059 Frank’s Crease - Your Earlobe’s Secret Heart Clue or Just Skin Deep?

About this episode

This episode explores the significance of Frank's Crease on the earlobe and its potential link to heart disease, while addressing anxiety in those affected by heart conditions.

Have you ever noticed a diagonal crease on your earlobe and wondered if it means something serious? In this episode, we explore Frank’s Crease (also known as Frank’s Sign), the line across the earlobe that some researchers have linked to heart disease. If you’re living with or beyond a heart attack, cardiac surgery, heart failure or a diagnosis that changed everything, it’s so easy for small things to trigger big anxiety. So today, we gently unpack: • What Frank’s Crease actually is • W...

People in this episode

Host: Sallie Crawley

Topics covered

• heart health
• Frank's Crease
• anxiety
• heart disease
• cardiac surgery
• heart attack

Keywords

• Frank's Crease
• heart disease
• earlobe
• anxiety
• cardiac surgery
• heart attack
• health wellness

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Frank’s Crease, Frank’s Sign

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