The Stack · gear, if you want it
The short list. No hype, no wand.
Everything here is commodity gear, not medicine. It is on the list because it earns its place, not because of a payout, and the protocol never depends on any of it. The medical recommendations live behind licensed providers and carry no affiliate economics at all. This is the other half: the stuff that helps at the margins, priced honestly.
4 categories · picked for the reader, disclosed either way
01 · Base Layers
Merino under everything, October through April. Regulates temperature, resists smell, and is cut like clothes instead of trail gear.
02 · Red Light
Ten minutes most mornings. The evidence for skin and localized recovery holds up; the whole-body claims are thinner. One lever, not the protocol.
03 · Blue-Light Glasses
For the two hours before bed, when the screen does not care that you have a 6am lift. The honest case is sleep timing, not all-day eye strain.
04 · Sleep Tech
The most underrated lever in the building. Temperature and data are the two pieces most people never touch.
The fine print
How this page makes money, in plain terms.
Some links here are affiliate links, disclosed. Where OPTN has a relationship with the maker, we earn a small cut and your price is exactly the same. No product is on this page because of that cut, and nothing in a medical protocol ever carries an affiliate link. That line does not move.
Gear only. Not medical advice, not a treatment recommendation. Talk to a clinician before you change anything that matters. Take the assessment if you want a starting point.