About Nicole

Dr. Nicole Apelian is an herbalist, a mother, a survival skills instructor, and a biologist. An unexpected diagnosis of MS in 2000 led Nicole to apply her research skills towards her own personal wellness. She focused on a healthy living strategy, including deep nature connection and gratitude practices.

Through changes in her lifestyle, and using her own remedies, Nicole went from bedridden to being fully alive and from surviving to thriving. She hasn’t taken a single MS drug in 20 years.

And in 2015 she was among the first women to be selected for the History Channel’s TV show Alone. She then went on to survive for 57 days straight alone in the wild with little more than the plants that she found there.

Natural remedies have offered her a second chance at life, and she believes that there are many more people who need to find their own remedy. This became her life’s mission and the main reason for writing this book. 

In it, she poured over 30 years of plant knowledge and her first-hand experiences of making her own poultices, tinctures, decoctions, salves, syrups, infused oils, and other herbal remedies.