When a diabetic foot ulcer won't heal, your body may be missing what it needs to rebuild.
A daily nutritional adjunct to your wound care — the arginine, protein and micronutrients your body draws on to rebuild tissue.
Start the daily course →Why diabetic foot ulcers are so slow to heal
An open wound is a construction site. Closing it takes a steady supply of protein and specific nutrients to build new tissue. In diabetes, three things work against that supply at once.
Reduced blood flow
Circulation to the feet is often impaired, so oxygen and nutrients reach the wound more slowly than the repair needs them.
Higher demand
An open wound raises the body's protein and energy requirement well above its normal daily baseline.
Depleted reserves
Reduced appetite, poorer absorption and long illness often leave the body short on the exact nutrients healing draws on.
When the raw materials run low, repair slows — even when the dressing and the wound care are exactly right.
Healing takes longer than people expect
A small cut closes in a week or two. A diabetic foot ulcer is a different timescale entirely.
If a wound shows little progress by around 4 weeks, it may be stalling. And because a DFU is a months-long process, steady daily nutritional support across the whole course matters more than any single week.
Typical DFU healing runs to 12 weeks or longer, and a wound with little change by ~4 weeks may be stalling. Based on wound-care clinical literature; individual healing varies.
Diabetic foot ulcers in India, by the numbers
Foot ulcers are one of the most common and most under-supported complications of diabetes in India.
From diabetes to a foot ulcer
The nutrition gap
Up to half of patients recovering from surgery or long illness are undernourished — and the body can't rebuild tissue on materials it doesn't have.
Sources: ICMR-INDIAB (The Lancet, 2023); Ghosh & Valia; India DFU meta-analysis (2024); Indian hospital nutrition studies. Figures are population estimates; individual situations vary.
Your wound needs more than a dressing. It needs the building blocks to heal.
Standard care does
Offloads pressure, holds the right dressing, keeps blood sugar in range. It manages the wound from the outside.
Nutrition adds
Arginine, protein and the healing micronutrients the body actually rebuilds tissue with — from the inside.
Good wound care does its job. But none of it puts those nutrients back into the body. That's the gap — and it's where nutrition works alongside your care, not in place of it.
The cost of a wound that won't heal
The longer a diabetic foot ulcer stays open, the more it costs — in money, in time, and in risk. Catching it early is always cheaper than treating what comes next.
Illustrative — actual costs vary by case. The rupee figure at the advanced stage is an estimate from published Indian wound-care data. The point is the shape of the curve: cost climbs steeply the longer a wound stays open.
Where Epithrive fits in
Epithrive is a once-a-day nutritional adjunct — a drink you mix and take alongside your existing wound care. Each sachet is built around the nutrients tissue repair draws on.
Arginine
An amino acid the body uses in blood-flow signalling and in forming collagen — central to how new tissue is built.
Protein — marine collagen peptides & amino acids
The raw material new tissue is built from. An open wound's protein demand runs well above normal.
Targeted micronutrients
The cofactors the body uses through the repair process — including zinc, vitamin C, copper and others.
What "rebuild" actually means
One sachet a day, mixed in water. Designed to sit alongside your wound care — not to replace any part of it.
Grounded in published nutrition research
Epithrive's approach is built on peer-reviewed research into the individual nutrients involved in tissue repair.
Arginine & wound healing
Arribas-López et al., 2021 — review
Collagen peptides & tissue repair
Sato, 2018
Collagen peptide absorption
Shigemura, 2009
Zinc in wound healing
Lin et al., 2017
Micronutrients in wound care
Moores, 2013
These studies examine the individual nutrients, not the finished product. Epithrive is a nutritional adjunct to standard wound care and is not a treatment for any condition.
This works alongside your wound care — not instead of it.
Epithrive does not replace dressings, debridement, offloading, antibiotics or any part of the care your clinician has prescribed. Keep every appointment. Keep following your wound-care plan.
Its role is narrow and specific: to help make sure the body isn't running short on the nutrients healing depends on.
If the wound is worsening, showing signs of infection, or simply not improving, speak to your doctor.
Questions caregivers ask
How long should someone take Epithrive?
Can it be taken alongside diabetes medication?
Is it suitable for people with diabetes — what about sugar?
When might a difference be noticeable?
How is it taken?
Epithrive — Daily Wound-Care Nutrition
How many boxes?
10 days of supply · 1 box
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One sachet a day, mixed in water, taken alongside your wound care. Cash on delivery is available, and our team confirms every order on WhatsApp before it ships.
Epithrive is an FSSAI-licensed nutritional supplement. It is a nutritional adjunct to standard wound care and is not a medicine or a treatment for any disease. Always follow the advice of your doctor or wound-care team.
Evidence cited on this page refers to peer-reviewed research into individual nutrients, not to the finished product. Individual results vary.