Triumph Over Terminal Cancer: Healing Journey with Centner Wellness

Leila Centner, Co-Founder and CEO of Centner Wellness, took the stage at the Ultimate Wellness™ Conference 2025 to share a deeply moving story of courage and transformation—a client’s triumph over terminal cancer.

Thanks to the support of Centner Wellness, the brave and radiant Elizabeth Salazar joined her on the main stage to celebrate life—and her birthday, which happened to fall on the same day as Leila’s keynote. What a beautiful coincidence!

Last year, Leila opened up about her own challenges and personal growth following intense public scrutiny during the COVID era. This year, she shifted the spotlight to a story that embodied hope and healing, showing what becomes possible when faith, resilience, and innovative wellness therapies come together.

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A Journey From Hospice to Healing

Leila introduced Elizabeth, a 36-year-old woman who arrived at Centner Wellness this March after being told she had only two weeks to live. Following four rounds of radiation and her final round of chemotherapy, her oncology team sent her home on hospice, heavily medicated—including 20 mg of methadone daily—and told her family that nothing more could be done.

Within nine days of her prognosis, she came to Centner Wellness. What unfolded in the months that followed is a deeply compelling testament to the body’s capacity to recover when given targeted metabolic support, detoxification, nourishment, and community.

Through video clips, Leila shared how Elizabeth progressed from being bedridden and reliant on a wheelchair to walking, smiling, and reclaiming her energy. Tumor markers dropped from 32 to 8. She went on four-mile walks, began eating more, and regained enough strength to participate in daily life without full-time care. Throughout the process, she embraced therapies ranging from mitochondrial support to lymphatic treatments and discussed her journey openly, demonstrating remarkable courage and faith.

This was not just a story about defeating illness—it was a story about spirit, belief, and the profound will to live.

Foundational Support: Starting with Nutrition and Detoxification

When Elizabeth first arrived, she weighed only 65 pounds and was too weak to receive care at the wellness center. Centner Wellness began with a simple foundation: nutrition.

She was transitioned away from processed foods such as cookies and donuts—recommendations she had received previously—and instead was supported with nourishing smoothies containing high-quality raw eggs from Leila’s regenerative farm, rich in clean protein and essential nutrients.

Phosphatidylcholine oil was added to support cell membrane repair and detoxification, aligning with the PK Protocol developed by Dr. Patricia Kane.

With ongoing nutritional support, her strength improved enough to begin a structured treatment program.

Regenerative Modalities and Cell-Based Therapies

Once Elizabeth regained baseline strength, she began receiving therapies tailored to cellular repair, detoxification, and mitochondrial optimization—including:

• Phosphatidylcholine IVs (PK Protocol)

• Hyperbaric oxygen therapy

• Red light therapy

• PEMF

• Scalar technology

• Ozone-based blood filtration (EBOO)

• Lymphatic manipulation

• Targeted supplementation

Leila noted how cancer thrives in low-oxygen environments; carefully paced hyperbaric therapy helped oxygenate tissues and support recovery. PEMF acted like a cellular recharge, reducing inflammation and improving energy.

A profound turning point came when lymphatic clearing and frequency-based therapies dramatically reduced the extreme swelling in Elizabeth’s feet—at times preventing her from walking. After initial sessions, inflammation decreased by up to 70 percent.

Her weight eventually increased from 65 to 90 pounds, and her abdominal inflammation reduced significantly. The visual differences were striking.

Detoxification: Supporting the Body in a Toxic World

From environmental toxins and glyphosate contamination to 5G radiation and microplastics, Leila emphasized how burdened modern physiology has become. She highlighted blood filtration technologies such as EBOO that help remove molds, heavy metals, and pathogens from circulation. Testing often reveals dozens of toxic signatures unique to a patient’s environment, and Leila described EBOO as “an oil change for the body.”

She shared her own detoxification experience, including parasite cleansing, immune support, and lymphatic therapy—tools she used personally after discovering a concerning breast lump, given her strong family history of breast cancer.

With careful guidance, she brought the mass toward the surface, ultimately expelling it without biopsy. While she was clear that she was not offering medical advice, she encouraged individuals to explore integrative options with experienced functional practitioners and to trust their intuition.

Empowering Patients: You Are Your Own Healer

A major theme throughout Leila’s presentation was empowerment. She encouraged attendees to:

• Question fear-based medical pressure

• Seek practitioners aligned with natural healing

• Build foundational strength through nutrition

• Support cell membrane health

• Understand that detoxification requires proper binders

• Stay open to cutting-edge regenerative techniques

The central message: the human body is inherently intelligent and capable of healing when supported properly.

The Centner Wellness Model

Centner Wellness follows a structured framework:

• Assessment A comprehensive evaluation, including cell-membrane fatty-acid testing.

• Cellular Repair + Detox Strengthening membranes, removing toxins with binders, and optimizing mitochondrial function.

• Regeneration This includes stem-cell-based therapies. With in-house technology, patients can harvest their own fat-derived stem cells—preserved metabolically at approximately 10 percent of their biological age—to promote long-term repair.

Centner Wellness is helping set new standards in anti-aging therapies, regenerative medicine, and integrative beauty treatments.

With three locations throughout Miami—including Brickell, Edgewater, and Coral Gables—Centner Wellness offers more than 50 healing modalities, a bio-café, colonics with advanced filtration, ozone steaming, and more. From breathwork to light-based therapies, the approach reflects a whole-person model that nourishes mind, body, and spirit.

If you have not yet explored their offerings—and would like to leverage these and other technologies to accelerate your health goals—be sure to visit Centner Wellness.

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💫 This year, Centner Wellness once again presented a remarkable exposition of advanced biohacking devices and treatments.

We’re excited for this new chapter, as Centner Wellness returns as a Title Sponsor for the Ultimate Wellness™ Conference 2026. We look forward to hearing even more remarkable stories—come join us as we embody ultimate wellness.

📍 Faena Forum, Miami Beach 

🗓️ September 25–27, 2026 

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Sending Wholistic Health your way,

Julia Smila - Founder, Ultimate Wellness™