Similarly, Bruce Beutler, an immunologist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas who won the 2011 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for discovering
how endotoxins activate the immune system, says helping his father work in his genetics lab gave him an early advantage.
Animal products, on the other hand, may increase inflammation through a variety of mechanisms, including
endotoxins (see
How Does Meat Cause Inflammation?)