Thank you, Maria, for this great and informative post. Cystic fibrosis is scary. As you mentioned before it is an autosomal recessive genetic disease and around 30,000 people have it in the United States. The physiopathology behind the process that produces the symptoms of the disease is amazing. Cystic fibrosis is one of those diseases that are still in the group of diseases without a cure, which means that physicians can only treat symptoms and fight the imbalances to make the patients a little more comfortable during the process of the disease. Nutrition is really important for those patients. Because these patients produce lots of mucus in the intestine, the mucus interfere with the appropriate absorption of vitamin, fats, and nutrients