About

The Nurse and the Paramedic

We are a nurse and a paramedic.

Between us we have spent years in emergency medicine, one of us in the department and one in the field. Trauma bays, night shifts, one flu season after another. Emergency work means being exposed to everything that comes through the door, or everything you walk into, and both of us got tired of running ourselves into the ground. One of us now works in metabolic wellness and functional medicine, where the focus is on how the body recovers and repairs itself.

Somewhere between those worlds, we found fire cider.

Fire cider is an old folk preparation: apple cider vinegar infused with pungent roots, alliums, peppers, and citrus, then softened with honey. We loved the idea of it. We were a lot less impressed by what we could actually buy. Most of what sits on the shelf is four or five ingredients and a great deal of marketing.

So we started making our own, and we kept building on it.

Naturally Dolce fire cider now carries twenty-five organic ingredients. Raw apple cider vinegar with the mother, MGO182 manuka honey, propolis, horseradish, turmeric, elderberries, tart cherry, star anise, and everything else printed in full on the side of every bottle, because you should be able to read exactly what you are taking. Small batches, made by hand, with produce sourced locally whenever the season allows.

We make it the way we would want it made for our own families, because that is exactly who we made it for first.