Don t play this piece fast. It is never right to play ragtime fast. -- Scott Joplin When I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize me. -- Scott Joplin Let me see you do the 'rag time dance'... Turn left and do the 'Cake walk prance'... Turn the other way and do the 'Slow drag'... Now take your lady to the world's fair (...) And do the 'rag time dance.'  -- Scott Joplin Because it has such a ragged movement.
When the stress response is ongoing other minerals can actually build up in the body, such as potassium, sodium and phosphorous. This is due to a change in intestinal absorption (since digestion takes a back seat when we are in fight-or-flight mode) and re-absorption by the kidneys of these elements.
Salt/Sodium Studies have also shown that when stress causes hypertension (high blood pressure) because of the examples above, your body may have trouble excreting sodium. Thus high blood pressure may be somewhat self-sustaining as a result of anxiety, because sodium also causes an increase in blood pressure.