Code Zero Protocol
Dean Constantini
Pain is a signal. But what happens when the system meant to protect you becomes part of the problem?
Code Zero asks a different question: what does the person in pain need that the current approach isn’t providing? Not a new technique, but a new way of looking at the person.
Host Dean Constantini is a 2026 Canadian Choice Award winner, a registered massage therapist, and a Canadian Armed Forces Medical Services veteran. He created the Code Zero Protocol and wrote Code Zero: When Protection Becomes the Problem. Each episode explores pain, guarding, the nervous system and what Dean calls “Internal Noise”: the combined load of pain, stress, poor sleep and everyday life.
Through clinical stories and plain-language science, Dean connects what we see in the body with what research can, and can’t yet, explain.
For people living with persistent pain, the practitioners who treat them, and anyone curious about how the body prot