LBP and Hepatic steatosis: Another study involved Nine hundred and twenty adults randomly selected from the government’s census database and underwent proton-magnetic resonance spectroscopy to assess hepatic steatosis showed that NAFLD patients had slightly higher lipopolysaccharide-binding protein (LBP) endotoxin markers associated with insulin resistance and dyslipidemia and that people with modest alcohol consumption have lower serum endotoxin (83).