Preface

This book is the result of more than two decades of research, which began with a simple question: what can we do to try to stop the inexorable advance of the three leading causes of blindness in Mexico and that are also all over the world?

The answer was not simple, because despite my best efforts as an ophthalmologist, my patients were losing vision both for glaucoma, diabetes and macular degeneration by age. And the statistical information at the local level, regional and global showed that the incidence and prevalence of these diseases remained unchanged, which meant that the treatments available, by expensive, heroic, sophisticated or pompous to be called were not result.

Research we propose, initiated in 1990, was only intended to find morphological changes in vessels that emerge and penetrate (arteries and veins, respectively) into the optic nerve head, which can be used as indicators of early disease, enabling early treatment.

Nobody thought that the research would be more fruitful than we could even imagine. Twelve years later, in February 2002, was stunned at the results: the melanin was able to dissociate the water molecule.

At that time I was aware of that the result was important, even I thought that already knew many researchers; so it continued working on developing strategies that would allow me to modulate the activity of melanin, as years before understanding as acted, I had noticed that when melanin appeared to be active, the ocular tissues were in a better State than when melanin seemed "off".

It wasn't until 2005, listening to a speech by the then president Bush, who literally said "We need substances that remove hydrogen from water to enter fully into the era of hydrogen".

And I kept thinking about: because not used melanin? Greener want it? We have it all. I began to read to trying to find the answer, and a few months later I came to the conclusion: do not use it because they have not realized. So I decided to start the procedure of patent.