News Finding: Most of the salt in the American diet comes from processed packaged foods and restaurant meals, so do more of your own cooking using whole foods, and you'll make it easier for the gut bugs to keep your blood pressure numbers from boiling over.
Paper Finding: There was a significant increase in diet-associated-diversity that was unique to the animal-based diet.
News Context: Now, this doesn't mean they don't work; it's just that you shouldn't fall back on popping pills as your only source of probiotics. Go Easy on Salt
  
  It's okay to spike your water bottle with some salt to replenish sweat losses, but for the sake of your microbiome, don't treat the salt shaker like a hammer. Most of the salt in the American diet comes from processed packaged foods and restaurant meals, so do more of your own cooking using whole foods, and you'll make it easier for the gut bugs to keep your blood pressure numbers from boiling over.
Paper Context: Elevated DCA concentrations may have contributed to microbial disturbances in the animal-based diet, as this bile acid can inhibit the growth of members of the Bacteroidetes and Firmicutes phyla. There was a significant increase in diet-associated-diversity that was unique to the animal-based diet. This effect was reversed 2 days after this diet ended.