Sofia Health
Kira Staggs
Applied Stress Physiology Intensive Consultation
What this session is:
This a private, 90-minute consultation where we map the interacting biological, behavioral, and environmental factors shaping your current stress state. This is not coaching in the traditional sense. It is applied anthropology and neurophysiology translated directly into your lived experience.
Together, we identify:
-your dominant stress and response patterns
-sensory and environmental load factors
-movement and physiological regulation gaps
-nutritional and circadian contributors
-recovery and orientation capacity
From there, we build a personalized orientation framework that is realistic, embodied, and usable in all aspects of daily life.
Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach
I’m Kira Staggs, the founder of Feral Medicine Utah.
I am an independent interdisciplinary scholar who works to connect neuroscience, anthropology, evolutionary biology, and physiology. My work is driven by one central question: how does nervous system regulation shape human perception, cognition, behavior, and collective culture?
As a neurodivergent coach and the mother of a neurodivergent child, I became deeply interested in why so many individuals experience persistent physiological distress, sensory overload, and cognitive fragmentation in environments considered “normal” by modern standards. This question led me into the study of evolutionary medicine, stress physiology, and the regulatory dynamics of the human nervous system.
I developed Socio-Physiological Dysregulation Theory (SPDT), an evolutionary framework proposing that chronic nervous system dysregulation at population scale may contribute to cognitive fragmentation, increased threat perception, and the erosion of collective truth coherence. This framework is supported by my manuscript Proprioceptive Attenuation and Embodied Orientation:A Neurophysiological Hypothesis of Compensatory Vigilance in Modern Environments.
In addition to these theoretical works, I am the author of a neurophysiological manuscript examining chewing and parasympathetic activation as a potentially overlooked mechanism in stress regulation.
I have also published a preprint manuscript on Nutrient Ecology and Nervous System Regulation.
My research integrates insights from polyvagal theory, evolutionary mismatch theory, sensory processing science, and embodied regulation to develop a systems-level model of how nervous system states influence both individual cognition and broader cultural dynamics.
I hold a Bachelor of Science in Health Sciences (Summa Cum Laude) with a minor in Healthy Lifestyles & Fitness Science and a Certificate in Evolutionary Medicine from Arizona State University.
My academic work is complemented by clinical training as a National Board-Certified Health & Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC) and certifications in yoga and meditation instruction, which allow me to translate theoretical models of nervous system regulation into applied practice.
Through this applied work, I help individuals build nervous system resilience, improve sensory integration, and restore physiological regulation in environments that often place chronic demands on human stress physiology.
My consultations help people apply neurscientific principles with anthropology so that they can discover the impacts of modern life on their primitive nervous systems... and find ways to thrive rather than survive the jungle of modern life.
If any of this sounds interesting to you, book a free 30 minute session and we can discuss how this might look for you and your life.
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