Patent ID: 7682624

Claim:
A method of treating a mammal, comprising having said mammal orally ingest an effective amount of a concentrated protein composition comprising about 5 to about 75 parts by weight of enzymatically hydrolyzed animal collagen gelatin, about 0.02 to about 2.0 parts by weight of tryptophan, about 0.1 to about 2 parts by weight of a sweetener, and about 5 to about 100 parts by weight of an ingestible carrier, said composition comprising the amino acids alanine, arginine, aspartic acid, cystine, glutamic acid, glycine, hydroxylysine, hydroxyproline, proline, serine, tyrosine, histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, threonine, tryptophan and valine; said concentrated composition administered in a 1 ounce (30 mL) dosage to promote wound healing of decubitus or pressure ulcers in said mammal in need thereof; wherein said composition comprises the following amino acids, in grams per hundred grams of protein, each value understood to include a range of ±30% by weight: Amino Acid g/100 g Protein L-Alanine 8.60 L-Arginine 7.90 L-Aspartic Acid 5.90 L-Cystine 0.07 L-Glutamic Acid 9.90 Glycine 23.10 L-Histidine 0.73 Hydroxylysine 1.00 L-Hydroxyproline 6.60 L-Isoleucine 1.30 L-Leucine 3.00 L-Lysine 4.30 L-Methionine 0.73 L-Phenylalanine 2.30 L-Proline 15.20 L-Serine 6.60 L-Threonine 2.00 L-Tryptophan 0.40 L-Tyrosine 0.70 L-Valine 2.40.