And the This week we welcome to the show the one and only Rosita Avigo Rosita is a

napropathic surgeon or doctor. Is that right? Would we say physician doctor?

Physician, definitely not a surgeon. That's true, not for a napathic. Yeah, good point.

And a journalist and a teacher and an author and an activist, all kinds of things.

And also the founder of a like a biological Institute, the Ischael Tropical Research Foundation.

And yeah, I'm very, very much.

Thank you and welcome aboard.

Thank you very much, Gordon.

I'm a doctor of neopropathy, and that is a offshoot of chiropractic from 1907 and our specialty is connective tissue damage and ligamentous damage.

It's very akin to chiropractic, but it is not chiropractic.

All right, so let's begin.

Nice one. So the first question we have for first-time guests, Rosita, is is were you a weird kid?

Was I a weird?

Actually I remember very clearly my auntie telling me one day that you're a weird kid and know exactly those words.

I was weird in the sense that I was always fascinated by local plants.

I grew up in the city of Chicago, yet few people realize that the city of Chicago is one of the greatest high biodiversity areas of the world because before white men came it was a the

land of what the native people called the land of no sweat because there were so many

plants to harvest for food for medicine shelter weaving mats there were ducks and geese and birds and deer and turkey.

So that's why they called it the land of no sweat. And as for medicinal wild plants.

I don't know of any place that I've ever been, truly,

that I've ever been that has more biodiversity

than the city of Chicago.

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