About the author
Marco Diversi
Founder of Snerva
- 15+ years chronic insomnia
- CBT-I
- Residential sleep clinic
- Polysomnography
- Medication-free since 2023
Marco Diversi is the founder of Snerva. He has lived with chronic insomnia for more than 15 years — the kind where falling asleep is possible but staying asleep past 1:30 a.m. is not.
Over that time he worked through most of what conventional treatment offers: CBT-I, years on prescription sleep medication and benzodiazepines, nine months in a residential sleep clinic, polysomnography, and long-term psychological therapy. He now sleeps medication-free, though still less than he'd like.
Snerva exists because he spent years reading the actual research — not the wellness blogs — trying to understand the nervous system behind his own sleeplessness. He writes to translate peer-reviewed sleep science into plain language, and he's honest about what the evidence does and doesn't support. Snerva is not medical advice; for diagnosis or treatment, see a licensed clinician.
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Every claim that rests on specific evidence is cited inline. I link to the peer-reviewed source, not a blog summary of it. When the research is mixed or weak, I say so.
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