Nutrition for Surgery

At Tune Health, we guide your nutrition during the surgery journey, so you can make a strong recovery and get back to the things that you love

Are you Prepared for a Successful surgery?


Surgery is a major event for your body – like running a marathon.  Tune works by training your body with the right nutrition to improve recovery time and lower your chance of complications.  We focus on :

  • Nutrition should center around nourishment, not restriction, especially before and after surgery. Meeting your protein, calorie, and micronutrient needs protects your muscles, maintains physical function, and supports optimal tissue repair.

  • Surgery puts a significant stress on your body. We evaluate the full picture including inflammation status, appetite shifts, and functional changes to guide personalized nutrition care.

  • When your metabolism is under-fueled or chronically restricted, you are likely to experience delayed healing. Our approach focuses on metabolic restoration, especially for those with a history of dieting or chronic illness.

  • We developed a simple and focused approach to what matters most for better surgery outcomes: protein!

  • Loss of appetite is a clinical red flag. Low appetite is a sign of inflammation or under-recovery, not a reason to under-eat. We help you with strategies to continue nourishing your body even when you may not feel hungry.

Our Program : Easy Protein Tracking + Group Support

Easy Protein Tracking 

By joining the program, you get access to

1) Tune AI – our easy-to-use technology helps you track your protein through simply taking photos of your food. You will be connected to Tune AI via text message. No apps to download! 

2) Weekly group calls with Tune Health Cofounder and Registered Dietitian, Melissa Vasikauskas. You will get personalized guidance and support, and a community of other people on their nutrition for surgery journey.

Dietitan-led Weekly Group Support Calls

About Us

  • Melissa Vasikauskas is a Licensed Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and metabolic health expert who helps clients restore their metabolism, regulate hunger, and feel strong in their bodies again. With nearly a decade of experience, she’s the founder of Fueled and Free, where she guides individuals through her protocol that focuses on nourishment. Melissa’s approach blends the science of metabolism with compassionate coaching and real-world structure, focusing not just on what you eat, but how and when to eat. She specializes in helping clients meet their nutrition needs without resorting to traditional restrictive patterns that damage metabolic health. She empowers them to build strength, eat with joy, and achieve a healthy weight with ease. Through masterclasses, group programs, and individualized coaching, Melissa teaches her clients how to balance their meals, time their food, and ditch the food noise once and for all. She’ll be supporting Tune program members with strategies to increase protein intake and bring structure back to their eating patterns in a way that supports both metabolism and peace of mind.

  • Kyle Henry is a humane technology entrepreneur and AI strategist who helps organizations build ethical AI products that put human wellbeing first. With over a decade of experience spanning finance, product development, and artificial intelligence, he's dedicated to ensuring technology serves people rather than exploits them. Kyle's approach combines rigorous market validation with deep empathy for end users, focusing not just on what technology can do, but what it should do.

    At Tune, Kyle leads strategic vision and ensures every product decision aligns with the company's mission of helping people optimize their nutrition through compassionate, science-backed AI. 

    When he's not being dad of 5, you'll find him attending men's groups focused on emotional wellbeing, hiking the public lands of Oregon, or mentoring the next generation of entrepreneurs who want to use technology for good.


  • With over 20 years in healthcare, Bree brings deep experience at the intersection of clinical innovation, behavioral science, and human-centered design. Her work spans from leading virtual-first chronic care programs to designing scalable behavior change strategies for digital health startups through established organizations like Cigna. As a National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach with an MPH in program design and evaluation, Bree has a track record of turning complex clinical needs into user-friendly digital health experiences. Whether reducing surgical costs in musculoskeletal care or boosting engagement in COPD programs, her work consistently puts people—and behavior—at the center.  At Tune, Bree leads behavioral strategy and user experience, helping people build sustainable nutrition habits through simple, visual food tracking. She's especially passionate about the role of protein in metabolic health and how technology can nudge better choices without triggering food guilt or shame.   When she’s not building the future of food logging, you’ll find her coaching clients through emotional eating recovery or organizing strategy workshops with sticky notes, sharpies, and a whole lot of empathy.


Program Registration

After you register for our free trial program , you will receive a text inviting you to get started:

  • Simply reply with photos of meals and snacks you eat

  • Then, the amount of protein you ate will be automatically calculated

  • Tune AI keeps you informed on your progress, guiding you to meet your daily protein goal