About the Authors

Susan Westfall

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Neurology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America

Affiliation Biomedical and Cell Therapy Research Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Artificial Cells and organs Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Nikita Lomis

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Biomedical and Cell Therapy Research Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Artificial Cells and organs Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Satya Prakash

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

satya.prakash@mcgill.ca

Affiliation Biomedical and Cell Therapy Research Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Artificial Cells and organs Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Competing Interests

The data presented in the current paper is integrated into the information filed in a US provisional patent entitled “A novel probiotic formulation for alleviation of metabolic stress, inflammation, oxidative stress and neurodegeneration” (62/629328) by the authors SW and SP. The patent was filed by Proviva Pharma, Canada, of which SW and SP are co-founders. The authors received no financial contributions or incentives from the company. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.