How does the body turn cholesterol into something it can use?

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As an analogy: we eat sugar and our liver produces glucose, but for our body to use it our pancreas has to make insulin to process it to give us energy. All works well unless we eat more sugar than our pancreas can keep up with.
What process does the body use to make cholesterol useful? What turns it from a fatty thing into brain fuel? Do we know? And what systems are we stressing if we have a double bacon cheeseburger with two eggs for breakfast?

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I’ve been under the impression that cholesterol is not metabolized in our bodies. It is made, recycled around and eventually excreted, but not broken down.