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Cal Bennett

Lead Editor, Oral Health & Sleep

  • Mastic gum
  • Functional gum
  • Oral health
  • Gut health
  • Hydroxyapatite
  • Sleep posture and ergonomics
  • Wellness marketing

Cal Bennett writes and edits Evexia’s coverage of chewing, oral health, and sleep posture — a deliberately narrow beat, because it’s the only way to know a category properly rather than summarise it.

The method is unglamorous and it doesn’t vary. Products are bought at retail, never accepted free from a brand, and used for weeks rather than sampled for an afternoon. Claims get traced back to the primary literature instead of the press release, and when a study is small, unblinded, or industry-funded, that gets said out loud rather than buried in a citation. Where the evidence is genuinely thin, the piece says so — including when that’s inconvenient for a product Evexia’s owners have a stake in.

Two things worth being direct about. First, Cal is not a clinician, and nothing here is a diagnosis or a treatment plan. Second, Evexia Health is owned by Hubert Ventures LLC, which also owns the mastic gum brand Greco Gum. That conflict gets named in the piece itself, at the point it matters, not just in a footer.

The full standard is in our editorial policy, the testing process is in our review method, and every commercial tie is laid out on our ownership disclosure page.

Articles by Cal Bennett

Bad breath causes: where it comes from and what actually fixes it

The main bad breath causes, ranked by how often they turn up: tongue coating and gum disease first, then tonsils, reflux and H. pylori, plus fixes with evidence.