Have you investigated lymes disease?

Cut off the mop! It is full of parasites.

Candida and your diet
The modern diet is like a feast for Candida, since it is a yeast that needs Sugar to thrive and multiply. That includes Sugar itself, foods containing Sugar and also anything that converts to sugar. Refined carbohydrates like processed food made with white flour, other refined grains and alcohol can all contribute to Candida growth.

A healthy immune system should be able to keep Candida at bay. However, a diet rich in sugar actually depresses your immune system, leaving it vulnerable and allowing the Candida yeast to proliferate. Moldy and yeast-containing foods must also be avoided, as they can aggravate symptoms of Candida too. This means some vegetables, condiments, sauces, coffee, tea, and packaged and processed foods.

Yes, candida and parasites are connected, acording my experiences.
I've healed candida just by cleaning out parasites. Years before, I could not get rid candida, so It's connected. I'm not clean of parasites, unfortunately, I cannot get rid of ascaris, but I've greatly reduced them through body, and it was enough so candida passed away.
I had suspicious by reading some books about parasites, where was something about protozoa parasites, good bacteria, pH, and yests. When I've connected information I found there, the result of my hypothesis was, that yeasts supress protozoa. Then I've realized, that candida is part of the healthy stool, so body needs it for something. But when someone has candida overgrowth, the candida stops to be separate, it starts to connect with other cells, and do somethink like net, that tries to invade into body.
Then I've remembered, that someone who was studied cancer tumors, he always found candida there. And in this book, some other doctor, found out, that he also always found protozoa parasites in the tumor, and tumor is full of toxins from it. So it looks like body tries to envelop those toxins and protozoa in tumor, when it don't have all other option.
So then, I've realized, that candida can be connected with protozoa parasites, it tries to stop them. Every yeast have tries to build unique conditions around, and with toxins, it supress growth of other micro-organism around. I think, candida just tries to stop protozoa infections, when immune system is too weak for it for itself.

So I've tried it, I did hard anti-parasital cure, first built on Herbal base by Hulda Clark , and I've followed it with Entizol cure, which is used agaisnt protozoa. After this cure, candida disapeared from my body, and also all symptoms, like white layer on tonque, and uncontroled taste for sweets. Also psychic problems disapeared, like most of depressions, it was from toxins, and also I had bad concentration before, like fog in the mind... it disapeared too, i have clear mind. Also many other problems disapeared from my body.
The good is, I could eat anything, sweets, flour, sweet fruits, pasta... candida never came back, so I know, it's under control now.
Now protozoa is often inside large paraasites, so it's good to eliminate them too from body, otherwise, they are spreading protozoa all around body. So, when you want to cure protozoa, you need also get rid of big worms too.
According my experience, you don't need to kill them all. You have many protozoa areas inside body, and if you eliminate for example 75% of them, even new worms will not have them so much inside, so you don't get them reinfect you so heavily.
And it's enough for you, so candida will not need to supress them.

So, these are my experiences with candida and parasites.
I say, it's connected, it's connected even with cancer.
And the connection is:
-candida is needed in body, when too much protozoa is around the body
-protozoa is hidden in larger parasites, they are full of them.
if this state took for years, you need for sure not only eliminate protozoa areas, but also large parasites
-if you reduce big parasites, and eliminate protozoa, they re-growth back, but in much lesser amount. So candida will be not needed to supress their growth anymore, immune system will handle it.

So in my view, candida is helper, no enemy, it's just worse helper than immune system, it's toxins destroys also body, but it stops also protozoa. The body knows, that it would make less harm to body, so it changes the state of candida, from one-cell program, to multi-cell program, when it starts to grow inside areas attacked by protozoa, that would go out of control.
It's my hypothesis, I don't have any medical proofs for it, but it's kinda logical for me, and it worked on me, to get rid of candida. The yeasts and protozoa are competitors in micro-world.