PRESENTACIÓN
Este libro documenta lo que, a mi los vegetales realizan la fotosíntesis,
juicio, podría ser el descubrimiento y
la investigación más importantes en
materia científica que se han realizado
en México en las últimas décadas. El
hallazgo de la fotosíntesis humana es
el resultado de la intensa vocación de
búsqueda de nuevas terapias médicas,
que llevó al Dr. Arturo Solís Herrera
a cuestionar tesis consideradas como
verdades fundamentales sobre la
vida y a ofrecer nuevas y asombrosas
teorías al respecto que día a día ganan
aceptación entre la comunidad cientí-
fica nacional e internacional.
Vivir y trabajar en Aguascalientes,
México, lejos de los grandes centros
de investigación del país y del mundo,
no inhibe el espíritu genial nato que ha
movido a Solís Herrera a hurgar en las
fronteras del conocimiento humano
–ese mismo espíritu que motivó, en
otras circunstancias, a Galilei Gali-
leo, a Isaac Newton y a Charles Dar-
win a cuestionar los conceptos más
a-rraigados de ese conocimiento y a
cambiar el curso de la historia– y que
hoy nuevamente nos obliga, a fuerza
de pruebas contundentes, a modificar
nuestra concepción de los orígenes y
de los procesos de la vida.
El descubrimiento de que no sólo
sino también el ser humano y todo ser
viviente cuyo código genético expresa
la melanina, nos obliga a reescribir
infinidad de páginas de la ciencia,
abriendo, al mismo tiempo, otra in-
finidad de nuevos derroteros para la
investigación en la física, la química,
la energía, la medicina y en todas las
ciencias básicas.
El trabajo modesto y constante,
en su laboratorio de oftalmología, con
pequeñas celdillas fotoelec-troquími-
cas de melanina, redefine totalmente
nuestra concepción de cómo la luz
actúa sobre y dentro del cuerpo huma-
no. Demuestra, sin la menor duda, que
la melanina –sustancia poco conocida,
que muchos científicos han descarta-
do como inútil e irrelevante– permite,
mediante fotólisis, extraer energía al
desligar y ligar del oxígeno los áto-
mos de hidrógeno en la molécula del
agua. En otras palabras, la melanina
es fundamental para la vida, porque
las moléculas de agua, en presencia
de melanina y luz, se convierten en
átomos de hidrógeno y oxígeno, más
ener-gía, y luego se vuelven a unir los
átomos de hidrógeno y oxígeno, brin-
dando agua y electricidad, sin que la
molécula de melanina sufra cambios,
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lo cual permite perpetuar esas reac-
ciones en el tiempo. Este asombroso
hallazgo, patentado por Solís Herrera,
brinda una veta totalmente novedosa
para la investigación en materia de en-
ergía reno-vable e inagotable.
Investigaciones científicas en
otros países tienden a corroborar el
hallazgo de la fotosíntesis, sin que sus
promotores alcanzan el pleno enten-
dimiento del fenómeno que nos revela
Solís Herrera. Por ejemplo, un equipo
de investigadores del Albert Einstein
College of Medicine, encabezado
por la Dra. Ekaterina Dadachova, ha
estudia-do el desmedido crecimiento
de hongos, en presencia de melanina y
radiaciones, en Chernobil. Este hecho
generó especulación en medios cientí-
ficos de Estados Unidos acerca de la
posibilidad de que la fotosíntesis con
melanina pudiera ser una base para el
cultivo masivo de hongos que servirían
para producir los biocombustibles del
futuro.
“Esto sugiere que la propia natu-
raleza ha producido otro escenario de
energía alternativa que es completa-
mente inesperado. (...) ¿Significa que
algún día grandes granjas de hongos
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en las laderas de los Andes o de la
Himalaya nos brindarán combustible
para nuestros automóviles?” dice un
artículo de Technology Review, del
Instituto de Tecnología de Massachus-
setts (MIT).
Las celdillas fotoelectroquími-
cas brindan una opción más viable de
captura de la energía producida por la
fotosíntesis con melanina, a tal grado
que ya se plantea su aplicación en situ-
aciones de iluminación en México.
Es previsible que la demanda fu-
tura de celdillas fotoelectroquímicas
de melanina, con fines de iluminación
y de provisión de energía, pueda llegar
a ser arro-lladora. Además, se trata de
una forma de energía compatible con
la búsqueda de formas de combate al
calentamiento global. El crecimiento
económico insostenible del mundo
actual se basa todavía en un consumo
creciente de combustibles fósiles, pero
a costa de los ecosistemas del planeta,
por lo que se requieren soluciones en-
ergéticas radicalmente diferentes. Es
en este contexto en el que debemos
comprender el verdadero potencial de
captar el poder de la fotosíntesis con
melanina.
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 INDICE

Presentación . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I

H BGPK;!M #U La fotosíntesis vegetal, humana y sus

implicaciones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . U

H BGPK;!M #Y Al cuerpo humano,

¿la luz le sirve sólo para ver? . . . . . . . _

H BGPK;!M #[ La fotosíntesis en los vegetales, el

papel de la clorofila . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . UU

H BGPK;!M #\ El agua, indispensable para la vida

pero ¿cuáles son sus funciones en el
cuerpo humano? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . U[

H BGPK;!M #] Definición de fotosíntesis . . . . . . . . . . U`

H BGPK;!M #^ Melanina, la clorofila humana . . . . . . . YU

H BGPK;!M #_ ¿Por qué es tan importante la energía

que obtenemos de la luz? . . Y_

H BGPK;!M #W La melanina, precursora de la vida en

la Tierra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [U

H BGPK;!M #` El agua como solvente . . . . . . . . . . . . . \U

H BGPK;!M #UV La luz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . \[

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 H BGPK;!M #UU La interacción entre el agua y la
melanina como resultado de la
irradiación electromagnética . . . . . . . \]

H BGPK;!M #UY ¿Por qué los dispositivos energizados

con melanina funcionan día y noche? ]U

H BGPK;!M #U[ Impacto de la fotosíntesis humana en

otras áreas del conocimiento . . . . . . . ]]

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