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Vegan Athlete

Vegan athlete, Steph Davis, is one of the top rock climbers in the world and the second of only two women to solo climb Yosemite's El Capitan. She shares about her quest to find the right diet that would optimize her physical level. After trying many different ones, she realized that eating vegan was the right one.

She states, "Climbers have always said that you need animal protein to climb," … "But I tried all these different things, and at one point I did a cleansing fast of about a week, and when it was time to start again, everything was unappealing. But after a couple of weeks, I found that I was eating vegan. So I went with it. And strangely, I started to make these leaps in my climbing and even in running. That's when I free-climbed El Capitan in a day. Then I climbed even better in Patagonia."

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Doing our best to take care our body is part of honoring God. A well-balanced plant-based diet may help in the prevention and cure of many diseases, and achieve fitness.