Michele di Gregorio
A life between Cilento and Germany

Michele Di Gregorio has lived a good part of his life in Stuttgart but, at a certain point, suffering from an inexplicable symptomatology, he decides to consult a doctor, who advises him to return to his country, San Mauro Cilento (Salerno). Since that time, he has fully recovered and runs a family-run farm.

The stories that Michele tells reveal the vision of a man who has developed over time the idea that you need to be happy to live well and feel good. The long marriage with his wife, which has lasted for 50 years and the initial reluctance to have a child testify to the desire to live life to the full, marking its biological and cultural rhythms. Likewise, Michele has his own vision of the regularity of life that clashes with the military one (made up of commands and orders) which he had also tried to follow. In spite of everything, he declares that even today he remains “very German”.

Michele knows the history of the Mediterranean Diet very well, declares that he also met Ancel Keys, the “professor”, as he calls him. Today he eats vegetables, many legumes, he doesn’t like tomatoes but he fry in extra virgin olive oil.

His secret to living long? “Having sex a lot”.