deep in a sourdough obsession that has taken over my life,” she said on the episode. “I’m talking about bread 60 percent of the time now.”

Travis loves the bread, of course, and Taylor shared that she sent him two loaves of sourdough when he was at training camp.

She used toe spacers and an acupuncture mat to recover from her shows
It’s no secret that the Eras Tour was a grueling experience, but Taylor shared that she had a physical therapy set up to help her get through it. “It was a lot of physical therapy and it was a lot of being in a state of perpetual discomfort,” she said.

Travis said he was surprised at how much her recovery practices looked like his own NFL physical therapy experience. “The similarities were crazy,” he said. “I was like, ‘Oh my gosh. She does more than I do.’” Taylor went on to say that the couple swap “physical therapy stories,” and Travis added that they “related on how much torture we’ve put our bodies through.”

She’s spreading the news about a key heart health test
Taylor shared that her dad is doing “incredibly well” after quintuple bypass surgery, which he underwent after a routine checkup showed he had blockages in his heart. “He’s had a perfect [electrocardiogram] every year that he’s gone in for physicals. But what found his five hard blockages in his heart was a resting stress test,” Taylor shared.

Now, her dad is encouraging others to get this test. “He’s been telling all his friends, ‘You need to get the stress test,’ because that’s what’s actually preventative. If you can find that earlier, you don’t have to have a bypass surgery,” she said. “You can sort out those blockages with stents and things that are a lot less invasive.”

Taylor noted she was sharing the news because she wanted other people to be aware that this test exists.

She did a lot of cardio and endurance training leading up to tour
Taylor made it very clear that she doesn’t think of herself as an athlete, noting that she doesn’t really care if she wins competitions or games based on her physical abilities. But Travis and his brother (and podcast co-host) Jason Kelce were quick to correct her. “Don’t say that,” Jason said. They agree: She’s a big athlete.

Travis pointed out that he and Taylor have worked out together, and that she did endurance training and cardio to get ready for the Eras Tour. He also gave serious praise for her “power skip” onstage. “Have you seen her power skip down a stage in heels?” he said. Travis then claimed that Taylor once threw a “perfect spiral” football (Pop Queen Taylor disputed that).