Earlobe Crease and Heart Disease: Frank’s Sign and CAC Testing

Did you realize that if you have a diagonal crease on your earlobe, you might be at risk for having a heart attack? Pause this video, go to the mirror, and look at your earlobe right where it meets your jawline.

You're looking for this single crease running at a forty-five degree angle from the ear canal downward toward the edge of the lobe. That crease has a name.

It's called Frank's sign. It shows up in around seventy percent of people with coronary heart disease.

Cardiologists know about it, but most patients have never heard of it.

Most people walking around have no idea that could be an indicator of heart issues. When your heart starts losing blood supply, certain tissues further away from the heart don't get enough blood, like your earlobes.

The earlobe has no cartilage. It's basically a tiny little bag of capillaries held together with collagen and elastin.

When you starve it of blood, the connective tissue starts to collapse, and that's what produces the diagonal crease. Why am I even bringing this up?

To make you more aware. If you have this crease, I highly recommend doing another test that's way more diagnostic, and it's called the CAC test, and this stands for coronary artery calcium score.

This looks deep inside the arteries to see if there's calcium building up, which usually comes from an inflamed artery because the diet is not that great. Get the CAC test, and if there is calcium that builds up, you want to get on a low-carb diet and start taking vitamin K2 with vitamin

D3 to help remove the calcium. For more details on the topic, go to my YouTube channel.