Mitochondrial damage, decreased biogenesis and impaired mitophagy has been implicated in several pathologies including diabetes, CVDs, aging, as well as viral and bacterial infections (Cho, Kim, & Jo, 2020; Kim, Ahn, Syed, & Siddiqui, 2018; Rovira-Llopis et al., 2017; Srivastava, 2017; Wu, Zhang, & Ren, 2019).