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Together for Health, Exercise & Participation

MITOcare is a proud partner of the
German Down-Sport Festival 2026
on September 12th in Wetzlar

Why we support the German Down Syndrome Sports Festival with passion

"Every person deserves to be healthy."

How our vision inspired this collaboration

This idea guides us at MITOcare every day. That's why we develop high-quality micronutrient concepts that can help people promote their well-being in the best possible way. But for us, this involves more than just a good product: We also want to share the knowledge behind it and help as many people as possible to better understand their individual needs.

Sport has played a special role in this for many years. As part of various sports collaborations, we have been supporting athletes as a long-term micronutrient and knowledge partner and contribute our experience where nutrition, health, performance and regeneration interact.

We are therefore all the more delighted about a partnership that goes far beyond sport for us: From this year on, MITOcare is a partner of the German Down-Sportlerfestival. A commitment where exercise and health meet community, participation and joy of life – and which therefore fits our vision particularly well.

Moving Forward Together

A day full of sport, fun & community

On September 12, 2026, Wetzlar will host the 24th German Down Syndrome Sports Festival – according to the organizers, the world's largest sporting event for children, teenagers & young adults with Down syndrome.

But the festival is much more than a sports event. It is a day of encounters, where people with & without Down syndrome come together, are active together, try new things, and celebrate successes.

From classic track and field disciplines to numerous sports & movement activities, the focus is not on competition, but on the joy of experiencing something together.

That's exactly what makes this partnership so special for us. Because when movement brings people together, health is considered holistically, and everyone gets the opportunity to develop their own potential, a sports cooperation becomes something bigger.

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Our Expertise Live
at the Sports Festival

Expert lecture by our MITOcare
Co-founder Christian Burghardt

The MITOcare team will be present at the 24th German Down Syndrome Sports Festival to actively support the event and accompany this special community.

At the same time, we want to bring our partnership to life with meaningful content and contribute our specialist expertise – our co-founder Christian Burghardt will therefore give a specialist lecture on micronutrients and the specific issues in the context of Down syndrome at the festival.

In the run-up to the festival, selected individuals will receive individual support from Christian Burghardt in his practice. As part of an anamnesis and micronutrient analysis, we will examine their personal supply situation and gain additional insights from practice.

At the festival, we will combine these experiences with the findings from the scientific research of our specialist and development team. In the lecture, we will show what current research says about micronutrients in Down syndrome, what insights can be derived from individual analyses, and why a differentiated view of micronutrient supply is so important.

Thus, our partnership becomes more than just support: We bring together research, practical experience & micronutrient expertise – and share this knowledge directly on site.

"The Down Sports Festival is not about the fastest run or the longest jump, but about the joy of movement and the good feeling of belonging. This attitude aligns perfectly with our values - which is why we are wholeheartedly involved."

— Christian Burghardt, Physician & Co-Founder of MITOcare

Review of Festival 2025

Our expertise as a micronutrient & knowledge partner

Micronutrients: What unites us, what divides us

What we all need. And what makes each of us unique.

Micronutrients such as vitamins, minerals & trace elements are essential for numerous bodily functions & metabolic processes. A balanced & varied diet forms the basis of a good supply, through which we absorb most of the required micronutrients. In addition, targeted supplementation can be useful to support the basic supply.

For as much as the fundamental need for essential micronutrients connects us, our personal circumstances are just as individual.

Our genetic blueprint, our diet, our lifestyle & our current micronutrient status can influence our personal supply situation. That's why our understanding of micronutrient supply also includes an individual perspective: Together with our specialist partners, we enable anamneses & analyses of the current micronutrient status to differentiate the personal initial situation.

This individuality becomes particularly clear when genetic peculiarities play a role – such as in Trisomy 21. Here, due to the triple expression of chromosome 21, additional demands and specific needs in metabolism can arise, which make an even closer look at the individual supply situation useful.

Scientific expertise that we bring to the partnership

Knowledge about Down syndrome – scientifically classified & comprehensibly prepared

As part of our partnership with the German Down-Sportlerfestival, our research and development department, together with Dr. Simon Feldhaus, has thoroughly examined the scientific literature on Down syndrome (Trisomy 21) and micronutrients. Relevant studies were collected, evaluated, and professionally classified.

We would like to share this knowledge. Together with Dr. Simon Feldhaus, we have therefore developed two webinars that make the findings accessible to different target groups:

For those interested in health, we explain the most important connections in an understandable way and show which micronutrients are particularly in focus in research in the context of Down syndrome.

For healthcare professionals – such as doctors or alternative practitioners – we delve deeper into the study situation and scientific correlations in the specialized webinar.

And we go a step further: We relate the findings from the research to our MITOcare products. From this, we have derived our "Nutrient Heroes" for Trisomy 21 – selected micronutrient products that align with the scientific findings considered. At the same time, we show which ingredients should be viewed critically or avoided based on the evaluated literature.

In this way, we combine scientific research, expert knowledge, and our micronutrient expertise – and make this knowledge available to the German Down-Sportlerfestival as well as to those interested in health and our professional partners.