The fighter takes a bath with herbs, leaves and grains to "clean her body and take away any negativity" and then goes through a period of time that she considers a personal sacrifice in the name of the orixás(Umbanda divinities) to which she feels more attached.
"They are sacrifices that we do for the Orixá and for the religion, to become cleaner people. We sleep on a mat, with no pillow, with nothing, just a piece of cloth. You can't eat meat, you have to wear only white, no dark clothing, you have to cover the ori, which is a part of your head, you get close to a bar, you can't watch violent things. It's a moment in which we are totally taken back to totally cleanse ourselves and begin a new trajectory."
Can't watch violent things? I guess no fight pass for Andrade.
"I became a much better person after I became religious. People say: Oh, she's doing macumba[generic term for African-Brazilian religions, sometimes used in a pejorative way] to win the fights! No. All I do is a lot of training."
The god feeds on negativity. Its USADA approved, what other fighters could benefit from this this?
Source:
https://esporte.uol.com.br/reportag...ogros-ganham-emprego-nos-bastidores-da-campea