About... Raw Milk Safety & Trimester Zero (with Dr. Tori Niemynski)

Tell Me More with Nicole Walters

Dear Media

Society & Culture, Business

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

" We have access to so much information... so people know just enough to be really scared."

Parenting anxiety is at an all-time high and social media isn’t helping.

Dr. Tori Niemynski, Board-Certified Pediatrician, is here to chat with us about raw milk safety, vaccine fears, viral pregnancy “wellness” trends, and why so many parents feel stuck between medical advice and internet influencers.

If you’ve ever Googled a symptom at 2 am … this one’s for you.

We're chatting about:

Why parental anxiety feels higher than ever
Raw milk risks and what science actually says
The truth about viral pregnancy wellness trends
What pediatricians really think when parents walk in with Google searches

This chat with Dr. Tori will give you practical ways to lower your panic and make confident health decisions for your whole family.

Connect with Dr. Tori:

Follow Dr. Tori on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yourpediatricianbestie/
Learn more about Dr. Tori at https://meetdrtori.com/

Connect with Nicole:

Chat with Nicole over on Threads: https://threads.net/nicolewalters
Watch Tell Me More on YT: http://nicolewalters.com/youtube

Episode Sponsor:

Right now, listeners can get up to $200 off Square hardware when you sign up at square.com/go/nicole.

Produced by Dear Media

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	The following podcast is a Dear Media production.
0:07.2	Welcome to the Tell Me More podcast with Nicole Walters, the only podcast where I'm not seeking to make you think more like me, but to help you keep thinking for yourself.
0:24.3	Okay. for yourself. Okay, y'all, so you know I am a 41-year-old new mama, and that comes with a whole host of
0:33.1	anxieties.
0:34.0	This baby wanted to get up and start walking on me, and I feel like she just skipped right to running and dancing, and she is running circles around me. I am constantly worried about what she's going to get into, what's going to happen next, being ready for the next season, and frankly, that started when I got pregnant, and it is still going. And I think a lot of you can relate, right? Like a lot of us are moms out here.
0:54.3	We're aunties. We're in charge of littles. And it just comes with a lot of fear. You know, it's part of it. And honestly, social media is not making it any better. And so if you're a parent, if you love a parent, if you're raising a tiny human, or if you've ever Googled a symptom at 2 a.m. and spiraled because y'all, they're definitely going to die, right?
1:12.8	No matter what it is,'all, they're definitely
1:11.9	going to die, right? No matter what it is, they sneeze, they're going to die, right? Like, that's
1:15.6	how it, what it gives. I want you to know that this episode is for you. Okay, we're going to bring it all the
1:22.2	way back. So today we're joined by Dr. Tori Namingski. and yes, I practice that, Naminski, because we respect
1:31.5	credentials around here. Dr. Tori is a board certified pediatrician with over 10 years of
1:37.9	clinical experience from the office to the ER. She has seen it all. The coughs, the fevers, the, is this normal moments? And the why is
1:49.5	my child doing this moment? Which frankly, like I asked out about my child, asked about my
1:53.5	husband. I asked about myself. Like, why are we doing this? Right? Like, it's a real thing.
1:57.8	But what I love the most about her is this. She doesn't just practice medicine in the
2:03.4	exam room. She shows up where parents actually live in the text threads, in the DMs, in those,
2:10.8	hey girl, I got a quick question, messages that I've sent and that we all send when we're the one
2:17.4	Google search away from a meltdown
2:19.3	crash out. Through her platform, your pediatrician bestie, who you better be following, because I
2:25.9	told everybody about it. So if you are late to the game, follow your pediatrician bestie.
2:30.5	She's making child health education practical, accessible, and panicless. And she's making child health education practical, accessible, and panicless.
2:37.2	And she's currently writing what may be my favorite book title ever, parental concern,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Dear Media, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Dear Media and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.