Very concise summary of what helps, and what doesn't in these 2 docs:

  • Nutrition and wound healing

  • Nutrition and wound healing - an update

  • Get enough protein/carbs while healing. Pretty self-evident. Then

  • Arginine in doses of least 30 g (I've found elsewhere 1g/kg) helps a LOT - but this is mostly intravenous, and more than ~6g per dose is not tolerated by the digestive system, and also needs to be diluted at 115 ml / g (so 6 g in ~ 700 ml water) Needs to be taken on an empty stomach to be fully effective

  • Glutamine helps, not directly, but as a general supportive measure as your body needs more of it during injury (found elsewhere that maximum tolerated well is 0.65g / kg bw, best dosage they tested was 0.75 but stopped increasing as it wasn't tolerated)

  • HMB (betaHydroxybetaMethylButryate) also helps, but mostly to preserve muscle rather than to aid healing

  • Ornithine (amino acid) helps, and could probably be used to reduce arginine dosage (it's a metabolite of arginine, and is one of the 3 ways arginine helps healing, Other two are NO (direct) and IGF(stimulates release))

  • Ornithine Ketoglutarate - good for supplying ornithine, but apparently has some other beneficial effects. No studies to support this that I've found, but many of the studies supporting ornithine used OKG

  • Vit C - up dose to multi-gram (no news here)

  • Vit A, Iron, Zinc etc - only problem if deficient

  • Omega 3 - this document lists it as hindering, but later research shows that what this document saw as reduction in healing actually helps reduce scarring