Our Story
Feeling good and looking good is hard work.
I know. For a long time, I couldn't manage either. So I went to the science, built what I needed, and I'm hoping it helps you the way it helped me.
I'm Vikas Tiwari*, founder of Hanuvier.
Nice to meet you. Let me take you on a personal journey.
The long way here.
For a few years, I lost the thread of my own life.
I was living alone on the wrong coast through the pandemic, in a job that had turned heavy, far from the people I loved. My health slipped. My routines fell apart. I was aging in a way that didn't feel like me, and I was a long way from my mother in Gwalior, India, whom I hadn't been able to see in three years, the travel restrictions keeping us apart.
Then she was hospitalized, and I flew back the moment I could. I reached her in the morning.
I came apart.
When I finally started to surface, I wanted one simple thing: to feel like myself again. To look in the mirror and recognize the person there. To feel good enough to step back into the world.
So I began the slow work of resurfacing. I deepened my meditation. I started exercising again, and learned along the way that movement may be the strongest signal you can send your body to rebuild, collagen included. I ate better, slept better, and managed the stress instead of letting it manage me. Only then did I turn to the last piece, supplements, and I did the only thing I know how to do. I went to the science. Two decades in it, and a lifetime lived vegetarian, gave me somewhere to start, and I read nearly everything there was on what actually helps. Rather than wait for something built the way I'd trust, I started building it myself, for me, one honest ingredient at a time.
It took more than a year to find a combination that actually worked for me. That search, meant only to help me find my own way back, quietly became Hanuvier.
It gave me something to hold onto. I'm hoping it can do the same for you.
Where I come from.
I come from a simple Indian family, where routine, discipline, and living ethically mattered more than anything.
My mother woke the three of us at five every morning. "What do I do?" I'd ask her, half asleep.
That got me through two bachelor's degrees and two master's. But the degrees were the smallest part of it. What she really gave me was a way of living: disciplined, honest, unwilling to cut corners with anything that matters. It has shaped every decision I've made since. Including this one.
Why you can trust what's in it.
I have spent my career in places where the standard is unforgiving: two years at the World Bank, then almost two decades in pharmaceutical and biotech. I advised companies like Novartis, Novo Nordisk, and Boehringer Ingelheim, then went inside the industry itself, nearly eight years at Amgen, then Myovant Sciences and Sage Therapeutics, helping bring real therapies to people who needed them. A BSc in chemistry, physics and mathematics gave me the grounding to read the research itself. The MBA and the Bachelor of Laws shaped how I read everything else, the business and the rules. But the real training was simpler: get the science right, and hide nothing.
That is exactly how I built Hanuvier. The science around collagen is genuinely confusing, and you should not have to untangle it. The promise is simple:
I did the science, so you don't have to.
Everything I learned went into the formula, and everything in the formula is on the label. Every ingredient is fully disclosed, its dose printed in plain sight, with no proprietary blends and nothing buried. The 20g of organic plant protein and the five collagen boosters each earned their place by one measure: how your body builds its own collagen. Protein first, because collagen is itself a protein, and your body builds it from the amino acids you give it.
And I would not ask you to take my word for it. In an independent consumer perception study by Citrus Labs, participants rated their skin, hair and nail appearance at 5.7 out of 10 at the start and 7.3 by day 24, and three in four agreed their overall health and wellness had improved. A perception study, reported honestly.
And because honesty is only honest when someone checks: every batch is tested twice, first in our manufacturer's own quality lab, then independently by third-party laboratories accredited to ISO 17025, the international standard for testing labs, for heavy metals, microbial safety, and label accuracy. More on our testing
The promises I keep.
Every dose is printed on the label. No proprietary blends, nothing buried. You will always know exactly what you are putting in your body.
Every ingredient earns its place by what the research shows, and the formula follows how your body actually builds collagen.
Not a trace of anything animal-derived. I have been vegetarian my whole life, and I made Hanuvier go one step further, fully vegan, so no one is left out.
Independently studied. Third-party tested.
Come see what's inside.
I built Hanuvier for myself, in the hardest stretch of my life, and it helped me find my way back to feeling like me. If any part of my story felt like yours, I'd love for you to try it.
Whatever you decide, thank you for reading this far. It means more than you know.
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