DHEA levels usually peak right around the age of 20 when a person becomes fully hormonally and physically mature. Then, they start to naturally decline until almost no DHEA is left by the time you reach your 90s. Talk with your doctor about how to manage the age-based decline of your DHEA levels while also taking outside action, such as dietary changes. In your efforts to lower your DHEA levels, make sure that you go in for regular blood tests with your doctor. Changing up your body's production of DHEA too much has been linked to some dangerous illnesses, such as certain cancers and type 2 diabetes. Cortisol shots have been linked to boosted DHEA levels. If you decide to take any medications with cortisol, which is a hormone itself, talk with your doctor about your concerns. Your doctor may also recommend cortisol as a partial replacement for a dip in DHEA levels. This is a strategy often used with athletes undergoing heavy training. The chemicals found in many birth control pills and shots can cause a boost in DHEA levels. To determine if you are taking a pill with testosterone-like effects, read your medication's label and talk with your doctor. If you are considering a birth control shot, discuss the hormonal effects with your OB-GYN before moving forward. Non-hormonal methods, such as a copper IUD, have the same birth control benefits without the progestin risk. Many people experiencing migraines or hair loss with hormonal methods also find these to be a good alternative. If your high levels of DHEA are asymptomatic, or showing no outward symptoms, then you may safely choose to leave it generally untreated. Perhaps make some of the suggested lifestyle changes and see how those go. In some cases, even DHEA secreting tumors are left alone because the surgery can be more problematic than the excess hormones.

Summary: Watch for natural reductions with age. Be careful not to go too low. Minimize any cortisol intake. Choose a non-hormonal birth control. Make no changes at all.

Solve an anagram by rearranging the letters of a word to reveal the hint, which, along with the definition, will help you find the clue's answer. As with the previous clue, "edict" becomes "cited" after you shuffle the letters in the wordplay around. Spot an anagram by looking for words that indicate change or modifications. Common anagram indicator words include "transfer," "cook," "dress," "out," "off," "moved," or "lost." The words you will need to jumble will be located either directly before or after the indicator word. For example, the following clue is an anagram: "Dress suiting a saint." "Saint" is the definition and "dress suiting a" is the wordplay. "Dress" indicates that this is an anagram because it implies change. Since there are no words preceding "dress," you know that the words that follow it, "suiting a," are the words that need to be rearranged. "Suiting a" can be reshuffled to reveal "Ignatius," a saint! Anagrams are often the longest words in the crossword puzzle. Charades are formed by joining parts of words from the clue together to create a new word. Charades do not usually have indicator words, but typically contain words such as "has," "with," "and," or similar conjunctions. You'll often need to think in terms of synonyms to know which words to join together. For example, in the following clue, "wave cereal bowl," "wave" is the definition. By process of elimination, you know you are working with the words "cereal" and "bowl." If you look for synonyms, you'll get "bran" (for cereal) and "dish" (for bowl). Using the charades method of combining words, you'll get "brandish," which is the answer because it is a synonym of your definition, "wave." In addition to synonyms, you may need to work with word abbreviations in order to solve charade clues. For example, "place on bottom of sack:" "Pl" is the abbreviation for "place" and "under" is a synonym for "on bottom." Combine the two to get "plunder," which also means "sack" (your definition). Identify a hidden-words clue by recognizing indicator terms such as "some," "buried in," "held by," or "in part." Scan your sentence for words that can be made by combing the first or last letters from one word with letters from an adjacent word. For example, in the clue "Scottish snack offered in disco nearby," your definition is "Scottish snack," the indicator is "offered in," and your wordplay is "disco nearby." The hidden word will always be located in your wordplay phrase, so scan it carefully and consider whether there is a word that can be made by combining parts of "disco nearby" that matches the definition "Scottish snack." You'll find the answer by combining the last three letters of "disco" with the first two letters of "nearby" to make "scone!"

Summary: Rearrange the clue's letters when dealing with anagram clues. Join parts of words together to find the answer with charade clues. Combine letters from different words to answer clues with hidden words.

Make sure the needle stays on the endpoint, and that you do not adjust the compass setting. The length of the arcs does not matter. Make sure you do not change the compass setting. Make sure the needle stays on the endpoint, and that you do not adjust the compass setting. The two sets of arcs you've drawn should intersect. To do this, place your straightedge on the point where the arcs above the line intersect, and align it with the point where the arcs below the line intersect. The line you draw between the two arc intersections bisects the line at a ninety degree angle. You have used the compass to outline two congruent circles centered over either endpoint. The intersecting arcs represent the endpoint of a radii from the center of either circle. The length of the radii will be the same, since the circles are the same size.

Summary: Draw an arc above and below the line segment. Reposition the compass on the other endpoint. Draw another set of arcs, above and below the line segment. Connect the arc intersections. Draw your perpendicular bisector. Understand why this works.

Rocky ground can lead to pain if your horse does not have shoes. It is likely to bruise the sole of an unshod hoof. A shoe elevates the hoof slightly and decreases the impact of uneven ground on the underside of the hoof. Shoes can also help horses grip and confidently navigate uneven surfaces. Roadwork can wear down hooves without shoes, as it's very abrasive and wears the hoof down faster than it grows. This results in the horse walking on its sole and the bulbs of its heel, which is very painful. If your horse works on the road frequently, it should most likely be shod. Unshod hooves are best equipped to deal with the natural landscape such as pasture, soil, or grassland. There are many other surfaces horses are expected to work on which do not provide good grip. Shoes will give your horse the grip he needs. An example of conditions when your horse may need more grip is when it is walking on icy ground or pavement. Shoes can come in very handy when there are demands for extreme agility placed on your horse. This includes having your horse do a lot of twisting, turning, or jumping. In these circumstances shoes are advisable. Additionally, studs or cork can be inserted into the shoes to prevent the horse from slipping.
Summary: Put shoes on a horse that will be walking on rocky ground. Have shoes on a horse that is doing roadwork. Use shoes to give your horse extra grip. Make agile movements easier by using shoes.