Plants utilize the green pigment chlorophyll to absorb energy from sunlight to breakdown carbon dioxide into sugars. 

This is well known, and taught in probably every elementary school across the world. 

What is not as well known, is that the dark colored pigment called melanin found in the skin and brain of humans and other mammals can absorb various types of electromagnetic radiation!

In fact, melanin appears capable of absorbing a much broader spectrum of such radiation than chlorophyll. 

This was proven when scientists noticed various fungi growing in radioactive environments actually seemed to be thriving. Testing of these fungi proved the melanin producing their dark color was absorbing gamma radiation and converting it to energy. 

The article, "Ionizing Radiation Changes the Electronic Properties of Melanin and Enhances the Growth of Melanized Fungi" published by Ekaterina Dadachova reviews this discovery. 

Long before the above article was published, Mexican researcher Dr. Arturo Solís Herrera (medical surgeon, ophthalmologist, and pharmacologist) of the Human Photosynthesis Study Center was performing research on disorders of the human eye. 

His team started discovering the importance of the pigment Melanin (known by the chemical name polihydroxyindol) in regards to eye conditions. 

For some reason, Melanin seemed to protect the tissues of the eye, but his team could not completely understand why the protective effect was taking place. 

After extracting and applying melanin therapeutically to the eyes of patients, they saw results they claim were impressive.

As time passed it was discovered that melanin was actually collecting energy from electromagnetic radiation, and using it to split water atoms into hydrogen, oxygen, and four additional electrons. 

This process can also act in reverse. 

Such a reaction is not exothermic (releasing energy) but endothermic (storing energy). 

Dr. Auturo Herrera claims that the hydrogen atom is then sent to cells where it can be recombined with oxygen to produce energy (human body version of a fuel cell). 

The cells can then use this energy to supplement the sugars the body provides them. 

In this process, melanin acts like a catalyst which promotes the chemical reaction, but is not consumed by it. 

Dr. Herrera goes so far as to say that melanin is a "super chlorophyll" due to its many advantages over regular chlorophyll. 

He goes on to say that, "melanin is to the animal kingdom what chlorophyll is to the plant kingdom." 

A few of these advantages are claimed to include "hundreds of reaction centers" compared to the single reaction center in chlorophyll, the ability to absorb energy from a far broader portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, and capability to function for years outside of human tissue. 

Chlorophyll is claimed to become totally inactive after only twenty seconds. 

The Human Photosynthesis Study Center claims that one third of the energy available to a human being is produced by melanin absorbing electromagnetic radiation, and splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen to produce energy!